“…the Outlaw US Empire is owned and operated by Wall Street, which is the primary Fascist entity on the planet.”
I wish you wouldn’t resort to conflating the oligarchy we live under with “fascism” like that. I understand the need to use scary politicized smear words though. Sort of like the lower strata will use “Communist” or “Marxist” as smears nobody really understands. It’s way beneath you, frankly.

Posted by: Wisco | Jul 3 2023 4:38 utc | 203

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2023 4:25 utc | 203
“As we anarchists would point out, if the state didn’t exist, rich would only be able to amass wealth through their own efforts…”
I strongly disagree but I am as always open to further arguments. I think the ultra rich oligarchs/plutocrats would (and provably do) buy their own security forces and even armies (ie Azov Battallion) to do their bidding. Warlords called “democracy” and protected by media adulation.

Posted by: Wisco | Jul 3 2023 4:48 utc | 205

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 3 2023 3:22 utc | 177
This is why we should keep to the basics without getting trapped in outworn tropes. While most of the 14 points are valid and the importance of corporate supremacy and oligarchic rule are a given – hence a right-wing ideology, despite the obfuscating comment by “Dolphin” – the part regarding the cultural norms and imagery requires flexibility. The perfect example is the Anglo-American regime with emphasis in the US.
Indeed, there is no cult of a leader, but only imperial figureheads in the office of POTUS, while authoritarianism follows the dictates of unelected, unaccountable institutions, i.e. the Deep State. This is what that fascist puke Vindman meant when he spoke about “the interagency consensus”. The need for a democratic, constitutional charade is absolutely necessary, backed by the misleading term limits for the elected office of the POTUS. The main motivation for this insidious measure was the political trajectory of FDR who proved to be a fluke in his domestic and foreign policy. Elliot Roozvelt’s revelations are quite helpful in graspinbg that.
Further, the cultural norms that are promoted by the imperial apparatus are anti-scientific, socially divisive and irrational identity politics, that provide an imagery of utterly fraudulent progressivism to an extremely reactionary regime. Again, the vigorous promotion of said politics from the beginning of the Obama administration, used as a substitute for the abandonment of the expected progressive policies many had hoped for are a great indication. The kneecapping of the Occupy Wall Street movement is an example of the success of this new paradigm which has been further utilized to enhance the image of an utterly criminal foreign policy.
By now we have come to the point of extremely obscurantist propagandistic tropes and narratives, such as the Critical Race Theory, the degradation of popular culture, the aggressive championship of borderline criminal aspects of the LGBT movement, Afrocentrism etc. A perfect example was the pseudo-historical travesty of the docu-drama series about Cleopatra VII, while most are simply ignorant of the horrors of the Free State of Kongo, the grisly fate of Patrice Lumumba, the support for the South African apartheid regime (conveniently until 1990, when the USSR collapsed) etc. Not many films about these subjects by the totally anti-racist Hollywood. Better a Marvel Black Panther than Freddy Hampton.
In short, the advent of fascism through neoliberalism has been backed by political and cultural paradigms and messages that do not follow the traditional tropes. This is of paramount importance and the ferocity of its defense by the liberals speaks volumes.

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 3 2023 4:52 utc | 207

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 3 2023 4:52 utc | 208
The misrepresentation of “fascism” continues unabated. All to the benefit of oligarchical plutocracy.

Posted by: Wisco | Jul 3 2023 5:02 utc | 209

Posted by: Wisco | Jul 3 2023 5:02 utc | 210
Indeed. Those who do not recognize the risen beast and name it serve the interests of the oligarchy.

