Today, we continue on our “news” during the great decoupling / establishment of a new geopolitical order. In this installment, we include a host of subjects that vary from Ukraine, to delicious food, Chinese girls, and fine family meals out of America in the 1960s.
Apparently plans are already being laid to remove Zelensky once the hot war comes to a close.
Commentry from others…
Like other FA articles by neocon/neoliberal Melinda Haring, the article begins with the same nonsensical rhetoric, war propaganda and nonsense – written to prove her neocon loyalty and to urge Congress so to keep the arms flowing because Ukraine is winning based on Ukraine’s propaganda. So confident in this outcome, Haring urges that planning begin now for post-war reconstruction using neoliberalism as a model. To promote this, she unabashedly states the "invasion may well provide an opportunity for the democratic and economic leap forward that Ukraine has never been able to realize" – just like those invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya created such opportunities. And apparently this post-war planning includes getting rid of Zelensky and installing Western puppets to direct their economy and Ukrainian courts. Sounds like 2004 Bagdad to me. To set the stage for installing these puppets, she begins by criticizing Zelensky without naming him: "Before the war, the country was hampered by terrible governance" then goes on to acknowledge Zelensky for “his physical courage and bravery but also for his defiant and soaring rhetoric” that his CIA handlers feed him. But she quickly follows this faint praise of Zelensky with: "Kyiv must avoid putting heroic but inexperienced war heroes in charge of the reconstruction process." Clearly she is setting up the justification for removal of Zelensky after the war. Furthermore, she declares that a non-Ukrainian is needed to manage the Ukraine economy, along with a private (corporate controlled) court system run by foreign judges. She closes her fantasy government by invoking Mikheil Saakashvili as a model politician, the gangster and corrupt con-artist who fled from Georgia and then from Ukraine followed by corruption charges.
Articles on Ukraine out of the West has entered science fiction
"Now, the situation has changed dramatically. Major Russian maneuver units have been all but destroyed, The Russians are reduced to employing second or third-rate troops and leaders as well as foreign auxiliaries acquired in earlier campaigns and outright mercenaries who are presumably the household troops of some warlord. The objective and psychological situations cry out for a decisive assumption of the offensive by Ukraine."
From HERE.
Cute Chinese Girl
I wish that my clothes fit on me, like they do on this chick.
Door Porn 1
I have this thing; this “fetish” about well-made and well-constructed doors. Doors as art…
Agreement between the USA and the Ukraine
It’s all in “black and white”…
Scott Morrison says Chinese military base in Solomon Islands would be ‘red line’ for Australia
Scott Morrison says Chinese military base in Solomon Islands would be ‘red line’ for Australia, US – ABC News
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Scott Morrison says China building a military base on Solomon Islands would be the “red line” for Australia and the United States, but did not say how Australia would respond if it happened.
Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine [5K] 1967 (Stereo)
Here’s a trip back to the groovy 1960s…
1967 (Stereo)”]Door Porn 2
Come on! Aren’t they beautiful? This is a craftsman style front door. (Poor resolution photo. Sorry.)
Top American officials meeting in Honiara to discuss China pact with Solomon Islands
The United States is NOT happy.
From HERE
Top United States officials are meeting with the Solomon Islands government on Friday as Honiara's security pact with China continues to simmer. The White House officials, who are led by Kurt Campbell, US President Joe Biden's Indo-Pacific coordinator, are on a tour of three Pacific Island countries. The controversial China-Solomon Islands security pact was signed this week with Australia, New Zealand, and the US all raising concerns that it will open doors for Chinese military into the Pacific. The draft text of the deal, which was leaked online last month, says Chinese warships could stop in Honiara and China could send police and armed forces there "to assist in maintaining social order". ... The US embassy in Port Moresby has said the US delegation has discussed the China-Solomon Islands agreement with Fiji and Papua New Guinea over the past two days. The embassy's statement also said Campbell's delegation will also discuss "plans to open a US embassy in Honiara".
