News Round-Up
- “The Covid Inquiry must remember that the victims are not only the ones who died from it” – It is imperative that Lady Hallett ask hard questions of the people who did this to us, and here are six questions for her to start with, writes Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole on the mystery blood clots” – Watch Steve Kirsch speak to the pathologist, who thinks the strange clots found by embalmers are due to the vaccine, in particular the later doses.
- “Fauci Said Great Barrington Declaration Reminded Him of AIDS Denialism” – Dr. Anthony Fauci tried linking a strategy to avoid lockdowns to scientists who questioned whether HIV causes AIDS, the Epoch Times reports.
- “Wilko U-turns after Mirror reveals 20,000 staff were told to work with Covid” – Over 20,000 employees at Wilko were sent a memo stating they should go to work if they have Covid but are asymptomatic, leaving staff and the public concerned for their welfare, reports the Mirror.
- “Coronavirus: The Hong Kong Experience” – The Swiss Doctor on how Hong Kong has turned from Zero Covid Eldorado to Covid death trap.
- “Renewable energy schemes take money from the poor and give it to the rich” – The focus now has to be on achieving energy security and reducing prices, and achieving both will mean re-evaluating arbitrary Net Zero targets, argues Nigel Farage in the Telegraph.
- “Last chance to save fracking before wells are capped, warns Cuadrilla” – The energy pioneer warns it will be forced to start capping wells within days without Government intervention, the Telegraph reports.
- “The BBC’s fake news about fracking” – This promising energy source was strangled at birth by green misinformation, writes Andrew Orlowski in Spiked.
- “Frack for freedom! Britain has the resources to get off Russian gas” – The crisis in Ukraine has highlighted the dangers of over-reliance on Russia, and the advantages of national self-sufficiency in energy supplies, writes John Longworth in CapX.
- “Petrol prices could hit £2.40 a litre and diesel £3, MPs are warned” – Speaking to Parliament’s Treasury Committee yesterday, Dr Amrita Sen, Director of Research at Energy Aspects, petrol prices could rise to around £2.40 a litre, the Mail reports.
- “Boris Johnson says it is ‘time to make big new bets on nuclear power’” – Boris Johnson said the U.K. must make “big new bets” on developing new nuclear power stations to end the nation’s “addiction” to Russian oil and gas, the Mail reports – but no mention of fracking.
- “Net Zero rules on the chopping block to boost North Sea oil production” – Proposals would allow drilling projects to go ahead if needed for national security, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain must grow its own food and produce more crops to protect itself from shortage and price rises caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, warns Tory MP” – Daniel Kawczynski said the country must produce more of its own crops to insulate itself from the damage caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Mail reports.
- “Texas school sparks fury with lesson segregating kids by hair colour” – A Texas school district has apologised after a class in January was given a dramatic demonstration of segregation, which parents said left their children unsettled and unable to sleep, the Mail reports.
- “‘Cancelled’, the 1804 train with supposed links to slavery” – National Museum Wales gives the first steam-powered locomotive an “absurd” new context as part of “decolonisation” of its collection, reports the Telegraph.
- “University ‘acting like the Soviet Union’ as it cancels race commission chairman” – Dr. Tony Sewell’s honorary degree from Nottingham University has been withdrawn following his landmark report on racial disparity in Britain that upset the race relations industry, reports the Telegraph.
- “Comedy Icon John Cleese Has Mic Taken for Mocking Reparations” – British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British people were once slaves, reports Breitbart News.
- “Daniil Medvedev told he will be banned from Wimbledon unless he denounces Vladimir Putin” – Russia and Belarus have already been thrown out of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup, but individual players have, thus far, been free to continue, reports the Telegraph.
- “Putin’s Actions in Ukraine are Vile, But Russia was Sorely Provoked by NATO” – Ramesh Thakur at the Toda Peace Institute argues that “failure to course correct will feed the continued disregard by the leading Western powers of other major powers’ legitimate security interests” – in particular, paving the way “for yet another, possibly even more dangerous, armed conflict with China”.
