Tuesday 29th of April 2025

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a think-tank of one: a philosopher and his bottle…

THINK-TANKS ARE PESTS — TOO OFTEN LIKE COCKROACHES, FLIES, LEECHES AND/OR MOSQUITOES. THEY SWARM OR SLIME WITH THE INTENT OF DISRUPTING THE NICE STATUS QUO. THE MAIN INTENT OF A MODERN THINK-TANK IS TO SUCK THE BLOOD OUT OF DEMOCRACY TO PROFIT ONE PARTICULAR GROUP (NOTHING NEW SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION).

A THINK-TANK CAN TOO OFTEN BE A WARMONGERING ORGANISATION DISGUISED AS A PEACEFUL WOLF.

WE’VE SEEN THE PNAC AND SUCH…

 

ALAIN DE BOTTON GETS IT WRONG ONCE MORE, AS ALWAYS, EVERY TIME, AGAIN, AS USUAL:

 

satirical analysis of a snowden job....

Abstract. The paper investigates basic images that were applied to Edward Snowden in American caricature. We also give examples of transferred meanings, pun, decomposition of set-expressions and analyze images that are deeply rooted in culture. All these form the basis for satire and irony in political cartoons.

 

E. V. Shustrova

Ekaterinburg, Russia 10.02.20 

 

It would not be an exaggeration to say that one of the most striking and scandalous political events of the summer of 2013 was the escape of former US intelligence agent Edward Snowden, his long stay in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and his permission to stay in Russia for the next year.

when philosophy was replaced by psychological manipulations and microchips in the USA.....

Neuralink, a startup co-founded by Musk in 2016, aims to develop a brain chip implant that it claims could one day help paralyzed people walk and blind people see. But to do that, the company has first been testing its technology on animals, killing some 1,500 since 2018 — and employee whistleblowers recently told Reuters the experiments are going horribly wrong.

he should have used scomo's miracle election butter.....

Criminal investigators have raided the Paris offices of French President Emmanuel Macron and US consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Le Parisien reported on Wednesday. Authorities suspect that McKinsey illegally funded Macron’s 2017 and 2022 campaigns.

The raids, which targeted the headquarters of Macron’s Renaissance party, its funding association, and Mckinsey’s French headquarters, took place on Tuesday morning, the newspaper wrote

Renaissance officials confirmed that a search had taken place at the party’s headquarters, but said that it focused solely “on the campaign side” of the office. McKinsey also confirmed that its premises had been searched, adding that it would “cooperate fully with the public authorities.”

scomo in the dock about scomo's baby.....

Former prime minister Scott Morrison says he was focused on tackling welfare fraud and not privy to departmental discussions over the legality of the disastrous robodebt scheme.

At several points while giving evidence to a royal commission into the scheme on Wednesday, Mr Morrison had to be told to stay on topic and listen to questions.

Robodebt involved using individuals’ annual tax information provided by the ATO to determine average fortnightly earnings and automatically establish welfare debts, an approach ruled unlawful by the Federal Court in 2019.

Mr Morrison was grilled over why the changes to welfare debt protocols were adopted despite concerns about their legality when he was social services minister in 2015.

when war is more profitable than education......

Humanity faces a grim fate because the global ruling class refuses to depart from the capitalist status quo even as their quest to maximize profits intensifies the climate crisis and the prospects of a nuclear war. But with enough solidarity, progressives around the world can build an egalitarian, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable society.

That’s the message shared by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who outlined his vision for how the left can work together to end the “global empire of capital” and forge a humane future — part of a Progressive International-led effort to chart a path toward a “New International Economic Order for the 21st century.”

 

avoiding war....

THE US EMPIRE WANTS WAR WITH RUSSIA.

THIS IS A GIVEN. 

RUSSIA DOES NOT WANT WAR WITH THE EMPIRE. 

SO RUSSIA HAS BEEN DOING EVERYTHING TO AVOID CONFRONTATION. 

 

THIS IS WHY RUSSIA “BELIEVED” IN THE MINSK AGREEMENTS.

THIS IS WHY RUSSIA SEEMS TO BE NON-CONFRONTATIONAL IN THE KOSOVO/SERB FLARE UP, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY ANOTHER US EMPIRE LITTLE START UP.

 

THE WESTERN MEDIA WON’T SEE IT THIS WAY. 

THROUGH A CLEVER AND EFFICIENT PROPAGANDA, THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IS PRESENTING A BARAGE OF SHEER LIES, INNUENDOES AND PORKIES THAT MAKES THE EMPIRE LOOK GOOD AND HONOURABLE. 

IT’S NOT.

 

a gap between the two front teeth.....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky predicted in an interview published Monday that, should Russian leader Vladimir Putin suddenly die, the Russian invasion of his country would abruptly end, as the Russian state would collapse and not have resources to continue.

Zelensky made the prediction in response to a question from David Letterman, who traveled to Kyiv to interview Zelensky for his Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Letterman explicitly asked how the war effort would continue without Putin, who Zelensky has held personally responsible for the war.