Readers should understand that Solomon’s decision to sign the security agreement with China has some historical background and practical reasons. There was a riot in 2021 in Solomon specifically targeting the Chinese and Chinese businesses. Rioters were gathering in Chinatown, destroying and setting up fire on Chinese shops and houses.
Solomon decided to switch diplomatic relationship from Taiwan to China in 2019. Usually, a foreign policy change of this type does NOT even generate much news in any country, let alone large scale protests or riots like 2021 Solomon. What happened was the works and sponsorship of foreign agents (Taiwan, US, Australia) to pressure Solomon.
US has been very unhappy that many of the dozen of countries having relationship with Taiwan want to switch side to China. Recent switches includes Nicaragua, Kiribati, etc. US put a lot of pressures on these nations – using both diplomatic/security threats as well as foreign aids as weapons.
Unsurprisingly, US is extremely furious about Solomon’s defection in 2019.
Australia, acting like a deputy henchman of a gangster, regards Solomon as the “backyard” of its own. They both sent high level teams to Solomon to warn against signing the security agreement with China.
Australia has been so ridiculously paranoid and edgy about China that even a Chinese fish processing factory in Papua New Guinea is causing “serious” security concerns in the country. Likewise, when China was helping Tonga with humanity aids after the recently volcano eruption, Australia and US expressed concerns. (FYI: Distance from Australia to Tonga: 5000 km/3000 miles, distance from Australia to Solomon 3000 km/2000 miles).
On the other hand, Australia has no problem sending navy warships to South China Sea and East China Sea, conducting jointed and live military exercises with US and Japan, patrolling spy planes and submarines in areas that were hundreds or even tens of miles from China.
Aberdeen Beef Pie
When set in the middle of the table, this hearty beef pie is the center of attention. With chunks of tender beef and tasty vegetables under a flaky pastry crust, this pure comfort food will welcome your family home. —Peggy Goodrich, Enid, Oklahoma
Door Porn 3
Oh my. Sigh!
Russian Capture
Russia captures an insane blockbuster stash of Ukrainian weapons left in a factory. An estimated 100,000 tons!!
The Consequence of a NATO “false flag” using WMD in Ukraine…
Thank you for your concern over looming nuclear apocalypse -- a more imminent threat to me now than at any time in my several decades on this freaking planet. I think if NATO stages a nuclear false flag in Ukraine, Russia might decide the time has come to massively retaliate, directly against Western capitals. Martynov's latest rap focuses on the same subject: what are the odds of things going nuclear? The West can only conduct narrative, not modern warfare -- so what ensues when their fragile narrative inevitably implodes? Some analysts (not just Martyanov) think the nuclear false flag could be fairly likely, fairly soon, depending on the whims of people like Victoria Nuland -- the lunatics running Western policy. Martyanov presents archetypal DoD lunatic Douglas Feith -- the one who cooked up the "weapons of mass destruction" lie about Iraq -- as a template of the personality-type charged with making decisions such as this one: whether to go ahead with a nuclear false-flag. It was US General Tommy Franks who offered the opinion that Feith is "the fucking stupidest person on the face of the earth". -Aleph_Null
Nazi’s will be Nazi’s
Azov battalion soldier calling for the cutting-off of the heads of the children in the Donbas, this comes on top of a Ukrainian doctor calling for the castration of Russian troops, and then there’s this, Ukrainian TV host Fahrudin Sharafman quoted Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust, and called on air for the killing of Russian civilians, including children.
Door Porn 4
Aren’t these doors beautiful? This is in a Craftsman style home.
War as a distraction
Maybe so, maybe not. Anyways, something to think about.
