What is the latest on the body count for mRNA side effects? Can someone link to a summary?

Are there any good means of determining if a given symptom is caused by the virus (long term or latent side effect) or the mRNA injections? Can a patient’s DNA (or RNA?) be sequenced to gather this information?

Neocons and global imperial policy are a lot more worthy of discussion that various regional conflicts between the empire and the 4/5th of the world that refuses to toe the imperial line.

What is the latest on the body count for mRNA side effects?

That psy-op is over, we are in the middle of the next one.

Can a patient’s DNA (or RNA?) be sequenced to gather this information?

Possibly, but who is going to fund it? The same cabal that made lots of money on the “mRNA vaccines” (which are neither mRNA nor vaccines)? Or the government wholly owned by the same cabal?

If any such study can be attempted, it can only be outside of the imperial patch.

Open Thread Humor

PEACE 😇

Real chads don’t care – the more open gays out there, the more women available to choose from and lesbians aren’t lesbians anymore when they meet you;)

In this context gay doesn’t refer to homos.

My reply to John Johnson from the last thread about the Brendan Simms book Hitler: Only The World Was Enough

He didn’t rail against the Soviets in his Munich speeches because he made a secret deal with Stalin to split Poland and the Baltics.

The speeches I was referring to were way back in 1923 approximately. As I said I’m only a few chapters into the book so I don’t know yet how Simms addresses Hitler’s views in the late 1930s.

Neocons do not understand modern physics.

ਨਮੋ ਅਸਤ੍ਰ ਮਾਣੇ ॥
Salute to the one who Enjoys Projectiles !

– Guru Gobind Singh Ji, Jaap Sahib, verse 52

ਚੱਕ੍ਰ ਬੱਕ੍ਰ ਫਿਰੈ ਚਤੁਰ ਚਕ ਮਾਨਹੀ ਪੁਰਿ ਤੀਨ ॥
With a bent chakar you roam the four directions,
All the three worlds submit to You

Guru Gobind Singh
Jaap Sahib, verse 82

ਪੋਸਤ ਭੰਗ ਅਫੀਮ ਸ਼ਰਾਬੈਂ । ਝਟਕ ਬੱਕਰੇ ਛਕੈਂ ਕਬਾਬੈ । ਖੇਲਹਿ ਨਿੱਤ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਅਪਾਰੇ । ਮਾਰਹਿਂ ਬਾਘ ਮ੍ਰਿਗ ਝੰਖਾਰੇ ।੧੧੫।⁣
[Consuming] poppy plants, cannabis, opium, and alcohol, they would decapitate [jhatka] goats, and eat kebabs. Everyday they would hunt endlessly, killing leopards, deer and elk. ⁣
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ਬੀਸ ਪਚਾਸ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਿਲ ਜਾਵੈਂ । ਇਤ ਉਤ ਤੈ ਗ੍ਰਾਮਨ ਲੁਟ ਲ੍ਯਾਵੈਂ । ਦੂਰ ਦੇਸ ਤੁਰਕਨ ਕੇ ਮਾਂਹੀ । ਮਾਰਹਿਂ ਧਾਰੇ ਸੰਕਹਿਂ ਨਾਹੀ ।੧੧੬|
When twenty to fifty Singhs would meet together, they would roam around looting various towns. They would go great distances, into the heartland of the Turks, raiding them fearlessly.

Navin Panth Prakash [1880], author: Giani Gian Singh ⁣
Poorabardh Bisram 62, Volume 3, Page 1594

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFfE4bMATW/

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Will Putin have a Jew or a Muslim in charge of Bakhmut?

A Jew and a Muslim walk into a Bakhmut bar……

Bartender says……. Anglin and Pepe will definitely not report on this.

You are doing propaganda for stupid people. What’s the point of that?

After it was explained to you that Kiev put Nato in its Constitution in 2019 and that Nato since 2008 every year formally announced that Ukraine will join Nato, you still babble irrelevant nonsense.

Zelko U-turned on a dime after his election – was told what to do. The French-Germans are vassals they do as the boss says – always and everywhere. Any ‘conflict’ restrictions by Nato would be papered over. Nato was moving into Ukraine. You know that, you just lie because that truth messes up your narrative.

Since you stupidly argue nuke missiles flight-time doesn’t matter, then Russia can put missiles in Cuba. Is that what you are claiming? You write for morons, or you are one yourself. (Hurrah for Mr. Hacks)

It is impossible to take your stuff seriously. It is too transparently one-sided. Yes, at the end the odds are that MAD would work. But the neo-cons seem to be as stupid as you are thinking that magic will intervene. So they push on around the world attacking country after country (you want talk about ‘aggression’, how about that?), failing each time, but since the West is now composed of brainwashed scared conformists there are no consequences for them. That is the real failure in the West that may cost all of us dearly.

Indeed. Even people who were born in the Soviet Union and hence had stupidity training from an early age – even they aren’t prepared.

Anybody has seen Pope and Prigozhin in the same room?;)

The Ukrainian equivalent of the Wagner convicts are the Russian speaking Ukrainians. I can assure you that many of the Ukrainian refugee families in Europe are from the ethnic Russian minority and fled because their teenage sons were going to to used as cannon fodder.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/282929961324

The Church Militantstein.

Scarpering away to avoid being murdered by your (((fellow Ukies))) to hold a trench in Donbas is a good evolutionary strategy. Right now Zelenskyy is doing a tour of Europe pressuring the governments to hand him back his Christian cannon fodder.

The full WEC replay is available:
6 Hours of Spa

I’m backing Corvette in the GTE category. While there are 2 Cadillacs in HyperCar, it does not seem like the track suits their package.

PEACE 😇

After it was explained to you that Kiev put Nato in its Constitution in 2019 and that Nato since 2008 every year formally announced that Ukraine will join Nato, you still babble irrelevant nonsense.

Ok why don’t you source those formal announcements then? Let’s see those announcements from 2018 and 2019. Or everyone will see that you are making stuff up in a sad attempt at defending the dictator.

NATO is not a hierarchy and joining requires the vote of every member. America has the same number of votes as Luxemburg.

Germany and France did not want Ukraine to join before the war:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/nato-allies-policy-russia-ukraine-analysis

You’re not providing any sources for any of your statements. I have provided numerous sources showing that Ukraine did not have the votes and was not in the process of applying.

Since you stupidly argue nuke missiles flight-time doesn’t matter, then Russia can put missiles in Cuba. Is that what you are claiming?

It doesn’t matter in a first strike when both sides have ICBMs in submarines and you still didn’t answer these questions:

How does moving missiles from Germany to Ukraine change the outcome of total destruction in a first strike attack?

Why aren’t there nuclear missiles in Poland if first-strike flight time matters?

Russia doesn’t need nuclear silos in Cuba. The Cuban missile crisis was in 1962. In a first strike attack they could position their submarines on both sides of the country. You don’t seem up to date on existing technologies and mistakenly trusted an ex-KGB rat and known liar to provide an ever-changing explanation for a war of greed and expansion.

Putin’s own allies mysteriously fall down stairs and out of windows:
https://www.newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022

But here you are trusting his word on nuclear silos and submarines. Next time try fact checking him instead of turning off your mind in favor of an emotional tribal attachment to him.

While Chinese factories have installed 6,000 private 5G broadband networks to support AI applications in manufacturing, only a handful of large US manufacturers have done or are planning to do so. […] A key obstacle to 5G adoption in the United States is a cumbersome regulatory framework that makes it hard for private networks to gain access to wireless spectrum. “Spectrum supply is also a serious problem and part of why we haven’t seen more commitment to onshore, non-consumer 5G,” a US official told Asia Times […] Because of these obstacles, one US official said, “It might well be more than five years before any spectrum designated for commercialization is brought to market, and probably another year before there’s significant service available.”

https://asiatimes.com/2023/05/fourth-industrial-revolution-slow-to-start-in-america/

(from prior thread)

Israelis attend a rally in support of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul the judicial system,

 

Seeing a gathering without the SJW Muslim rainbow flag is a good sign.

IslamoGloboHomo is losing.
Judeo-Christian values are winning.

Rainbow flag is one of the symbols in many of the protests in Israel.

I agree… The SJW Muslim rainbow flag is on display in protests *against* Judaism and Judeo-Christian values. Dhimmis carry a flag that openly proclaims their submission to Muhammad.

Do you see any SJW Muslim flags in the pro-reform picture above? Where you have no Dhimmi and no Islamists you will find no Muslim rainbow flags. Could the correlation be any more obvious?

PEACE 😇

The role that technology plays in reducing humanity’s dependence on nature explains this paradox. Human technologies, from those that first enabled agriculture to replace hunting and gathering, to those that drive today’s globalized economy, have made humans less reliant upon the many ecosystems that once provided their only sustenance, even as those same ecosystems have often been left deeply damaged.

Despite frequent assertions starting in the 1970s of fundamental “limits to growth,” there is still remarkably little evidence that human population and economic expansion will outstrip the capacity to grow food or procure critical material resources in the foreseeable future.

To the degree to which there are fixed physical boundaries to human consumption, they are so theoretical as to be functionally irrelevant. The amount of solar radiation that hits the Earth, for instance, is ultimately finite but represents no meaningful constraint upon human endeavors. Human civilization can flourish for centuries and millennia on energy delivered from a closed uranium or thorium fuel cycle, or from hydrogen-deuterium fusion. With proper management, humans are at no risk of lacking sufficient agricultural land for food. Given plentiful land and unlimited energy, substitutes for other material inputs to human well-being can easily be found if those inputs become scarce or expensive.

http://www.ecomodernism.org/manifesto-english

I asked you before to google the Nato meetings from 2009 till 2022 and read for yourself that each year Nato reaffirmed that “Ukraine will join Nato“. Your inability or unwillingness to do something so simple speaks for itself – you prefer to lie to us and distract with Luxemburg…You also ignore the fact that Nato membership is in the Ukraine Constitution.

