The civilized world does not need NATO, a "criminal organization" whose member states account for just about 12% of the world’s population, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday. 💬 "NATO countries account for not more than 12% of the planet’s population. The civilized world does not need this organization. It should repent before the humanity and dissolve itself on the grounds of being a criminal organization," Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel. ● According to the Russian security official, NATO "easily forgot" what it had done all over the world, including orchestrating state coups and toppling legitimate state leaders. The organization and its leadership also seem to have forgotten about numerous civilian casualties, caused by its operations and arms supplies to extremist regimes, Medvedev added.

[HYPOCRISY UNHINGED:] EU will try to set up a specialised court backed by the UN to investigate and potentially prosecute possible Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. China and Russian forces conducted a joint aerial patrol on Wednesday, China's defence ministry said. Ukraine urged NATO members Tuesday to speed up weapons deliveries and help restore its shattered power grid. (Ground News // Articles)(SEE ITEM BELOW)

EC confirms removal of information about Ukrainian army death toll: It is reported that the European Commission deleted information about the 100,000 Ukrainian servicemen and 20,000 civilians who died since the start of the Russian special military operation from the video address and the written statement of EC President Ursula von der Leyen released Wednesday morning. Dmitry Medvedev mocked Ursula von der Leyen’s self-censorship as subservience to the US

Maria Zakharova(Russian MFA) | From a briefing by NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. Brussels, 25 May 1999:
Question: 💬 If you say that the [Yugoslav] army has many generators, why do you deprive the country of 70 percent not only of electricity but also of water supply, because, according to you, [NATO] only strikes military installations.
Answer: 💬 Unfortunately, command and control systems also depend on electricity. If Milosevic really wants his citizens to have water and electricity, all he has to do is to accept NATO's terms and we will stop this campaign. Until he does, we will continue to attack the targets that supply his army with electricity. If there are consequences for the population, that is his [Milosevic's] problem. Water and electricity are used against the people of Serbia, we have "cut off" them permanently or for a long time for the sake of the lives of the 1.6 million Kosovars who have been driven from their homes and whose lives have been badly damaged. Not everyone will like this difference, but to me this difference is fundamental.

The United States could send weapons capable of 100-mile precision strikes to Ukraine, that would allow Kyiv to strike deep behind Russian lines - as the West struggles to meet demand for more arms. | The Pentagon is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with cheap, small precision bombs that are fitted onto abundantly available rockets - as president Volodymyr Zelensky works to replenish his shrinking arsenal. ● Boeing's proposed system, dubbed Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), is one of about a half-dozen plans for getting new munitions into production for Ukraine and America's Eastern European allies, industry sources said. ● U.S. and allied military inventories are shrinking, and Ukraine faces an increasing need for more sophisticated weapons as the war drags on into its ten month.

The US-led NATO bloc "should not fear" allowing Kiev to attack Russia freely, Latvia's top diplomat says

Dmitry Medvedev (Дмитрий Медведев) | NATO Secretary General hinted that Ukraine would win as a sovereign independent state. But he said nothing about its territorial integrity. As if it will win, but, apparently, in the new, greatly reduced borders of its independence, and all sovereign will sit down at the negotiating table. This is already progress. ● And the permanent regress is that the arrogant NATO upstarts always easily forget about coups d'état carried out by their organization in sovereign countries around the world, ousted legally elected heads of state and killed tens of thousands of civilians - the elderly, women, children. About arms deliveries to all kinds of scum, zoological scum and extremist regimes. About the impunity of the leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance for the atrocities they committed. After all, since its formation, NATO has repeatedly proved its strictly closed corporate nature by acting in the interests of a bunch of Anglo-Saxon countries and their lackeys. At the same time, no more than 12 per cent of the world's population lives in NATO countries. ● The civilised world does not need this organisation. It must repent to the mankind and be dissolved as a criminal entity. But even Pontifex Maximus will not be able to absolve them of their sins. ● PS: If, as Stoltenberg hinted, NATO were to supply the Kiev fanatics with Patriot systems along with NATO personnel, they would immediately become a legitimate target of our Armed Forces. I hope the Atlantic impotents understand that. (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator)

