Youtube comments of Antony Wooster (@antonywooster6783).

  1. It seems to me to be extremely sad that Britain, which used to be held up as a bastion of free speech, is now a place where one hesitates to voice an opinion for fear of the consequences.
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  2. You did not mention that the Russians allege, that the drones which attacked the fleet which was protecting the grain ships, from mines laid by the Ukrainians, were launched from "civilian" ships.
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  3. This commentary is inaccurate. The reason that the flow of Russian oil and gas to Western Europe has been cut is, NOT a result of the war in Ukraine. It is mostly due to the sanctions that NATO countries have put on the purchase of anything from Russia, partly a result of Ukraine switching off oil and gas flowing through its territory and lastly the sabotage (almost certainly done by the USA) of the nordstream pipelines. In other words it is self-inflicted damage. The sanctions were openly intended to crush the Russian economy and were planned before the Russians invaded Ukraine. Now that they have failed, spectacularly, to do that, they seem to have been repurposed to wreck the European economy in general and the German economy in particular.
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  4. If you but listen to what Putin has to say, he is quite clear that the "way to live" (The form of governance.) should be determined by the people living in that country. One of his primary criticisms of the collective west is that it tries to impose its own ideas on governance on other countries. E.g trying to make Afghanistan into an American-style "Democracy". There is absolutely no suggestion, in his speech, that he thinks Russia should try to export its own style of governance to other countries.
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  5. "It's not unreasonable for trump to tell Europe to pay for its own defence." Says you. The problem with "paying for your oen defense" by NATO is that as Ukraine has found out that NATO is a broken reed, it can't match the Russians, weapon for weapon and is "Casualty Averse". The other problem is that NATO has never DEFENDED anyone! NO, it has always attacked someone, often with European and Turkish help. What sort of "Defensive Alliance" is that?
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  6. I think the practice of putting heavy weaponry in civilian setting is what NATO was teaching, at least in Ukraine. I think this was stated by one of the British volunteers who was captured by the DPR forces.
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  7. Has anything the Ukrainian Intelligence Service ever said turned out to be true?
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  8. 3:08 "It would be wrong". Yup! It would! It would also be Bloody Difficult, not to say F*ing Impossible! Its like an ant threatening to push over an oak tree. Really, I am an old man, and I have been interested in politics all my life, since my early childhood, but I cannot remember a British government, ever, which produced more stupid, vapid statements and idiotic policies than this one. Its hypocrisy is off the charts - e.g. all its talk about "Human Rights" while keeping Julian Assange locked up for being a Journalist and publisher! All its talk about "Democracy" while being unelected itself! Who voted for Rishi Sunak for PM?
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  9. 1:03:06 I think that one reason that the US pulling out of one treaty after another, has caused so little stir, is that people have come to recognize that the US does not honour any treaty that it signs. The history of the US is littered with broken treaties, going all the way back to the treaties with the original inhabitants of the North American continent,
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  10. 1:02:24 The thing that, above all else, makes the Russian economy and way of life resistant to sanctions and even other more serious attacks, is that they grow all the food they need to feed themselves, They also have all the fuel they need to process and transport this food around their enormous country. This foundation is enough to ensure that they are very difficult to destroy, but they have much more than that going for them besides and then they have the backing of and a long common border with China. Truly, only lunatics or people who have swallowed their own propaganda hook, line and sinker, could think to take on this combo as insouciantly as the US appears to be doing!
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  11. 12:42 What the US is saying to China is: "Stop helping Russia! We want to defeat and plunder Russia so that we can defeat and conquer you next. OK?"
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  12. 28:51 Bear in mind that about a year ago the Ukrainian army bombarded a POW camp housing prisoners captured in Mariupol. Maybe shooting down the IL76 was not an accident?
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  13. 0:55 The conditions are of secondary importance. Who cares what the background is? The importance of your and Alex's videos is the spoken content, the invaluable information that you collect and distribute. That is the gold, the rest is of very little importance, don't worry about it, I don't and I am pretty sure that the rest of your audience does not either. We are merely sorry that you are having difficulties.
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  14. 10:59 It is fairly clear that "What Netanyahoo wants" is a Jewish state, inhabited exclusively by Jews, whose borders encompass everything mentioned in the Torah as being Israel and no Palestinians anywhere.
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  15. Belgorod is a civilian target. In other words this is simply terrorist activity by Zelensky's regime, with the complicity of the Collective West.
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  16. 7:40 The Ukrainian government could have had a better deal than that, which was negotiated in Turkey in April 2022 if they had not been "persuaded" by Boris Johnson et al, to fight on with the promise that "We have your back, we in the West will give you all the weapons you need to give the Russians a resounding defeat." And: " We will support you for as long as it takes." (Repeated several times by senior US Politicians.)
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  17. 3:50 Isn't it wonderful that people who clain to "Support Democracy" use the term "Populist" in a denigratory sense?! What sort of mental gynastics does that involve?
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  18. 8:30 There is also the striking difference that in Bachmut, the Ukrainians were a formal Army with a highly standarised structure armed and supplied by the Collective West with all the weaponry they could spare, while the Hamas in Gaza, is a vastly smaller force of irregulars, with very limited resources, no similar back-up and nowhere to retreat to. Incidentally. I note that during WW2, the German side always described the Partizans and other resistance fightters, as "Terrorists".
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  19. I hope she is investigated thoroughly. If the rumours are anything to go by, there is plenty to find out. As you say, it is a source of rather sour amusement, to hear her going on about the "undemocratic" nature of Russia, China, Iran and other places. One major problem seems to be her fanatical hatred of all things Russian. Hatred is not a good advisor.
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  20. You could go on to mention Kholomoisky, Victoria Nuland, Kuleba and Poroshenko, to name just a few. (8)
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  21. The Kamala Harris announcement that she is the presidetial candidate, reminds me of the US announcing that the Pesident of Venezuela is Juan Guiado!
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  22. As usual, Putin's remark about "US occupied" Germany, is accurate.
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  23. Probably this speech needs to be printed up as a flyer and distributed very widely indeed. Maybe we could stick it in bus shelters and on suitable walls. I have not seen this done for a long time. Do people still do this sort of thing? As Alex said it is pretty certain you will not read it in the MSM.
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  24. 3:11 According to the Iraqi and Syrian governments, it was not just militia targets that were hit but also civilian housing, killing a dozen or so civilians.
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  25. 24:05 The hostility to Iran in the US has been sedulously stoked over the years by the MSM and by Israeli politicians.
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  26. The REALLY important point of this war for the World at large, is that it has shown that Russia can attack a country with the best-NATO-trained, battle-hardened Army, which was several times as large as the forces Russia has committed to the battle and not only defeat it, but can at the same time Exhaust NATO's supplies of weapons and most important of all (Drumm Roll!) No NATO country is willing to come to the aid of the attacked country except in words and with dribs and drabs of arms and floods of money. Beside that the question of the veracity of the US Propaganda M/c is a minor detail. You have to be blind and or stupid or wilfully ignorant to believe anything you read or hear from the MSM.
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  27. 4:05 There is nothing "extraordinary" about Israeli government hypocrisy. It is absolutely standard.
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  28. No. China's economy is not collapsing. As you point out in this video, China is investing heavily in its manufacturing sector. The PRICE of housing is marginally important. What is REALLY important is that there are enough houses and that there are no homeless people. The price is another matter. It worries the West, because they are dominated by accountants, who see everything though a financial lens. I have been reading about the "Imminent collapse of the Chinese economy" since Octoner 1949. Even before that, when the Communists were running only part of China, the narrative in the Western MSM was exactly the same. They were going to collapse, if not today, then at the latest this time next week!
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  29. 28:30 The Ukrainian regime has been shelling civilian targes in Donbas, non-stop, for ten years, since 2014. That hardly makes their claim that they "do not do that sort of thing", credible. Not long ago, they shelled a market and killed a similar number of civilians in Donetsk City.
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  30. There is another problem impacting Germany. They used to have a very good system of small, local banks which were very helpful to small German businesses. (I think they were called "Landesbankes") They were the foundation of the German industry and enabled it to remain stable, through good times and bad. These are now disappearing, being swallowed up by big banks which have far less interest in small customers.
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  31. 1:38 The US was at that time, doing its level best to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine. So they should have known that!
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  32. 9:34 This idea that Putin is responsible for all Britain's woes, also (presumably) implies that Putin is vastly more powerful than Biden! Really? Well, maybe a time to rethink our priorities?
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  33. I saw a discussion between two Americans, one of whom said he worked in Wall St, and he said that discussing the war in Ukraine with his co-workers was impossible because they were all 100% convinced that Ukraine was winning, hands down.
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  34. 12:01 There is no "deadlock" in Ukraine,. There is a defeat. Thanks for ther news about the RMB overtaking the Euro. That's very interesting.
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  35. If Russia has "no right to veto Ukraine's joining NATO, how come the US had a right to veto Cuba's joining the Warsaw pact?
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  36. I think it is almost certain that the reason we have such an inadequate set of leaders in Europe (and the US, come to that) is that they have all been selected because they are vulnerable to blackmail, i.e. not because of their abilities. They all bought into the twin myths; that Russia was very weak and badly organized and that NATO was the "greatest military power the World has ever seen" and they thought therefore, that the Russians would buckle under when the UAF attacked Donbass and the sanctions struck home in Russia. Now that it is becoming clearer by the day that they miscalculated on every assumption, they have no way to turn. Time to panic, in fact.
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  37. 11:03 What they are basing "This Russian collapse" on is simply that: "It worked in the Cold War so it must be going to work again!"
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  38. 5:25 If that is the deal (Turkey to get more modern F-16s) then Erdogan has more faith in the US's word than I have.
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  39. The Kursk operation, plays into Russia's advantage in that it has concentrated the very units that Putin said, at the start of the SMO, that they particularly wanted to eliminate, in a small area, where they can be and are, in imminent danger of being wiped out.
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  40. The problem is that it is not a dispute between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Ukraine is a by-product of the constant (century long) attempt by the US to wangle itself and its vassels into a position where they can defeat and subsequently carve up Russia and China (and probably Iran and India too). In other words; the problem is, nothing more nor less than, the US's desire for World Domination. Until this is recognized as a problem, correction! The problem, there is no chance of dealing with it.
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  41. Prohibiting western insurance companies from insuring tankers carrying Russian oil, looks like a "Self-denying Odinance". Almost as though, the insurance business was not profitable! Or to put it another way, almost a sanctioning of the Western Insurance Industry! What did they do to deserve that? Do they/did they imagine that Chinese or Indian or Russian or Israeli insurers would not take up the extra business? I cannot follow their reasoning.
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  42. This war in Ukraine is a prize, a textbook example, of what the Chinese describe as: "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on one's own foot."
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  43. 5:40 British editors do not "think out" their responses to world events, they wait to be told what their response is going to be.
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  44. More & more arms and advisors was how the US military got into the Vietnam war.
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  45. 23:17 It might have made "better sense" for Ukraine to adopt a defensive strategy, if the Russian had willfully attacked Ukraine and Ukraine were an independent country. However, this was not the case. The Russians intervened to stop the Ukrainian army committing a genocide against the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Donbas and Ukraine was/is not an independent operator but a puppet of the US. The purpose of the war is, for Ukraine to damage Russia, which would probably be harder to do with a defensive strategy.
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  46. 4:00 There is no need to postulate any such agreement between the Russians and the US. You told us yourself, not long ago, that the Russians called in the British and French ambassadors to Moscow, and told them, very forcefully, that if they found that the Ukrainians were hitting targets in pre 1991 Russia with British or French missiles, they would take it as justification for hitting British and French military targets anywhere in the World. I imagine that the US took this to be equally applicable to US arms. (They had no ambassador in Moscow at the time.)
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  47. We have an example of a BRICS effect. The German arms mfg Rheinmetal, has a South African subsidiary, from which Poland ordered 50,000 155mm shells. The South African government forbade this export, on the grounds that these shells might end up in Ukraine.
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  48. "Took sweeping measures to cut their energy imports from Russia" they surely did! But, without making sure that they could replace them with imports from elsewhere! Turns out that that was not easy. In fact, the chief beneficiary of these embargos was the United States, which partly replaced the European imports from Russia with its own products, at up to five times the price! The Russians did not suffer much, as there is currently a shortage of oil and gas, so they were able to find other customers and as the prices are generally higher than they were, they got similar returns from their trade.
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  49. 22:22 The problem with what Alex is saying at this point, is that many on the Israeli side DO want to destroy the Palestinian population! They say so, frequently, loudly and show every sign that they mean it, they are not joking.
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  50. 5:14 I seem to remember that during a famine in China, in the '60s, the US prevented other western countries from selling wheat to China.
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  51. 0:30 This presumably, means that Denmark, either does not believe that Russia is planning to invade Europe, when it has conquered Ukraine OR that when Russia does, they are planning to surrender.
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  52. No. It's not only people out in the streets that scares them, it's information that scares them too, perhaps, even more.
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  53. 1:30 You are absolutely right! You cannot talk about "Democracy" if oligarchs control the supply of information!
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  54. 55:38 One of the barmy aspects of this discussion is that even were the Germans to help the Ukrainians launch these missiles and they hit some targets, you have to be delusional to think, that it would greatly alter the course of this war. On the other hand, the consequences to Germany, could be very grave indeed.
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  55. 25:46 "Mad Vlad threatened to kill me" Clearly, Putin is aiming to boost his popularity in Britain!
