James Howard Kunstler

Twitter execs were regularly meeting with FBI over what to censor. Twitter’s censorship was almost 100% aligned with the Dem Party. Twitter’s chief censors were deranged ideologues abusing their power over our discourse to silence dissent. —Glenn Greenwald

Startling fact of the week: Twitter’s senior ranks of content moderators included over a dozen former FBI and CIA agents and analysts who let child porn run loose all over the app while surgically removing any utterance contradicting the government’s claim that mRNA “vaccines” are “safe and effective” — not to mention the effort this elite crew expended against anyone objecting to the Woke-Left’s race and gender hustles. Wouldn’t you like to know how much they were paid? Probably more than government work.

Here’s another awful reality (better fasten your seatbelts): What also emerged in the tweet record of Yoel Roth, the company’s chief censor (former “Head of Trust and Safety”), begins to look like a gay mafia assault on the collective American psyche. Having gained official federal government sanction and protection, a statistically tiny homosexual demographic left in charge of the country’s main public forum has been out for revenge against their perceived enemy, political conservatives — Americans disinclined to join the cheerleading for drag queen story hours, “minor-attracted persons,” transsexuals in the military, and other LBGTQ cultural pranks.

In the process, that gay mafia running the public dialogue supported every lie that the government, its protector, put out, to keep it happy and well-fed. Shocking, I’m sure… but there it is.

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Natalia Taran (Наталья Таран)

The West itself, by its own stubborn and short-sighted policies, and its seemingly organic inability to make the institutions it controls inclusive, has contributed to clarifying the reality of the global economy and trade.

Globalization allowed the U.S. and the West as a whole to gain significant competitive advantages, albeit at the cost of impoverishing its middle class. But other countries have also benefited, above all China, which has used Western investment, technology and markets for its “peaceful rise.” Moreover, over 40 years it has created a middle class of hundreds of millions of people, has taken the lead in a number of areas of artificial intelligence, and digital "wallets" have become commonplace for at least 100 million Chinese citizens.

This ambiguous picture of the distribution of the "tops and spines" of globalization led Americans to a simple decision: to "close" the same China that the West was "opening" in the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century. The need to roll back globalization was discussed at one of the Davos Forums.

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Anton Zhitkov (Антон Житков)

Japan also seeks to upgrade its maritime defenses - the Japanese Defense Ministry recently began a project to upgrade its Type 12 anti-ship missiles, which increased their range to a thousand kilometres and would be completed by 2026, and Japan plans to have hypersonic missiles by 2030.

Electronic warfare is a separate military spending item for the Land of the Rising Sun. According to Yahoo News Japan, the leadership of the Self-Defense Forces decided as early as 2021 to seriously expand the army's capabilities in this area. Last year's military budget envisioned the creation of a new EW station at the Asaka base near Tokyo, where it is planned to house about 80 personnel. In the same year, an EW station was also commissioned at another military base in Kumamoto Prefecture. Interestingly, the Asaka base normally houses the high command of all Japanese ground forces.

Japan's ground forces are also an object of intense scrutiny by its neighbours in the region. The Self-Defense Forces' ground forces now have the most extensive fleet of military equipment in more than impressive numbers: more than a thousand tanks, including Japan's "next-generation tank" called the Type-10, seven hundred BMPs and APCs of all kinds, hundreds of MLRSs and SAMs, and much, much more.

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Объясняет Readovka

Lessons from the Serbian Krajina for Russia

Everything in history has happened before. The problem of Russia and the Russian republics of Donbass is not unique, and the nearest analogue we find is not at all far away. The Serbian Krajina is a republic that is not on the map these days. It was destroyed by the Croatian armed forces in 1995. However, before Croatia defeated the Serbian insurgency, the Serbs defeated themselves. From the sad history of Krajina we can learn something important for ourselves: the leaders of the Serbian republic and "big" Yugoslavia, bogged down in negotiations, contractual arrangements and corruption schemes, were powerless to confront the challenge that had confronted them.

A house divided – The lands along the south-eastern borders of present-day Croatia long served as the border between the Ottoman Empire and Austria. Serbs who fled from under the Sultan's heavy hand acquired a status similar to the Cossacks in Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - they enjoyed rights and privileges in exchange for military service and protection of their new homeland from the Turks.