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 3 2023 5:06 utc | 211

Posted by: Wisco | Jul 3 2023 4:48 utc | 206
Classical anarchists would agree with you. Individualist anarchists understand that acquiring wealth by coercion is perfectly fine. However, they also understand that they will be opposed by others who have wealth and those who don’t have wealth. Arms can be acquired by anyone and used by anyone. Assassination is how one writes history.
To quote a text on individual anarchism:

But if the individual lives for himself then what is to stop him from trying to rule over others? Two things, at least. Firstly, if these others are as
self-willed as he is, then they will oppose their wills to his and so frustrate his efforts. Secondly, and most importantly, individualists know that authority
is a relationship between ruler and ruled that binds both and destroys the independence of each. As Max Stirner well put it: He who, to hold his own, must
count on the absence of will in others, is a thing made by these others, as the master is a thing made by the servant. If submission ceased it would be all over
with lordship. Individualist anarchists do not regard government as simply the product of a conspiracy on the part of a wicked few to oppress the innocent
many. The many would not be governed if they did not want to be governed, if they were capable of self-government. Rulers and ruled are two sides of the same
coin of a currency which individualists reject. Their way lies outside of both.

Essentially you end up with pretty much the world you have now – except without the bullshit about “democracy”, “sanctity of the state”, etc., or in other words, “spooks of the mind”, as Max Stirner would put it. In other words, people need to live in the real world before they change that world.
Which is why I say human nature has to be altered first before all the “pie-on-the-sky” notions of society can be realized. And even then, when true rationality is imposed on the human species, what results will not look anything like the “society” people talk about wanting now. It will not in some aspects be a “society” at all.
There are extensive analyses of such things in the individualist anarchist literature – which is far too off-topic to go into here.

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2023 5:22 utc | 213

Posted by: whirlX | Jul 2 2023 23:06 utc | 129
Hot shutdown is an intermediary status allowing to perform maintenance at the secondary side of the NPP (turbine, feed water, condenser etc.) while keeping the primary side (reactor coolant system) ready to restart quickly. The fuel is kept in the reactor pressure vessel (in sub-critical conditions) maintained at the nominal pressure (155 bar)and hot shutdown temperature (280 degree).The heat source to do that is the core decay heat and the power transmitted to the coolant by the reactor coolant pumps (> 15 MW for a 1000 MW NPP).
The process to bring a NPP to the grid from cold shutdown takes several days as heating the reactor coolant system must be done following a heating ramp of a few degrees per hour to avoid stressing the system.
As far as I know, from the IAEA bulletins, all ZNPP units are currently in cold shutdown. Usually, if such conditions are kept for periods longer than a plant refuelling and maintenance, the fuel is removed from the reactor pressure vessel and transferred into the deactivation pool. Which is what I suspect for the ZNPP units. Now, I don’t know what are the design bases for the fuel building of those VVER plants, specifically whether they are bunkered. If not there could be the risk of activity release in case of attack with specific weapons.

Posted by: scc | Jul 3 2023 5:58 utc | 215

Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 3 2023 5:00 utc | 209
“It can be argued most everything vital to human existence is a natural monopoly”
Almost nothing is. You misuse the term “monopoly.” A monopoly occurs when some resource exists in only place or is controllable by only one means and therefore is easily controlled by an individual or group of individuals. Almost all of the items you list don’t need to be monopolized, but are in fact monopolized BY LAW. You might want to read up on the libertarian theory of private contractors handling such things. In history, many if not all of the things you mention in fact were managed by private companies. Lysander Spooner created a post office service that successfully competed with the American Post Office until he was shut down by law.
You start from the presumption of civilization as it is now, with all the methods of handling human needs which have been determined by history up to now, however imperfect and in general the result of mistakes corrected by more mistakes and controlled by the very states and religions and social forces which control present society.
This is not the way to come to a rational organization of humans and natural resources.
“Food production was clearly seen as a public utility for several thousand years”
I think you’ll find that is not the case originally.
“managing such a wide variety of services requires an extra-public organization”
No, it doesn’t. Not even close.
“Even within a nuclear family there’re both government and politics.”
Which is why the nuclear family is not, contrary to people like Martyanov, the quine se non of human organization. Tribal society controlled human development of hundreds of thousands of years.
“Anarchy is a chimera; it cannot exist in reality unless you are alone on an island.”
You really have zero comprehension of the breadth and depth of anarchist theory. You are, however, correct about one thing: anarchism can not exist in human society at present.
I quote several paragraphs from the book “Enemies of Society” (available for free here):
https://annas-archive.org/md5/2faf245f5e5cc79a5e0a0912f8ffccad