Dear friends and fellow comentators: You are being deceived. Please stop over-analyzing the little war in Ukraine and commence fighting the really big, real war that it has been exploited to ignite. Thank you. I have become convinced that the agencies of the Western ruling eleets have been cultivating the Ukrainian NAZIs since long before the 'Maidan Revolution' took place in Ukraine in February 2014 to exterminate the de facto Russians largely in the Eastern side of that territory. The NAZI's massive attack upon the de facto Russians, in conjunction with the attempt to enrole Ukraine in NATO, forced Russia to intervene militarily. All of this was done primarily to construct a war theater in which the Russians could be accused of perpetrating atrocities and war crimes in order to poison the minds of the U.S and E.U. citizens so as to direct hatred toward Russia and President Putin. This is necessary because the USian and EUian population must be distracted from the fortcoming Great Depression-II that is about to engulf the West. It will probably not occure in the East, so this distraction and hatred is absolutely necessary. The real war is not in the Ukraine: The real war is occurring within the minds of the subjects of the Western totalitarian dictatorship. You my friends are the real soldiers. -blues
What Russia thinks and says…
All in variance with what is reported in the MSM “news”.
About two weeks ago, Putin said the following:
“Today, the system of the unipolar world that developed after the collapse of the Soviet Union is being destroyed, that’s what is most important. The main thing is not even the tragic events taking place in the Donbas and Ukraine, because this is not the main thing. Much is said that the United States is ‘ready to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.’ And they say, and we say, in fact, this is how it is. That is the quintessence of the events taking place.” [My Emphasis]
Lavrov about the same time said the aim of the SMO is to end the Outlaw US Empire’s hegemony.
Those facts ought to have enormous influence on any analysis of the current situation. Furthermore, two other facts must be added to the scales–China/Russia’s 4 February Joint Declaration and Xi Jinping’s Boao Forum Speech–of the overall Geopolitical equation wherein our Hybrid Third World War’s centered. And all that has bearing on Guterres talks with Lavrov tomorrow:
On April 26, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will hold talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will arrive in Moscow on a working visit. The focus will be on issues related to the crisis situation in Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR, which has developed as a result of the eight-year conflict unleashed by Kiev against the population of Donbass. The interlocutor will be informed about the progress of the special military operation carried out by Russia in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter. It is also planned to touch upon a number of acute issues on the international agenda, including Syria, Libya and the Middle East settlement. Particular emphasis will be placed on our unwavering support for the work of the UN and the provisions of its Charter, as well as the central coordinating role of the world Organization in world affairs. In addition, the parties will discuss the possibility of developing productive cooperation between Russia and the UN Secretariat. [My Emphasis]
Somehow a global view of the Big Picture needs to be adopted instead of the Westerncentric POV to which most of us are subjected. However, this Western saying is very apt: Pride goeth before the storm.
American CIA & Military running Ukraine
What we're seeing is conclusive evidence that Ukraine isn't being run by Ukrainians but by CIA and State Dept flunkies who've actually been in control since 2014. Putin has already confirmed Outlaw US Empire/NATO policy is to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. Russia's clearly doing what it can to negate that policy but overcoming almost four generations of OUN genocidal Russophobia nurtured by the CIA is making that task difficult. There's too much evidence of intensive indoctrination of that dogma throughout Ukraine's military, not just the Nazi units, that's making it very hard for Ukrainian soldiers to save themselves. -karlof1
We can well expect this to be the case in Taiwan.
Interesting updates in the Ukrainian conflict
As the Russians advance and seize control, many NATO troops, American, Canadian, and British leaders are killed and captured. It appears that the entire Ukraine was / is festering with Western military, forces and equipment. One can well expect that to be the case in Taiwan as well.
