- “‘We walked off £10,000 Saga cruise over compulsory facemasks and daily Covid tests’” – Had the reader known the true extent of the ship’s Covid policy he would have cancelled, says the Telegraph.
- “Petition: Open a Public Inquiry into COVID-19 Vaccine Safety” – Sign the petition on the Parliament website, which notes there has been a significant increase in heart attacks and related health issues since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines began and calls for proper investigation of this.
- “Trader working from home wiped out €300bn in stocks after adding extra zero” – Citigroup faces $50m hit after flash-crash caused by London-based trader, reports the Telegraph.
- “Death rates are soaring again in highly vaccinated European countries” – All-cause mortality is spiking in Europe and Alex Berenson spies suspicious correlations with booster rollouts.
- “Joe Biden is exaggerating the security stakes of Ukraine” – Neither democracy or America’s material interest are on the line, argues Ben Friedman in UnHerd.
- “We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist” – The Guardian reports that Katharine Hayhoe, Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech, says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation.
- “No Trends in Hot Days In May, Despite Met Office Misinformation” – There have been no days of 25°C or more, either this May or May last year, and there is no upward trend in May ‘summer days’, writes Paul Homewood on Watts Up With That?
- “When will companies end their embarrassing Pride hypocrisy?” – June is Pride Month, the annual exercise in rainbow-washing, and if you listen very carefully you may even hear gay rights mentioned, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator.
- “The myth of racist Britain” – The vast majority of Brits are tolerant and welcoming, says Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “EU wants to radically change itself to reduce emissions 55% by 2030. Extra cost upwards of €10,000 per EU citizen (€5tr). It will reduce global temps by 0.004°C (0.007°F)” – Let’s not be surprised when the rest of the world doesn’t follow, says Bjorn Lomborg.
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More shameless hypocrisy from the Empire of Lies
US Obama regime 2011:
Pentagon: Cyber Attacks Are Acts of War
“The U.S. military may respond to attacks with conventional military force”
US Biden regime 2022:
NSA chief confirms U.S. is engaging in cyber warfare against Russia
“Gen. Paul Nakasone confirmed that the United States military has conducted a series of operations ‘across the full spectrum; offensive, defensive, and information operations.‘”
And you can guarantee that if they can catch the Russians in any substantial retaliations, the Washington regime will be howling like outraged toddlers about “aggression”, and insisting on all kinds of escalatory responses.
Rules for thee, none for me, is how the globalists work.
Empire of Lies update:
MoonOf Alabama does the legwork to catalogue just some of the lying nonsense the Empire has spewed out onto its people and the people of the rest of the world during the course of the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian civil war.
Rubio warns Putin’s ‘time is running out on this earth’
Mar 2 2022 – Washington Examiner
Putin is running out of options
Mar 3 2022 – New Statesman
Russian labs run out of equipment as sanctions begin to bite
Mar 7 2022 – Science Business
Putin’s depleted army is running out of time
Mar 23 2022 – Spectator
Russia running out of precision munitions in Ukraine war- Pentagon official
Mar 25 2022 – Reuters
Pentagon claim: Russia is running out of ammunition.
Mar 25 2022 – Sach Khabrain
Is the Russian Military Running Out of Soldiers?
Mar 28 2022 – Russia Matters
Russia May Be Running Out of Missiles
Mar 29 2022 – Newsmax
Russia Running Out Of Kh-55 Cruise Missiles Which Iran, China Have
Apr 3 2022 – IranIntl
Putin running out of missiles, jets and tanks because they’re made in Ukraine
Apr 4 2022 – Mirror
Russian billionaires are running out of havens to stash their fortunes
Apr 8 2022 – Sydney Morning Herald
The Russian army is running out of options
Apr 9 2022 – Spectator
Is Russia Running Out of Money?
Apr 26 2022 – Trustnodes
SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV
May 5 2022 – Sun
‘Struggling’ Vladimir Putin is running out of missiles, UK says
May 6 2022 – News.au
Putin under intense pressure and could be running out of missiles, says UK army chief
May 6 2022 – Mirror
EMBARRASSING: Russia Now Running Out of Missiles to Make War With
May 6 2022 – USSANews
Putin could be running out of missiles and is waging a ‘logistics war’ to keep his forces supplied – and his generals now blame one another for the ‘disaster’ invasion amid fears of being purged
May 6 2022 – Daily Mail
Russia running out of weapons, can be defeated by Ukraine – UK Secretary
May 9 2022 – Daily Trust
Putin ‘running out of bombs’ and resorting to ‘indiscriminate’ civilian attacks, says UK
May 9 2022 – Daily Star
Russia is running out of precision-guided munitions and may struggle to replenish their stocks, says UK Defense Ministry
May 9 2022 – New Voice Of Ukraine
Putin is Running Out of Ideas on What to do Next
May 10 2022 – Bloomberg
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is running out of steam, again
May 16 2022 – Economist
Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages
May 16 2022 – Jerusalem Post
‘Russia is running out of manpower’ and Putin may have to shrink his war aims more: national security analyst
May 16 2022 – Raw Story
Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles?
