TASS/. Austria’s interior ministry has not confirmed reports about alleged murder of Ukrainian national Natalia Vovk, a suspected murderer of Russian journalist Darya Dugina.
“We can say that we know nothing about such a case. That is why we cannot confirm this information,” a ministry spokesman told TASS on Sunday.
Earlier, reports about Vovk’s alleged murder was spread in the Telegram messenger and reposted by Austria’s Exxpress.
Darya Dugina, 29, worked in mass media outlets, including as a correspondent in Donbass. She was killed in the evening of August 20, when an explosive device went off in her car travelling along a highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazyomy, the Moscow Region.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) told TASS on August 22 that Dugina’s murder had been solved. According to the FSB, the murder had been masterminded by Ukrainian intelligence agencies and executed by Ukrainian national Natalia Vovk, who fled to Estonia.
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Now if someone wants a hunted person not to be hunted anymore, declare him dead!
That being said, the death is good for blaming Russia!
So 100% fake

Posted by: mon3 | Aug 28 2022 18:49 utc | 104

History Buff
The Rus didn’t invade Russia but assisted in establishing Russia. They were traders, not invaders. You can read about it here:
https://youtu.be/W3CvfrmHpt4?t=434
I am sure we Swedes will resume friendly relations with Russia, but not until our present rulers have been overthrown. We are related, to say the least.

Posted by: Lennart Mogren | Aug 28 2022 18:55 utc | 106

Orgel | Aug 28 2022 16:08 utc | 52
I think when it comes to an individual woman being hacked to death, while being a fugitive in a foreign country, every source that’s actually a source is reliable. The weird links here are neither sources nor reliable.
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sean the leprechaun | Aug 28 2022 16:03 utc | 50
Melaleuca | Aug 28 2022 16:25 utc | 58
Interesting stuff, with your codes there!
The deep cover – I can’t imagine that’ll work for her, at least not in Europe. She’s certainly not going to stay in Estonia. If she doesn’t have her new country picked for her by handlers, she’ll probably move to Germany at some point. But an attention-seeking bimbo like her will eventually be found out. A forty-something who’s had plastic surgery and dresses like a 20-year-old, desperate and unstable, how’s she going to keep a cover?

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Aug 28 2022 18:59 utc | 108

@Chaka Khagan | Aug 28 2022 13:34 utc | 2
[Why does even a lapsed Jew hate Putin?
Likely because most of his friends are also Jewish. At least one is: you wrote, “He has a jewish friend, David, an atty, who reads the NYT, so I know Dave is totally lost”.
If your friend the retired surgeon wants to keep his besties, he must show at least some of their attitudes. And at the moment, Russia-hating (and therefore Putin-hating) is a necessary attitude if one wants to be accepted by Jews. Hating the Putler is a part of Jewish group identity, as certain signs and handshakes are part of the identity of some gangs in LA.
The Jews are desperate. The unipolar world, dominated by their propaganda, is crashing around their ears. This is obvious in Russia’s slow grinding down of the Ukraine. And it is also obvious in the fact that BRICS will soon have most of the world’s real GDP.
We also see that more than three-quarters of Americans no longer trust their (Jewish dominated) media. So even the Jews’ control of the unipolar powerhouse is faltering. There will likely be some reckoning for all the lies in the New York Times (NYT) and most of the mainstream media.
So the Jews must huddle even more tightly together, as any group under threat does. This is probably why your surgeon friend must hate the president of Russia.

