News Round-Up
- “We must amend the law to restore our basic rights” – The Public Health Act was used to put the whole population under house arrest – it must not be allowed to do so again, says Lord Sumption in the Telegraph.
- “Met Police accused of bungling Downing Street parties investigation” – Officers said to have accused some Government figures of attending gatherings at which they could prove they were not present, reports the Telegraph.
- “City workers to keep testing despite ‘living with Covid’ plan” – Some offices continue monitoring employees as mandatory mask use is dropped, according to the Telegraph.
- “Iceland’s President Tries To Rewrite History” – Will the lockdown proponents, once they finally give up trying to defend their ill-advised strategy, simply deny it ever existed? asks Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
- “Vaccination – silencing doctors in the UK” – Dr. Malcolm Kendrick reproduces two threatening letters a doctor received for questioning some aspects of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.
- “Britain needs a nuclear renaissance to end our decadent dependence on Russian resources” – An Energy Security Taskforce, based on the high-speed Kate Bingham model, should be established at once, argues Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “We need to talk about energy” – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause a major energy shock – and the U.K. is totally unprepared, says Andrew Tettenborn in Spiked.
- “Messing With The Environment ‘To Fight Climate Change’… Wind Farms Are Altering The North Sea” – Wind turbines pose obstacles to water and air and the effects are of great importance with regard to the planning of future offshore wind farms, says Pierre L. Gosselin in Watts Up With That?
- “How the word ‘woman’ became taboo” – “Being kind means never saying ‘no’ to incursions on one’s territory or standing up for one’s rights, and as such is completely in line with a political mindset which tells even rape victims that they are practising ‘carceral feminism’ if they seek redress through the law,” writes Julie Burchill in the Spectator.
- “Trans activists’ censorship campaign is a danger to healthcare” – Censorship is shaping not any old workplace, but NHS trusts themselves, writes Zoe Strimpel in the Telegarph.
- “Ketanji Brown Jackson wasn’t chosen on merit alone” – As a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and current federal judge on the prestigious D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, there is no doubt that Jackson is qualified to be on the Supreme Court, but it is also clear she was not selected on merit alone, writes Park MacDougald in UnHerd.
- “Putin puts nuclear force on alert” – According to tomorrow’s Times, Putin may not just be run-of-the-mill crazy, but a thermonuclear nut case.
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Continuing the probably futile campaign to introduce actual expertise and knowledge into the infantile jingoism of the current US sphere “discourse” on Russia and Ukraine, here’s an excellent thoughtful piece by journalist Trish Woods with some hugely well informed individuals, on the profound problems in US Russia relations, and the real background to the Ukraine events. https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/twcritical/id/22262462 Woods explicitly references key similarities in the dysfunctionality of debate in the US sphere, between Russia/Ukraine and covid, and other issues. Prof John Mearsheimer made the following observation a few days ago: “... the Russophobia in the west, especially the United States, is just off the charts. It’s truly remarkable, how much Russophobia there is, in the United States. The hostility to Putin, it’s really mind-boggling. My good friend Steve Cohen, who’s now dead, who was a very prominent Sovietologist in his day, and expert on Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed…he argued that it was much easier during the Cold War to make arguments that were sympathetic to the Soviet Union, than it is to make arguments that are sympathetic to Russia, in the contemporary political environment.” https://youtu.be/Nbj1AR_aAcE?t=3312 In other words, understanding a Christian state that is an uncooperative but much weaker… Read more »
If we think that Putin used exotic chemicals to murder people in the west for…reasons, or that Putin is a new Hitler, or that Russia is a meaningful global threat on the scale of 1930s Germany, or that Russia influences our elections significantly, then we are just like those gullible types who spent early 2020 in a terrified funk about “the worst pandemic in modern history”. We are living in a world that is fundamentally other than the one we think we live in, as a result of lying intended to put us in that false world.
Hear hear.
And if look beyond/behind the gripping/terrifying drama being drummed up by the MSM, ie in full knowledge that the picture it paints is fake/false …. ….
NickR made a comment, which i only just saw, in yesterday’s Update which has just vanished, suggesting that the EU, UK and US may in fact, at some less public level, have “waved through the actions by Putin in Ukraine” … because war is a very good excuse for massively increased spending, and the western powers want to print money, ( to continue to stave off the collapse of their vast speculative bubble ) and some globalist powers want to overhaul/overturn the current financial system completely too and replace it with a whole new one, something which the current threats and banking sanctions might help to precipitate/justify.