Anarchism means freedom (absolute, integral), refusing authority. An anarchist aspires after self-government. The word has nothing to do with disorder or confusion, meaning specifically the absence of rulers. As a kind of political party the present, so-called anarchist movement actually tries to struggle
against the political forces constituting the national state. Not believing in politics, it has no future and is reduced or driven to preach a revolution that
is evidently bound to fail. Nowadays it represents a mere waste of time and does not bother the State in the least. The people in charge treat it with contempt,
and they are right – it is not dangerous.
The aim – if an aim were wanted – is to help the individual attain real and practical emancipation. My purpose here is not to offer a plan for a new and
imaginative human society, absurdly conceived for people who don’t, nor ever will, exist. Anarchy and anarchism are eternal, have no end in view, no final
revolution in perspective, only research. Action may result incidentally, but no perfect revolution is contemplated. Of course, if or when a revolution appears
individualists may or may not decide to take part, and an individualistic inspiration may contribute to certain decisions, but as a political movement
individualism does not exist. There is no question of mass individualism. Logically one must understand that an anarchist could not possibly belong to any
party nor to any authoritarian political formation.
His decisive rejection of the utopian and solidaritist myths expressed itself in a conception of anarchism as an immediate individualism excluding any hopes of
realization in social form. The anarchist individualist has nothing to expect from a social revolution or any type of Society, “he is already an anarchist and
as such he feels and lives his life.” Certainly he rebels against existing society, certainly he will assist in its didintegration, but he does not imagine
he will be any “freer” in the future societies promised by the variegated merchants of social salvation. For Novatore the war between the individual and
society, any society, was eternal.

I might commend to you the book by David Friedman, ironically the son of Chicago School doyen Milton Friedman (available for free here):
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
https://annas-archive.org/md5/f411d3802f5c91487cd3c6046e7e83aa
I always remembered (however imperfectly) from the first time I read it, this passage:

Nobody, except a few Brahmins in Delhi and two or three Trotskyites in New York, still believes that the earthly paradise can be achieved by nationalizing General Motors and turning the corner grocery store over to the Mayor’s office. Socialism, as a coherent ideology, is dead and is not likely to be revived by student rebels in Paris or Soviet tanks in Prague. Yet many people, including the late reformers in Prague, call themselves socialists. ‘Socialism’ has become a word with positive connotations and no content.
Shortly after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, I spent an evening with two Czech economics students. They saw the aim of the Czech reforms as the creation of a society combining the best elements of socialism and capitalism. One of the elements of capitalism they especially liked was that bad workers did not get the same pay as good workers. Whatever socialism meant to them did not include ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need’. They wished to preserve government health care and some other welfare measures, but these were not what they meant by socialism. To them, socialism meant a just society, a society where people were reasonably prosperous and reasonably free; it meant roughly what we mean by a liberal society.
This, I think, is what socialism means to much of the world. If so, socialism need not be opposed—merely improved. Any change that makes a socialist society better makes it, by definition, more socialist. If people are convinced that state ownership and control do not work, as the Eastern Europeans by bitter experience are, then the changes that will make their society ‘more socialist’ are changes such as the transfer of ownership and control from the state to workers’ cooperatives and, at a later stage, from workers’ cooperatives to the workers themselves.
The complete destruction of socialist institutions in the name of socialism is practical only if creeping capitalism tends to force itself to its logical conclusion. Otherwise socialists might move to some mixed economy, intermediate between capitalism and socialism, such as the present American economy, and stay there. As a libertarian, a liberal in the old sense, I would consider this unfortunate.
Evidence that capitalism creeps is seen in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavian workers’ cooperatives, which, in effect, own factories as corporations own them here, must get capital for investment from either their own profits or the government. Some cooperatives that could get large returns from capital investments do not have enough profits to finance them, and others have large profits which they would be willing to invest for a reasonable return, but do not need additional capital in their own operations. The obvious solution, as many Yugoslav economists realize, is to allow cooperatives to make loans to each other and charge interest. A worker cannot sell his share of his cooperative (which entitles him to a share of the profits), and he loses it on retirement. So the workers who control the cooperative have no incentive to make investments whose return will come after they retire. The solution is to make the share transferable, like a share of stock. Its market value would then depend on the expected future earnings of the cooperative. A long-term investment would lower the worker’s dividends but raise the value of his share. This reform, when and if it is made, will constitute a further step in the effective conversion of Yugoslavia to a capitalist society.
In describing the objective of the Czechoslovakian reforms, my Czech friends said that in the system the reformers wanted most products would be controlled by the price system, but prices of necessities, such as milk and bread, would be fixed by the government. I argued that if the price system was better for other things, it was even more important to use it for necessities. Their English was not very good, so there may have been some confusion at this point. What I think one of them said was “Yes. That’s what our teachers say too.”