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  56. At the start of the SMO, Finland was a somewhat hostile neighbour which was militarily weak. NATO was "The greatest Military Power the World has ever Seen" The SMO has, essentially, shown that NATO is a hostile neighbour and militarily weak. Too weak to take on Russia, anyway. So you might call this the "Finlandization" of NATO. There is also the making overt the previously covert NATOisation of Finland. So I give the WH scriptwriters 50%. "Should try harder."
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  57. 33:40 I don't understand how anyone could trust any US signature to anything. They have such a dismal record of reneging o almost every treaty they have ever signed.
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  58. 1:07:26 In fact it looks as though Putin's ambition is much larger than recreating the Soviet Union. What he seems to be working on, is an economic union or free trade area stretching from Vladivostok to Harbin to Vietnam to India to Saudi Arabia to Egypt to Turkey to Iran, Georgia, to Moscow. In effect, unifying the whole landmass except for Western Europe. All, probably with security guarantees of each other.
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  59. 2:51 "Either way it shows that Putin is not willing to compromise" This is the lie direct. Almost immediately after the invasion (Not, note the war) happened, the Russians and the Ukrainians started negotiating in Turkey. They reached a draft agreement on the "heads of discussion" I.e. the things that they would discuss in their negotiations. Then the negotiators went back to Moscow and Kiev respectively to discuss what had been achieved so far. At that point the Western powers in the form of Boris Johnson turned up in Kiev and told them that the Western Powers would not agree to the security guarantees that they had agreed to discuss and told the Ukrainians to tear up the agreement, as the West would provide enough weapons and money for the Ukrainians to hand the Russians a decisive defeat. (Or words to that effect.)
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  60. 16:26 "Fudging the numbers". After WW2 the British government had a basket of commodities the price of which was used as a measure of inflation. At a time of fairly rapidly rising prices, I noticed that the price of candles stayed the same until candles were, weight for weight, cheaper than coal! The price of candles was subsidized to achieve this. The point, I finally worked out, was, that hardly anyone used candles for lighting any longer, so the subsidy cost very little, but it reduced the "cost of living" considerably and with it, the increase in e.g. pensions.
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  61. 31:05. The reason the Western leaders did not want to negotiate before Feb 24, is that they had the idea that the Ukrainians were going to make mincemeat of the Russians and together with the sanctions were going to destroy the Russian economy and bring about Regime Change in Moscow and they would all live happily ever after, or if not until then, at least until they could do something similar in Taiwan!
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  62. 12:05 The reason they could not shoot these drones down (even after a year) was that they had send all their anti - aircraft apparatus and missiles to Ukraine.
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  63. 3:07 According to Borzzikman, referring to that Russian threat to attack the decision-making centres, he notes that in the last few weeks there have been a large number of NATO Top Brass, who have mysteriously died in 'plane or helicopter accidents or have fallen off their horse and broken their necks, or died in a car crash.
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  64. In my opinion research on bioweapons and on "gain of function" reseach should be considered a Crime against humanity and should attract very heavy punishment for any convicted of it. Pathogens are quite nasty enough, without anyone trying to make them worse. There is always the probability of a "Lab leak" allowing these things to escape, even if precautions are studiously attended to.
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  65. The great merit of the Kursk operation as far as the Russians are concerned, is that it is a concentration of "Nationalist" troops, such as they have seldom had the oportunity to kill off. What you might say is that it is enablibling/facilitating the fulfilment of one of the aims of the SMO, as set out by Putin at the start of the operation.
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  66. 37:27 One of the people who say that Zelensky is no longer the legitimate president of Ukraine, is the man who drafted the Ukrainian constitution.
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  67. 3:32 Since before the PRC was proclaimed, the Chinese government spent heavily on education and health. They built large numbers of schools, universities and hospitals.
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  68. 20:56 I think that Trumps most powerful move, would be to investigat and expose the profiteering out of the Ukraine conflict that has gone on. That would resonate with the US public and would be very damaging for his opponents and He is (as far as I know) not involved himself. "Look! My hands are clean!"
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  69. 23:58 It is not just that the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have pursued anti-Russian policies directed at the Russian government, but they also have, extrememly hostile policies, directed at the Russian-speaking minorities left there, by the break-up of the USSR.
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  70. Well said! Clare Daly! Would that we had parliaments full of such MPs instead of the zombies and puppets we have.
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  71. 17:22 Netanyahoo being "determined to destroy Hamas" reminds me very forcibly of the US's "desperate (Largely un successful) fight" to "destroy ISIS" in Syria, before the Russian intervention in 2015.
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  72. 45:39 The agreement between MBS and Xi Jinping is in a way even more important than the Ukraine war, in this sense: The agreement to sell Saudi oil for yuan, cuts the USA off at the knees! It spells the reduction of the importance of the petrodollar and its possible destruction. It really is a financial earthquake the like of which I cannot recall.
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  73. 1:15:07 The whole scene, as time goes on, gets more and more reminiscent of the fight with the Black Knight on the bridge, in Monty Python's quest for the Holy Grail. The unwillingness to face up to reality is quite uncannily similar.
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  74. 18:23 Unless, of course, they were launched by NATO pilots flying NATO planes.
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  75. 5:43 They have also torn up almost every treaty they have ever signed.
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  76. I want Clare Daly for President!
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  77. I think that what really alarmed de Gaulle, was that the demos contained/consisted of not only students and other intellectuals, but also industrial workers as well; a very dangerous combination, if history is anything to go by.
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  78. 16:34 You have not only Shokin's testimony on TV, but you also have Biden's gloat over the same event, on camera, to back it up in every detail.
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  79. 9:28 It is always a Bad Sign when people get enthusiastic support from the MSM!
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  80. Have the people of any country in NATO been asked if they want their country to be in NATO?
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  81. Come to think back on it: it was the US that was the last to stop supporting the Apartheid Regime in South Africa too.
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  82. 1:55 NO! The war in Ukraine did not "begin in February 2022" It began shortly after the coup d'etat in February 2014. At that time the new Kiev regime sent troops to the Donbas to kill or drive out, the Russian-speaking inhabitants of that region. For the next ten years they bombed and shelled the civilians, in the cities of the Region, particularly in Donetsk City.
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  83. Most boys learn in junior school, if not in Kindergarten that if you don't think you can win, it is as well to not start a fight in the first place and if it looks as though you are losing you should stop before you get hurt worse than you have been already. How come our generals and political leaders seem not to understand this?
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  84. When I was a child Britain had coal gas, which was a mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen and nitrogen. When Britain stopped making coal gas and instead decided to burn natural gas, all the nozzles in all the burners in the country had to be changed, either modified or replaced. If the Germans now want to use Hydrogen, all their burners will have to be modified or replaced too.
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  85. 8:57 Is this a new low in hypocrisy? "Despite our utmost efforts not to harm innocent civilians, last night there was a tragic mistake." "We are investigating the incident and will obtain a conclusion because that is our policy" Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell us about it! Tell us about your "utmost efforts", do. How many men, women and children have you killed so far? How many more "Tragic mistakes" are in your pipeline?
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  86. Let no one forget that the US forces are in Syria illegally and have been asked by the Iraqi government to leave Iraq.
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  87. The Russians would see the threat of the 3-million man army, as a hollow one, all the more because of the story that Alex told us today, of the US finding it "difficult" to ramp up its production of 155 mm ammunition because the Ukrainian firm it used to buy TNT from, is now in an oblast that has voted to join the Russian Federation. (Oops!)
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  88. About the Budapest Memorandum: note that Russia's declared aims at the start of the SMO did not include destroying Ukraine. Had the Minsk agreements been fulfilled Ukraine would be the same size and shape as ever, though the Donbas peoples' republics would have been autonomous provinces, with recognition/protection for the languages other than Ukrainian, i.e. Russian, Greek, and maybe others, probably Hungarian and Romanian, throughout the country.
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  89. "China could successfully invade Taiwan in five years" Bold prediction! Anyone who can (successfully) predict what the World will look like five DAYS from now, deserves all our admiration!
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  90. 27:29 I wonder if Lloyd Austin's complications were caused by a Kinzhal missile while he was visiting a bunker in Kiev?
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  91. 5:14 "Who accused him of violating Ukraine's sovreignity" Yeah, yeah, yeah, just as though "the Western powers never violated anyone's sovreignity!" Just try telling that to the Afghanis, the Serbians, the Iraqis, the Chinese, or the other fifty countries that the USA has invaded and wrecked since 1945. See how well it goes down.
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  92. IIRC the Japanese community in the USA, was very badly treated during WW2. They were systematically robbed. No other word for it. Businesses were taken from them and handed over to Americans who were good friends with the government, while the owners of the businesses were locked up in camps under pretty poor conditions. After the war, they were given no compensation. Ron Unz wrote a long account of it. It is in the Unz Review archive.
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  93. I don't think India can displace China as Russia's most important ally. I say this because China and Russia can secure each other's borders. As someone put it : Russia and China do not stand shoulder-to-shoulder, they stand back-to-back. Russia does not need to worry about an attack from the East, while China knows that it will not be attacked from the West. This is more important to both of them than mere economic considerations. Apart from that, the economies of Russia and China are much more complementary to each other than are the economies of Russia and India. (Vide the difficulties of trading in rubles and rupees.)
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  94. 12:14 "They've been doing this for many years." Yes they have! I was in East Berlin in 1961 and I was talking to a scientist who was about to go to a scientific congress in Bonn and he was a bit worried that he would be seized by the Americans while he was there. "What will happen if you are" I asked him. "Oh, I expect our authorities will seize someone visiting here and they'll exchange us. It's annoying but it happens all the time." was his reply.)
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  95. 40:52 I think you will find that this sort of welcome to a visiting head of State is fairly standard in China. I remember reading an account of a senior official of a fairly small African country who accompanied his Head of State, his President, on a visit to China. He was absolutely astonished at the welcome they got and he contrasted it with a visit that he and his president had made to Washington shortly before this visit. They got the same treatment as Lukashenko, by the sound of it, in Beijing, while in Washington, they had been met at the airport, by a fairly junior official from the State Department and taken by a State Department car to where they were staying. It is part of the Chinese effort to treat all countries as "more or less equal". All equally deserving of respect. They have, in the past, been treated with gross disrespect themselves and do not want to be seen doing it to other countries themselves.
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  96. 38:44 I made this analogy yesterday (I think it was in comments on one of Alex's pieces) but it seems to me that the position of the West is getting more and more analogous to that of the Black Knight in the Monty Python sketch of the quest for the Holy Grail; where he challenges King Arthur and loses a limb or two and instead of admitting defeat, because he is obviously bleeding rapidly to death, he is insists: "'Tis but a scratch!" I'm waiting for the finale, when the West lies legless and armless on the ground and shouts after the disappearing knights of the round table: "Come back! And I'll bite your legs off!"
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  97. One of the amazing things to me is how the US representatives, at the same time as supporting what Israel is doing in Gaza, will talk about the US's anxiety about abuses of Human rights in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, Iran and about their concern about freedom and democracy whilst at the same time trying to extradite Julian Assange from Britain to stand trial in the US, on a charge of being a journalist! Are they aware of how absurd they look, or are they really that schizophenic that do not see it?
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  98. 1:07;31 At a time when the US is constantly talking about "war with China" it would be negligent of the Chinese not to prepare for war with the US. Particularly when the strength of the US is visibly ebbing and the time when they could realistically expect to win against China is clearly disappearing into the mists of the past. Why is anyone surprised or shocked at Xi Jinping's speech? What would anyone expect?
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  99. 13:00 As I said on another channel, if you were a policeman investigating a murder, and you had a number of suspects and one of them was seen for three days near the scene of the crime before the crime was committed, who stood to profit greatly from the crime, was the only beneficiary of the crime, had the means to carry out the crime, had twice stated emphatically that he would commit this crime. . . . . . Who would you suspect was the perpetrator? Why would you suspect anyone else?
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  100. During the cold war, there was at least one incident on the US airbase in Cambridgeshire at Mildenhall/Lakenheath, when the hot exhaust from one jet fighter which was being loaded with ammo, set off a missile on a plane waiting in line behind it. This missile hit and destroyed the first plane and blazing fuel from this plane ran down into storage bunkers under the place where these planes were, where four hydrogen bombs were stored. Owing to heroic efforts by the servicemen present, the H-bombs were preserved intact.
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  101. How about Kosovo? Did the inhabitants get even a referendum on that annexation? How about the Golan Heights? Best of all: how about the seizure of Diego Garcia, where the Oh So Law-Abiding British took it and then threw out the inhabitants making the refugees and defied a UN resolution to hand it over to the USA to use as a military base? Congratulations to India, Gabon and China for abstaining.
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  102. Don't forget BoJo!
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  103. 1:07:21 The global majority does not agree with the US's policy on Ukraine or with their policy on Palestine, either.
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  104. The issuance of this statement by the Chief Prosecuter of the ICC, will have increased the prestige of the ICC enormously, merely by its being issued at all. It will have exceeded many people's expectations, merely by today's limited action.
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  105. What give the US the right to tell China, who to support and who not to support? Does China tell the US what to do? Does China owe the US a LOT of money? No, it does not On the contrary, the US owes a LOT of money to China! Cheek!
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  106. Why are arrest warrants not being issued for Lindsey Graham and the Israeli minister?
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  107. 12:28 The game changing Stigers, the Patriots, the Challengers, the underwater drones, the 777 artillery pieces, the Cesare artillery pieces, the Bayractor Drones, Vanity, vanity, all is vanity!