- “Putin’s Russia is built to survive a prolonged economic siege, so don’t count on regime change” – Modern Monetary Theory might just work in low debt Russia, argues Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
- “Russia-Ukraine latest: Nuclear war ‘could only be a few steps away’” – Former military chief Air Marshal Edward Stringer said Russian President Vladimir Putin sanctioning the deployment of nuclear weapons was “in the realms of possibility” and “only a few steps away”, reports the Mail.
- “Ukraine war: Zelensky says Ukraine must accept it won’t join NATO” – Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking on the 20th day of Russia’s invasion, said that “it is a truth and must be acknowledged” that there is no path open for Ukraine to join NATO, reports the Mail.
- “The experience of the last six weeks in (masked) Scotland vs (unmasked) England should be enough on its own to show Nicola Sturgeon that mask mandates have little or no impact on infection trends” – David Paton is unimpressed with the First Minister’s decision not to lift the mask mandate.
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Good morning. Me again.
Morning
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ugEhW7WPxrQ
Thank you. Very kind.
At least we have each other, eh
Sorely needed and as much as ever. The only conversations I have about our current horrors are with good people like yourself on here.
Family and friends refuse to discuss any of it.
What’s your broad location? Stand in the Park events are a good place to meet people locally who are willing to discuss these matters, with a very broad range of views.
I can vouch for Stand. Met a lot of lovely people over the last year, some come and go, some stay. Now we’ve formed a core group and have become good friends. There are groups in nearly every town, and you can start your own if there isn’t one. One thing though…although we have about 130 members on Telegram, attendance on Sunday is down to about 10-15, due to it being winter and rules being dropped. But we have quite a lot people who just stop by and chat, and find out what we’re about. There are lots of us in close proximity, more than you think, and we’re just finding each other now!
Same here, HH. There are some silver linings here, getting to know more (awake) locals is a big one.
That kind of real human contact is what is most important, I think, for anyone who feels politically and socially isolated as a result of the waves of moral panic sweeping our society.
You won’t agree by any means with a lot of the ideas you will encounter, but part of the point is to regenerate the idea that disagreement need not be terminal.
Also, imo it’s about building real life contact networks, in case these are needed in the future.
Saddleworth.
Definitely a few groups in Manchester. Not sure about Oldham.
Ah – the prophets!
The alternative to The Profits, which has been running the show lately, and doesn’t mind how many people it kills in the process.
The Flying Circus saw the future coming … it was funny then!
Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war
If you watch one video about the Ukraine situation generally, and the wider global issues, make it this one.
Col Doug Macgregor giving the benefit of his huge direct experience and considerable wisdom on the Ukraine, and the way foreign policy is determined in Washington, with some sensible and perceptive discussion of wider world affairs between Blumenthal and Mate afterwards, broadly correctly characterising the interventionist political motivations in the US.
Blumenthal: ” You look at where part of the Pentagon is going – it’s appeasing the dominant liberal faction in Washington right now, and what does the dominant liberal faction want to do, and who are they? Well, they’re chickenhawks. They’re soft-headed chickenhawks who believe in this Wilsonian idea of exporting values. And so their obsession with Russia really goes to something that Doug Macgregor has said, which is that Russia is seen in Washington particularly by those forces as a bastion of conservatism, and so they’re fighting this kind of global culture war by refusing to negotiate with Putin or tell Zelensky: “look just go to the table and we’ll help you rebuild Ukraine. Just end the war”. Instead they’re flooding it with weapons because they want to fight the “conservative right-wing white menace” in Moscow. And I’ve talked to those kinds of people around think tanks in Washington, like I know how they think – it’s very, very dangerous. That was also the neoconservative position in the first Bush term, about exporting values” … Mate: “You know, just compare someone like Colonel Macgregor to, say, Samantha Power. Samantha Power, in her rhetoric, she would never demonise refugees, say… Read more »
America, and Germany to a large extent, have been trying to culturally colonise Eastern Europe for decades. It comes from a supremacist viewpoint – and absolute and fanatical belief in the rightness of their thoughts and actions. “Woke” is a pejorative term mostly, but it originated with them and the idea that they had “woken” from humanity’s multi-millennial slumber and were the first generation in history to see the absolute and pure truth (where have we seen that before?).
