- “What is causing the chaos at airports? Shocking scenes are blamed on airlines and airports not recruiting staff quickly enough to cope with spike in demand after mass layoffs during Covid” – The Mail explains the problem.
- “‘Hard to believe it’s actually happening’: Shanghai to lift Covid lockdown” – Shanghai authorities on Tuesday began dismantling fences around housing compounds and ripping police tape off public squares and buildings before the lifting of a two-month lockdown in China’s largest city at midnight, reports Reuters. It appears the virus has once again evaporated under China’s brutal lockdown; the WHO will be impressed.
- “People with monkeypox symptoms told to quarantine before test results” – The U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said 11 monkeypox cases were spotted in England over the last 24 hours, while no new cases were found in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, reports the Mail.
- “We do not know if monkeypox can be contained, warns WHO” – Europe is the “epicentre of the largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported” outside of Africa, say the scaremongers at the WHO, according to the Telegraph.
- “Confirmed: 70K people dead within 28 Days of Covid-19 Vaccination in England and 179K dead within 60 Days” – The Daily Exposé summarises the ONS data on deaths following Covid vaccination.
- “Tourist on Japan’s package tour trial tests positive for COVID-19” – As Japan prepares to reopen its borders to international tourists on escorted tours from June 10th, a tourist on a trial tour tests positive for Covid, the Japan Times reports.
- “The Harvard connection” – Was a Fauci-endorsed Chinese donation part of the lab-leak cover up, asks Ashley Rindsberg in Spectator World.
- “Secret deal that could let Pfizer get away with Covid fraud” – Pfizer is confident a federal judge will throw the whistleblower’s case out, not because it lacks merit or evidence, but because some anonymous ‘authority’ has arbitrarily rendered Pfizer exempt from fulfilling any regulations in place to protect the public from harmful drugs, says Serena Wylde in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Activism: A Write-off and Autopsy” – Come rain or shine, climate apocalypse or grand solar minimum, activists continue to soldier on up the moral high ground, only to be sold down the river on their descent, writes Dustin Broadbery in OffGuardian.
- “Hurricane Activity Close To Lowest On Record In Last Year” – The past 12 months have seen close to the fewest tropical cyclones of major hurricane frequency in more than 40 years, says Paul Homewood in Watts Up With That?
- “The EU’s oil ban is a damp squib” – EU countries have paid over £40 billion to Russia for gas and oil since the invasion, and the bloc is hardly united on the embargo, says Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “In defence of tanks” – Patrick Benham-Crosswell counters the arguments of the anti-tank movement, and throws in an update on the Ukraine war to boot, in TCW Defending Freedom.
- “Born This Way? The Rise of LGBT as a Social and Political Identity” – Around 20% of Americans under 30 now identify as LGBT, many of them bisexual. Eric Kaufmann reviews the data for CSPI and concludes that while there has been an increase in same-sex behaviour in recent years, sociopolitical factors likely explain most of the rise in LGBT identity.
- “Suella Braverman is right: schools shouldn’t pander to trans pupils” – The Attorney General suggested in an interview that male pupils should not be able to use girls’ toilets and that single-sex schools can indeed restrict admission to children of just one sex, but Joint General Secretary of the NEU Mary Bousted disagrees, telling schools to ignore the “misleading advice from the Attorney General”, writes Debbie Hayton in the Spectator.
- “Tough talk, no action on trans activist policy ” – While ministers wriggle out of responsibility, children are suffering, writes Josephine Bartosch in the Critic.
- “A woke police force is the last thing we need” – Gender ideology and critical race theory corrode justice and hard-won rights, says Joanna Williams in Spiked.
- “Literature is being terrorised by cancel culture” – Even star authors like Anthony Horowitz are being forced to do politically correct rewrites, says Nick Tyrone in Spiked.
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Brilliant
“We do not know if monkeypox can be contained, warns WHO” – Europe is the “epicentre of the largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported” outside of Africa, say the scaremongers at the WHO, according to the Telegraph.
Save yourselves the bother of reading this trash, folks; it’s pure scaremongering propaganda from the Gates funded Global Health Security mob!
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/update-1-unlikely-monkeypox-outbreak-will-lead-to-pandemic-says-who-1313152.html
“Asked whether this monkeypox outbreak has the potential to grow into a pandemic, Rosamund Lewis, technical lead for monkeypox from the WHO Health Emergencies Programme said: “We don’t know, but we don’t think so.”
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/heres-what-you-should-know-about?s=r
Meryl Nass on monkeybollkox.
Interesting info on smallpox vax, if like me you have had this, you have lifelong immunity.
The vaxes sound pretty dangerous btw.
No monkeybollox vax for me
Wha a coincidence ! Europe is the biggest target for the entire Globalist take-over!
Certainly seems to be epicentre of it – rest of world largely doesn’t seem to want to know despite WEF/WHO best efforts.
You know what they say – some people just cannot be helped.
A very good summary, imo:
NATO admits Russia focused on Defence
“A very detailed report from the NATO Defence college that came out a few days ago….This paragraph starts off with: “what is Russia’s defence strategy based on the threats it perceives?” And the threats that Russia perceives – and again this is coming from NATO, you know, this is not the Russian angle, so it’s clear that in the middle of a war NATO is no going to be too complimentary about Russia, but having said that I think this report actually is quite well balanced … it does seem to lack propaganda. It seems quite factual. So, from their own assessment…they have said that Russia essentially perceives two threats. They call it “democratic regime change”, but it’s of course not democratic because that regime change is triggered by two threats. One is a NATO-led invasion and the other is western-backed internal political destabilisation inside Russia.”
