Wagner boss says Bakhmut will be taken in 1 to 2 months. Seems like a sensible forecast.
US/NATO are “training” Ukraine on how to conserve ammo shells. LoL

Posted by: Comandante | Feb 15 2023 15:50 utc | 3

@Comandante | Feb 15 2023 15:50 utc | 3
What did a cold fish like sturgeon expect?
Fish heads and guests stink after three days.
She clung on for nine years
Scotland should just UDI the Sassenachs (and nationalize the crown holdings).

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 16:06 utc | 5

Piotr Berman@4
You are absolutely correct- there is no doubt that Sanders, like W J Bryan, had many failings but his challenge in successive primary campaigns was important and real. And the machine democrats knew it. What they did in the primaries (the fix was incredibly clear in the results of the NY State primary in 2016) effectively discredited one of the few remnants of democracy in the USA.

Posted by: bevin | Feb 15 2023 16:16 utc | 7

Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 15 2023 15:43 utc | 2
Good reading, and so writing comments at Craig Murray’s site is so nice. For example, I never had a problem with editing the entry only to be notified that I took too much time, and when you post, you get 4 minutes to edit it, removing mistakes etc. Mind you, editing on an editor is not a pleasant solution because cut-paste can create line breaks and other effects…

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Feb 15 2023 16:20 utc | 9

dont know how significant this poll is, but I’m glad to see it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-aid-support-softens-us-050949152.html

Posted by: pretzelattack | Feb 15 2023 16:27 utc | 11

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Feb 15 2023 16:20 utc | 9
There is slightly more moderation there than I would prefer, and I don’t agree with him on some things, but it’s a worthwhile site to visit.

Posted by: pretzelattack1 | Feb 15 2023 16:35 utc | 13

“But which one of the 245 genders is most developed?” WGAF? And by the way, what does this topic have to do with the war in Ukraine?

Posted by: William Verick | Feb 15 2023 16:39 utc | 15

@mtw | Feb 15 2023 15:29 utc | 1
I think it’s significant that the Texas Republican Party convention called for a vote on secession a day or two before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The way I see it, the clock is ticking toward an existential crisis for the U.S.A.

Posted by: John Schmeeckle | Feb 15 2023 16:44 utc | 17

Re: Comandante | Feb 15 2023 15:50 utc | 3
You wrote:
“:Wagner boss says Bakhmut will be taken in 1 to 2 months. Seems like a sensible forecast.”
Paul Craig Roberts: The problem in the Ukraine conflict is not tanks and F-16s. The problem is the unwillingness of the Kremlin to use sufficient force to bring the conflict to a quick Russians victory before the West adds provocation upon proocation and widens the war into a general war between the West and Russia. It is the inability after one year of the Kremlin to act decisively that is turning the conflict into a world war.
The longer the conflict continues, the more involved the West will become. At some point a Russian victory will become unacceptable to the West, and then a general war will unfold. The inability of the Kremlin to understand this is leading to nuclear war.

Posted by: Perimetr | Feb 15 2023 16:56 utc | 19

@Piotr Berman | Feb 15 2023 15:52 utc | 4
Biden is as “Deep State” as they come, comparable to George H.W. Bush. Biden stole the Democratic nomination from Bernie Sanders, with the Massachusetts primary being the most egregious example:
https://tdmsresearch.com/2020/03/04/massachusetts-2020-democratic-party-primary/

Posted by: John Schmeeckle | Feb 15 2023 17:01 utc | 21

Response to AI – I don’t think “Ukraine” exists anymore….that is why I refer to that place as *kraine.

