First Musk said he would make Twitter a free speach platform.
Then he held a vote to determine whether President Trump would be allowed to speak on Twitter.
Musk cannot distinguish betwee free speach and mob rule.
LOL
Plus:
Europe warns Musk: Free speach is not allowed in Europe
Moon of Alabama: Ukraine - Switching Off The Lights
The careful destruction of energy systems in Ukraine continues.
From today's clobber list as provided by the Defense Ministry of Russia:
On 17 November, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a concentrated strike, using high-precision long-range air-, sea- and ground-based weapons, at the facilities of military control, defence industry, as well as related fuel and energy infrastructure of Ukraine.The goals of the strike have been reached.
All the missiles have accurately stricken the assigned facilities.
I have no idea if the last line is true but it does not matter much.
The targeting of 330 kilovolt transformers in various switching stations has cut some 50% of the distribution capability of Ukraine's electricity network. These transformers weigh up to 200 tons. There are no replacements. You do not buy them at the next corner but will have to order them with years of lead time. As far as I can tell Russia is currently the only producer of transformers of that type.
Isn't it a war crime to destroy the infrastructure that supplies civilians?
Those Liberal bastards (at Google) are fucking me again, to borrow the language of the late great Richard Milhouse Nixon. Or so our Blogger usage stats would suggest, with page views crashing from a modest six or eight hundred a day to barely a hundred. This is similar to the collapse in apparent interest that occurred prior to our decision to stop blogging and then, for no particularly good reason, start a sort of news bulletin board instead.
So what now?
Well here's something different that may be pretty interesting to that minority of the population who are either themselves afflicted by, or who have friends or relatives suffering from, a serious mental illness. It is an article published several years ago in Psychology Today, entitled:
The article draws attention to reports of the complete cure of serious mental illness by the simple expedient of adopting a ketonic diet. Adding credibility to these reports is the fact that schizophrenia is virtually unknown in societies that adhere to a paleo diet. Thus for example, in the South Pacific islands occupied by the United States during World War II, schizophrenia was unknown, but emerged with the adoption of a Westernized diet. Some have attributed this effect to gluten in grain-based foods such as sliced white bread and shredded wheat. But it is more likely that diabetes, induced by the consumption of refined sugar that comes with Hershey bars, donuts, fudge sundaes and Oreo cookies, is the prime factor.
Pipelines? Who Needs Pipelines? Russia Delivers Oil to China via the Arctic Silk Road
The Plandemic: Managing Public Perception
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An EU that strangles itself on orders from the USA and cuts off cheap energy supplies from Russia not only gives up its economic future, but also all sovereignty. As soon as the boomerang effect of the sanctions really hits – Russia has not yet used its “energy weapon” at all and is continuing to supply Germany via the Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 1 in accordance with the contract – the large European nations in particular have to ask themselves whether they are accepting a fate really want to surrender as dependent colonies of the US empire. And if so, how they, as rulers, can sell their unemployed, impoverished, freezing citizens such a hopeless future without being shamed out of office. No one will buy from them that "freedom and democracy" will have to be defended in the Donbass instead of the Hindu Kush for the next twenty years. An EU without cheap Russian raw materials is globally uncompetitive and will fall apart. Nations will have to choose: for permanent war as Washington's vassals, aiming at regime change in Moscow and Beijing; or for trade and change with Russia and Eurasia, aiming at a new security and peace treaty in Europe.
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Because the Soviet Union's military and economic capabilities were regularly overestimated in the West during the first Cold War, its collapse in 1990/91 came as a complete surprise. For years, Kremlin propaganda had managed to simply keep negative developments under the carpet. (Now in the) new Cold War, the situation has changed fundamentally: Russia is severely underestimated militarily and economically, and the USA has lapsed into a mode of permanently creating "alternative" realities, against which good old Soviet propaganda pales. "Russiagate," for example, the made-up story from A to Z that Donald Trump was being blackmailed by Putin and that the US elections [was] being manipulated by invisible »Russian hackers«, was presented as reality across all channels for five years, including, by Hillary Clinton, who was able to create the »Putin = Hitler« equation in 2016. Not only were the media involved in the charade [but also] the "lying press," the secret services, the FBI and the US Congress... This fact-free fake news campaign laid the foundation for the anti-Russian narrative, which then went into turbo mode as the Ukraine conflict escalated. In which then the unprecedented sanctions campaign started, based on a misjudgment of Russia's capabilities. ... Completely surprising fhe US think tankers and "experts", it turned out that the Russian economy and the ruble did not "freeze" [despite the theft of Russia's]dollar and euro reserves. And, despite sanctions, Russia earned 50 percent more oil and gas exports in the first five months of 2022 than in the same period last year and will continue to suffer far less from the sanctions than the West, [while] the ruble that Joe Biden wanted to smash into "Rubble" is the strongest currency of 2022.
