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March 9, 2023
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The similarities between 1/6 and the Reichstag Fire are striking.
Posted by: Lysias | Mar 9 2023 22:18 utc | 41
It certainly seems that way – especially the ‚enabling‘ legislation passed afterwards.
Posted by: Exile | Mar 10 2023 6:53 utc | 101
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 | 89
You can see logic and game plan of US neocons. They believe if they can “take Crimea”, it will oust Putin and plunge Russia into civil war. That’s why they keep doubling down despite getting their limbs cut off one by one, as in the famous Monty Python scene of Black Night. They will use the last Ukrainian and Pole to achieve it.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2023 6:59 utc | 102
When will any EU MSM dare to cross “The Pravda Line”?
Posted by: AntonyIndia | Mar 10 2023 7:04 utc | 103
I just thought I’d mention that ARTE TV – the Franco-German network we watch for news – has made no mention whatsoever of the Hersh story or of the new NYT/Die Zeit ‘revelations.’ However they showed a clip of a gentleman in Kyiv twice, with a different interpretation each time: in one, longer clip he says ‘I was taking a walk in the park at 6 AM’ when a missile flew over his head. In the second he says he was on his way to work. But both end with him saying ‘l never thought I’d see this in the 21st century.’ Same gentleman, same facial expressions, same ending.
Posted by: Gene Poole | Mar 10 2023 7:22 utc | 105
A few weeks ago, as a non-economist, I had a little whinge about the fuzzy logic of the Reserve Bank of Australia raising interest rates every month to “control inflation”.
Since the RBA adopted this “strategy” almost a year ago, inflation has worsened and even the financial pundits have begun questioning the logic and morality of the RBA policy.
This week, after most corporate half-yearly profit results have shown a dramatic increase in profitability, the pundits have thrown caution to the wind and pointed out that corporate profits are responsible for 2/3 of Oz’s 7%+ inflation rate.
So the RBA is more or less punishing poor people (including starving some) for its own ignorance and incompetence.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 10 2023 7:47 utc | 106
Everybody knows , [five liars] have been getting away with genocides since time immermorial
Been calling the mob teflon club for ages…nuthin sticks.
MOA vet would testify to that.
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whadayaknow !
Now a canuck got the cheek to call China
‘Our teflon enemy’
Just goes to show that there aint no worst lies from the [five liars], they always managed to surpass themselves.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/china-our-teflon-enemy
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Posted by: denk | Mar 10 2023 8:56 utc | 107
Posted by: Gene Poole | Mar 10 2023 7:22 utc | 105
During the War to Destriy Yugoslavia it was common to see a man-on-the-street interview on TV news. The Voiceover translation often was at odds with what one could hear in the original underneath the Voiceover. One couldn‘t make out the original perfectly but enough to realize the translation was a bald faced lie.
The first few times this happened, one didn’t believe it. After a dozen times, one started to get slowly red pilled. After a couple of years of observing these mid-translations ; one could only conclude ‚they‘ were deliberately and systemically lieing.
Posted by: Exile | Mar 10 2023 9:04 utc | 108
Dmitry Medvedev: ‘We, together with other countries, can drive the final nail into the coffin of the neo-colonial aspirations of the Western world‘
The sharp blade of turbulence in international relations has opened the abscess of the old problems of our world. For many decades, these were ‘plastered over’ instead of eliminating the causes of the disease. But an abscess cannot go on forever. The time has come for international surgery to remove the malignant tumor of the world’s colonial past.
One example is the withdrawal of Argentina from the 2016 agreement with Britain on the administrative and economic activities in the Malvinas Islands (or ‘Falkland Islands’, as the British call them) in the British manner) Islands. The paper is quite fresh by historical standards. But in political terms, it is rotten and stinks (as, indeed, does everything touched by the plague hand of London). The commitment by Buenos Aires to continue a just struggle for the return of sovereignty over the disputed territories clearly shows the course towards strengthening the legal status of states and their fight against the shameful modern practices of neo-colonialism from which many countries continue to suffer.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 10:03 utc | 109
Education in Russia is, of course, on an extremely high level, compared to the rest of the world but on the absolute scale, its problems are :
– Devaluation of college education. While in college, people could get a military draft deferral. People enter college, then a master’s program, then the doctor’s program for no other reason than to dodge the draft. Naturally, they wouldn’t even try to study, they just waste lives till the age of 27 and surprisingly wouldn’t stop wasting this after. The other reason is that people are expected to have a college’s degree, even when people apply for a cashier position. Women enter college because they have to. Once they have an unusable degree, they realize they need a second one, this time for real. Now, everybody has two college degrees and people need at least one to work as a cashier. The ultimate result is people have tons of colleges that mass produce assclowns. The draft deferral needs to be cancelled and the number of colleges should be decreased : Some sort of a government proctored final exam that severely punishes colleges for letting morons graduate and forces them to expel morons at early stages.