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 17:03 utc | 23

@bevin | Feb 15 2023 16:16 utc | 7
Here was my analysis of Sanders (who only entered the race to block Gabbard) vs Gabbard from before the farce of the manipulation of the debates to exclude Gabbard. Note that my estimates have been validated both by the elections and the Gallup poll reflecting that some 63% of Americans feel that a third party is needed to represent them. They are, as usual wrong. The problem is the rigged system to preserve the oligarchy, not the parties that serve them.
Sanders works for the DNC. His job title is “Director of outreach”. His job is to persuade gullible independents to support the Democrats and to help prevent the formation of an actual progressive alternative that could beat the Democrats and Republicans together.
Sanders describes his work as, “I am a member of the Democratic leadership in the United States Senate. I’ve been a member of the Democratic caucus in the Senate for the last 13 years and in the House for 16 years before that. Won the Democratic nomination in my state, but in Vermont, I have chosen to run as an independent because it goes way, way back.” … “the truth is that more and more people are disenchanted with both the Republican and Democratic Party, and especially young people. They are registering as independents or not affiliated folks. And I think as somebody who was an independent, we can bring them into the Democratic Party to help create a party which will stand with the working families of this country and have the courage to take on the very powerful special interests who wield so much economic and political power in America.” [CNN Townhall with Bernie Sanders, Feb 25, 2019, https://www.gotbernt.com/if-you-gotbernt/%5D
Sanders knows that he will not be nominated, and is OK with that. He will campaign for whoever the DNC decides in smoky backrooms will be their nominee in 2020, as they did in 2016. Most likely Biden, but if not Biden then maybe Bloomberg or perhaps Buttigeig. And of course, baring major shenanigans (propaganda, indictments, Russia, election manipulation) that will mean that the Democrats will lose to Trump/Pence again, as they did in 2016.
It is trivial to show that demographic realities mean that of all the Democrat candidates, only Tulsi Gabbard can readily overcome the incumbent’s advantage to defeat Trump/Pence.
This analysis makes the assumption that candidates optimize their campaigns, that people support and fund them, and that we avoid a state of emergency or thermonuclear war when the oligarchs realize what may be happening.
It does not make the assumption, as the Democrats do, that millennials and post-millennials, the vast majority of them progressives, will vote at all or for any one particular group.
This is fair. 2016 unadjusted exit polls showed that 82% of those voting Democrat or Republican in 2016 were 45 and older, an inversion of demographic realities.
I use the following estimated demographics for November 2020:
16% Independent Right
20% Republican
24% Democrat (may be a little high. They are bleeding support at a higher rate than Republicans).
40% Independent progressives.
Let’s look at Democratic candidates’ likely appeal.
Sanders
Half the millennials and younger not only think he is too old, but more than half the independent progressives very sensibly no longer trust him after he betrayed them and supported Clinton in 2016 and turned into a warmonger spreading stupid lies about RussiaGate. In addition, the Clintonites hate him more than ever for making their heroine lose.
In a best case scenario Sanders might bring 1/2 the Democrats (12%) + 1/2 the independent progressives (20%) to the polls. That is 32%.
Meanwhile the threat of Sanders will bring the Independent right (16%) and wavering Republicans (20%) out to the polls like nothing else can. Also 32%. But that is a win for the Republicans. In 2016 they won with 32% against 37% Democrats in unadjusted exit polls.
Warren and Yang
Both Warren and Yang appeal to Clintonites and other neocons (24%). Warren is an anathema to the progressives (after betraying Sanders, and supporting DNC cheating and Clinton as a Superdelegate) so while Yang might get a little support (10%) from those of them terrified of Trump, Warren will not. Yang will also get some support from the libertarian independent right (say 4%).
So Warren about 24% and Yang about 38%.
Harris, the DNC’s great hope, was destroyed by Gabbard in the second debate. The other eminently forgettable DNC candidates (outside of Williamson who does not have the experience or the support needed to meaningfully change the race) were positioned as candidates only to deny any chance of a progressive taking the White House by allowing the DNC to push the selection to the second round and use their superdelegates to neutralize any populist candidate, and like Warren, having all been Clinton superdelegates in 2016, will fall between these two.
This is an all but certain loss against the Republicans (20%) and the rest of the independent right (say 12%), as this is very close to the 37%:32% result of 2016 which gave us Trump, so unless the Democrats have become much better at cheating, and the Republicans a lot worse, it is almost certain to result in a second term for Trump. Particularly as the incumbent has many advantages.
That is why Trump is not looking worried at this point. The DNC is doing his work for him, attacking the one candidate they have who could win.
So who is left?
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard would bring most Democrats (including those 5% who voted for Trump last time) (24%), many of the Independent right (lets say half at 8%), some Republicans tired of Trump (say 1%), most direct family members of service people (I won’t count this, even though it is about 26% of eligible voters, as it largely overlays the other groups), and most millennials and post millennials (say 75% so about 30% of the total vote) That is 24% + 8% + 1% + 30% or about 63%.
Against Trumps 19% (remaining Republicans) + 8% (remaining independent right) or about 27%. That is why Gabbard would win for the Democrats and any other potential candidate would not.
Now look what happens if the Democrats continue to cheat, and Gabbard responds by switching to run as an independent, with or without alliances to other parties.
I will ignore the 30% to 50% of Democrats that might join her, and focus only on the progressives and millennials that would prefer her without the baggage of the Democratic Party, having proved she is not in it as a pawn (40%). I’ll give her half the independent right (8%), and the 1% of discontented Republicans, So 40% + 8% + 1% = 49%.
Against the best the Democrats could do assuming nobody defected, 24%
And against the remaining Republicans and the rest of the Independent right. 19% + 8% = 27%
And that is why Gabbard looks like a winner no matter what she does, and Sanders is a guaranteed loser no matter what you do.