Also a nice find: a Times piece from 2016 titled “Kiev allows torture and runs secret jails, says UN“, noting that: “Ukraine’s spy agency, the SBU, is systematically rounding up and torturing suspected rebel sympathisers”
It’s pretty clear “we” (NATO) aren’t the good guys here:
“One World government run by the oligarchy is more or less a reality now. … You are seeing now these globalist organisations with a global agenda, and as Putin said and I tend to agree with, that global agenda does not include the well-being of the citizens of their respective national countries, they’re off doing their own woke, progressive agenda items“
“Kiev allows torture and runs secret jails, says UN“,
Is that one of those stories that the Times muppets aren’t allowed to run any more, like the ones about big pharma corruption (eg in relation to “covid ‘vaccines’ ” that Oliver Wright doesn’t write about anymore)?
I remember the late, great Christopher Booker used to point out that Norway was actually more influential outside the EU sitting as an independent state on the global bodies that made the rules then adopted by the EU. This global government has been a long time in the making, and like the EU superstate has proceeded though stealth and subterfuge.
“Is that one of those stories that the Times muppets aren’t allowed to run any more, like the ones about big pharma corruption (eg in relation to “covid ‘vaccines’ ” that Oliver Wright doesn’t write about anymore)?”
I think that’s a safe bet.
As some wag noted a while back; Putin’s denazification program has been a complete success already – in the US sphere media.
The Nazi problem is solved now, according to the MSM, they all got new badges!
LOL as if you can change ideology with a rebadge.
It’s very important that death squad members don’t wear or display offensive symbology – that can be very hurtful.
INSIDE LOOK INTO THE DEATH SQUADS USED BY UKRAINIAN COUNTERINTELLIGENCE
Nice new Euro Riot Police uniforms too!
Trump suggested the US ought to consider leaving the UN as well as the WHO. No wonder they took him down!
Also NATO. Reportedly he regrets letting the neocons and military industrial types talk him out of it.
There is so much he has to regret not doing!
as Putin said and I tend to agree with, that global agenda does not include the well-being of the citizens of their respective national countries, they’re off doing their own woke, progressive agenda items
In a curious way, Putin is an old-fashioned and relatively uncomplicated man. He believes in God, and honours his father and mother (a man and a woman).
As the leader of his country, he believes that he should do all that he can to ensure the security of its borders, the stability and strength of its economy, and the welfare of its people.
Those beliefs are combined with an exceptional intellect and a degree of education that used to be fairly standard, but is now extraordinary.
I wonder how many of today’s Western political leaders could make a pointed and revelatory joke about “the subjunctive mood”, as he did in one of the Stone interviews. Not something, by the way, that a fanatic could do.
He’s been head and shoulders above the US sphere leaders he’s been pitted against for over twenty years now. I’ve been watching from afar.
Head and shoulders about sums it up. I think I understand why so many of them really, really don’t like him.
There is an alpha male type of personality in many politicians which is sometimes termed “leadership” (they love telling others what to do) but they do not have outstanding levels of actual knowledge, intellect, skills, experience or admirable physical attributes. They get to the top through deviousness.
When they come up against someone who does have attributes they cannot match, they don’t like them because they know that in a one to one debate, competition, or actual physical fight, they will lose.
Used to be called jealousy.
Agreed.
Not that I want to participate in a Putin love in but, the man is clever enough to surround himself with people smarter than him.
One of his advisors (I forget his name) is apparently a legend in geopolitical strategy.
Some informed observers believe Putin’s inner command have been planning recent event for years and understand precisely, the effects and responses likely to emerge from the west are.
Frankly, he has ambushed every western leader at the pass.
I’m fairly convinced his intentions go well beyond simply capturing a small piece of land in Eastern Ukraine. He’s stated his desires were numerous; to stop NATO, to deal with the Nazi threat, and to stop the march of globalism.
He has numerous allies, Xi of China, Modi of India, Bolsonaro of Brazil, much of Africa, Orban of Hungary – at least, who have all watched the corrosive march of the EU across the continent, now working hand in glove with Biden’s America and global financial behemoths to use green activism to turn the globe into a giant fascist entity.
Did he know of Biden’s cheating to steal the election? Did he know Biden would stop oil exploration and fracking in the US to drive up energy costs across the world?
Did he recognise this as the opportunity to lance the boil of globalism? Confront NATO/the west and drive energy prices still higher until the green pips squeaked?
And they have. Stuart Kirk’s condemnation of green financial investing folly elicited a response from unexpected quarters, with other financial heads not just refusing to condemn him, but actively supporting him.
And the result? Warnings in America from Biden that this will be a summer of blackouts. Warnings in the UK that we are likely to have energy rationing, and Europe utterly panicking because both are entirely likely across the continent.
The result being people questioning why renewable energy isn’t galloping to our rescue indeed, it’s being seen to make matters worse.
I can’t imagine anyone being smart enough to plan all this well in advance, but I guess that’s why I’m not the leader of the largest country in the world.