Posted by: Cyril | Aug 28 2022 19:09 utc | 110

@sln2002 101
The war will probably run on for a year at least but is essentially deadlocked and its intensity is lessening Six months of war may have gone by, but neither Ukraine nor Russia are ready to stop fighting, despite the losses they have sustained. Ukraine wants its occupied territories back, and Russia wants to keep inflicting pain not just on its opponent but, by proxy, the west also. The Kremlin believes winter will play to its advantage. …
Nothing but a narrative designed to give cover for governments to authorize spending for “the war.” which is actualy just a subsidy for the weapons manufacterers.
The west needs to decide if it wants Ukraine to win or just hold on[,] and it needs to match humanitarian help to the huge need Ukraine would have been defeated without western military aid. But at no point so far has the west supplied enough artillery or other weapons, such as fighter jets, that would allow Kyiv to drive the invaders back. Politicians talk about the need to force Russia to the prewar borders but do not provide enough materiel to do it.
The west HAS decided. This is about making money and Ukraine is the collateral.
At the same time, Ukraine’s humanitarian need is growing. There is, for example, nowhere near enough money for reconstruction – and many homes north-east and north-west of Kyiv remain ruined five months after the Russians left, often with despairing residents living in garages or temporary structures on site.
Correct. I am not Ukrainian. Have you seen the price of gas this week?
People who are displaced internally often have to live in schools or kindergartens, temporary accommodation that people struggle to stay in for an extended period of time. Ukraine has a budget gap of $5bn (£4.2bn) a month because of the war; aid and reconstruction will cost many times that.
Ukraine has a budget gap of $5b a month because of its leaders. There will be no aid. Who is bearing the brunt of the fighting in the Donbas? Citizen militas. And that is who will be responsible for “rebuilding” Ukraine. Not the West. Not Russia.

Posted by: Metron | Aug 28 2022 19:19 utc | 112

Posted by: Joe Walker | Aug 28 2022 17:07 utc | 75
“Geoff “You’re not alone. Everyone I’ve worked with to try to deprogram”
Brilliant post. Whilst 9/11 didn’t terrify me (it took me 17 months to work it out), covid seriously did, cos all the official statistics indicated there was no pandemic. The official death rate was no different from normal – yet the press, were terrifying us all to death.
With 9/11, I told everyone I knew, that the Official US Government story, did not comply with the basic laws of physics and maths. It didn’t do me any good – especially at work, so I learnt to keep my mouth shut, unless asked, cos I was p1ssing everyone off. They all thought I had gone mad.
with covid, there had to be another explanation.
so – I did much the same again, except this time, I had to ban myself from Facebook, cos people started phoning my wife up, complaining about me – “go back to work – there is no pandemic – etc”
almost everyone I knew believed the propaganda. I lost almost all my friends, about to be or already jabbed (most are still alive)
I thought how the hell, do I convince my wife and my son, not to get jabbed?
I used many of the subtle techniques, you described in your post. I soon realised there was no point in arguing, but would on occasion, come out with subtle hints, and still do – like the latest young athlete to drop dead of a heart attack..You see any connection?
You never achieve anything, by trying to ram your point of view, into anyone’s head, but if you occasionaly drop a few hints ( a bit like leading the horse to water – except the horse won’t drink it, cos he can smell it – he knows its poisoned), and admit you could be wrong…we might yet save it.

Posted by: Tony_0pmoc | Aug 28 2022 19:32 utc | 114

Of much greater importance to geopolitical outcome is economic repurcussions.
jared | Aug 28 2022 14:31 utc | 15
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Excellent comment. The pace and tactics of Russia’s SMO in Ukraine is proving more constructive than destructive, by design, something we in the West can’t seem to grasp from our warped frame of reference, where “nation-building” is obvious bullshit. We’re still unable to perceive the SMO as anything but war really, maybe war lite at best.
It’s not. Russia is carefully demilitarizing and denatzifying Ukraine, while allowing the West to starve itself. It is also careful not to corner the obviously wounded US predator to avoid provoking its most vicious, deadly (nuclear) strikes.
Your insight into economic development preceding geopolitics is spot-on — in stark contrast to the almost exclusive illegal sanctions military force model of the US Empire, a purely punitive approach. While developing its own economic renewal and, in cooperation with China, that of the rest of the world, is slowly but surely neutering the US/ZATO and rendering it irrelevant. This is not blitzkrieg speed chess. 

