Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They  demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, leaving us to perish on the blood-soaked altars we erected for others. 

For empires are not murdered, they commit suicide at the feet of the idols that entrance them. 

By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost

THE "LEADERS" OF AMERICA — A COUNTRY OF POOR DUMB SODS WHO CAN'T SEE BEYOND COWBOYS AND INDIANS — HAVE CREATE A SITUATION — AS THEY ALWAYS DO — WHERE SOMEONE HAS TO RESPOND TO THE AMERICAN HUBRIS AND THEN GET THE BLAME FOR THE SHIT. IT’S NOT A NEW TACTIC BUT IT’S GETTING TIRESOME... 

PEOPLE GET KILLED, ENEMIES ARE FOMENTED AND THE PORKIES FLY HIGH IN THE SKY ABOVE WASHINGTON LIKE AN ARMY OF “CHINESE” BALLOONS ABOVE MONTANA.

AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE TAKEN FOR FOOLS BY THEIR GOVERNMENT WHICH, CONTRARILY TO POPULAR BELIEF, IS NOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE (THE ONE THEY VOTED FOR) BUT RESIDES INSIDE THE PENTAGON BOWELS (THE REAL GOVERNMENT THE POPULACE NEVER VOTES FOR).

What are the problems that the strategy seeks to address? What are the challenges and opportunities with which the strategy must contend? This section describes the strategic context for a new global strategy for China.

The post-World War II, rules-based international system, led by likeminded allies and partners, has produced unprecedented levels of peace, prosperity, and freedom, but it is coming under increasing strain. A foremost challenge to the system is the return of great-power competition with revisionist, autocratic states—especially China.

WARSAW (Sputnik) - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki expressed his outrage on Monday to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal over the celebration of the birthday of the controversial Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera.

On January 1, the Ukrainian authorities held a series of events on the occasion of Bandera's birthday.

Some US politicians are playing the bait and switch game, using the Chinese balloon to get American afraid so that they can support their anti-China policies, said Scott Ritter (Ritter), a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer.

Reducing the risk of Australia becoming trapped in an American war in Asia, again, requires the Australian government to give notice now to the United States that it wishes to withdraw from the Force Posture Agreement.

An open letter to the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. February 17, 2023.

The Abbott government’s adoption in 2014 of a Force Posture Agreement (FPA) with the United States cedes control of certain military operations from our territory to the US. And Defence Minister Richard Marles’ recent address to Parliament affirms nothing will change.

6 July 2022 — With attempts to 'cancel' Pushkin, Ukraine's drive to eradicate Russian language and culture has reached the level of farce. (ZELENSKY IS AN ILLITERATE IDIOT WHO CAN ONLY READ TV SCRIPTS ABOUT DICK-PIANO PLAYING.)

Pushkin (1799-1837) published his first poem at the age of 15 and became a renowned poet, novelist and playwright in just a few years. 

AH RUSSIA! MON AMOUR!

BUT THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF HOW ONE IS ONLY SIX TIMES REMOVED FROM JESUS CHRIST OR MICHELANGELO. 

HERE'S SOMETHING WEIRD:

“Pushkin is now a Frenchman, didn’t you know?” joked Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Better lie down for this, you might faint.”

At the end of the Second World War, a report from the American Third Army stated, “The question who is a Nazi is often a dark riddle. . . . The question what is a Nazi is also not easy to answer.”  Despite these challenges, the Allied Powers (France, Great   Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States) individually created a complex denazification system with tribunals to determine who had been an ardent supporter of National Socialism.

Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on. The U.S. and Europe continue to support Kiev. But not, it seems, to make peace. Rather, the allies are prepared to back the Zelensky government as long as it fights Moscow to the last Ukrainian—which has always been the West’s approach to Kiev.

Kiev faces a choice: make peace for its people or war for its supposed friends?

The disturbing and detailed reportage by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh on Washington’s sabotage of the Russian Nordstream 2 gas pipeline to Germany now provides new perspective on the momentous series of geopolitical trends that began with the war in Ukraine.

My own assessment of the Russian invasion written one year ago offered an analysis that was, and still is, markedly at variance with the Washington-dominated narrative of the course of Ukraine events.

Any attempt to create a single world government is a cause for concern, since it could strip humanity of diversity and precipitate the end of civilization, billionaire Elon Musk has told a summit of government officials in Dubai.

The SpaceX CEO made a virtual appearance at the 2023 World Government Summit in the UAE on Wednesday. The event is aimed at fostering cooperation between nations, but Musk warned against taking it too far.

“We want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having – and this may seem odd – too much cooperation between governments,” Musk said.

This current critical phase of the crisis in Ukraine has been manufactured by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. Russian troops, artillery, armored vehicles, tanks and other equipment encircle Ukraine: they are along the Russian border with Ukraine and in the annexed territory of Crimea as well as in Belarus, threatening a major military confrontation.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has slammed Washington's alleged involvement in bombing the Nord Stream gas lines as one of the “dumbest” decisions taken in years, warning that the move will have “horrific”consequences for Europeans and further undercut the already “supremely useless” NATO alliance.

Despite countless Western bossy-boots beavering away in the media and beyond, generating worst-case projections as they strain to create a collective storyboard for “China: The Disaster Movie”, China, exasperatingly, keeps successfully pressing on towards its own clearly considered, affirmative future.

By Richard Cullen

When Mexican artist Diego Rivera was commissioned in 1932 to do a mural in the middle of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, some might have wondered whether industrialist tycoon John D. Rockefeller Jr. knew what he was getting into.

In 1934, the legendary artist's work was chiseled off the wall.

Now, in Washington, D.C., the Mexican Cultural Institute has mounted a show that tells what happened to Rivera's mural.

March 9, 2014

BY ALLISON KEYES

"Man at the Crossroads: Diego Rivera's Mural at Rockefeller Center," is a whodunit tale that also illustrates the tensions between art and politics. Exhibition co-curator Susana Pliego says the Rockefeller family was aware of Rivera's leftist politics when it commissioned the work.