However, in the nineteenth century, when national consciousness began to grow across Europe and the Austrian government demilitarized the border, a rift naturally developed between the Serbs and Croats living in the area. The Croats perceived the Serbs as newcomers (even though they had been living there for centuries), whereas the Serbs were proud of their own history of living in the area.

World War II left scars that were simply impossible to eradicate. What was done to the Serbs who lived in Croatia could be boldly qualified as genocide. The Croatian nationalist movement of the Ustashas carried out a massacre in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed.

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Sergey Monastyrev (Сергей Монастырёв)

("The effect of censorship on the Internet, radio broadcasting
and television in Ukraine" - Yandex Translate)(© cont.ws)

We live in interesting times. Almost imperceptibly, the humorous saying that "they wanted to Europeanize Ukraine, but they Ukrainized Europe" turned out to be a reality. And in a sense, this is the truth. Of course, the term "Ukrainization" is not scientific, but as a household name perfectly describes the situation of Europe.

Of course, European Ukrainization does not mean that Jean and Hans will start running around Paris or Berlin in a rural medieval embroidery. This does not mean that in Belgium they will scold their chocolate, kick out the chocolatiers instead and start using fat from a yellowed three-liter jar at a rapid pace. And you certainly should not expect that instead of "Oktoberfest" with a traditionally vomited Vomit Hill, they will start holding a borscht festival or Sorochinsky Fair, which once decorated Odessa's Primorsky Boulevard with piles of hay.

The phenomenon of Ukrainization is much more profound than this farm decorum. And modern Ukrainization is a multifaceted thing, expanded and much more destructive than the clay glechiki scattered along the Potemkin stairs.

Ukrainization is a loss of sovereignty, colossal corruption, deindustrialization, degradation of political elites directly in professional terms, outright show—off on the verge of fraud, etc. It would seem that there is no doubt that Ukrainian politicians are absolutely dependent on the West. The Commander—in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly reports to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Mark Milley, and the strategic enterprises of the state are actually run by supervisory boards consisting of foreigners - the subordinate position is extremely clear.

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Rob Slane

The overriding phenomenon of our times is the pretence that stuff that is happening isn’t happening, and that stuff that isn’t happening is happening. That’s another way of saying that we live in the Land of Inverted Reality surrounded by the Ocean of Lies.

A president who clearly has — let’s put it politely — cognitive issues, doesn’t have cognitive issues. A country that has lost more than 100,000 soldiers and has its energy system wrecked with impunity, hasn’t actually lost over 100,000 soldiers and is winning the war. The country that is systematically grinding them down and launching waves of missile attacks to decapitate its energy grid, has been almost out of missiles since March and is losing the conflict. The hard biological differences between those with XY and those with XX chromosomes are not really hard biological differences at all. The massive inflation that was caused primarily by the injection of trillions of dollars into the world economy that had largely been shut down under false pretences, is not really caused by the injection of trillions of dollars into the world economy that had largely been shut down under false pretences. The virus which the UK Government admitted had an Infection Mortality Rate of 0.096%, and which was associated with an average age of death above the normal average age of death, was actually potentially deadly to everyone. But the most astonishing of all these phenomena, however, is the continued pretense that a medical product that has killed or injured millions across the globe, hasn’t killed or injured millions across the globe. It’s not happening, even though it is happening. Even though the catastrophic damage they are causing is evidenced by data from all over the world, they are officially Safe and Effective, despite being obviously Fake and Defective.

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Stephen Lendman

Like its US/Western counterparts, Israeli democracy exists in fantasy form alone, the real thing banned from inception. Nearly two million Arab citizens of Israel, about 20% of the population, are denied rights afforded exclusively to Jews. Occupied Palestinians are treated as virtual enemies of the state.

Since Monday, Israeli forces killed 8 Palestinians for the “crime” of being Muslims in a Jewish state, for wanting rights afforded solely to Jews. Since January, Israeli forces virtually executed 214 Palestinians for the same reasons, including 54 children. According to freedom-fighting groups comprising the Palestinian Committee Committee for Resistance, Israel’s “policy of assassination will not curb” their struggle for long-denied justice.

The incoming Netanyahu regime promises to be the most extremist in Israeli history. Arab-hating, right-wing extremist, Itamar Ben Gvir is being given the regime’s national security ministry. In newly expanded form, it’ll control national and border police in the West Bank with an iron fist.

