New
Russia backed Wagner group claims they have taken Bakhmat and claim “Now the whole world will shake by what’s coming”
https://twitter.com/AbrahamStein8/status/1633855525442953216?s=20

Posted by: Dave Oneil | Mar 9 2023 15:44 utc | 4

«Large protests (many signs in English) to push Russia out of South Ossetia have also erupted.»
Actually the georgian fascists want to push the south-ossetians out of South Ossetia, because they claim it belongs to the georgians, not to the south ossetians who have been merely squatting there for just a few hundred years.
Same for the fascist ukrainians and Crimea and the Donbas (and eventually Rostov and Voronezh) and those illicit squatters who have been there only for 100-300 years.
«Here in Canada, in response to allegations of Chinese interference in our federal elections, a similar registry of foreign lobbyists is now being proposed. I wonder if the US will object to that ;-)»
The USA and the UK governments already have very hard “foreign agent” registration laws. But we all know there is a huge distinction between “freedom fighters” (USA-funded entities in the RF) and “terrorists” (RF and PRC funded entities in the USA, UK, Georgia, etc.)

Posted by: Blissex | Mar 9 2023 16:20 utc | 6

Posted by: Blissex | 6
“The USA and the UK governments already have very hard “foreign agent” registration laws. But we all know there is a huge distinction between “freedom fighters” (USA-funded entities in the RF) and “terrorists” (RF and PRC funded entities in the USA, UK, Georgia, etc.)”
This would be all-very-well — Were it not for the fact that both UK major political parties have been bought-and-paid-for with US and Israeli wonga for a very long time.
Starmer – Leader of the UK Labour Party is a member of the Trilateral Commission.
He received a £50 grand bung towards his leadership election campaign from Sir Trevor Chinn – A leading flag-waver for Zionist Israel and a member of the Jewish Leadership Council.
This is the same Trevor Chinn who has filled the pockets of so many rising stars of the UK Labour Party.
Should be be surprised that Starmer is a front-line supporter of Apartheid Israel and NATO’s war in Ukraine.

Posted by: Engineer-John | Mar 9 2023 17:13 utc | 8

Posted by: Blissex | Mar 9 2023 16:20 utc | 6
“Palestine belongs to the European Jewish converts, not to the Palestinians who have been merely squatting there for just a few thousand years! No, they are not Arabized locals!!1!1 They are only localized big bad evil Arabian colonizers although I have only myths and claims as evidence but your cultural evidence, historic papers and genetic researchs quoted by Israeli newspaper are only Eugenics!!1!1” – neoconservative Zionist irl

Posted by: Colin | Mar 9 2023 17:26 utc | 10

Canada’s “foreign agent” (aka Chinese) imbroglio is a 5 Eyes production, having played out previously in USA, UK, and Australia. Anonymous intelligence agents leak to friendly media and whipping up an opaque storm in which concepts such as “interference” are not defined, and neither actual material wrongdoing ever described. It boils down to vague “intentions” on behalf of nefarious evil-doers against whom the public and election processes must be protected. And if it can create a stampede which removes an elected government in favour of its right-wing opposition – so much the better. Either way, the “interference” concept is cemented in the public.

Posted by: jayc | Mar 9 2023 17:44 utc | 12

Today Lavrov met with his Saudi counterpart and held a presser after their talks. IMO, this article needs to be read along with the statement made by Lavrov about the Syrian situation. I’ve thought about the following formulation for several years now, using Lavrov’s words to describe it:
“We are in favour of intensifying efforts to resolve the Palestinian problem.” [My Emphasis]
IMO, the problem isn’t with Palestinians who are the rightful, very longtime inhabitants of the region; rather, the problem is with the Jewish/Zionist settlers/invaders who have waged a genocide against the Palestinian people since they arrived in large numbers after WW1. So, the issue needs to be called something else that more accurately reflects the situation like The Genocide Within Occupied Palestine or Ongoing Palestinian Genocide. Other suggestions are welcomed.
During the presser, further evidence was provided by Lavrov that UNSG Guterres isn’t at all neutral as he’s supposed to be but rather an agent of the West within the context of extending the failed “Grain Deal”:

