- “China Covid lockdowns leave residents short of food and essential items” – People are appealing for help on social media as food and medicine supplies dwindle, according to BBC News.
- “Xinjiang lockdown: Chinese censors drown out posts about food and medicine shortages” – ‘Internet commentary personnel’ have been told to deluge social media with thoughts on anything from cooking to their personal mood, according to the Guardian.
- “Japan plans to reopen to independent travelers in major shift, report says” – Tourists, who will need to have been vaccinated three times or submit a negative test result under the new policy, may be able to enter without a visa, reports the Japan Times.
- “Rail industry insiders have explained why Royal Train will not be used to transport Queen – and when plan changed” – As far as planning for the immediate aftermath of the Queen’s death goes, there may be one decision that is always tinged with regret about what could have been, according to the Yorkshire Post – that a hangover from Covid restrictions meant the Royal Train was not used.
- “Novak Djokovic may get special waiver to appear at Australian Open” – The Telegraph reports that the Australian Government has indicated it may see some kind of sense next year (though a waiver suggests its discriminatory policy will continue).
- “Booster Nations” – Dr. Robert Malone on the never-ending onslaught of Covid booster shots.
- “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy” – President Biden issues an order on all things bio.
- “Bring back parliament and stop cancelling everything” – Public life cannot be put on hold, especially in a time of crisis, says Fraser Myers in Spiked.
- “Stop Vaccinating Children for Covid: It’s Neither Medically Justified Nor Ethical” – Ramesh Thakur writes for Brownstone that the persistence of the drive to vaccinate children is puzzling because the lockdown and vaccine narratives are falling apart.
- “Exposed: The ‘97% of scientists agree with manmade global warming’ lie” – David Craig in TCW Defending Freedom blows this particular canard out the water.
- “The great Net Zero lie” – Our leaders just want to take control, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
- “We’re going to have to ration our energy consumption this winter” – Liam Halligan in the Telegraph argues that Government measures won’t save us from eye-watering bills and serious cutbacks.
- “Drivers warned EV charging will be 98% more difficult in 2031 than it is today” – Paul Homewood reports that experts believe the number of electric cars will almost double in the near future, but the charging network will not be able to follow suit.
- “Would Putin take an ‘off ramp’ out of Ukraine?” – James Forsyth in the Spectator says the concern is how Vladimir Putin might escalate things, with the upset evident among hawks in Russia a reminder of the dangers for the regime in losing face in Ukraine.
- “If Florida can ban ‘ethical’ investing, then Britain should do the same” – Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph says that the fund industry has been hijacked by woke activists who are prioritising social activism over providing secure retirements. I’m sure the anti-woke Tories are about to do this any day now…
- “Carnegie Mellon professor says Queen responsible for genocide” – The Mail reports that a Carnegie Mellon professor who wished the Queen an “excruciatingly painful” death is continuing to lash out while calling the dead monarch a “representative of the cult of white womanhood” – which apparently doesn’t get you cancelled.
- “Police should leave anti-monarchist protesters alone” – Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator defends the right to protest.
- “Who’s afraid of firing Trevor Sinclair?” – Kelvin MacKenzie in the Spectator says it’s all about fear of the woke backlash from advertisers: “The Sun runs a mile from stories about the politics of race because they prefer full-page ads from Unilever.”
- “How Jordan Peterson became a punchbag of Hollywood know-nothings” – Olivia Wilde is completely ignorant about Peterson’s views, but she apparently loathes him anyway, writes Ian O’Doherty in Spiked.
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https://tass.com/politics/1789991
What’s really going on?
As anticipated, Russia, made overconfident by a ‘major’ assault comprising a reinforced company with two tanks and 21 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) in the direction of the Novyi Microraion in eastern Chasiv Yar on May 17, now intends to invade Poland.