May 17 2022 – Moscow Times
Vladimir Putin is running out of options to avoid defeat in Ukraine
May 17 2022 – Atlantic Council
Putin is running out of soldiers and resorts to an “army of grandfathers” who retired 10 years ago
May 17 2022 – CvvNews
Crippled Russia running out of weapons as embarrassing war ending looms ‘Shockingly inept’
May 21 2022 – Express
Vladimir Putin’s ‘time is running out’ and his behaviour has changed, claims expert
May 21 2022 – Mirror
VLADIMIR PUTIN IS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS TO AVOID DEFEAT IN UKRAINE
May 22 2022 – Lucorg
Russia ‘running out of ideas’ in 3-month-old war. Can Ukraine win?
May 24 2022 – Global News
The Russian Army Is Running Out Of Tanks For The War In Ukraine. These 60-Year-Old T-62s Are Proof.
May 25 2022 – Forbes
Vladimir Putin’s forces are running out of tanks
May 27 2022 – Telegraph
Exact date Putin’s forces will run out of ammunition in Ukraine, according to expert
May 31 2022 – Mirror
Time is running out for Russia, German economy minister says
Jun 2 2022 – Reuters
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How Russia, And Putin, Are Weaponizing, Losing And Running Out Of … Everything
You’re up late mate.
I’m off to my scratcher.
Never been a long sleeper.
Unlike all those Manchurian Candidates?
Western media running out of ideas!
The Mirror? The newspaper that implied there had been 27 “vaccine” deaths? Must be true if they said it.
Does that Alastair Campbell still write for them? Or do all the msm have spin doctors these days?
Sporadically, I’d guess, in between his rehab bouts.
So, let me get this right…Putin is running out of options and time is running out, we must follow the white rabbit, there’s honey and jam for tea, we’re running out of tanks, paper clips and men’s boxers…
You forgot the baby formula.
Oh yes, forgot in my haste…baby formula. Is the ‘baby formula’ that we don’t have enough of to grow our babies, the only thing that can help babies to grow? Did they have baby formula in the 1800s? Or Roman times? Did babies not grow then? Why do we have to rely on pharma to grow babies? Sounds like a massive scam to me but then I’m just a bit sceptical…
Shock, Horror. Yet another lurid apocalyptic prediction to add to the numerous made over the last 40 years that have all failed.
Will the left ever predict anything correctly?
Duly cautious and moderate predictions don’t whip up fear and don’t enable useful emergency powers and measures….
As somebody who thinks the data shows there is a real problem (and with the downticks to prove it), I have to say that Katherine Hayhoe doesn’t come up with any solutions because there are none, except hand wringing.
If CO2 levels are the problem, there’s not one thing humanity can do to reduce the level of the gas in the atmosphere. That will take natural processes many hundreds of years at least. If emission educe that is merely slowing the rate at which extra CO2 goes into the atmosphere.
So, no solutions but a sort of glamour photo to get the message across.
One further point. This woman is a member of an organisation called Biologos, the outfit headed by Dr Frances Collins, formerly head of America’s NIH (and friend of Fauci). She says the folk at Biologos are “clever people.”
Actually, Collins set up BioLogos, and then quickly left to run the NIH. Having posted there for the best part of a decade from 2010, I concluded their expertise is restricted, and skewed by an ideological commitment to classical Neodarwinianism.
My own blog really began as a kind of Daily Skeptic in relation to BioLogos.
Ice core samples have proved beyond doubt that heat precedes CO2 with a considerable time lag, not the other way round.
When you have the likes of Climate Saint Al Gore (among others) buying an ocean front Montecito estate, you just know they’re taking the pi$$. You don’t need data!
https://www.ihatethemedia.com/researchers-lied-about-sea-levels-rising
Assuming Gore’s address is correct, you can find his house on Google maps.
It’s a few hundred feet up a hillside overlooking the sea.
I’m no fan of Gore but, we need to be honest.
Obama, on the other hand, has recently bought a $14m dollar estate on Martha’s Vineyard which is only 3m above sea level. That can also be found on google maps. He’s also built a multi million dollar Hawaiian villa which is on the beachfront.
Here’s the data.
If atmospheric CO2 is the problem then, using IPCC numbers alone, mankind’s contribution which is around 3% – 4% of total CO2 emissions, would take ~25,000 years to raise the temperature of the planet by 2C.
Furthermore, any temperature data between 1850 and 1900 is useless as the Stephenson Screen wasn’t invented until nearly 1870.
It’s not possible for it to have been in common use globally until at least the beginning of the 20th Century.
The average annual temperatures.
Stockholm 6.6c
Edinburgh 9.3c
London 11.3c
Barcelona 18.2c
Kingston Jamaica 27.3c
Bangkok 28.6c
All verdant and food productive. If the Earth can cope with temperature differences of 14c (and much wide, these are just examples), if it can cope with tides that rise and fall up to 40 feet twice a day, Why can’t it, and us, with our technological superiority cope with a 1mm on the seas and 1.5c warmer..?