On the southern front of the Ukraine, no real advances but some interesting updates. Firstly there’s been a lot of troop captures, including some near Malinovka just east of Hulipole. 17 were captured, pictured here:
Reportedly 2 of them were Azovs, 1 a foreign instructor, and one Croat. What’s interesting is that more and more we’re seeing foreign fighters among the AFU troop compositions. There’s been 3 different new videos showing fighters with British flags, this being one of them:
I posted last time a British flag on a liquidated fighter. Now also in the north Russians recovered a chevron that is said to be of a Sergeant in the French Foreign Legion:
Everywhere you look now on the battlefield there are foreign flags. Here’s an earlier video of the storming of Rubizhnoe, with American flags visible for some reason:
Now there’s reports that a Canadian General may be one of the high value targets trapped in Azovstal:
There is no real details about him being in Azovstal, and this appears speculation partly stemming from reports he hasn’t been “heard from” in Ukraine. However his departure to Ukraine is a 100% confirmed fact reported in Canada’s own press:
In fact the general was under fire for sex crimes and appeared to have “retired” and quickly fled to Ukraine to dodge repercussions. He’d make a good bedfellow to the Azovites in Azovstal. Some have even speculated that, since the alleged ‘American general’ who was purported to be trapped in Azovstal also has a similar last name that starts with a ‘C’ (Cloutier), that perhaps a mistake was made and all this talk of a trapped general is in fact this Canadian named Cadieu.
Now, a Turkish newspaper is claiming Macron abandoned over 50 French officers who are trapped in Azovstal:
“According to the source, these are high-rank French officers. They’re on the ground to ensure that Ukrainian military & neo-Nazis are able to use the weapons handed over by the Western countries. They are entrapped now and only way out to go through the corridor by Russian side.”
You can translate the article here:
On the topic of Azovstal, some interesting updates:
Firstly, more light is being shone on the insides of it, leaked pictures showing wounded Azov fighters and some of their milieu.
A video has also emerged showing the rotting Azov wounded festering in their subterranean dwellings:
Some Azov fighters manage to sneak out and are caught by the allied cordon around the plant. Here’s one who points out his own dead commander to the Chechens who caught him:
Here’s an Azov fighter captured by Chechens who begins showing them the maps of where the Azov group is hidden in the factory:
And a video of an ex-employee of the Azovstal who was once a shift supervisor there, who has volunteered his expertise to show the likely place where the main Azov group is hiding in the complex:
“An underground pedestrian tunnel passes under the plate shop, right under it the exit goes inside the shop, two exits – in the TLC itself. If the workshop is hot, then there is a powerful water supply system for cooling equipment and metal, and then there are necessarily powerful reinforced concrete sedimentation tanks there,” Chuprin said.”
As you can see, the operation to root the Azovites out still continues despite Putin’s decree to not ‘storm’ the complex. They are abiding by the decree but are simply going about it the smart way, figuring out exactly where Azov is in the complex and then finding a solution to root them out.
Door Porn 5
I just cannot help myself.
Never Ending Song Of Love- Delaney And Bonnie-1971
Here’s a trip back to the earth shoes and bell bottom 1970s…
Chinese big girl
This is what a more robust, big girl looks like in China. I like the look, but that’s just me. video 4MB
Why Are So Many Mysterious Fires Happening At Food Processing Facilities All Across The United States?
Everyone can see that something really strange appears to be happening, and now even Tucker Carlson is talking about it on television. For months, unusual fires have been erupting at important food industry facilities all over America. Last Thursday, I put together a list of 16 major fires that have occurred just since the start of the year. Unfortunately, since I wrote that article a couple more “mysterious incidents” have taken place. Very early on Saturday, firefighters were called out to battle a fire at a General Mills facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa…
An early morning fire at General Mills led first responders to the roof of the company to attack the flames from above. The call came in around 3:45am on Saturday at the plant located at 4800 Edgewood Road SW. First responders discovered hot spots where a vent stack makes contact with the roof. Steam and smoke were already visible. Crews reached the roof and confirmed the location of the fire below them with the help of thermal imaging. Firefighters removed roofing material and found the flames working their way through the ceiling and traveling with the vent stack.
Oddly, this fire erupted less than 48 hours after a plane crashed at a General Mills facility in Covington, Georgia…
Investigators spent Friday at the General Mills plant in Covington combing through the wreckage of a deadly plane crash that happened the previous evening. A twin-engine Cessna crashed into several semi trailers at remote part of the cereal plant on Thursday evening killing two people, the Covington Police Department said.
Is it just a “coincidence” that there were two major disasters at General Mills facilities within 48 hours of one another?
