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Long before he became the President of Ukraine, actor-comedian Volodymyr Zelensky created, produced and starred in a political satire show Servant of the People. In the middle of the Ukraine-Russia war, netizens have dug up old videos of Zelensky from the show, that have gone viral on social media.

Servant of the People is about a high school teacher who becomes an “accidental” President of Ukraine after a video of his rants against the government goes viral. Ever since the Ukraine crisis, netizens have been sharing clips from Servant of the People, drawing a parallel to Zelensky’s current situation. 

 

It must be noted that a Russian channel in 2019 had pulled down a scene from the show which reportedly made a joke about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Goering: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in American, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.” 

 

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We know the expression. "An accident waiting to happen”... We know we are driving fast, we have miscalculated the sharpness of the curve in the road and our car flies off into the ravine. Simple. At a certain point we should have slowed down. When? This is the dilemma of avoiding inevitability. In takeoff and landing of planes, there are windows of procedures well-defined by the characteristic of the machines. Performing manoeuvres outside these windows and we will have an incident/accident/catastrophe. 

 

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According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine. But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. 

 

rhodesWar Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless  Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.

 

By Glenn Greenwald

 

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Kosovo does not have an official religion. More than nine-tenths of the people, including most Albanians, are Muslim. A significant proportion of Muslims are only nominally so; many do not regularly attend mosque services, although fasting for Ramadan is widely practiced.

 

This report by Wikipedia is full of contradictions... Who cares, we've liberated them in 1999...

 

But really....

 

 

PRISTINA: Kosovo has asked the United States to establish a permanent military base in the country and speed up its integration into NATO after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kosovo’s Defense Minister Armend MeHajj said on Sunday.

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Question: How Many innocent people have been killed in Donetsk and Luhansk since the Minsk Agreements?

 

One? 10? 5,000? 14,000 that’s about 1,800 a year for the last 8 years. Now: DID WE CARE? Nupe? Why not? Our Western media did not report much of this because the dead were RUSSIANS and it did not suit our narrative that supports the “integrity” of Ukraine which officially glorifies NAZIS — which the US do as well. The integrity of Ukraine? See the map of ethnicity… Ukraine signed an agreement and expressly refuse to adhere to it. Of course the bombing of RUSSIANS is a bonus in our Western minds. Any RUSSIAN is bad. We hate RUSSIANS...

 

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As severe flooding and its aftermath continues to devastate Queensland and northern NSW, Defence Minister Peter Dutton has happened on a novel way to help.

On Monday afternoon, there were flood evacuation orders for nearly 15,000 NSW residents, with defence forces dispatched to help bolster an already-stretched emergency response effort.

But it was another initiative entirely that drew criticism of Mr Dutton.

hillaryMore Questions About Russiagate

 

Durham seems intent on exposing the larger conspiracy, including the Russia dossier and electronic spying by the Clinton campaign.

 

Here are ten questions and answers about Special Counsel John Durham’s new filing in his Russiagate investigation.

1) Fox says one thing, and CNN says the opposite. Who’s right?

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We’re only three days into Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and yet the propaganda cogs are whirring fast as lightning, churning out “news”, opinion and content grist for the media mill.

In just the last 48 hours dozens of stories, images, narratives and videos have circulated as being taken from the fighting in Ukraine, a huge percentage of which are fake.

Now, some of it could be attributed to misunderstandings, mistaken identity, misattribution…but many and most are likely deliberate deceptions designed to provoke a response. Let’s dive right in.

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BY Kit Knightly

 

 

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The Hungarian-American financier has spent decades and hundreds of millions of dollars promoting “democracy” initiatives across Eastern Europe, including in Ukraine, where he supported both the first Orange Revolution in 2004, and the February 2014 coup which paved the way to the current crisis.

George Soros has compared the “brave” Ukrainian military facing off against Russian troops to actual World War II-era German forces, including the Waffen-SS.

 

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LUCAS FERRANTE AND PHILIP M. FEARNSIDE

 

SCIENCE • 23 Dec 2021 • Vol 374, Issue 6575 • p. 1569 

 

Brazilian agribusiness has led a lobby responsible for dismantling the country’s environmental and Indigenous legislation (1). In the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Brazil began proposing policies that were misleadingly presented as beneficial to the environment. The proposals made by Brazil’s Minister of Environment at COP26 followed the same pattern (2).

 

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RUSSIA IS COMMITTED TO BRING UKRAINE TO HEAL

(i.e. not be a member of NATO and respect the Minsk agreements)

 

UKRAINE CANNOT DEFEAT RUSSIA

 

NATO CANNOT DEFEAT RUSSIA, UNLESS WORLD WAR THREE IS DECLARED. SAY GOODBYE TO THE PLANET OF HUMANS, WELCOME THE COCKROACH OVERLORDS...

 

RUSSIA HAS NO INTENTION OF "INVADING POLAND, ETC".

 

SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN INVESTMENTS COULD LEAD TO COMPLETE SHUT DOWN OF THE RUSSIAN GAS NETWORK TO EUROPE.

 

THE SOLUTION IS EASY FOR THE WEST: MAKE AN AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA THAT UKRAINE WILL NEVER BE A NATO MEMBER NOR AN ASPIRING MEMBER AND THAT THE MINSK AGREEMENT WILL BE RESPECTED. RESPECT THESE AGREEMENTS BY NOT TRYING TO MOVE EAST INTO THE "HEARTLAND"...

 

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When Russia’s Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the U.S. archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We’re not changing that.

In the Bucharest declaration of 2008, NATO had put Ukraine and Georgia, ever farther east in the Caucasus, on a path to membership in NATO and coverage under Article 5 of the treaty, which declares that an attack on any one member is an attack on all.

 

Unable to get a satisfactory answer to his demand, Putin invaded and settled the issue. Neither Ukraine nor Georgia will become members of NATO. Russia resolved that it would go to war to prevent that from happening, just as it did on Thursday.

Putin did exactly what he warned us he would do.

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Golfer Phil Mickelson’s candid comments about human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, which is backing the new league he is promoting, have drawn a swift backlash from the PGA and long-time sponsors.

Mickelson and his foundation were scratched from the PGA Tour event in the California desert as the fallout from his shocking remarks continued.

In an astonishingly unguarded interview, Mickelson said that despite believing Saudi Arabia was guilty of human rights abuses, he saw the Saudi-backed breakaway league as a lever to change the PGA Tour.