All these aerosoles want to do it to tax us back to the stone age, for their almighty eugenics project.
nevermind world temperatures, here in London I’ve seen -9C in winter and 37C in Summer, ie 46C of variation but they expect me to believe that we won’t be unable to survive a slight increase in a meaningless average over the next 100 years?
Dangers not seen in Two years of Covid anti civilisation more like !!…
“The Guardian reports that Katharine Hayhoe, Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech, says the world is heading for dangers people have not seen in 10,000 years of civilisation.”
I think this little para is potentially accurate.
One of the most shameless of the current lies being pushed by the Empire of Lies is the claim that Russia is “blockading Ukrainian grain” and thereby “causing world hunger”.
The truth is that Russia has maintained open seaways for cargo ships since at least March, but the Ukraine has mined and closed its ports and waterways.
“The Russian Embassy noted that its naval vessels are ensuring the commercial ships’ freedom of movement through a safe humanitarian corridor that has been operating daily since March 25, but it accused Ukrainian authorities of preventing ships from leaving the ports.”
Al-Monitor April 13th 2022
Russia, Ukraine trade barbs over obstruction of wheat shipments to Egypt
But there has been a systematic policy of lying about this throughout the US sphere media and political establishments.
Every time you see some media mouthpiece, celebrity, politician or regime functionary come out with a reference to “Russia’s blockade”, or to “Russia holding grain exports hostage to getting sanctions on Russia lifted”, you know that person is, knowing or unknowing, part of the policy of systematic dishonesty of the Empire of Lies. Keep an eye on it, it’s been really quite informative for those who perhaps did not realise the sheer extent of the corrupt duplicity of our establishment and our elites.
Here’s Reuters’ latest contribution:
Russia Is Ready to Guarantee Safety of Vessels Carrying Grain From Ukraine – Interfax
“Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday that vessels carrying grain can leave Ukraine’s ports in the Black Sea via “humanitarian corridors” and Russia is ready to guarantee their safety, Interfax news agency said.”
Note that the story gives the false impression Russia has somehow changed its position on this, perhaps under pressure from the “good guys” in the US sphere, whose only concern is feeding the hungry.
Doesn’t really make any difference whether Russia have physically blockaded it or if the Ukraine have laid mines to try and forestall an attack on Odessa, we still don’t get the grain (or sunflower oil).
It’s all about the blame game, when you need to keep the bad guys demonised.
One of the blessings of the war is the non-exporting of sunflower oil, an industrial seed oil pushed by the food industry. Take a few minutes to see how it is produced and maybe you’ll go back to lard.
Dmitri Medvedev to al-Jazeera “This isn’t a forecast, but what’s already in play. The horsemen of the apocalypse are galloping ahead and we can only look towards God.”
https://twitter.com/SrbskyZ84/status/1532458988079661063
One of the West’s (deliberate) mistakes is to ignore the theological thinking in Russia’s position. It sees itself (and specifically Putin does) as the last defender of Orthodox Christianity against the spirit of antichrist in the west.
Unremitting propaganda, censorship, cancel culture, global dominationism, the pretence of democracy, increasing abortion (the reverse of Russia), denial of human biology, weaponisation of viruses, mockery of religion (except Islam)… it’s increasingly hard to disagree with that analysis.
One of the West’s (deliberate) mistakes is to ignore the theological thinking in Russia’s position. It sees itself (and specifically Putin does) as the last defender of Orthodox Christianity against the spirit of antichrist in the west.
Leo Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1901 due to his condemnation of its support for the the tyrannical Tsarist state in general, and especially the latter’s possession and use of armed forces (a criticism he of course extended to all other governments and supportive organised religions round the world).
Tolstoy largely based this stance on Christ’s own unambiguously anti-violence teachings (see eg the Sermon on the Mount) which comprised a direct challenge to power and hugely contributed toward his crucifixion by the religious and state authorities of the day.
The individuals who are most following in both Tolstoy and Jesus’ footsteps in Russia today are those opposing the invasion of Ukraine and facing persecution and punishment (up to 15 years imprisonment, or unofficially worse), not the generally pro-state and pro-war Russian Orthodox Church (though there are many courageous dissenters within it).
Unremitting propaganda, censorship, cancel culture, global dominationism, the pretence of democracy,
A very brief scan of the readily available evidence will show that all these phenomena are drastically worse in the Russian Federation under the Putin regime:
With its entirely state-controlled and propagandist media / suppression of any independent and dissenting voices;
A ‘cancel culture’ which can include silencing dissenters via anything from sacking through imprisonment on trumped up charges to in the worst cases state-sanctioned assassination (shooting or poisoning being the favoured methods);
The overt global domination being called for in the alliance between the two tyrannical regimes of Russia and China – this attempted control known as ‘The New Eurasian World Order’;
And the use of the word ‘democracy’ in the Russian constitution in any conventional multi-party liberal sense currently simply represents the same sort of black humour as the use of the term ‘German Democratic Republic’ in the Soviet era.
increasing abortion (the reverse of Russia),
I agree that there has been far too much of a breakdown in family values in the West, including the misuse of abortion for social rather than medical purposes.
denial of human biology,
The issue of transgender promotion and rights has been massively exaggerated and hardly anyone accepts the ‘no such thing as men and women’ extremist position.