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  108. 16:06 Why was he "rude"? Clearly Al Sisi was furious. Ye Gods! In his place I would have been "hopping mad"! Here he was, being invited by the smug Blinken in front of him, to take part in an act of Ethnic Cleansing. I.e. invited to participate in a (war?) crime against his fellow Arabs, by a Jew. Can you wonder that he was not overly polite? Why on Earth would he have agreed to that? Just to please the US? Why would Qatar have agreed to fund it? The only way I can account for it myself, is that Blinken thought that he, as a representative of the USA could ask anything of anyone and they would click their heels together and say "Yes Sir!, Of course, Sir!"
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  109. 33:03 What this makes clear is that the US was never so much worried about "Communism" so much as that the Communists were not subservient to the US. They have exactly the same worries now. It is not that the Iranians are Islamists it is that they won't bow down to the almighty dollar. Same goes for Syria and for any other country. It is always the same motivation, what changes is only the language which is used to disguise it.
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  110. It is good to have a relatively bias-free source of information on this conflict. Thank you for your coverage.
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  111. 15:13 It was not just Russia whose assets they seized! They have done it multiple times, but recently to Venezuela, and to Iran. It could not be clearer than it is, that it is not safe to hold large amounts in dollars.
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  112. 21:06 Giving money to VW at the same time that the EU is complaining about China subsidizing its car industry, would be a quite peculiar embarrassment! Has Scholz got the chutzbar to do it?
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  113. 11:03 "At the end of the day" thesw generals are, cheerfully, discussing committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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  114. The irony is that they Germans could certainly alleviate, possibly cure the problem, by opening NS"!
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  115. 22:53 Mongolia's President also said "Putin has committed no war crime in Mongolia."
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  116. 1:21:25 "If the West says that by getting close to China, Russia has become a vassal to China, Logic, that kind of Logic would argue, that if India becomes close to the United States, it becomes a vassal of the United States." Well, isn't that exactly how the United states has always thought? I have certainly always had that impression. They don't want equal partners, they want subordinates who will do as they are told.
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  117. 51:10 Having served in a unit of the British Army which had visits fro Brigadiers, generals and Princess Margaret, I can think of a very good reason for not telling the generals that they were going to be visited by Putin. Namely, such a visit signalled in advance would almost certainly waste an enormous amount of soldier-hours on pure, unadulterated BS!
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  118. 5:38 I think you have to consider what really is at stake here. Is it concern for Taiwanese Democratic Rights? The answer is that is seems extremely improbable that a contry which has zero interest in any rights at all for Palestinians, would have any real interest in rights for any other country. Therefore, I conclude that the REAL interest is in degrading China so that it does not compete with the USA for the position of World Hegemon. This means that there is no need for a real causus belli. The US wants a war and will try to get it any way it can. On the other hand, it does not want to be seen as the aggressor. Nothing that the Chinese can or will say, will make the slightest difference to the USA's aim.
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  119. Whatever one may think of Putin, the words of his you quote, are the words of a humanitarian.
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  120. Another possibility is, that as the battle of Bachmut has been extremely effective in grinding down the Ukrainian army, the Russians might allow a relieving force to break in (probably thus incurring huge losses) and simply continue the grinding down when they are there.
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  121. "Biggest attack on a European state since WW2" What about Yugoslavia?
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  122. When the Russians are victorious in this war, which looks extremely likely, they will be faced with a weakened CW as has never happened before. I hope they will be able to use that opportunity, to permanently de-fang the US hegemon and teach it to live in peace with its neighbours! It will not be easy, but I think they will have the enthusiastic support of the rest of the World in so doing. If anyone can do it I think that the Eurasian combination probably can.
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  123. The way the MSM keeps repeating that Ukraine is not involved in the event in Moscow, reminds me very strongly of their insistence at the start of the SMO that Russia's agression was "UNPROVEKED"!! As a matter of Logic I wonder if it is ever possible to be certain of the non-existence of a connection between two things? How can one be certain within minutes of something happening that Xyz was not connected to it?
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  124. "It doesn't allow competition" For once you are talking ignorant rubbish. About half the Chinese economy is private, The private sector makes about 40% of the GDP, employs about 60% of the work force. There is consequently a lot of competition. You are making a typically western mistake, you think that China is modelled on the USSR. It's not and it never has been. From well before the declaration of the PRC 2/10/1949. the communist part of China, has had a mixed economy, part state, part cooperative, part capitalist. The Chinese Communists, realized from the start of the revolution that they could not plan everything and it would be a bad idea to try, so they nationalized the foundations of the economy and left the rest to private enterprise. The result was many more of the peoples' needs were catered for than happened in the USSR. At the same time they ensured that the foundations of the economy, food, education, transport, electricity, medical services, roads, railways, canals, water supply, the military, the police and so on were under government control or were government owned, but most consumer goods were made by privately or cooperatively owned firms. By the time I went to China, I had visited many of the countries in the Warsaw Pact and I had also been to Moscow and I knew of the poor selection of goods available or missing in those economies. I had worked for a while in the DDR, so I was rather surprised on first seeing China (In 1964.) The first thing that struck me was that everything looked freshly painted in bright colours! Then when I went shopping there was an amazing selection of goods on offer. It formed a rather odd contrast to the people, who at that time were all dressed in blue or grey Mao suits. But the variety of goods was certainly there. Now, of course, there is "rampant capitalism" as is, I would have thought, pretty well known. The difference from the West is that the capitalists are not allowed anywhere near the levers of power. Those that get carried away by their huge wealth and think that they can tell the government what to do, get put in their place fairly quickly. E.g. Jack Ma.
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  125. 17:56 This war is not only depleteing Ukraine's ability to ever fight again in the foreseeable future, it is depleting N@0's arms stock too. The longer it goes on the more complete that will be. The weaker N@0 becomes the easier it will be for Russia to get them to agree reasonable terms.
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  126. "and Russian troops were relentlessly shelling the area." So now they know what it was like in Donetsk City which the AFU in Avdiivka have been shelling relentlessly for the past ten years. Karma is a bitch, innit?
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  127. 7:54 It seems from your account, that they do not mention that the sanctions have damaged Europe, fat more than they have damaged Russia.
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  128. The harsh core of the "Liberal International Order was always there, it was just kept out of sight better while the USSR existed. George Orwell saw it and Senator McArthy showed it, When the USSR collapsed, the Illiberal reality began to show through, (E.g. The Patriot Act) because there was no need to compete with the Soviets any longer. I often think that things like mandatory holidays, sick pay, limited working weeks, Health and Safety Regulations and the like were all introduced into Western industrial life in an effort to compete with the USSR. In a way, the chief beneficiaries of the Russian Revolution, were the Working classes in the West!
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  129. I thank thee for that. I have never previously felt quite certain about the declension of thou and it was good to hear about the ending -est. I think the Amish also use Thee and thou on a regular basis. I am English and when I did my National service I was stationed in Germany and made friends with a German family. My father came to visit me and I took him to meet them. My father was a scientist who learnt to read and speak German pretty well, but as he needed it for his work (science) he had never bothered with "du". My friends has a six year old daughter and my father spoke to her and she look absolutely astonished, dropped the toy she was holding and rushed to her mother crying: "Mutti! Mutti! Er Siest mir! Er SIEST mir!!"
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  130. Wow! It is not often you come across people like Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who have the courage he displayed here! I salute you for the confession! Well done, Sir!
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  131. 15:53 Since Britain sent Depleted Uranium shells to Elensky, talk about "Food safety" is, at best, a cover-up!
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  132. The Chinese are very calm and well mannered. Losing their temper with the likes of Blinken would offend their own sense of dignity. "Rudeness, pettyness, is for barbarians, we have been a civilization for about 5,000 years."
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  133. 53:39 One of the things that may really militate against launching this offensive, is the loss of a large amount of ammunition in the Russian drone strike, that may have blown up the DU ammunition supplied by the UK. Certainly a lot of something exploded in that strike!
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  134. 43:53 The Zelensky attitude to negotiations does nothing for Ukraine, but must be exactly what the US MIC wants and needs. It will, of course, also suit the members of Zelensky's clique.
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  135. 56:56 Not only are the Iranians getting up-to-date fighter jets but, according to a headline I saw just before this program; the Chinese have brokered a rapprochment between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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  136. 5:55 To say "THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT UKRAINE WAS INVOLVED", over and over again, when there is, as you point out, evidence that Ukraine was involved; is, itself, evidence that, at least the MSM, think that Ukraine WAS involved.
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  137. 4:35 That story about the US Ambassador to Serbia: WOW! You really could not make this stuff up!
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  138. The last time I was in Chishinau, the capital of Moldova, (Just before the Pandemic) I was alarmed to see many posters in the streets, saying in English: "FOR FREE EXPERT, UNBIASED ADVICE, CONTACT THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" What, I wondered was the "advice" about? Shortly afterwards the pro-Russian President was ousted.
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  139. I am very happy indeed to hear of this Action! What a very good idea! I hope that the verdict is just and the "Trusted News Initiative" (Doesn't that just sound like the sort of name the Spooks would come up with!) will be hit really hard.
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  140. This is how the "Rules-Based International Order" (RBIO) works. We make the Rules and you Obey them. It's really very simple!
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  141. 5:12 Anyone who has been following events in the Middle East will remember that the US supplied the Taliban with "Stinger" missiles, a form of "Manpad" to shoot down Soviet helicopters in Afghanistan and gleefully boasted about it when the Taliban did just that. No doubt, they will also remember the US supplying the IS fighters in Syria with manpads, to do the same thing, in the war in Syria. Being members of the same "family", they would naturally, share things amongst themselves.
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  142. 1:17 How right you are! If only more people could understand that one has to read the original literature and not the "extracts" you find in the MSM!
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  143. 8:37 If anyone talks to me about the "rules based order" I ask them: "Where one can read what these rules are?"
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  144. Why would Venezuela play ball over oil if the CW (UK) does not return its Gold?
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  145. They can/will ignore it as long as we allow them to.
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  146. 4:04 The British strikes, I understand, were carried out illegally under British Law. Apparently Sunak did not ask for permission from whoever it is he is supposed to ask.
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  147. Well, so what if Iran is helping Russia? About 30-40 countries in the Collective West are helping Ukraine and no one seems to think that odd or remarkable.
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  148. 2:09 Stockpiling diesel oil. Not only may they need it for themselves but the US has been (Or so I read.) buying Russian diesel to supply Ukraine.
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  149. 24:13 Don't imagine for a moment that these officials, that want 6 - 8 months more war in Ukraine, would/will be any more protective of English, American, German French or any other nationality of lives! They do not care who dies, so long as they get their money and do not lose too much face.
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  150. 1:17:20 The US behaves the same way with its allies. The only difference is that the "Allies" grin and bear it instead of calling them out.
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  151. The "International Rules Based Order" has always been a phantasmagora. It has never been defined. You cannot buy a copy of the Rules, because they have never been defined. They seem, to me, to be a bit like the "thoughts" (Die Gedanken) in the medieval students' song "Die Gedanken sind frei", in that they seem to me to fit the description of thoughts in the song : "Die Gedanken sin frei, wer kann sie erraten? Sie fliegen dabei, wie nachliche Schatten" (Thoughs are free, who can guess them? They fly around, like shadows in the night.") That seems to me to be a pretty fair summary of the Rules in the International Rules-Based Order. Who can guess them? Good question! They fly around? Well yes, one moment they apply to the Chinese and the next they don't fit the Israelis!
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  152. It is also, very possible, that the Israeli government feels that it can rely on the support of all the highly-placed dual-passport holders in the governments of the Collective West.
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  153. Didn't the US call on Britain and the Australian governments to help them in Vietnam? I thought that "one of the good things about Wilson" was that "he kept us out of Vietnam"? Australians did fight in Vietnam alongside the US.
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  154. 47:30 This group in Washington is the cause of NOT JUST the crisis in Ukraine but of almost all of the tension and threats that so bedevil the World today. Give Credit where credit is due!
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  155. 19:53 The Biden camp could also be thinking "You don't change presidents in the middle of a war."
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  156. 1:24:32 Almost certainly you can trace Argentina's financial trouble back to its relationship with the IMF and the World Bank. The CIA has been meddling in Argentina since forever. It is a large and potentially a very rich country and as Japan, China, Germany and the UK can tell you the last thing the US wants is countries that are economically powerful enough to stand up to its bullying.
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  157. 11:55 Do you suppose that perhaps the reason the US and UK are so focused on "Breaking through to Crimea" is that they desperately want Sevastopol? As a NATO naval base?
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  158. Stupid rather than insane. They seem unable to think more than one move ahead.
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  159. 1:01:04 One cause of tensions within the European part of the West is the fact that many of the people trying to draw attention to the problems that Washington's policies are inflicting on their country/industry/ company/group are suppressed and cannot express themselves in any of the MSM.
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  160. 45:23 "Ukraine had no involvement" Implies "I know who did it!" Which in turn implies: "I did it myself!" as otherwise I would/should have warned you about it.
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  161. 52:39 The fundamental problem, is the existence of a small but very powerful group (probably) in the US that is determined to make sure that the US remains the World Hegemon, come what may. And that (correctly) sees the existence of an independent Russia and an independent China as two insuperable obstacles to that ambition.
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  162. 2:24 Cutting off the water supply to Crimea was an attack on the civilians and hence a crime against humanity.