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 17:10 utc | 25

@dhfew | Feb 15 2023 16:38 utc | 14
that would be those who still follow the media, and will believe anything. They even voted to overthrow 50 years of sly manipulation of the EU to the massive advantage of the UK, and voted for an economy wrecking Brexit, leaving the UK dependent on the few colonies it still controls and whatever largess a failing USA provides. Too sad.

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 17:16 utc | 27

@1 MTW
Perhaps you just need to reframe the situation in your head and the way you perceive it. No one should choose to live in the world with worry or fear.
I merely choose to see what is happening currently as the great entrance into light, beauty, and liberty while we have been stuck in the throes of obscurity since the last time the liberal world order was challenged, as this was not by the Soviets.
So take heart…we have already been living in a disgusting and unnatural period of history. Globalism by these western elites is a lying and pernicious way to rule and be a vessel for the empire.
Are you worried because the west will get their comeuppance and so we will suffer more than what we deem normal? This is true in a materialistic degree but what will come will offer the opportunity for true leadership again…true statecraft…at the hands of true statesmen. If you give them time, they will be able to convince you that the sufferings you are offering are beneficial to the state and its posterity and you will be happy to endure the “coming down-effect” in the after-light of globalism.
For myself, I have grown far too disgusted in the way life has become nothing more than paycheck-to-paycheck, than waiting for “the other shoe to drop,” or for waiting to deliver myself to the slaughterhouse at our elites’ design.
The future is messy. But nothing grants opportunity more than watching the hold of power slip the hands of those who have not taken care of this empire.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Feb 15 2023 17:24 utc | 29

@grunzt | Feb 15 2023 17:06 utc | 24
Actually it was completely predictable. See my I Love Trash!. Note the last two lines of the except below (emphasis added).
Extracted from that (Every Candidate was examined):

This will be our company for the next two years
A litany of losers that will drive you to tears
Desperately seeking for their campaigns
To relieve you of money, to dump in the drains
The result will be a foreordained conclusion
Whoever gets the nod from the oligarch fusion
That rules this country with an iron fist
Screwing everyone over, until we’re pissed
Exhausted, tired and feeling mean
Please can we bring back the guillotine!
Oh I love trash!
I love my trashy politicians
Bending us over into strange positions
Ravishing the public
Looting our purses
A dreadful, harmful two ring circus.
Anything dirty or sleazy or rotten
You’ll find a politician fondling its bottom
Unless the politician is Sleazy senile Joe
Who prefers sniffing girls if he can’t get cash or blow
I’m American and rather rash,
I’m an American and I love trash!
I have here a sneaky bitch tattered and worn
She lead the DNC, views voters with scorn
She foisted Hildemort onto the people
And lost an election, that was a steep pill
Wasserman Schultz rigs elections
With Schumer and Pelosi to prevent defections
Keep members toeing the party line
Screwing the voters ‘cause it feels divine
Making themselves fortunes, but that’s legal and fine
Oh, I love trash!
Here comes St Bernie with his fluffy hair
Pretends to be socialist, pretends to care
But everytime that there is a war
He votes to fund it, He’s such a whore
He is a sheepdog and a shill
His job, leading progressives to the kill
Supported Clinton, will support Joe next
And leave the rest of us broken wrecks
Yes I love trash!
I have here next John Delaney
A loan shark and bankster, really shady
He found he could make more as a Congressman
And will totally screw you if he can
He would really like a war with China
And socialist policies give him angina!
Yes I love trash!
Next up we have Andrew Yang
A new age, touchy-feely man
They say he’s done a lot for charity
But I don’t know what he thinks he can do for me
He’s not really visible, which might be a shame
But at least I can figure out how to say his name
Unlike Amy Klobuchar the corporate shark
Who reminds me of Clinton in waters dark
She is a “centrist” which means to the right
Of Mussolini and Hitler and the whole Third Reich
Paid for by lawyers and others of that class
Anyone who supports her is a corporate ass
I’ll make a bet when the chips are down
That they’ll support Joe the senile clown
Yes I love trash!