Posted by: Doug Hillman | Aug 28 2022 19:42 utc | 116

Military Summary Channel reporting that the Russian “3rd military Corp.” of 40-60,000 soldiers has completed its training and equipping, and is moving through Rostov toward the front. This size of group would create a breakthrough wherever they are sent, perhaps to the Donetsk front (Maryinka, Avdeevka etc.) or the Kherson area (to take Nikolyevka and Odessa). Dima thinks the the latter area is more probable. The Ukrainians have little or no strategic reserves left, so the only result will be a weakening of one front to reinforce the one being attacked by this new Corp., resulting in both fronts collapsing.
Anything like this will completely change the nature of the battlefield, destroy the Western narrative, and greatly undermine the Zelensky regime. All at the start of the European Winter from Hell. It will be interesting to see how the Ukrainians, Western leaders, and Western MSM will react.

Posted by: Roger | Aug 28 2022 19:47 utc | 118

alek_a@utc
The “cause” of the “deadlock” is strategic:
German Electricity Price increased to 699.44 EUR/MWh on Friday August 26 from 599.83 EUR/MWh in the previous day.
British energy market regulator Ofgem announced an 80-percent hike in the energy price cap aimed at shielding consumers from price swings, something that will have a “massive impact” on households in the country, as annual electricity expenditure soars to the pound equivalent of over $4,100.
US stocks plummeted on Friday following a warning from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that the central bank will not end its fight against rapid inflation anytime soon. Powell’s comments weighed on investors, who grappled with what more aggressive interest rate hikes might mean for the health of the economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,008.38 points, or 3.03%, to 32,283.40, with losses accelerating into the close. The S&P 500 fell 3.37% to 4,057.66, and the Nasdaq Composite slid 3.94% to 12,141.71.
To those with only a short-term memory, you will recall that Putin said at the outset Russia was not responsible for what was getting ready to happen in the West. This is to what he was referring.
Military tactics are designed around strategic considerations. Like creating a westward refugee stampede. IN WINTER. Like putting troops on Ukraine’s northern border. WHILE YOU’RE SEIZING TERRITORY IN THE SOUTH. Like reducing gas flows. WHEN THEY ARE NEEDED MOST.
You really need to read history. Too many young people on this site with no understanding of anything military before the Gulf War.

Posted by: Metron | Aug 28 2022 19:54 utc | 120

Chaka Kagan
Over the years I’ve known many who self-identify as Russian Jews. Predictable in Chicago and around fringes of academia. Some would always qualify that as “a Russian Jew from Odessa.” Now every last one of them is a Ukrainian Jew. Most who were formerly Lithuanian Jews are now Ukrainian Jews. A few who were formerly Polish Jews are now Ukrainian Jews. They all fly the blue and yellow and adore Zelensky, who can do no wrong. This started some years back, I can recall being puzzled by all the Jewish people taking Ukrainian language classes and all those who take vacations to Ukraine. Very puzzled by those who show vacation photos of themselves and their families posing in front of the Bandera monument in Lvov. This morning I circulated this link to my last remaining East European Jewish friend.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/6450
I got an angry phone call in return. Rabbi Norman Finkel (in the link) is a Nazi. As a goy I have no business saying one word about Jews. I am clearly anti-Semitic. If I won’t have the decency to kill myself someone can be found who will. All this from a quiet shy old man who spent a lifetime working for far left causes. Someone who has no difficulty separating the Jewish religion and the Jewish state. Who criticizes Israel all the time.
Group solidarity trumps everything.

Posted by: oldhippie | Aug 28 2022 20:20 utc | 122

Posted by: sln2002 | Aug 28 2022 17:58 utc | 91
Modern day fascism is called public private partnership (ppp)