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  163. "Netanyahoo has yet to confirm or denythat it was Israel that attacked the Embassy" BIG DEAL! Who else would it be ?
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  164. 23:44 I think the reason the Irish are turning so against the Israelis in this war, is that the behaviour of the Israeli army reminds them of the behaviour of the British army in and before their war of Liberation (1916-1922).
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  165. China's rapid development, particularly in the field of weapons, should be telling the US that it is time to come to a working agreement with China, rather than "busting a gut" trying to outcompete them. They have tried that and already they can see that it does not work. Time, therefore to rethink and come to terms with reality. There is an old British proverb which says: "If you can't beat'em, join'em." However, the US's leaders are so full of their own cleverness, that they will never take this advice. So convinced of their own uniqueness and wonderfulness that they cannot imagine ever being inferior to any other country in any way at all. It is what will be their undoing.
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  166. Very good and accurate description of the situation. What puzzles me is how exactly this war will end? Will the AFU just collapse and the US declare a victory and walk away, a la mode d'Afghanistan? They are so tied up with their own politics at the moment and they have wars in Israel, Syria, Thailand, Myanmar, Yemen, and Lebanon and they are being thrown out of various African states and they have a huge monetary crisis to deal with at the same time. Unbelievably, they seem to want a war in the Philipines and Taiwan as well! When the Russians win, which they will, what will they do then? They will have a truly gigantic task clearing up.
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  167. Why does HT call the Russian government a "Regime"?
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  168. 19:20 It is quite obvious that General Surovikin has been taking lessons in strategy from Alex and Alexander!
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  169. 26:48 If you run an Apartheid State, you not only de-humanise the victims, by a neccessary dialectic, the oppressors become de-humanised as well, or they cannot function.
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  170. One of the very curious things about the pan*emic was the instruction, contrary to previous practice, to the people administering the shots, was to NOT aspirate the syringe before completing the operation. I have never heard an explanation of this, except the lame excuse that it "saved time". What it did do, was to ensure that in rare cases where the needle went into a blood or lymph vessel the patient got a shot of vac*ine straight into their blood stream, predictably with a consequent "Adverse Effect". I notice that in all the pictures in this video that is the procedure followed.
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  171. Re overestimating our own power: The US has been moderately successful against a number of small countries such as Panama. It failed to defeat China when it was the greatest military on the Earth and China was the poorest country in Asia. It failed to defeat the Vietnamese. Ukraine's army was the best trained, the most battle experienced part of NATO and it is not doing well against Russia. The US had to resort to diplomacy to subdue a group of Cuban engineers(!), in their invasion of Grenada. They now want to take on the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, all at once? Why not take on the North Koreans at the same time? Since the Ukrainians have been using up NATO's stocks of weapons fast enough to leave the NATO stockpiles dangerously depleted after three months, how long do they, in Wash DC/Brussels, think they could last (against all three) before having to give up/sue for peace or use nuclear weapons?
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  172. 1:03:31 There is also the point that a lot of people seem to lose sight of, which is, that apart from Ukraine, the Russian Army has the enormous Russian Federation's territory to defend. If Putin were, really, to throw the whole of his forces into the battle to finish off Ukraine, it might prove too much of a temptation for some other hostile force to attack somewhere else. I agree that it looks improbable at the moment, but as you yourself have said: "War is unpredictable" and Putin is a very cautious man.
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  173. 16:44 They are also working together to help Latin American and Carabean countries break free of US dominance. Both part of BRICS.
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  174. 44:00 The only "military challenge" from China is that if they are attacked or interfered with they will hit back. In effect all the Chinese are saying is "keep your nose out of our business and it wont get hurt."
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  175. The Telegraph's advice to Elensky seems a bit optimistic! It reminds me of the old joke about the Enlish tourist in Ireland, who asked the way to Dublin and received the reply: "Dublin is it, yer wantin'? Oh Dear! I wouldn't have started from here, if I was you!"
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  176. 30:50 There is no advantage to the USA to be had in Ukraine. The purpose of the Ukraine war was, as you have said yourself, to damage Russia and to collapse the Russian economy and thereby to remove Putin from power. Also NATO in Ukraine would have a very menacing position for launching nuclear weapons towards Moscow, This is only of importance to people who think they can win a nuclear war. The importance of Ukraine to the US public is very small, it is only important, very important, to a small clique. The West, the population of the west would not be damaged at all, by a Russian victory in Ukraine, on the contrary, anything that reduces the power and prestige of the aforesaid clique, can only be beneficial to them.
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  177. 2:53 "An Italian columnist however has claimed that since DU is a heavy metal, it cannot cause any radioactive phenomenon least of all in the air" All this proves is that Italian columnists are no more reliable than any other Western journalist. He should try telling that to the Iraqis or the Serbians, who have suffered from the poisoning, which causes numerous horrible birth defects and miscarriages. DU when used, contaminates the ground around where it is used, more or less for ever, causing terrible defects in anyone who eats food grown in it and/or particularly in unborn infants. Ukraine was known as "The Breadbasket of Europe". Draw your own conclusions. To my mind, making, never mind using DU ammunition, is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and arguably Treason.
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  178. T 23:14 This US attack, carried out in "self defence" of an illegal base, is analogous to a burglar attaking a householder who tries to throw him out "in self-defence". "I'm allowed to defend myself!"
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  179. 6:55 Reminds me of something that was told me by someone who fought in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He said that the first thing they had to teach new recruits, was not to act like the guy in the recruiting posters, who was bravely rushing forward with his rifle, bayonet fixed, or waving a handgreade. We had to explain to them that the best, practically the only, way to advance was on your belly, as quietly as possible. Sometimes they were quite difficult to convince!
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  180. "Statesmen" who have been bought or blackmailed.
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  181. 2:54 "The Rules - based International Order" is a phantom. No one has ever published a copy of these "Rules"! So, no one can say exactly what they are, and indeed, they seem to vary according to circumstances. For instance, "Human Rights Violations" that are outrageous when committed by China, are perfectly inoffensive when commited by the USA or Israel.
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  182. 1:00:12 It seems unlikely too, that Putin would have chosen to kill Prigozhin while the BRICS summit was taking place.
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  183. 17:28 I wonder how Modi, who is an intelligent man, thinks he can maintain equidistance between two mutually hostile countries, when one of them insists: "You are either with us or against us!"
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  184. 9:16 I think this is characteristic of modern Western weapons. A Russian pilot I read, said that Western fighter jets were beautifully made, like Swiss watches, but like Swiss watches, very delicate. When I was an infantryman, for the first part of my service, we used Lee-Enfield rifles that, I should think, were of no later than 1914 vintage. I don't remember one of them ever going wrong. Towards the end of my time we were given FN (Belgian made) rifles which were lighter, easier to carry and fire, were self-loading, could fire multiple shots. (IIRC, officially, you could fire up to three shots in a burst, but if "fixed" it with a matchstick, you could fire the whole magazine (10 shots) in one burst.) It was more accurate, in match shooting on a firing range too. However, in a sandy environment it was forever jamming.
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  185. Why did the Chinese establish a milirary port in Djibouti? Because they were engaged in fighting piracy in the area around the Horn of Africa. As the commentary says, the US has numerous military bases all around Africa, while the Chinese have built numerous ports around Africa. So why is it the US that is worried about the Chinese and "Security" and not vice versa? Curious that! Don't you think? Actually, why is the US worried about its security at all? It has friendly neighbours to the North and South and huge oceans to the East and West They should feel safer than any other country on the planet! Yet, they seem more obssessed with "Security" than any other country. Why?
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  186. Thank you very much for making the effort to keep us informed. If it is 'flu that you are suffering from, do take care not to "overdo things". The foreman of the Cavendish Laboratory's instrument-making workshop, caught 'flu and took a week off, he came back to work, took his coat off and dropped dead. 'flu seriously weakens the muscles of the heart, so give yourself time to recover. I am sure I speak for almost all of your audience, when I say we would much rather miss you for a week or three than do so permanently.
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  187. 5:51 In the late 1930s my parents were travelling in Scandinavia and during a train journey they shared a railway carriage with a young German man and struck up a conversation with him. They asked him what his job was and he replied that he was a school teacher. What did he teach? they asked. "I teach Hate." was his reply.
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  188. Hearing you talk about "all the money that has gone to Ukraine, caused me to realise that it is something like four times the Russian Defence budget for a year. Pretty amazing that! More bang for your buck, huh?
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  189. 24:02 This effort at ethnic cleansing, will terribly danage the Israeli's image, but it will also entirely destroy the US's pretence of "standing up for Human Rights", for espousing "Freedom and Democracy". Can they really expect anyone to take them ,seriously after this, when spouting on these themes? I think not.
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  190. 27:46 The No.1 priority for Netanyahoo, like all other politicians in positions of power, is to stay in power.
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  191. Very good and well-argued speech by Pakistan! I don't see how anyone can argue against any word of that!
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  192. 1:22:49 Not only did the US make a mistake by pressuring the ICC into issuing the warramt for President Putin's arrest, but they compounded the mistake, by celebrating it gleefully and very publicly, when they got the result they had asked for!
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  193.  @MgtowRubicon  With a 70%+ approval rating , who would?
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  194. 1:12:46 All the US's actions over Syria, over Taiwan, over Iraq were/are at least as illegal as this proposed seizure.
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  195. Endless sympathy for the Uighurs and yet none at all for the Palestinians! Isn't that curious?
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  196. 19:08 Who convicted, come to that who tried Maduro? And who gave the the US the power to amnesty him?
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  197. I am surprised that you did not mention, that in the course of the insurrection, the Wagner organization shot down aircraft and killed 12 Russian servicemen. I imagine that there are relatives and friends of those people who are not sorry to think that Prigozhin is dead.
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  198. 1:45 This is an obvious point which is frequently forgotten: Food is THE most important thing of all, because without food, nothing gets done. If there is no food, no one can work for more than a few days. Access to food and water is THE most important Human Right.
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  199. Shifting The Blame The CO kicks the Major, The Major has a go. He kicks the poor old Captain Who kicks the NCO And as the kicks grow harder It's plain for all to see: They're doing it, me lads, To Save Democracy!
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  200. 43:38 This renaming of streets looks to me like panic. I know a man whose wife gave birth to a desperately sick child with a huge tumor in its body. Instead of worrying about treatment to deal with the tumor, he was obssessing about the danger of scarring on the child's arms as a result of the needles that were being inserted ! In the event, the child lasted only a couple of weeks after its birth. This looks similar, I don't know, if in the losss of the Titanic, there really was a reorganisation of the deckchairs, but if the story is true, it could be another example of the same sort of irrational behaviour as a result of panic.
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  201. There is also the possibility that some in the DoJ are on the list.
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  202. Much weakened, but still dangerous. And evil!
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  203. I look forward to your commenting on the latest idiocy of the US, where a US State has passed a resolution supporting Sikh independence. (!) That should work wonders for India-China relations!
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  204. 30:33 You mean that the US cannot break its word? What is to stop the other 192 states in the UNGA from each recognizing Palestine as a state?
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  205. 13:12 This re-writing of history was Winston Smith's job, in the novel "1984" wasn't it? It's a long time since I read it, but I think that was his job.
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  206.  @akt3292  Высматривать! Без ежей слизни съедят всю вашу капусту!
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  207. 17:20 I'm afraid that Alex may well be right, that the EU citizens will accept this evil set-up. However, there is a ray of hope which you two have helped to generate: Look back at the comments to your programs over the last, say, five years and you will find that the "tone" of them has changed/is changing remarkably. Keep up the good work and maybe, just maybe they won't! Slowly, slowly, over time people generally are becoming much more willing to speak out, to challenge cencorship and to question authority.
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  208. 26:48 This is all done under the International Rules_Based Order. 1/ The Rules do not apply to us. 2/ They apply only to those whom we say they apply to. 3/ We decide what the rules are and YOU have to abide by them. OK? P.S. No, you can't have a copy of the rules!
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  209. 16:02 The reason they can get away with twisting Putin's words in this fashion, is that so few people go to the original source material. You and the other purveyors of the Truth, have a small audience, the fraction of that audience that takes the trouble to read original speeches of leaders opposed to the US is even much smaller. The rest of the population hardly does so at all.
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  210. 1:23:24 There was a more surprising article in the Daily Telegraph this morning, which seems to have disappeared now, warning people in Britain that the special relationship was a British myth and no help at all to Britain. The article concluded with a statement that the only beneficiary of it was the US. The authoress instanced, as an illustration of her theme, that the US Ambassador to Britain was Job for "chums of and donors to the POTUS", while Britain sent it finest diplomats to Washington to represent Britain. I would not disagree with a word of it, but I was surprised to see such an article in the DT!
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  211. The point that seems to be being overlooked, is that it is not just Ukraine or Russia that is threatened by the use of these weapons, but because Ukraine supplies a lot of food to Europe and dome to much of the rest of the World, and because plants take up uranium from the contaminated soil, a very large part of the population of the World is threatened by this action of the British government.
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  212. 8:37 The Ukrainians hold three nuclear power plants and the Russians have not shelled one of them. It is , of course, true that they have attacked their connection to the grid, but that is another question.
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  213. 42:09 We have all seen that if you want to understand what the White House says; you have to turn it all upside down. When they talk about "peace" they mean "War". When they talk about "Helping" they mean "preventing" and so on and so forth ad nauseam. So when they talk about "deterrence" one can be fairly certain that they don't want to deter at all but to provoke.