And if you still imagine that Sanders was anything but a shill, please see my Contra Sanders

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 17:25 utc | 31

I think this place, the bar of it, could use a riddle.
Anybody got something to proffer?
If not, let me ask you this.
Have you studied the data over the poles of Planet Earth at 10 hPa (high up there because Pascal is a unit of pressure) over the poles in particular?
If so, did you notice how the winds are so circular sometimes with plenty of velocity?
There must be some energy in that, but maybe the Old Farts just prefer war?
If so, I suspect Justified Retribution is on the way for them.
Is that a “riddle” or is it the conclusion of a sane peasant who pays attention?

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 17:36 utc | 33

Moreover, and because I haven’t been “banned” yet, was that even a riddle?
Nonetheless, some things are obvious and if you can’t sense that….then time will tell.

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 17:38 utc | 35

@27 The Scots were the right hand of British colonialism. Nowadays they don’t all run around the glens in kilts playing bagpipes. There are all kinds of people living in Scotland. It has become diverse.
Posted by: dh | Feb 15 2023 17:24 utc | 30

Correct. Scots, relative to the southern UK, had an outsized influence on business and politics in Canada for sure.
The elites in Scotland and England were on the same team, and the working class were the exploited. It is little different now, except the working class is imported.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Feb 15 2023 17:42 utc | 37

@dh | Feb 15 2023 17:24 utc | 30
So were the Irish and for the same reason*.
The Enclosure Laws and depopulating Ireland and Scotland with fences, starvation and vagrancy laws provided the English not just with workers to exploit through industrialization but soldiers with which to colonize the world.
Giving the English two right arms to go with their two left feet.

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 17:43 utc | 39

Posted by: Angry Minuteman | Feb 15 2023 17:46 utc | 40
I think that is a fair assessment, but it is flawed because things are happening quickly now and the early bird gets the worm.
I also think the UK is toast and Scotland ought separate and Ireland ought get back to its namesake and Wales can do whatever the hell they think makes sense.
I think the EU is most dysfunctional, just like the UK is – not united nor a kingdom.
The us of a has contradicted its ownself and become balloon killers out of DC – and that must be the most pathetic of all.
Just a big drain of ignominy it all will resolve upon I reckon.

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 17:49 utc | 41

@37 “The elites in Scotland and England were on the same team…”
They were all Normans. Some people have a sort of Braveheart view of Scots as victims. True many were not much more than serfs but the ones that left did well in the colonies. Backbone of the British army too.

Posted by: dh | Feb 15 2023 17:51 utc | 43

@39 Yes indeed. Excellent soldiers. Fierce, loyal, the Thin Red Line.

Posted by: dh | Feb 15 2023 17:54 utc | 45

@Opport Knocks | Feb 15 2023 17:53 utc | 44

So we need to pay to read Hersh now? I won’t.

I don’t pay for crap on the wall either.
Those who want to analyse based on motives only: There’s a motive for you.

Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 15 2023 18:04 utc | 47

@Chas #48
Sanders is a war monger. Billions of users have been aware that wealth and poverty has been increasing at the pole ends of the .1% and 99.9% – since Marx and Engels, not Sanders. Because of Bernie, more citizens have been recruited to the war party. Universal healthcare (Medicare for All) owes more to the NHS than Bernie. And, it’s still not sufficient because it keeps workers tied to social democracy – which is what Bernie represents. Rather than workers taking control, keep going to polling booths and make and “X” so someone else can represent you….