America has the same number of votes as Luxemburg.

Riiight. You couldn’t possibly be that stupid, so you are simply lying. As I said, you are a propagandist for stupid people….

It doesn’t matter in a first strike when both sides have ICBMs in submarines

If it doesn’t matter, are you ok with Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba? Answer the f..ing question and stop distracting. Multiple delivery methods give you more power. Poland is substantially further from Moscow or Urals than Ukraine…but as I said, you must know all of this, you just need to lie because admitting what was obvious to everyone that Nato was moving into Ukraine and would over time turn it into an anti-Russia military base doesn’t fit your propaganda.

How does moving missiles from Germany to Ukraine change the outcome of total destruction in a first strike attack?

First if all there are no nukes in Germany. But being closer to their targets (Moscow) allows for a better threat in a crisis. The idiot neo-cons may choose to gamble that a first fast strike on Russia (Moscow) will incapacitate Russia and they will not respond or respond feebly (only bye, bye Poland). We are dealing with irresponsible morons who have been marching on Russia in their feverish minds for decades – any normal country would account for that.

So Russia decided to block Nato from moving into Ukraine. They are succeeding. As in the Aesop fable about sour grapes you now pretend that “Nato never wanted to be in Ukraine”…it is a lie with sour grapes. You are a sorry case.

And the winner is . . .

Romania!

The huge risk in eco modernism is this phrase “With proper management, humans are at no risk“. Improper management defines the human condition. The are a host of planetary death scenarios due to human error, incompetence, or malice.
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Larry Niven took the idea to a logical endpoint: (1)

PIERSON’S PUPPETEERS
HEARTH, THE PUPPETEER HOMEWORLD

“our civilisation was dying in its own waste heat. Total conversion of energy had rid us of all waste products of civilisation, save that one. We had no choice but to move our world outward from its primary.”

“Was that not dangerous?”

“Very. There was much madness that year. For that reason it is famous in our history. But we had purchased a reactionless, inertialess drive from the Outsiders. You may have guessed their price. We are still paying in installments. We had moved two agricultural worlds; we had experimented with other, useless worlds of our system using the Outsider drive.

“In any case, we did it. We moved our world.

“In later millennia, our numbers reached a full trillion. The dearth of natural sunlight had made it necessary to light our streets during the day, producing more heat. Our sun was misbehaving.

“In short, we found that a sun was a liability rather than an asset. We moved our world to a tenth of a light year’s distance, keeping the primary only as an anchor. We needed the farming worlds and it would have been dangerous to let our world wander randomly through space. Otherwise we would not have needed a sun at all.”

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://larryniven.net/puppeteer/puptech.shtml

Improper management defines the human condition.

Correct.

That’s why:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-12-29/review-shrinking-the-technosphere-by-dmitry-orlov/

Anybody has seen Pope and Prigozhin in the same room?

The number of human facial types is large, but finite. So, this resemblance hardly proves anything. Finite number of facial types makes it possible for people with enough resources to have “doubles” and use them.

Sometimes I see faces eerily resembling the faces of other people I know. I am pretty sure that any observant person had this experience. So what?

I thought he looked familiar!

What Marvel comic featured those hats? Those are even worse than the Gauntlet.

The King is a mutant. The stones are on the back of the gauntlet. So, his right thumb is on the outside of his arm.

PEACE 😇

We smoked a few cigars for a long time, the incomparable flavor and perfume of which made the soul long for countries and unknown happiness, and, intoxicated with all these delights, I dared, in a fit of familiarity which did not seem to displease him, exclaim, seizing a cup full to the brim, “To your immortal health, old Goat!” »

We also talked of the universe, its creation and its future destruction; of the great idea of ​​the century, that is, of progress and perfectibility, and, in general, of all forms of human infatuation. On this subject, His Highness was full of light and irrefutable jokes, and expressed himself with a smoothness of diction and a tranquility in humor which I have not found in any of the most famous talkers of humanity. He explained to me the absurdity of the different philosophies which had hitherto taken possession of the human brain, and even condescended to confide in me some fundamental principles whose benefits and ownership it is not appropriate for me to share with anyone. . He in no way complained of the bad reputation he enjoyed in all parts of the world, assured me that he was, himself, the person most interested in the destruction of superstition, and confessed to me that only once had he been afraid, relative to his own power, when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his confreres, exclaim from the pulpit: Never forget, when you hear boasting of the progress of enlightenment, that the finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist! »

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Joueur_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9reux

I’ve never encountered any people more into dogs than the Czechs.

JJ, you need to improve your batting average.

If Russia is surrounded by bases directly on her border, including missile sites, it makes a difference to her security. That is one of the key points. Ukraine is a major test case for the West, if they can get bases there, it becomes more likely to get them in other countries.

When a military response has been set in motion (such as Russia, late 2021) no reasonable person expects the leadership to divulge information which puts their own troops at risk or reduces chances for a last minute peaceful settlement. Some of your points are valid, but this is silly, you need to find another argument.

I think NATO needs a new name to help people understand the situation better. I propose ARTO; “Are-toe” is the Anti-Russia Treaty Organization.

Old thread has become unstable for me, so I’ll make my reply here:

Was thinking something like that: Ireland might be becoming a bellwether for policy in Western Europe, due to its small scale and the enormous capital floating around. It is easy to ram through policy. Once it is done, it lowers energy barriers elsewhere.

@GR

You should consider trying Linux. Mint has a similar feel to classic Windows. It’s free (you are not handing money to some soulless transnational megacorp) less resource-intensive, and arguably more secure. All you need to try it is an old 4 gb USB stick to make a live-usb.

Mr. Hack recently mentioned something about Just for Men hair-dye, so I thought I would share these words of wisdom from a long-beard, in my local Chinatown:

There is a fabulous flower that blooms once every twenty years on Thousand-Snow Peak. Its petals can turn white hair black and bring the dead back to life.

Obvious photoshopped gauntlet and description by Herring for the lulz is obvious, but can’t say that about Oates reply, lol

IIRC she is relatively known writer, but if that reply is real, reacted no better than old grandma in the village to such visual&written pranks;)

She is 84 years old so jokes are going to be hard for her.

Did Ireland get a gay pajeet catholic first or Portugal?

Confirms my childhood instincts that the only place for a brown man in the west is as a faggot.

Remember when I realized it too – was in grade 1 so 5 or 6.
Thought the anthem sounded gay too.

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The dog used to be recognised as more Aryan in character, showing more solidarity and collectivist personality. Whereas the cat was understood to be Jewish and Oriental due to its individualism.

At least in Germany in the 1930s.

The reference to the original German article is in the Johann Chapoutot book ‘The Law of Blood’, sadly I don’t have access to it at present.

Several days ago did write about Prigozhin’s video antics in previous thread:

This is just another typical day at the field for any RF commander in the places where intensive fighting is happening, but Prigo is making a big fuss out of it for his own PR purposes acting as if it was something out of ordinary in this war.

For comparison, excerpt from today posting by Lugansk army member, who was working as comms specialist since 2014/15 there:

Of course, any brigade commander of the NM LPR/DPR, whose artillery has not received a comparable number of shells to Wagner’s for a long time, but receives miserable crumbs, any such brigade commander, whose people go to “meat assaults” without the necessary artillery support, take positions with great bloodshed, and then roll back from them, because the Ukrainian artillery pounds the grounds there with impunity, any brigade commander who dared pulled out a bunch of his dead from Maryinka, Avdeevka or Belogorovka under the TV cameras and demanded “give us shells or we’re leaving” would be thrown instantly “to the basement jail”.

https://t.me/wehearfromyanina/1859

Highly likely a very misleading stat. Romania has a clear, noticeable problem with stray dogs – even more so than for us Russians. Maybe Romanians have improved (??) but this was certainly the situation 5 years before of plenty of stray dogs. Wouldn’t be surprised if they have developed an American style culture of using the car for everything like what would be 2 minute walk to get something, in response to the dog problem.

Stray dogs are practically unknown of in Western Europe.

Stray/feral cats are all over the Mediterranean countries from my experience.

I must assume that Polish faggots are counting their wives as dogs ( Anne Appelbaum) because there is no way Poles are bigger dog owners than Germans.

I prefer good attitude to dogs, that in “white” or “European” civilisation we have – although an Indian guy who was studying in Kazan I regularly talked to …moaned to me that he much prefers India where dog ownership is minimal because there the massive numbers of stray dogs just leave everyone alone, unlike the sociable “white man’s” dogs who sniff around strangers, that the Indian hated

America does not want escalation in case Russia does something “irrational”, which is prolly what it would be rational for them to do. Why else is the US denying Ukraine ATACMS and F-16’s. America easily could jam the Russian Global Positioning System alternative GLONASS and the Russian missiles would cease to work

According to the excellent analyst Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner, Russia is a frog being slowly boiled. Russia ought to have already taken drastic action to break out of the the prospect ofa Ukrainian army 100% armed with Western technology. . I don’t see the Kremlin being good sports and simply withdrawing once they realise they are screwed. Use of nuclear weapons need not be done in order to win, it might be purely vindictive– an act of vengeance for relegating Russia to a second rate power, Brigadier Vad suggested that is the way things are going.