Posted by: turandot | Aug 28 2022 20:22 utc | 124

@ aristodemos 54
Thanks for the well-informed comment on genital mutilation.
It is an absolutely barbaric practice and just another reason why Christianity should be considered the one, true universal faith that has emanated from the Logos.
How it differentiates itself from eastern religions, in a similar vain as not requiring a traumatic rite-of-passage initiation (other than “confirmation”) as in the case of other monotheisms, is that whereas eastern religions carry with it the possibility of birth into a lower caste for some reason unknown to the subject, Christianity stresses the absolute equality of every human soul and the lifting up of those born to lesser circumstances.
My conversion to Christianity occurred well into my 20s, where my liberal education had failed me entirely and where eastern spirituality could not plug the leaking vessel of my soul.
I also remember feeling very self-conscious about not having a mutilated penis. I even went to see my PCP to investigate the circumcision process.
Thankfully, my doctor was incredulous at such a notion and said that it was a very bad idea for a number of reasons.
Soon after, I began to investigate cognitive therapy techniques for my own thinking and began to read Kierkegaard about suffering in an aChristian-world.
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A coworker of mine from some years ago and I used to talk about globalism and its intersection with satanism, of which he was a follower for years in his 20s. Baphomet is depicted as both male and female. Parallels can, of course, be seen today in the trans-movement, which was born out of proliferation and acceptance of homosexuality. It is no large wonder that trans-people are now being labeled as “groomers” on the interwebs. Making pedophilia normalized is the next step of sexual primacy within an increasingly globalist world and the stretching of its God-given intentions of procreation and enjoyment within a marriage of a man and woman.
My coworker told me he had the realization that instead of satanists who think they are fighting for all kinds of freedom from the monotheists, and especially the Catholics, they are instead unwilling accomplices and foot-soldiers of plucking children from their innocence before the age of reason and subjecting them to horror of being preyed upon by the powerful.
It isn’t faggy or dorky to be a Christian. Rather, it is its opposite: the family-life that Christianity makes possible, far be it for the detriment of the children (a la Jewish Sigmund Freud), is itself its primary protection until that life is fledgling.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 28 2022 20:44 utc | 126

Oops, my apologies b, everyone, for posting my above comment here. Honest mistake. Delete it if you feel the need.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 28 2022 21:17 utc | 128

Posted by: Nico | Aug 28 2022 19:17 utc | 111
Already circulating for two days on some Telegram channels.
Come comments don’t understand the meaning of what is said, unfortunately.

Posted by: Olivier | Aug 28 2022 21:22 utc | 130

I don’t know if it has been mentioned here, but Switzerland recently cancelled the popular referendum against the purchase of F-35, under the pretext of lack of time due to the war in Ukraine.
Apparently the Swiss emblems of neutrality and direct democracy have fallen on the Ukrainian front.
There is still chocolate, luxury watches and cleanliness, all is not lost.

Posted by: Marjorie | Aug 28 2022 21:27 utc | 132

Russia’s new 3AC is volunteers ages 18-50, loose recruitment standards so not the fittest group but surely picked up some vets. Officer and NCO quality will be an issue, lots of “learning on the job”. Target size was 15k and they will probably deploy closer to 10, not 40-60k. Kit seems pretty good with some quantity of T-80 variants and BMP-3s, no idea about arty. I would expect this group to put pressure and have an effect on where Ukraine deploys its reserves but not be a decisive factor. These are Russians, not LDNR and not mercs like Wagner so wouldn’t expect them to be thrown headlong against fortified lines.

Posted by: Yenwoda | Aug 28 2022 21:32 utc | 134

Posted by: Marjorie | Aug 28 2022 21:27 utc | 132
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Well F35 so it will probably be nothing for the time being! lack of material ! Titan probably without no steal mode and some other . In the case of tanks, by the way, there is also a lack of material in Germany!
But even if that weren’t the case?
Are the delivery times already over 76 months for partial deliveries.
So lazy excuse in Switzerland !!!

Posted by: mon3 | Aug 28 2022 21:35 utc | 136

Dr. George W Oprisko@127
The war will end at Poltava- why else would Sweden join the coalition?

Posted by: bevin | Aug 28 2022 21:39 utc | 138

Dr. George W Oprisko @ 127

3rd military Corp.” of 40-60,000 soldiers has completed its training and equipping, and is moving through Rostov toward the front

This would confirm that up to now the Russians for the last six months have been attacking and advancing, albeit slowly, with two corps, no more than 120K men – against a well entrenched defending army twice that size with all the logistics, command and control, weapons, and filthy lucre NATO could give them. Damn impressive, no way around it. It would make me optimistic if I didn’t fear the treacherous, unprincipled conniving schemes being cooked up in the West.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Aug 28 2022 21:53 utc | 140

nwwoods | Aug 28 2022 18:15 utc | 98
True, they were probably fed that story by the state or a party worker.
sean the leprechaun | Aug 28 2022 16:03 utc | 50
I expect to run into her out here in California. She will probably head for the beach for a while then go to work for the G as a translator.