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  214. 9:12 I remember when we had massive unemployment in Britain in the late 80s, the politicians were all cockahoop over "How well the economy is doing". As I had just been offered the choice of "the sack or twice the work, in half the time, for half the pay," (No, I am not making this up!) I felt rather bitter.
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  215. Thanks for that one!
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  216. 14:25 What Alexander says about replacing the ruling clique/class is exactly what I think too. I think that he has summed it up about as well as it could be put.
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  217. 14:10 Dropping A-bombs on Japan was not done to "Save our boys' lives", it was done to stop the USSR invading Japan and it was done to see what effect the bombs had on a city and frighten the Soviets.
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  218.  @joeordinary2trumpheroofrussia  " Nato is a defense pact, has never attacked Russia, " NATO has never defended anyone, it has only attacked or helped the US' attacks. To call it "defensive" is a really sick joke. It's an Orwellian joke.
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  219. Who else? Serbia.
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  220. 20:25 Are you sure that the sanctions are aimed at Russia? Is it not likely, given that they are quite obviously not damaging Russia, that they are, in fact, aimed at Europe in general and Germany in particular?
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  221. 48:48; Hamas is not going to agree to release hostages (assuming that it still has some) unless at least a large number of Palestinians locked up by the Israelis on slight pretexts are released at the same time. That was the primary aim of taking the hostages.
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  222. 4:45 It sounds as though Richard Kemp would like the Russians to be fought, not "to the last Ukrainian" but to the last European!
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  223. 4:56 Do you think that perhaps, just possibly, there might be some Israeli politicians, some military people even who do not like the thought of committing genocide or even ethnic cleansing? Could it be that they are what is holding up the start of this "Operation"?
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  224. A lot of balloons do not have a "propulsion system" they simply drift with the wind. If you want your balloon to drift in a particular direction, you pump gas in or out of the envelope to move the balloon up or down to where the wind is blowing in the direction you want it to go. Balloons with a "propulsion system" are usually called "Dirigibles". For example the Goodyear Blimp.
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  225. 48:40 Pistorius, like all N@0 ministers and spokespeople, cannot admit, that the problem is not the lack of a "Security architecture" but the longstanding ambition of the Anglosaxon Empire to gobble up Russia. I don't know how far back into history it goes but it has been there for a long time and until it is decisivly defeated it will keep on causing trouble.
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  226. 38:48 Sounds like a crude attempt by the Telegraph to "stir things up" in Teheran.
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  227. "Working people must take control of their own lives and works" There are three very big problems that stand in the way of that happening: 1)The disorganized nature of the British working classes and 2) the lack of any credible leader. 3) The MSM's near-monopoly of information distribution. There are other, but those are, IMHO, the most important.
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  228. 5:49 If CNN were to admit that the Base where these soldiers were killed is in Syria, they would be admitting, in print, to an illegal occupation. That is why this "happened in Jordan." I believe, that in fact, the Al Tanf base is very close to, if not actually on, the junction of Syria, Iraq and Jordan.
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  229. Where's the evidence for "Forced labour in Xinjiang"? The UN sent a "Rapporteur" to Xinjiang to report on this subject. When she came back she made a report and the US blocked its publication!
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  230. I want to point out that while this research was going on in Wuhan, it had previously been done, financed by Dr Fauci, in the University of North Carolina, in a place called Chapel Hill and that there are many similar reseach sites around America and throughout the Western World. For example the US has a very sinister sounding bio-lab in Tblisi, the capital of Georgia and at least 37 such labs in Ukraine. It has also stonewalled any investigation of its bio-labs in relation to the SARS COV 2 outbreak. While it is true that very occasionally, viruses can "jump" from an animal host to a human being and then go on to infect other humans, it is very rare for this to happen while leaks from bio-labs are very common. It happens nearly every year. Natural viruses can be quite nasty enough, without humans making them even worse, deliberately. So I think there should be International Laws prohibiting such research and the penalties for breaking these laws should be very severe indeed. The only "Logical" reason for doing such research is Biological Warfare, which should (If it is not already.) be a "Crime Against Humanity". Such laws, could save humanity from being wiped out completely. No exaggeration!
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  231. "Israel has no plan to safeguard 1.4 million Palestinians in Rafah?" You can bet your bottom dollar on that! Just listen to what members of the Israeli Cabinet say about their plans for all Palestinians. "Safeguarding" does not come into it!
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  232. Themagical thinking about recruiting the new Army to sweep the Russians away, almost matches the Ancient Greek myth about the Dragons's teeth!. The only problem is the lack of dragons!
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  233. Is Elensky going to the 80th anniversay celebrations to represent the losing side?
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  234. 34:55 Look! This is not really a bad thing, it is a good thing! It shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that the British pretense that what we have is a "democracy" is just that: a sham, a pretense. The reality is, that you can elect whomsoever you like, you can have anyone at all as PM or Chancellor of the Exchequer and in the end the policy is set by the BoE. (Which is not elected.)
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  235.  @richardoldfield6714  No. You need to study the history before spouting nonsense.
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  236. 50:45 The weakness of this discussion is that it ignores the way that there was an underlying sympathy in Britain (Churchill and many British aristocrats) and in America (General Grove, John Foster Dulles)) for the N*zis, which sympathy survived WW2 and was expressed not only in "Operation Paperclip" and the analogous Japanese operation, but also in the wholesale adoption and incorporation of the Gehlen Organization and its use to harass the Soviet Union, not only, but particularly in Ukraine. IOW this cultivation of the extreme right-wing elements in Ukraine is not something that started in 2014 but goes back at least to 1945. Nor should one, in this context, forget that the original idea to research the possibility of making atom-bombs, it seems was NOT "in case the Germans got there first" but in order to defeat the USSR. Seeing how friendly NATO was with almost every F*scist dictatorship there was in the world, (Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Libya, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Greece, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippines etc., etc.) and how the US intervened in liberation movements to install F*scist governments, (Iran, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, etc.) it seems to me that the "Political West" was not some relatively innocuous aspect of Western Society or civilization, but more like a powerful F*scist crusade. Put it another way: what would you call people who organize, finance, arm, protect and support in every possible way, F*scists? Liberals? Democrats? Philanthropists?
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  237. I know this is silly, but this story about the "spying cranes" conjures up a picture of these cranes leaving the dockyard and running around their cities, like "Wee Willy Winkie, running through the town, upstairs and downstairs peering through the windows.."
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  238.  @dnik1260  Of course! If it had not been for the Warmongers in Washington the whole war would not have happened. But stopping the war was never part of the plan. Regime change in Russia was.
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  239. 5:16 1000 shells/day on an 800 km front = 1 shell per day for every 800m of front. (2 shots/day/mile) This sounds "remarkably" quiet, to me.
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  240. 32:30 As I said yesterday(I forget whether it was a comment on a Duran video or yours or Alex's) a government with an "independent" (i.e. privately owned) central bank is in no sense a sovereign government, for the simple reason that such a CB will refuse to fund any policy that does not meet with its approval. As Harold Wilson found out, the hard way. The only way a government can set its own policies is if its treasury controls and issues the money supply. Or to put it another way if the government tells the CB what to do and not the other way round.
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  241. Why is Starmar following the same policy as Sunak was? Because both are puppets with the same puppetmaster.
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  242. 1:07:51 There is a very large pushback in Germany which is being joined by people from other countries pusherback growing all the time. Including, I read this morning, even industrial workers and industrialists.
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  243. 1:22:26 It seems to me that the insecurity that plagues the World and has done so since 1945, is almost entirely caused by a small group of warmongers in Washington DC and their hangers-on in London and Brussels. These people form what I call for lack of a better term (I think that no one has given this phenomenon a name previously.) a "vicious circle". It consists of a complex of several parts; the USG, the firms making military arms, the members of the Congress and the Senate and the lobbyist industy, insofar as it relates to the arms industry. These components form a self-reiforcing ring-structure, where the congresscritters and USG officials are investing in the arms industry and profit from its dividedends and the notorious "Revolving door". The arms industry, in turn pays the Lobbyists to keep the congress-critters in line, by subsidizing their election expenses and the USG fuells the whole set-up by extracting taxes willy-nilly from the US public. It seems to me that so long as this Vicious Circle exists, there will be no peace in the World. Because it is very stable, ruthless and self-protective, it is very difficult for anyone or any ordinary organization to dismantle it. However, the present and the near future are far from ordinary times. As there is almost certainly going to be a Russian victory in Ukraine, it seems to me that the Russians would be in a position to insist on the dismantling of this Vicious Circle, which could be done by making an International law that said that all firms making military equipment, had to be state owned and that no private individual or corporation was allowed to own shares in such a firm. I think it might be much easier to get agreement to such a measure than to agree to complete disarmament.
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  244. The USG is a linear descedant of the Mob in 1930s Chicago, so their behaving as crooks is hardly a surprize. It merely thei real nature showing itself. (Can the Leopard change his spots?) This Gangster nature of the USG becomes more and more obvious the more one learns about them.
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  245. 17:04 It's not just the British. Throughout the CW there is a mass of mediocre "statesmen" and "stateswomen" and not a single distinguished, charismatic person amongst the lot. It really is a quite extraordinary phenomenon.
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  246. Unlike you Russia is patient.
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  247. 28:06 I agree with you. Look at it this way. Who is behaving like N*ZIs? Who was it during WW2 that regularly massacred defenceless civilians? Who was it that spoke of the civilians of conquered lands as though they were sub-human? The best you can say of the combatants is that they are as bad as each other and the people being killed are helpless victims of the savagery of the combatants. Since the security services of the US and Israel, set up Hamas to undermine the PLO, the blame should fall squarely on the CIA and the Israelis. You reap what you sow.
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  248. 31:40 Add to the Russians producing 130% the STEM students compared to the US, the fact that a lot of the US STEM students are foreign and that the Chinese universities are producing about EIGHT TIIMES as many STEM graduates as the US universities.
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  249. No. It's more like two Chiwawas planning to take on a grizzly bear. It's Monthy Python all over again, absurd but, this time, not funny.
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  250. 4:16 Looking at how the US and the Collective West treat their own poor, it is no wonder that as you say: "The eradication of poverty seems to have been left by the wayside." Were they ever sincerely interested in doing any such thing?
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  251. 1;13;35 I have the impression that the US public was particularly irritated that Biden dismissed, quite rudely, a question as to why he was going to Kiev, rather than to East Palestine, Ohio.
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  252.  @stepchicken3238  Open your eyes Chickabiddy! If you "move in the right circles", you can get away with absolutely anything. If you don't, then you can be punished for nothing at all.
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  253. Not until they nationalize their MIC and break the power of AIPAC.
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  254. 3:58 The target of Burns's article is the US domestic audience. It is designed to convey two messages - 1) China is a threat. 2) We are doing something about it.
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  255. To quote another British Prime Minister: "Highly likely!"
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  256. 5:56 the Iranians could react in the same way as Germany when they were faced with the accusation "There are German Tanks in Ukraine fighting Russians again." They replied IMMSMC, Those are not German tanks! Those are Ukrainian Tanks! They belong, not to Germany but to Ukraine!" So, These are not "Iranian" precision guided missiles those are missiles of the Popular Mobilization Forces!"
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  257. 14:53 Though Zelensky is in nominal charge, the conduct of the war is surely really under the supervision of NATO Generals. I cannot believe that they, even they, would be stupid enough to hand over something as important as this war in Ulraine to an actor. Would they?? To my mind this defeat just goes to prove that the NATO generals are incompetent. They have almost, if not quite, admitted to Western journalists that they were providing intelligence and targetting info and micromanaging the war.
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  258. Around that time the Guardian was visited by Goons from MI5 and the "Integrity Initiative's" asset(s) was/were installed in the editorial board of the outlet. After that and to this day, it has been a sort of zombie version of its previous self. It also gave up allowing its readers to comment at the same time. As you say: truth went out of fashion, at least in the MSM.
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  259. 58:43 What no one in Washington seems to be asking is; "Why we need to worry about China?" No one is asking this because, this not a real question. The real reason for all the tension in the World is the US's insane, compulsive need, to be the most powerful country on the Planet. It has nothing to do with Values, or LBGTXYZ rights or enslaved Xinjiang residents or any of the other dozen "reasons". It is just a case of "World Hegemony or Bust!" At the moment it is looking increasingly like bust.
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  260. 6:38 The IAEA reaction is exactly analogous to the UN's reaction to Israel's killing of UN aid workers. Unbelievably feeble. "If a crime is commited by a member of the CW, that is a matter of no importance." It shows that the IAEA is in the CW's employ.
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  261. 54:28 None of these European satraps need their Patriot launchers and missiles, as they all know, perfectly well, that there is almost NO probability that Russia is going to attack them, when it has finished dealing with Ukraine.
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  262. 50:14 Britsh Ministers lying from the dispatch box? I am shocked! Really shocked!!
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  263. The Murdoch rag called "The News of The World" (Now defunct, I believe.) said it was : "All the news fit to publish" Brian is giving us all the news that the likes of TNOTW consider unfit to publish. Thank you for a straightforward analysis of the situation, it is very much needed and so very welcome!
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  264. In the Korean war, I was told by British soldiers who had been POWs in camps run by the Koreans, they lived largely on black beans, which though very dull were reasonable nutritious. Their American comrades however died on the same diet. I myself though a soldier, never saw fighting but on one exercise in Sennerlage Heide, Germany we came across an American Army camp, and were amazed to find that every tent had electricity and gas and water which came out from the nearest town about 3kms away through a sort of cable/pipe thingy.