Da Costa seems to have children. But guess he’d be the first. Not sure he grew up in the Church. His mother was a feminist. He holds actually holds Overseas Citizenship of India.

Varadkar is actually a gift of the UK’s NHS. That is how his parents met originally, in the UK, working for the health service. Maybe, that is how they caught the gay germ?

“the Omicron variant, which multiplies 70 times faster than the prior strains of the virus. ”

https://www.americaoutloud.com/early-treatment-suppression-and-nasal-hygiene-with-nathan-jones-dr-peter-mccullough/

Tell me a seventy times faster reproduction rate is NATURAL and not bio-engineered in a laboratory… lmao.

I got banned from GLP (again) for attempting to post this.

I would imagine the Indian stray dogs are eaters of stray children.

Dogs easily regress back to their primeval mindset when feral.

Better to go buy a nice shiny fast 16GB USB3 thumb drive from Wallyworld. formatting , copying the ISO to, and install from, all works better with USB3, USB2 can be slow to work with.

USB3 use blue sockets on the PC. red is 3.1 and upwards.

A majority of the Romanians who claim to own a dog or cat (another category at which Romanians lead in Europe) are confusing “the do you house, walk and vaccinate” with “the stray that my wife feeds”.

There are more strays than at any time in the last 10 years. This week a stray pack got a motorcyclist off his bike. Two months ago, a stray-friendly woman was killed in Bucharest by strays in the same area where she got attacked one year prior.

It goes hand in hand with one third of the street light being now turned off and half of Bucharest lacking heat and hot water due to city inability to provide them through the municipal network.

Tell me a seventy times faster reproduction rate is NATURAL and not bio-engineered in a laboratory… lmao.

…..Sorry, I can’t tell you that , that would be lying.

Not sure what the point of keeping up with these open threads. There seems to be at least one paid shill that treats posting here as his full time job.

Tell me a seventy times faster reproduction rate is NATURAL and not bio-engineered in a laboratory… lmao.

Have you guys considered the possibility that the number 70 is BS? If you knew how the viruses of this type reproduce, you’d know straight off that this number is a 100% lie, like the claim that Biden is not demented.

There seems to be at least one paid shill

Only one? By my count it’s more than one. But the number of real people here is greater than the number of trolls.

However silly and misguided the views of some of them are, these are still views of real people.

It’s a very good thing that because people (both individually and collectively) are seen by the ruling US elites and hangers on as unique and of inherent value, that this healthy mindset trickles down to the general public and precludes mass shootings like those depicted in the 1984 film Terminator from ever taking place.

🙂

Naah, just kidding, of course.

People both individually and collectively in the United States are seen by its rulers and hangers on as fully interchangeable and expendable cogs, and of no particular value. The broad general public internalizes this valuation of being seen by their rulers as all but worthless, and the more unstable act out on it, resulting in mass shootings being a common near weekly occurrence in the United States.

Why, just yesterday there was a mass shooting in the United States…or was that two mass shootings? 🙁

People both individually and collectively in the United States are seen by its rulers and hangers on as fully interchangeable and expendable cogs, and of no particular value.

It is the failure of SJW Globalism:

• Normalization of sexual deviancy — 6 dead in Tennessee
• Refusal to discipline minority youth — multiple dead at a birthday party
• Open borders — lengthy list of murders and other crimes

There are some, admittedly long overdue, favorable signs. (1)

Soros-Backed Prosecutor Kimberly Gardner Resigns As Missouri AG Moved To Have Her Forcibly Removed From Office

Victory.

A Missouri judge had moved to hold a George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor, Kimberly Gardner, in “indirect criminal contempt” after she and her subordinates failed to show up for multiple court dates, lambasting her office as a “rudderless ship of chaos.”

Nearly 12,000 criminal cases have been dismissed under Gardner and more than 9,000 cases have been tossed just before going to trial, forcing judges to dismiss more than 2,000 cases due to a failure to provide defendants with evidence and speedy trials.

Americans are rejecting the SJW Muslim Globalist values pushed by George IslamoSoros and the European WEF.

Trump & his openly expressed Judeo-Christian values are polling more favourably everyday. +30% over DeNeocon in the GOP primary. +8% over IslamoSoros puppet Not-The-President Biden.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://gellerreport.com/2023/05/soros-da-resigns.html/

A Muslim would be infinitely preferable.

The Ukrainian equivalent of the Wagner convicts are the Russian speaking Ukrainians. I can assure you that many of the Ukrainian refugee families in Europe are from the ethnic Russian minority and fled because their teenage sons were going to to used as cannon fodder.

Very unfair to Russian speaking Ukrainian patriots! Sure, many are probably mobilized against their will (it’s a large population). But the Russian speakers of Ukraine are some of the most dedicated patriots and also the most effective. There are also a few very seasoned and competent military analysts who are former officers. These Russian speakers are a real treasure trove. I would say they are the crème de la crème. At least in my book.

Of course, they all understand Ukrainian, too.

And, btw, Wagner is not all convicts, by far. The core of Wagner are very serious, professional fighters (if one can distance oneself from Wagner’s general global image).

The Omicron variant, which is totally fictional.

I never quite connected Terminator and Mass Shootings before, but there it is.

We are dealing with irresponsible morons who have been marching on Russia in their feverish minds for decades – any normal country would account for that.

Even if we accept this reading, you fail to notice the elephant in the room – why do all of these peoples strive towards NATO? Because the relationship with Russia is messed up. If the relationship was good, NATO would not have such fertile soil to expand.

Russia simply failed to become a big, affluent, relatively friendly neighbor like Germany did to her neighbors. Sure, Russia wasn’t helped (maybe even on the contrary). Sure, both Russia and her neighbors could have been more competent (although people’s capabilities can be limited). But the truth remains – if there was friendship and harmony, NATO may not be even needed. This should’ve been for Eastern Europeans to resolve on their own but it proved too hard.

You cannot blame the Americans for taking easy spoils. Most large countries would be compelled to do so and would jump on the occasion with no questions asked.

The balance of subsidy in the EU where Germany and France shell out a fortune explains much of the Polish tilt. The Euro amount Germany pays in is almost exactly what the Poles take in.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now

The full Creventic replay is available:
12 Hours of Spa

No… I am not double posting. This is an entirely different event held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

PEACE 😇

Truer words have never been spoken:

PEACE 😇

The dog and the horse were buried along their masters in Sintashta culture. The Aryan were very dog friendly. This is of course understandable for nomadic people who need to protect their cattle against wolves.

Even today, many Russians oppose killing stray dogs who attack people (among which children and women are often targeted). I must admit that some of these semi-feral dogs are extremely smart. When I was a kid we used to feed some and play with them as if they were our dogs. All you needed to feel like their best friend was some cheapest type of kolbasa. But lately it looks like stray dogs have become a real problem in RusFed.

I have had four dogs in my life and I would have euthanized anyone of them if they have biten anyone. Strange that euthanizing stray dogs is no longer allowed in RusFed since 2018, even though they often bite people and have killed some of them.

Are there any good means of determining if a given symptom is caused by the virus (long term or latent side effect) or the mRNA injections?

It doesn’t seem like there is any (practical) way for us to separate the two. I think that the ‘Vid has plenty of its’ own potential long term issues, but there is demonstrably no benefit to me taking any of the shots so I’m not going to double down on risk factors.

As AnonfromTN said, we’re likely going to be in a progressive cycle of freakouts, and the important thing will be to keep perspective on what we all can control and act accordingly.

Proper mental, emotional, and spiritual hygiene will continue to be important to avoid getting unhinged. All lot of people of all stripes are getting increasingly unhinged and this will likely continue. Yevardian and GermanReader are probably not far off the mark with their reading decisions as far as a way cultivate perspective and to avoid obsession with the latest freak-outs.

Speaking of freak outs, what is it with kids wreaking havoc in US these days during their car drifting sideshows?

Is it something new, or it was just underreported?

some of these semi-feral dogs are extremely smart.

Harsh conditions put severe pressure, so the smartest ones are selected for, the dumb don’t survive. Plus, wolves and dogs are the same species, they cross-breed. By all tests wolves are smarter than the smartest dogs. So, a couple of generations of random breeding would bring their ancestral smarts back in some (while the dumb failures won’t survive).

That’s an excellent read. Thanks.

If we accept that the modern world has generally traded meaning for power, then it is plausible that as people feel increasingly stripped of any power they will revert to finding meaning. Since traditional sources of meaning, such as family/tribe/nation, religion, or culture have been gutted, then people will transpose this compulsion onto all sorts of fancies.

Not unlike Foucault’s Pendulum now that it crosses my mind.

That one beats me. I’m more in the land of the pumped up pickup truck. Drifting could get really interesting on dirt roads though!

My general impression is that I increasingly live in a society where a fair many people have no regard for anyone’s life including their own. This seems to exist in a strange symbiotic tension with the opposite drive toward hyper-cautious and safety obsessed people.

Maybe it’s fair to say that society is schizophrenic and headed toward the psychotic break?

Eco was way ahead. And it’s fiction. He was making art, i. e. he only had an intuition taking him through the map of that plot.

The universe can amaze us but we have to allow it mind space.

Yes the lives of those ethnically Russian mothers’ sons are so precious to the Ukrainian high command.

So many of the Russian speakers in Ukraine voted for (Russian speaker) Zelensky. The forcible drafting of Jewish men into the army, from where they in a great many cases they never came back was why so many Jews left Tsarist Russia, permanently. Ukraine is going to be an ethnically and linguistically purer place, but a rather empty one.