– Corrective action for school students is not possible. That couldn’t expel them. That couldn’t suspend them. That couldn’t fail them. They know this. They are completely unruly and abusive towards teachers. Schools are ruined because of this single factor. Plus, they are inclusive now – Meaning that kids with psychiatric issues wouldn’t attend schools that are tailored for needs, they are forced into usual schools. Mentally disabled, violent children terrorize the rest of the class and nothing could be done about this. An easy way to remove an unruly student from school should be done and kids with severe mental disabilities should attend schools for kids with severe mental disabilities.
– Community colleges are supposed and could easily be a great way to get an actual blue collar profession that is paid very well right now because there is a severe shortage of skilled workers. Instead, non-bright kids are corralled there as an alternative to high school and they just waste three years, coming out and getting a random job. The easy way to fix this is to expel everybody who wouldn’t progress in the main field of study and open these colleges to adults who want to retrain quickly.
Posted by: Accin | Mar 10 2023 10:39 utc | 110
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2023 10:03 utc | 109
When I read stuff like that I feel deeply ashamed, Argentina, our language, and here in Spain you would never hear anything like that, all to the contrary, always ready to follow the orders of the anglo-saxon plague, always ready to dump garbage on any Latin American leader that tries to stand for their rights, like AMLO in Mexico, with creeps like Solana or Borrell who on top come from a party called the Socialist Workers Party of Spain, I cannot but recall a bard by the name of Javier Krahe, absolutely banned from the airways when we had one channel only, for a song in which he called them, you’re no socialist, no workers and no spaniards since you’ve sold the country to the yanks. Argentina will prevail, by right and wrong just like Maradona did it to them, first a trick and then a masterful dance dribbling the whole team. Reckoning day is coming, the world awaits impatiently.
Posted by: Paco | Mar 10 2023 11:36 utc | 111
Jen | Mar 9 2023 21:58 utc | 38 <-- This is not Jen. It is a perverted stalker troll who cut-and-pasted from the following webpage: How to Win Beautiful Iranian Women: A Full Guide
I realize that most regulars here at the bar can spot this stalker troll creep from a mile away, but I wanted to point it out just in case.
There sure are a lot of new trolls today too, and their focus is China. That shows the Empire of Lies is trying to shift the attention of the population from the Ukraine over to hating on China. Clearly the US State Department and the US military SOCOM/MISO psyop budgets have been “adjusted”
By the way, in case anyone wants to pursue a career as a trollmaster for the US military, they are hiring bigly: Indeed job listings for patriotic imperials who are too fat to be soldiers. Here is a listing from Peraton.
Sounds like the military is desperate for trollmasters who are not mouth-breathing morons. I wonder if they get combat pay if they are assigned to cover MoA?
Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 10 2023 12:03 utc | 112
Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 10 2023 12:03 utc | 112
Good pay, miserable life.
Posted by: Paco | Mar 10 2023 12:28 utc | 113
@ William Gruff | Mar 10 2023 12:03 utc | 112
I wonder if they get combat pay if they are assigned to cover MoA?
LOL. Well played. 🙂
News about the yacht which might have been used to blow up the nordstreams:
https://www.yacht.de/special/crime/nordstream-sabotage-mit-der-segelyacht-zur-pipeline-sprengung/
Posted by: Zet | Mar 10 2023 12:42 utc | 115
MOSCOW, 10 Mar — PRIME. Russian liquefied natural gas in 2022 helped Europe cover over 7% of its import needs, and in January-February of this year, the Russian Federation improved its position in the European LNG market and became the second largest supplier, overtaking Qatar, the research director commented to RIA Novosti Vygon Consulting Maria Belova.
“Russian LNG supplied 4.3% of Europe’s gas needs in 2022, or 7.3% of its gas imports. At the same time, our LNG closes the top three of its largest suppliers to Europe,” Belova said, answering a question about whether What role did Russian LNG play in maintaining the balance in the European gas market in 2022?
The expert noted that, unlike pipeline supplies, LNG exports from Russia to Europe have grown from 18 billion cubic meters in 2021 to 23 billion in 2022. “In the context of a shortage of pipeline imports, any purchases of LNG had a positive effect on the gas balance of Europe, and consequently on prices,” Belova noted.
EU imports of Russian LNG reached a record 2 billion cubic meters in February, TradeWinds reported this week. About 80% of deliveries were made to Belgium, France and Spain.
https://1prime.ru/gas/20230310/840028703.html
Uncle Schmuel must be boiling for losing potential revenues and stranglehold on Europe like this. This is a major reason why the economy hasn’t *completely* collapsed yet, the global market for LNG and oil still function normally. But that said, Europe has taken a huge hit through deindustrialization due to permanently higher cost compared to averages over last decade.
Posted by: unimperator | Mar 10 2023 14:37 utc | 116