According to that argument Ukraine would perhaps have been “agreed on” as the necessary “investment cost”.
And all the concentrated MSM “Russia-hate”, the portrayal of “extreme threat” ( *exactly* as with covid ) is designed to terrorise, to prepare people for those changes, make them accept them.
Thanks for the link/refs.
You’re very welcome, of course.
Fwiw, I don’t myself buy the idea of “waving through”, because I see this as a very real conflict, with very real dangers. I’ve been watching it build and develop for 25 years now.
Agreed
I became conscious of those this weekend, reading about the history of the conflict, grasping how real the struggle is, etc, whereas I had previously seen the events of the last week as “merely” a culmination of western powers’ deliberate creation of a distraction from the increasing wave of damning data about vax damage … a potentially huge, regime-collapsing scandal ….
…but NickR’s comment reminded me of the even huger regime-collapsing threat that the western powers, and perhaps others, are currently facing; the imminent implosion of the largest ever speculative financial bubble, tens of trillions of dollars worth, and perhaps even the system it has arisen from …
… a mess that has also been developing for at least two decades.
Those powers really really desperately need a solution to that, and this conflict in the Ukraine is maybe precisely “serious” enough to provide both the level of distraction necessary *and* the fear level and justification for the kind of changes they may want to make to save their asses.
“Those powers really really desperately need a solution to that, and this conflict in the Ukraine is maybe precisely “serious” enough to provide both the level of distraction necessary *and* the fear level and justification for the kind of changes they may want to make to save their asses.”
That’s probably true, of course.
Because if the picture that the msm paints of the dreadful bad Russian man isn’t true/is fake *what* in fact is the reason for the western powers aggression/hostility towards Russia? They have quite clearly provoked this fight … what do they think they will achieve by it …. if they are not simply stupid/shortsighted/victims of their own propaganda? I think that it’s the money, like almost every war. Trillions of dollars.
Whatever explanation you adopt, it has to go back to the 1990s. This attitude towards Russia has been in place since the fall of the Soviet Union, though it evolved from contempt to outright hatred as Russia recovered from its low at the time of the Yugoslav war and began to actually resist.
You could look at the particular upturn in arming Ukraine etc a few years ago as possibly motivated by a desire to bring things to a head now, certainly.
The financial explanation, the imminent implosion of the speculation bubble, could be said to go back to the 90’s, because from 1987 ( “black monday”? ), the signs of things to come, the massive dangers likely to arise, from the bank/trading deregulations began to become visible.
Someone said that the so-called States have an inbuilt advantage by having the world’s reserve currency (thanks to everyone else being knackered after the world wars). Sooner or later, that will end, and whilst it may be a good thing for the world (who will no longer have to subsidise the So-called States), those who benefit are not going to like it.
Incidentally, I wonder how much influence the American industrial-military complex has had to do with some of the things that have been going on.
It’s crazy. The only way to get a return on your money, thanks to zero interest and the like, is (and has been for years) property and stocks. Biggest bubble ever? Can’t end well.
Franky, any country with nuclear weapons could be a threat (as Kim Jong-Un well understands) and if the German Empire of the 1940’s had got nuclear weapons first (which they had a jolly good go at), they would probably have won their war.
To declare an interest, our people (the Christian People’s Alliance) campaign for nuclear disarmament, and, whilst I worry about the unintended consequences of unilateral nuclear disarmament, I can see their point. As someone once claimed, the only man who needs a gun is one who carries a gun.
“we are just like those gullible types who spent early 2020 in a terrified funk about “the worst pandemic in modern history”.”
Also the whole of 2020, 2021, and early 2022 up to the present day. The ‘unvaccinated’ are still discriminated against (travel made harder and more expensive, for example), and the ‘vaccine’ programme shows no sign of stopping.
Face masks are still in use everywhere – fewer in some places, but they are still being worn as people are either terrified of ‘the virus’ or of ‘social disapproval’ – you must be seen to be wanting to ‘protect others’.
Given that most western airlines are blocked from flying over Russian airspace, travel became a lot harder for everybody.
“In other words, understanding a Christian state that is an uncooperative but much weaker power than the US, is treated much worse than understanding a peer competitor superpower that was actively engaged in an ideologically driven rivalry to the death with the US!“
As is usually the case, there are many motive factors behind this situation. Among them, one certainly should not neglect culture war issues. Mearsheimer in, I think, that same piece linked above speculates about that, and it appears our very own MI6 chief is eager to back him up:
https://twitter.com/NickBuckleyMBE/status/1497866617270714369
“Nick Buckley MBE@NickBuckleyMBE
This is the boss of our spies.