That is what some would have us believe.
Of course there have been a whole bunch of other “coincidences” happening lately too.
Less than a week ago, the headquarters of Azure Standard burned to the ground in a massive fire. CEO David Stelzer is admitting that all Azure Market liquid products will be out of stock for the foreseeable future as a result…
He also added, “For our customers, three primary product groups are affected due to the destroyed automated liquid pour facility, fruit packing facilities and carob products facilities.” He continued, “Because of this, we will experience out-of-stock status for Azure Market oils, honey and vinegars – basically any Azure Market liquid product – as well as our carob products for the short term. We are not yet at fruit harvest, so no immediate impact will be experienced from the loss of our fruit packing facility. None of the products we distribute for our vendors will be affected,” he concluded.
And just a few days before that, a “four-alarm fire” destroyed a very important food processing facility in Salinas, California…
Authorities Thursday lifted all evacuation and shelter-in-place orders in an area of Salinas where a four-alarm fire sparked a day earlier at a food processing plant, prompting fears of a possible explosion and hazardous plume of ammonia, city officials said. The fire was initially reported at about 7:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Taylor Farms processing facility on Abbott Street and prompted an order early Thursday for evacuations affecting an estimated 2,700 people and a shelter-in-place order affecting an estimated 35,000 people.
If these were isolated incidents, perhaps we never would have even taken notice of them.
But they aren’t isolated incidents.
In fact, fires have been mysteriously erupting at America’s food processing facilities for many months.
This is absolutely not coincidental. pic.twitter.com/6pJsOEGIjd
— Kween JosieNN+ (@KweenJosie) April 23, 2022
Strangely, the latest fires happened during the same week that the FBI admitted that America’s farmers are now being specifically targeted by ransomware attacks…
A new warning right now for local farmers. The FBI says you need to be on alert for ransomware attacks. As KDKA money editor Jon Delano explains, those attacks on farmers could impact the rest of us at the grocery store. Whether it’s a dairy or poultry farm, a cattle farm, or a farm that grows grain, farming is a key part of Pennsylvania’s economy.
Could there be some relation between these two stories?
For now, the FBI is not saying.
And most of the talking heads on television are assuring us that there is nothing to be concerned about and that everything will be just fine.
Meanwhile, more fires continue to make the news.
On Sunday, it was being reported that “nearly a dozen wildfires” had just roared through key agricultural areas of Nebraska…
Sunday was far from a day of rest for firefighters across much of the state, as they continued to mop up nearly a dozen wildfires and remained alert for more. By Sunday morning, the Road 702 Fire in the Cambridge area covered 50,000 acres — a much larger area than the 33,000 acres burned in the April 7-9 fire in Gosper and Furnas counties. A management team from the Rocky Mountain area took command of the battle at 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
And a total of 20 wildfires are ripping across New Mexico as I write this article…
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed emergency declarations as 20 wildfires continued to burn Sunday in nearly half of the state’s drought-stricken 33 counties.
I don’t know how all of the things that I have discussed in this article tie together.
But what I do know is that all of them will have an impact on our American food supply.
As I have discussed previously, UN officials are warning that we are heading into the worst global food crisis since World War II.
Do you remember when millions of people died of starvation in the 1980s and there were endless appeals on television asking us to give to the hungry?
Well, authorities are telling us that what is coming is going to be much worse than that.
A “perfect storm” of factors is combining to create the greatest stress on global food supplies that we have seen in modern times.
But most of the talking heads on television want you to believe that everything is under control and that better times are just around the corner.
You can believe them if you want, but my recommendation is to get prepared for this crisis while you still can.
Door Porn 6
Another beauty.
