Murdoch

Journalism is about telling stories that are current and relevant to people’s life. Such information also is at the core of recording history… On politics, journalism is supposed to be objective, but it never is. NEVER. Show me a journalist who claims political objectivity and I will show you a liar... 

Journalists differ from historians recording of current events. Journalists rarely investigate the historical contexts nor the manipulations from the sources of their information. Historians have to dig below the events and see the greater picture of information influences. 

Thursday marks the 23rd anniversary of the start of the 1999 NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia. In 78 days, NATO jets conducted 2,300 sorties, dropping 420,000 missiles and bombs, including cluster munitions and depleted uranium rounds. Up to 5,700 people were killed, with tens of thousands more diagnosed with cancers in the years that followed.

Before entering the Oval Office as Barack Obama’s vice president and then as president himself, Joe Biden served as a United States senator for over 30 years. Ahead of, during and after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Biden was consistently one of the top hawks in Washington pushing for the conflict to be expanded into a full-on ground invasion.

It is our view (Gus’ and his old toothless mates who keep mentioning “in my day…” in the local retirement village) that the West became somewhat lazy on manufacturing and invention. The West has relied mostly on economic fiddles to survive and/or maintain the bourgeois life-style which is going down the drain in many places — as the new generations are often claimed to be “poorer than the baby boomers".

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The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war. 

President Joe Biden is caught in the middle of the fray. So far he is siding with the Defense Department, saying there cannot be a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine fighting Russian aircraft because “that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

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Of Russian bear trap and Taiwanese bait set by the USA… This is what the Western media won’t discuss so far…

HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED VERSION. Note *(asterisk) indicate long historical information — much of it already published on this site.

For the last few years, possibly since before WW1, the US has been planning wars with Russia and China (for the Heartland*).

The conquest of the Heartland* (also known as PIVOT — including "Pivot to Asia" according to US administration) has been planned by the “Christian” Anglo/Saxons hegemony (with the help of the Zionists), to destroy Russia and China  — and dominate the world. This has been organised since 1905*.

While revelations are multiplying about the exactions committed by Ukrainian banditry over the past eight years, Westerners continue to perceive only the suffering of the Ukrainian civilian population. They are unaware of the root causes of the war, as well as the events that led the Kremlin to unleash it. No matter, the banditry is losing and the great powers are preparing for peace.

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Ukraine : the great manipulation

by Thierry Meyssan

Military operations continue in Ukraine with two radically different narratives depending on whether one listens to the Western or Russian media. These two versions diverge not only in describing the war, but more importantly in describing the goals of the war.

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President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was forced on Tuesday to explain several legal filings in which she allegedly referred to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals” while she was defending terrorism suspects. Although Jackson had legal grounds to make the accusation, she denied directly implicating Bush and Rumsfeld.

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The West deliberately misunderstands China… Thus if we want a bit of propaganda on how good China is, we need to go to CGTN — the un/official voice of China. CGTN has great documentaries that show how China perceives itself — and how we should look at it. 

We must say that the Chinese would be perplexed: how a country such as Australia that rattles sabres every second day about “the Reds under the Beds” can be led by a fundamentalist lying idiotic Christian and his bunch of Duttonic devils?

Yes our ScoMo lies and, though he’s a minuscule apostrophe in the dictionary of useless leadership — like most powerful Western nations leaders, ScoMo believes in god and “miracles”. 

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US President Joe Biden raised eyebrows on Monday after he claimed a “new world order” would soon be established and that it was up to the United States to lead it.

During a speech at Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting, Biden claimed the world was at “an inflection point” which “occurs every three or four generations” and that it was up to the US to determine the outcome.

“As one of the top military people said to me in a security meeting the other day, 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946, and since then we’ve established a liberal world order and that hadn’t happened in a long while,” the president said.

“A lot of people died, but nowhere near the chaos, and now is the time when things are shifting,” he continued.

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Members of the opposition were even harsher than Hendel in their condemnation of Zelensky’s speech.

Likud MK Yuval Steinitz said it “borders on Holocaust denial.”

“War is always a terrible thing… but every comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it is, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution is a complete distortion of history,” he said in a statement.

A number of Religious Zionism MKs also criticized Zelensky, with the far-right opposition party’s leader, Bezalel Smotrich, slamming the Holocaust comparisons and accusing the Ukrainian leader of trying “to rewrite history and erase the involvement of the Ukrainian people in the extermination of Jews.”

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The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted.

The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China are starting to design a new monetary and financial system bypassing the U.S. dollar, supervised by Sergei Glazyev and intended to compete with the Bretton Woods system.

Saudi Arabia – perpetrator of bombing, famine and genocide in Yemen, weaponized by U.S., UK and EU – is advancing the coming of the petroyuan.

India – third largest importer of oil in the world – is about to sign a mega-contract to buy oil from Russia with a huge discount and using a ruble-rupee mechanism.

criminals

An article by Geoff Raby AO on Pearls and Irritations is more like getting a deadly rash from eating peanuts, than an irritation… It's vile… Geoff Raby AO is an Australian economist and diplomat. He served as the Australian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from February 2007 until August 2011.

Here he goes:

China’s top people see a successful country standing tall in the world. Now their leader is tarring it all by association with the wrecker and war criminal in Moscow.

GusNotes in ROMAN:

neutrality

Japan expansionism in the 1930s, which led them to bomb Pear Harbor in 1941, was about resources. Japan had invaded China to gain access to coal and oil. When the Japanese were stopped by the Chinese somewhat, they turned their sights onto the south-east Asian nations, from Thailand, Indochina, The Phillipines, Indonesia and Papua/New Guinea. 

From there, Japan had the resources needed, but they decided to prevent the USA from interfering. At the time the USA, under Roosevelt, had declared neutrality and “no weapons sales” to nations at war — especially to the UK…

Soon after the French and the English had once more declared war on Germany, only England was left to defend Europe. The Anglo-Saxon exclusive hegemony was under threat.

 bolton

"If Biden hadn't said anything about the possible deployment of Western troops in the past few months, it would have been better, for the security of Ukraine and for world peace", Bolton reportedly told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.

Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton raised eyebrows this week by telling a German publication that NATO and the US – under President Joe Biden – made a "big mistake" when they "repeatedly emphasised that there will be no intervention of any kind by Western troops in Ukraine".