We constantly remind Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that he has put forward a package. You asked a question about our attitude to the extension of the transaction. The deal is a package deal. Only what is already being performed can be extended. If the “package” is half met, the issue of extension becomes complex.
We have noticed that during his third consecutive visit to Kyiv, in addition to participating in the award ceremony of the Ukrainian military on the occasion of International Women’s Day, A. Guterres made several statements about the deal on grain and fertilizers. The Secretary-General expressed his conviction that it should be extended and that he would seek to remove obstacles to Russian fertilizers and Russian grain. For some reason, he linked this topic with the need for additional agreements on prisoners of war and the “demilitarization” of the Zaporizhzhya NPP. No one except Ukraine itself has ever talked about any “demilitarization”. The issue of ZNEC is dealt with by the IAEA.
Director General of the Agency R. Grossi has been promoting an agreement on declaring the Zaporizhzhya NPP a nuclear safety zone for several months. There was never any talk of “demilitarization.” We actively cooperated with the Director General of the IAEA. An agreement was close. We were ready to support her. But it was blocked by Kiev, which puts forward preconditions for prisoners of war and the “demilitarization” of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
It is a pity that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, while in Kiev, “signed” the unilateral Ukrainian demands, although according to the UN Charter, as an international official, the main administrative person of the UN, he should take a neutral position in accordance with the Charter. Once again, he failed to do so.

I must further promote The Cradle, the source for the article linked above, as it’s becoming an important source of information for West Asia and the Arab world, which includes much of Africa.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2023 18:12 utc | 14

Looks like animal abuse has become part of the Outlaw US Empire’s Diplomatic War against China as this Global Times editorial explores, “We are not willing to believe that anyone would abuse giant pandas: Global Times editorial”:

If this had not happened during a period when Washington is intensifying its containment and suppression of China, this matter would not have caused such a stir. Whether it’s a corn-milling plant, a crane, or an unidentified flying object, anything with a “China” tag could be seen as a “threat” by the US. As China’s national treasure and a “friendly messenger” symbolizing friendship of the Chinese people, could giant pandas become victims of the “hysterical neo-McCarthyism?” Such associations and concerns are not unwarranted, and some Chinese people’s vehement emotions can also be understood.
If coincidences happen frequently, they no longer are coincidences. During the period when concerns were gradually raised over the poor conditions of Ya Ya and Le Le, The New York Times published an article in February of last year questioning the value of China-US “panda diplomacy,” calling giant pandas a propaganda “window dressing” for China’s diplomacy with the US “softening the country’s authoritarian image and drawing attention away from its record of human rights abuses.” A congressman even proposed a bill on the matter.
However, we are still not willing to believe that the Memphis Zoo would intentionally abuse giant pandas. We believe in the basic goodness and rationality of the American people. Even though perverts who are so fiercely anti-China and would harm these lovable creatures do exist in the US, they should be the exception rather than the norm.
We have noticed that the Memphis Zoo made a lot of efforts to take care of the giant pandas. The proposed bill that targets Panda diplomacy by the lawmaker was criticized in the US and ended with nothing. As for whether the Memphis Zoo and local institutions are negligent in the care of Ya Ya and Le Le, a joint investigation by both China and the US is necessary to draw conclusions. [My Emphasis]

Yes, there are a great many perverts like the one described within the Outlaw US Empire that are deranged to the point of mass shootings of Chinese/Asians and they are reflected within Congress as noted. Similar derangement exists within official government documents like the just released so-called “Threat Assessment” where truth and reality are grossly perverted. But given the Empire’s Genocidal actions now and in the past, willful animal abuse cannot be ruled out, and Chinese are completely right to be concerned and angry.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2023 18:37 utc | 16

G-SIB Timber called in bankland.
Question of the hour: Will Credit Suisse (CS) survive and/or can it be bailed-in/bailed-out? Largest investor dumped its 10% shareholding. One month ago, Feb. 10, 202, CS had lost over 90% of its value. Hedge Funds guys and gals are exiting.
G-SIBs – Global Systemically Important Banks are all interconnected.
March 09, 2023
@ Marketwatch: https://www.tipranks.com/news/credit-suisse-slips-after-delaying-annual-report?mod=mw_quote_news
More details @

