Sunday 20th of April 2025

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mikhail gorbachev: occurent decay of civilisation....

The values and mechanism underlying the evolution of contemporary European civilisation are on the verge of self-exhaustion. Consumerism and the ceaseless accumulation of capital contradict basic human interests and threaten equilibrium between humanity and the rest of nature. Humankind is unable to halt growing drug addiction, terrorism, and crime. Recent occurrences show us unexpectedly caught up in a new outburst of ethnic wars.

 

Overcoming the rift between politics and morality

Postscript of the book: “Moral lessons of the twentieth century”

by Mikhail Gorbachev

 

russia is not fighting ukraine, but the west and its NATO military machine...

If you think the Russian army's numerous battlefield victories are a clear sign that the war is nearing its end, you are sorely mistaken. As I said earlier, the closer Russia gets to victory in this conflict, the more dangerous Ukraine and its Western backers become.

 

Russia deploys world's most powerful and fastest 'annihilation system'

by Borzzikman

 

killing the truth, murdering journalists....

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history, a new report says.

As of late March, at least 232 journalists have been killed in the Gaza genocide, with the vast majority being Palestinians, according to a new paper by the Costs of War project in Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Nearly 380 journalists have been wounded in the violence as of January, per the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

 

a year of polishing the surface does not change the rotten core....

The unplumbed depths of Peter Dutton cynical politics should be a matter of deep concern to genuine political conservatives across Australia. Whoever those people are (at present they appear to be in hiding), its time they distanced themselves from what the Liberal Party is becoming under Duttons leadership.

 

Allan Patience

The political cynicism of Peter Dutton and the death of conservatism in Australia

August 27, 2023

 

What should a genuinely conservative political party be like in the context of contemporary Australia?

we need to childproof the world.......

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz doesn’t officially take office until May 6, but that hasn’t stopped him from hitting the press circuit like it’s demolition day. Apparently, he’s got some lost time – and infrastructure – to make up for. 

 

Germany wants the UK to hold its hand while it starts WWIII
The chancellor-in-waiting says he would commit to giving Kiev long-range missiles if London backs him

BY Rachel Marsden

 

easter truce.....

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an Easter truce in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said Saturday, over three years after Moscow launched a full-scale offensive of the neighboring country.

The unilateral break in fighting is scheduled to last from Saturday evening until midnight on Sunday local time.

"During a meeting in the Kremlin, the commander-in-chief heard a report by Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, on the situation on the line of contact and said that the Russian side stops all hostilities from 1800 [1500 GMT] on April 19 to 0000 on April 21," the Kremlin's official Telegram channel said.

walking away from efforts to broker a settlement?......

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington could abandon efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict if Moscow and Kiev don’t engage in negotiations. He added, however, the US still hopes to see the fighting come to an end.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump was asked to comment on remarks by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had suggested that the White House could walk away from efforts to broker a settlement.

“If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say you’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people,”Trump said, adding “We’re going to just take a pass, but hopefully we won’t have to do that.”

Earlier on Friday, the secretary of state told journalists that the White House is still waiting to see if a peace deal is “doable.” 

rigorous fact-driven material with cutting-edge communication strategies......

The Australia Institute is one of the country’s most influential public policy think tanks. Based in Canberra, we conduct high impact research that combines rigorous fact-driven material with cutting-edge communication strategies.

With your help, we're countering the spin of multinational gas companies. 

We’ve produced a TV ad, based on our research, that takes aim at the gas industry’s exploitation of us and our economy. Now we need to get it on as many screens as possible in the lead up to the election, where gas royalties and taxation will be front and centre. And before the Environment Minister makes a decision to approve or reject the damaging North West Shelf gas project.

donald's peace deal.....

The US has presented its allies with details of its peace plan to bring the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to an end, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing European officials familiar with the matter.

The proposal, outlined during a meeting in Paris on Thursday, reportedly includes easing sanctions on Russia, as well as terminating Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO. The roadmap would effectively freeze the conflict and leave former Ukrainian territories that are part of Russia under Moscow’s control, the sources suggested.

One of the officials told Bloomberg that the proposal still had to be discussed with Kiev, adding that the plan would not actually amount to a definitive conflict settlement. Kiev’s European backers would not recognize the territories as Russian, the source suggested.

facing the big ugly?....

Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years.

The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status quo, on the one hand; and on the other, the MAGA faction who have come to regard the status quo as inimical – even an existential threat – to U.S. interests. The sides have descended into bitter, accusatory polarisation.

 

the sneaky way trump is saving the planet.....

“Chaos.” “A disaster.” “Uncertainty.” “Very negative.”

That’s a sample of the reactions to Trump’s first few months published in the latest Dallas Fed Energy Survey, which gives executives from nearly 200 oil companies headquartered in Texas the chance to speak anonymously about burning issues inside the oil industry.

genocide is bad and genocide is fine....

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia. 

 

Caitlin Johnstone: ‘Israel Has a Right to Defend Itself’ Is Just a Slogan for Genocide

 

peace is vanishing in germany....

Tens of thousands of people in Germany are expected to join around 120 peace protests across the country this weekend as Germany's peace movement prepares for its traditional Easter peace marches — even as the presumptive next German government under likely-Chancellor Friedrich Merz is getting ready to spend billions on rearming the country and is seeking to boost the number of Bundeswehr recruits from the current 83,000 to 203,000 by 2031 with a voluntary program.

 

the deceit of the west in yuckraine.... an NYT explanation....

FOLLOWING THE FAILED PEACE TALKS OF ISTANBUL BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE — DUE TO WESTERN INTERVENTION (BORIS JOHNSON IN KIEV) DEMANDING THAT THE WAR CONTINUED UNTIL THE KIEV REGIME “WON” (WEAKENED RUSSIA POSSIBLY TO THE POINT OF SURRENDER), THE WEST HELPED UKRAINE TO FIGHT ON AGAINST THE RUSSIANS. 

SO FAR, ONE CAN ESTIMATE AT 18 APRIL 2025, THE WAR HAS BEEN LOST FOR THE WEST. UKRAINE HAS LOST MORE THAN ONE MILLION SOLDIERS WITH AROUND TWO MILLION INJURED, WHILE RUSSIA HAS LOST AROUND 100,000 SOLDIERS WITH 200,000 INJURED. 

DONALD TRUMP WANTS THE DEATHS TO STOP, NOT SO MUCH TO ACHIEVE PEACE, BUT TO PREVENT AN OUTRIGHT RUSSIAN VICTORY — WHICH IS ON THE CARD BY MID EUROPEAN SUMMER.

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