Posted by: circumspect | Aug 28 2022 22:00 utc | 142

Can I ask a question here, of those who read Russian/Ukrainian news sources and also follow sport.
Is there strong rivalry between Russian/Ukrainian football teams. I ask this because it may help to understand the degree of hostility and the future way forward.
For example here in Australia there is very strong football rivalry between Qld and NSW and to a lesser extent NSW and Victoria. Under the right set of circumstances (generally economic collapse) this rivalry could be inflamed into violence and even war. Sounds ridiculous i know, but territorialism is almost a basic human instinct and easily stirred, even betwen practically homogeneous cultures.

Posted by: watcher | Aug 28 2022 22:18 utc | 144

Posted by: watcher | Aug 28 2022 22:18 utc | 145
I know there was a “soccer war” between Honduras and El Salvador. Also, in Brazil, iirc, a referee was beheaded for excessive bias in favor of one of the teams.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 28 2022 22:26 utc | 146

Posted by: WTFUD | Aug 28 2022 21:36 utc | 137
UK’s largest warship, one of only two aircraft carriers, HMS Prince of Wales, on a ‘landmark mission’ to America has broken down with mechanical failure.
The £3 billion ship is less than 2 years old.
Russia has little to fear from the UK navy in any Black Sea/Other skirmish.
Carriers aren’t going to be relevant to WW3. Too big, too expensive, too disastrous when you lose one, and hypersonics effectively make them indefensible. The main reason Britain built a couple was to suck up to the Americans. The British establishment is ever anxious to find new ways to spice up the ‘special relationship’, so the carriers are basically free taxis for the United States Marine Corps.
But, no. Russia has plenty to fear from NATO, hence the war. NATO’s land forces are a joke, but its combined naval and air forces are not. The British can create lots of problems for Russia’s surface and submarine fleets, especially in combination with the Dutch, French, Italians, etc. These are very dangerous times, I pray that the war ends soon with a decisive Russian victory.

Posted by: ZX | Aug 28 2022 22:35 utc | 148

ZX @ 149
Very smart. The further the Russians get from their supply lines the more vulnerable they are to American air and naval power. Explains why they go slow in Ukraine. Enter, conquer, consolidate, move to the next objective.

Posted by: Maxx | Aug 28 2022 22:41 utc | 150

@148 Killing pasties was an ancient custom in Cornwall, UK. No longer practiced as it is considered cruel and inhumane.

Posted by: dh | Aug 28 2022 22:51 utc | 152

@Guernica #148:

Who is killing of the “pasty”?

Must be Woosie, a notorious serial killer of pasties: Cat survives 3 years away from home on Ginsters pasties (The Mirror, Alivia Smith, February 5, 2014).

Posted by: S | Aug 28 2022 23:28 utc | 154

For context see, e.g. Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies.
Posted by: Hermit | Aug 28 2022 19:36 utc | 115
That excerpt is interesting.
The context for the speech, in part, is the Recession of 1937–38. What else was goining on? What other economic, financial, and political “challenges” did FDR’s administration face in Term 2?