ZH:
It has become almost predictable: every few weeks, we receive news that causes Credit Suisse stock to plunge.
On Thursday, the beleaguered Swiss investment bank’s shares slumped 6% in Zurich trading — closing in on the lowest level on record — following the announcement that it would postpone the release of its annual report at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission. [.]
It’s the latest in a long list of challenges for Credit Suisse. The bank has endured several scandals in the last few years, such as the downfall of major clients Archegos Capital and Greensill Capital. Shares have slipped to near record low levels as the news get worse for the bank amid broad restructuring efforts.
“We have generally not focused on cash flow statements; the amounts are relatively small and the restatement was previously disclosed.
“However, questions with respect to accounting, especially from the SEC, are negative,” analysts, including Anke Reingen at the Royal Bank of Canada, wrote in a note.
Earlier this week, one of Credit Suisse’s largest shareholders, US investment manager Harris Associates, dumped its entire position in the bank over the last few months as confidence in the bank wanes.
Another concern is whether the bank can survive, given the substantial outflows from its wealth management division.
Mammoth Outflows
Credit Suisse sees historic levels of clients pulling out their money
[.]

Who is your banker? The financial collapse has been ongoing since September 2019; trillions printed to shore up the dyke with a band-aid and we are being distracted by Ukies.
What’s that saying? “when the financials fail they take us to war.”

Posted by: Likklemore | Mar 9 2023 19:04 utc | 18

Washington and its vassals could increasingly impose harsh sanctions on Beijing – This would considerably slow China’s development down and considering its development growth was already slower than countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kazakhstan and Georgia…
Posted by: Rasie | Mar 9 2023 17:56 utc | 13
That assumes that China will just sit there and take it. China has a multitude of ways of hitting back at the US. Of course there are costs involved, but China a) is unwilling to be humiliated again as she was in the early 20th C, and b) is looking forward to the demise of thew US empire, and will do all she can to aid this process.

Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Mar 9 2023 19:14 utc | 20

Exile @19–
Read several reports about the vids Carlson aired and the many more promised. Trump called for the House Jan 6 Committee members to be tried for Treason and for those jailed to be released. The spillover affect is present, an example being the fight on a Southwest flight on the ground in Texas by a man “defending his family.” IMO, this has then potential to generate a Critical Mass within the populace IF they watch the vids. I don’t read or watch BigLie media, so I don’t know how much of what Trump bellows is aired. Then there’s the continuing immiseration and useless Fed policy, and basic lack of any legislation being passed to aid the human condition while many billions go to the MIC for Buden’s wars. I commented above about the Anti-China hysteria that’s now moved to targeting Oscar presenters by the same pukes who tried to destabilize Hong Kong, meaning they’re financed by the Empire. Meanwhile, “US President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal includes some $6.9 trillion in spending, with a $1.8 trillion deficit,” while “US House Speaker McCarthy Says Biden’s Budget Proposal ‘Completely Unserious.'” However, McCarthy has it wrong as the Empire has both a spending AND revenue problem, which is why the deficit’s so gargantuan.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2023 19:36 utc | 22

China’s geoeconomic connectivity is such that any attempt to disconnect as Trump tried will fail and cause great damage to the nation(s) following that sort of policy. Idiot commentators ignore the vast significance of China’s domestic market and its friendly trade partners to drive its economy–China’s domestic market is greater than the USA and EU combined.
It’s clear the trolls have a new mission that’s the same as the old mission except that the targeted nation has changed from Russia to China. Clearly, nothings been learned from either previous experience as yet another double-down is being employed that will fail just like all previous attempts.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2023 19:45 utc | 24

PRC is hopelessly behind in critical technologies and is deficient in military, diplomatic and economic capabilities to seriously compete with USA. CPC constantly lied and dressed its dire position up with meaningless theories and numbers. In reality, its authoritarian system frustrated innovation and prevented from working effectively to resolve many crises that beset the country. Despite what CPC would like everyone to believe about its power, this is a complete paper tiger and hardly a credible threat that Washington would need to worry much about. CPC had always been a backward party that oppressed its own people and still is.

Posted by: Erisagi | Mar 9 2023 19:50 utc | 26

@ Erisagi | Mar 9 2023 19:50 utc | 26 with the delusional and humorous comment
LOL! How come the US is banning TikTok if the Chinese people are so oppressed and behind in critical technologies?
How many trains in the US have derailment problems this week?
How much is the God Of Mammon paying you for this rubbish?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 9 2023 20:15 utc | 28

@karlof1 | Mar 9 2023 19:47 utc | 25

Yes, a new cadre of trolls has arrived, the last cadre having failed so spectacularly.