Dutch Nitrogen Minister to Seize and Close 3,000 Farms to Comply With EU Environmental Rules | The Dutch government is planning to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally sensitive areas to be in compliance with EU environmental rules. It comes after farmer protests erupted this summer following a government plan to reduce nitrogen emissions by 50% by 2030, The New York Times reported. Farmers believe the measure unfairly targeted the agricultural sector, which is responsible for the largest portion of nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands, the Times added. The government will conduct a "compulsory purchase" of large nitrogen emitters as part of a voluntary, one-time offer, announced Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy [!?!] Christianne van der Wal, Bloomberg reported.

One in four older teenagers in England are struggling with mental health problems, according to new figures that highlight the impact of the pandemic on the younger generation. (Ground News // Articles)

The Pope’s comments about Russia’s ethnic minorities were an “insinuation,” the envoy says | Russia’s ambassador to the Vatican has filed a complaint over an interview given by Pope Francis, in which he accused troops of Chechen and Buryat origin of particular “cruelty” during Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. ● Alexander Avdeyev said he visited the Vatican’s diplomatic service late on Monday to deliver the note. 💬 “I expressed indignation at such insinuations,” the ambassador said, referring to the Pope’s comments. “Nothing can shake the solidarity and unity of the multinational Russian people,” he told RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday. ● In his interview on Monday with the Jesuit magazine America, Pope Francis claimed that “the cruelest [among those fighting in Ukraine] are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryati [sic] and so on.” ● Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded that 💬 "the pontiff’s words were “no longer Russophobia. It’s a perversion on a level I can’t even name.” ● Alexey Tsidenov, the leader of Buryatia – a Russian Buddhist republic in southeast Siberia – said Pope Francis’ comments were 💬 “strange, to say the least.” The speaker of Chechnya’s parliament, Magomed Daudov, advised the Pope to listen to the people of Donbass, to whom Chechens, Buryats and representatives of other nations of Russia have become “saviors.”

Pope Francis is the Apotheosis of Hypocrisy (Elena Panina)

Douglas McGregor: The new border of the Russian Federation will pass along the Dnieper | Former US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor is confident that the Ukrainian state will be destroyed by 700,000 Russian soldiers after the ground freezes.
💬 “They will move in and finish off this Ukrainian state. Let's not kid ourselves. Regime in Kiev is likely to be annihilated along with the remains of Armed Forces." he said. Russia will not stop until it regains all the territories that historically belonged to it before, says a former US Army colonel. Kherson and Kharkov will again be Russian cities, he is sure. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will face complete defeat, and the Ukrainian state - complete destruction, McGregor added.
💬 "The Russians are now fully mobilizing to complete this task. The biggest mistake we could make in the West is to involve ourselves, we have done enough damage" emphasizes McGregor. (VIDEO)

Zelenskiy will become a victim of Ukrainian nationalists - US Colonel Macgregor (Vanessa Beeley)

How Kiev is sinking into the 19th century. A notice has been put out to tenants...that it will not be possible to go to the toilet when there is no light, because the pumps do not work, the system will fill up and everything will go into the flats on the lower floors. And so the only escape is a toilet in the yard like a "cloakroom". Or to have a bucket with bags at home to go in them, and then take the bags outside. (Translation: DeepL.com)

[Editor's Comment, Another World Is Possible:] This blog has taken the attitude that the Russian side was justified in protecting Russians in Eastern Ukraine. They had been under constant bombardment from the Nazi rulers in Kyiv. Thousands lost their lives in this way after the 2014 Maidan coup carried out by the former US president, Barak Obama and his handlers. Understandably, the Russians found that finally something had to be done about all this. However, people in Western Ukraine, ruled by the Nazis in Kyiv, were not the ones that were bombing the Russians in Eastern Ukraine. Kyiv did this, not ordinary people in Ukraine. Moscow seems to ignore this fact. This is very, very bad! - The so-called special military operation, as such, was and still is justified. It is however this editor's opinion that the intentional destruction of Ukraine's civilian infrastructure is reprehensible. It is mean-spirited and morally repugnant. Winter is coming and people will suffer terribly and some will undoubtedly freeze to death. Nothing, absolutely nothing good will come of this. It must stop immediately!