They aren’t waging war, they are waging crusades – they are bringing the one truth and the power of righteousness to the benighted corners of the world. And so of course they won’t debate with you – there’s no debate to had, you are wrong and they are right. Of course they won’t negotiate, you are sinners and must be cleansed with godly fire.
It is textbook fanaticism, medieval in its fervour and absolute in its faith. There’s no reasoning with them for this one reason – they are absolutely, utterly and irredeemably consumed with narcissistic madness.
Dangerous folk to be allowed to meddle with nuclear weapons.
Indeed – they are exactly the sort of people who would use them. Armageddon for the Greater Good
woke is just another word for a self-righteous cunt.
But, easier to type, you must admit.
That’s not to say the old motivations for war are not still there – military-industrial, power-mongering, moneymaking manipulation etc. But culture war issues play a huge part in manufacturing consent and driving people to zealotry in support of the wars and hatred of the enemy and of anyone who speaks against them. Indeed, but which comes first? The Bankers/financiers private policy, the “Think Tanks” forming public policy, or the politics and the media manufacturing consent more akin to a stage show? This is why I say all wars are banks wars. I put these links in a reply to you yesterday, but it was late so btl. “Stalin & Hitler were maintained and dispatched by Western Capital, there is no two ways about it, from beginning to end” Ukraine a potted History By Alex Thomson..Eastern Approaches UK Column (6 mins) .https://www.bitchute.com/video/FfzKYDcgVBWA/ This is the Sutton interview Thomson mentions in the UKC potted history (40 mins): The Best Enemies Money Can Buy: An Interview with Prof. Antony C. Sutton (who got kicked out of the Hoover Institution at Stamford for presenting too many pieces of hard evidence, bank recipts etc.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDvLmEBESY We know the murderous events on 2nd May in the… Read more »
Not saying there’s no truth in your observations, but such sweeping declarations are rarely the whole truth, and that’s the case with this one, if it’s used too narrowly.
Money is power, and powerful people and groups make things happen. Note the repeated references by Col Macgregor to warmongering US politicians performing for donors, and consider the observation reported by Scott Horton on antiwar.com about the Ukraine lobby outspending even the Israel and Saudi lobbies (though not all “Ukraine lobby” money will be Ukrainian in origin – doubtless that’s where the military industrial types see the most profit for themselves, recently).
But not all rich and powerful people are “bankers”, depending how broadly you define that term. There are multiple power centres in the world, and big things happen when some of them push in the same direction.
And just because money is used to manipulate ideas, promote some and demonise others, does not mean those ideas and conflicts have no meaning in themselves.
I say “Bankers” because the real money power has been held by a collective of interbred Internationalist families “Bloodlines” with no ties to a particular country (except maybe swizerland where the money is hidden, power is concentrated, and they’ll all be ‘neutral’ in wartime) that have held power for >800 years. Some go back further than that, back to the crusades. Parasite class is probably more accurate. While we pick over the details of war/politics, “sides” “Left Vs Right” they continue to get away with their scheming. There are multiple power centres in the world, and big things happen when some of them push in the same direction. They’ve been broadly pushing in the same direction for >100yrs. Contol over the whole globe. They control all “sides”, if a minion steps out of line, gets too big for their boots, they take them out, even if it means taking the whole country out with them. Prof. Suttons books give the hard evidence for bankers controlling both sides in the wars, only back to the early 1900’s tho, Smedley Butlers book is a pamphlet in comparrison, but you’d have to read Dr. John Colemans books for the top level names behind… Read more »
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-there-a-path-to-peace-in-ukraine/
The article by him referred to in the video.
“The end of this tragedy is not in doubt. Ukrainian forces in Eastern Ukraine will be annihilated or captured.