Reinforcements are sent into the MoA cauldron, but cannot keep up with the casualties.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 9 2023 20:25 utc | 30

Seems like Russian media are slowly but surely spreading ‘sinophobic’ propaganda : During some debate on Russia-1, one of hosts described Beijing as ‘unreliable partner’.
Sergey Naryshkin or Sergey Lavrov might have warned Vladimir Putin about this. Yury Trutnev should take measures to reduce Beijing’s soft power in the far eastern region.

Posted by: Chocolatine | Mar 9 2023 20:50 utc | 32

Wise Karlof1 is back, but where is equally wise bevin?

Posted by: Northern Eve | Mar 9 2023 21:24 utc | 34

“by: Exile | Mar 9 2023 19:08 utc | 19”
“The new videos pretty much establish conclusively that 1/6 was a deliberate set-up
Thoughts ?”
I think the “new videos” like the “old videos” prove that anyone can cherry-pick what they like out of 40000 hours of security videos and make it “show” almost anything they want it to show. The facts are that Trump said the words he said, how he said them, resulting in a large number of people entering DC not as “sightseers” (get real) but with the intent to stop the certification of an election (which still has seen no credible evidence for the claims of fraud), resulting in both death and property damage. I’m undecided whether that was Trump’s intent, but it’s obvious that without his speech the actions of the crowd would not have happened. I’m no fan of the senile warmongering asshole who won, but I’m not going to support a violent overthrow of the US government, which is what was attempted.

Posted by: Dalit | Mar 9 2023 21:37 utc | 36

Western price cap scheme on Russian oil is collapsing

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/36516
🇺🇸US officials urged oil traders to resume the transportation of Russian oil.
The US has privately urged some of the world’s largest commodity traders to shed concerns over shipping price-capped Russian oil, in a bid to keep supplies stable and regain some oversight of Moscow’s exports. US Department of Treasury officials met executives and traders at Trafigura and Gunvor among others, according to five people familiar with the talks, and offered reassurances over expanding their role in Russian crude and fuel trade without breaching western restrictions. While Washington has never opposed trading of Russian oil within G7-agreed price curbs, the largest independent oil traders have been wary of the market. “We’ve been actively encouraged by the Americans . . . to re-engage on moving the oil,” said one trader who spoke with the Treasury.
The US reassurances, delivered in meetings with leading independent oil traders in recent weeks, come as Russia has threatened to cut oil supplies this month after western powers ratcheted up support for Ukraine. The Biden administration led the G7 push for a price cap to squeeze Vladimir Putin’s energy revenues. But it also sought to keep Russian oil flowing to international markets, fearing fallout from a collapse in supplies from one of the world’s top energy exporters.
“The Americans really do want it to move,” said one trader, referring to Russia’s oil.
The World cannot survive without Russian oil. 🤭

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 9 2023 22:05 utc | 38

The similarities between 1/6 and the Reichstag Fire are striking.

Posted by: Lysias | Mar 9 2023 22:18 utc | 40

First time posting here. Reader for a while.
For all those claiming that PRC is just a paper tiger and is technologically behind, take a look at this report from ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) on critical technology race. It compares China against Quad Countries and finds China leading in 37 of the 44 categories – https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker. The report leads off with “Western democracies are losing the global technological competition…”

Posted by: rext | Mar 9 2023 22:35 utc | 42

Norwegian @39–
Thanks for your earlier reply and the content of your comment above. The above info begs the question Why? IMO, it’s because Western financial markets & banks are on the edge of solvency and any strong disruption would cause a crisis. The reality on Russia’s financial situation regarding its hydrocarbon sales is that it can afford to cut its exports. This past week has seen most of the major OPEC+ members visit Moscow for talks, the Saudi FM being the latest following right behind Qatar’s. The group is working on several issues currently that all have a bearing on the other, some of which can be gleaned from the presser I linked to above. Under the radar is Russia’s announcement of a new works for its the Bovanenkovo and Kharasavey fields, with 5 and 2 trillion cubic meters of proven reserves, respectively, pushing Russia’s proven reserves total beyond 30 trillion cubic meters for its major gas fields alone. And recall that Gazprom is only one of Russia’s gas companies with Rosneft being another busily discovering new fields in the Far East and Kara Sea. IMO, far more than what’s contained in North America remains to be discovered in Russia’s Arctic AND it has the facilities in place to perform that prospecting.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 9 2023 23:02 utc | 44

And now we’ve seen the PRC diplomatic game play out. First the proposed peace framework, rejected out of hand by the US. And then we get the statement that China will supply arms to Russia in proportion to US supplies to Taiwan. I wonder how they’ll calculate it? By dollar equivalent would be funny. I’ll bet Russia can get a lot of 152mm artillery shells at Chinese internal procurement costs for the amount of military aid the US gives Taiwan.