It is mainly being used by malign political forces (including external ones) to try and whip up social conflict in the West.
weaponisation of viruses,
It was Russia’s ally China that used coronavirus to further its geopolitical aims by deliberately allowing it to spread round the world in early 2020 – at the same time as it locked down in Hubei province it allowed international flights to continue for several weeks.
Beyond that Russia itself fully followed the mainstream coronavirus narrative (lockdowns etc), indeed President Putin himself is one of the few major state leaders who still seems hugely concerned about it.
mockery of religion (except Islam)
Mockery is not the correct approach, but all organised religions, including Islam, should certainly be open to challenge and criticism (see also my points about the Russian Orthodox Church above).
it’s increasingly hard to disagree with that analysis.
Please see all the above;
I don’t disagree with much of your post, but it completely misses the point of the one you are responding to.
Russia ‘sees itself’, is the important point.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russians generally were ready for all things western. But it went sour very quickly as their country was ‘raped’ by internal and external actors. Then Yugoslavia fell to bits, and in particular Serbia was attacked by NATO. Increasingly Russia felt isolated and threatened.
Now it feels ‘important’ again and this not just some elites view. Over 50% of the world’s population live in countries that have nothing to do with sanctions etc. Significant countries are happy to fill the gap left by western nations and trade with Russia.
With all its many faults that you identify, it does stand for a seperate ‘civilisation’ that is increasingly non-western. Its not Chinese or Indian or Iranian ( MENA). But ‘it sees itself’ as having a powerful voice with these nations as well as many in central/south America and Africa.
Personally I have no wish to live in any of these ‘civilisations’ , my background and culture are at odds with many aspects of them. But unfortunately for me I am also increasingly feeling separated from my historic ‘civilisation’ in the west. Almost all of your comments about Russia are true to an increasing degree in the west, and I feel a decay all around.
Mainly that decay is in truth,integrity and the ‘scientific method’. We live in a sea of lies, perpetuated 365/24/7 by a corrupting media.
I have no emotional attachment to any of the other ‘civilisations’ but I can fully understand why they hate the one I live in.
Thank you for that interesting response, and like you I agree with some though not all of your points.
Russia ‘sees itself’, is the important point.
There are large issues revolving around the concept of national identity versus individual responsibility and universality involved here, but in any case in general I think we should simply put forward our own points of view regardless of what others think (in this case an alleged general Russian perception)
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russians generally were ready for all things western. But it went sour very quickly as their country was ‘raped’ by internal and external actors. Then Yugoslavia fell to bits, and in particular Serbia was attacked by NATO. Increasingly Russia felt isolated and threatened.
As implied before I don’t support military action of any kind (whilst recognising the huge amounts of heroism and good intent often involved).
Beyond that I do think it is valid to look at the ideological and political agendas involved in any conflict and where necessary take a side. And in this case I agree that NATO launched an attack against the more progressive party, the at least more liberal democratically inclined Serbia versus an inherently illiberal extreme Islamist Kosovo.
At the same time I don’t think that it was reasonable for Russia to feel genuinely threatened by this localised military action, and the overwhelming amount of post-Soviet ‘rape’ was carried out internally by political and oligarchical parties dividing up the country’s economic spoils between them.
Now it feels ‘important’ again and this not just some elites view.
Pride and feelings of superiority are not morally positive sentiments.
Over 50% of the world’s population live in countries that have nothing to do with sanctions etc. Significant countries are happy to fill the gap left by western nations and trade with Russia.
Well first of all no-one can know the opinions of the individuals living in the countries whose leadership voted in the UN to either back or not condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Beyond that the 50% figure (like so many statistics) is somewhat distorting in terms of world support, here is another way of (literally!) looking at the matter:
https://www.axios.com/2022/03/02/united-nations-ukraine-russia-141
With all its many faults that you identify, it does stand for a seperate ‘civilisation’ that is increasingly non-western. Its not Chinese or Indian or Iranian ( MENA). But ‘it sees itself’ as having a powerful voice with these nations as well as many in central/south America and Africa.
I believe that we are meant to live on this planet as one with no artificially created and inherently conflict prone political divisions – whether ‘civilisations’, empires or nation-states.
Incidentally, and in case there is any misunderstanding, this is the opposite of a ‘world government’ position. I believe in the complete abandonment of ultimately violence based power, hence governments should be transformed into peaceable and cooperative administrations – like every other non-criminal human structure such as local government, businesses, clubs, educational facilities and families.