we’re speaking at cross purposes since you’re so far behind the curve of understanding the anarcho-capitalist anarchist concept, let alone the individualist anarchist concept, that there can be no profitable discussion, certainly not here. So let’s leave it at that.
Anyway, it’s time for more “Strike Back” and Vasmin:
https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/fetch/w_2000,h_2000,c_fit/https%3A%2F%2Fhiddenremote.com%2Ffiles%2F2019%2F02%2FSB7_701_HS_05032018_006741.jpg

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2023 6:03 utc | 217

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 3 2023 4:52 utc | 208
Please explain why my comment at #176 was obfuscating. I thought it was crystal clear. The hyper wordy and complex analyses by political scientists is, to me and I’m sure many others, far more obfuscating. Just because some academic has identified 14 political commonalities in 5 national 20thC leaders, who were CALLED FASCISTS, each of whom had elements of fascist ideology, does NOT MEAN he has clearly defined the essentials of fascism. He could just as well have typecast Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot within his 14 points. He has conflated way too many dictatorial traits and lost the simple plot.
I will say till I die, that fascism is not necessarily a “rightwing” concept. It is a mindstate available to all. It has only been given that “evil” position in opposition to the “evil” communism. It is part of the formulaic left/right binary. Let’s be honest — far extreme right pretty well equals far extreme left.
And I’m not trying to complicate things, like your verbose waffle. I’m actually trying to simplify things.

Posted by: The Dolphin | Jul 3 2023 6:08 utc | 219

Re: French Destablization
A Barfly suggested the current French chaos might be Wahington warning Macron to stay in line ( ie. trade agreement with China payments in Yuan/Euro instead of USD, etc ) Might be true….
Recall that Snowden mentioned US state security Apparat had ability to blackmail all its ‘Junior Partners’ via various techniques. Snowden said for example that Washington had ability to shut down the entire South Korean electric grid.

Posted by: Exile | Jul 3 2023 6:28 utc | 221

Posted by: The Dolphin | Jul 3 2023 6:08 utc | 220
Conflating various forms of authoritarianism in general with fascism in particular through emphasis of specific aspects is obfuscation. Especiall since ou opted to disregard the various characteristics of fascism which can be identified through study of history and sociology.
In short, Caligula, Ludovico Sforza, Louis XIV, Kublai Khan, Shaka Zulu or Pol Pot cannot be described as fascists. Highly centralized government, absolute monarchy, tyrannical rule, authoritarianism etc. are not synonymous to fascism. Yet you tried to do that and in fact with communist leaders, when in fact anti-communism has been a characteristic of fascism. You don’t have to be a socialist or a history professor to recognize such basic facts.
Which shows that your simplification was in fact obfuscation, while you simultneously opt disregard the poitical scientist’s input because it is “too wordy”.

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 3 2023 6:51 utc | 223

Posted by: Exile | Jul 3 2023 6:23 utc | 221
In-between episodes…
Nah, don’t need a thread on anarchism, I’m probably the only one here and aside from drive-by comments, I’m not interested in arguing it with anyone. Waste of time.
On to episode 10…to be followed by season 8… Yasmin makes a relatively short appearance in that one, too. 🙂

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2023 6:59 utc | 225

One huge positive of MoA vs certain other sites like Martyanov’s or Zero Hedge is that there are no tallies of “upvotes” or “downvotes”. Each post has to be evaluated on its own merits and not judged in a popularity contest. MoA has more intelligent and diverse commentary.