There’s always a danger of over-reacting to the juvenile propaganda demonisation of enemy leaders like Putin that our media and its dupes engage in 24/7.
Putin’s just a human being, and as you suggest, like most competent political leaders his main asset is probably a willingness to listen and to employ competent people. Doubtless he has his flaws, and he might well be personally not very nice in some aspects and he might well have been responsible for very bad things (pretty much goes with the leadership territory), but the results speak for themselves.
I doubt there has been a more challenging role in world politics in the post-Cold War era than taking Russia from its position of 1990s collapse to its current recovery, in the face of unrelenting US sphere interference and aggression.
30,000 Churches built since 1991 (not all under Putin obviously).
That’s not the typical actions of a despot.
For sure, he’s not a despot, nor a tyrant, nor a dictator.
That’s just childish US sphere propaganda.
I agree. I have a friend living in Russia. People are left to do largely as they want.
Very well said.
Not that I want to participate in a Putin love in but, the man is clever enough to surround himself with people smarter than him.
One of his advisors (I forget his name) is apparently a legend in geopolitical strategy.
Well, we can start with his Minister of Defence since 2012: Sergei Shoigu. It doesn’t say everything, but Shoigu speaks nine languages fluently. I guess he also knows where places are.
The other Sergei – Lavrov – who’s been Foreign Minister since 2004, speaks at least five languages, and originally intended to be a physicist. He’s certainly something of a legend.
Putin appointed Elvira Nabiullina as his Minister or Economic Development and Trade in 2007. She now heads the Central Bank of Russia, in which position she has been internationally honoured.
Shoigu, Lavrov and Nabiulllina also seem, based on results, head and shoulders above anybody in senior positions in any of our main political parties or major institutions.
our politicians have got results…
For the people who pull their strings.
I believe that Russians have learnt to be serious about governance and those occupying senior positions. They still bear the scars of the failures of the 1990s.
I think we should also consider the effects of the eventual denunciation of Stalin and the Thaw.
There was not universal agreement and there was by no means a complete de-Stalinisation. But it made the nature of leadership an issue.
We have to settle for ‘disjunctive’.
Chapeau!
How Western Media reports on Iraq vs Ukraine | Generation Brainwashed
Just to deal with one of the likely knee jerks here by the Official Truth mugs:
“That’s just whataboutery”
“Two wrongs don’t make a right”
“Just because the US invaded Iraq doesn’t mean it’s ok for Russia to invade Ukraine”
The point here, of course, is the intentionally manipulative contrast in the media coverage in the US sphere.
At this point, I believe that the Official Truth peddlers are either proudly stubborn or dishonest.
A reasonable person would have begun to wonder by now, even if that wondering simply amounted to the suspicion that perhaps things were more complicated than they were made to appear.
I have seen those doubts appearing on the faces of people who were unaware of the history and of the remarkable degree of unanimity in a mainstream media that used to offer a variety of views.
Could so many be so wrong? Well, yes – because their version is no longer making sense.
Dishonest.
Empire of Lies
Rape Allegations Against Russian Troops In Ukraine Were Fake
“To summarize:
The rape allegations against Russian soldiers in Ukraine were made up and false.
The Ukrainian propagandist responsible for them has been fired.
Ukraine and its Nazi stormtroopers of the Azov battalion are correcting their appearance to become more acceptable for the ‘western’ public.
Nothing of the above will change the cold fact that Ukraine and the ‘west’ are losing in their war against Russia.”
as Bernhard correctly pointed out:
“Such accusations of mass rape by the enemy de jour are made in every war (Libya, Syria) . They rarely turn out to be true.”
Eg:
RAPE WAS WEAPON OF SERBS, UN SAYS
NY Times 20th Oct 1993
“A United Nations war crimes commission has found evidence that rape was used by the Serbs as a weapon of terror in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
But the commission says the number of provable cases of rape may be substantially lower than the 20,000 estimated earlier this year by the European Community.”
Saddam’s chambers of horrors
Globe And Mail, 23rd November 2002
“This is a regime that practises systematic rape against the female victims.”
Did Qaddafi Really Order Mass Rapes? Or Is The West Falling Victim To A Viagra-Strength Scam?
“efforts to rally world opinion behind removing Qaddafi from power have already included promotion of claims that Qaddafi personally ordered the Pan Am 103 bombing (no evidence has been made public), and that a woman was raped by militia backing Qaddafi (no evidence was made public—nor was there any claim that Qaddafi had been connected to it, yet the story was big news around the world.) Now, things are being ratcheted up, with the following claim that it’s not just one woman but hundreds –and that Qaddafi is personally behind this.”
The Ultimate Assault: Charting Syria’s Use of Rape to Terrorize Its People
The Atlantic, 11th July 2012
“A new project tracks reports of sexualized violence in Syria, where the attacks appear to be orchestrated by government security forces.”
Are there cases of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers? Undoubtedly. War is the realm of violent chaos and it both empowers and enables the worst kinds of criminals to get away with crimes they ordinarily would not, and drives some beyond their normal controls. There is not and has never been an army engaged in a major war that has not had atrocities committed by its soldiers.
Are atrocities committed by Russian forces as a matter of policy? No, I don’t believe that for a second. The Russian army has clearly been under orders to keep collateral damage to a minimum consistent with getting the job done, and has nothing to gain and everything to lose from letting its men commit atrocities.