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Vanessa Beeley

If people are thinking about complaining about the situation in their country - please be aware of what Syria is going through right now.

1. Electricity: most areas in Damascus and countryside have only had 30 minutes to one hour in last 24 hours. In the rest of Syria especially rural areas no electricity for 3 days at least.
2. Poor performance of the landline phone network and terrestrial internet due to lack of fuel to run generators during the time of power outage and even the towers powered by solar energy almost shut down because of cloudy weather.
3. Most of the large factories reduced their distribution because their vehicles have no fuel and many closed down until next week - crippling many industries and supply chains.
4. Some government institutions could not conduct electronic transactions on Wednesday and Thursday because there was no electricity or internet.
5. Shops and markets throughout Damascus are closing at sunset because there is no fuel for their generators.
6. Private bakeries reduced production of bread because they cannot operate their machines and ovens.
7. Restaurants reduced production and are only serving cold food or barbecue for the same reasons.
8. Diesel and fuel have disappeared even from the black market with 20L of BM fuel now at 200,000 Syrian pounds (average salary is 150,000, most are earning less).

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Alexei Bobrovsky (Алексей Бобровский)

The French Foreign Ministry has announced that it is launching an international tribunal to investigate Russia's actions in Ukraine.

I strongly advise the Russian Foreign Ministry not to dismiss this French idiocy. It is only idiocy at first glance, but it will later be an argument in negotiations (there will be negotiations at some point). Apparently, they should not only be periodically reminded of their place in history (thanks to Stalin, for example, they are the victors in the Second World War), but also of their war crimes, just in case people forget about it.

Especially for those to whom the great and mighty gave the word "la Bérézina", which has become synonymous with the word "disaster", I remind you that in 2023 the second Russia-Africa forum will be held in St. Petersburg. In terms of the number of visiting heads of state, it is the most representative forum in the world, but that is not the point. What if the French remember everything? They do not forget in Africa.

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Neil Oliver

Here’s the thing: if we set a course for ourselves and back each other every step of the way, we will cross this ocean of darkness together, all the way to where we want to be.

People write to me every day to tell me they fear the future. People from all over the world, all ages, all walks of life. I say this: we should not be afraid.

If anyone should be afraid it is our government, the whole of parliament, the State and the Establishment. They should be afraid because they are in the wrong – doing wrong things and behaving unforgivably.

You can tell they are afraid by the way they keep doing more and more, faster and faster, to make the people poor, cold and hungry – also demoralised, anxious and fearful about the present, never mind the future. The fear felt by people around the world is the deliberate consequence of the actions of so-called leaders all across the West and beyond. I say again, we should not be afraid. Those plotting and working against us, against our interests both as individuals and as sovereign states, have no power and no money other than that which we, the people grant them.

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"Irish Savant"

[Urban Dictionary] The Noticing: "The realization, the revelation, the noticing that every single time, that it is those who cannot be named that are responsible or behind every bad company, movement and organization." - Ed.

So far so good, #The Noticing is still with us. The most recent manifestation has been Dave Chappelle’s appearance on SNL while Tucker Carlson did a hard-hitting piece on his show. The real mind-blowing thing for me so far has been the role of LLoyd Blankfein lookalike Harley Pasternak, a self-styled ‘personal trainer’ to the stars. You’ve probably seen the ultimatums he presented to Kanye West (Ye). The first was the offer of a friendly talk – under Pasternak’s conditions – while the other was the following: “Second option, I have you institutionalized again where they medicate the crap out of you, and you go back to Zombieland forever. Play date with the kids just won’t be the same.“ [My emphasis]

Just to be clear what this represents: A ‘personal trainer’ threatens probably the biggest musical star in the world with incarceration in a mental institution where he’d be zombefied with drugs forever.

Note the ‘again’. This original relates to events at a Ye concert shortly after Trump’s electoral victory where Ye got seriously out of line, praising traditional America, Trump and – shock horror – God and Christianity. He revealed how the music industry was really run, about how certain artists mysteriously skyrocketed to success while most of the talented languished. He drew a link between this success and the artists’ commitment to a degenerate lifestyle and art form. You can imagine how that went down with his Jewish handlers (and all his handlers were Jewish).

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