 

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fretting for war.....

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday that he fears a full-blown war between Russia and NATO is a “real possibility” in a rare acknowledgment of the dangers of backing Ukraine.

“I fear that the war in Ukraine will get out of control, and spread into a major war between NATO and Russia,” he said, according to The Telegraph. “If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong.”

 

By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com

 

angela's self immolation.....

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES WERE FULLY EXPOSED FOR ALL TO SEE ON THE FABRICATION OF “SADDAM HAS GOT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION” MANTRA. HE DID NOT HAVE… WE HAVE EXPOSED THE TRICK OVER AND OVER.

WE KNEW THAT BY 2002, BEFORE THE WAR ON IRAQ, THAT THE WHOLE CHARADE HAD BEEN CONCOCTED, FABRICATED AND SOLD BY THE US “INTELLIGENCE” AGENCIES (MOSTLY THE CIA) TO THE MASS MEDIOCRE WESTERN MEDIA THAT BOUGHT THIS MANTRA AS GOSPEL — BECAUSE LET’S NOT BE COY, THE WESTERN MEDIA LOVES WAR. BY THE END, THE MEDIOCRE MASS MEDIA DE MIERDA ALSO BOUGHT THE “INTELLIGENCE FAILURE” DECEIT, WHEN “NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION” WERE EVER FOUND. NOT EVEN A FAKE ONE, NOT EVEN A “PLANT”….

trading dreams.....

Once Russia ends the conflict in Ukraine, it should be given a chance to do business with Germany again, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday. He repeated that Moscow must and will not win, however.

A Russian government that ends the hostilities “needs a chance to restart economic cooperation, in another time when this is possible,” Scholz said in Berlin, at a meeting of the Eastern Committee for German Business (OA), a trade association focused on relations with Eastern Europe. “Now is not that time.”

lamenting preventations....

 

אונדזער פאטער, וואס לעבט אין גיהנום,
געהייליקט זאל זיין דיין פינצטערסטע פלאם.
אונדזער אמעריקאנער אימפעריע וועט קומען
צו באַפאַלן אומעטום,
ווי עס איז בליענדיק אין גיהנום.
געבן אונדז איצט אונדזער טעגלעך באַמינג קאַפּאַציטעט.
בשעת מיר מוחל אונדזער טרעספּאַסינג מיליטער,
אַזוי מיר טאָן ניט מוחל די פון דעם פּוטין בייז.
און פירן אונדז אין יאָדער נסיון,
אונדז צו באַפרייַען פון דעם רוסיש טייַוול.
פֿאַר אַמעריקע זיין די בלויז מלכות,
צו פאַרמאָגן די מאַכט און די כבוד,
פֿאַר קיינמאָל קיינמאָל נאָך WW3 ...
געוואלדיגע....
aundzer fater, vas lebt in gihnum,

 

 

MEANWHILE:

Chris Hedges: Israel & the Rise of a New Fascism

 

is america on the way to ingenuity again?......

Turning fusion power into a viable clean energy alternative is seen as key to maintaining human civilization’s present electrical use amid efforts to rapidly end the use of fossil fuels, which emit poisonous chemicals that are driving the climate change crisis.

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has confirmed media rumors, revealing that the department is preparing a big announcement concerning nuclear fusion energy on Tuesday.

 

 

According to US media reports, the scientists working on the project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created a fusion reaction with a net gain for the first time.

 

housing crisis in aussieland.....

House values in a string of sought-after Sydney suburbs have dropped more than 20 per cent over the past year, new figures show, and declines in some pockets of Melbourne and Brisbane are not far behind.

Popular inner-city and coastal Sydney suburbs have had median values plummet this year as consecutive interest rate hikes and affordability constraints reined in buyer demand and spending power.

The 10 largest house value drops nationally were all in Sydney suburbs, CoreLogic’s annual Best of the Best report, released on Tuesday, shows.

House values fell 26.8 per cent in Narrabeen over the year to November 30, to a median just shy of $2,593,000.

the train on platform 17 is not going anywhere.....

THE FIRST WORKERS STRIKE IS CATALOGUED BY THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS AS HAVING HAPPENED IN 1153 BC IN EGYPT. 

THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (YEAR BOOK 1981 — A GREAT YEAR FOR GUS) MENTIONS THE EARLIEST RECORD BEING IN 309 BC WHEN THE MEMBERS OF A GREEK ORCHESTRA WENT ON A STRIKE LED BY ARISTOS, THE BAND CONDUCTOR, IN ROME.

ONE MUST KNOW THAT CRITICS HATED "MUSICK" OR DERIDED THE FLUTE, EVEN BEFORE PLUTARCH, AS WELL AS AFTER…

 

“Spartans played upon the flute to alarm the enemy.

            Plutarch(45-120 AD)

 

Musick is almost as dangerous as gunpowder…

                  Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)

 

STRIKES BY WORKERS ARE THUS A PEST TO EMPLOYERS WHO EXPECT 110 PER CENT LOYALTY FROM THE SLAVE CLASS.

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