Because the relationship with Russia is messed up. If the relationship was good, NATO would not have such fertile soil to expand.

NATO is America, which is powerful but too far away to threaten the independence of those countries. No matter how it behaved, Russia could never be anything but an object of suspicion in east Europe because no one could be certain what the Russian leaderships intentions were or might become.

Will Putin have a Jew or a Muslim in charge of Bakhmut?

A Muslim would be infinitely preferable.

Well it looks like the billionaire Jewish chef got his ammo:

https://news.yahoo.com/prigozhin-says-promised-much-ammunition-092115036.html

Wagner seems to be doing better than the Russian military so maybe Putin should privatize the rest of it and hand it over to more of his Jewish friends.

Imagine an entirely Jewish led Russian military.

Anglin and Pepe would hang themselves.

Why did AP stop posting here? Does anyone here know?

Coincidentally, I just asked the same question at the previous open thread:

I read somewhere above, and remember originally reading, that at one point AP (is he on a scouting mission to see what the prospects are like today for living in Ukraine?) and his father were entertaining the idea of moving back.

??…..

There seems to be at least one paid shill

Only one? By my count it’s more than one. But the number of real people here is greater than the number of trolls.

Due to the current global geopolitical situation this site does seem to get more than it’s fair share of attention from various state actor’s troll farms. Some of the trolls seem to mysteriously disappear for periods of time, and then return.

Maybe that’s due to rotating of assignments to avoid burnout, or, simply taking some paid vacation time off away from what must be, like cold call phone sales, a soul destroying job.

Cool poc of Dali. I wonder just how many takes of that particular shot it took to get it just right? 😀

That is the CIA plan after all. Various Kosher Warlords battling it out across the RF. you tipped your hand there John.

Some things don’t change. Clips from the 1976 movie Network.

This would have made for a good first start, but only a start, in overthrowing the manufactured Capitalist vs Communist dialectic that the world has been living under the last two hundred plus years.

‘First you’ve got to get mad. My life has value!’

no Islamists you will find no Muslim rainbow flags.

Local governments in Israel even adds the rainbow flags. Rainbow flag is especially in the areas of Israel where the population goes to the army, pays a lot of taxes etc.

It’s possible some areas of Israel could enter competitions for some of the world’s most LGBT symbolism.

There is local taxpayer’s rainbow flags.

Also see there are not protests against the local government paying for rainbow flags. Perhaps you can hypothesize, many local people like the LGBT flags there.

SJW Muslim flags in the pro-reform picture above? Where you have no Dhimmi and no Islamists

Well, there is a situation in the West, when the leftwing is very positively feeling to Islam, which is mostly a conservative ideology which is more compatible to right-wing values.

But probably there is some more complicated reality here, which doesn’t match questions about logical consistency.

Although there is some things now which are seen as more right-wing like the militarism and religion, Israel also lot of the 20th century centreleft politics, feminism, welfare state etc.

This has not been always so fashionable with left in the West especially after maybe the 1960s. I would say Israel’s local politics views can be more like your favorite people Joe Biden or Bill Clinton, although less like AOC.

Jeeps and Dodge Chargers with lots of AK-47 and Sikh decals are the thing among Punjabis.
Pics from the Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan (Khalsa Day) in Northwest Toronto

https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/prigozhin-releases-yet-another-explosive

Cool article, highly suggest a read for the military science stuff alone.
How many shells per hectare per platoon to achieve suppression.
Still “nerd” stuff because you should strive to beat that number.
Excellence is an art not a science.

This is true for both the local & theatre command who want maximal shell/production.
Only the mid level bureaucrat staff officer need worry about allocation.
The hi-low v mid meme strikes again.

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Open thread humor & stuff

Russia is the world’s most cat culture since Ancient Egypt, which is maybe not surprising as a co-incidence (who really built the pyramids?).

Dogs are a lot less popular than in the West, just look in size of the pet food areas in the supermarket.

Somewhere in the cats vs dogs, was one of the philosophical differences of Russian and American culture.

I guess, the normal ego boosting stereotype, would be related to the spiritual vs utilitarian.

Cats believe they are aristocrats, or politically accepted to say, “cats are like the proletariat after class consciousness”, domestic dogs behave like somekind of eugenically created slaves, or maybe kind to say they are responsible citizens with high social responsibility.

Less romantic reality, is apartments are small and dogs are expensive. Cats are easy pets, dogs are more work.

Russians oppose killing stray dogs who attack people (among which children and women are often targeted). I must admit that some of these semi-feral dogs are extremely smart.

I don’t know, there is a problem with a lot people killing street dogs, there is lack of adequate animal protection in the postsoviet countries. Although I saw enough YouTube, to know Americans are even worse with animal protection.

I don’t know the law, but hopefully after Ukraine joins the EU, there will more laws on this topic.
https://kp.ua/incidents/308810-sobak-ubyvauit-ot-strakha-yly-yz-mesty-za-pohybshykh-koshek

stray dogs have become a real problem

Street dogs are like the Bloods vs Crips.

Street cats? When I was a small child, we could walk to school across cats frozen to pieces of ice on the asphalt. It’s like throwing some noble Roman with the Mediterranean toga, on to Antarctica.

…going to be in a progressive cycle of freakouts…people of all stripes are getting increasingly unhinged and this will likely continue.

That is the context we are living in. It is not clear why it is happening other than it often happens after long-periods of peace and prosperity. The ennui sets in, and there is the inevitable collapse of accumulated pyramid schemes that societies are built on. The generational flow stops working.

50% of women now choose not to have families – that leaves a large number of men with no role. The elites switched to depending on female support, incl. the gender freaks, but they are a symptom. The leader of the pack cultivating female support is an ancient dynamic – it works well enough for the apes.

Staying calm is the best strategy, but it doesn’t solve it, the freak-outs will get worse. Childless people are simply end-of-liners. Their biology doesn’t exist, they loose a sense of restraint, it becomes a sad cul-de-sac of hedonism and anger. The weak men use it to stay in power until it eventually collapses. In the meantime we will have a circus.

…why do all of these peoples strive towards NATO? Because the relationship with Russia is messed up. If the relationship was good, NATO would not have such fertile soil to expand.

Not all have strived toward Nato. The support was roughly half-and-half with the pro-Nato half mostly composed of many people who wanted it symbolically and didn’t want actual bases and armed hostility with Russia. The propaganda is trying to change that, but it will not stick in the long run. After each bloody war people retreat to less confrontational positions.

It is a chicken-and-egg: to what extent was the drive by the neo-cons to surround and weaken Russia responsible for the reaction by Russia? By all measures, Russia was mild, avoiding confrontation, minding its own business – with mostly rhetorical support of the Russians who ended up in the new EE countries.

It is gone now and will be decided by force with the winner making new rules. Rationality shows that Russia is stronger in EE – as is US in the Americas, France in N Africa, China in South China Sea. The outside powers can make it bloody, painful, use local allies, but at the end the regional super-power wins or there is an unproductive stalemate.

Why was this done? It is a combination of three things:
– many locals live on historical resentments and seek revenge
– underestimating Russia – they are never as weak as they look
– neo-cons are imbeciles who over-reach and mess up everything (check-out their record).

Street cats? When I was a small child, we could walk to school across cats frozen to pieces of ice on the asphalt. It’s like throwing some noble Roman with the Mediterranean toga, on to Antarctica.

Forget the Maraga and the Khojali massacres, that sounds truly awful.
I’m more grateful every day that my family got us out of that godforsaken part of the world.

“Ash Sarkar is anti-white because she is a fervent assimilationist into white elite culture. If she had been born in 19th century Britain she would be an imperialist. This explains the paradox of non-white leftist women who exclusively date and marry white men”

Destroys the whole wignat/nigger argument of ‘attractiveness’.

Women are attractive, Men assimilate them into ‘culture’.

Ie women can be attractive independent of their tribe (culture)

Men cannot.

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“The lyrics have been translated into several indigenous languages of Canada, including Inuktitut, Ojibwe,[15] Cree[16] and Mi’kmaq.[17] There is also a trilingual version, in English, French and Inuktitut”

Racism is good because I don’t want a Punjabi version of this faggot simp land’s anthem.

OMG, all of these in your face rainbow flags? Is Israel a woke country? Why is there a need to advertise gayness in Israel? If they also have gay pride parades in Israel, where the participants can be seen nauseatingly french kissing, you can count me out!
Two Men French kissing during the annual LGBT Tel Aviv pride parade also called ‘Love Parade” as part of the international observance of Gay Pride Mon Stock Photo – Alamy

Just for the record, I don’t require scenes of public heterosexual couples french kissing either. Keep it to yourself, and ‘live and let live’.

And yet, as Dmitry recently indicated, a “significant” portion of your everyday Israelis are supportive of the Ukrainian cause, and not so much shilling for Russia. Here’s a video that he recently posted supporting his views:

AP periodically takes time off to advance the cause of monarchists.

In this instance, we can imagine him rounding up antimonarchist protestors ahead of the coronation, and then perhaps keeping a watchful eye on Meghan Markle, or that nonce Andrew.

Well, there is a situation in the West, when the leftwing is very positively feeling to Islam, which is mostly a conservative ideology

The truth is rather different. Let me Fix That For You.

In the West, the leftwing has positive feelings for Islam as it is a mostly permissive ideology

Islam in the West is always SJW liberal. For example, here is an Ilhan Omar pride march & campaign event.