Posted by: Lex | Mar 9 2023 23:37 utc | 46

Rasie @ 13:
Where do these statistics come from? Without any links, how do we know how current they are? We do not know which years they are current for.
The statistics quoted in your comment look like cherry-picking. Some are so general as to be meaningless. To pick an example, the stats quoted for education levels of adults are meaningless unless they are broken down by age groups. This is to allow for the fact that it has only been within the last 40 years that China has been able to reach levels of economic and social development almost comparable to those of developed nations in the West. If the stats were broken down by population, we would probably find that the proportion of Chinese people under 30 years of age who have college or undergraduate university qualifications would be similar to the proportions of Russians and Americans in the same age cohort who have similar qualifications.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Mar 10 2023 0:19 utc | 48

Posted by: Kar Lyta | Mar 9 2023 23:32 utc | 46
Perhaps you do some basic research first.
Size and population of Chechnya
17,300km2 1,510,824 population.
Size and population of China
9,596,961km2 1,411,750,000
Both from Wikipedia.
Further, one is a country, the other is a province.

Posted by: Surferket | Mar 10 2023 0:28 utc | 50

Anya Parampil explores how the USA establishment pays for Nick Fuentes and his savages to destroy a conservative NON establishment candidate.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/17/how-nick-fuentes-dashed-joe-kents-congressional-hopes-delighting-democrats/

Indeed, between a targeted online harassment offensive and physical protests of Kent’s campaign events, the Groyper leader’s subversion effort knew no boundaries. His behavior played directly into the hands of Kent’s political rivals, including liberal media outlets like the New York Times. In one particularly freakish incident, a Fuentes loyalist with a documented criminal past stalked Kent as he campaigned in rural Washington State in order to record a short interview with the candidate. The brief encounter would later serve as the crux of a CNN report that sought to link Kent to “white nationalists,” despite his documented rebuke of such ideology.
Was Fuentes’ obsession with Kent purely personal reprisal for a bruised ego? Fuentes claims the campaign was an attempt to demonstrate that his vision for “Christian nationalism” represents the future of America First politics.Yet while the livestreamer’s benefactors remain unknown, his war on Kent directly coincided with a multi-million dollar dark money effort designed to sink the MAGA-aligned candidate’s run for office. Super PACs affiliated with the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party dumped at least $4 million into defeating Kent throughout his primary battle – precisely the time that Fuentes inserted himself into the race.
Fuentes’ strategy was two-pronged: after tarnishing the candidate’s reputation in the eyes of liberal and even center-right voters by branding Kent with his toxic endorsement, he worked to depress MAGA turnout for the Trump-endorsed politician by smearing him as a CIA-controlled Trojan Horse.
Despite endorsements from Trump and former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, as well a cast of political heavy-hitters in between, Kent ultimately lost to his Democratic opponent by fewer than just 3,000 votes. The demise of Kent’s campaign in such a pivotal swing district to a previously unknown challenger also spelled the failure of the widely expected populist “red wave,” a development broadly celebrated in establishment media.
Above all, it meant that one of the most credible and passionate opponents of the escalating Ukraine proxy war would be absent from upcoming congressional debates on U.S. military support for the conflict.

The USA is in a state of permanent revolution – a colour revolution without end.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 0:39 utc | 52

Posted by: Debsisdead | Mar 10 2023 0:40 utc | 54
True. Simple net search would find that China has settled all border conflicts with her neighbours, except for India which refuses to even negotiate but insist that China does what India demands, up to surrendering Tibet and parts of Sichuan provinces to India.
The issues in SCS is actually at status quo except for US persistence in flaming and inflaming some of their paid puppets in Philippines to stir up the flames of “evil China”.

Posted by: Surferket | Mar 10 2023 0:47 utc | 54

@ malenkov | Mar 10 2023 0:01 utc | 48
Bevin remarked recently that he was going on holiday soon, so he’s probably on holiday.