Meanwhile, the Washington elite remains committed to any course of action that promises to prolong the conflict and kill more Ukrainians. No one inside the Biden Administration or in the Senate seems remotely interested in crafting a ceasefire, let alone developing the basis for a potential solution that will save lives and halt the destruction.
Europeans must realize that Washington and London, along with their obedient media, will forgive any sin—deception, graft, murder—if it is committed against Moscow. Before it accepts any change in the regional status quo, Washington is prepared to sow chaos in Eastern Europe. This is hardly in Europe’s interest.”
I see a Tory MP has managed to wake up and point out that this country needs to start growing more food.
For over forty years I have bored family and friends with my arguments in favour of a national food policy. Our current situation confirms how correct I was.
I also stated as the mining industry was decimated by successive Labour and Tory governments that in fifty years time the pits would have to be reopened. Looks like that will come true within the next ten years.
Assuming there is anybody alive to do the digging; if the nukes don’t get us the clot shots will.
I agree on the food point, for two reasons. First, as an island nation it seems absolutely basic common sense to retain an ability to feed ourselves in an emergency. Second because (non-corporate) farms are exactly the kind of small/family business that we should be supporting, because it builds a healthy culture of resilient self-reliance and a solid, reality-based society.
As for the mines, there was a need to end the damaging excess power of the collectivist mining unions, but beyond that, retaining access to valuable resources seems basic common sense, and to the extent it was eco-lunatic ideology that did for the mines, that was foolish.
Exactly.
As Maggie said, the coal isn’t going anywhere.
But in some cases it would be ruinously inefficient to reopen now flooded or collapsed mines.
I have had that argument thrown against me previously but as fuel bills double, as ours just has, the economics change PDQ.
If we diverted the eleven billion in subsidies currently filling the bank accounts of the renewables industry we would be no worse off financially but with power / electricity reliably on tap.
You’re sounding altogether rather sensible, especially for this time of night, hux.
Very kind Marcus.👍
Hence fracking too, I think? When you can dig a hole in Texas and oil flows, there’s not much cause to look at ways of squeezing it out of rocks… times change, so does available technology.
Have you worked down a mine? Do you think miners were overpaid? Were you one of those cheering Thatcher and McGregor on as they refused the families of striking miners access to social security and let their wives and children go hungry?
As for Polish ‘Solidarity’ – what a load of crock. Poland was selling coal to the UK as British miners were striking for better pay and working conditions. There’s your ‘solidarity’.
Solidarnosc was a movement internal to Poland, it just so happened that the miners were the tough face of it. They, unlike most of our miners in England, were on the right side of history.
As for the British strikes, coal miners had got used to being treated like superheroes by patronising and crooked leaders, were paid well above the norm and the whole industry was bankrupting the country.
Many miners did not strike, they didn’t want the fight, were happy to work for a fair wage, and knew that the whole thing was fucked if they didn’t.
Maggie didn’t want the fight either.
oh, enjoyed reading this thread, but that last sentence isn’t true.
About Maggie? I think most people had her all wrong.
She also understood facts like the following:
Our glorious leaders, under the terms of post World War One Europe, forced Germany to supply coal to the UK for FREE – it completely wrecked local mines, as you can imagine. And the Germans became very good at coal mining.
Interesting discussion, but in reality it was another bankers war.
Callaghan imposed wage freezes and other measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund while in an electoral bloc with the Liberals, attacks on the working class that culminated in the Winter of Discontent and the eventual victory of Thatcher in 1979.
Kinnock was in a difficult spot with that history, and I guess you could argue either way what he could have done to support the miners, but in the end we can see which side his bread was buttered as he jumped on the gravy train.
That collossal loss of 1979 resulted in “New Labour” turning the party into a puppet show for the parasite class, where it still is under Keir Trilateral Commission Starmer.
Maybe so. But she wanted to break Scargill and the union. Her conversion to nuclear power and even ‘global warming’ was prompted by her desire to see King Coal deposed.
I was wondering when someone would mention Arthur Scargill. Never have the plain truths of economics made less of an incursion into someone’s brain.
No, I’ve never worked as a miner, but I have been underground in coalmines for work.