Personally I have no wish to live in any of these ‘civilisations’ , my background and culture are at odds with many aspects of them. But unfortunately for me I am also increasingly feeling separated from my historic ‘civilisation’ in the west. Almost all of your comments about Russia are true to an increasing degree in the west, and I feel a decay all around.
I agree that there has been a sharp decline in many values and practices in the West recently, but multi-party liberal democracy, free speech etc, at least provides a non-violent way forward (and in general towards the ultimately disarmed and peaceable world I advocated above), totalitarianism of the Russian and Chinese kind a permanently oppressive and violent dead end.
Mainly that decay is in truth, integrity and the ‘scientific method’.
Regarding the last point I agree there has been a widespread replacement of genuine empirical science by pseudo-sciences such as racism, ecology, psychology, ‘Climate Change’ theorising, coronavirus and general public health modelling, marxism etc, all of which can be ultimately traced to the materialistic, ‘survival of the fittest’ output of Charles Darwin in the mid 19th century
We live in a sea of lies, perpetuated 365/24/7 by a corrupting media.
I disagree that much of the output in western media is deliberately untruthful (in fact far more outright lies occur in the sort of anti-western and anti-democratic propagandist material which uses terms like ‘mainstream media’ as a form of abuse etc).
Beyond that there are a myriad of alternative opinion and fact based sources and platforms that anyone in the West can scrutinise if they wish to try and find out the truth on any matter, express their own points of view etc;
Unlike in near completely state controlled and media / knowledge suppressed Russia and China
I have no emotional attachment to any of the other ‘civilisations’ but I can fully understand why they hate the one I live in.
Hatred, like pride, is one of the most destructive of human sentiments (and especially when as here it is of a group / sectarian nature).
A childishly, ideological communist then.
Honestly, a more asinine passage of drivel I think I have yet to read on DS. I can’t be bothered refuting drivel like this.
Utterly evidence free personal opinions regurgitated by a pompous ass.
A childishly, ideological communist then.
No, communism / Marxism is the atheistic, materialistic and pseudo-scientific claim that throughout history humanity has been divided up into sub-species like oppressing and oppressed economic ‘classes’ (eg nobility and peasantry in the medieval period).
Under the theory this allegedly unfair and exploitative relationship leads to inevitable constant conflict, with the oppressed ‘class’ destined to win out over time.
The culmination of this historical process is claimed to be the worldwide violent revolutionary overthrow of the ‘bourgeoisie’ by the ‘proletariat’ followed by the establishment of a universal communist government.
This millenarian event will usher in a permanent utopia of absolute material equality (in the sense of ‘to each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities’).
Karl Marx’s hatred and violence based theorising bears far more of a resemblance to the nightmarish and apocalyptic Biblical Book of Revelations (within which the peace-loving Jesus turns into a monster trampling ‘God’s enemies’ till the blood flows like wine) than any sort of fact-based history or ethical and constructive political agenda.
And indeed communism / marxism has brought nothing but misery, mass deaths and oppression in its wake, as the history of both the USSR and China (including into the present day, in spite of some degree of purely economic relaxation) quite clearly shows.
Like the Jehovah’s Witnesses embarrassingly frequent apocalypse prophecy failures, it became apparent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, plus the even more awkward disappearance of anything like a significant ‘proletariat’ (industrial workforce) as large parts of the world de-industrialised (partly under the auspices of environmentalism, itself heavily related to communism, see eg Pol Pot’s ‘clearance of the cities’ in Cambodia) that Karl Marx might have got a couple of small details wrong in his ‘scientific’ historical blueprint.
No problem, when you strip away all the pseudo-scientific complexities and labelling details from marxism / communism, what you are left with is an anti-democratic, absolute power-seeking political agenda based on ‘them and us’ sectarian envies and hatreds.
Contemporary versions of marxo-communist style anti-democratic agendas have simply invented a new array of (again completely manufactured) oppressed and oppressor classes to whip up hatred and conflict, such ‘the ordinary person’ versus ‘the global elites’ / ‘deep state’ / ‘international bankers and financiers’ etc (with anti-Semitism usually lurking somewhere in the background, just as it even more obviously does with marxism’s close relative Nazism / fascism).
So I am afraid that the spirituality-based claim that you quoted – ‘I believe that we are meant to live on this planet as one with no artificially created and inherently conflict prone political divisions – whether ‘civilisations’, empires or nation-states.’ – is the near inversion of the atheistic, tyrannical and violence-based communist agenda which you claimed that it represented.
“But unfortunately for me I am also increasingly feeling separated from my historic ‘civilisation’ in the west. Almost all of your comments about Russia are true to an increasing degree in the west, and I feel a decay all around.
Mainly that decay is in truth,integrity and the ‘scientific method’. We live in a sea of lies, perpetuated 365/24/7 by a corrupting media.
I have no emotional attachment to any of the other ‘civilisations’ but I can fully understand why they hate the one I live in.”
Our civilisation, in the sense the Russians recognise their own existence, has been under systematic attack by ideologues who have dominated the cultural, social, political, academic, business and institutional high ground for decades. We are just seeing the results becoming ever clearer.