[Комментарий редактора, "Другой мир возможен":] Этот блог придерживался позиции, что российская сторона была оправдана в защите русских в Восточной Украине. Они подвергались постоянным обстрелам со стороны нацистских правителей в Киеве. Тысячи людей погибли таким образом после майданного переворота 2014 года, осуществленного бывшим президентом США Бараком Обамой и его подручными. Понятно, что россияне сочли, что со всем этим, наконец, нужно что-то делать. Однако не люди в Западной Украине, управляемой киевскими нацистами, бомбили русских в Восточной Украине. Это делал Киев, а не простые люди в Украине. Москва, похоже, игнорирует этот факт. Это очень, очень плохо! - Так называемая специальная военная операция, как таковая, была и остается оправданной. Однако, по мнению этого редактора, намеренное разрушение гражданской инфраструктуры Украины достойно осуждения. Это подло и морально отвратительно. Наступает зима, и люди будут ужасно страдать, а некоторые, несомненно, замерзнут до смерти. Ничего, абсолютно ничего хорошего из этого не выйдет. Это должно быть немедленно прекращено! (Перевод: : DeepL.com)

Elena Panina | Lloyd Austin, head of the US Department of Defense, said this at the International Security Forum in Halifax on 19 November. His speech was entitled "Why Ukraine Matters". Austin highlighted four reasons:

● A direct threat to European security;
● a challenge to US NATO allies;
● an attack on Western values and the "rule of law";
● undermining the "rules-based order" that keeps the West safe.

"Supporting Ukraine's self-defence is an investment by the West in its own security and prosperity," Austin added. - So those in North America don't have the opportunity to sit on the sidelines."  ●  Obviously, the very existence of Russia is a challenge to the "rules-based order" through which the West thrives by siphoning off other countries' natural and human resources. A sovereign Russia is the planet's chance for a just future. After all, if the West has become anti-Christian, only a Christian civilization can defeat it. ● Ukraine is being used as a battering ram against Russia in order to inflict a strategic defeat on our country and not to engage in direct military confrontation with us, fraught with a global nuclear war. ● Austin also said this, outlining the desired framework of the conflict: "We [NATO] will not be drawn into war, but we will support Ukraine and defend every inch of NATO territory." ● Here is the conclusion for Russia: the conflict can only be truly over if there is a direct and immediate threat to the core of Western civilisation - the United States. Otherwise, it will smolder for decades, exhausting our country. US officials originally called the time limit 10 years. It is noteworthy that Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is currently on a state visit to Russia and is scheduled to meet with the Russian head of state.

Юрий Баранчик | "Blowing up two gas pipelines is a declaration of war on Germany" declares former SPD chairman Oskar Lafontaine. The German federal government is behaving pathetically and cowardly as it wants to cover up the incident. | According to Lafontaine, the US either carried out the attack directly or gave it the green light: 💬 "Without Washington's knowledge and consent, the destruction of the pipelines, which amounts to an attack on our country, a blow to our economy and our geostrategic interests, would not have been possible." Lafontaine believes that the FRG must "free itself from American tutelage", withdraw US troops and their nuclear weapons from its territory and close the Ramstein airbase. 💬 "Germany must formulate its own interests, and they do not coincide with those of the US," the former SPD chief noted. According to him, "NATO is no longer a defensive alliance, but a tool to keep the US as the only world power." ● So it is. How Lafontaine's plans are implemented practically is another matter. There are some 200 American bases on German territory. Every Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany signs the "Chancellor Act", a pledge to the United States, Britain and France, before being sworn in. This secret treaty is valid until 2099. ● Unfortunately, Lafontaine's statement is a voice crying in the wilderness. Alas, the fate of Germany is sealed - industrial devastation, the flight of German companies to American jurisdiction, the degradation of the German state. ● Germany can be potentially saved only by Russia if it takes Berlin as it did in 1945, and taking into account those lessons - the whole German territory. The scenario is fantastic, but if the US follows Ukraine in making Poland and Germany its proxies against Russia, it could become a reality. (Translation: DeepL.com)