No, I don’t think miners were “overpaid”, which is one reason I didn’t say that they were.
Yes, I was one of those supporting the Thatcher government that was elected to govern the country and retrieve it from the mess the socialists had made of it by the 1970s, a big part of which was trade unions such as the miners’ being used as vehicles to interfere in politics to push socialist ideology.
Not sure why you raise Solidarity.
EF raises Solidarity (specifically, Polish Solidarity, Solidarnosc) because s/he wrongly conflates
Polish Solidarity was against the extreme Left of Moscow, while striking British miners were against (what they perceived as) the extreme Right under the Tory party.
But as I hope we all know, the extremes meet at the bottom.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-15-mrna-spike-proteins-linked-infertility-next-generation.html
Thanks to Victoria.
Medvedev has to denounce Putin before being allowed to play at Wimbledon?
What a fucking joke.
Perhaps Medvedev should ask the clowns running Wimbledon to denounce the UK government for selling arms to Saudi Arabia.
I wonder how our state funded propoganda outfits would react if Harry Kane was told he had to denounce Bozo before playing a football match against…oh, let’s suggest
Spartak Moscow
Wimbledon authorities – infantile imbeciles. What good is their in trying to demonise and debase Medvedev?
These people are utterly pathetic.
I wonder how many of those wanting Medvedev to denounce Putin have in the past asserted that ‘sport and politics shouldn’t mix’
I have a friend (Russian – daughter of a wealthy Russian Mall owner, who happens to be humble, hardworking anf frankly lovely) who knows Medvedev and by all accounts he is the same. Absolute shambles and makes me sick that this is the society we live in and can’t escape.
Thanks for articulating that. I occurred to me as I read the link in the article above.
In fact it’s the opposite. The problems in the Ukraine were pushed primarily by the US regime because it is not dependent on trade with Russia. Germany has toned back some of its early foolish support for US adventurism in the Ukraine, precisely because it has good trade relations with Russia.
So those who argue that trade encourages peaceful relations were correct in this case. The problem is that the power to destroy the peace lay with the non-traders in Washington.
There are perfectly good arguments for properly exploiting the resources we have, and they don;t depend uon jingois, but rather on defeating the climate alarmist faith.
A rare piece of honesty finds its way into the house journal of the US sphere woke borg:
John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis
“Mr Putin surely knows that the costs of conquering and occupying large amounts of territory in eastern Europe would be prohibitive for Russia. As he once put it, “Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.””
Basically, Putin’s views on the Soviet Union are akin to a sensible and informed British patriot’s views on the Empire – a recognition of the good aspects and an emotional pull for days when one’s country was more secure and more significant on the world stage, but a realistic recognition that there were also significant dark sides, and huge costs, that made it ultimately not viable.
“The process started in December 2017, when the Trump administration decided to sell Kyiv “defensive weapons”.”
What is not mentioned here is that Trump at the time was under huge pressure from the Russiagate fabrication, and the resulting wave of anti-Russian hysteria in the US.
The truth about Ukraine’s far-Right militias
A reasonably balanced and informative piece (unlike pretty much anything you’ll read in the mainstream newspapers or see on our screens on this topic), I think. (I wouldn’t call them “far right” – these are race-collectivist radicals, not in any sense conservative, but that’s obviously a semantic lost cause here).
Still basically a pacifist/anti-Russia bias, which makes it overstate the case that Russia’s attack is supposedly the only thing saving the nazis. That discounts the fact that the nazis weren’t going anywhere and were engaged in ongoing anti-Russian violence before the invasion. Like all basically sentimental pacifism-based arguments, it takes it as axiomatic that initiating war cannot possibly be the least worst option for anyone, ever – basically an anti-self defence position.
A little bit of sick came up in my mouth a number of times whist reading that article.
Besides a vivid picture in my mind from the ~26 hour “Roses Have Thorns” series of the events in Odessa, and the well documented actions of the “Right Sector” during the “democratic elections” I’ve also heard multiple eye witness accounts of civillians being threatened, some being shot, for trying to leave places like Mariupol.