In large part, the attack on Russia is the attempt to forcibly incorporate that civilisation into the same ideology that has been destroying ours. To that extent, their struggle is ours, even though each of us are fighting for our own cultural survival.
That said there is no need for active alliance – the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend (more relevant in the case of China imo than Russia). What is needed is to not let the likes of sontol delude us into supporting actively attacking the enemies of our enemies, and thereby not only enabling and strengthening the latter further, but diverting us from the desperate need to fight them here.
A thought provoking reply…..the West is subverting ‘ideals’ here and abroad but not in a positive way. The fight against such ideologues (Johnson, eg, as a starter) is very much on the Home Front, as you say.
I’m not sure where you get all this from but I can tell from a friend of mine who has lived in Russia since the wall came down, it doesn’t come close to describing Russia.
Various commentators on here scream about Putin being a despot, however his approval rating in Russia of 83% rather contradicts that. I can’t think of a western leader ever enjoying that level of support. Biden is currently about 30% in the US.
Russians have been free to leave and return to Russia unrestricted since the fall of the USSR and visitors have unrestricted access to the country.
If we’re talking rigged elections in Russia, to my knowledge there has never been any real accusations of that from within however, we might want to look at America where it’s now been proven beyond all doubt that there was industrial vote rigging taking place for the 2020 election of Biden.
Nor does the UK get a pass with this. Richard Tice pointed out on Talk Radio that the Winner of the Tower Hamlets election had no website and virtually no social media activity. Plenty of access to mail in voting though.
The Russian people despise the west these days for all the reasons persistently bleated about on the DS; the surrender of our democracies and freedoms to globalist’s and woke ideology.
Russians have lived under true despots, Stalin etc., and cannot fathom why the west would do this. Putin, on the other hand, has been careful to ensure the state and commercial interests are kept at arms length. He doesn’t want to the country reduced to a ‘Corporate’ nation. Russia hasn’t been free from corruption but this is a democracy only some 30 years old.
How old is British democracy? And look what a miserable state it’s in.
The UK middle class have a total Tax burden approaching 50%. Russia has a flat rate income tax rate of 14%, and a free health service.
To suggest Russia isn’t westernised is just nonsense. My friend has a luxury, three bedroom apartment in Ufa, the centre for jet engine manufacture for civil and military aircraft. It overlooks both the Hilton and Holiday Inn hotels.
Energy is important to Russia for obvious reasons, much like Saudi Arabia it sells a lot of gas and oil. Internally, however, it’s hydro electric energy is about the 5th highest in the world.
Sensible, as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t bother much with wind and solar unlike the west which has gone NetZero mad and consequently seen energy prices skyrocket over the past year. Which has very little to do with the conflict in Ukraine as they were already heading north when Biden stopped oil exploration, and targeted fracking for closure in the US because of said NetZero policies. We know the climate scam is part of ‘Corporate’ America, Putin isn’t that stupid.
As far as freedom of the press goes, my friend is a journalist in the oil and gas sector. If there was one area that would be carefully controlled it would be information on energy yet, my friend endures no limitations on his reporting to the wider world of Russia’s activities.
Russians themselves are largely free of the burdensome, petty regulations that blight the west. For example, if you want to build a house the only government instruction is that it must have services (waster, gas/electricity and sanitation), other than that you build what you want, where you want.
Russia on the whole doesn’t tolerate street demonstrations, but it doesn’t discriminate, if you’re going to contaminate the streets with hordes of objectionable people (be they BLM, XR or the local mothers knitting circle) expect to be moved on as they are perceived to be the root cause of street violence.
That doesn’t make the country undemocratic, as the UK and America have found to their cost over the last few years especially.
The countries refusing to condemn Russia’s intervention in Ukraine include China, India (the worlds largest democracy) Africa and Latin America. Well over half the worlds population.
Why do we imagine the US/UK and EU are so right?
You haven’t produced any evidence for this despite me requesting it from you previously.
And yet since 1989 Russians have been free to leave and return to the country, and visitors are similarly free to come and go. But information wouldn’t emerge from the country?
Talk sense man.
If this is a problem it’s been acknowledged in a speech last week by Henry Kissinger that it’s the west which has forced this relationship to develop by victimising Russia for decades.
Since 1991 there have been 30,000 Orthodox Russian Christian Churches built. Putin has been part of that.
Hardly the actions of either a despot or someone ridiculing his religion.
Your post is little more than expression of your personal prejudice.
You haven’t produced any evidence for this despite me requesting it from you previously.
No problem, MOSCOW, March 4 (Reuters) – Russia’s parliament on Friday passed a law imposing a jail term of up to 15 years for spreading intentionally “fake” news about the military, stepping up the information war over the conflict in Ukraine.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-introduce-jail-terms-spreading-fake-information-about-army-2022-03-04/
In this context ‘fake information’ includes anything that challenges the Kremlin narrative, including all its own (genuinely) fake excuses for the invasion, that it is not going as well as the propaganda suggest etc etc
The ‘unofficially worse’ statement was an acknowledgement that a lot of persecution in Russia, up to and including assassination, is carried out by shadowy but state endorsed groups and figures.