Posted by: zeke2u | Feb 15 2023 18:17 utc | 49

Perimetr | Feb 15 2023 16:56 utc | 19
Re the PCR quote (or you?, not clear) ;” The longer the conflict continues, the more involved the West will become. At some point a Russian victory will become unacceptable to the West, and then a general war will unfold. The inability of the Kremlin to understand this is leading to nuclear war.”
It is also probable that the Russians understood this from the start. That after Minsk fiasco, that the EU and the US would try to over-extend Russian forces – who would by by then, occupy all of Ukraine – and become vulnerable to all sorts of internal social disruptions. Of which the US is past master.
Seen from the start of the SMO, it could have been realized that it was a long term “war”. Thus an overall physically defensive position would be advantageous over a longer period. The icing on the cake is the actual problems the EU and US are finding in having a realistic response and enough ammunition/vehicles and cohesive policies. Rather than being on the outside and poking the Bear relatively easily, they (EUUS) are inefficient, corrupt and greedy. The RoW can see that they cannot, rather than will not, be able to create the situation that they counted on earlier.
The Russian SMO does not allow them to either use their “full” force, as they are nominally not part of the war, but is causing unforeseen problems, not least of which is their loss of credibility. Whereas inversely a “quick” Russian victory could be used as a rallying call against them.
Call it de-NATOfying.
*****
Oh look over there, yet more ballooons***
* Epstein’s “kiss list” is going to be published.
* Ohio is an environmental disaster. 5 million US citizens are right to be scared.
* The excess death rate is going to go off the charts. VERY scary.
* Corruption, (think of Ursula Fond-of-lying, who is now being sued by the Americans (Wash post?) to find out the contents of the emails she had with the CEO of Pfizer. Which might in turn give us a clue why she bought 4 billion doses. Maybe she could ask her husband as he is a Pfizr CEO. (Aside; Borrell was named in the Qatar cash payments but I have not seen any follow-up)
*to name just a few…..

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 15 2023 18:21 utc | 51

The longer the conflict continues, the more involved the West will become… The inability of the Kremlin to understand this is leading to nuclear war.
@ Perimetr | Feb 15 2023 16:56 utc | 19
Your post relates an opinion from Paul Craig Roberts — that’s the subject-matter of this response (not Ukraine proper). Roberts has consistently weirded me out with his generous advice for the Russian military. Why does he regard himself as qualified to dispense such advice? That’s my number-one question. There’s no real answer. PCR relishes wallowing in murky waters beyond his depth, to the point I’ve learned to ignore the egomaniac.
What do you do if forced into military conflict with a tottering, demented global hegemon? So far, the Kremlin proceeds like the joke about how porcupines mate: very carefully. No sudden moves, buddy!

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 15 2023 18:43 utc | 53

re: Stonebird | Feb 15 2023 18:21 utc | 51
Thanks, your arguments make a lot of sense. The quote is from PCR; I attempted to include a link, but if it doesn’t work, it came from his latest interview posted on his website.
I get the impression that PCR believed that Russia had the ability to take all of Ukraine in a matter of a few days, but chose not to. Based on the events of last year, I am not so sure that was a possibility a year ago.
I do think there is a risk that the crazed neocons will push to get Poland/Romania/US troops sent into western Ukraine, so Dr. Roberts may be correct that the longer the war continues, the more likely such intervention becomes.

Posted by: Perimetr | Feb 15 2023 18:49 utc | 55

I’m not sure where the discussion is now but I thought I’d post something on that train derailment in Ohio from a Canadian viewpoint.
“While U.S. officials couldn’t provide details about the threat to surrounding areas caused by the huge cloud of smoke and ash that came with the burn, Environment Climate Change Canada said to Global News that areas of Canada were “highly unlikely” to see any impacts from the rail disaster.
“Typically, the chemical involved in the controlled release to the air, vinyl chloride, only lasts in the atmosphere for less than 24 hours. With Southern Ontario being directly north and northwest of the event location, and with the prevailing winds being from the west and southwest, it would have been highly unlikely that the region would have seen any effect,” the statement read.”
Prevailing winds from the west (would blow east towards Pittsburgh, NYC?) and southwest (would blow NE towards Albany, Boston?)
https://globalnews.ca/news/9485842/ohio-train-derailment-chemical-spill-risk-lake-erie-southern-ontario/