Ten EU countries sold kit to Russia despite sanctions
2 x news: double head snake? India stiffens its criticism of Russia’s attack on Ukraine
2020 04 07: India stiffens its criticism of Russia’s attack on Ukraine
2020 04 19: India can criticize Russia’s Ukraine invasion – The Hindu
Girl in Han clothing
Han style clothing is popular within China. Nice. video 4MB
Swiss block German request to deliver ammo to Ukraine
Peppercorn Beef Top Loin Roast
A red wine sauce complements the brown sugar rub on the roast in this inviting entree. You can’t go wrong with this down-home dish!—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Door Porn 7
I suppose that that is the theme here. Eh?
Links on reports of CIA / Nazi cross training in Ukraine
The Mighty Wurlitzer Does an About-Face on Ukrainian Nazis
Posted by: Will 198 3-22-22
It’s like all the media forgot that they themselves were reporting on the neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine as far back as eight years ago. In fact, it’s like all the MSM (*) outlets were told what to say back then, and what precisely opposite things to say now.
EUROPEAN “JUSTICE”
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ignored ALL 689 COMPLAINTS filed against Kiev for its slow motion killing of more than 14,000 civilians in the Luhansk People’s Republic in the past 8 years. -Luhansk ombudswoman Victoria Serdyukova
Article – https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/06/14/us-house-admits-nazi-role-ukraine
Article – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-neo-nazi-question-in_b_4938747
Article – https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-heartbreaking-irony-of-winter-on-fire/tnamp/
Article – https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/06/opinion/speedie-ukraine-far-right/index.html
Article- https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/18/yes-there-are-bad-guys-in-the-ukrainian-government/
Article – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
Article – https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/analysis-u-s-cozies-kiev-government-including-far-right-n66061
Article – https://www.rferl.org/a/azov-ukraine-s-most-prominent-ultranationalist-group-sets-its-sights-on-u-s-europe/29600564.html
Article – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27173857
Article – https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/
Article – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary-idUSKBN1GV2TY
Article – https://fair.org/home/denying-the-far-right-role-in-the-ukrainian-revolution/
Article – https://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-government-far-right
Article – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpV16BQfbrQ
Article – https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-collusion-with-neo-nazis/
Article – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary-idUSKBN1GV2TY
Article – https://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda
Article – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment
Article – https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/
Article – https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-america-training-neonazis-in-ukraine
Article – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/10/ukraine-azov-brigade-nazis-abuses-separatists/24664937/
Article – https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/
And then there’s this list (some duplications)
Article – https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-msms-ukraine-amnesia?s=r
The Hill – The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
Time – How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members
USA Today – 15,000 Ukraine nationalists march for divisive Bandera
New Republic – Fascism returns to the continent it once destroyed
NBC – German TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
Foreign Policy – Yes, There Are Bad Guys in the Ukrainian Government
CNN – Rein in Ukraine’s neo-fascists
NBC – U.S. Cozies Up to Kiev Government Including Far Right
Salon – Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?
Reuters – Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
BBC – Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector
BBC – Ukraine conflict: ‘White power’ warrior from Sweden
Foreign Policy – Preparing for War With Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom
The Guardian – Ultranationalism in Ukraine – a photo essay
Huffington Post – The Neo-Nazi Question in Ukraine
The Nation – The Heartbreaking Irony of ‘Winter on Fire’
The Guardian – Azov fighters are Ukraine’s greatest weapon and may be its greatest threat
The Nation – America’s Collusion With Neo-Nazis
The Nation – Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
USA Today – Volunteer Ukrainian unit includes Nazis
Foreign Policy – There’s One Far-Right Movement That Hates the Kremlin
Aljazeera – Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?
Daily Beast – Is America Training Neonazis in Ukraine?
Radio Free Europe – In Ukraine, Ultranationalist Militia Strikes Fear In Some Quarters
Channel 4 – How the far-right took top posts in Ukraine’s power vacuum
Radio Free Europe – Azov, Ukraine’s Most Prominent Ultranationalist Group, Sets Its Sights On U.S., Europe
NBC – Ukraine’s Hyper-Nationalist Military Summer Camp for Kids
Chinese Take Out
Good video. Video. 4MB
1788. China to Make Electric Tumbrils
By Fred Reed for the Saker Blog
We—I, and my spousal unit, Violeta—pulled into DC after a conventionally miserable flight from Guadalajara in seats apparently designed for dwarves with our feet almost in our pockets and Delta trying to sell us beer at seven dollars a can. I didn’t get it. If you can sell watery brew at seven balloonishly inflating greenbacks a can, why do you need an airline?