We are in a worse position than I ever imagined. The woke brain rot has infected the individuals I naturally thought were immune.
We are in big trouble people!
Quote TweetRichard Moore@ChiefMI6 · Feb 25
With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022“
Yes. I remember when Obama went to Kenya (with which as I remember he has connections) and tried to lecture them on their social values. And I thought, Westerners used to deride some African cultures as uncivilised Paganism (and apparently at one time for example, children born feet first were killed according to the custom of one culture in Kenya at that time). Now it is the United States killing babies and doing other strange things besides, whilst Kenya, which has to some degree adopted Christian culture, is derided for following those values, and I thought, why can’t they leave the Africans alone? Thinking about it, I suspect that if Kenya was as powerful as Russia, they might experience similar hostility (as previous African regimes such as the Barbary pirates did), and that there is something in the saying “scratch a liberal, find a fascist”. Former Nobel peace prize winner (back when they had proper peace campaigners winning it) Mother Teresa once claimed that the fruits of abortion are nuclear war, and she may yet turn out to have a point. Certainly, as Peter Hitchens says, the continuing hostility towards Russia is a nonsense, and dangerous nonsense, and certainly Russia… Read more »
Yeah, Trish Wood. Ms Wood uses Stephen F. Cohen to promote her stuff. Cohen mouth’s off about how there was civil discourse in the US in the 1980’s about the reason and causes for the Cold War. Do you know exactly what discourses Cohen is referring to? He’s referring to Left-wing swivel-eyed loons like his wife, Katrina vanden Heuvel, who were all about promoting Communism. There were lots of publications, editors and nut-case Hollywood directors and actors/actresses who spun endless stories about how wonderful life was for the ordinary person in the Soviet Union. As far as Cohen, Heuvel and the other lot of imbeciles were concerned, the Soviet Union was a land of milk and honey, with lovely maidens and gaily dressed boys dancing through flowery meadows all year round. When these imbeciles were shown pictures and other evidence of starving and emancipated Soviet citizens in the 1980’s, they dismissed it as fake news, or whatever term they used in the 1980s to dismiss whatever they didn’t want to see. They are just a band of scuzzbag imbeciles like the dross in today’s US media and Hollywood that believe Socialism is the answer.… Read more »
If you think Cohen was a swivel eyed loon you have no idea of what he said or wrote. I’m quite prepared to accept that his wife is a nutter. However, you’d have to include Paul Craig Roberts and others in the Reagan administration as swivel-eyed loons if you define all advocates of detente as such.
As naturally inclined as I am to share your hostility to the former doyens of the left (bearing in mind I was a Thatcher-voting, NATO supporting, Soviet Union resisting hard liner back in those days, and still have no problem defending those positions then, today), the lesson of covid has been that past errors do not preclude current correctness,and nor is the converse the case.
The whole point is that attitudes that were appropriate when faced with the Soviet Union are not appropriate in response to Russia. Still less are even more fanatically extreme versions of those approaches.
Of course, resisting systematic, long term aggression from a superpower with a recent track record of waging illegal wars to achieve its goals makes you a “nut case”, but expecting to be able to keep pressing such systematic aggression against a nuclear armed state without them ever threatening to push back is… perfectly sane and reasonable?
Wooble!
What kind of fantasy world do these people live in, where only “our side” – the “good guys”, of course – are allowed to slaughter or threaten people to achieve their goals and anyone even pointing it out it is regarded as some kind of traitor?
It’s even odder in people who’ve been very aware for nearly two years now of how many lies our western govts have been telling us, the extent/prevalence of propaganda in our societies, its power over people, and the bias and blindness of the mainstream media.
It’s extremely depressing to see how many people who’ve been thoughtful and skeptical about Covid have completely succumbed to the mainstream narrative on Ukraine and are now trotting out pure propaganda. On the other side, there seems to be a complete overlap between Covid zealots and Russiaphobes.
😕 ? Aren’t the people who have “completely succumbed to the mainstream narrative on Ukraine” on the *same* side ( not “the other side” ) as the “Covid zealots and Russiaphobes”? ….
Ah, sorry, it’s late here. Yes, it’s weird that the previously sceptical about msm covid narratives should take same position as the Covid zealots, as if it wasn’t scepticism or a very partial kind if scepticism that had them asking questions about covid.
Yes, that was I was saying (or trying to say).
🙂 Thank you. ( I need to go to sleep again! ).