Can you name any senior elected right wing Muslim official in America? I cannot. The correlation between SJW and Islam is unshakeable. It is part of the DNC’s core values. To them, this is the future: (1)

Liliana Bakhtiari becomes first non-binary official elected in Atlanta

They will become the first queer Muslim elected official in the state of Georgia’s history, and the second Iranian-American serving in Atlanta.

If you want to say that there is an “Irrelevantslam”, that does not interact with the West and has different values. OK. You can say that.

However, Judeo-Christians in the Europe & America are impacted by SJW Islam, as it actually exists in this part of the globe. And, that relevant Islam is almost always very leftwing.

I am sure one could cherry pick a few, highly localized, events where Islamists espoused something that seemed conservative. Nothing on this planet is 100%. However, such hyper selectivity highlighting an outlier would come across as diversion rather than a convincing argument.

I am sure your favorite people Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would agree. Should we start calling you Dmitry Tlaib? It has a nice Leftoid ring to it;)

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/12/liliana-bakhtiari-becomes-first-non-binary-official-elected-atlanta/

We’re just trying to run a business.
It’s where we are on the timeline.
It’s nothing personal.

From the script where some asshole who has been pretending to be your friend for the last ten years gives you the heave-ho. The last one is factual. He is a robot reading a script. The fellow saying “the world is a business Mister Beale” is getting a lot more money but his destiny is precisely the same. Within five years some other robot read him the exact same script.

Ha, ha, ha. I hope that AP appreciates the gentle venum of your sarcasm. 🙂

BTW, I’m slowly but surely turning my attention to the “Treasure Island” film that you recently wrote positively about. That was the 1950 Walt Disney version? Also, never used “Just for Men”, however, did dye my hair completely twice, the ladies seemed to be appreciative, although I’m now perfectly comfortable with the effects of the aging process. 🙂

Can you name any senior elected right wing Muslim official in America? I cannot.

As far as I know nearly all American politicians are liberals of one kind or another, there are conservative ones and progressive/left-wing ones.

Muslims are more likely to be traditionalists, even in the West, and the traditionalist current in politics is weak or marginal in the US. SJWs support them for a mixture of weird post-modernist reasons and tactical advantage.

He mentioned he’s on vacation (desert hiking).

Went to the computer shop today with my Acer laptop I bought three months ago…hardware failure, has to be sent in to support for repairs, will take at least two weeks.
I thought the Taiwanese were supposed to be the good Chinese. But apparently they too have no scruples at all to sell total trash (and it wasn’t that cheap either, cost more than 1000 Euros). Assholes, President Xi should take care of them.

In preparation for WWIII, just as in preparation for WWII, people(s) are being played like violins.

And once again, just as before, Poland is being buttered up by the US/UK to be a point man for Anglosphere objectives.

Sure, fight if one must, but do so on one’s own terms, which in the case of these world wars is hardly the case.

Certainly the Anglosphere shouldn’t be shamelessly manipulating the Polish people this way, but on the Poles part, whatever happened to the lesson of ‘Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me’?

From the London Telegraph:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-poland-europe-next-superpower-050000865.html

‘Warsaw is using this economic strength to transform the country into a formidable fighting force to guard against the Russian wolf at the door…Warsaw’s plan is to double the size of the army to 300,000 soldiers, equipped with the latest Western kit.’

Poland will be wealthier than Britain by 2030 – it’s time we took notice

Poland is rapidly becoming the new central European superpower.

When I visited Poland as the Telegraph’s Eastern Europe correspondent in 1989, its cities were drab, decayed and ringed by hideous communist-era buildings. Shops were barren, expectations were low and life was hard.

Yet nowhere else in the Soviet empire did people’s power prevail so triumphantly as in Poland. The land of lost causes became the vanguard of liberty — and prosperity.

On its current path, Poland is on track to become wealthier than Britain by 2030 thanks to a post-communist economic miracle. The country has become a hotbed for future-facing industries such as battery manufacturing and tech.

Warsaw is using this economic strength to transform the country into a formidable fighting force to guard against the Russian wolf at the door. Its willingness to stand against Moscow has also won it allies among many neighbouring countries.

As Germany and France tie themselves in knots over their response to the Ukraine war, Poland’s star is on the rise.

Warsaw’s plan is to double the size of the army to 300,000 soldiers, equipped with the latest Western kit.

Poland is spending some $10bn (£7.9bn) on the US-made Himars artillery systems that have proved so effective on the Ukrainian battlefield, just one example of its significant investment plans.

About a half a year ago, I “adopted” a feral cat, that just started living in my backyard. There are a lot of such wild cats in Maricopa county (no problem with cats turning into popsicles here). Being a smallish tabby, she betrayed her former aristocratic leanings, although I’m quite sure she was tough and could handle herself in most any situation that she found herself in. The male cats in the neighborhood must have thought highly of her too, for she soon became pregnant and now I’m the proud owner of three cats. Well, I’m not bad at arithmetic and figured out that I needed to do something quickly to arrest the growth of the potential cat colony starting to form in my backyard. I had to obtain special cages to catch all three of them, and then transported them to a local veterinary organization that did the necessary spade and neuter procedures. The two kittens ended up being male cats. They’re pretty big now, and stay almost exclusively outside, although I do occasionally let them go inside when I feed them. They’re very cute cats that like to frolic around and often put on very athletic bouts of wrestling. It helps that I’ve always been an ailurophile (not a cat fancier) . So far, only one of the three lets me occasionally pet him.

We will have to get someone to read Ash Sarkar’s book ‘Minority Rule’, when it comes out. Maybe, Sailer will do it, and save others the trouble.
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Believe the French version was the original. Sounds relatively based. Quebec didn’t seem to be doing too badly when the Church still controlled the schools

A lot of national anthems just aren’t very good, IMO. Canada itself may have gotten the short shrift by mostly being removed from war and having the longest peaceful border in the world.

But I don’t know if these references to old wars even make sense anymore. Anthems seem mostly used in sports, and sports are the bleeding edge of globalism, and they seem to do nothing to stop that.

The fellow saying “the world is a business Mister Beale” is getting a lot more money but his destiny is precisely the same.

I once saw a mid 1970’s interview with the director of Network and he wanted the corporate chief executive saying those lines (performed by the actor Ned Beatty) to look like Teddy Roosevelt, and sure enough he does whenever I see that clip. 🙂

And once again, just as before, Poland is being buttered up by the US/UK to be a point man for Anglosphere objectives.

Warsaw is being actively menaced by the EU Empire. Brussels keeps trying to strip Poland of its national sovereignty. They need to counter the threat posed by the Dark Heart of Europe and its Open [Muslim] Borders policies.

The existential threat to the Visegrád 4 and Austria is from the West, not the East. Is it not wise for Poland to:

• Buy arms from South Korea, including some of the planet’s best tanks?
• Solicit help from Christian nations?

The days of Not-The-President Biden are numbered. Convincing Trump to move additional NATO forces from Germany to Poland is of huge benefit defanging Berlin aggression.

The upcoming ban of internal combustion engines by the EU will heal the rift between Belarus and Poland. Poles will be buying real cars & trucks in Brest, driving them on international license plates. Historical enmity will rapidly fade in the presence of overwhelming necessity.

PEACE 😇

Thanks for that – very interesting. I had assumed that Bucharest as a city had become more or less western European in infrastructure/ living standards, just as Praga, Budapest or Bratislava – happy to be corrected.

Tell us – are the dog attacks in Romania worse in the city or in the villages?

The last time I bought a laptop is a used refurbished macbook air 400 dollars. I only use it 5% of the time when my linux computer barfs on something. It runs like it was built by a 1970’s German factory.

It just works. Straight out of the box.

Steve Jobs RIP

That was the 1950 Walt Disney

Actually the 1934 film was the one I saw.

The guy who played Squire Trelawney in that version, Nigel Bruce, used to play Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes. A lot of people were unhappy with his depiction of a dumb Watson, but he seems to have been typecast as buffoonish a longtime before he even played the role.

Heard that MacBooks have the HDD soldered in place. But not sure since when, suppose they would all be SDDs now.

Don’t know, if Americans are spoiled on the secondary market, but I recommend getting an old office PC off eBay, unless you’re a gamer or need something more portable.

Another option for GR might be to get one of these supposedly robust Amish PCs:

I was spoilt by my last laptop (from Samsung), it lasted for 12 years and never caused any trouble until it died in February. But I guess you can’t expect that sort of quality. Still, hard disk failure after three months is a bit much.
Thanks for the Linux recommendation, but tbh I’m probably too lazy to try that (and wouldn’t have helped in this case either, since it seems to be a hardware issue). Am increasingly tired of all that technorot anyway. Only good parts about the internet are the ability to pirate books and the occasional conversation like here.

From 1950s Soviet Union much, much higher percentage of Russians living in block apartments and cities than Americans. That and of course the much higher car ownership of Americans , traditionally, is what explains the difference in cat vs dog culture as without a garden or a car you are much less likely to own a dog, but perfectly fine to have cat.
Not of course that you can’t own dogs in cities in either country – plenty of space to do so, lots of park area (more than America cities, I think?) to walk the dogs and greenery/trees around apartment blocks etc – but it’s less practical compared to a cat.
Life in Soviet apartment is like living in the Tropics for a cat during winter and parts of other seasons, because of course its so OTT warm inside.

But Soviet apartment have big advantages – one of them that fat primitive Americans in cities are still using launderettes en masse, as their apartments aren’t fitted for connecting washing machines /tumble dryers like all in ex USSR can.