The occasion was a visit to a woman with whom I immediately became involved, though with Violeta’s permission. She weighs seven and a half pounds and has a smile that would make a dead man weep. This may have little geopolitical importance, though.
Anyway, the proud father celebrated having produced, or coproduced, a baby who probably deserves a world run by psychiatrically less fascinating adults, by taking about a dozen of us to Fogo da Something, a Brazilian restaurant on Pennsylvania across from the Trump Hotel. This costs $64 a head for all the meat and salad bar you could eat, desserts and drinks extra, so with tip you can crawl out, stuffed and economically depleted, for about $90. Salad bar good, desserts swell, meat tasteless. You can do better for a sixth the price at La Carreta, down the lake from us in Mexico.
The meal was a pre-guillotine experience, especially the restaurant. Or I hope so. The waiter says, “Hi! I’m Bruce and I am going to be your waitperson and do everything I can to make sure you have a wonderful, wonderful dining experience. We are orgasmically delighted to see you and….” When a waiter oozes like that, sure, he’s looking for tips, but I wonder, tips of what?
In Mexico waiters are courteous but you can tell they don’t want to sit in your lap or have a long-term relationship. In New York a waiter says, “What’ll it be?” and you say, “Eggs over medium, bacon on the side, cuppa mud,” and he says, “You got it.” Human. It gets the job done. You couldn’t write a Proust novel about it.
Anyway, the place was big, I’d guess between seventy-five and a hundred people doing the squat-and-gobble, likely disgorging on average a C-note per. This is DC, with the five richest counties in America, Montgomery, Loudoun, Fairfax, that kind of place, a city where the graft never stops, recession proof, where bribes run in freshets. Out there in Flyover Land, in Appalachia and the Rust Belt and the rural Deep South, families think going to Mickey D’s is a treat. And the swarming derelicts in the warm states increase in their medieval Ly diseased hordes.
Guillotine stocks. It’s the way to invest.
Washington is a rerun. In Paris in 1788 , creeping toward the Terror, the aristocracy was, like Washington’s upper crust, wealthy and schooled and cultured and cared not a withered farthing about the peasantry, as neither does Washington. Marie Antoinette didn’t really say, “Let them eat cake,” but they all thought it, and Hillary Antoinette, with her contempt for the Basket of Deplorables, expresses the same sentiment. There will be a price. Maybe anyway.
I spent two weeks in this diseased city wondering, “What are they thinking? The country is disintegrating internally, inflation growing like kudzu on a Georgia roadcut, living standards falling, the schools going to hell, and Washington is worried about…the Ukraine? Things crumble, resources are desperately needed domestically, and Washington buys the B-21, which Aviation Week prices at $640 million a copy of which, by design, you have probably never heard.”
It’s nuts. The racial situation is an intensifying disaster with continent-wide rioting, burning cities, ghetto kids graduating illiterate, desperate white people offing themselves with opioids, the rabble storming the Bastille—wait, this time I think it was the Capitol–but we need to raise prices by tariffs on China and Russia.
One night we went to eat with old friends from an earlier life. Like so many in DC, they were ninety-ninth percentile in intelligence, well educated, and decent people. We pondered, “Thai? Chinese? There’s a new Turkish place that’s supposed to be good.” Again, good people, though living in million-dollar houses, but…but…for much of the country Turkish, in some spiffy joint on Cap Hill or upper Connecticut Ave, would be the adventure of a lifetime. Washington has an ampleness of evil people, the Bidens, Blinkens, Victoria Newlands, Trump at one remove, but so many are just out of touch. There’s a new Turkish place in the city, and when was the last time they dined in Flint?