To be fair nuclear (and for that matter conventional) weapons are rather more of a threat than a Winter bug. Of course, in the future, bio-weapons could be more of a threat than either.
I have noticed its the same people who did the ice bucket challenge.
I think there’s no necessary reason why those who spotted the covid panic for the nonsense it was should necessarily have been aware of how they were (previously) being lied to on Russia. The covid panic was rammed right into everyone’s personal lives, while it’s perfectly possible to go through ordinary life without ever paying much notice to foreign policy issues, just absorbing the Official Truth line.
The unravelling of the Iraq war WMD lies should have been a wake up call, but again, foreign policy just isn’t a priority for most.
What I do find particularly disappointing is the number of people on the conservative/right political side who ought to have seen straight through the Russiagate nonsense, which was aimed straight at a Republican President by lying Democrats, and extended that to the rest of the dishonesty, but failed to do so.
Also, it’s remarkable that so many fell for the bizarrely, almost comically implausible Skripal etc “Putin poisoning” fantasies. Those were so literally stupid that you had to be very unquestioning of your propaganda feed to absorb them uncritically.
But I do think there are many who are now questioning the Russia stuff because of their covid experience.
Agreed. This rather good article by Glenn Greenwald examines precisely this aspect of the situation, how people’s opinions are being manipulated or outright created by propaganda, to an extent they are not conscious of.
https://www.sott.net/article/464947-War-Propaganda-About-Ukraine-Becoming-More-Militaristic-Authoritarian-and-Reckless
A few examples thereof in this article at OffG: https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/27/7-fake-news-stories-coming-out-of-ukraine/ Kit Knightley ends by saying: “It’s somewhat beautiful irony that so many of the clips prompting outrage in Western liberals actually come from wars their governments started. There we have it, seven stories about the war in Ukraine that are demonstrably fake, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s tons of other fakes out there, not to mention fakes of fakes designed to discredit doubters or just spread chaos. Ultimately, it’s all a timely reminder that propaganda is at its most potent at times where the news is moving fast and people are feeling emotional. That is WHY the media whips up fear, anxiety and hatred, because people in that emotional state are less likely to think critically. It should go without saying that this is equally true for both sides. We shouldn’t blindly accept claims from the Russian side, simply because we know NATO lies. Both sides propagandize, and one-eyed scepticism is only a different kind of bias. In short, if you see something designed to provoke an emotional reaction, don’t let it. Never get swept along in the narrative, always hold yourself back, keep calm and… Read more »
Watch old war time films and one will soon learn to recognise propaganda; Watch things from both sides (and neutrals) in current conflicts and issues, and one has a chance of reading between the lines. An example from “covid” – anyone who is going to have one of the experimental “vaccines” should first be able to look at materials from physicians and medical scientists who genuinely have no mistake in the pharmaceutical industry rather than just the government and other bug pharma linked propaganda
This is exacerbated by the fact that both sides tend to have a lot of the same equipment. A destroyed tank, for example, will often not clearly identify which side was using it and it is left to the publisher of a picture to say whose it is.
“The covid panic was rammed right into everyone’s personal lives”
Still is. The ‘vaccine programme’ rolls on, people are still testing themselves to see if they’ve got ‘it’, international travel is still restricted “due to Covid”, people are still wearing face masks.
The 5-11 year olds are to be jabbed this Spring, aren’t they? But, hold on, schools have received that ‘letter of liability’ handed to them … so they wouldn’t dare to have kids injected on their premises…
https://www.yourharlow.com/2021/09/19/harlow-anti-vaxxers-hand-notice-of-liability-to-schools/
Yes, I’m not claiming that it’s over now, merely pointing out that it came in hard and fast back then.
Malcolm Kendrick’s blog post is terrifying. I retired from GP 7 years ago largely pushed out by the increasing stupidity of revalidation and reappraisal. Tick the boxes, don’t have a viewpoint that doesn’t fit the approved narrative. Don’t be an individual who patients trust. No wonder Primary Care in the U.K. has failed. Why train to be a doctor in the U.K. when this is how you can be treated.
Yes, the “Responsible Officer” sounds absolutely dystopian/like something out of a Kafka novel.
Yes, a very enlightening piece by Malcolm Kendrick.
Terrifying really…
It is totally terrifying. I have a son who is doing his GP training and I wonder if he is aware of this. His may be a short career… Perhaps that’s why Covid discussions with him were strange as he didn’t seem to hold the views I though he would as he has a background in biological science as well as medicine.Covid was an elephant in the room.