And yet since 1989 Russians have been free to leave and return to the country, and visitors are similarly free to come and go.
That applied to Nazi Germany during the 1930s as well (unless, of course you were a German who had either already been murdered or placed in a concentration cam).
So I am not sure what point you are making.
But information wouldn’t emerge from the country?
Information does emerge from the country (including via voluntary and involuntary exiles), which is why the brutal and oppressive nature of the Putin regime is so widely known.
I was talking about of a lack of independent media and other knowledge sources within the country (and where they do exist on eg the internet a fear of making any pubic use of them)
If this is a problem it’s been acknowledged in a speech last week by Henry Kissinger that it’s the west which has forced this relationship to develop by victimising Russia for decades.
Russia has not not been ‘victimised’ for decades, and made the decision to ally with another of the world’s most oppressive regimes without any external pressures to do so.
Since 1991 there have been 30,000 Orthodox Russian Christian Churches built. Putin has been part of that.
Hardly the actions of either a despot or someone ridiculing his religion.
Mockery of religion (minus Islam) was one of the claims that Jon Garvey made about western decline vis a vis Russia, not something I was ascribing to President Putin.
In any case building a million Russian Orthodox churches (beautiful as they usually are) would not in any way compensate for falsely associating a man who willingly went to his brutal death challenging the religious and state violence of his day with contemporary Russian religiously-backed state violence.
Perhaps their five presidents should consider change to ensure that people in member states will have more than acorns and dung (and those fungi that can be mistaken for a poisonous sort) to eat? These people need to get real. The days of strong growth every year to pay for political follies are over.
Tell you what, those acorns don’t half taste crap………
Petition: Open a Public Inquiry into COVID-19 Vaccine Safety
“There’s something funny going on, says Noddy”
“Ho, ho, ho! Is that a joke, little Noddy?” says Big Ears. Noddy blushes, because the wise brownie is usually right, as he reads a newspaper.
‘We walked off £10,000 Saga cruise over compulsory facemasks and daily Covid tests’
“More money than sense” says Noddy.
Noddy wanted to comment on all the articles in today’s news round-up, I told him to go back to sleep!
Surely, no-one is supposed to be able to question the inability to wear a muzzle? Isn’t this the same on a ship? Or is the wearing of one a condition of booking? I hope their business suffers – but, of course, it won’t.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/katie-investigates/compulsory-facemasks-daily-covid-tests-walked-10k-saga-cruise/
IIRC, Saga was one of the first travel companies, alongside Qantas, to practice medical apartheid and make it a condition of booking that passengers must be ‘fully vaccinated’ against the hyped-up lurgy.
To be fair, I had enjoyed several holidays with Saga prior to this stance as they provided a good service. However, I am now no longer a valued customer as I do not meet their booking conditions!
Consequently, I have revised my own conditions of booking and terms of service with Saga and other companies taking a similar approach with abhorrent conditional service. Saga, in addition to providing holidays / travel services, also offer financial services such as insurance – travel, medical, home and car insurance. All my insurance policies were cancelled with Saga – and I got a better deal elsewhere, even on renewal.
Realistically, Saga will not ‘go under’ as a result of the loss of my custom but hopefully, similar actions by many other customers will impact on their company finances. I will not reward and engage with, or enable companies, who dictate my medical/ health requirements. No way!
Saga, of course, is now just another branch of a generic Asset Magement Group, in this case Aurelius. “Good deals for old people” is merely the brand image that enables them to chase the bucks in the usual way, for a particular demographic that remembers when it meant something.
It’s entirely appropriate that a Climate Scientist has a degree in … Political Science.
Lomborg has never claimed to be a climate scientist. He deals with the economies of climate madness.
Or did you mean Heyho?
Much of the World seems to be suffering from a terrible pandemic of hubris, arrogance and propaganda. With the climate change articles I find myself asking some fundamental questions to which it seems surprisingly hard to find a straight answer and so I thought I would try a few of them here:
People accept it because (1) they don’t fully know what is planned and what it means, (2) it doesn’t really affect many yet, and (3) the majority think that it will never affect them anyway.
I swear that most people think it’s just a bit more recycling, using a canvas bag, and maybe getting an electric car at some point. But not something they really need to indulge in, because the kind government will work it all out so we can just carry on…..
It’s a complete desert over here in East Devon… not. And there were abundant pelicans over on the Somerset levels in Roman times, so it can’t have been that much cooler.
As for sea level rise, somebody replied in another post that it’s a complex issue. However, the Maldives are a good test case, being only 1 meter above the waves for the most part and not part of a rising tectonic landmass. They were predicted in the 1980s to have disappeared by 2010. But not only has their land area actually increased, and there are several new airports under construction, but beach-side hotels, with those attractive walkways out on the sea, that were built before the predictions, are still open for business.