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Feb 15 2023 19:07 utc | 57

The Guardian posted an article which indicated that phosgene, a deadly ww1 chemical weapon was released in the train wreck fire.
It takes a day or two for phosgene to kill by producing fluid in the lungs.
Of course, sufficient quantity and other factors…
Smells like wet straw. I’d recommend leaving the area if I smelled wet straw.

Posted by: Chaka Khagan | Feb 15 2023 19:14 utc | 59

I have to admit the idea of burning HCl to get rid of it would not have occurred to me.

Posted by: Bemildred | Feb 15 2023 19:17 utc | 61

@Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 17:40 utc | 36
Madison was responding to criticism that the proposed federal government was too large and would be unresponsive to the people. He noted that democracy does not work for large groups, and raises a false dichotomy (There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.). And a whole shoal of red herrings (There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests), His solution is an oligarchy (whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices and schemes of injustice) masquerading as a representative Republic with trappings of democracy.
Introducing the government of today, minus the”enlightened views and virtuous sentiments” along with the pretence that any but the oligarchs are represented.

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 19:27 utc | 63

Searching CNN today for ‘Seymour Hersh’ brings up nothing, nada, goose eggs, bupkis.
Maybe I mistyped it or maybe CNN is a warmongering, fascist rag. I don’t know what to think.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Feb 15 2023 19:39 utc | 65

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgwKZAMx_gM
Hollywood/Netflix movie about a train derailment/toxic burn released November 29, 2022. Filmed on location in NE Ohio. Train derailment scene set in East Palestine, Ohio. Movie extras for the evacuation scene have now evacuated for real.
They are playing us. It is all a setup. They are laughing.
Burning vinyl chloride releases phosgene, furans, and lots of dioxin. Phosgene breaks down with time, the others mostly don’t.
It is not about reform or third parties or making anyone listen or be smarter. It is about Evil. It is about Demons.

Posted by: oldhippie | Feb 15 2023 19:42 utc | 67

Old Hippie @67
Another aspect as to why they are laughing at is is the fact that foreign new outlets such as the Daily Express in England and Global Times from China are giving the tragic event full coverage with photos, interviews and videos while from the likes of the NYT, WaPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN ad nauseam: CRICKETS.

Posted by: Aristodemos | Feb 15 2023 19:50 utc | 69

@50 RSH
The cultural issues like transgenderism, racial divisiveness, and climate change are what keeps the midwits on both the right and left in the firm grasp of the central centrists. The reason jewtube and other globalist outlets allow quasi-populist reporting from those you mentioned (Greenwald, Jimmy Dore, etc.) is that they also dabble in cultural issues that obscure the obvious pressing ones, such as global-finance, west hegemony, and the war against Russia.
This allows a controlled-venting of popular frustration about our increasingly opaque reality that globalism has rendered completely unintelligible. By being hooked into an IV dripping truth on jewtube, one thinks they are getting the full picture…but like people say about voting (they wouldn’t let you do it if it had significance), the actual on-point reporting has been removed or censored akin to the “Precogs” of Phillip K. Dick’s ‘Minority Report.’
Indeed, ‘controlled-venting’ of popular angst about their reality is the story of our time. So far, this dude had the quote of the century IMO. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do’. TPTB are consistently ahead of the game in some regards, though those that can see know when they are being taken and realize that push is about to come to shove.
Don’t look for any kind of full-spectrum truth drops on any platform. You are responsible as a citizen to take what you can, glean what you are able, and disseminate in the interest of truth.
p.s. The other reason why these voices are left somewhat unmolested on the interwebs is that they are through-and-through statists. Iow, they think that if you merely input y here instead of x, the problems of the world will melt away and a utopian bliss will emerge. Statists are allowed to remain because, generally, they will not attack things like parasites where if you remove them, you will immediately see an improvement. IOW they are not philosophical…they do not see removal of problems, the unwinding of knots, as a possible solution.
History has proven this Marxist-thesis wrong again and again. The levers of power should not be on the other side of this fence.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Feb 15 2023 19:53 utc | 71

@Bemildred | Feb 15 2023 19:17 utc | 61
A Short Sonnet on a Toxic Train
The train was a pain
But the acid was worse
Being pure hydrochloric
The train was derailed
And Buttigeig cursed
What the hell can we do
With this damn toxic stew
Durn it
Burn it
Some might die, send a hearse
but the rest will disperse
Eliminating feelings and people dysphoric.