And unlike the Ukrainian military, the Russian forces are disciplined professionals without units of political fanatics such as Azov (and no, the Wagner Group mercenaries are not a political militia, they are an equivalent to the US Blackwater mercenaries).
RULES OF WAR FOR RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN UKRAINE
“Serviceman,
in the performance of military service duties and special (combat) tasks
REMEMBER
During an armed conflict, the norms of humanity must be respected even in relation to the enemy. These norms are contained in international humanitarian law (mainly in the four Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols).
PROTECTED PERSONS:
PROTECTED OBJECTS:
PROTECTION OF MEDICAL MISSIONS:
THE CONDUCT OF MILITARY ACTIONS:
Failure to comply with any of the above requirements may result in disciplinary or criminal liability
If you have any questions, please contact the legal adviser of the commander of the military unit.”
Thanks for this! Very informative.
The sacking of Denisova is complicated. It seems to be largely as a result of her providing information on rape with insufficient evidence and over-lurid details. This doesn’t, of course, mean that no rape took place. That remains to be seen. There are eye-witness accounts which, of course, need to be verified.
What strikes me is the high standards of the Ukrainian media who complained about Denisova and the Ukrainian parliament who sacked her. It was the Ukrainian media who objected to Denisova providing information (which, given her role, has something of an official status) which then turned out to be sensationalist and backed by insufficient evidence. I am not sure our press would have done the same or our parliament would have upheld those standards had they done so.
Our Mainstream Press no longer functions in any objective, independent sense – just a mouthpiece for the Official Narrative on every subject.
Overt censorship and towing the official line makes the press totally unreliable and worthless.
Journalism is dead.
In end, it is counter- productive as more and more people will no longer believe anything they read as it no longe chimes with their actual experience and they will turn to the Alt Media and the Grapevine instead. Credibility is everything and the press is fast losing any.!
This will continue even if the Government force the Alt Media underground with yet more overt censorship like the “Online Harms Bill “
Aye
The claims of “mass rape”, with the implication of Russian official collusion or intention, were always very obviously going to turn out to have been classic black war propaganda, of the most primitive “raping nuns and bayoneting babies” kind.
Only the most catastrophically naive and ignorant, and the partisan motivated, were ever going to take them seriously. As such they mainly serve to whip up fanatical hatred of the enemy to a higher pitch, and to dehumanise them collectively..
This is objectively evil, imo.
Of course some cases might be true. But such crimes need to be dealt with as crimes, not used as ammunition for war propaganda.
I agree that there is often war propaganda on the lines of bayoneting babies. Of course, sometimes it turns out to be true or even worse than suspected. So I don’t think they can be dismissed just because they are terrible accusations. Similar considerations apply to Russian propaganda about Ukrainian Nazis. Let’s have the evidence from a neutral or at least open source.
How evil is it to knowingly perpetrate such propaganda? It is pretty serious because, as you say, it whips up fanatical hatred. But not so serious, I think, as starting the war in the first place, or following a military policy of flattening cities so as to invade them.
“I agree that there is often war propaganda on the lines of bayoneting babies. Of course, sometimes it turns out to be true or even worse than suspected. So I don’t think they can be dismissed just because they are terrible accusations. “
On the contrary, that’s exactly what should be done with them, when they are paraded as war propaganda.
When they are treated as crimes they should be investigated properly, that’s fine. But that’s not what we are talking about, because that’s not what happened here.
“Similar considerations apply to Russian propaganda about Ukrainian Nazis. Let’s have the evidence from a neutral or at least open source.”
No they don’t, because the information about Ukrainian extremists (including nazis) and about Ukrainian corruption and death squads was everywhere available in our media, before it was intentionally suppressed in order to protect the war narrative.
If you are talking about new allegations of systematic war crimes by Ukrainians, then those allegations should certainly be treated with due scepticism (although in reality many of the allegations of eg abuse and murder of POWs and dissenters were based on open online boasting about them by Ukrainian extremists, so they are on rather firmer ground).
In reality, the propaganda superiority has been overwhelmingly with the Empire of Lies, because that’s its core speciality. Rather apt that the Ukrainian regime figureheads are actors and media personalities.
“How evil is it to knowingly perpetrate such propaganda? It is pretty serious because, as you say, it whips up fanatical hatred.”
Indeed. As we have seen happening in this case.
“But not so serious, I think, as starting the war in the first place”
Sure, you’re very happy to make such statements against those resisting threats from “your side”. In reality, when one side uses aggressive war as a regular tool of policy, as the US sphere has repeatedly over the past three decades,. the other side has no choice but to respond. Reality isn’t a pacifist fantasy, and those who beat their swords into ploughshares will plough for those who don’t.
(Though I do you way too much credit attributing non-aggression principles to you. In fact you’re just another hypocrite who wants to apply different standards to others than you do to your supposed own.)
“, or following a military policy of flattening cities so as to invade them.“
This is just another tendentious lie on your part. As far as we can tell, the Russians have been trying to limit collateral damage, as far as that’s consistent with winning a war against people who intentionally hide their forces in civilian areas in order to make targeting them without hitting civilians near impossible.
In other cases, where it’s done by rival governments to the US sphere borg, you’d call that a war crime (remember all the accusations of “human shields” against the Iraqis?), but of course you are hypocritical on that, as well.