LNR officer Marochko reported huge losses among Polish mercenaries fighting for Kiev | [Extract:] Polish mercenaries fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army are suffering enormous losses, an officer of the People's Militia of the Luhansk People's Republic Andrey Marochko told the Rossiya 24 TV channel. For example, the concentration of Polish representatives was recorded in the districts of Kreminna, Lysychansk, Svatove, and in other directions. 💬 "We are also receiving intelligence, radio intercepts, and there is already indirect confirmation that these soldiers are suffering enormous losses, as there are already statements from Polish officials that the bodies of Polish soldiers are arriving on Polish territory and they need to be buried somewhere. They now have a problem with this," Marochko said. ● At the beginning of November, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that after the start of the special military operation, more than eight thousand mercenaries from more than 60 countries had arrived in Ukraine. The most numerous groups represented Poland, the US, Canada, Romania and the UK. More than three thousand fighters were killed, and a similar number decided to return home. (T)

Poles killed in Ukraine to get ‘American’ burial

Initially unconfirmed BUT NOW CONFIRMED reports are starting to come in claiming Chinese authorities have OPENED FIRE upon unarmed protesters, who are coming out en-masse against China's repressive COVID lockdowns. | Initially unconfirmed BUT NOW CONFIRMED reports are starting to come in claiming Chinese authorities have OPENED FIRE upon unarmed protesters, who are coming out en-masse against China's repressive COVID lockdowns. Initial reports are CLAIMING entire crowds have been gunned down, but we cannot confirm this. This is a developing story. Check back. UPDATE 11:03 AM EDT --The reports of crowds being FIRED UPON are now CONFIRMED.

Renowned Oncologist Sends Urgent Letter Calling to End COVID Vaccine Program Immediately as Cancers and other Diseases Are Rapidly Progressing in ‘Boosted’ People | Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a renowned oncologist practicing in the UK, recently wrote an open letter to the editor-in-chief of the medical journal The BMJ, urging the journal to “make valid informed consent for COVID vaccination a priority topic” because cancers and other diseases are rapidly progressing among “boosted” people. ● Angus George Dalgleish, 72, is a professor of oncology at St George’s, University of London, best known for his contributions to HIV/AIDS research and is one of the most sought-after doctors in London. A medical oncologist is trained to treat different types of cancer using chemotherapy and other medications, such as immunotherapy and targeted therapy. ● Naked Emperor Substack noted that Dr. Dalgleish is a co-discoverer of the CD4 receptor as the major cellular receptor for HIV. Angus is also a vaccine researcher and founded a biotech company developing cancer vaccines.

📌 In Urumqi (XUAR, Western China), the authorities announced a phased lifting of anti-covigilance restrictions as the city reached "zero incidence";
📌 Oil falls to lowest level since 2021, Brent loses 2.6%;
📌 Chinese indices and currencies down: Hang Seng (foreign-oriented) loses 2%, Shanghai Composite (domestic-oriented) loses 1%. The yuan is cheaper by 0.5% to 7.2 per dollar. (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator)(free version)

The Commons has passed the Public Order Bill, which is now with the House of Lords at committee stage. It’s probably one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation to have ever passed through parliament. Because, once it’s law, every protest in the country will be threatened with penalties more likely to be found in a authoritarian regime. | [The measures] include “locking-on” and going equipped to lock-on, thus criminalising “the protest tactic of individuals attaching themselves to others, objects or buildings to cause serious disruption”. The penalty for locking-on is a maximum “of six months’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both”. And “the maximum penalty for the offence of going equipped to lock-on will be an unlimited fine”. ● “Tunnelling” is also criminalised. This includes “creating a tunnel, participating in creating a tunnel and being present in a tunnel”. The “maximum penalties for these offences will be 3 years imprisonment, an unlimited fine or both”. Going equipped for tunnelling is also an offence, leading up to “6-months imprisonment, an unlimited fine or both”. ● The bill also extends stop and search powers. This will enable police to search for and seize “items which are made, adapted or intended to be used in connection with protest-related offences”. They include items that can be used for tunnelling or locking-on. The police may also be authorised to “conduct a stop and search without the need for suspicion”.