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The fact that NATO has long ceased to be a "defense alliance" and has caused more devastation and catastrophes with aggressive wars than any other military alliance since 1999 is not a Russian conspiracy theory, but historical fact. Like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and, most recently, Afghanistan, posed no threats to the USA or Europe - and yet NATO "defended" there vigorously, as a vassal of the geopolitical interests of the US empire. Allegedly waged to spread “democracy”, “freedom” and “human rights”, these wars have caused nothing but murderous chaos and have led to open slave markets in places like Libya – previously the most prosperous country in Africa. And now in Ukraine battalions of flawless Nazis, trained and upgraded by NATO to spearhead the fight against Russia and against Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass region. Ending these attacks, which have claimed more than 13,000 civilian lives since 2014, is the declared goal of the so-called Russian “military operation”, which will presumably soon be achieved, since the Ukrainian army is currently (mid-June 2022) losing 500 soldiers, dead or wounded, daily. For NATO, which supports this army and the war with every means (except ground troops) and – just expelled from Afghanistan by a barefoot force – feels “united like never before” thanks to the Russian intervention, this would be another, humiliating defeat. Because Russia's security interests are not only in Ukraine, but also in the neighboring countries if necessary "militarily-technically" - and NATO cannot do anything about it - it definitely makes itself superfluous as a "protecting power". At the same time, it paves the way for a new security architecture for Europe and Asia that stretches from Lisbon to Beijing.
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It wasn't the "Ostpolitik" of Willy Brandt and Egon Bahr ("Change through rapprochement"), which dull bellicists are currently calling a "historical mistake," but the policy of the USA, its missiles [to be installed in Ukraine at any price.] The historic mistake was not Russia's push for reunification after the Minsk accords, but rather ignoring Russian security concerns and Ukraine's rearmament. And it is not the reliable, cheap supply of Russian oil and gas to Germany that is the "mistake of the century" (Der Spiegel), but the Anglo-American strategy to prevent Eurasia from growing together, especially German-Russian cooperation. This has been achieved twice in the last century, at the cost of two world wars. If Europe does not want to become the battlefield of a third world war, it must no longer allow itself to be harnessed to the cart of this geopolitical strategy. The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks the end of the unipolar world and the three-decade project pursued by America's neoconservatives of having military supremacy in every region of the world, forcing every rising power into submission. This also ends the hegemony of finance capital controlled by Wall Street and the City of London and of global monetary policy. With the gold and commodity-backed accounting unit on a ruble/yuan basis, a highly welcome alternative to debt-based FIAT money is emerging for 85 percent of the world,
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"I'm not sure what weapons will be used in World War III, but in World War IV they will fight with sticks and stones," Albert Einstein said. Now that we're fairly certain about the arsenal available, his warning is more urgent than ever. Those who want to end the conflict must not deliver weapons, those who want to end the suffering of the people in Ukraine must negotiate instead of shoot, those who want peace must not follow the plan of the Anglo-American geo-strategists, [which is] to prepare Ukraine for "its Afghanistan" and to embroil it in an endless guerrilla war. And he is certainly not allowed to - especially as a German - to ally himself with flawless Nazis of the Azov regiment. And he should ask what actually speaks against Russia's demand for a militarily neutral Ukraine. Until then, I remain a "Putin understander" and ask all NATO understanders and friends of the wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan to reconsider their position. Peace!
"Let's Get Out Of NATO": Discontent Soars Across Europe As Russian Sanctions Backfire
MOA: Drone Attack On Sevastopol
HEY JUSTIN: Over One Thousand Scientific Studies Prove That the COVID-19 Vaccines Are Dangerous, and All Those Pushing This Agenda Are Committing the Indictable Crime of Gross Misconduct in Public OfficeIf these Russian allegations are true, they are very serious and indicate that Britain is ruled by very stupid people, the new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, included.“The preparation of the terrorist act in Sevastopol and the training of servicemen of the Ukrainian 73rd special Center for naval operations were carried out under the guidance of British specialists.”