Washing clothes twice a week, you would have to think this adds about 6 hours to the week for a city American, that Russians don’t have to waste on. How filthy are several places in New York – I would be repulsed at the concept of using plenty of my life each week doing this communal laundry where any sh*t from any lowlife could have found its way into the drum, and the laundrette itself is noticeably probably closer to the toilets of a bar during a busy night, for hygiene levels than it is to own house.

I think there was one incident a few years before of some 70s Soviet dissident New York Jew diaspora bitch “journalist” (the worst type of human possible), probably Yulia Ioffe or Elder writing some idiotic crap propaganda moaning and crying about the lack of laundrette in Moscow when this lazy tramp wanted it as in New York – done as some propaganda BS piece for unsuspecting American readers, trying to fake this as “primitive” maybe even “barbaric” Russian practise, when of course the truth is the exact opposite on this issue , LOL.

Muslims are more likely to be traditionalists, even in the West

In Western countries, the defining characteristics of Muslim tradition are — Crime and hostility to Judeo-Christians. For example, the “No-Go” zones in France. Sexual assaults in Italy. Etc. (1)

Six teenage girls were sexually assaulted by about 30 immigrants from North Africa on board a train to Milan. The incident has provoked strong reactions in Italy.

The Italian girls, who are between 16 and 17 years old, had on June 2 had fun at the amusement park Gardaland.

But when they took the train back to Milan, the day turned into a nightmare. A group of about 30 Arabs showed up and started going on a sex attack.

– We were surrounded. The heat was suffocating and some of us fainted, says one of the victims to Italian media.

The mob laughed as they slapped at the girls and sexually insulted them.

I suppose you can call preying on Christian girls, Muslim ‘traditionalist’. However, that tradition is antithetical to Judeo-Christian existence.

They really need to be returned from whence they came. Let them practice their sexually deviant Muslim ‘traditionalism’ on each other, not Judeo-Christians.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.eutimes.net/2022/06/outrage-and-fury-in-italy-after-30-arabs-sexually-assault-6-italian-girls-on-train/

Yes the lives of those ethnically Russian mothers’ sons are so precious to the Ukrainian high command.

You misunderstood it – these Russian speakers want to fight themselves. They are the biggest patriots, regardless of what the “high command” says or does.

The support was roughly half-and-half with the pro-Nato half mostly composed of many people who wanted it symbolically and didn’t want actual bases and armed hostility with Russia.

First, nobody in Europe wanted any hostility with Russia (it is expensive). Second, so now you’re saying NATO membership is “symbolic”? But you kept saying it’s a threat. So which one is it? If it is purely symbolic and you say that some countries so wanted to keep peace with Russia, then let Slovakia or Hungary exit NATO like Putin requested right before the war? Or have you forgotten about that little ultimatum?

As to the bases, be clear about what you mean. You are probably insinuating American bases. There aren’t any of those in Eastern Europe, or American troops in large numbers. All of our local military installations simply become “NATO bases” formally. Those are Slovakian bases.

Battle of Nations
Germany Spain

The German guy had a great tournament for him. He got to the final of the qualifier and lost then got into the main draw when somebody pulled at the last minute then he went through one whole half of the bracket to face top seed Alcaraz in the final and even took a set.

Not Battle of Nations as the opponents were Australian and Indian guy. After they won the last point Rublev and Khachanov did synchronized crossing themselves which is a rarity.

NATO is America, which is powerful but too far away to threaten the independence of those countries. No matter how it behaved, Russia could never be anything but an object of suspicion in east Europe because no one could be certain what the Russian leaderships intentions were or might become.

That was exactly my point (and the crux of the matter, which people like Beckow ignore). If there was no NATO (or even no America), there would be another structure. And this structure would be very interested in having EE as a buffer. There would be no “Lisabon to Vladivostok”.

Today is the day of Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who lost their lives during the Second World War.

“Honor the past, fight for the future.”

Symbolic in this context just means “consequence free”.

At first sight, rather curious distribution of ice if true – most of Alaska, Chukotka and Yakutia were ice free, while Scandinavia, UK and Baltics became extensions of North Pole then.

Oh yea? Then why not agree to Putin’s ultimatum, if it is so “consequence free”…

It’s based on deposits from the base of the old glacial flows. Glaciers go around mountains and there are a lot of mountains in Alaska. Arguments between geologists can be pretty amusing. They tend to be a pretty hit-and-miss bunch on laboratory work experience. Mostly they work with what’s there, has been for aeons and is going to be for a long time to follow.

Today is the day of Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who lost their lives during the Second World War.

Will you be visiting a Waffen-SS memorial to commemorate the WW2 dead?

Will you be visiting a Waffen-SS memorial to commemorate the WW2 dead?

There is a separate date for that. It already passed this year. And the memorial is not for the SS (not that it would make a difference for the likes of you, I see that you have objections to Europeans honoring their dead).

Today is the day of Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who lost their lives during the Second World War.

The losers grieve on May 8th
The winners celebrate on May 9th

and wouldn’t have helped in this case either, since it seems to be a hardware issue)

True – you’d have to make the USB stick first. But, if you had it already, then you’d probably be able to boot with it.

Разведка Боем — scouting by drawing fire and ‘soaking up firepower’ has a hold on Russian military thinking. Ukrainian too. The ethnic Russian in the Ukrainian army is quite likely to be find himself being used for that kind of thing. That is why there is still a considerable outflow from Ukraine of Russian families with sons approaching 18.

Разведка Боем — scouting by drawing fire and ‘soaking up firepower’ has a hold on Russian military thinking. Ukrainian too. The ethnic Russian in the Ukrainian army is quite likely to be find himself being used for that kind of thing

Rozvedka boem has been going on for weeks now, as the Ukrainians are preparing to advance.
This is done by everybody, regardless of what language they speak (and by the way, they are not ethnic Russians, but Russian speaking ethnic Ukrainians).

That is why there is still a considerable outflow from Ukraine of Russian families with sons approaching 18.

I don’t blame them, and I have encountered both languages in the refugee stream. My home country has accepted teenage boys from Kharkiv.

That doesn’t take away from my point that there are many patriotic Ukrainians who happen to have Russian as their first language (because it was more convenient for them). It is not correct to compare them to Wagner convicts, and that’s putting it mildly.

(not that it would make a difference for the likes of you, I see that you have objections to Europeans honoring their dead).

Projection much? I was making fun of your explicit philo-Nazi tendencies (since you decided to make yourself my enemy a while back, after I was nice to you. Those Latvian folk tunes you referred me to were gypsy-tier garbage, btw).

I haven’t expressed any objections to Europeans commemorating their dead. I visited St. Paul’s Cathedral recently and was impressed by the memorials to British Imperial soldiers and colonial administrators. I had not been previously aware that St. Paul housed these statues, including one of the great man himself:

There is a large WW2 memorial in Egypt dedicated to commonwealth soldiers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamein_Memorial

I was taken to the place on a school trip, many years ago.

I recall meeting an English WW2 veteran there, but not much else.

There is another one nearby, dedicated to Italian soldiers of WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_War_Memorial_at_El_Alamein

You’d probably prefer to visit this one, if you are ever in Egypt.

My home country has accepted teenage boys from Kharkiv.

Prolly worried they would be tagged as collaborators if they did not “volunteer”

I have encountered both languages in the refugee stream.

They are wary of saying they are ethnic Russians. Especially to Poles!

It is not correct to compare them to Wagner convicts, and that’s putting it mildly.

Correct. The Wagner convicts have more chance of going home, reportedly 20,000 already have because they completed their six month contract

If I recall correctly, you were trying to lecture me and I don’t need that (not from you in any case). I thought you would know better being on this forum, which is full of all kinds of unusual people, but where the unspoken rule is “freedom of expression”.

Those Latvian folk tunes you referred me to were gypsy-tier garbage, btw.

That’s fine, it’s a matter of taste. I listen to a lot of academic music as well. I used to sing in a very good choir, and I know hundreds of folk songs, I wasn’t trying to impress you (the music I shared was deliberately made to sound simple/folkish, the only reason I shared it was because you were saying something about wanting to hear European folk music, I thought it was something you specifically asked, oh well).

You’d probably prefer to visit this one, if you are ever in Egypt.

I mostly visit just my own, but thanks for the link. It is important.

The dog used to be recognised as more Aryan in character, showing more solidarity and collectivist personality

Dogs are less useful in hotter climes, one reason being that they overheat quickly due to being quadrupeds (and mostly not efficient runners) evolved in Northern climes. Perhaps, this helps explain their lower status in Semitic cultures.

I’ve long been fascinated by the idea that dogs have influenced human evolution. Most extreme theory seems to be that they caused the Neolithic evolution, made the domestication of other animals and plants possible, but I suspect that one could even go further than that, and suggest that they caused the megafauna to go extinct, which necessitated an increasing toolkit and increasing intelligence to hunt and trap smaller game. Of course, one flaw in this is that the extinctions of Australian megafauna seem to have preceded the arrival of dogs, but they may have been less formidable animals.

Some peoples claim descent from dogs. Others have myths that dogs brought them their first grain. The genes of dogs have been influenced by the Neolithic – they have more copies of amylase than wolves. I wonder whether lactose tolerance ultimately was made possible by dogs.

My thought is that dogs did not make it into much of subSahara until relatively recently (and wolves are obviously not native to Africa) which probably makes the theory extremely politically incorrect.

Martin Freeman did a good Watson.

General Surovikin and Prigozhin have been ordered to put their heads together–even if it results in them making an ass of themselves.

Prigozhin and Surovikin respect each other; both have been at the front where they had very close shaves.

If I recall correctly, you were trying to lecture me and I don’t need that (not from you in any case).