Medvedev stated in a post on his Russian-language Telegram channel on May 17 that Russia’s “sanitary [buffer] zone” must at least extend over all central Ukraine and a significant part of western Ukraine.
Medvedev claimed that if Ukraine continues to strike Russian cities, then Russian forces will have to extend the sanitary zone further to Ukraine’s western border with Poland or within Poland itself.
‘If it goes on like this, the guaranteed sanitary zone will be somewhere at the border with Poland. Or even inside Poland,” the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council suggested.’
Tass
Hopefully Tusk gets wasted during this manoeuvre , anyway it will be Nato,s fault if this does happen !
That would be delightful Freddy.
It will certainly be NATO’s fault if it doesn’t!
I am no fan of the simpering Tusk but wishing for him to be ‘wasted’ is a particularly infelicitous aspiration right now……
Cashless Your Spending Monitored Forever – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, including your local Reform Party candidate, your local vicar, media and friends online.
https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=rus&cat=reports&id=302
What’s really going on?
Putin is engaging in a brutal and barbaric colonisation of Eastern Ukraine.
‘…there were few “outright separatists” in Donbas before 2014. “It’s worth remembering that in 1991, a vast majority of the Donbas population voted for the independence of Ukraine, and by 2014, in spite of all kinds of complaints about the Kyiv government, they thought of Donbas as part and parcel of independent Ukraine,”
‘…regional politicians — like Viktor Yanukovych, who served as the governor of the Donetsk region from 1997 to 2002 — had a history of using the “threat of autonomy and separatism” as leverage against the central government in Kyiv. When Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, Kuromiya said, Donbas effectively “took over” the country, “signaling in a sense that Donbas had finally been integrated into Ukraine.”
“I am certain that before Russia’s invasion, the vast majority of the Donbas population thought of their future in independent Ukraine, not in an annexed region of Russia.’
‘…in 1991, the majority of the population of the Donbas supported Ukrainian independence — 83.9 percent of Donetsk residents, and 83.6 percent of Luhansk residents voted for it.’
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s-1990s, (1998)
Well the Ukrainians would say that wouldn’t they.
Other Ukrainians refuse to be evacuated from the villages north of Kharkov because they would rather wait for the Russians to come, said a Ukrainian conscript tasked with expediting the evacuation. This could explain the rapid advance of the Russians in the area, occupying over 70sq km according to Lt. Gen K. Budanov.
I think your translation might be a bit wonky or is missing a bit. The people in Donbas actually expressed a wish to be an autonomous region (ie self-governing) within an independent Ukraine. However the “independent Ukraine” was in the process of a military intervention to prevent this when Russia stepped in on the side of the majority in Donbas.
And ever since the Ukrainian military has been wasting its shells and missiles targeting the naughty civilians in Donetsk city, aka punishment beatings.
“Boris Johnson … the “most consequential leader since Thatcher”, according to the Telegraph.”
He was a “leader” since Thatcher. That’s about all the truth contained in that statement.
Three consequences that Johnson is responsible for – Brexit, covid madness, climate madness. All massively consequential, surely.
Does it also get a share of their liability; moral or financial?
My thoughts exactly, if I were them I’d be distancing myself from the clot shots not claiming ownership,.. just in case (when) the avalanche of law suits hits the fan!
“Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving Europe’s carmakers to extinction”
Possibly should more accurately read;
”Idiotic Net Zero rules are driving extinction”
There, fixed it for them.
The term “nudge” should be dropped. It is the warm fuzzy term the manipulators use.
“psychological manipulation” as given in the sub-title is more accurate. At the risk of being verbose, include “unethical”.
“The agony of sex education”
Modern sex education is nothing more than a Satanic pretext for exposing children to porn.
“There’s nothing racist about Anglo-Saxons”
Excellent article by Nick Cohen, describing how the whole research field of Anglo-Saxon history decided to change its name because ONE Third World Ethnic complained.
Kneeling hasn’t gone out of fashion yet, it seems.