Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born October 20, 1854, in the small French town of Charleville. His father, an army captain, abandoned the family when he was six.

A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.

The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.

The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.

Wouldn’t it be amusing to see an actual fly-on-the-wall job about Netflix’s new Harry & Meghan documentary? Imagine the scenes behind-the-scenes. The Duchess rehearses her crying face in consultation with her make-up specialist. The Duke glares at himself in a mirror. ‘I had to protect my family,’ he repeats over and over as he fingers his apricot beard. The lighting team try to coax along the impossibly capricious royals only to suffer their own nervous breakdowns after Meghan accuses them of disregarding her mental health.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/war-of-the-windsors-who-will-win-this-round/

THE SPECTATOR IS A RIGHT WING MAGAZINE. THE QUESTION IS “Can a leftie read the Spectator?”

Attacks deep into Russian territory carried out by Ukrainian forces confirm Moscow's fears that are behind the Russian military operation in Ukraine. NATO has plans to use Ukraine as an attack platform against Russia and this is the biggest threat to Russia's security since the USSR was dissolved.

by Luciano Lago

BEFORE READING THE ARTICLE THAT FOLLOWS, PLEASE CONSIDER:

THE WEST IS AFRAID/IRKED OF HAVING TO GIVE ANYTHING TO RUSSIA.

YET ANY NEGOTIATIONS HAVE TO PLY TO RUSSIA’S FAIR DEMANDS (THESE WON’T CHANGE, EXCEPT IN RUSSIA’S FAVOUR AS THE CONFLICT GOES ON. THE WEST KNOWS THIS):

*NO NATO IN UKRAINE.

*CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN

*THE DONBASS REGIONS ARE NOW RUSSIANS BECAUSE KIEV REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS

*FORMALISED WESTERN NON-AGGRESSION AGAINST RUSSIA (AND CHINA).

BIDEN* DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE ANYTHING TO RUSSIA, THUS THERE IS NOTHING TO DISCUSS. 

*BIDEN IS A DUPLICITOUS SENILE IDIOT WHO HAS LONG LOST THE PLOT AND NEEDS A TELEPROMPTER TO THINK.

PUTIN HAS MADE EVERYTHING CLEAR LAST YEAR:

*RESPECT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS

While the US distanced itself from Ukraine’s drone strike at two air bases hundreds of kilometers inside Russia, the German government’s spokesman said on Wednesday that Kiev doesn’t have to limit its war effort to Ukrainian territory.

“Ukraine has a right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter,”Steffen Hebestreit told journalists, when asked to comment on reports of explosions at the Russian airfields. “Ukraine is not obligated to limit defense efforts to its own territory.”

AS USUAL TIME MAGAZINE FALLS INTO THE SLOP. IN 1936, HITLER WAS ON THE FRONT COVER AND BY 1938, HE WAS THE PERSON OF THE YEAR.

HOPEFULLY, ZELENSKY WILL VANISH IN THE SAME MANNER AS HIS IDOL (HITLER/BANDERA) BEFORE HE SETS THE WORLD ON FIRE. LET’S NOT BE COY ABOUT THIS TURD. HE HAS PUSHED NATO TO START WW3 WITH RUSSIA. HE HAS PUSHED NATO TO USE NUKES AGAINST RUSSIA. PLEASE!

NOTE THAT TIME MAGAZINE HAD TO TART THE COVER UP WITH A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE TO PUSH THE POINT HOME, JUST IN CASE A SIMPLE PHOTO OF VOLODYMYR WOULD NOT SUFFICE.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will support “tough new laws”targeting labor actions, even suggesting an outright ban on walkouts by certain employees, after thousands of emergency workers announced upcoming strikes demanding pay raises amid soaring inflation.

Addressing MPs on Wednesday, Sunak warned that a wave of imminent strikes in multiple sectors, including healthcare and public transit, would cause major disruptions, saying he is prepared to do “whatever I need to do” to prevent work stoppages in vital industries.

EU nation MP hires witch aide

Many warlocks and witches are actively involved in Latvia’s politics, the witch insists...

Latvian MP Nataļja Marcenko-Jodko has hired a prominent local witch and ‘healer’ as her aide, official data on the website of the country’s parliament – the Saeima – shows. Her name is Sanita Petere, but she is more commonly known as the “White Witch.”

Latvian media outlets reached out to the witch herself for comment, with Petere insisting that the country’s parliament was just the right place for a woman in her line of business.

The defence ministers of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have met for the first time, endorsing a “pathway” to deliver nuclear-powered submarines. 

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles met with US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace in Washington DC under the AUKUS pact announced by then-prime minister Scott Morrison in September 2021.

In a joint statement, they said the three nations “reiterated their shared commitment to the partnership and reviewed progress on identifying a conventionally armed, nuclear‑powered submarine for the Royal Australian Navy”.

The statement expressed confidence the leaders of the three countries would make an announcement early next year.

They also agreed plans for joint military exercises in 2023 and 2024.

National Cabinet is to consider capping the gas price at $12 when National Cabinet meets Friday. At that high price, the government is gifting super profits to the gas cartel at the expense of Australian customers and industry. A price of $7, new research shows, still leaves solid profits for gas producers. Is $12 the gas cartel number? Rex Patrick writes.

National Cabinet will meet this Friday to discuss putting a $12 per gigajoule price cap on gas. But a new report released by the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) shows that the right price for a cap is $7 dollar, not $12. The research will be released today.

Billionaire George Soros has financial ties to at least 253 media organizations worldwide, helping him to mold public opinion and insulate himself from criticism, a new study by a conservative US watchdog group has found.

The 92-year-old, America’s biggest donor to Democratic political candidates and leftist causes, has built connections with press outlets and activist media organizations by bankrolling them through his not-for-profit groups, the Media Research Center (MRC) reported on Tuesday. The recipients of Soros’ money reach readers, viewers and listeners in virtually every corner of the world and in many languages.

Last Friday, Elon Musk dropped the "Twitter Files" bombshell via journalist Matt Taibbi. He detailed how Democratic operatives and FBI execs censored the "laptop from hell" story and Team Biden's political opponents prior to the 2020 election.

"The first batch of the Twitter Files proved that Twitter executives helped Joe Biden cover up the fact that he lied about not knowing anything about his son Hunter's business dealings. In fact, he not only knew about those dealings but was involved in them," Hans Mahncke, a US investigative journalist and co-host of "Truth Over News" on EpochTV, told Sputnik.

BY EKATERINA BLINOVA

This week’s issue [18 November 2022] on the 75th anniversary of the transistor describes a triumph of both basic and applied science. What started out as studies on the fundamental physics of silicon led to the device that makes it possible to read this article online. The coinventor of the transistor, William Shockley, who along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics, is correctly recognized as a primary architect of the computer age.

H. HOLDEN THORP

A few days ago, a terrorist attack took place in the center of Istanbul, Turkey. The details aren't important and I won't tell you about them anyway because I'm not a media whore who empowers terrorists by giving them free publicity. What is important is Turkey's official reaction to the official American condolences that were offered after the fact: Turkey refused to accept them. The head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Süleyman Soylu, put it bluntly: We do not accept condolences from the US Embassy ».

BY Dmitry Orlov

November 23, 2022