I was heartened to learn there was a huge convoy of 2000 civillian vehicles leaving Mariupol yesterday, indicating Azov are losing their grip, maybe now they will get their comuppance.
Are you suggesting that it was really the Ukrainian forces that were preventing the populace from leaving and blaming it on the evil Russians?
I would not put it past some of the more extreme Ukrainians for firing at their own flats, schools and hospitals to further demonise Russia.
This is more a propaganda war than anything else, being fought out on the pages of the Western “liberal” press. It will be interesting to see what the real damage and loss of life is after the event.
Yes, specially in Mariupol. If you believe the Hospital BS you’re under researched.
Indeed. If Russia wanted to flatten the place with a complete disregard for civillian life they could have done it by now.
It’s all starting to look a bit too stage managed IMO.
I have researched the hosptal issue thoroughly. Google maps has photographs of all major hospitals in Mariupol, and not one of them matches the propaganda photographs claiming to be the materity hospital.The main maternity hospital in in the north of the city and is a four storey building set in quite open grounds (Polohovyy Budynok). From my reading (rudimentary) it is a perinatal hospital..
In this case I think both sides are lying.
OK my bad, I didn’t get the sarcasm in the first question.
How much of the £3/litre diesel would be tax?
How much of that tax would be an attempt to dig ourselves out of the costs of Panicdemic?
How much of that tax will (continue to) find its way into the pockets of the virtue signalling fans of Gretanomics to pay for their fancy electric cars?
I really do fear blood on the streets within the next twelve months and I am sure the authorities do too which suggests they are actually gaming for it.
36%, or 108p, rounding up as usual, if the retail price was £3. The excise duty is flat rate 57.95 p/l, independent of energy content
Just in case anyone thought the cognitive problems in the ruling US Democrat regime were limited to a senile President and a moron for Vice-President:
https://twitter.com/jessicahodlr/status/1503556754168242186
I have passed this on with the additional message:
Prepare to be afraid.
Who the F. let her out?
Wow indeed.
I was going to say words fail me but more to the point, words have definitely failed Pelosi. Frightening.
Ho Li Phuc.
Are Nancy and Joe sharing a brain cell?
I think it got lost between them. She got off stage to go look for it.
Third in line, right?
It’s pretty concerning that the Vice Courtesan in Chief is now the brains of the operation, and just one reedy heartbeat away from cackling herself into the Oval Office.
In the midst of covid, Russia V Ukraine, and food shortages, don’t forget that there’s plenty of other weird shit going on.
Downvoter’s a coulrophobe!
Petrol and diesel price increases are just the start. If fuel goes up, the cost of everything else will go up, given that most goods are transported around the country by road. Food prices for a start. Think things are expensive now? Just think what they might cost in 3 months time. Think also of self employed tradespeople, who take a van to customers’ houses to repair a blocked pipe of fix a broken light; build a porch or landscape a garden. Are they going to be able to absorb fuel increases, or are they going to have to pass it on to the customer? If their prices have to rise, people are going to think twice about having all but really essential jobs done. If they don’t have jobs done, self employed traders and small firms are going to be hit. Oh, and one other thing – the old “red diesel” that could be used in commercial vehicles….well, from April 1st, it cannot be used in non-road going vehicles in the construction industry (bulldozers, cranes and even generators). Farmers can use it in vehicles that are not road going and don’t have to be taxed. Forestry, rail and non-… Read more »
Indeed, and energy costs also get added on to every bill for everything.
The headline inflation rates of 4.9% / 5.5% are going to look very optimistic, very soon.
Comedy Icon John Cleese Has Mic Taken for Mocking Reparations” while they perform their mock outrage about slavery, they covertly continue with their plans to enslave all of us.
Cleese does suffer from TDS, but is generally solid and had them banged to rights there.
People who have never picked cotton saying that their remote history of slavery is still holding them down, while demonstrating with their actions that in fact they wield the power now. The literal power to physically silence people, in this case.
It would be funny, if it wasn’t so tragic.
Yikes: that almost makes the BBC look responsible!
