How did sensitive government documents from President Joe Biden's time as vice-president of the United States end up in his garage?

That's one of the key questions a special counsel appointed by the nation's top law enforcement official will seek to answer in a probe announced on Thursday, local time, in Washington DC.

Imagine there’s a dumb tribe

It's easy if you lie

With hell below cry

Above us, Starlink sky

Imagine all nasty bad guys

Livin' in the USA

Ah

Imagine the NATO crimes more

It isn't hard to do

Everything to kill and die for

And with religion, too

Imagine all you like me

Livin' life as nazis

You

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only goon

And someday you'll join the USA

And the world will bomb as one

Imagine nazi aggression

I wonder if you can

Full of creed and anger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all fuck’d people

Burning the world all

You

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only grunt

And someday you'll join the USA

The Kalashnikov Group has had the biggest year in its history, massively increasing both production and the scope of contracts, the company announced on Thursday.

The Izhevsk-based group is Russia’s biggest manufacturer of small arms and which also makes machine tools and motorcycles. In the past year, the firearms production division achieved a 20-year record, producing 40% more military and civilian small arms than in 2021, Kalashnikov said. The tool-making division’s output also rose by 8% over the previous year.

Just in time, the fundamental faults of AUKUS are being exposed in Canberra and Washington.

This development is not only due to the mounting concern among Australian civil society groups. The Australian mainstream media are now discussing the hitherto unmentionable drawbacks of AUKUS. But it’s because two US Senators, Democrat Jack Reed and Republican James Inhofe (since retired) warned President Biden that the US can’t meet its own submarine needs, let alone Australia’s. They also cautioned about American statutes and regulations that would have to be changed.

 “I obeyed my conscience rather than the law,” ex-Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belén Montes declared on her way into a federal prison. Accused of spying for Cuba, she is a hero on the besieged island, where she foiled countless US destabilization operations.

On January 8, 2023 the US has to release a federal prisoner who is known as one its most notable opponents of treatment of Cuba since its revolution. She is Ana Belén Montes, and she will be freed after over 21 years in a federal military prison.

BY STANSFIELD SMITH

A new multi-story facility in the central Hubei province is being touted as the “world’s tallest hog breeding site” that will house tens of thousands of pigs, as companies seek to modernize the husbandry sector and satisfy the country’s growing appetite for pork.

The 26-story breeding facility came under the spotlight after its owner, Hubei Zhongxinkaiwei Modern Farming Co. Ltd., announced it would kick off production at the end of August, according to media reports. Located in the city of Ezhou, the mega farm will have two 400,000-square-meter buildings, all of which will be equipped with automated feeding machines and smart air filtration and disinfecting systems.

PHILOSOPHERS AND CARTOONISTS LIVE LONGER THAN DRAG QUEENS AND FOOTBALLERS….

IT ONLY TAKES A FEW YOUNG YEARS TO DEVELOP A BODY THAT CAN PLAY FOOTBALL OR TENNIS. 

MIND YOU, NOT EVERYONE HAS THE PHYSIQUE TO BECOME A SPORTS STAR, BUT MOST PEOPLE CAN AT LEAST SHUFFLE AROUND THE BLOCK, THOUGH THE INVENTION OF THE DRIVE-IN FAST-FOOD OUTLET WAS DESIGNED TO PUT A STOP TO THIS… 

SPORTS ARE ENERGETIC PASS-TIMES THAT ONLY DO REQUIRE A TINY BIT OF PHILOSOPHY: 

“MY PHILOSOPHY IS TO WIN THE GAME — AND TO DO BETTER NEXT TIME”. FULL STOP. END OF PURPOSE.

BUT SOONER THAN THE WILLOW OF A CRICKET BAT CAN ROT IN THE SUMMER RAIN, THE MUSCLES, THE JOINTS AND THE AGILITY OF THE SPORTS PERSON BECOME USELESS. 

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky framed American patrons by showing the world that the United States officially supports Nazism. Thanks to him, SS lightning bolts flashed not only in Kiev, but also in the U.S. Congress.

During his trip to the U.S. in December, Zelensky met with President Joe Biden and also addressed Congress. After his speech, he handed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris a Ukrainian flag with slogans and wishes written on it. Attentive journalists noticed the SS lightning bolts among the handwritten messages.

A former US intelligence official has confirmed that the shambolic Maidan remix staged in Brasilia on 8 January was a CIA operation, and linked it to the recent attempts at color revolution in Iran.

On Sunday, alleged supporters of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and  presidential palace, bypassing flimsy security barricades, climbing on roofs, smashing windows, destroying public property including precious paintings, while calling for a military coup as part of a regime change scheme targeting elected President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva.

BY Pepe Escobar

Even though one has become accustomed to seeing the United States government behaving irrationally on an epic scale with no concern for what happens to the average citizen who is not a member of one of the freak show constituencies of the Democratic Party, it is still possible to be surprised or even shocked.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an appearance via video at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night where he promised that his country would be victorious against Russian aggression.

After being introduced by actor Sean Penn, who has championed Zelensky since the war broke out in early 2022, Zelensky shared a pre-recorded message that thanked the United States for its continued support while adding that the “tide is turning” in the war.

“The First World War claimed millions of lives. The Second World War claimed 10s of millions of them. There will be no Third World War,” Zelensky said. “It is not a trilogy: Ukraine will stop the Russian aggression on our land.”

It is a constant of History: changes are rare, but sudden. Those who bear the brunt of them are generally the last to see them coming. They perceive them only too late. Contrary to the static image that prevails in the West, international relations have been turned upside down in 2022, mainly to the detriment of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, often to the benefit of China and Russia. With their eyes riveted on Ukraine, Westerners do not perceive the redistribution of the cards.

The world order already changed in 2022

by Thierry Meyssan

The unprecedented sanctions introduced against Russian individuals since the beginning of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine have drastically impacted the list of Russia’s wealthiest people, according to the latest estimates by Forbes.

Moreover, data tracked by the magazine shows that those remaining at the top of the country’s rich list saw their fortunes dwindling.

Alexey Mordashov, the chairman of steel giant Severstal, has led the list of the biggest losers, with his wealth dropping $11.1 billion during 2022 to $18.4 billion.

There always have been and always will be clashes and tensions between different civilisations. In the words of an old Tom Lehrer song, National Brotherhood Week:

The Protestants hate the Catholics,
The Catholics hate the Protestants,
The Muslims hate the Hindus,
The Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.

So sang a Jewish singer, some of whose ancestors, I believe, fled to the USA after the 1905 pogrom in Odessa, a city which for the moment is still in the Ukraine) (1).

By Batiushka for the Saker blog

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not an “unpleasant” man, Emmanuel Macron has said, but that cannot be an excuse for launching a “war” on Ukraine. The French president made the bizarre remark during an appearance on Saturday at Les Rencontres du Papotin, a TV program hosted by a group of journalists with autism.

Macron was grilled by the journalists on assorted issues, including his ties with Putin.

IS PUTIN A THUG? THE CLEAR AND DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO THIS IS AN EMPHATIC NO. THIS IS NOT THE VIEW FROM MOST OF THE WESTERN JOURNALISTS, THOUGH.