Well, we have different interpretations of that episode.

But water under the bridge.

I used to sing in a very good choir, and I know hundreds of folk songs

Cool. Have you sung some of this Latvian lady’s tunes?

I discovered her randomly on YouTube about a year ago.

She’s another obscure yet high-quality composer.

Arvo Part is pretty good too, perhaps the only classical composer of late 20th century worth listening to.

Impressive considering the tiny population. I think Baltics could’ve been a “Great Culture”, if only they had scale.

I shared it was because you were saying something about wanting to hear European folk music

I’m already familiar with European folk music, especially the Eastern European traditions, which I think are much better than Western European folk. Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Balkan music.

Good stuff.

I pretty much agree, but I think that maintaining composure and focus is more than just a personal strategy, it is fundamentally part of the solution.

As an individual none of have much real ability to change much in the societal freakout. The only avenues we have are to maintain our families and foster sanity in our own circles of family and friends.
If I became obsessed by QAnon, Trump, the Russia Ukraine conflict, or any other rabbit hole to the point that I ceased to engage with my family and community then I am part of the problem with society.

I know plenty of people like this. They are Red and Trumpy as can be but they wonder why their kids are so Woke. Where they talking to their kids and modelling a real life for them or just glued to Hannity and Limbaugh?

Sure, I’ll vote if there are any options worth worth a shot and I’ll stay informed, but fundamentally putting some grounded kids into the world is the best avenue to turn things around. Especially since as you point out so many have abdicated that opportunity.

I discovered her randomly on YouTube about a year ago.

Of course, I know this piece very well. “God, Thy land is on fire”. It was written in 1940 right before the invasions. It is an appropriate song to play on this occasion. It is done very well with a choir and an organ, with the Lord’s Prayer in the end.

Arvo Pärt

He is very minimalist, if one is into that, but, yes, very good.

Well, here are a couple of Latvian opera singers for you:

Elina Garanca

Kristine Opolais

Prigozhin and Surovikin respect each other.

לא פלא ששני יהודים חכמים תמיד ימצאו שפה משותפת…

What is the nationality of Mizintsev?;)

Mr hack hidden for gay postin wtf is wrong with you?
Fkn weirdo faggot.

Sikhs attacked by fans at UFC Event
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Some background. The white guys started recording the singhs dumalla and making jokes. One of the singhs saw and got tight and told him to delete it. Then the long haired white guy started getting aggresive and threw a sucker punch then the singhs ended what they started

Yeah, that was a painfully unnecessary pic.

Now you know it’s an awkward situation when A123 won’t even acknowledge the post and respond with his own scantily clad female pics.

He is from the small Sjamzha village in the Vologda region. Before the arrival of Novgorodian colonists, this region was peopled by Ugric tribes. Mostly Vepsy.

https://vk.com/@holmgardhype-nasledie-finno-ugrov-v-vologodskoi-oblasti

A123 won’t even acknowledge the post

I have had Mr. Hack blocked on compassionate grounds for quite some time. He needs psychiatric help that I cannot provide. All I can do is offer forgiveness… and pity.

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It’s like that joke, which goes “if Russia is under attack, how come it is so big?”.

So, if strays rights are not protected in Eastern Europe, how come they are so many?

I guess our former host was always a bit eccentric. TBH, I never cared too much for his posts and came here essentially for the comments section but for the past months, following his full acknowledgement of the Z-fiasco, his twitter feed is full of totally autistic posts like these:

I updated towards AI doom at #Zuzalu. Not Yud level, but I’m now closer to Christiano or Roko than to Hanson. Regulation is near certain so it’s best to front-run it with decentralized but rigorous safety protocol to avoid both Scylla of paperclips & Charybdis of Butlerian Jihad.

Back to the topic, the ASI could willingly devote a tiny percentage of its resources to directly play-acting the Dark Lord/Dark One.

The subsequent Long War between Light and Shadow will be endless variations on the one that gives birth to the template: EA vs. e/acc.

Whatever he’s trying to say, I know I don’t want to be part of the small group able to understand such sentences (assuming there’s such a group).

In the villages, people never cared for the new laws, which require vaccination, tagging, and, with few exception, castration of all dogs. (Breeding is supposed to be reserved to licensed facilities.) As such, every few months, you would still read about an older villager mauled to death when they made the mistake of walking alone on farmland.

In the cities, strays were eliminated a few years ago, but returned, to a lesser degree, since covid. It’s still to a lesser extent than in villages. Recently, I happened to eat at a shawarma place just a few tens of steps from the gate of the Baneasa Airport, when three strays came in the restaurant begging.

The stray can’t open restaurant doors. Obviously, there is a significant proportion in Romania who thinks strays should be nourished, especially when their food would be my shawarma. In any case, these people outnumber the ones who are afraid of rabies and hate stepping on dog feces. The mayors feel that there isn’t much to gain from getting rid of strays, so they saved money by cutting down on dog catchers. Nature is healing, LOL.

As such, every few months, you would still read about an older villager mauled to death when they made the mistake of walking alone on farmland.

Walking alone unarmed. Old people need guns.

These types of displays are what I’m ranting against. Pretending that they don’t exist or ducking ones head into the sand wont make them go away. I though that this was a site for adults that don’t want to duck the hard questions and want to discuss the issues of the day. This is the kind of stuff going on in the world today.

Are you positive that its me that is in need of psychiatric help, Dr. kremlinstoogeA123?

…memorial is not for the SS

Really? So who is it for? Latvian nationalist militias who fought on the side of Nazis? You tell us why they march and celebrate.

It makes all the difference in the world. WW2 was a cataclysmic event won by Russia and lost by Germany and its allies. Or you can say won by the Soviets, if you can’t bring yourself to mouth the word “Russia”, not much of a difference.

All history was complicated. But the brutal crimes of Latvians against their minorities were not. To march and celebrate it is in very bad taste. It is also something future generations of Latvians will eventually denounce. If there are any.

nobody in Europe wanted any hostility with Russia

That is an obvious lie. From the neo-cons (plenty of them in Europe) to EE resentful revenge-seeking nationalists and liberals in Poland, Baltic, etc…there were plenty of powerful groups that wanted hostility with Russia. Why would you deny it?

now you’re saying NATO membership is “symbolic”

No, don’t intentionally misrepresent what I said: many in EE supported Nato as a ‘symbolic’ gesture, joining Europe, and had no desire to confront Russia. They were lied to and misled – Nato has planned a confrontation with Russia for a very long time, since it was created.

let Slovakia or Hungary exit NATO like Putin requested right before the war? Or have you forgotten about that little ultimatum?

Ultimatum? it was an opening round in the Nato-Russia negotiation – there was a deal acceptable to both sides. But some really wanted to go for a war.

Nato bases…There aren’t any of those in Eastern Europe

Another lie. There are plenty of Nato bases in EE – some are called ‘temporary’ or are mislabeled as ‘local bases’, but there are by any definition quite a few EE Nato bases. Why would you deny it?

You are running away from the reality of what is happening and how we got there. Don’t play with meaning of terms or deny the obvious, stick with the neo-con narrative: “Russia is evil, we have aways known it, we are going to attack again, this time we will finally defeat it!”

At least understand what you are fighting for – and possibly dying. You constantly deny what is very obvious and that is disorienting in a war – doubts and complexity are behind us. Our collective skin is in the game, at least let’s see it clearly.

Surovikin was the designer of the Bakhmut operation, and thus of the use of convicts by Wagner. Proigozhin is a manager (as he was for the troll farm), and PR front man.

There is a wiki article about stray dogs in Bucharest:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dogs_in_Bucharest

According to it, a Japanese tourist was killed in 2006, and a German family (?) then adopted the dog that killed him, and it has since died of old age.

Stralkov has nicknamed Prigozhin “the Dark Clown”.

When Prigozhin went to offer mandarines for Chistmas to Ukrainian POWs captured by WG, he was filmed saying : “Why am I bringing them these [mandarines] ? Because they are Slavs too.” And he had a little smile.

Beware of the Noviop bringing gifts, either in RusFed or anywhere else.

By their fruits will you know them.

Karlin spent too much time in California. Maybe he’ll eventually return there, given how Russia seems to have disappointed his expectations.

Well, AK is back to his futurist / transhumanist roots.

I agree with him that the Technosphere and its AI development will have much more bearing on the future of life than the archaic and idiotic tribal Slav infighting in the Wild Field and the Donbas.

I remember arguing humorously with Daniel Chieh about the Butlerian Jihad being required for us to survive the Technosphere.

Basically, what AK wrote is that a future Artificial Super Intelligence could well create evolution as a means to bootstrap the inert material world to efficient technological accelerationism once the Technosphere comes into full functionality.

He compares this dialectics it to a controlled opposition similar to late Zoroastrianism and/or the Bogomil heresy theological pattern of thought.

He might be right. He was always good discussing these topics.

Nothing really new here, except for the Manichean accelerationist outlook (which is indeed interesting), Vernadsky had fleshed out the evolution of the lithosphere towards the noosphere in the early around a century ago.

And yeah, we are not many to be interested in these topics…

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2ss6gomAJdqjwdSCy/what-s-the-deal-with-effective-accelerationalism-e-acc

🙂

There is no need going back to California.

AI reshaping the Technosphere is a global trend that is important everywhere. If AK sticks to what he really understands, that is IQ / HBD and Fururism / Transhumanism, he will be very useful in post-war Eurasia.