Somehow I doubt we’ll see it reported on the BBC, where Nazisim in Ukraine is just Russian Propaganda, impossible because they have a Jewish President etc.
The presenter and the channel is appalling but this Ukraine 24 a bizarre channel owned by an oligarch with about 1% of Ukrainian viewers on average. It tells us nothing about Ukrainian government or Ukrainian people’s views.
Indeed, it’s difficult to get an informed view from voting alone, or from regular people. I suspect it’s only supported by a minority, falling before the war, but increasing because of it.
This is a more acadmic view from a left leaning perspective:
https://fpc.org.uk/the-unique-extra-parliamentary-power-of-ukrainian-radical-nationalists-is-a-threat-to-the-political-regime-and-minorities/
this from the greyzone gives a more accurate impression of the how much power they actually hold tho:
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/
The video of Zelensky losing it with Azov on the front lines because they refused to stop shelling the Donbass seems to have been the crux point (he was elected on a platform to sort it out peacefully) soon atferwards he was pinning medals on their hero, and the shelling intensified. (I suspect they threatend to top him if he didn’t capitulate)
Interesting. It does seem like Ukraine had/has a problem with some of its extremist far-right. As you say – probably made worse by Putin’s aggression – not just the current war but right back to 2014.
Of course it isn’t remotely an excuse for invading the country (and I doubt it is Putin’s real motive).
Putins real motive is Putin. If he was a real threat to the global parasite class he would have been taken out long ago, if he was serious about Ukraine he would have sent in more than 30% of his forces, and flattened Zelensky already; ergo he’s acting under orders.
Interesting that DuckDuckGo has now bowed to censorship and the same BS algorithm’s as everyone’s favourite unspeakable search engine – to avoid promotion Russian dis-information. I have changed all my browser settings to make Brave my search of choice now and have removed all DuckDuckGo usage from my devices.
Same here. FU DDG.
You can’t blame a duck for ducking. They invented it.
Been with then for a couple of years now. ‘Brave’ here I come.
Worth a reminder. And regardless of anything that they may say now, they can never, ever be trusted again. Next time they just won’t tell us.
Same, tho flitting between Brave, mojeek, (both have no video search) and Presearch (does have video search, and results seem more eclectic)
I know people will call me a Putin apologist, but, I have heard that Yandex used to be pretty good. I may try it if Brave doesn’t work out.
Ditto, now using Brave search & startpage search.
I have been using Brave Browser for years, to block all the adverts.
As for search, well, I certainly don’t use any search engine for current events. I have instead subbed to a few independent commentators, journalists et al on platforms like Substack, Rumble, e.g. Alex Berenson, Edward Slavsquat, El Gato Malo.
And, of course, this place!
Any alternative i can run on a laptop? Brave seems to be Android only
Brave can be used on Linux, Windows, the lot.
you can add any search engine to any browser, on FF you set one as default then get a dropdown list of any you want to add.
I use brave well on iOS and whatever OS my MacBook is on.
Really hard not to laugh at the comments under the twitter article trying to tell us that masks make no difference, when only a matter of two months ago those comment sections were alight with people telling us we’re dangerous, selfish murderers if we don’t wear one!
Dear Citizen Backlash,
You have accidentally been issued with a memory span exceeding five minutes. Please turn yourself in for resetting.
Yes but you’re still a selfish murderer, Backlash.
“University ‘acting like the Soviet Union’ as it cancels race commission chairman”
That peculiar puffing sound you could hear in the background as they issued this statement was them blowing on the fresh ink to dry it.