“Putin puts nuclear force on alert.” There might be more to the provocation of the war in Ukraine that our legacy media have not told us about. Seemingly, the United States and its allies have at least 11 biolabs in Ukraine, all under the guise of defensive military installations. The United States has a track record with funding and cooperating with foreign biolabs that engage in gain-of-function and other highly dangerous and immoral viral research. Documents have shown that the US funded and participated in research in the Wuhan level-4 biolab, which the SARS‑CoV‑2 pathogen is purported to have escaped, or been released, from. Other evidence shows that US scientists created the gene therapy spike protein from a computer model of a virus protein that originated in China. This is a link to the website of the US’s Biological Threat Reduction Program, which tells of at least two biolabs in Ukraine, one in Kyiv and one in Odessa. So, when this Russian official accused the United States of developing biological weapons on Russia’s borders, he was not lying or exaggerating: “On 8th April 2021, a Russian official accused the USA of developing Biological Weapons along Russia’s… Read more »
Very interesting points about the biolabs. Rob Slane at The Real Slog posted an article about this just yesterday too, which unfortunately strays off rather into graphene tech sci-fi by the end, and doesn’t explain why this is all happening *now*, which he seems to think it does.
https://therealslog.com/2022/02/27/ukraine-exclusive-invasion-or-espionage-mission/
After communism destroyed Russia, Moscow put forward the suggestion that Russia might join NATO. The West told it to get lost. It also asked to join the EU. The West told it to get lost again. Then, after stripping it of assets like an old bank and lying about not moving NATO into its former satellite states, we put NATO right up to its borders. Then, we overthrow the Ukrainian Government in 2014 and install a puppet.
Russia is a natural ally. We could have had it in NATO and its gas and other strategic advantages could have been inside the EU. Instead, under Washington’s leadership, the West spent 30 years humiliating and provoking it and driving it into the arms of China, and now it finally snaps and lashes out. The West begged for this for decades, and now its wish has come true.
In this podcast from Whitney Webb-Unlimited, Moscow based journalist, Riley Waggaman, talks about how Putin seems to be fully on board with Schwab’s COVID-19 plandemic, the gene therapies and how Russia is working with JP Morgan on a cryptocurrency. You can’t get any person or entity that is more Klaus Schwab or Cabal than JP Morgan. According to Riley Waggaman, Putin bought copious amounts of gene therapies from the West and repackaged them as being Russian manufactured and dished them out to Russian people. Henry Kissinger led Putin by the hand into the Kremlin. Putin is an ex-young global leader of Klaus Schwab’s. People talk about how the price of gold has fallen recently? Putin let a posse of oligarchs leave Russia with gold bullion with no obligation on them to deposit the sale’s profits in Russian banks. This is very unusual for Putin to allow people to walk out of the country with gold bullion. Was it this glut of gold that caused the price to fall? Was all this gold allowed out of Russia because the elites expect this war to become much bigger and perhaps go wrong for them, and the gold… Read more »
The Unz Review is not vitriolically anti-semitic, nor does it pretend to be. It hosts a wide range of alternative content, including Whitney Webb herself. Ron Unz is a man of Jewish background who is a free speech fanatic.
I think you should listen to Putin’s speech at the 2021 Davos shindig where eh argues the opposite of the Great reset.
WW2 was a lot more complicated than people imagine, with all sorts of behind-the-scenes cooperation wherein American oil companies sold oil to Germany, deals at the Bank of International Settlements and so on.
For what it’s worth, Klaus Schwab is supporting Ukraine. https://www.rt.com/news/550808-great-reset-architect-backs-ukraine/
As for Putin wanting to join NATO or the EU, the best form of psychological warfare to keep people unsure and confused is to feed them truths, half-truths and lies. When you feed citizens a mixture such as this, what they are being told will fit-in with what they already believe. So, you feed the lie in little pieces mixed with truth and each little piece fits with a belief that is already there, and slowly they’ll absorb the entire lie.
I must confess the thought of a Russian fortified EU frightens me, and thankfully will never happen.
Much better to have German and Austrian Nazis running the EU? All seems to have gone quiet about Austria recently…. not to mention the Canadian truck drivers’ protest, what happened there? Reports of that have vanished.
My guess is that Russia will conquer Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees will gradually settle down throughout Europe, it will be forgotten, and the next fuss on here in a month’s time will be the ‘vaccination’ of the 5-11 year olds for ‘Covid’.
