Russian President Vladimir Putin has certainly been a naughty boy! The always unreliable and unofficial government-originating disinformation source The Hill is reporting that Moscow has spent the equivalent of $300,000,000 in an effort to “influence” world politics in its favor.

As is already well known, referendums were held in the LPR and DPR as well as in Kherson and Zaporozhye regions from September 23 to 27 on the issue of giving up belonging to Ukraine and becoming part of the Russian Federation. They were monitored by a large number of foreign observers who confirmed the free will of the inhabitants of these regions and compliance with all the norms of international law and the UN Charter. The ceremony of accepting the new territories into Russia was held on September 30 in the St George’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, where Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the respective treaties with the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions with the participation of the heads of these territories and representatives of the Russian legislative and executive authorities as well as the Russian public.

While the international press treats the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as a news item, we analyze it as an act of war against Germany and the European Union. Indeed, the three gas supply routes to Western Europe have been cut off simultaneously, while at the same time a new gas pipeline has been opened to Poland.
Just as Mikhail Gorbachev saw in the Chernobyl disaster the inevitable break-up of the USSR, so we believe that the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines marks the beginning of the economic collapse of the [European] Union.

The United States declares war on Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and France

by Thierry Meyssan

The United States’ fight to maintain its global hegemony has reached its third stage. 

WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN ABOMINATION ON "THE CONVERSATION" — NOW A RIGHTWING OUTFIT STARTED AS A MODERATE PHILOSOPHICAL THINK-TANK. LIKE MANY OF THESE MEDIA OUTLETS, THEY STARTED WITH A REASONABLE ATTITUDE AND, AFTER ACQUIRING A CERTAIN CLIENTELE, SLOWLY MOVED TO THE FULL FASCIST VIEWPOINTS. IT'S HORRID.... HERE IS AN ARTICLE BY LOONY Matthew Sussex AND REPUBLISHED ON THE ABC:

As elsewhere in the world, let's gather in Paris on Saturday October 8 for the release of Julian Assange.

“We can only fight against injustices when they are revealed. –Julian Assange

The Assange Support Committee and the thirty-seven organizations and media signatories to "The Paris Appeal for Julian Assange" propose to meet at 2 p.m. near the replica of the Statue of Liberty, on the Ile aux Cygnes, under the Pont de Grenelle, in the 15th arrondissement. Journalists, trade union and association leaders, elected officials will speak.

To reach the Statue of Liberty replica, you have to go to the end of Île aux Cygnes, in the 15th arrondissement. It can be reached by metro, lines 10 (Charles Michels) and 6 (Bir-Hakeim), or with the RER C (Avenue du Président Kennedy-Maison de Radio France).

Publicly, the lobbying against Navi Pillay began with an article in the pro-Israeli German tabloid Bild, Barbara Crossette reports.

It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law, including through the United Nations.

The setting for the ceremony on Sept. 28 would be Berlin’s 19th-century Red City Hall, named for its brick façade. The hall, damaged in World War II, had been reconstructed and become a symbolic landmark in the German capital.

In a move that has many folks scratching their heads, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has renewed its push for the People’s Garden Initiative which now includes registering vegetable gardens nationwide. According to the USDA, the move is to foster a “more diverse and resilient local food system to empower communities to address issues like nutrition access and climate change.” But those who have been following the USDA closely for years know that they couldn’t care less about your health and nutrition.

By Matt Agorist

To register your garden with the USDA, one must meet several easily obtainable standards.

Britain’s new monarch and new PM appear to have butted heads over environmental issues, with Buckingham Palace confirming King Charles will not attend COP27.

The King would no longer deliver a speech to world leaders at the annual climate change summit in Egypt next month, the palace confirmed on Sunday.

“It is no mystery that the King was invited to go there,” a senior royal source told The Sunday Times.

“He had to think very carefully about what steps to take for his first overseas tour, and he is not going to be attending COP.”

To resume peace talks with Kiev, Moscow will wait for either a change of stance by the current Ukrainian president or for a new leader, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. This comes after President Zelensky signed a decree ruling out negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Even before the launch of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in late February, Moscow “was the supporter of the idea of achieving the terms put forward by the Russian side through diplomatic means,” Peskov told journalists on Tuesday.