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 19:57 utc | 73

Hermit @54
Kucinich may be the single exception from your listing. He’s being quite forward in the Rage against the War rally on the 19th. Also, the world’s #1 genuine anti-imperialist, Diana Johnstone, is fully backing the occasion.

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 15 2023 19:59 utc | 75

stonebird@51
Imagine what it will be like for residents of East Palestine and surrounds, also downwind and downstream who have taken one or more of the Covid jabs and now this…..Megadeath perhaps?

Posted by: aristodemos | Feb 15 2023 20:02 utc | 77

@NemesisCalling | Feb 15 2023 19:53 utc | 71
What “Marxist thesis”?

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 20:07 utc | 79

@aristodemos | Feb 15 2023 19:59 utc | 75
Others have made the same point. I’m not saying he did not mean well*, but he still was the “liberal attractor” (to coin a phrase) in that election. I facetiously suggested that if he was serious about defeating the warmongers of both oligarch parties that he should have joined up with Ron Paul (who also meant well) outside of both parties and the two of them could have won the election.
*And he “meant well” is the politician’s epitaph

Posted by: Hermit | Feb 15 2023 20:14 utc | 81

From Donbass Devushka:

Latvian journalist Armands Puce on DelfiTV:
“We cannot say that it is only about Putin. The entire Russian society is moth-eaten. In fact, we are talking about ridding the world of lice. We must rid the world of this terrible plague.”
His colleague Aivis Cerins: “I agree with what my colleague Armands said. We need to rid the world and Latvia of the Russians.”

LOL… if the ethnic Russians all left Latvia, their downward demographic spiral would become a freefall.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Feb 15 2023 20:16 utc | 83

aristodemos | Feb 15 2023 20:02 utc | 77
I am not sure of the chemistry but they are talking about Dioxin being formed.
I suppose dying multiple deaths would be useful for an AI robot as in films, but the ability for us to zap to the next level doesn’t seem to exist in this one.

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 15 2023 20:16 utc | 85

@ Posted by: Comandante | Feb 15 2023 15:50 utc | 3
Per RT: And the Wagner pilot says F-16s will be useless in UKR.
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More crap from Seymour Hersh
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-crap-on-the-wall
Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 15 2023 17:42 utc | 38
Respectfully, you continue to shoot the Messenger. Hersh’s reputation is stellar.
Connect the dots. If you think Hersh is wrong on the Norway connection, (I have been taking note of your angst); How is it there is nary a word from the Norwegian government. No Denial. No protest. No taking legal action for defamation?
One is compelled to conclude in their silence, Norway government has taken the 5th on self-incrimination…illuding claim for damages in some $35 billion, base entry plus loss of revenues, Prejudice arising from an Act of War.
In Hersh’s previous exposing of criminal activities over 50 years all were then proven true.
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Hersh just let it be known after his two interviews days ago, More to Come. Stay tuned. We are only on first base.
Hersh’s interview in Germany was helpfully posted in English by Richard S. H on the previous thread.
RT: February 15, 2023
More Nord Stream ‘bombshells’ to come – Seymour Hersh
The legendary reporter slammed the mainstream media for ignoring his story, which pinned the act of sabotage on the US

In a post to his Substack page on Wednesday, Hersh slammed the mainstream media – singling out the New York Times and Washington Post – for refusing to “run a word” on the pipeline story, and for ignoring Russia and China’s calls for an international investigation.
Both papers, he said, published his exposés on the US military’s war crimes in Vietnam, but are now seemingly uninterested in “national security or matters of war and peace.”[.]
The President of the United States would rather see Germany freeze than [see] Germany possibly stop supporting Ukraine,”  he asserted.