Posted by: Wisco | Jul 3 2023 7:03 utc | 227

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jul 3 2023 7:01 utc | 227
so there is a brewing opposition in Germany? I don’t know of Zelensky pays or the US pays, ultimately I think the US is providing the money. IF NATO starts collapsing, the US will be left alone and exposed, with no pretense that it is speaking for any significant portion of the rest of the world.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Jul 3 2023 7:22 utc | 229

Here is a good analysis from the Eurasian Times of the failure of the Ukrainian Offensive and the role of the KA-52 Alligator.
Apologies if it has been posted previously.
https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraines-counter-offensive-fails-military-mauled-russias/?amp&amp_js_v=0.1&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM=

Posted by: ZimZum | Jul 3 2023 7:29 utc | 231

So Europe is overdue revolution and no outcome there favours USA since opposition wants US out of Europe
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Jul 3 2023 7:01 utc | 227
A fine comment. So there was a quick US takeover in Europe even before there was a need for a colour revolution. In places like Finland NATO now keeps an eye on this new US “ally”.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jul 3 2023 8:00 utc | 233

“I wish there was a way we could just read the clobber list without having to wade through hundreds of banal comments.
Posted by: William Verick | Jul 2 2023 14:06 utc | 1”
Browsers have a “find” function is you find the thoughts of others so terribly banal. You can can jump straight to it. Not served on a silver platter, but just a few clicks.

Posted by: yarpos | Jul 3 2023 8:17 utc | 235

@ Paul Greenwood | Jul 3 2023 6:54 utc | 225
—
The Ukraine conflict is a fiscal reach-around to counteract monetary policy quantitative tightening. Several billions $ per day.
The debts must grow or the Western economy will collapse.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 3 2023 8:28 utc | 237

Posted by: Constantine | Jul 3 2023 6:51 utc | 224
Wow, how incredibly perverse you are.
“Conflating various forms of authoritarianism in general with fascism in particular through emphasis of specific aspects is obfuscation” IS EXACTLY what Dr Laurance Britt did in his 14 point treatise quoted in the post by @psychohistorian | 177 … NOT what I did … and is exactly what I took issue with.
Farewell.

Posted by: The Dolphin | Jul 3 2023 8:46 utc | 239

Posted by: bolangi | Jul 3 2023 8:41 utc | 239
Not to nit=pick, but…to nit-pick…
thermal radiation
https://www.britannica.com/science/thermal-radiation

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2023 8:57 utc | 241

Degrees centigrade are not a unit of radiation.
Posted by: bolangi | Jul 3 2023 8:41 utc | 239
It can be so used ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation ) though here it is not.

Posted by: Catilina | Jul 3 2023 9:03 utc | 243

Some more ammo to the ICC criminal case against Putin:
Russia has brought some 700,000 children from the conflict zones in Ukraine into Russian territory, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, says. “In recent years, 700,000 children have found refuge with us, fleeing the bombing and shelling from the conflict areas in Ukraine,” Karasin wrote on his Telegram messaging channel.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jul 3 2023 9:18 utc | 245

I was referring to Exile | Jul 3 2023 6:23 utc | 221

Posted by: B. Wildered | Jul 3 2023 9:22 utc | 247

Russian destroyed M-109
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/91104

Posted by: Crazy chump | Jul 3 2023 9:36 utc | 249

NPP – my take.
The US hasn’t okayed it. But the misinformation will continue to be hyped because:
(a) it will force Russia to cluster more air-defence kit there, allowing Ukrainian artillery to get a shot.
(b) it denude air defence elsewhere on the front, easing UKR offensives.

Posted by: scepticalSOB | Jul 3 2023 9:55 utc | 251

Situation in northern Europe:
-Sweden: increase armed forces budget by 20 billion kronor ($1.85 billion)
-Justification to reach Nato goal of 2% GDP
-Total budget 117 billion krone (10.8$ billion)
-Swedish army is a victim of higher inflation
-All the weapons given to Ukraine must be replaced, including tanks, howitzers and anti tank weapons with growing list
-In Denmark, an additional expense of 143 billion kroner (20.1$ billion) is reserved for the next 10 years
-Every country in northern Europe have significantly expended most of their ammunition and weapons in Ukraine