“We do not know if monkeypox can be contained, warns WHO”
Easy, it can be contained by shoving it up your arse.
It seems that’s what they are blaming it on.
Yes. “Broken skin” and “prolonged physical contact”.
Well, AIDS made a lot of money for certain people and gave one in particular enormous influence.
It seems they’re trying for AIDS2: anything to distract people from “immune deficiency” problems in general.
Still, Dr. Malone’s substack article is a bit concerning.
All the more reason to shove it up the arse of the WHO
He he.
Just imagine, if this was covid (instead of “vaccinations”) in July 2020, they would all be counted as “vaccine” deaths!
(Coincidentally, UK “covid” deaths are also currently circa 179k according to Worldometer)
The crimes are on such a scale that those with prime responsibility will do everything in their power to prevent them from ever coming to light. They were:
They are crimes so large that many simply cannot bring themselves to believe that all those reassuring or urging people can have been so reckless or so callous.
“Experts” like Devi “100% safe” Sridhar. Says it all about First Fish Sturgeon if she is relying on people like that.
My understanding is that anyone who administered these injections without making reasonable efforts to ensure that they are giving free and informed consent is culpable. I suspect that might be rather a lot of people. These abuses are hardly new though. Our 1967 law removing protections of human life are routinely flouted, and on a similarly large scale. The prospect of widespread euthanasia seriously alarms me for these reasons.
These abuses are hardly new though.
No, they’re not. The last couple of years have given us a terrible but important lesson in the dangers of turning a blind eye.
I’m not blaming the public at large for this. People were getting on with their lives and trusting that those responsible for governance were doing their jobs.
But although I have never trusted governments and have always been deeply cynical about my own, I have been shocked by the horrendous and rapid decline we have seen in the last few decades; and by the extent of that decline.
I am one of those who was amazed by what happened in Canada, for instance. Canada could treat its citizens so appallingly? Canada gives military training to neo-Nazis?
Governments are going to try to blame the public for their crimes: “You elected us. We were just doing what you wanted. People get the governments they deserve, you know.”
They must not be allowed to get away with either their sins of commission and omission, or their excuses.
“These abuses are hardly new though.”
I share your sentiments AE. Even now and on a daily basis I am struck by what is happening.
Are they really killing people and intent on killing millions more? Really? Why?
And while I can find the answers to all my questions, usually starting with the many good people on here, I still find myself in periods of utter disbelief, at times numb with the depravity engulfing us. There is a feeling of unreality that swamps some days.
“They must not be allowed to get away with either their sins of commission and omission, or their excuses.”
I wholeheartedly agree and God willing I will live to see the days of reckoning.
It’ll be designated ‘the great accident’.
Only if they don’t succeed.
If it is, as suspected, a Gates/Schwab/WHO joint operation then it will be revealed.
Schwab is a Walter Mitty fantasist and con-man who has captured the imagination of the wealthy global elite who, frankly, have nothing else to do with their time and money but seek their ultimate legacy to mankind.
Gates is a wanted man in India for allegedly murdering and maiming numerous young girls with one of his ‘vaccines’.
The WEF is full of desperately stupid people attracted, like flies round shite, to money and glory.
Malthus and Eugenics explains it all – nonsense of course.
They are now “so deep in gore that going back were’s great as going o’er” ( (With apologies to WS).
As will doubtless soon be reported by the Times muppets, whose journalist is well qualified to cover this sort of story.
“Brook Jackson is a whistleblower who, in 2020, worked briefly for a large Texan research group, Ventavia, contracted by Pfizer to conduct Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials. She was a regional director and raised concerns with her superiors about data integrity and poor practices she witnessed. Once she realised that no action was being taken to address those concerns, she filed a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration on September 25, 2020, listing a dozen points, after which she was fired with immediate effect.”
Yep, that’s exactly the sort of story a responsible national newspaper should be covering in the public interest. I’m sure they won’t let us down, will they?
Muppets!
We no longer have independent National Newspapers, just Globalist Propagnada sheets – most backed by Gates money.
A debate that has been going on for decades and will no doubt continue for decades more. As has been pointed out, tanks will continue in use until someone produces something that can do the tank’s job better than a tank. And that hasn’t happened yet.
“More recently the Russian army has just about captured Severodonetsk, again leading with armour“
Making plenty of use of armour, for sure, but my impression is the Russians are very much leading with heavy artillery. Very heavy artillery indeed.
I don’t think so. Artillery is indiscriminate and the Russians seem to be at pains to to avoid civilian casualties.
There’s not a city they couldn’t have completely flattened, but they are using mechanisation and troops to target the Ukrainian armed forces.
I’m pretty certain Putin want’s to walk away from this having done as little as possible to neutralise the Ukrainian military and defend the east of the country from insurgents.
Were Ukraine not the aggressors here, why is all the fighting being conducted in the east?
Nor would Putin be popular there if he indiscriminately shelled cities he’s supposed to be defending.
As I pointed out elsewhere, Russia owns the sky over Ukraine. They can spot enemy movements and use the minimum amount of ordnance to take them out, or send in troops where it’s appropriate to do the job manually.
Putin doesn’t want things to be any worse than Ukrainian propaganda and western media are already making it.
When the dust settles, he’ll have uncountable hours of video footage from innumerable assets, including air, which will demonstrate to the world community what really went on, especially in the regions where the Azov Battalion have been up to dirty tricks.