Posted by: sln2002 | Aug 28 2022 23:42 utc | 156

Posted by: Maxx | Aug 28 2022 22:41 utc | 151
The further the Russians get from their supply lines the more vulnerable they are to American air and naval power. Explains why they go slow in Ukraine. Enter, conquer, consolidate, move to the next objective.
Somebody pointed out recently that Ukraine knows everything NATO knows, within minutes. And NATO knows a lot. Ukraine is being ogled by spy satellites, perved on by state-of-the-art ELINT aircraft, its hair sniffed by Western radar 24 hours a day.
While Ukraine still maintains a functional military, this means Russia is right not to hurry something that’s worked well (from a military pov) for 6 months. The economic meltdown of Western Europe and, ultimately, the United States is just gravy. Russia is Mick Jagger confidently singing tiiiiiime is on his side.
The economic and political ramifications of the coming winter and the hungry years that follow are going to be huge, and unpredictable to a degree that makes Covid Madness look like a jolly holiday. Russia is right to want to string this out, maintaining the (now very slender) carrot of gas supplies to the EU to encourage the squareheads to find their senses and take off the star-spangled gimp mask.
But, as there’s always a but, the danger of going long in the SMO is that, on a long enough timeline, literally anything can happen. A frightened and angry Washington DC may yet decide to go all-in on Ukraine, everybody’s favourite neo nazis may yet finally crack the reactor shielding and cause Chernobyl 2.0, SBU terrorists in Moscow may get really lucky – and those are just some of the exciting and very bad turns this war could take before Christmas.
Also, while the Russians let go of their massive empire in 1991 without so much as a split lip dealt in an attempt to hold it together, there’s no reason to believe the people steering the American empire will prove to be so humane. These are people, after all, who sincerely believe the world is disgustingly overpopulated by you: Homo Proletarianus
So it’d be better for this to be done quickly.

Posted by: ZX | Aug 28 2022 23:46 utc | 158

sln2002 157
There was the attempted coup by American business interests. Or was that in the first term?

Posted by: Smedley | Aug 28 2022 23:49 utc | 160

“…to be more tolerant and have more solidarity.”
Posted by: Jonathan W | Aug 28 2022 19:45 utc | 117
I am confused, are those supposed to be “bad things”? If so, why? Or maybe I just misunderstood your whole point.

Posted by: Guernica | Aug 28 2022 23:53 utc | 162

How important is the US decision to name its military mission in Ukraine?
Posted by: Theophilus | Aug 28 2022 13:12 utc | 1
Ukraine is merely becoming another subsidiary of the US military.

Posted by: Michigan Dude | Aug 28 2022 23:59 utc | 164

PS I just noticed ‘pasty.’
Patsy!
(Like Lee Harvey Oswald etc.)

Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 29 2022 0:05 utc | 166

Posted by: Maxx | Aug 29 2022 0:08 utc | 168
Russia has 5000 nuclear warheads and can largely do what it wants.
Yes, this is probably what Russia believes, because Russia seems to be rational.
Where is the evidence that the leadership of the United States is rational? I don’t even mean poor, senile, Mr Biden. I mean the entire leadership caste. It wasn’t rational of them to encourage their subjects to burn down their own cities either. Iraq wasn’t rational, and neither were Afghanistan, Libya, Kosovo, etc. Nothing these people say or do indicates a strong concern about making good decisions for the benefit of future generations. Or even the existence of future generations.
And shit, as they say in the United States, happens.

Posted by: ZX | Aug 29 2022 0:19 utc | 168

Current military operations are:
Inherent Resolve — Iraq / Syria
Atlantic Resolve — Europe
Damayan — Philippines
Anatolian Protector — Turkey
from Insider
The turning point for the Pentagon on the subject of operational names came when Winston Churchill petitioned a better way of naming them. He convinced Allied high command that they should change the name of Operation Soapsuds, the bombing raid of Romanian oil fields, to Operation Tidal Wave.
It has become an American tradition to pick awe-inspiring names for operations of future wars. Operation Rolling Thunder, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom — Americans are the best at it.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Aug 29 2022 0:22 utc | 170

Posted by: bevin | Aug 28 2022 17:52 utc | 88
Agreed. Mussolini is a decent source but it’s not like he was the only fascist (and he was originally a socialist). German fascism is wound too tightly around ethno-nationalism to extract much useful in understanding fascism. This thread has been the equivalent of Eco’s essay on fascism: true but relatively useless in actually describing the ideology. That’s why I always return to Dimitrov, as a communist he was pretty sharply in tune with the rise of fascism. Fascism is the political expression of finance capitalism. Now why Dimitrov specified the type of capitalism is intriguing, as if he saw industrial capitalism as less threatening in terms of fascism (though we certainly have seen industrial capitalists get on board with fascism). Is it because in industry the worker retains some power? I don’t know but as I watch the US at home and abroad, Dimitrov rings in my ears a lot.

