If you believe the Western media including The New York Post, Putin will retire on this glorious boat. With all the "intelligence" agencies of the West after his blood (not to give a single pint to the Red Cross, mind you), his real boat would be more like a navy destroyer with unmatched weaponry. And his "Castle" as described by Navalny would be more like a bunker with all mod comforts, about 1,000 metres below ground, near the north pole. 

But it's worth the tour...

This yacht makes a Bond villain’s boat look like a dinghy. 

morons

Western media and cultural figures have long compared the US’ official enemies to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Most recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been the target of such attacks, which have dramatically increased since the Kremlin launched its special military operation in Ukraine last month.

This cartoon posted on reddit (top of the "conspiracy" list?) "9 years ago" would have been posted on this site in 2008 by John Richardson. 

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW....

idiots

Russia launched an operation in February to demilitarise Ukraine after receiving a formal request for assistance from the newly recognised Donbass republics, who faced weeks of escalating shelling, sabotage and sniper attacks by Ukrainian forces.

Ukraine's air and air defence forces have been almost completely destroyed, and the country's navy has in effect ceased to exist, according to the chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff, Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy.

kuhn

What do I think? Does God make sense? To me, honestly, nothing makes sense! God? No God? Both hit circularities, regresses, dead-ends. Arguments? I love them all, but in the end, they all falter. Theistic arguments, atheistic arguments — none are dispositive. I’ve (half) joked that if I had to chose, I’d have to say that I find the atheistic arguments more palatable to swallow but the theistic conclusion more satisfying to digest.

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“While the US succeeded in goading the Russian government to take the first shot, it is clear that the war in Ukraine is the first stage of a much broader conflict. Having provoked the Russian government into a desperate and disastrous invasion of Ukraine, the United States is using the war to reassert its global hegemony, building a war coalition for what the United States has termed “great power conflict” targeting not only Russia, but China as well.”  Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site

Murdoch

Journalism is about telling stories that are current and relevant to people’s life. Such information also is at the core of recording history… On politics, journalism is supposed to be objective, but it never is. NEVER. Show me a journalist who claims political objectivity and I will show you a liar... 

Journalists differ from historians recording of current events. Journalists rarely investigate the historical contexts nor the manipulations from the sources of their information. Historians have to dig below the events and see the greater picture of information influences. 

Thursday marks the 23rd anniversary of the start of the 1999 NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia. In 78 days, NATO jets conducted 2,300 sorties, dropping 420,000 missiles and bombs, including cluster munitions and depleted uranium rounds. Up to 5,700 people were killed, with tens of thousands more diagnosed with cancers in the years that followed.

Before entering the Oval Office as Barack Obama’s vice president and then as president himself, Joe Biden served as a United States senator for over 30 years. Ahead of, during and after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Biden was consistently one of the top hawks in Washington pushing for the conflict to be expanded into a full-on ground invasion.

It is our view (Gus’ and his old toothless mates who keep mentioning “in my day…” in the local retirement village) that the West became somewhat lazy on manufacturing and invention. The West has relied mostly on economic fiddles to survive and/or maintain the bourgeois life-style which is going down the drain in many places — as the new generations are often claimed to be “poorer than the baby boomers".

masters

The Pentagon is engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war. 

President Joe Biden is caught in the middle of the fray. So far he is siding with the Defense Department, saying there cannot be a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine fighting Russian aircraft because “that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”

recap

Of Russian bear trap and Taiwanese bait set by the USA… This is what the Western media won’t discuss so far…

HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED VERSION. Note *(asterisk) indicate long historical information — much of it already published on this site.

For the last few years, possibly since before WW1, the US has been planning wars with Russia and China (for the Heartland*).

The conquest of the Heartland* (also known as PIVOT — including "Pivot to Asia" according to US administration) has been planned by the “Christian” Anglo/Saxons hegemony (with the help of the Zionists), to destroy Russia and China  — and dominate the world. This has been organised since 1905*.

While revelations are multiplying about the exactions committed by Ukrainian banditry over the past eight years, Westerners continue to perceive only the suffering of the Ukrainian civilian population. They are unaware of the root causes of the war, as well as the events that led the Kremlin to unleash it. No matter, the banditry is losing and the great powers are preparing for peace.

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Ukraine : the great manipulation

by Thierry Meyssan

Military operations continue in Ukraine with two radically different narratives depending on whether one listens to the Western or Russian media. These two versions diverge not only in describing the war, but more importantly in describing the goals of the war.

criminals

President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, was forced on Tuesday to explain several legal filings in which she allegedly referred to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals” while she was defending terrorism suspects. Although Jackson had legal grounds to make the accusation, she denied directly implicating Bush and Rumsfeld.

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The West deliberately misunderstands China… Thus if we want a bit of propaganda on how good China is, we need to go to CGTN — the un/official voice of China. CGTN has great documentaries that show how China perceives itself — and how we should look at it. 

We must say that the Chinese would be perplexed: how a country such as Australia that rattles sabres every second day about “the Reds under the Beds” can be led by a fundamentalist lying idiotic Christian and his bunch of Duttonic devils?

Yes our ScoMo lies and, though he’s a minuscule apostrophe in the dictionary of useless leadership — like most powerful Western nations leaders, ScoMo believes in god and “miracles”.