The media, a salt mine in which I once labored, are an embarrassment, utterly partisan, ranting and howling about Russia. OK, in war it is usual to cut the public off from information and to keep them stirred up with accounts of rape, human shield, “genocide,” chemical war, massacres, torture, a rule of television being to get a woman to cry and fill the frame. In Vietnam the media ran all over the country and actually reported what was happening, which eventually ended the war. This error is not being repeated.
{what bothers me is the apparent lack of curiosity, of doubt of official sources. Contrary to belief in some quarters, reporters are not given orders to adopt a particular point of view, though they know better than to contradict the publication’s line. No scribbler at the Washington Post will discuss racial differences in intelligence. But they are herd animals.}
Violeta, whose cynicism toward government—anybody’s government—would peel paint from a wall, watched a video clip purportedly of a Russian tank crushing a car occupied by Ukrainians. She noticed after research that the Russian tank was black without markings, like Ukrainian tanks, instead of green with markings, like all other Russian tanks. OK, maybe it was an undercover Russian tank. She also noticed in some of the Russian-destruction video, street signs are blurred out. Uh…, why dat? Anyone want to guess?
Why do reporters not pay attention? First, again, they are creatures of the pack. They live in the Beltway Terrarium, talk to each other, read each other, and so know they are right. Don’t their colleagues all say so? Second, they are painfully ignorant of matters military, knowing chiefly the bureaucracies involved in policy, contracting, and so on. This includes those for the WaPo, whom I knew—Gerge Wilson, Molly Moore, etc. As a comparison with the coverage of the Washington media, here is a piece by Scott Ritter, a former American intelligence officer stationed in, among other places, Moscow. It is long but contains the kind of knowledge that not one of the Beltways reporters, squalling, screeching, preening and yodeling has an earthworm’s grasp.
Why did Russia attack? Anyone who can read a map can see that since 1991 the US has been trying, with considerable success, to encircle Russia militarily. Russia has said over and over that it was not going to have American missiles on its border in the Ukraine any more than America would allow Chinese missiles in Tijuana. I encountered no one in DC who had even heard of this, though it has been going on for years. This is journalism?
Yes.
All things end, except those that don’t. On a cold rainy predawn morning we caught an Uber to Reagan National, returning to a country that has just left the Third World to one energetically returning to it. A stewardess aboard read the boilerplate about have a wonderful flight. She didn’t explain just how that laudable goal might be achieved. Remember, cometh the guillotine. Kachunk. Kachunk. Kachun.
“Russia & China, Together at Last”: Historian Al McCoy Predicts Ukraine War to Birth New World Order
This is something that I have been saying for years. Well worth the watch; “Push, Push, Punch”. Not long, but well worth it.
Cute Chinese girl
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The New Aim for Ukraine
Meanwhile the U.S. announced a vague new aim for its proxy war against Russia:
Austin was in Poland, answering questions from reporters after a brief trip Sunday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kyiv, where the pair met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials. The defense secretary was asked how he defined “America’s goals for success” in Ukraine. He first said Washington wants to see “Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country, able to protect its sovereign territory.” Then, he said, the United States hopes Russia will be “weakened” by the war. “It has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability,” Austin said. ... Speaking in a hangar in Poland filled with crates of humanitarian aid, including diapers, destined for Ukraine, the top Biden administration officials announced more than $700 million in new military aid to Ukraine and other countries, and said the United States intends to resume diplomatic operations in Ukraine this week.
All the diapers, weapons and munitions the U.S. and other countries supply to Ukraine will now mostly be stuck in west Ukraine where they will rot until some clever Ukrainian oligarch manages to sell them off to some third country.
This Island Earth
We end this installment with an old science fiction movie. If you have time on your hands, and want to go “deep” on a vacation to another time, this movie is for you.
Conclusion
When you are stable, and you have a good income, it is time to perform prudent and traditional methods of stocking your larders, building your relationships in your communities, and learning skills… as well as helping others, and being a Rufus.
This is an odd time. It’s a time of husbanding of resources.
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