Draconian bill: Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (SDPOS) (Vanessa Beeley)

Объясняет Readovka | They are trying to enter paradise on our war effort | The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Yermak said: 💬 "We remember the Holodomor. We know who the author of the genocide is. We also see who wants to create a "holodomor". The Russians will pay for all the victims of the Holodomor and will be responsible for today's crimes. It will be a historic time of reckoning." ● What is important here? First of all, our enemies emphasize that they would like to deal with Russia not only on the occasion of current events, but also plan to impute our entire history to us for the entire foreseeable past, including that of a century ago. Do not think, by the way, that they are driven simply by primitive anger: Mr. Yermak, Mr. Zelensky and yes, their handlers, are not averse to riding into paradise on our war effort. – But, of course, they will just die.

Bruce Bower | One hundred years ago, archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled across the tomb of ancient Egypt’s King Tutankhamun. Carter’s life was never the same. Neither was the young pharaoh’s afterlife. | Newspapers around the world immediately ran stories about Carter’s discovery of a long-lost pharaoh’s grave and the wonders it might contain, propelling the abrasive Englishman to worldwide acclaim. A boy king once consigned to ancient obscurity became the most famous of pharaohs (SN: 12/18/76). ● It all started on November 4, 1922, when excavators led by Carter discovered a step cut into the valley floor of a largely unexplored part of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. By November 23, the team had uncovered stairs leading down to a door. A hieroglyphic seal on the door identified what lay beyond: King Tutankhamun’s tomb. ● Tutankhamun assumed power around 1334 B.C., when he was about 10 years old. His reign lasted nearly a decade until his untimely demise. Although a minor figure among Egyptian pharaohs, Tutankhamun is one of the few whose richly appointed burial place was found largely intact. ● An unusually meticulous excavator for his time, Carter organized a 10-year project to document, conserve and remove more than 6,000 items from Tutankhamun’s four-chambered tomb. While some objects, like Tut’s gold burial mask, are now iconic, many have been in storage and out of sight for decades. But that’s about to change. About 5,400 of Tutankhamun’s well-preserved tomb furnishings are slated to soon go on display when the new Grand Egyptian Museum, near the Pyramids of Giza, opens. Even as more of Tut’s story is poised to come to light, here are four things to know on the 100th anniversary of his tomb’s discovery: MORE

Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine in February, after Ukraine increased attacks against the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. Since Russia launched a military operation, western countries have been providing Ukraine with humanitarian, military and financial aid. | Energy facilities across Ukraine have been targeted by Russia since 10 October in retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian infrastructure and the bombing of the Crimean bridge, which, according to Moscow, was carried out by Ukrainian special services. ● Earlier, on Friday, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that almost half the country's energy system has not been able to operate because of Russia's missile strikes. Authorities have urged people to reduce their use of electricity and have implemented rolling black-outs.

Despite being hailed as Europe’s poster child of green energy, Denmark saw a fivefold year-on-year jump in energy prices earlier this year and was forced to act accordingly, including lowering the heating in public buildings throughout the country and asking Danes to turn down the heat in their homes. | Churches around Denmark have been forced to cancel services because of the ongoing energy crisis. In the Diocese of Lolland-Falster, all 108 churches have been given permission to move or cancel services to conserve energy, and many have already made use of this arrangement, especially in the sparsely populated countryside. 💬 “It costs a lot of money to heat an old medieval church with electricity,” Bishop Marianne Gaarden told Danish media. ● Similar decisions have been made in the dioceses of Aarhus and Viborg, each of which comprises hundreds of churches although church authorities have promised that transport will be arranged for churchgoers who find that they have to travel further to get to a church which is still functioning.