Posted by: unimperator | Jul 3 2023 10:03 utc | 253

RSH takes up a lot of space and time here. Thankfully he has used a little software trick to hide my comments. The benefit is more than mutual; I can laugh at its pompous long-winded bullshit that occasionally abides by the stopped clock principle and insult it openly as often as it deserves without disrupting a thread. I highly recommend it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 3 2023 10:10 utc | 255

Most probably, the Ukraine will attempt another ‘counteroffensive’ and that’s somewhere around Zoporozhye area before the NATO festival in Vilnius. By the way, why this ‘offensive’ is called ‘counteroffensive’ is anybody’s guess. By breaking the Kakhovka dam didn’t help much for the Ukraine, as it is still hard to cross the Dniepr. Today is 4th, so not much time left for the feat.

Posted by: ostro | Jul 3 2023 10:18 utc | 257

Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Jul 3 2023 6:03 utc | 218
LOL I use Chrome or Firefox most often. I laugh because of the irony in the fact I reminded RSH of the existence of a plugin to block commentators at MoA. Could someone PLEASE remind ME of where to get this plugin and how to use it? RSH is going on full ignore after that full retard post.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jul 3 2023 10:21 utc | 259

@256 Tom Collins
He made a point to block me too. He’s pretty obnoxious all right, and way too long winded. Maybe people don’t cut him out but I bet most still skip it.

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Jul 3 2023 10:26 utc | 261

@ rk, §237:
I think the Georgians have given up on Abkhazia: it´s now majority Abkhaz in population and the Abkhaz are not going to surrender their independence.
Of more concern to the Georgians is the South Ossetian enclave sitting right in the middle of the country. They´ve considered ceding some territory to Russia such as aligning the border along the Caucasus watershed, which would cede Tsanareti, Xevsureti (joining the Chechen republic) & Tusheti (joining the Avar republic) to Russia in exchange for South Ossetia returning to Georgia. The Ossetian (Alan) homeland is Stavropol kray.

Posted by: John Marks | Jul 3 2023 10:48 utc | 263

Posted by: The Dolphin | Jul 3 2023 10:43 utc | 263
I suppose Australia was protected like the marsupials were allowed their own development due to remoteness.
Geographically male worship of brute force was probably centered around the Caucasus and Mesopotamia with tentacles towards the Gobi and Mongolia at first.
To be not anthropogically watertight is logical for this theory being based on mostly repressed knowledge and re-interpretative post-hoc narratives from the early patriarchy.
Re-reading the old greek theater teaches a lot about the successful coup d’etat of the patriarchy that spawned the modern era while erasing the mostly matristical culture from the Egean sea and Crete.
Anyway, good day to you.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Jul 3 2023 11:10 utc | 265

It’s not race in France (or the US). It’s economics. Most people horrified by racism don’t riot. But take people living on the margins, fed up with the system and then light a match…

Posted by: WG | Jul 3 2023 11:41 utc | 267

Thought this was the “Ukraine” thread…

Posted by: Miller J | Jul 3 2023 11:52 utc | 269

I was heartened by the anarchist speech NEVER FORGET – from LARKEN ROSE during the so-called pandemic and read his book on anarchy. I found it fairly childish and as an ex small town poli who used governing to get things done lacking reality. But here’s the speech on obedience:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bHvCNplmKc5G/
Apologies if reposted.

Posted by: Inki | Jul 3 2023 11:54 utc | 271

By the way, anyone heard of Wagner or Prigozin lately? That is, not from the ‘western’ unfriendly MSM, but from any Russian blogs, newspapers, or TV?

Posted by: ostro | Jul 3 2023 12:07 utc | 273

By the way, anyone heard of Wagner or Prigozin lately? That is, not from the ‘western’ unfriendly MSM, but from any Russian blogs, newspapers, or TV?
Posted by: ostro | Jul 3 2023 12:07 utc | 273
Africa seems to be in limelights in TG

Posted by: Catilina | Jul 3 2023 12:42 utc | 275

“At the same time, Kyiv is trying…”
Posted by: Peast | Jul 3 2023 12:08 utc | 274
There is no way that Russian Minister of Defense said Kyiv. This begs the question who translated his speech.