Posted by: suzan | Mar 10 2023 1:02 utc | 56

Finding examples of the synergy existing between Russia’s science, research, and industry are hard to find, but I do come across them on occasion. From 30 Jan 2023, “First Russian LNG Tanker Design”:

A conference was held to discuss the development of the Design 10070 LNG carrier, the first to be designed in Russia. According to Atomenergomash, the project envisages implementing a radically new technology of storage and transportation of liquified natural gas using insert tanks made from polymer composite materials of Russian make.
The project is part of the Northern Sea Route development plan 2035 and is supported by the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council for maintaining national in interests in the Arctic.
Atomenergomash and its partners are developing a radically new technology of cargo containing systems that envisages using B Type insert tanks made of polymer composite materials with cryogenic polyurethane foam insulation. The insert tanks made by UMATEX, part of Rosatom, proved lighter and stronger than traditionally used aluminum tanks.
Besides, the technology provides for manufacturing the hull and the tanks simultaneously to be integrated at later stages of construction, thus reducing the construction period.
Atomenergomash in cooperation with the Krylov State Research Center continue studying options to use membrane tanks based on the Krylov Center’s know how.
‘Until now, cargo containing systems for gas carriers manufacturing is monopolized. Russia’s know how is aimed not only to destroy this monopoly but also to offer domestic LNG producers a reliable transportation solution that will help our country to strengthen its technology sovereignty in the LNG sector and continue to play an important role in the global gas market,’ Vladimir Aptekarev, Director, Shipbuilding, Atomenergomash, said.

The gas to make the polymers is Russian processed at a Russian petrochemical plant and so forth–100% vertical integration of the entire process to build the ship and all its components. The company, Atomenergomash, is a subsidiary of Rosatom, which is owned by the Russian people. Such ownership arrangements are seldom allowed in Neoliberal captured nations.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2023 1:09 utc | 58

Another new barfly couldn’t handle its booze and puked on the floor, which makes several now on this thread alone. It needs to go off to a troll rehab center to get its brain rearranged.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2023 1:11 utc | 60

@ suzan | Mar 10 2023 1:02 utc | 57
Much obliged for that information. While I’d never begrudge anyone of good will his holiday, I look forward to bevin’s return, and soon.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 10 2023 1:22 utc | 62

@ Norwegian | Mar 9 2023 20:25 utc | 30
lol
@ rext | Mar 9 2023 22:35 utc | 43
Indeed. Great first post. Welcome to the bar, what’s yer poison ? Cheers.
@ Surferket | Mar 10 2023 0:35 utc | 52
Indeed. Especially so your last. Great posts, on a roll. Cheers & prost!
@ Dosare | Mar 9 2023 19:38 utc | 23
Manipulative misrepresentation entirely out of context. Troll.
@ Erisagi | Mar 9 2023 19:50 utc | 26
Troll. Forgot to mention ChiComs ? Sad.
@ Kar Lyta | Mar 9 2023 23:32 utc | 46
@ Coquette | Mar 10 2023 1:06 utc | 58
$1 discard bin Trolls.
@ Refinnejenna | Mar 10 2023 0:19 utc | 49
Yawn …
Minor troll infestation, wheres the bug spray ?

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 10 2023 1:34 utc | 64

Tucker Carlson and Jimmy Dore on the Congressional Committee hearings and whitewash of the January 6 ‘ransacking’ of the US capitol.
The entire committee was just a uniparty brainless propaganda tool covering for the US deep state. Anyway enjoy the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4cB5DVOc-c
and here is Chris Hedges lynching the deplorables
https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/05/chris-hedges-lynching-the-deplorables/

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 2:19 utc | 66

Georgia, Ukraine
Posted by: MiniMo | Mar 9 2023 20:24 utc | 29
MiniMo cited Brian Berletic’s excellent breakdown of the current Georgia crisis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSeU30VpgQ) in which Berletic gives a link to an old 2004 article by the Guardian reporter Ian Traynor (died in 2016); describing in detail how the U.S. fixes elections and/or coups.
“Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.
Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze.”
His piece is a quick seminar in how the Empire picks and installs their puppets, same thing today in Peru.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa

Posted by: migueljose | Mar 10 2023 2:27 utc | 68

Lethal R-37/R-37M Vympel hypersonic AA(~400Km) missile operable … game changer for Iran … multi generation/capability leap …
Iranian official says purchase of Russian fighter jets (SU-35S) complete – Semafor, Mar9’23