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  265. The US has another crisis apart from the ones you mentioned and that is De-dollarization! It never rains, but it pours!
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  266. You are so correct! Almost all the trouble in the World is caused by the warmongers in this relatively small group that constitute a closed loop consisting of arms mfgs, lobbyists, congress critters, USG, and back to arms mfgs. The taxpayers are robbed by the USG to feed money into the loop and the shareholders take some out and use part of it to pay lobbyists as do the arms mfgs also. Since this vicious circle is immensly profitable and very wealthy and ruthless in dealing with anyone who wants to break it up, it is very stable. Perhhaps, when Russia has decisivly defeated the US, among their conditions will be to break it up. Who knows? One can but hope!
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  267. В военном и социальном плане дела у России идут очень хорошо, однако ее пропаганду и рекламу на Западе необходимо как-то улучшить. Западная пропагандистская машина постоянно очерняет репутацию России. К сожалению, они очень преуспевают в этом.
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  268. The problem besetting Germany is/was the same as the problem besetting both Britain and Japan, they were living under the control of the USA. The USA which does not like competition.
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  269. 32:37 "Aye! And there's the rub!" Do the Israelis WANT an impartial negotiator? I have not seen any sign of that.
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  270. 23:04 The point about e.g. Lloyd Austin warning an American audience about "the Russians invading the Baltic states and Moldova, Georgia and Armenia" is that the audience has only the foggiest idea of how important or vital to US interests these countries are or what their importance is. Probably most of them think "this is our Secretary of Defense, so probably he knows what he is talking about and if he's worried about it, probably, we ought to be worried about it too!"
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  271. Whilst I am glad that the Russian losses on the Ukraine battlefield, are less that the undescribably terrible losses by the Ukrainians, but, remember that the Russian losses are already approaching the US losses in Viet Nam. I think back to my National Service in the British Army and remember parades of my regiment of approximately 1,000 men. I know what 1,000 men looks like and the thought of twice that number or even a fraction of that number being killed every day fills me with an indescribable horror.
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  272. How things are speeding up! Without yours and Alex's programs to prepare us for today's development I would "knocked all of a dramble!" The funny (Peculiar) thing is how so many people have no idea of what is happening. Thank you for all your research and for sharing it with us,
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  273. 3:21 It was months ago that the Russians warnedd the Kiev authorities that bombarding the citizens of Belgorod would force them to impose a buffer zone big enough to prevent this happening. Kiev has been bombarding the civilians in Donetsk City for the past ten years, but I do not recall you mentioning it.
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  274. 0:52 If your caption is correct the UK MoD is showing its ignorance, as usual! "Donetsk Oblast" is the Province of Donetsk. "Donetsk City" is the capital city of the DPR, or the Donetsk Oblast (if you prefer.) Donetsk city is not in danger of being encircled. Encircling, what is left of Donetsk Oblast in Ukrainian possession, is a major Russian move, which will, probably, drive Ukraine out of the DPR completely. If it is encircled, it will be a major crisis for the AFU.
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  275. 24:50 How are the F-16 going to give Ukraine the edge over the Russian Airforce? Well! That's Easy! They are American! So of course they will! How could it be otherwise?
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  276. 2:45 There will never be a stable peace while the Vicious Circle involving the MIC, Congress,the USG, the Media and the lobbying industry, determines US Foreign policy. It does not matter who endorses whom, while that structure is alive and well, there never will be a stable peace. Sorry!
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  277. About the relationship between China and India: credit where credit is due, the US State Department is doing its level best to bring them together.
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  278. Losing the war in Ukraine may well undermine the Western alliances. I have thought this, for about 18 months. Showing that the military alliance was not completely invincible, has embolden a lot of people and a lot of countries to speak their minds and the break-up of the EU may well be one of the consequences. Stopping the idiotic plan to stop Dutch farmers from growing food, would be a good aim and a welcome outcome.
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  279. "amid fears Transdniestria could open a new flashpoint in Moscow's conflict with neighbouring Ukraine" Guess who would start that!
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  280. America's debt ceiling is an annual pantomime. I don't know, I am not a financial expert but, judging by past history, the "Chinese debt Crisis" seems to be another myth like "The Imminent Collapse of China" that I have been reading about since 1949.
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  281. 37:18 This idea that the "Europeans are freeloading on the poor, harddoneby USA" ignores that the Europeans buy almost all their weapons from the US and that there is almost zero chance of the US being invaded by anyone.
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  282. This news about the Hungarians suggestion to ban only russian oil shipped to Europe in tankers (Ships), leaving oil sent by pipeline unaffected, reminds me of the old joke about the disarmament conference between the Russian bear, the German eagle and the British lion. The lion proposed a complete ban on the use of beaks. The eagle said he favoured a complete ban on the use of teeth for offensive purposes. The bear said he had a much better idea: " let us abandon all weapons altogether and simply embrace!"
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  283. The people of France are "Sans culottes" to Macron?
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  284. 51:55 When I was a National Serviceman in the 1950s, I was for a while in a unit that had recently returned from Korea. Our Sgt said to us on one occasion: "If you are fighting alongside the Yanks, beware of this: Suppose you are held up by a machinegun post, the British way of dealing with it, would be to try to sneak a group in behind it and attack it from the rear while the rest of the platoon, company or regiment, kept it busy from the front. The Yank's way of dealing with it, would be to call up the airforce and give them the coordinates of this machinegun post and then the airforce would come and destroy it. However, if you ever do call up the US airforce, to deal wih such an obstacle, you had better make f'ing sure that you have some bl*ody good cover, because they will flatten the whole area, including you, if you arent careful!"
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  285. 4:22 Nuland, Blinken and Sullivan tried to build a "house of cards", but even a house of cards needs a table-top to rest on and that is something they lack!
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  286. *****3:03 It wasn't just "arming" Ukraine, it was arming Ukraine and talking about having Ukraine join NATO and training the largest army in Europe to NATO standards and using it in slaughtering Russian-speaking Ukrainians for being Russian -speaking! At last year's Munich Security Conference, Zelensky was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons and no western leader raised the slightest protest or corrected him in any way.
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  287. 23:01 And, I should judge, a disaster too, for Rishi Sunak, Grant Shapps and David Cameron. They have been enthusiastic supporters of Israel throughout, in terms of both moral and military support.
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  288. 10:22 "Getting rid of Netanyahoo" looks more like a job for the CIA than for Blinken.
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  289. This war is not by any means or in any way, accidental. It was carefully prepared for some time, starting fairly early in the 21st century and worked on, together with a "perfect storm" of sanctions, using the war that the West knew they could provoke, to "justify" the sanctions. The purpose of the exercise was to cause the simultaneous collapse of the Russian economy and the defeat of the Russian armed forces on the battlfield, leading to unrest in Russia, leading to a color Revolution. The Collective West led by the US, seems to have been very confident that the plan would succeed and it seems that the planners assumed that the Russian government succeeding Putin's, would be more favourable to Western interests. The whole plan seems to have been founded on a totally false reading of the situation in Russia, the strength of the Russian armed forces and an equally false reading of the strength of the Ukrainian armed forces and the ability of the CW to sustain a war longer than a few months, This scenario would explain why the CW was never interested in negotiations. They did not want negotiations, because what they wanted, was the defeat of Russia and Regime Change in Moscow. They are still not interested, so presumably, their aim has not changed.
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  290. 43:23 I bet, you Alexander, never thought of yourself as a Revolutionary! Welcome to the club!
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  291. 55:03 The US adninistration could not have implimented any of the Minsk Agreements because that would have meant abandoning their plans to conquer and dismantle Russia, which have been maturing for God only knows how many decades, (7 or 8 at least.) That was never going to happen. For example it would have meant Victoria Nuland abandoning her life's work.
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  292. 1:09:05 It is no wonder you cannot remember a time when the USG has been as chaotic as this, because this is an absolutely different situation to any there has been since WW2 ended. The US has never tried to fight the Russians militarily before, and they have never been so obviously been rendered disarmed. They have never been so short of finance before. This is a unique situation in so many different ways.
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  293. 6:35 Your account of the Japanese Emperor's saying that the war had "not turned out entirely to Japans advantage" Reminds me of Harold McMillans reply to an MP who spoke of "the Suez crisis". "Crisis? CRISIS? That's not a crisis." "Well, what is it then?" Asked the MP. "Oh, It's just a little local difficulty!" he replied disdainfully.
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  294. 40:00 You will not get a permanent peace while you have a privately owned Arms industry, which has its shareholders in powerful positions. Isn't that absolutely obvious?
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  295. 1:33 "In 2014, when Russia's efforts to keep Ukraine in its orbit" This is a "funny" way of saying "In 2014, when the US engineered a coup d'etat in Ukraine, overthrowing a properly elected government that had been elected on a ticket of cooperation with Russia...."
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  296. 19:40 It can work against your own side's morale too. I once met a Col West who had been part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy as a Tanker and he described how in the first contact with the much ridiculed German tanks they were utterly dismayed to find that the Panzers were much harder to destroy than they had been led to expect. In fact, he said, you could, practically, only destroy them from behind. If they were facing you, they were far more likely to destroy you than vice versa.
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  297. I wish you and Alex, a very satifying and fulfilling New Year. There seems to be no point in wishing anyone a peaceful New year! But none the less I wish you both and your families all the very best of luck!
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  298. 31:58 Is there anyone daft enough to think that the Russian would agree to sit idly by, while NATO recovers from the debacle in Ukraine?
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  299. 2:22 Bojo trying to shame the British lions into an army led by Donkeys. To follow the trail blazed by Ukrainians. (And the Light Brigade!)
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  300. 23:49 "Why would they want to do that anyway?" Two points: If the Houthis launch enough rockets and or drones at the US warships they wil either overwhelm the US defences, or exhaust the US stocks of anti missile munitions. Secondly, even if they fail to do that they will use up much more valuable US ammunition and before long, the ships will have to leave and go to some port to stock up. All of which will help the Palestinians and the Russians and worry the US and Israel.
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  301. I am British, I have travelled extensively in Europe and I once went to China. I regret to say the only place I have ever seen a bedbug was in London.
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  302. 2:16 I wonder does Stoltenberg's "Self defence" as a basic right, extend to the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Donbas, who have been under attack by the Kiev authorities for the past ten years, for the "Crime" of wanting to speak their native language?
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  303. 35:20 The embargo on Russian diamonds will affect the gem trade in the West and it will very badly affect the metal and stone working industries in the West. Particularly industries that are concerned with very high precision will be badly hit, as diamond cutting tools are essential to them.
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  304. 4:17 I think you are wrong about this. The fact that Russia is the World's biggest nuclear power is not really important, What is important, is that Russia is such a big (and well-prepared) nuclear power that any war with Russia has to stay conventional or everyone loses. I also think that nonetheless a NATO war with Russia now or in the near future would indeed, be suicide for NATO. NATO is not geared up for such a war. It might be able to prepare for such a war, but of course the Russians would not sit on their hands and wait for them.
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  305. 1:10 From before the PRC was proclaimed in October 1949 the CPC was very keen on education, firstly teaching the vast Chinese population to read and at the same time encouraging intellectuals in the diaspora to come back to China and help set up new universities, concentrating particularly on STEM subjects. The second reason is that the Chinese had very little in the way of proseletising religions to cope with. The third reason is that the Chinese had the CPC with a clear idea of what they wanted to do and they managed to keep the US largely out. They very nearly had a Color Revolution in the Tian An-men Square incident, but managed to defeat it. The CPC nationalised the "Commanding Heights " of the economy and built them up and built a lot of infrastructure. They wiped out a lot of endemic diseases, such as schistosomiasis, TB and Syphilis. They set up a fairly extensive health service and trained a lot of doctors. At the same time they did not discourage small capitalists, who filled in the gaps that are bound to occur in a planned economy and they did not discourage the doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine, but brought them into the health service and encourage research to find out what was valuable in traditional medicie and what was not. I know much less about India after the British left, but my impression is that there was a much less decisive leadership in India than in China.
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  306. No, not really. The Swedes have been, effectively, members of NATO in all but name, for years.
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  307. 38:00 The countries you are calling Freeloaders have been largely forced/persauded to buy extremely expensive weapons from the USMIC. E.g. F-35s. They have also had most of their arms manufacturers driven out of business because N@0 weapons have mostly been bought from the USMIC. So it is not all US-giving and European-taking. In addition, Eu soldiers have died in the wars that the US has initiated and N@0 has supported.
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  308. 33:50 "Dear Friend". I have read accounts of other people meeting with Putin and people meeting with Xi and in both cases, the writers remarked on what pleasant people both of them came across as. Could be that this term is meant sincerely.
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  309. 26:26 The constraints ARE greater today than they were in 1964 and they are called Russsia, China and Iran. Legality, has never bothered the US at all. and if anything, the US is more brazen today than it has ever been.
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  310. 49:49 The reason for the much reduced respect for the USG shown by the governments in the Middle East* is surely down to the fact that the war in Ukraine has shown that the idea of the US's invincibility, is a myth. *And all over the Global South.
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  311. When the USSR broke up there was a referendum in Moldova and the majority voted to stay with Russia. This result was ignored and Moldova became independent. The people in Transdniestria did not accept that and that area broke away and a war broke out between the ruling groups in Chishinau and Tiraspol. Russian troops came in to keep the peace and are still there. Before Stalin grabbed Moldova from Romania, there was a republic in the USSR called something like the "Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic". I don't know how extensive it was, but I think that Transdnistria was the westernmost part of it.
