There's a key difference between the classified documents found at a former Biden office and the ones Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago, national security expert says.

 

• CBS News reported Monday that classified documents were found at an office used by President Biden.
• The documents were found by Biden's attorneys and provided to the National Archives.
• A legal expert said Biden's team appears to have done "exactly what you're supposed to do."

 

A US attorney is reviewing a handful of classified documents found at President Joe Biden's former office in Washington, CBS News reported Monday.

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.

“When you meet him like that, he’s not unpleasant. That’s the paradox,” Macron stated, adding that “there is nothing to justify starting a war.”

The French president also expressed his view of the roots of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, alleging that the true goal of Putin was the restoration of the Russian “empire.” Macron, however, did not elaborate on how exactly the ongoing hostilities might help achieve this alleged goal.

On his Youtube channel, renowned German economics and finance expert Ernst Wolff constantly sheds light on the opaque world of global finance through his contributions and interviews. Complex relationships are reduced to the essentials and explained in an understandable way, even for laymen. In the section “Current commentary”, Ernst Wolff also takes a stand on current topics and shows the undersides and contexts that are not talked about in the mainstream media. Here is a comment about Elon Musk and Twitter:

For decades, U.S. scientists have led the world in documenting the risks of climate change, and U.S. diplomats have cast global warming as a dire threat in international fora. Those warnings rang hollow, though, because unlike many wealthy countries, the world’s second largest producer of greenhouse gases had never passed a law to substantially reduce those emissions. This summer, attempts to pass such a bill appeared doomed to fail yet again.

 

United States passes landmark climate law

BY PAUL VOOSEN

 

Prince Harry has accused the Royal Family of failing to defend his wife Meghan in the controversy over a Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column.

In an ITV interview, the Duke of Sussex said the "silence is deafening" about the "horrific" Sun article last month.

The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.

Il y a bien longtemps, trop longtemps

Que le Canard était marrant, amusant, désopilant

Informant et tranchant.

Mais maintenant le Canard est décevant, 

Et boring presque complètement.

 

C’est possible que le Canard represent le government

De l’hexagone sous la domination du Pentagone

Et la plupart des gens qui y vivent dedans —

Sont des français aux cent-mille fromages sentants

Qui n’ont plus aucune idée au sujet d’Antigone.

                         Jules Letambour

 

In November 2022, I brought a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for the Australian Government to disclose the basis of its non-acceptance of the reports that apartheid exists in Israel. Last week, DFAT rejected the request on the risible basis that to process it would “unreasonably divert the department’s resources.”  

I refer to my earlier article, Australia must clarify Israel’s status as an apartheid State published in Pearls and Irritations on 3 November 2022.

 

BY Paul Heywood-Smith

 

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates have admitted that Ukraine’s economy and military are almost completely reliant on bailouts from the West, and barring a dramatic turnaround, its chances of victory are slipping away.

Ukraine’s “economy is in a shambles,” the ex-diplomat and former Pentagon chief wrote in the Washington Post on Saturday.

The country’s “military capability and economy are now dependent almost entirely on lifelines from the West,” they continued, arguing that should Ukraine fail to mount a successful offensive in the near future, President Vladimir Zelensky will be pressured by the West to negotiate a ceasefire with Russian President Vladimir Putin – something the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly refused to consider.

A call from veterans and communist resistance fighters: THE ANTI-NAZI COMMITMENT OF STALINGRAD FIGHTERS IS MORE CURRENT THAN EVER! 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY OF STALINGRAD, RALLY on the initiative of the P.R.C.F., February 4, 2023, Paris, Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad.

The first post-cold war assault on Russia by the West began in the early 1990s well before the expansion of NATO. It took the form of a U.S.-induced economic depression in Russia that was deeper and more disastrous than the Great Depression that devastated the U.S. in the 1930s. And it came at a time when Russians were naively talking of a “Common European Home” and a common European security structure that would include Russia.

The Disastrous Russian Depression Resulting from Western supervised “Shock Therapy.”

 

BY John V. Walsh

 

Budapest and Kiev have suffered exceptionally poor relations for nearly a decade, owing largely to discriminatory laws against the estimated 150,000-strong community of ethnic Hungarians living in the southwestern Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia.

The source of the “stormy relationship” between Hungary and successive Ukrainian governments since the 2014 Euromaidan coup is no mystery, and stems from the criminally underreported-on problem of ultranationalists holding Ukrainian politicians and politics hostage, a Hungarian columnist has observed.

 

BY ILYA TSUKANOV

 

 

The year 2022 was a year of great transformation and great difficulty. To assess what lies ahead in the coming year, we might start with the fact that 2022 was the 50th anniversary of the publication of the 1972 study The Limits to Growth. It was not a prophecy, but an analysis of current trends. It said that, if nothing changed, we could expect the beginning of an irreversible decline of the world economy in the first decades of the 21st century. The result of the combined effect of natural resource depletion and pollution.

 

2022 has been a difficult year for climate and energy. But there is still some hope

 

From "Il Fatto Quotidiano" 

 

Di Ugo Bardi -30 Dec 2022

 

Western “liberal democracies” are just totalitarian regimes with more money and better narrative management. The US-centralized empire controls the global south with bombs, bullets and blockades and controls the rest of us with mass-scale psychological manipulation.

Sure it’s more pleasant to be sitting where we are rather than at the barrel of the gun, but don’t confuse pleasantness with freedom. It’s nice that here they let you criticize your government and buy whatever you can afford at the store. It would be pleasant to live in a vat with your brain plugged into a virtual world of endless pleasure, too, but it wouldn’t be freedom. Psychological tyranny is still tyranny.

 

 

A Norwegian lawmaker on Friday said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize, due to his conduct during the conflict in Ukraine. This is not the first controversial nomination coming from Christian Tybring-Gjedde. In 2020, the Progress Party MP said then-US president Donald Trump merited the same honor.

Stoltenberg “deserves the prize for his outstanding work as NATO’s secretary general in a demanding time for the alliance,” Tybring-Gjedde said in a statement quoted by Norwegian media.