“The specialists of the British Navy who were preparing the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the terrorist attack in Sevastopol are involved in the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.” the Russian Defence Ministry claimed.
Not from the CBC: Russia Swept The Ukrainian-Polish borderIn The biggest Russian air attack so far
US rehearses dropping nuclear bombs in EuropeDespite years of propaganda to the contrary, most Americans think academ
ic standing, not race, should determine college entrance
Peter Huff: The Truth About Wuhan: How I Discovered the Biggest Lie in History
The Truth about Wuhan contains new research and a breakdown of how and why the development of COVID-19 in the United States and China was supported by the US government to collect intelligence on laboratories in China. Dr. Huff, an expert in the fields of bioterrorism and bio warfare, is a whistleblower who will show why the reasons the lab leak was covered up are incorrect. He worked on the classified research side of the program as a US government scientist. He knows the real how and why COVID-19 emerged.CONCLUSIVE: COVID-19 Was Made in a Laboratory
Headline of the Day:
Hiding Behind A Mask of “Gentle Humanism”, Canada’s Prime Minister Sells Out His People to Corporate Interests and Eagerly Participates in U.S. Imperialistic Wars Around the Globe
Nigel Farage: The UK Conservative Party is Dead
UK PM Liz, I'm-a-fighter-not-a-quitter, Truss, quits So will the Tories recycle one of their established duds -- Bojo most probably, but why not Teresa May, or will they accept the consequences of their treasonous mass immigration policy, which has been opposed for decades by the great majority of the British population, and accept as their leader one of the talented Hindu or Muslim members of the parliamentary party.
Trouble is, if the Tories adopt a wog as their leader it means an immediate end to the working class support that gave the Tories their big majority at the last election.
Why? Because it is the working class that have consistently paid the price for mass immigration as the result of competition for jobs and hence lower wages, competition for low-end housing and hence higher accomodation costs, and competition in the struggle for upward social mobility.
Are you orried about the New Corona virus wth an 80% kill rate in mice that has just been created by the boffins at Boston U.? Well relax: Fauci's agency that helped fund the creation of Covid, is looking into it.
Two-Faced American Foreign Policy in One Picture
Epoch Times: The Unvaccinated Deserve Reparations Or an apology, at least. Not only did the vaccines not stop the spread, they gave rise to a false sense of security that greatly promoted the spread, as the UK Health Security Agency data clearly show: CanSpeccy, November 2021: Covid Vaccination to Promote the Spread. In the case of Justin Trudeau, who described the unvaccinated as racist, mysogenistic, homophobes, only a truly groveling apology could possibly be adequate. Trudeau should also be required to explain his government's purchase of 400 million Covid vaccine doses for a mere 38 million Canadians. Was the seemingly vast excess due to a near total lack of confidence in the effectiveness of the vaccines, or some less creditable reason?
Israel Rules Out Sending Arms To Ukraine Amid Moscow Pressure Why would they have even thought of doing so? For a tiny country that could be wiped out with a single nuke, providing Ukrainians, or anyone else, with means to kill Russians makes no sense whatever.... Klaus Schwab, the stupendously arrogant, self-important charlatan who calls himself the ‘Executive Chairman’ of the WEF, made an absolutely astonishing statement at the annual meeting of 23 May 2022. In a glowing tribute to Ukraine’s Nazi allied President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was the WEF’s ‘guest of honour’ (!) and the main speaker during his international tour to solicit weapons for fighting Russia, Schwab said that Zelensky (a man who gives awards to avowed Nazis, imprisons opposition leaders and bans parties) is supported by “all of Europe and the international order”. There was not a single cheep of protest or dissent from the almost 2,500 leaders present drawn from politics, business, civil society and the media.
Instead, Zelensky, whose speech had omitted mentioning any reference to the crimes that nationalist extremists had committed in his country, or the fact that he had breached the Minsk Agreements which were intended to achieve a peaceful solution to the Ukraine conflict, received a standing ovation after having in effect virtually thanked Ukraine’s Nazis for their crimes by simply describing them as “volunteers”.
Zelensky and Schwab are two of a pathological political kind. ...