“There may be more to learn about Joe Biden’s decision to prevent the German government from having second thoughts about the lack of cheap gas this winter,” Hersh wrote on Wednesday. “Stay tuned,” he said. “We are only on first base…” 

Posted by: Likklemore | Feb 15 2023 20:25 utc | 87

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 15 2023 20:16 utc | 85
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“Dioxin” is the last of the concerns of this moment, but sadly the damage seems to have been done.
And to think, this could have been a rescue mission that got some tractions, but the dimwits don’t recognize an emergency when it is in front of their faces – assume they didn’t create it in the first place.
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the problem is when chlorinated chemicals seep into the ground, they have a tendency to stick around and cause future trouble for drinking water supplies and whatnot, but all the gases got into the air, I reckon they are going to have a long-term effect. No denying that, just like no denying the EPA entities, be they state or federal, must be populated by woke dimwits who don’t really understand proper response to an accident or lets call it a derailment…..so it is a lose-lose all around, and I don’t know about you, I don’t live in Ohio nor in Pittsburg, but if I did I’d be even more upset about not getting my money’s worth from gubment – so begs the question – why do we even have it, if they are just full of dimwits can’t even respond to an emergency with professional capability? That is a fair question and it speaks to troubles only beginning to surface you want my opinion.
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I’ve been there first-hand when emergency response was required and there are some principles we based our response upon and I think they have been defiled and it makes me so indignant.

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 20:30 utc | 89

Dioxin from East Palestine train wreck?
https://twitter.com/PavewayIV/status/1625891937331863553?cxt=HHwWgoCz_ciGqpAtAAAA

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 15 2023 20:31 utc | 91

Pierre Servent would think Moscow is using human waves.
https://twitter.com/Qofficiel/status/1625945540990222340

Posted by: L’Amante de Capri | Feb 15 2023 20:32 utc | 93

Haven’t visited Craig Murray’s site for ages, mainly because I disagreed with his British Establishment stance about the SMO, which kind of left a sour taste after his principled stance over the Sturgeonistas stitch-up of Alec Salmond, eventually leading to Mr. Murray being stitched up himself.

Posted by: West of England Andy | Feb 15 2023 20:34 utc | 95

Hermit #91….I’ve been an ESHA professional since 1991 after I graduated in from UNC-Chapel Hill when I walked the halls with Ralph Baric and should have beaten the shit out of him knowing now what I didn’t know then.
I worked at a facility where hydrofluoric acid was one of the main raw materials to make what we desired to produce there, but that place no longer is in operation and we were smart then and none of the operators while I was there ever suffered from exposure to HF, but we were well trained – no matter, one night an operator in the tank farm made a big mistake and then a whole railcar of carbon tet I think it was spilled into the sand and I suspect they are still paying money to clean that up from a remediation standpoint.
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After that, I left my job, I’d being eating too many donuts anyhow and the California girls did not appeal to me (and vice-versa), so I went back home to commence my career in Environmental Safety Health Administration – ESHA is not the same as OSHA – not even close.
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Any more questions?
Don’t be a Hermit and you must not be if you are posting here, so really – any more questions?
I’ll answer if I can.
Ken

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 15 2023 20:42 utc | 97

@Likklemore | Feb 15 2023 20:25 utc | 86

Respectfully, you continue to shoot the Messenger. Hersh’s reputation is stellar.

I am citing the title of his latest work, using hist own words.

Connect the dots. If you think Hersh is wrong on the Norway connection, (I have been taking note of your angst);

Show me the actual dots, please. All we need is the hard evidence, then I will accept it. But this is such a serious thing that allegations do not stand on their own feet.

How is it there is nary a word from the Norwegian government. No Denial. No protest. No taking legal action for defamation?

As far as I know, Hersh is now calling the Norwegian government liars for denying their involvement. How does that compute? Notice I do not say they did not lie or were not involved, but there are too many loose allegations and contradictions here.
Show the evidence.

One is compelled to conclude in their silence

Prejudice is a fine art until it is shown to be based on …. prejudice.
Once again, I do not exclude the possibility that the Norwegian government did what is claimed, but until the evidence is presented it is not a fact.

Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 15 2023 20:51 utc | 99