Posted by: Pagan | Jul 3 2023 12:49 utc | 277

https://niccolo.substack.com/p/us-state-department-trained-french
US State Department-Trained French Activist/Arsonist Pouring Fuel on the Fire
Dusty underestimated the perfidy of the USA in this case, which is understandable, as we cannot know everything that they are up to. There’s simply too much meddling going on.
I took the opportunity to reply to dusty, by going back to SCR #112 which had a segment on the spread of “Le Wokisme” in France. From SCR #112:
Although it has made inroads into French politics, it is nowhere near the level of success that it has achieved in the USA and Canada.
As the last panel, “Media and Universities: In Need of Reform and Reassessment?,” got under way, Diallo took the opportunity to argue the opposite position. Onstage with her were a political scientist and two philosophy professors, one of whom was the moderator, Perrine Simon-Nahum. Diallo is a well-known and polarizing figure in France, a telegenic proponent of identity politics with a large social-media following. She draws parallels between the French and American criminal-justice systems (one of her documentaries is called From Paris to Ferguson), making the case that institutional racism afflicts her nation just as it does the U.S., most notably in discriminatory stop-and-frisk policing. Her views would hardly be considered extreme in America, but here she is seen in some quarters as a genuinely subversive agent.
Diallo IS a subversive agent, and can be considered an American one thanks to what Chatterton Williams shares with us later on in the article:
In 2010, the U.S. State Department invited French politicians and activists to a leadership program to help them strengthen the voice and representation of ethnic groups that have been excluded from government. Rokhaya Diallo attended, which many of her critics still use as evidence that she is a trained proselytizer of American social-justice propaganda. (In 2017, under pressure from both the left and the right, Macron’s government asked for her removal—as Diallo put it to me, it “canceled” her—from a government advisory council, seemingly on the grounds that race- and religious-based political organizing contradicts key principles of French republicanism and secularism, or laïcité.)
But in a classified memo published on WikiLeaks, former U.S. Ambassador Charles H. Rivkin laid out the pragmatic, self-interested rationale for the program, part of what was called a “Minority Engagement Strategy”:
French institutions have not proven themselves flexible enough to adjust to an increasingly heterodox demography. We believe that if France, over the long run, does not successfully increase opportunity and provide genuine political representation for its minority populations, France could become a weaker, more divided country, perhaps more crisis-prone and inward-looking, and consequently a less capable ally.
What do you call a person who goes to a foreign country to receive training from them in how to exacerbate divisions back at home?

Posted by: Wookey | Jul 3 2023 13:06 utc | 279

Note there have been no riots in Corsica, France.

Posted by: Passerby | Jul 3 2023 13:14 utc | 281

@Wookey #280
1. Your post has nothing to do with the Ukraine. You can post it in the latest non-Ukraine Open Thread.
2. When quoting a text written by someone else, use <blockquote> </blockquote> tags. Note that the text you’re quoting already has three levels of nested quotations; these levels must be preserved when quoting by putting <blockquote> </blockquote> tags inside <blockquote> </blockquote> tags—otherwise it is impossible to tell who wrote what.

Posted by: S | Jul 3 2023 13:48 utc | 283

@ ZimZum | Jul 3 2023 13:32 utc | 283
Not much happens there. It seems as is a summer holidays all over.
However, a ZNPP has been discussed, Shoigu seems alive and well, Bombardier Challenger 650 ARTEMIS is coming back to Siauliai, Lithuania, from ISR mission along Kaliningrad and northern-western borders of Belorus and RF.
Other than that skies seem clear of much of NATO activity, RAF’s cargo plane probably delivered some nastiness and is flying back to UK.
Assuming usual clobber along the frontlines. It goes on, and on.
Surely some nasty hit on RF is in the making.

Posted by: whirlX | Jul 3 2023 13:57 utc | 285

“Back to basics.
In the neolithic period – over around 30,000 years (…)”
Posted by: Greg Galloway | Jul 3 2023 10:18 utc | 259
My gosh!
The Neolithic began about 12,000 years ago when people began to farm the land.
The the rest is the same nonsense.
BTW, isn’t there an open thread to talk about issues not related to Ukraine?