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  312. No you can't have a list of EU Values! That would be a breach of International Security! EU values are an intrinsic part of the International Rules-based Order, which as everyone knows, are not published anywhere!!
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  313. 10:41 Well said Jessica L. Burbank!
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  314. 11:50 the overwhelmingly important factor in the utter uselessness of trying to stop the technological advance of both China and Russia is that they both have a lot of clever and highly educated STEM graduates and their governments will fund their research.
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  315. It's all right, Alex, it is the type of mistake that anyone can make. In Lizz Truss's case, we all had the impression that she did not know the difference. We know that you do!
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  316. 33:39 I wonder if Ursula's 2nd term will be as profitable as her 1st? How is the investigation into corruption going?
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  317. 10;54 The chief beneficiaries of the USSR were the working classes of Western Europe. They di not have to live in fear of the KGB but because the Western ruling classes felt the need to compete with the USSR, they got such things as : paid holidays, sick pay, a national Health Service, unemployment pay and maybe other benefits I have forgotten.
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  318. Why is the Military always "fighting the last war"? Because the teachers in the military colleges are almost always senior, often retired officers, whose experience was, in previous wars.
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  319. 3:27 Aren't the Indians and Pakistanis ashamed that after more than 70 years of independence from Britain they are still at loggerhead with each other?
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  320. 9:33 To me it looks like support for Zelensky's pitch to the Baltic Nations. "Give me money, or the BIg Bad Bear will come and eat you all up!"
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  321. Они помогли и Германии, хотя и не так сильно, как другим, которых вы упомянули.
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  322. Talking about Huawei; I saw an article about it on Chinese TV. It is a very interesting company. All its employees are shareholders in the company. It recruits in the following way; it holds programming competitions in various countries around the World with quite large cash prizes. After the competition, the best 20 or so, are offered jobs with Huawei at pretty enormous enormous starting salaries. The result is, that not only has Huawei most of the best talent, but the rival companies are left with the less able programmers. Its no wonder to me that they go from strength to strength.
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  323. 2:15 Again, why is anyone surprised at this, when the collective West, particularly the European part of it, has been enthusiastically discussing how to seize the Russian Central Bank's $300billion, deposited in Western Europe, to fund the Ukrainian government! As Ursurla von der Leyen put it in a recent speech; "We must seize not freeze this monaey!" (Or words to that effect.) Did anyone expect the Russians would not retaliate? If so, why?
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  324. 24:49 Ben Wallace could well be right in saying that if (When) Ukraine loses, it will destroy the "Rules Based International Order". (RBIO) Incidentally, I have always had the impression that Ben Wallace always took his information directly and exclusively from Kiev's military intelligence sources.
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  325. 20:31 It's all like the kidnapping of Huawei's CFO, with the arrest of Julian Assange.
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  326. Of all the stupid things a commander can do, going into battle expecting to lose, must rank pretty high up the list!
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  327. There are no disputes in Europe or Eurasia that cannot be settled by negotiations. The basic problem is the Anglo-American wish to defeat Russia and/or to be World Hegemon. This is the PRINCIPAL PROBLEM. Unless this is dealt with there will be no permanent peace.
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  328. 1:12:16 The effect of the US ban on Huawei in North America and the CW, has not been to destroy Huawei but to leave the US in particular and the CW in general lagging well behind China in the implementation of 5G. Whether you think that is good or bad for China, it is not what the US intended.
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  329. 42:16 The extraordinary thing to me, is not that there are rumours of a Maidan III in the works, The really extraordinary thing is, that it has not taken place long since. It must be a real tribute to the fanatical motvation of the leaders of the army that they have gone on fighting the Russians so long, in spite of shortages of weapons, munitions air-cover and more or less everything else while working under patently lunatic orders. I suppose it is an object lesson, in how hard it is to get people im the grip of an ideaology, to see the error of their beliefs. It is certainly puzzling!
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  330.  @tommckellen4289  Another thing that people forget when they compare Hitler, Stalin and Mao, is that while Hitler and Stalin sent a lot of people to their deaths deliberately, Mao caused huge problems in the Chinese economy as a result of being fed "optimistic" results of harvest by officials who were afraid to ad mit that the harvests in their areas of responsibility had been poor. Also, as I mentioned, the Western powers, led by the US tried to make the "Famine" worse than it already was by banning grain exports to China. I really think that anyone that wants to pontificate on China today, needs to at least read the books by Edgar Snow, Anna Louise Strong and Rewi Alley, about life in the Communist controlled areas of pre-PRC China. The foundations of much of what happens in contemporary China, were laid in the '30s and '40s of the last century. A lot of people talk as though China started in 1971!
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  331. 25:26 I understand that a former Israeli prime minister spoke the other day of Israel "weaponizing the Holocaust." Le mot juste!
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  332. "Biggest attack on a European state since WW2." What about Yugoslavia?
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  333. " if the the Jews downed 99 % of the missiles", since at least three targets were hit, there must have been 600 Iranian drones, cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles, so if the Israelis tried to shoot all of them down they must have fired off at least 1200 Patriot missiles or equivalents. So, since Patriot misssile cost arround $3million each, the estimate of $1.3million cost of last night's exercise must be a gross under-estimate. Alternatively, they did not shoot down all they claimed.
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  334. Sorry but your statement: ""The fiat dollar has no value." is not correct. The value of any monetary unit is what it will buy. So long as the dollar, fiat or solid silver will buy something, it has a value. There is no way round that.
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  335. As I have said elsewhere, in view of the definition of "Democracy" as being the "rule of the people by the people" and seeing that the definition of a "populist" is a politician whose policies or proposed policies appeal to the broad public, using the term "Populist" as a term of denigration or in a dismissive way, is Anti democratic.
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  336. !!:54 Thinking about Lavrov's comments I am reminded of a mixed metaphor I heard many years ago and have never had a use for until now: "He smelt a rat, he saw it floating in the air, so he nipped it in the bud!"
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  337. I think the point is, that the ships that were attacked in Sevastopol were mine sweepers, needed to clear the sea-lanes for the grain ships.
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  338. There was no "deadlock in negotiations" The Russians and Ukrainians negotiated in Istanbul and the Ukrainians made certain proposals. The talks then stopped for the two parties to consider their next moves. Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev and told the Ukrainians to break off negotiations as MATO would give them enough Military aid to enable them to defeat Russia. So that was what the Ukrainians did. That is not "deadlock" that is Sabotage by NATO.
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  339. Let's hope that the people training the Ukrainian pilots can understand Texas English! Not everyone can.
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  340. I agree with you that the Russian invite to the Ukrainian athletes is not cynicism but, any UA who took up the offer would have to go into voluntary exile until the Elensky regime has ended.
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  341. 32:40 I understand that the Russian government is giving land to people who will farm it. This sounds like an opportunity for ex-Dutch farmers to me.
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  342. When I was a child(a long time ago) there was an advert by the Wool Utilization Council, (of the UK) which proclaimed: "There is no substitute for Wool!" I oftern think that equally, or perhaps even more so, "there is No substitute for Information!". Alas, it is easier to find wool than reliable information. People like you and Alex and Alexander and Earl Grey and Gonzalo Lira,, ScottRitter, Jason Hinkle, and some half-dozen others are doing a really valuable service in providing different points of view from the MSM. In addition I find that the picture can also be filled out by WION and VFT although they are rather anti-Russian- and very anti-Chinese biased, do provide another view on the situation which is different from "our" MSM and consequently valuable. So, of course do Press TV, TASS and Global Times. I find the MSM almost unreadable because they usually strart off any article with such whopping lies that one feels inclined to disbelieve everything that follows and it feels like a complete waste of time.! Also, unlike the MSM which seems to get its "Information" from a very few sources such as "an anoymous spokesperson for the State Department or Bellingcat or No.10 Downing St, you alternative sources collate, for internet browsers like myself, vastly more sources of info than I could ever hope to do. Thank you very much!
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  343. The Chinese have an expression for it: "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on one's own foot."
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  344. Interesting analysis. It'll be interesting to see how this battle turns out.
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  345. When the USSR was in the process of breaking up, there was a referendum in Moldova that voted heavily in favour of remaning part of Russia, (I have been told and believe, the same was true in most other parts of the USSR.) which result was ignored. Transdneistria, was part of the USSR, BEFORE Moldova was taken over by the Soviet Union at the start of WW2.
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  346. The US also tried Regime Change at least twice in China, Tien An-men and Hong Kong. They achieved it in Myanmar but the Army overthrew their government.
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  347. 7:17 Don't forget about Diego Garcia! It was not just taken by the British, but was "cleansed" of its population and handed over to the USA as a military base, which is still there in spite of a UN resolution telling them to give it back to the people who were living there before they were evicted.
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  348.  @spartanonxy  " Bean counters are needed." but putting them in control is fatal to quality and even, eventually, to production. They cut and cut and cut and finally all the really dedicated and the really skilled get fed up and resign or go to work for the competition. One particular problem with beancounters, is their fixation on immediate profitability and the share price of the company. "If it doesn't show a profit in 18 months" they will often veto an idea.
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  349. When the USSR collapsed, there was a referendum in Moldova to decide whether people wanted to remain part of the Russian Federation or become independent. They voted to remain part of the RF. The vote was, (Surprise, surprise!) ignored. There was, when the USSR was formed, and before Stalin got what is now Moldova, a Republic in what is now Ukraine and Transdniestria called the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova (or some such). When, post USSR, Moldova was declared independent the part that had been part of the SSRM (Transdniestria) fought to become independent of Moldova and there was a civil war. I do not know how it ended but it did and the peace was kept by Russian peacekeepers and has been ever since. Last time I saw it, about four years ago, it looked very peaceful, well-run* and moderately prosperous.
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  350. Good. Balanced, impartial reporting. Let's have more of it.
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  351. 6:04 "It was not like that in Bachmut during Wagner times. It was hard there but now it's super hard" I thought the Russians were supposed to be running out of ammo, tanks, artillery, bombs......
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  352. 3:00 The word you were searching for is "superlative". E.g. absolute = good. Comparative = "better". Superlative = "best".
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  353. 34:43 The Pentagon, around that time, I have read went so far as to ask various US contractors to tender for reconstructing and adapting the Naval Base in Sevastapol.
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  354. 15:24 The name of the Irish parliament is pronounced the "doil" (to rhyme with oil.)
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  355. 1:10:59 So. Not merely did the Oil Price Cap not work, but the west lost the insurance business as well.
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  356. You think toilets are unimportant? Is that why we can smell you coming?
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  357. 21:10 Many of these "Stupid" US pronouncements are principally aimed at the Domestic US audience.
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  358. Why is anyone being prescribed medicines that are known to cause problems in recalling or thinking? Why are such drugs sold? (Stupid question. They make money for the Pharmaceutical companies that make them!)
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  359. 3:27 Another symptom of the endgaminess of the situation is, that Today, Yahoo's news roundup hardly mentions Ukraine at all.
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  360. All my life until about two years ago, I have felt myself heavier than I wanted to be. I tried various ways of losing weight with varied small successes, always putting lost weight back on. About two years ago, i read about keto diets and decided, in order to try to reduce the swelling in my ankles, which was beginning to bother me, to cut out as much carbohydrate from my diet as I could. To my astonishment I rapidly lost a stone or more, going from 80kg to 67kg in short order without trying to lose weight! Keeping it off, is simply (in my case) not eating more carbohydrate than I can avoid. (My family thinks that I am now "too thin" and keep pressuring me with foods I do not want to eat, but do not want to offend them by refusing!)
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  361. Another example of "The Rules Based International Order". (We make the "Rules and You obey them. Or else!)
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  362. 11:20 I would imagine that one thing the Chinese will certainly take away from the Ukraine war, is the necessity to build up vast stocks of weapons, particularly drones, missiles and ammunition.
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  363. It seems that "Putin's revised war strategy" is exactly the same as the strategy he announced at the end of February last.
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  364. 49:42 What is the purpose of all these deliveries of weapons to Ukraine from its NATO partners? I heard a video about a week ago, by an American ex-marine who had been fighting in Ukraine as a mercenary, at a fairly senior level, and he gave it as his opinion that it was mostly "virtue signaling" on the part of the various countries. He added that the stuff that was arriving looked to be in pretty poor condition and as though these deliveries were being used to clear redundant and obsolete equipment from the countries' storage spaces.
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  365. 2:31 It really is like Winston Smith rewriting the back numbers of The Times in the British Library in the novel "1984".
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  366. 49:34 Pity the poor Iranians, negotiating with the US, which almost never honours an agreement. Good Luck with that!
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  367. Interesting video! I Particularly like that you, as an American, do not try to whitewash the US record! As to the question: will the US try to "Regime Change" Saudi Arabia? I should think it "Highly Likely!" (to borrow a phrase from Theresa May.) Otoh, the times do not favour the sort of RC that the US has indulged in in the past e.g. with the backing of the UN, particularly if SA has joined one or more of the new groupings, such as BRICS or the SCO. In particular it seems more than likely that Russia and/or China and/or Iran might come to SA's aid if they were attacked by the USA or some proxy. Interesting times, indeed!
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  368. 12:21 It almost seems that while they are scared to go head-to-head with the Russian army, they still have hopes that with their attacks inside Russia, they will bring about regime change in Moscow.