But even Beer beach in Devon is much the same as when we photographed in on holiday in 1957, so the water is being miraculously sucked away from at least two disparate parts of the globe.
So we have to conclude that the sea level is threatening to rise catastrophically soon after some modelled tipping point, just as CO2 greening is going to change to desertification any time now, and just as all the thousands of unnamed species already disappearing in far away places will make their absence felt just a few years hence.
Do read ”Fake Invisible Catastrophes And Threats Of Doom” by Patrick Moore. He discusses all these points you raise.
You’re quite right to ask these questions, Steve, and you’re unlikely to get any straight answers anywhere. All I can say is that your own experience and observations are what count – they’re all you can actually go on really. So, if everything seems normal weather-wise, it’s probably normal. Likewise sea levels.
I don’t know where all the global warming/climate change hysteria came from. In the 1970s I remember people were talking about us entering a mini-Ice Age. Then it was global warming and all the shock tactics saying how the Arctic sea ice was almost gone, the massive ice calving in the Antarctic and the Greenland ice sheet melting and causing the Gulf Stream to stop. As Jon says below, the Maldives are still here and they’re in the latitude that I think would be most affected by a rise in sea levels.
I guess, for myself, I would watch at WHAT is being forced upon us and then ask WHY. Electric vehicles? I don’t think they are the answer at all. Just means more degradation of the environment. You still have to actually make the car bodies and all the stuff that goes in them plus the battery requiring finite mineral resources. What is going to power the engines in the factories and the extraction and transport of resources? My own feelings are that the climate agenda is another way to limit human activity, especially travelling, and to exert another notch of control. Who knows what the carbon tax will involve? Just another way to extract money from people and saying it’s all about saving the planet. Is it? I doubt it. The people who like to govern and control us don’t give two hoots for the planet or us. Anything they do on a large scale, such as the climate change agenda, is unlikely to be for the betterment of human beings. It is underlined by dubious science and heralded by so called experts. there are many other experts who say this is not the case. Greta Thunberg was a gift for the climate movement. I supported her early on until I woke up to that nonsense too. Much of the agenda is an emotional thing i.e. we are the only ones who can save her. Make it a crusade – I mean it does have religious-fervour overtones already so why not? Now the nonsense of Net Zero like Zero Covid…there’s a theme here. To make emissions zero means pretty much the entire global economy grinding to a halt; to make Covid zero means shutting down all human contact, locking us down. Both of these would destroy society. Millions would be cast into poverty and homelessness and then..hey presto…The Great Reset comes along to save us. Now I may be barking in the moonlight with all of this and I would hope that I am but I don’t think so.
Totally agree.
It’s been shown that there is no correlation between CO2 in the atmosphere and fluctuations in temperature. As you say, greening is a bonus.
Re EU Climate drivel (bull$h1t).. shouldn’t that be “It will allegedly reduce global temps by 0.004°C (0.007°F)
A little research into the criminality in the lives of prominent Euro-prats Christine Lagarde and Ursula von der Leyen should scotch any credibility that EU den of thieves purports to have…
The sooner they are all behind bars the better. Until all these characters are brought to justice there will never be peace, or anything resembling it in this world.
Then it would have to be a kangaroo court that puts them there. Otherwise, who would arrest them, charge them, try them, sentence them? They obviously feel fireproof.
To the Saga cruiser – you would have had to pay me £10,000 to go on that cruise and I really doubt that would have been enough. Why on earth do people put up with such treatment – I’m glad you didn’t.
The last few years have been used as an excuse to remove every last shred of dignity from modern life. We are treated like animals and the supposed to be grateful when an iota of dignity is returned. This has all been done on purpose and it’s time everyone rose up and said ‘no more’!
I’ve signed the petition shown here. But look at THIS one and how suspiciously few signatures it’s garnered. I’ve been sharing it over the past couple of weeks with people who’d be interested, and the figure hasn’t moved.
”Require medical professionals to report suspected vaccine side effects/injuries”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/603305
I could be wrong but it’s highly unlikely they are going to get another 9,950 (declared) signatures before the 16th June.
I fear you’re right! I’ve noticed that it’s just increased by ONE! But we know these things mean nothing at all, and may just result in some junior servile serpent being allowed (at 10,000) to spout some sententious tripe in response.
The main problem (so I’ve read) is that the adverse event reporting is complicated, tedious and (the coup de grace) unpaid. Whereas, doling out the jabs is a terrific little earner.
One pays the mortgage, while the other doesn’t.
Which to choose…?
Good ol’ Grauniad. Their go-to ‘expert’ for climate woo is a Political Science ‘professor’.
Presumably, she self-identifies as a climatologist who is just ‘in the wrong body’.
I love the way they report on the latest academic’s fear-drenched renderings as if they are the words of God. Meanwhile it’s a bit windy, chance of a shower later.
People die three months after a booster jab? Europe is suffering from Long Vaxx.