Artillery is not necessarily indiscriminate. I agree that the Russians are not firing indiscriminately, but nevertheless it seems pretty clear from reports from Ukrainian soldiers that they are basically being continuously pounded with artillery. Plenty of footage from the Russian side of Grad and TOS in use.
And as I recall some Russian pointing out enthusiastically, UAVs turn their artillery pieces into giant sniper rifles.
When Ukrainian assets are being used from schools and public places, any artillery response is perceptibly indiscriminate.
Artillery is not accurate like a smart bomb, for example, to target something down to a few feet. It’s used in multiple bursts when targeting a threat from a distance and destroys an area rather than a specific target. Much of the effect is concussive rather than a direct hit.
Unless you want to use it to flatten areas of a city, it’s not a good urbane warfare tool, and it seems much of the conflict is in cities and towns.
One of the reasons the Ukrainians prefer to defend in cities, and ideally to keep the civilians there while they do it is precisely that it reduces the utility of Russia’s main weapons. But they are still the main weapon of Russian military doctrine and practise.
See, eg, MoA’s occasional references:
“As I wrote a week ago after reading the Russian military report for that day:
There were at that time few reports about the artillery situation at the frontline. I have now found three which have since come out. They convey what the power of artillery does to an army and confirm my previous take.”
Ukraine’s Forces Are Told To Hold The Line Where Russian Artillery Is Pulverizing Them
“Since beginning of the war I have pointed to the huge amount of artillery Russian forces are traditionally using.
‘Western’ doctrine, which is essentially U.S. doctrine, is betting on air supremacy. The enemy’s air defenses get destroyed in first few days of the war. After that enemy formations get wiped out by applying a huge amount of aerial bombing against them.
Russian doctrine never has believed in air supremacy. Russia itself has excellent air defenses so it knows what it is talking about. To destroy enemy formations Russia applies artillery, lots of it.A standard U.S. brigade combat team (BCT) has two or three battalions with tanks or infantry as front formations and one battalion of artillery to support them. The rest of the brigade troops are various support units.
Instead of a 3 to 1 ratio of front formations to artillery formation Russian units have a 1 to 1 ration. Russian Motor Rifles brigades also have two or three battalions as front formations but they also have three artillery battalions with various guns and missiles to support those.
This 1 to 1 ration is repeated on nearly every level – battalion, brigade, division, army – of Russian ground forces. Here is how it looks when it gets applied.
Unless the defending forces are fully under armor or extremely well dug in, as they had been for eight years at the Donetsk frontline, they have no hope to hold out against Russian artillery. Since the Russian army broke through the immediate frontline the Ukrainians have lost the protection of fortified dugouts and are on the run.”
Ukraine Bits: Russian Artillery – Counter Attacks – New Missile Systems
I described as much in a post to you elsewhere. Russia runs a cheap war. It has taken control of Ukraine skies but uses it in a different way to the US.
The US uses expensive aircraft and sophisticated weaponry to target the enemy. The Russians seem to use air superiority more as a targeting mechanism for conventional ground attack.
A $1bn fighter can be destroyed by a single, shoulder launched, Stinger missile costing a few thousand dollars.
The High Tech missile version of the Stalin Organ seems pretty effective!
YouTube CEO Reassures Davos Elites That They Will Continue To Control The Narrative
“As the legacy media continues to falter and lose its audience to the alternative media, the establishment narrative must be encouraged by some other means. Big Tech platforms have taken up the propaganda mantle, asserting that information must now be filtered by the “authorities” instead of being allowed to spread freely. According to YouTube and other companies, average people are not capable of deliberating on data and information themselves and coming to their own conclusions. This is apparently too dangerous to allow.”
Ah. So that’s why the Times muppets won’t run these stories (and insist on dismissing DS btl commenters as deluded “anti-vaxxers”)!. Muppets!
Well the answer to “legacy media” is in the first line:
As the legacy media continues to falter and lose its audience to the alternative media
I wonder why legacy media is losing its audiences?
Unfortunately, it is difficult in some ways not to share the YouTube CEO’s contempt for “average people” but this comment surely confirms the out and out loathing that such people have for the people who provide them with a very comfortable living.
I wonder why legacy media is losing its audiences?
Because one-sided propaganda gets really boring after a while, whether you’re convinced by it or not.
I see they have pitched the Shameless Morgan Blob against Mark Steyn to try and dilute his audience.
Hasn’t there been some research on identical twins separated at birth in this regard?
My own understanding is that, whilst some people may be conceived more prone to certain psychological disorders (eg alcoholism), they are in no wise conceived with them, with a range of lifestyle and environmental factors determining whether they will actually become alcoholic etc. I think of the experiment of the rats where one group was given just enough food to survive, and thrived; a second group was given unlimited food, and developed some of the health and psychological problems we have become so familiar with today. I’ll warrant that people didn’t have too much time to worry about “her penis” and the rest during the years of rationing. And I know that there are certain modern issues (eg Post Abortion Survivor Syndrome – which the medical journals will likely not report on impartially) that are associated with some of the psychological issues we see today.
“Hasn’t there been some research on identical twins separated at birth in this regard?”
There has indeed:
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/david-reimer-and-john-money-gender-reassignment-controversy-johnjoan-case#:~:text=Following%20their%20consultation%20with%20Money,vaginal%20canal%20in%20their%20place.