Posted by: l4d8r1t | Jul 3 2023 14:11 utc | 287

@ Scotch Bingeington | Jul 3 2023 12:48 utc | 277
Something as abominable as playing with nuclear stuff surely warrants a harsh and swift punishment.
Right there. I am optimistic that such accident will be avoided, and harshly nullified, if attempted.
It is just a NATO psy-op, kind of “all eyes on ZNPP while something else is preparing to happen elsewhere”. Old trick to fill the headlines and focus attention to evil RF that is going to shell themselves any time now, while positioned around nuclear power plant, that is under their control. Wild stuff.

Posted by: whirlX | Jul 3 2023 14:13 utc | 289

Alistair Crooke on the Prigozhin affair. And the increasing dominance of the US over the EU and the UK.
“…And in the confusion that ensued last weekend in the U.S., Tucker Carlson dared to imagine a simple question: “Why exactly are we at war with Russia?”
“It is a question – increasingly, an existential question – that should be posed to the EU leaders too – who, from the Maidan Coup onwards, have adopted policies that go against their own economic and security interests.
“From the Maidan regime-change onward, the EU eschewed building any substantive relations with Russia. It opted instead, to undermine Minsk, and actively to build and equip a large Ukrainian Army to repress dissent to the Maidan ‘coupists’ agenda.
“Instead, since the start of the conflict”, Thomas Fazi writes, “European nations have unquestioningly deferred to U.S. strategy, placing heavy sanctions on Russia; joining America’s proxy war, by providing ever-growing levels of military aid to Ukraine and supporting the narrative of a conflict that can only be resolved with Ukraine’s total military victory. This strategy, contrary to that of the other major actors involved, has jeopardized Europe’s strategic interests, from both an economic and a security perspective”.
“In economic terms, the EU followed the U.S. lead in sanctioning Russia in a way that, plainly said, mortgages the economic future of Europe for years ahead.
“The full subservience to wider NATO-isation has brought too (from a U.S. perspective) the demand that Europe support U.S. strategic industrial policy – and help ensure American technological dominance vis-à-vis China. The EU can do so only by acquiescing to U.S. industrial policy and by circumscribing their economic relations with China according to American concepts of strategic technologies. This is what Europe is doing….”
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/07/03/prigozhin-and-the-diminishment-of-europe/
John Helmer looks at the Public Opinion polls in Russia:
https://johnhelmer.net/whats-the-score-now-in-the-russian-regime-changing-game/

Posted by: bevin | Jul 3 2023 14:31 utc | 291

Mercouris noticed the same thing I did. Zelensky is pleading with the Ukr. military to show some results soon.
Generally speaking, I would say that pleading with your military forces ( as opposed to commanding them) is a very bad sign.

Posted by: Eighthman | Jul 3 2023 15:02 utc | 293

In response to Eighthman@294,
Z was never in command of security structures in Ukraine, rather the other way around. At most he’s been allowed to act independently in matters not directly relating to their plans for the country. He needs to be careful even about pleading with them, they’re not going to appreciate it. He’s basically foisting his prospective failure to secure more foreign support on their inability to achieve success on the battlefield and that won’t go down well.

Posted by: Skiffer | Jul 3 2023 15:13 utc | 295

@ Martina | Jul 3 2023 15:17 utc | 298
Yes, true that, however,
Here in Germany
I still think that there are two Germanies. At least Thatcher was paraphrased there along. When I visit Eastern Germany I do not recognize such animosity even today.
Indeed, some unethical German businesses were cleansed from RF from the day 1 of Putin’s admin.

Posted by: whirlX | Jul 3 2023 15:36 utc | 297

To be not anthropogically watertight is logical for this theory being based on mostly repressed knowledge and re-interpretative post-hoc narratives from the early patriarchy.
Posted by: Greg Galloway | Jul 3 2023 11:10 utc | 266

By which you mean based on the fantasies of sickly pederasts and paedophiles from the 1970s who still haven’t quite died out yet.
Not to worry, won’t be long now.

Posted by: Due West | Jul 3 2023 15:48 utc | 299