Iran’s Mission to the United Nations confirmed to Semafor that it has finalized a deal with Moscow to purchase advanced Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jets — the first official confirmation of a high-stakes transaction with implications from the front lines in Ukraine to the delicate balance of power in the Middle East.
…
Iran’s spokesman in New York, Mojtaba Babaei, … But he provided details on the fighter-jet sale, though not their delivery date or numbers.
“Following the end of the imposed [Iran-Iraq] war (1988), Iran asked a bunch of countries to buy fighter jets, and Russia said it was open to selling,” Babaei wrote. “The SU-35 fighter jets were technically acceptable to Iran, so after October 2020 and the end of Iran’s restrictions on conventional weapons purchases (UN Resolution 2231), Iran finalized the deal to buy them.”
…

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 10 2023 2:38 utc | 70

@uncle tungsten
And the biggest POS of all

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 10 2023 2:47 utc | 72

Matt Taibbi:

At around 10 a.m. EST this morning, Michael Shellenberger and I will be testifying at the “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files” for the House Judiciary Committee, in the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Just before, around 9:00 a.m., we’ll also be releasing a TwitterFiles “Statement to Congress” thread, which will be submitted to the record. It contains some surprises.

Here: https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/09/matt-taibbi-my-statement-to-congress/

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 3:02 utc | 74

Thus spake Chris Hedges at the rage against the war machine:
https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/19/chris-hedges-rage-against-the-war-machine-speech/

We are here today to denounce the unelected, unaccountable high priests of Empire, who funnel the bodies of millions of victims, along with trillions of our national wealth, into the bowels of our own version of the Canaanite idol, Moloch.
The political class, the media, the entertainment industry, the financiers and even religious institutions bay like wolves for the blood of Muslims or Russians or Chinese, or whoever the idol has demonized as unworthy of life. There were no rational objectives in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Somalia. There are none in Ukraine. Permanent war and industrial slaughter are their own justification. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman earn billions of dollars in profits. The vast expenditures demanded by the Pentagon are sacrosanct. The cabal of warmongering pundits, diplomats and technocrats, who smugly dodge responsibility for the array of military disasters they orchestrate, are protean, shifting adroitly with the political tides, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Julien Benda called these courtiers to power “the self-made barbarians of the intelligentsia.”

read on…

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 3:21 utc | 76

@ Outraged | Mar 10 2023 2:47 utc | 73
Impostor. ‘Twas NOT moi. Tiresome.
&
US arms firms sued for ‘aiding and abetting’ war crimes in Yemen, Presstv.ir, 08 March 2023

American arms manufacturers face lawsuit for “aiding and abetting” war crimes in Yemen which is suffering a full-blown humanitarian crisis as a result of the 8 year Saudi led war of aggression.
US defense contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and, General Dynamics, have been sued by a group of seven Yemeni nationals for aiding and abetting war crimes and extrajudicial killings by selling weapons to be used in waging war on Yemen.
The lawsuit, filed in the District Court of Washington DC, also names the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, and the United Arab Emirates’ leader, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, as well as US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and Pentagon Chief, Lloyd Austin, as defendants.
…

Posted by: Outraged | Mar 10 2023 3:41 utc | 78

@ uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 3:27 utc | 78 with the Twitter serendipity….LOL
I saw that also….I think our comments complimented each other….grin…best to you as well
Like I was telling the trolls here about the law of diminishing returns, the Hollywood show in Congress is just adding fuel to the fire of losing control of the global and local narratives by folks that have no more to lose.
Blaming US corruption on Russia or China is going to be harder than trying to start a war with them and look at how that is turning out.
The US/EU economies are crashing and the weeping and gnashing of teeth will start in earnest in the US when the markets reflect capitulation. Will people believe the MSM telling them why things are bad?…..I don’t think so in the same way as before and maybe we will have a societal awakening about human morals and governments

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 10 2023 3:47 utc | 80

psychohistorian #81
I feel the same way. I can smell you on my skin.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 3:52 utc | 82