Russia is still ready to look for a negotiated solution to the conflict between the neighbors, according to the spokesman. But “it takes two parties to negotiate,” he noted.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has proposed a plan to end the conflict in Ukraine. The billionaire suggested that new elections be held in the four regions that recently voted to join Russia, while Ukraine would commit to neutrality and relinquish its claim to Crimea. 

Musk posted an outline of his plan on Twitter on Monday, suggesting that Russia “redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision,” with Moscow withdrawing from these areas if voters choose.

Crimea would be declared “formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783,” until Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gifted the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. 

RUSSIA MADE SOME MIGHTY SACRIFICES TO ELIMINATE HITLER. RUSSIA MADE SOME MIGHTY SACRIFICES TO DISMANTLE ITS COMMUNIST USSR AND RETURN THE INTEGRITY OF GERMANY AS A MASSIVE GIFT. ALL RUSSIA GOT IN RETURN SO FAR, 77 YEARS AND 30 YEARS RESPECTIVELY LATER IS THE PRESENT GERMAN SUPPORT FOR THE NAZI GOVERNMENT IN KIEV. NOT A GOOD LOOK AND A TOTAL LACK OF GRATITUDE. FOR THIS OF COURSE ONE HAS TO THANK THE US EMPIRE, WHICH FOR ALL ITS CLAIM OF FREEDOM HAS BEEN A FASCIST TOTALITARIAN INVADER/DESTRUCTOR OF MANY COUNTRIES. THE US EMPIRE POLLUTES THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM AND FAIRNESS WITH A STATED EXCEPTIONALISM AND A DECEITFUL HOLLYWOODIAN NARRATIVE.

Vladimir Putin’s speech from the Kremlin last Friday, delivered to the nation and the world as four regions of Ukraine were reintegrated into Russia, was another stunner, in line with numerous others he’s made this year, demonstrating a fundamental turn in the Russian president’s thinking over the past eight months. 

The implications of this new perspective warrant careful consideration. Putin has taken to looking forward and seeing something new, and in this he is hardly alone. 

By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

Toward the end of 2019, an article titled Lessons in how to hate China was published in Pearls and Irritations. Those lessons have been learned and learned well. Three years is a short time but the collective memory is also short. China is now the accepted enemy and the likelihood of war is spoken of more openly.

BY William Briggs

IF YOU'VE LIVED THROUGH AN AUSSIE BUSHFIRE AND CAN TELL THE TALE, YOU WOULD BE RIGHT IN EXPRESSING A SIMILAR VIEW AS THE CARTOON ABOVE... OF COURSE THE PLANET IS NOT GOING TO BURN DOWN LIKE A JOE FARMER BARN FULL OF STRAWS ALIGHT. GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A BONFIRE AS DEPICTED. IT'S A MORE COMPLEX PROCESS IN WHICH BUSHFIRES BECOME MORE INTENSE, FLOODS AND DROUGHTS MORE FREQUENT — AND THE 500-YEAR HURRICANE HAPPENS EVERY TUESDAYS. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIALISATION AND GLOBAL WARMING IS UNDENIABLE UNLESS YOU'RE A LEARNED IDIOT LIKE Alex Epstein, THE WORDS OF NON-WISDOM OF WHOM WE REPUBLISH HERE FROM THE LOONY MISES INSTITUTE THAT HAS LOST THE PLOT.

SHOWING WHAT THE OTHER SIDE THINKS IS OFTEN ENLIGHTENING AND SPURS THE DESIRE TO BECOME ANGRY.... HERE IS ALEX'S BULLSHIT:

The old world broke this week. It was blown up cynically by someone who thought this would advance their agenda the most. 

The act of vandalizing a major piece of physical infrastructure, targeting civilian populations, isn’t unprecedented in history, but it does signal that everything we thought we knew about the rules of the current game was wrong.

Well, for most people anyway. 

When I spoke in June at the Ron Paul Institute Conference on Foreign Policy I described the game of geopolitics as a seven-player game of the ancient Chinese game, Go. 

BY Tom Luongo