Besides, California as a functional society is going down the drain real fast, which is normal for a society where the techno elite disconnects from the useless eating masses.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/05/two-mile-homeless-camp-takes-over-in-californias-posh-marin-county/

Funny how Bruce Sterling predicted it happening some twenty something years ago. He had nomadic Proles moving through the US landscape in a generation time.

Good development as poor indebted US should be relieved even just a little bit;)

May 8, 2023

The Council of the European on Friday adopted an assistance measure worth €1 billion under the European Peace Facility (EPF) to finance the provision to the Ukrainian Armed Forces of 155-mm-calibre artillery rounds and, if requested, missiles which will be jointly procured by EU member states from the European defence industry.

EU High Representative Josep Borrell described the decision as another major step to deliver more ammunition to Ukraine. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces need substantial amounts of ammunition to defend the Ukrainian people and territory. They need it fast. Together with the previous decision to swiftly provide ammunition from existing stocks, we are committing €2 billion to this purpose, bringing the total EU military support to Ukraine to €5.6 billion,” he said.

The measure will support joint procurement of ammunition and missiles from economic operators established in the EU or Norway, and producing these ammunition and missiles in the EU or Norway. The supply chains of these operators may include operators established or having their production outside of the EU or Norway. The measure will also cover deliveries of ammunition and missiles which have undergone an important stage of their manufacturing in the EU or Norway which consists of final assembly.

Together with the previous packages of military support, the assistance measure adopted on Friday brings the total EU contribution for Ukraine to support the delivery of military equipment under the EPF to €5.6 billion.

https://euneighbourseast.eu/news/latest-news/eu-agrees-e1-billion-support-for-joint-procurement-of-ammunition-and-missiles-for-ukraine/

Thread by AfD politician about relations to Poland (after Konfederacja politician had invited members from AfD’s youth section who have recently been declared anti-constitutional by Germany’s inland security service):

I finally watched the 1934 version of “Treasure Island” and would overall need to give the film a 3.5/5 star rating. In my book, anything over and including a “3” is a good film worth watching. The film is noteworthy, if for no other reason than it was one of the first of its kind in the very prolific pirate genre. Lots of incredibly fine photographic black/white cameo shots throughout the film. The film was to be originally shot in color, but due to cost limitations went through the black/white process.

The acting was good and all the players played their parts well, Little Cooper led the tempo of the film at about the right pace. I thought that Wallace Beery did more than an adequate job in playing Long John Silver and his professionalism shone through at every turn. I was expecting more from Nigel Bruce and could see some of the “buffoonish” elements that you allude to shine through that made him such a hit (at least in my book) in his later romps as Dr. Watson in the famous Sherlock Holmes films. I’ll be viewing the 1950 version sometime soon too, so you see you’ve wetted my appetite for this kind of faire!

A couple of times throughout the film Long John Silver would curse his rivals by refering to them as bein “dogfish”. I’ve never heard this curse before, but if you’ve ever seen a dogfish up close, you’ll understand the serious insult inflicted upon anybody said to look like one. 🙂

I wont include a photo of such an apparition here, as I’ve noticed that some of the local natives here are becoming a little bit squeamish and don’t want to upset any more of anybody’s fine sensibilities.

If you had paid more attention in Sunday School you would know that fiddling with the genetics of your offspring is a violation of commandment # 3.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

There are only 10. You could put it in your twitter and shock some folks.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020&version=RSV

Exodus ch 20 verse 3-17.

Playing like you are God is very very very foolish. : )

Swashbucklers have been a guilty pleasure of mine since I was a child. I might have watched this one 20 times. Way more than Star Wars or Blade Runner.

Basically, what AK wrote is that a future Artificial Super Intelligence could well create evolution as a means to bootstrap the inert material world to efficient technological accelerationism once the Technosphere comes into full functionality.

Thanks. Still not basic enough for my understanding but it does sound like the kind of stuff one puts his mind in after a big real life disappointment. The relevant part for me though is not the meaning of his words but how he chooses them and how he conscious or unconsciously comes across to a normal audience. At the beginning of the war he became moderately famous with people like Hanania interacting with him and even some presence in the MSM iirc.

Caught another old pirate flick last night, The Black Swan (1942).

Thanks for the review. The Black Swan seemed okay and who can argue with O’Hara. Tyrone Power, a very good actor, was very shortly going to be in the Marine Corps once the filming for the movie was over. Too bad the 3 to 4 pack a day smoking habit he had did him in at only 44 years of age.

Thanks for the movie trailer clip.

I was mildly disappointed to see at the end of it that the film title was not Devil-May-Care Philanderer, as the trailer still indicated and which sounded pretty good, but was ‘merely’ Captain Blood.

Oh, well. 😉

Two images that show exactly what’s going on.

Know Your memes.

“Important thing to understand about Noviops is that both government and opposition in Russia consists of Noviops. They are relatives and they are foreign for the majority of Russia’s population: ethnic Russians.

So Russian “democratic opposition” can never win popular vote. For ex Kasparov is armenian jew from Azerbaijan. He can’t explain why he even bother to do politics in Russia. He has zero political perspectives in democratic Russia. Navalny is Ukrainian with Ukrainian wife from western Ukraine, his team is 90% Tatar Jewish Ukrainian etc. Milov is Bulgarian Jew. Take any significant “Russian” “opposition” figure and be sure it’s not ethnic Russian. This applies to gvmnt as well.

So political process in Russia is a fuss of small minority ethnic group and does not represent Russian people AT ALL.”

Noviop.

All history was complicated.

There will be reconciliation. It is coming. At least, in the EE, not sure about Russia. They might take longer.

Karlin spent too much time in California. Maybe he’ll eventually return there

Hard to envision how. He must surely have lost his green card since then, if he had one. And he must already be on the FBI’s radar. Hard to convince them that he’s escaping Putin’s regime lol.

I suspect he will have to stay in Russia, hoping that AI and CRISPR fixes things. Incidentally, some of his portrayals of Russia as a sane country where many things worked better than in the West made me think that Russia could be a good alternative if the political and social situation in the US deteriorated too much. The Altai mountains area, close to China and Mongolia, or perhaps the Caucasus seemed to approach the kind of natural environment that I need. Not anymore, once Putin decided to show the world what kind of country Russia really is.

Beware of the Noviop bringing gifts, either in RusFed or anywhere else.

And where would Ukraine be today without the weaponry and ammo providedby these gift givers?

An overrun country that would be glued unwillingly to a belligerent and authoritarian RusFed, something that Ukraine has been struggling against for many centuries. Russian empire building has meant a loss of meaningful statehood and ethnicity for the vast number of Ukrainians. There will not be many janisaries, like our Professor, left in Ukraine after the dust settles. The real “giftgivers” have been the Russians, always ready to give, but with a big stick (instead of cookies and milk) hidden in the other hand.

Putin Says Ukraine Doesn’t Exist. That’s Why He’s Trying to Destroy It.

Is a turn towards Moscow really realistic today? These are the options Ivashka, either Nuland and her cookies or Putler with his cruise missiles and bombs. Which one would you opt for?

Blackguard, Vanguard & State secret own the largest stakes in:

Oil & Gas Distribution
Truck Engines
Truck Manufacturers

&

Each other!

A lot of famous supposed quotes, when you check up on them, turn out that if they even had been spoken at all, to have been so post edited in the years after they had originally been uttered that it is questionable if their original point had remained intact.

After doing some checking on the abridged purported quote below by the prominent US journalists John Swinton (1829-1901), it does seem that he (more, or less) had actually spoken something along the lines below, italics in original.

For background, Swinton had been asked at a gathering of journalists in New York City in 1883 to give his response to a toast to ‘the independent press’. Being nauseated by the idea, he tried to back off saying anything, but after being called repeatedly by the other attendees to speak on the subject, Swinton finally gave in, and to cleanse his soul he spoke the truth.

[In theory, within the broadly controlled and manufactured Capitalism vs Communism dialectic, Communism is supposed to correct the error Swinton describes within the Capitalist press. But, if it’s the very same people who control Capitalism and whom corrupted it, also control the supposed corrective of Communism…What then? What is to stop the whole dialectic from eventually being corrupted, in the same way the present ‘progressive’ US government, quite far along now in the dialectical synthesis of Capitalism and Communism, is now thoroughly and utterly corrupt?]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swinton_(journalist)

https://archive.org/details/newrepublicfound00scherich/page/122/mode/2up

‘There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion….The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary…We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.‘

Incidentally, some of his portrayals of Russia as a sane country where many things worked better than in the West

From my pov there was always a fundamental tension in this regard…he criticized “Russophobia” within the West (and often with good reason, even now there’s quite a bit to criticize with all that self-righteous talk about “orcs” and similar war hysteria), yet promoted the imperialist-chauvinist garbage of people like Kholmogorov (who of course also hasn’t volunteered for the Z-operation) and made comments betraying the very megalomania Russians are typically accused of (e.g. I’m pretty sure that reiner tor or me got him at one point to say that “of course” Russia should have had hegemony over Eastern Europe – or even more than that – because its culture was intrinsically superior and the opinion of the locals didn’t matter anyway). And the things he wrote in February 2022…”the FSB is coming for the rainbow people in Kiev”, “the mother of Russian cities is coming home”, “the war is about capturing Ukraine’s human capital” etc…really should be repellent to anybody who isn’t invested in Russian nationalism, like he went out of his way to confirm the worst stereotypes. tbh I don’t think it speaks well of professional contrarians like Hanania that they totally overlooked this dimension (of course there’s also the issue that Karlin was simply wrong about the course of the war in the first weeks/months).

…not sure about Russia.

Without Russia there can be no real reconciliation in EE.