It’s a four-fer if China can grab an island from the Philippines which once belonged to Taiwan while the US looks on despite its treaty with the Philippines, and despite Vietnam’s claiming the island.
>The Philippine Coast Guard has reported that several Chinese vessels — a Navy and Coast Guard ships with 40 “Chinese militia vessels” — have anchored in the past several days 8 to 15 kilometers off our Pag-asa Island, which it said “was well within that island’s territorial waters.”
>Pag-Asa Island was originally held by Taiwan, but the garrison withdrew in 1971 to avoid a typhoon, and the island was then taken by the Philippines military in its absence.
> China, Taiwan and Vietnam do not recognise Philippine sovereignty over Pag-Asa with Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry stating in 2021 that all activities violating Vietnam’s legal and historic sovereignty over the Spratly Islands were illegal in response to Philippine plans to upgrade the facilities on the island.
>The Philippine president recently said the main mission of his country’s military has changed to ensure the protection of its territory. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. stressed the urgency of shifting the military’s focus to external defence in a speech before troops on February 28.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 10 2023 4:02 utc | 84

excellent discussion/lecture about underwater demolition with explosives
between Prof.Dr. Christian Rieck and Thorsten Porschmann; in German, with English subtitles (not very good translation)
Pipeline Sprengung. Bilddaten analysiert.
Wehrtechnik-Experte Thorsten Pörschmann
on Oct.23,2022
He talks about that huge explosion to destroy the pipelines. It might have been used to be seen as demonstration of the abilities of the perpetrator. Interesting technical aspects of the sabotage act, which could not have been done by amateurs, without large technical backup, possibly submarine use, and the fact that the pipelines will not be able to be repaired, from technical and economics standpoints. The economic effect on the price of natural gas was at that time (October 2022) very minimal according to his assessment.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ru/podcast/181-wehrtechnik-experte-analysiert-drohnen-bilder-der/id1546280669?i=1000583587830
I am not sure, if this expert was mentioned in MoA before; no damage done if I mention it now again.

Posted by: fanto | Mar 10 2023 4:42 utc | 86

The Infographics Show uploaded a video about how a civil war in Russia could be like.
https://youtu.be/wZ8dcMYD8MI

Posted by: Fraise | Mar 10 2023 5:06 utc | 88

In further puerile troll news…
The email address available at the web site linked to in my moniker is now getting me signed up to various web sites that I have never been to.
Isn’t that precious…….such poor losers we have in our world. They will find the merit based world of China/Russia and that axis will not be kind to them or others like them.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 10 2023 5:36 utc | 90

India bought Russian oil at hefty discount, along with China. With the drop in oil prices and especially urals crude, Russia would make almost no profit on this when expenses, including shipping, insurance and so, are added. EU’s very lucrative market, previous its biggest buyer, is gone for good.
How is Moscow winning ?

Posted by: Jaguar | Mar 10 2023 5:47 utc | 92

Within two years, Russia will be irrelevant – No army, no economy, no ally.

Posted by: Jevo Twit | Mar 10 2023 5:50 utc | 94

Posted by: Jaguar | Mar 10 2023 5:47 utc | 92
“Russian companies got far more money from selling the country’s oil than previously thought in the weeks that followed the imposition of a price cap on the nation’s exports, a group of academics said.
The research weakens the idea that the price limits are crushing Moscow’s revenue to fund the war in Ukraine.
Russia’s crude fetched an average of about $74 a barrel in the four weeks that followed the cap, according to calculations by experts including from the Institute of International Finance, Columbia University and University of California. That’s about a quarter above the threshold — $60 a barrel — that the Group of Seven set from Dec. 5.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-24/researchers-say-russia-is-selling-oil-far-above-the-price-cap
What’s going on here? India and China buy the oil well above price cap, and resell it at even higher price to Europe. India even refines the oil to fuels.
Why is this? Because if Europe shut itself completely from Russian oil, they would be paying $150 for US and Saudi oil alone, and Russia would be paying $40 for Russian oil. But this clearly isn’t happening, the market tends to balance itself out, oil being a universal and global commodity. Price cap is for public consumption to dumbed downed Wasterners.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2023 5:56 utc | 96

uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 3:52 utc | 83
FAKE…. not me

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 6:06 utc | 98

Tonight from Reuters

SINGAPORE, March 10 (Reuters) – Falling bank stocks drove Asian markets lower on Friday, while bonds rallied and expectations for U.S. interest rate rises were reduced after a surprise capital raising at a Silicon Valley startup lender unleashed fears of broader banking-system stress.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 10 2023 6:36 utc | 100