I posted this in the Daily Telegraph comments forum under Allison Pearson’s article. It is usual to divide a polity into four ‘estates’. The Government, the Church, the people and the Press. Three of these ‘estates’ (the Government, the Church, and the Press) have shown them selves deeply corrupt and are complicit in the totally wrong and wholly disproportionate response to covid. The Government imposed a ‘lockdown’ (actually three) without any thought of the consequences of this action. It will not do for it to argue that ‘business loans’ and the policy of ‘furlough’ were designed to mitigate the effect; such ‘loans’, for that is what they are, will need to be paid back at some point. It must NEVER be forgotten that the people who recommended and implemented these policies made NO sacrifices whatsoever; politicians and civil servants and the bloated, inefficient and incompetent public sector saw no reduction in present salaries and expenses and future pension. The Archbishops (I am looking at YOU Welby) and Bishops in the CofE and ALL the senior clergy in ALL denominations (with the honourable and partial exception of the Orthodox churches) made no effort to challenge the Government on ANY of its… Read more »
“Petrol prices could hit …..” any number you care to think about. “Could” doesn’t give any hint of likelihood, it is more wild speculation to gain readership.
And to try to scare people into accepting the nonsensical Battery Electric Vehicle into their lives.
Why is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Iranian citizen who spied against Iran for the British foreign intelligence service MI6, being released? And why NOW?
Well there has to be a reason.
My best guess is that the Saudi dictatorship, as part of its price for bailing Britain out financially (probably only for a short time) has demanded that Britain make the Iranian government be seen to eat dirt.
Maybe it’s a snub to Saudi, who’s talking about selling oil in Chinese yuan, Iran gets it’s 400 million back and they let her go <shrug>
Medvedev facing a Wimbledon ban unless he ‘renounces’ Putin reminds me of nothing so much as The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade in Catch-22.
If only we had a real Major __ de Coverley to rescue us from this bullshit!
‘Gimme Med! Give everybody Med!’
Should be banned regardless
Because? If he’s supported what Putin’s done, I must have missed it.
President Macron’s name is mud among many French nurses. Watch this video clip to observe the disgustingly arrogant way he treats a nurse who has been locked out of her job because she is “unvaccinated”. Even though she is distraught she always talks to him in a polite way, and yet the b**tard demands that she stops filming him. He says he has been “kind” (“gentil”), and he acts as if she owes him something! Let’s remind ourselves what’s happening: he is the president, and he is going on walkabout to “meet the people”, to ask them to give him what he wants – another five years in office. He is also under the full glare of media cameras, but he still thinks this woman should switch her own little camera off and that she should be grateful to him that he has deigned to speak to her. Never mind her real situation, into which his government has put her, and her real thoughts and feelings about it. It’s “gimme gimme gimme” for this guy. He’s got it coming to him – or he should have. https://twitter.com/i/status/1504037563941666817 PS Macron has been hiding from debates with other candidates. His advisers may… Read more »
Not sure I personally like the lady, but even not knowing masses about her doesn’t stop me from saying that I hope Marine Le Pen shoves it to his sorry little arse.
Contrast Mearsheimer’s solidly realist analysis, and Col Macgregor’s unflinching recognition of reality, with Ed West’s shameful kowtowing to the fantasies of the warmongers, just now tweeted with approval by our host: The ‘Oikophobia’ of the Right As the Ukrainian war shows, some conservatives have come to hate the West West’s blancmangery basically seems to assume that selected cases of disapproval of developments in our society and the actions of its rulers and its elites must represent irrational self-hatred, because – reasons. And the “reasons” seem to be that in this case he doesn’t agree with the reasons for the disapproval. Obviously all Ed West’s past rantings against the problems in our societies aren’t irrational “oikophobia”! Oh no, those are quite different. But anyone who disagrees with the “Putin evil mad aggressor” hypothesis that supposedly explains everything about the Ukraine situation, well they are obviously irrational and need a good smear term to define them by. Of course there’s nothing wrong in principle with disapproving of actions being taken in your own society, or by its leaders, or of ongoing trends. That’s what conservatives do, by and large. What Ed West is doing here is following the woke playbook used so… Read more »
I could have done without reading that linked word salad of self defined, right on political key word bingo strawmannery tbh.
He calls himself a “History obsessive interested in why things are.” but doesn’t seem to have bothered to find out before running his mouth off on a dozen tangents.
He’s not “interested in why things are” he’s interested in telling you how things are.
Well, I reasoned that, Toby having expressed enthusiasm for it, it was likely to come up here at some point. Sure enough….