I hope the link works.
JP Sears …..
The Best Female Swimmer in the World!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgjc29QCGo
Mice.
Some things just never change.
The age old image of 1960’s hippy culture rebelling against “the man” as the writer put’s it is exactly the same as the current activist culture rebelling for “the man”.
Don’t imagine for a moment all the hippies at Woodstock and along the Kings Road in London were the poor, long suffering, downtrodden children of hoary handed mine workers.
They were exactly as they are today, children of the middle class who could afford to rebel against a culture that had made their parents wealthy enough to guarantee them an inheritance.
Indeed, most of them are now themselves retired/retiring from their jobs as doctors, lawyers and investment bankers.
Then, as now, they aren’t interested in ‘the climate’, ‘racism’ or ‘LGBTQ+’ rights unless it allows them time off work or, an excuse not to find work or, go on a student jolly because, well, that’s what student’s do, isn’t it?
Try going to a gay pride march. You’ll find a few committed LGBTQ+ type people dressed in bondage gear exhibiting themselves, but the spectators are invariably virtuous, white, middle class management types with their kids in tow. The working class aren’t interested because they’re all out grafting to make ends meet.
The middle class are the disease of the country.
I learned many years ago that there are three classes in the UK:
The extremely wealthy, old money types. They had so much money they didn’t care about it, weren’t very materialistic, and usually spent more time learning about the realities of the world than doing any damage. In most cases, they were rather nice, polite and decent people.
Then there’s the extremely poor. They don’t have any money, know they never will have any, and spend most of their time with their family and others helping each other get along day to day. They are also rather nice people.
Then there’s the middle class. Us lot, the ambitious class, who have a bit of money, but never enough. We will backstab, scheme and manipulate others to get what we want, more money, more material goods, and more stuff. We are the ones who are more often than not, rude, intolerant and impatient. We don’t respect authority because it doesn’t do what we want it to do, for us.
Our activist’s invariably spring from the third group. The world must be fit for them in the future, not a demand many of us boomers made of our parent, because we were touched by their, and their parents experiences of two world wars.
We knew we were paying for ‘their mistakes’ but we did it willingly, and were grateful we weren’t instead living under the rule of the Kaiser or Hitler.
How has all this happened?
Simple really, the left has fulfilled it’s ambition of the long march through the institutions and deliberately fractured the bond between a lived and learned past by expunging the recent history of two world wars from our youths memory, or, more correctly, from the school and university curriculum.
That reminds me. Is it a “non-crime hate incident” to repeat certain Ricky Gervais jokes?
And for that matter, is it a non-crime hate incident to go after someone shouting “Tory scum”?
(And the NUT may be the NEU now. Still the same old NUT(t)ers though. So do me for a “non-crime hate incident”!).
Gervaise didn’t make any jokes that were ‘unacceptable’.
He was having a laugh at the snowflakes virtuously displaying their concern for the LGBTQ+ community, he wasn’t having a go at LGBTQ+.
In fact the sketch four minutes in, concluded with him screaming at the ignorance of a “TERF whore” because she can’t get the gender terminology right.
What does NEU mean. I gather it must be a trades union.
National Education Union, formed after a merger of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Teachers and Lecturers. The NUT had previously been dubbed NUTters because of such statements as the above.
Mariupol is BACK !!!!!
So it’s not flattened then?
But Russia is still losing the war, right?
Define “flattened”
I do think the Russians are putting huge resources into rebuilding and returning liberated areas to normality.
“But Russia is still losing the war, right?“
Absolutely. Every day the Ukrainans declare new victories and every day the victories get closer to conceding the full liberation of the Donbass republics.
That’s one “new normal” people might enjoy: allowed to speak your own language freely; no longer subject to shelling and gross insult from what was supposed to be your own government.
That reminds me, how are things in Donetsk these days?
Some more indiscriminate shelling from the UK’s best friends, the Ukrainians, hitting civilian areas including a school. Just like much of the last 8 years.
However, that allied breakthrough north of Avdeyevka suggests that it won’t be going on for much longer.
Maybe the Ukrainians should try aiming at military targets, rather than civilians, if they want to win the war. It seems old habits die hard.
The DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) wants an international tribunal to try people like Poroshenko and Zelensky for war crimes since the 2014 coup; and for supporting and financing terrorism.
They’ve also said that they won’t be swapping foreign mercenaries, who face the death penalty as terrorists, for anybody.
Yep – I wish we could have some of those freedoms in the UK.
Are you talking about the UK?
Apart from the shelling, I’m talking about most of the world, I suppose; though that wasn’t what I was thinking about when I posted.
“Gross insult” pretty much describes the last couple of years; so does “terrorism”.
Flattened? I should think Dresden or Hiroshima would be a good start.
Flattened.
(Dresden)
Yes no military targets hit – full of refugees from the East – virtually no air defence – just how the US likes it!
Very sad that Churchill agreed to Bomber Command’s participation in the February terror raid to “show the Russians”.
Crossing of the Oder just East of Berlin by the Red Army,15th February 1945 – Dresden raids 13th – 15th February.
Dresden of no military consequence in the Oder battle.
Again, would love to share this type of article with lockdown aficionado relatives, but it’s not branded BBC or Guardian so they’ll think it’s fake news. The Daily Exposé must have done a mind trick on the ONS staff to get data this damming .