Posted by: Lex | Aug 29 2022 0:30 utc | 172

from “To Hell with the Admirals” By Hans Schmidt —

In a speech on “how to prevent war” delivered to the Philadelphia Contemporary Club in January 1931, [Smedley] Butler related an anecdote about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini while making the point that “mad-dog nations” could not be trusted to honor disarmament agreements. Butler recounted a story told him by an unnamed friend who had been taken by Mussolini for a high-speed automobile ride through the Italian countryside, in the course of which the dictator ran down a child and did not bother even to slow down: “My friend screamed as the child’s body was crushed under the wheels of the machine. Mussolini put a hand on my friend’s knee. ‘It was only one life,’ he told my friend. ‘What is one life in the affairs of a State.'” ‘~
The Italian government protested, Rome newspapers denounced the speech as “insolent and ridiculous,” and Mussolini issued a categorical denial: “I have never taken an American on a motor-car trip around Italy, neither have I run over a child, man or woman.” Secretary of State Stimson issued a formal apology to Mussolini for “discourteous and unwarranted utterances by a commissioned officer of this government on active duty.” Smedley was placed under arrest and ordered court-martialed by President Hoover. . . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Aug 29 2022 0:44 utc | 174

@ZX,169
If you view it through a different paradigm it IS rational.
The American elites whose families invested in anti-Russia are getting their money back (via their treasury). Very rational.
America has 5000 nuclear warheads. It can do what it wants. It doesn’t want to provke Russia to use theirs, so it won’t. Very rational.
And if it accidentially does it’ll try to contain the damage to Europe, preferrably central Europe the further east the better. But everything is negotiable insofar as the American and Russian homelands are not struck. Very rational.
If you want to know the future, look at the past. Another Cold War, except this time the EU is the backward one. Mauripol is the gateway to the new Europe. And Russia is the new gatekeeper…

Posted by: Maxx | Aug 29 2022 0:54 utc | 176

it looks like it’s a fake story, but why would the Austrian newspaper do that?
https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1563876661245796352

Posted by: Manage without me | Aug 29 2022 0:59 utc | 178

Several analyses of the DNA of Ashgenazi Jews have been made, as well as analyses of the DNA of the Palestinians.
The Jews were found to have 40% of their DNA from Mongolians, the rest from Slavs.
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Aug 28 2022 20:42 utc | 125

Has analysis of the DNA of Sephardic Jews been done?

Posted by: David Levin | Aug 29 2022 1:07 utc | 180

@David Levin,
As I recall, the issue about the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews had to do with the classification of certain genes as being Mediterranean. So, the theory of the Khazars was dropped. But some people think that the Mediterranean DNA that geneticists describe have origins as far as the area of Armenia, so the decision to drop the theory may still be rescinded by many people.

Posted by: Manage without me | Aug 29 2022 1:17 utc | 182

@ oldhippie | Aug 28 2022 20:20 utc | 122
thanks for that link.. informative… here it is again for anyone interested..
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/6450
Israeli Rabbi Michael Finkel drops some bombs on Ukrainian TV. I guess he won’t be invited back.

Posted by: james | Aug 29 2022 1:18 utc | 184

Posted by: Manage without me | Aug 29 2022 0:59 utc | 181
…, but why would the Austrian newspaper do that?
—
The first freedom of the press is the freedom not to be a business. – Man with impressive beard

Posted by: Nobody | Aug 29 2022 1:23 utc | 186

ALERTS TO THREATS IN 2022 EUROPE
By John Cleese (British writer, actor and tall person):
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Ukraine and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.” The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France ‘s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.
Italy has increased the alert level from “Shout Loudly and Excitedly” to “Elaborate Military Posturing.” Two more levels remain: “Ineffective Combat Operations” and “Change Sides.”
The Germans have increased their alert state from “Disdainful Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.” They also have two higher levels: “Invade a Neighbor” and “Lose.”
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels .
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Australia , meanwhile, has raised its security level from “No worries” to “She’ll be alright, Mate.” Two more escalation levels remain: “Crikey! I think we’ll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!” and “The barbie is cancelled.” So far no situation has ever warranted use of the last final escalation level.
— John Cleese – British writer, actor and tall person
A final thought -” Greece is collapsing, the Iranians are getting aggressive, and Rome is in disarray. Welcome back to 430 BC.”
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Posted by: Maxx | Aug 29 2022 1:23 utc | 188