Some balance on Russia-Ukraine:
https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/27/7-fake-news-stories-coming-out-of-ukraine/
Edit: oops – someone (Amtrup) already linked this above. I’ll leave it here in case someone misses the other link to it.
Very interesting, thank you.
So, soshal meeja is putting round old footage of a action and damage in Syria, even footage from video games (!), all claiming to be Ukraine…..but where’s this all coming from in the first place? And why?
It’s so like the film “Wag the Dog”, which I have mentioned before……
Roundup 1. “We must amend the basic law . . .” Lord Sumption. The Public Health Act (or its bastard offspring) was never a Basic Law. It was only designed to allow Local Health Authorities to detain individuals already infected with, particularly, Typhoid. It was never intended to impose any form of coercion on entire populations or parts thereof. (This ⬇️ from failing memory). It followed USA Legislation after the case of TYPHOID MARY (pre-WW1, look her up yourself)) in which a lowly travelling New York hairdresser/restaurant worker infected several wealthy clients (it WAS initially a Class Issue in part as Typhoid was equated with poverty at the time). Mary refused to accept treatment or isolation so specific legislation had to be introduced under which she was involuntarily detained. She died the second time after 10 or 20 years incarceration. To make matters worse TPTB transferred responsibility for implementing the new provisions from experienced Ward Trained Medical Professionals to green around the ears, fresh out of college ‘Public Health’ Degree holders. We remarked about this frequently at the time but, as usual, nobody listened. Roundup 1. “We must amend the basic law . . .” Lord Sumption. The Public Health… Read more »
The Malcolm Kendrick article is truly frightening. Just think all the vengeful bosses you’ve ever had and imagine if they had the power to destroy your life. They’d do it to protect themselves, please their masters and you’d have no redress. Chilling.
We have seen a wonderful example of the MSM building a folk hero out of a comedian with the near deification of Zelensky. We have seen the MSM building an image of a tiny, democracy loving state being oppressed by its bigger neighbour.
The recent history of Ukraine shows neither to be the case. They are in the same league as Russia when it comes to corruption and democracy.
There is one area where they have demonstrated superiority however, and that is PR.
To be fair, I don’t think Zelensky’s kill count approaches that of Putin.
But then Putin’s pales to the cost of open borders, and death-by-spreadsheet.
Another fine article from Lord Sumption that will fall on deaf ears.
He is obviously a sound chap, and I would have far preferred him to have stayed on as a juror and fought the good cause, rather than resign on principle so that he could exhort politicians to pretty-please stop abusing the law.
Because in the final analysis, only verdicts, precedents and outcomes matter.
The headline in the Times “Putin puts nuclear force on alert” is not only inaccurate but deliberately misrepresents what he said. In his address to the nation President Putin said that he was “…putting the country’s nuclear deterrent force on alert”. This was a response to the threats being issued by NATO. Did you not spot that Toby?
It’s starting already. Totally nothing to do with the green agenda, it’s all Putins fault (facepalm)
On the “bright?” (Under the circumstances) side; the maskateers seem to be dwindling by the day.
Not that it really matters but why have the MSM started calling Kiev, KEEEEEEEEEV!!!!
Wokeness/Political correctness???
Chicken KEEEEEEEV?
The great gate of KEEEEEEEEV by Mussorgsky in his “Pictures at an exhibition”?
Ukranian pronunciation, apparently.
Thanks for the explanation.
Jon Anderson of Jethro Tull (ask your parents or even grandparents) refuses to even speak to his old friend Van Morrison because of Morrison’s lockdown scepticism.
Whatever happened to: “I might disagree with what you are saying but I will defend with my life, your right to say it”
Apologies for probably misquoting.
Why do you keep asserting that Putin must be crazy? He certaintly isn’t. The so-called west has gambled away whatever moral authority it might have had by creating a bonfire of all its so-called values in order to fight a better cold virus because the Chinese president thought that’s what should be done. Further, in the name of the same idiocy, so-called western leaders have done their very best to wreck their economies and societies alike. Doesn’t this look like an opportunity for a little forced border and government correction of countries who carelessly associated themselves with it in better times? Plus, do you think all these hysterics because of a basically harmless disease have convinced the likes of Putin or Lukashenko that their prospective opponents are principled and courageous and can be expected to stand and fight rather than give in and run away? Or could this have made them look more like a bunch of corrupt and weak cowards who’ll bow to even the most imaginary pressure? Lastly, what do you believe people who have a, let’s say traditional, opinion on the value of homosexuality will assume about the morale fibre of a society which keeps celebrating it… Read more »