Come to think of it, it’s worse than the PHE “covid” figures – they’ve only been jabbing since December 2020.
Not really a reply to you Hugh, but I don’t know how to do an original post.
The following is in my opinion mind boggling but not surprising.
http://www.theconservativetreehouse.com
Has a piece titled “the FBI maintains a workspace including a computer portal inside Perkins Coie”
This is the Clinton, Obama and Democrat Law firm which is/was instrumental in removing the legitimate US President, with the active support of the British Secret service and a certain Christopher Steele.
All the jigsaw pieces do fit together – all it takes are a few honest whistleblowers and an honest media. Some hope!
use the fist comment box at the top, above the bit that says…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/31/breaking-the-fbi-maintains-a-workspace-including-computer-portal-inside-the-law-firm-of-perkins-coie-the-ramifications-are-significant/
The Daily Expose is one of the less reliable ‘media’ on offer, that’s my experience.
I find the Daily Sceptic, Conservative Woman, Left Lockdown Sceptics, UK Column, Off Guardian and the The Light paper quite good. Possibly better than the late 20th.C ‘dead tree press’.
Interesting but on what basis? Have you checked out how they reach this alarming figure so far from Government’s ‘facts’?
We do not know if monkeypox can be contained, warns WHO
We’re one step ahead, we know all about the WHO and the WHERE of the monkeys, their pox, their mRNA manipulated gene transfer chimp virus vaccines brought to us under the cover of the global covid 2019 deception. ‘A man reaps what he sows’.
“We’re one step ahead, we know all about the WHO and the WHERE of the monkeys”
Correct and given what we know now and the growing realisation of what these organisations are about that will surely remain the case going forward.
Sensible advice remains – stay away from MSM.
Is this WHO speak for ” We are working with our Globalist Partners in trying to ensure that it is not contained”?
After all, we have all been here before.
…..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/do-not-know-monkeypox-can-contained-warns/
So according to the Telegraph the WHO believe its already out of control.
However.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/update-1-unlikely-monkeypox-outbreak-will-lead-to-pandemic-says-who-1313152.html
“Asked whether this monkeypox outbreak has the potential to grow into a pandemic, Rosamund Lewis, technical lead for monkeypox from the WHO Health Emergencies Programme said: “We don’t know, but we don’t think so.”
So, what we need is a third article discussing how the WHO know diddly squat about what they are dealing with.
BBC: nothing to see here. It’s completely normal that a healthy young 39 year old man should suddenly die. No explanation needed.
//Even their eulogies are getting shorter…
Happens all the time – except it seems among BBC managerial staff and their highest paid lackeys!
Of course, it’s a well known fact of life that young fit sportsmen have a tendency to drop dead for no apparent reason. Nothing to see here.
That’s a bummer, as the saying has it (rather accurately, in this instance).
There’s a nasty stomach flu going around at the moment which affects the brain as well. The sense of being surrounded by disease has been felt more acutely in the last couple of weeks. I have noticed a regression back to mask wearing for people who I thought were beyond the fear now. You will notice a pressure cooker phenomenon over the next few months.
“We do not know if monkeypox can be contained, warns WHO” – Europe is the “epicentre of the largest and most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak ever reported” outside of Africa, say the scaremongers at the WHO, according to the Telegraph.”
Not the Telegraph per se, but the Global Health section which is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation news placement section
Russia’s Investigative Committee will conduct a judicial examination of Ben Grant’s actions in Ukraine, the son of a conservative member of the UK Parliament who headed a company of mercenaries.
“As part of the criminal case [under the article] of mercenary activities, the investigation will establish the role of a relative of British Member of Parliament Helen Grant… His actions will receive a criminal-legal assessment,” the statement said
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-to-investigate-uk-lawmakers-son-fighting-in-ukraine
a story being flogged by the beeb today, apparently offcom has told tech giants to protect women online. You have to laugh at the reporting as it was a succession of say 4 – 5 woman being interviewed all fr the harms bill, certainly no balance. Also the Beeb slipped in when they stated that “when the harms bill goes through parliament” so, no choice then, this is what ya got. I also don’t think the women interviewed get the irony of in one breath talking about “equality” and on the other wanting one sided laws to “protect them”
War news
US foreign minister Antony Blinken says Ukraine has promised not to use US-supplied “Himars” missile systems to hit Russian territory.
The Ukrainian forces are, however, expected to use them in the eastern Donbas region. The Donbas is comprised of the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, in both of which the Ukrainian forces are currently waging war. Both territories border Russia to the east.
The US president’s deputy national security adviser, Jonathan Finer, said “This is a defensive conflict that the Ukrainians are waging. Russian forces are on their territory.”
Are the weapons systems supposed to enter Ukraine from Poland?
And in which country will US forces train Ukrainian forces in their use?
It sounds like an incentive to make the Donetsk and Luhansk republics Russian territory as quickly as possible. The majority of the population is already Russian-speaking, and it only became part of Ukraine in 1922 (courtesy of Lenin, as Putin has pointed out).
The current Ukrainian government is very fond of removing “communist” names, like taking the “Red” from “Red Lyman”, but retaining territory given by a Communist Party: like Crimea (courtesy of Khrushchev) and the territory in the far west given to them by Stalin. Though it looks like the latter might be about to return to Poland.