idiotWhy would right-wingers choose this week, of all weeks, to resurrect the climate wars?  

 

If there’s one thing this awful week has made clear, it’s that Australia – and indeed the world – needs to do a lot more to adapt to our changed climate, and to prevent further climate change. We didn’t need Monday’s terrifying IPCC report to tell us this, although it certainly added fuel to the fire.

 

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With events in Ukraine having obliterated other stories it is worth noting that truckers are still driving from California to DC, but other regular people have totally forgotten about the convoy, the virus, and the vaccine, etc. The war ended the pandemic overnight. Everyone is now proffering an opinion on who started it, who is trying to achieve what, who will suffer most, and who will benefit most from the conflict.

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It is somewhat useless to make comparisons between leaders of whatever human endeavours, through out history, unless you an angry ignoramus. Hitler was seeking revenge. The US leaders since Truman have sought “CONTROL” of the planet. This is why Joe Biden-the-Ditherer beat Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard from Hawaii for the top job. If you think the choice was fair and above board, think again. DEALS WERE MADE to make sure Biden got the gig, because the other two were not on the page of conquering and controlling the world. 

Obama helped the NATO push “towards” Ukraine and Georgia (2008). Despite what the leaders of the “free world” are saying today that Ukraine was not on NATO’s present menu, it is nonetheless on the back-burner. The US financed the Nazis in Ukraine. 

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In October [2012], Newsweek announced that it will be moving to an all-digital format in 2013. That means that this post-election issue aside, there is only one print issue left.

With its history of iconic and controversial covers, Newsweek unsurprisingly went for a less-than-conventional cover.

 

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It is difficult work to give an accurate account of events in Ukraine. The Western media is entirely useless, consisting of fake news reports of Russian atrocities, casualties, defeats, and endless meaningless threats from impotent Western “leaders.” Ukrainian news reports are even more ridiculous than the Iraqi ones during the US invasion. Moreover as the Ukrainian cities and remaining forces are encircled and trapped, the Ukrainian media cannot serve as news sources as they are also cut off.

 

 

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is more concerned with potential threats from outside the nation rather than focusing on domestic problems, writes Hannah Thomas.

 

THE RECENT FOOTAGE of Prime Minister Scott Morrison lifting his safety visor and staring directly into blinding flames while welding for a photo op encapsulates the reckless idiocy that has defined his prime ministership and made us all less safe.

 

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A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse (?*) into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era.

 

Enrique Prado found himself in his first firefight at age seven. The son of a middle-class Cuban family caught in the midst of the Castro Revolution, his family fled their war-torn home for the hope of a better life in America. Fifty years later, the Cuban refugee retired from the Central Intelligence Agency as the CIA equivalent of a two-star general. Black Ops is the story of Ric’s legendary career that spanned two eras, the Cold War and the Age of Terrorism. Operating in the shadows, Ric and his fellow CIA officers fought a little-seen and virtually unknown war to keep USA safe from those who would do it harm.

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In view of the unrest that US intelligence services have been actively initiating lately, whether in Central Asia, Transcaucasia or other areas bordering Russia and China, the risk of a biological disaster from multiple secret military biological laboratories deployed by the US in potentially politically and socially unstable regions is objectively increasing.

 

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War in Ukraine Forces Israel Into a Delicate Balancing Act

Israel is a strong ally of the United States, and its leaders have a good relationship with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s Jewish president. But Israel also doesn’t want to provoke Russia.

 

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A couple of days ago, I watched a YouTube interview of JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER (JJM) by Tom Switzer of CIS. Switzer is the head honcho at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS). We’ve already mentioned JJM for his great insight on how China and Russia became world powers “again”... And something clicked in my mind. I don’t know if I am right, but by the end of the interview which explained how China rose to become a strong nation — of course created by the USA... OF COURSE, what would the world be without the USA creating something? — the urgency of containing China’s influence in Asia/South-East Asia was strongly indicated by Switzer and JJM. Keating’s recent rant about our ScoMoSon government making a mistake by antagonising China, was mentioned and Keating’s views were shown to be bad for Australia by JJM and Switzer… blah blah blah...

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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