The UK Defence Ministry has confirmed that Britain is supplying Ukraine with modern laser-guided Brimstone 2 missiles, shrugging off Moscow’s repeated warnings about the risk of triggering a direct conflict between NATO and Russia. | The ministry posted a video clip on Twitter on Sunday, showing at least one pallet of the high-precision missiles being delivered from the Royal Air Force Brize Norton base in Oxfordshire to an undisclosed airfield. The missiles were part of a UK “aid package” for Ukraine, the ministry said, confirming earlier media reports of such deliveries taking place for some time. ● UK forces reportedly began supplying earlier versions of the Brimstone missile to Ukraine last spring. The Brimstone 2 is far more advanced than its predecessor, offering about triple the range. It’s designed for firing from an aircraft to attack targets on the ground. However, Ukrainian ground troops have used the missile on adapted trucks, mostly targeting tanks and other armored vehicles. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a new military aid package worth £50 million ($60 million) during his visit to Kiev earlier this month. Each Brimstone 2 missile reportedly costs about £175,000. ● The Kremlin has warned that as the US, UK, and other NATO members supply increasingly advanced weaponry to Ukraine, they are prolonging the conflict and risking a direct confrontation with Russia. Moscow characterizes the conflict as nothing short of a proxy war against the US and NATO, while President Vladimir Putin has described Russia as fighting “the entire Western military machine.”

Ukraine receiving secret weapons supplies – FM (RT.com)

Объясняет Readovka | Western arms shipments to Ukraine continue to flow uninterrupted, despite voices about running out of supplies. But where there are big guns, there are big problems - so the US is thinking about controlling the arms supplies. | According to the Washington Post, the enormous sums of money that the Biden administration is spending in support of Kiev are causing increasing concern, especially when it comes to direct arms deliveries. Apart from the financial issue (taxpayers, in fact, have a right to know how exactly the billions of dollars sent to Zelensky and company are spent), the US congressmen are concerned about the possibility of weapons falling into the hands of Russia as well as their leakage to the black market from the hands of enterprising cops. ● The Americans have special control over the high-tech armaments supplied - the HIMARS, for example, are strictly monitored by Washington and should not be approached without permission. Also, secret components are withdrawn from sophisticated weapons before they are shipped. ● The situation with simpler weapons is more complicated. US inspectors do not go directly to the front lines and cannot check where and how their valuable cargo is being used. As of the beginning of February, only two inspections have taken place, which means that only 10% of the delivered volume could be checked. The existing system for tracing serial numbers is clearly failing and some weapons are disappearing in the fog of war. Modern conflicts often leave behind echoes in the form of unaccounted-for weapons, and if we are talking about the 404, there is no reason to doubt the dirty hands of these characters - oddly enough, weapons from Ukrainian arsenals have surfaced in the most unexpected places from Africa to the Middle East in recent decades. ● At one time, the conflict in Yugoslavia greatly replenished the black market for weapons around the world. Now imagine that the bandits are not holding a machine gun from the Cold War stockpiles, but a brand new Javelin. And not just one. (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator)(free version)

Ukraine sells weapons on black market due to limited ability to use (almayadeen.net)

Pet Ownership is Now Under Attack by Unhinged Climate Extremists – Says Dogs and Cats are Part of the Climate Problem | In an effort to lessen their "carbon pawprint," unhinged climate activists are now advocating for the death of millions of dogs and cats worldwide. An article published by CNN claims that dogs, cats, and other household pets that regularly consume meat contribute to "global warming." "Our four-legged friends don't drive gas-guzzling SUVs or use energy-sucking appliances, but that doesn't mean they don't have a climate impact. In fact, researchers have showed that pets play a significant role in the climate crisis," according to a recent CNN column. The news outlet added that most of the carbon pawprint comes from their diet, which is extremely high in meat and so requires a lot of resources (including energy, land, and water) to create. The manufacturing of pet food also results in a significant quantity of greenhouse gas emissions.