Friends are talking about Russia denying radiation risk. This story looks full of holes to me but I’ve got no other info and it seems like nothing here recently.
Russia”>https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-doesnt-acknowledge-radiological-risk-154348857.html>Russia Denies Radiological Risk

Posted by: Charles Peterson | Aug 29 2022 1:27 utc | 190

@ CarlD | Aug 29 2022 1:17 utc | 186
The Resistance Operating Concept (ROC) originated as an initial effort under. . .
Of course the Pentagon would like us to believe that citizens’ resistance to foreign invasion and occupation is a brand new concept birthed by the Pentagon Puzzle Palace.
Actually it’s an old concept which has been instrumental in US military losses in many places like Iraq and Afghanistan, for two recent examples.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Aug 29 2022 1:33 utc | 192

@ Maxx | Aug 29 2022 1:23 utc | 191
Thanks for that, it is time for a good belly-laugh.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Aug 29 2022 1:44 utc | 194

“He’s doing our work for us, in a certain respect,” said the speaker of the House.
Ukraine Shows The Way

People casually toss around the word “fascist” a lot, forgetting that it has an actual definition. Some people believe that the essence of a “fascist” state is the presence of a strong autocratic ruler, like Mussolini or Hitler….

FDR (“class traitor”), Putin (“killer” emporer), Xi (immortal “communist”), blah blah blah “strong man” or dictator…unlike Joe Biden in whom the Democratic Party caucus of the 117th Congress are eager to cram “democratic processes”.
So by “some people”, I surmise, yalensis alooods to the most ignorant, litigious nation on planet, US Americans, waving don’t tread on e pluribus and wutnot flags. On one hand, an imaginary body in opposition to TOTALITARIAN features of so-called cooperative federalism that christ FDR’s lengthy tenure perfected; on the other, dimly suspicious of ICONIC “brown-shirt” Italia irridenta who “democratically” deposed the figurehead of state, Victor Emmanuel III.
Indeed, for yalensis “The Real Definition Of Fascism”, according to an entertainer Jimmy Dore, is the antithesis of fascism: “Mass privatization”.

. Unlike Mussolini and the spirit of the, ahem, living Constitution of Ukraine

Zelensky in his green tee-shirt is busy privatizing Ukrainian lands, public property, and even trade union assets [sic; s/b real estate] such as spas and resort homes for the workers. And it gets worse: One of the proposed “shock and awe” reforms in store for the Ukrainian working class is this thing called Zero-hour contracts. It’s the thing that capitalists have always pined for, it’s their Holy Grail.

This portion is especially hilarious, because (1) collective bargaining in the USA has been mostly dead since the Taft-Hartley fatwa; (2) inexplicably, Dore hasn’t heard of US “flex time” or “gig” or “at will” and “right to work” employment conditions; and (3) the BREXIT informant evidently assumes that zero-hour conditions of employment in the UK are local. The fact is, zero-hour and “posted worker” contracts are SOP across the EU27, and the EP has never been in pressed standardize labor rights, much less minimum wage “directive”. Of course, Uncle Volody’s executive mission is preparing homeland gangsters fo “ascension” to the EU according the the advice and consent of the UA’s principal lender, the IMF. Shafting labor and state-owned enterprise is, like, Step 3 and Step 4 to mastering a free-trade republic. Step 1 is buying multiple passports. Step 2 is distributing army-issue uniform, braid, and bootay.

Posted by: sln2002 | Aug 29 2022 2:15 utc | 196

— John Cleese – British writer, actor and tall person
A final thought -” Greece is collapsing, the Iranians are getting aggressive, and Rome is in disarray. Welcome back to 430 BC.”
Posted by: Maxx | Aug 29 2022 1:23 utc | 191
Hilarious and yet so true 🙂 Thank you John Cleese and thanks Maxx for posting.

Posted by: K | Aug 29 2022 2:52 utc | 198

Look for the pre-Kievan Rus Khazar Tamga. Revealing..

Posted by: Lozion | Aug 29 2022 3:44 utc | 200