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  369. "Wonder weapons" "Wunderwaffen" have usually been a disappointment. At least in modern times. The Germans, in WW2, had great hopes of their V1 and even more of their V2, but both made almost no difference to the course of the war. The real problem was that Germany had taken on the USSR and then most of the rest of the world. No Wunderwaffen could cure that! It takes something like the invention of firearms to make such a difference and even then it can sometimes fail. For instance the Maories had no modern weapons but by guerrilla warfare and brilliant generalship, they fought the British Army to a stalemate over twenty years. Napalm and Agent Orange, along with things that detected "Vietcong" by smell, were thought of as being certain to defeat the Vietnamese, but they didn't. In my opinion, the morale and professionalism of the soldiers and the skill of their generals fighting, has a far greater effect on the outcome of a war than the weapons employed. Take the Chinese Civil War as an example!
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  370. Just a thought experiment; Suppose the Russians were to conquer the whole of Ukrain up to the Polish, Hungarian,Romainian and Slovak borders, and said to the governments of each of these four states: "Sign a peace Treaty with us, We don't want to have to invade you but, If we have to, (For our own security.) we will." What do you think would be the response? Would any of these four countries rely on the US coming to their rescue? Would the memory of what Iraq looked like after being rescued by the US and Neightoe weigh on their minds? Would Neightoe care to fight the Russians, to stop them signing such a peace treaty?
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  371. 8:30 In Leipzig the day before yesterday a fairly violent mob attacked the US consulate, shouting slogans to the effect of "Yankee go home!!" Probably, Putin's work!
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  372. No need for Russia tto say anything! People can see who the criminals are without help.
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  373. 1:06:07 Can you imagine the reaction if a Russian think-tank were to propose Russia, after settling th Ukraine problem, presumably, dividing up Britain into English, Scots, Welsh and Irish statelets?
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  374. It is already. "The air is thick with chickens coming home to roost!"
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  375. 0:30 This was NOT CRAZY! This was done for a sound commercial reason: the USA does not like competition.
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  376. 24:32 In about five years time or maybe earlier, the truly enormous oilfield that the Chinese have just recently discovered in their own country, should be coming on stream.
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  377. I think people in Germany have been jailed(?) for "liking" something pro-Russian.
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  378. Some good news for you, Danny: I have just watched a video about Europe joining in de-dollarization! Yep! Europe! "The Puppets' Revolt" starts now.
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  379. 2:37 "That would give Russia its first major prize in more than a year and a half" There you are! Reuters cannot even get the length of the battle right! Here we are, a year and four days into the battle and Reuters calls it "a year and a half"!
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  380. 6:36 Isn't it the same in GB? Aren't Labour and Conservative just another Uniparty? I mean, what is the essential difference beyween Rishy Subak and Sir Kier Starmer? (I mean in policy terms.)
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  381. 19:56 This legalistic approach of the Soviet/Russian government will have much more force and probably, effect, now that the myth of N@0 invincibility has been shattered.
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  382. 57:52 The prestige, the geopolitical position of NATO as the "Absolutely undefeatable" military conglomeration that it had before February 2022 has already been shot to pieces. Imoh it will never recover from that revelation, the shock may even be fatal.
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  383. Very powerful and persuasive stuff! Particularly the last few minutes. You "tell it like it is". Well done! More power to your elbow, keep up the good work.
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  384. 41:07 Well, it has become so obvious that this is a war between NATO and Russia that, perhaps, he has simply abandoned the "polite fiction" that it was "just a war between Ukraine and Russia with NATO as an interested onlooker."
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  385. 14:10 Ben Wallace comes from a military family. His father was a soldier. When he left his private, military-associated school he became a cadet. Eventually he became an officer and retired aged about thirty to become a politician. He has been a politician since. This explains the sort of thing he says. He has never had a "real World" job. Neither most officers nor most politicians know diddly-squat and it shows in Ben Wallace's utterances.
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  386. 1:07:31 I remember that when the first transistor radios came out , if you opened one up, the interior was a mess. A real birds' nest of wires. Shortly after they firs came onto the market, some "Trannies" were imported from the USSR and people in the electronic profession were astonished at how neatly made they were. A typical remark was: "They look like military electronics!"
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  387.  @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  Dream on, little matey!
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  388. 1:12:20 I saw an article yesterday, I think it was Tucker Carlson, discussing the silence of the MSM about the train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio. He pointed out that the owners of most of the MSM were the self same big corporations that owned the railroad that had the crash.
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  389. This law is obviously unconstitutional. Not only that, but it is also completely and utterly anti-scientific! If it were generally applied it would mean that the "science" would come to a dead stop. The consensus would remain the consensus for ever and a day because it would be illegal to say that the consensus was wrong! Or, indeed to question it! It is an astounding law. I cannot think of anything analogous outside of the Roman Catholic Church in relation to dogma or perhaps the Soviet Union in relation to speaking against the Party Line. There is an unbreakable Law in Science a law as unbreakable as the law about action and reaction being equal and opposite, the law which is best encapsulated/expressed in Gershwin's opera Porgy & Bess, by the character "Sporting Life" when he sings: "It ain't necessarily so!" That is REAL SCIENCE. That should be as commonly visible on the walls of every Scientific establishment, as crucifixes on the walls of Church property! Ask yourself what are the implications of the passing of this law? To me, it smells like dirty money. I am getting horribly used to this smell coming out of the pandemic. Congratulations for the doctors who have taken this action! I think we all owe them a big debt of gratitude. I hope fervently that they win, for all our sakes.
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  390. One of my memories of my NS time in Germany is of being in a pub when a man came over to me and indicating a chair beside the table said: "Is this place free?" "Yes" I replied. ( I was in fact, on my own and unusually, in uniform.) He plonked his 'Stein down on the table and sat down. "I was in the Waffen SS." he announced, proudly. I don't remember what I replied but it was something non-committal. Probably, I asked where he had fought and it turned out that he had fought in southern Russia. "Rough, I imagine." I said." "ROUGH?! You can't imagine how rough it was! It was beyond anything I could have dreamt up! In the warm weather there were biting flies like you have never seen and dust, great clouds of dust and partizans and when it was cold there was mud like three metres deep! And when it froze it froze so hard that nothing would start.. Anything that was bogged down when it froze needed explosive to dig it out! And we had summer uniforms. God! It was awful and always there were partizans!"
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  391. 30:00 Are you not going to mention that about three days ago, now, the Iranians announced that they had a nuclear device and a suitable rocket to carry it? That seems to me to be very significant news!
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  392. 30:25 The Patriots in Saudi Arabia, failed to protect important oil installations from Houti missiles/drones and were withdrawn from Saudi (I think) to take them to Ukraine. They sound to me, like rather sub-standard defensive weapons. In any case they are effective over a pretty limited area and protect only a limited arc of territory. I.e. they do not detect things coming their way over 360°. but only in an arc of some 70° in front of them. (I am writing from memory which may be faulty on the figure but not wildly so.)
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  393. There is a joke: "Why will there never be a color revolution in the USA?" Answer: "Because there is no American Embassy in Washington!" No connection. Poster seen last year in Chinau (Capital of Moldova) "Free, Expert Advice - Contact the Embassy of the United States of America."
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  394. 37:18 Come to think on it a bit further, the US gets very upset if the Europeans buy their weapons from anywhere except the US and N@0 is not actually in the business of defending anyone, they have only ever attacked and targets chosen by the US at that!
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  395. 15;00 Not merely did they not crash through the Russian lines and sweep all before them all the way to the Sea of Azov, but there was never the slightest sign of it happening! They got stuck almost as soon as they started and though they struggled mightily, it availed them almost nothing to write home about.
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  396. I wonder, were any British or US citizens among the killed or wounded in the attack that did take place?
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  397. The ISW is an American Organization, and the American way is to boost oneself as more wonderful than one really is. Russian understatement is SO IRRITATING because it means that one cannot say things like: "the Russians said they were going to be in Dniepro last month and they still arnn't there!" Only yesterday, I had to correct someone who said that "The Russians said in 2022, they were going to take Kiev in two days and they still haven't managed it!"
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  398. No. The US started on this course before WW2 ended.
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  399. Not surprising at all! The West has been abominably cruel on many occasions in all its dealings with the poorer countries in the World. Take the Madeline Albright remarks on the 500,000 dead Iraqui children or the way Ghaddafi was killed. Just two example from an effectively endless list.
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  400. @sox3443 "Freedom" is often spoken of as an absolute, but it is not, Freeedom is if you like a two-sided coin. If i am free to go around robbing people, they are not free of the fear of being robbed. You can say that one person's freedom means someone else's restriction of freedom. In practical societies you need both rules and agreed freedoms and these vary from one society to another. In Ukraine there are laws restricting the freedom of inhabitants to speak, or educate their children in their own native language. E.g. Russian, but also Hungarian, Romanian and Greek, Maybe also other languages but anything except Ukrainian is forbidden. This is a gross restriction of the freedom of Ukrainians which is impossible rationally to justify.
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  401. I doubt this story.
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  402. 47:22 They were also spreading "Western Values, Democracy and Human Rights" to numerous other countries such as Chile and Argentina and Nicaragua and Congo and Mosambique, etc., etc. Oh! I forgot Greece!
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  403. 7:50 Repairing the Ukraine power grid. This, I predict, will be difficult. (Until the war is over.) Nearly all the firms that make high-power transformers (Such as are found in substations.) are Chinese. Any others that exist, will need insulated copper wire, almost all of which is made in China. I think, the Indians make silicon-steel that you need for transformers, perhaps they could supply that?
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  404. 34:28 Perhaps, it was Blinken's way of calling Biden a "pain in the neck"?
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  405. 51:23 A strategic defeat for Ukraine will be a strategic defeat for NATO and a strategic defeat for the US.
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  406. I would add: Wealth = goods and services. Goods and services are made/given by working people working. All the wealth there has ever been or will be, was/will be made by working people working. Working people should be able to say how the wealth they make should be used. Money is not the same thing as wealth. It is way of handling wealth and is presently used to control people. Money is worth what it will buy. Banks making money/credit out of thin air and lending it at interest, is a very sophisticated form of robbery and is bound eventually to lead to a debt-crisis.
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  407. 14:42 It really pleases me to think, that one of my pet hates the "JITW" or Just-In-Time-Working, is responsible for this inability to crank up Western production of 155mm shells. When I was working in the UK in the '90s, it was derisevly called "JTLW" or Just-too-late-Working.
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  408. 15:03 It's not just embarassing, it's also improbable or damaging to the US, because there is supposed to be mechanisms that prevent US weapons from shooting down US aircraft. The so-called "Friend-or-foe" scheme.
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  409. 6:16 I should think that the US presidential candidates refer to Russia as "The SovietUnion", not so much in error, as knowing that this is a "Button" which when pressed produces a reaction in an American audience which, for some tactical reason, they want at that time.
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  410. Russia was not at the meeting in Lucerene because it was not invited! You should have mentioned that.
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  411.  @michaelkatz275  Eva Bartlet, Patrick Lancaster and I think, Graham Philips have all reported on this.
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  412. 1:06:36 I would be very interested to know whether Navalny was vac*inated while he was in Germany against Cov-19 and if so with what. There is throughout the CW, an excess (10 - 20%) of deaths* of people, particularly about the same age as Navalny (I.e. "the prime of life") starting in 2020-21. It is "very puzzling" and "difficult to explain" but it seems to be causing people much healtier (apparently) than Navalny to frop dead in TV studios and sports fields and to die unexpectedly in their sleep at home. *Deaths from all causes, as compared to the average for 2015 - 2019.
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  413. An important point that you did not mention is that the Lithium-iron phosphate battery, does NOT burst into flames even if mechanically destroyed.
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  414. 4:45 At a guess, the "Deep Structural Problem" is called the CIA.
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  415. "We know that if Putin is successful here... he will not stop" How does Lloyd Austin know that? His intelligence about the Russian army before the SMO began was very, very innaccurate. Why should anyone believe him now? What would Russia gain by continuing if it conquered all of Ukraine?
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  416. Perhaps what we see in the USA is not a society governed by a system of Law but a Rules-Based Order?
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  417. The EU set up a slush-fund to help EU countries get over the pandemic. Hungary was eligible for 13Billion euros, but because the EU did not like their attitude towards Russia (The did not hate the Russians) they refused to pay out. Now, they want Hungary to pay into another slush-fund, which will (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge) "Fund Ukrainian Reconstruction" and, (guess what) the Hungarians won't!. WSMANM!!
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  418. 1:04:59 The US is also involved in proxy wars in Myanmar and Thailand.
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  419. 29:00 Very interesting issue! I liked the summary of the impact of Putin's speech. Boy! What a speech that was! That speech said out loud, almost all the things I have wished over the years, that Soviet, Russian and Chinese leaders would say. That Putin felt able to say them Today, is a measure of Russian power and the confidence it gives him. It is also a signal to the World outside the West (WoW) that the West is a paper tiger and that it is past its peak power.
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  420. 41:42 It is hardly neccessary to point out that this situation has been brought about, very largely by the US vetoing resolutions critical of Israel, for decades. They made this problem and yet it has taken them by surprise!
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  421. 1:44 I think it was you, Emile, that called the Baltic countries "The Baltic Chiwawas". That was about right! I live opposite a house, that has a very small dog, that I name as "Odio Tutti", who barks very loudly indeed, at everything that moves in this vicinity.
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  422. 27:03 That game was called "Russian whispers". It was said by the teacher that during WW1 a message: "Send up reinforcements we are going to advance." got back to the HQ as: "Send up three and fourpence (3/-4d) we are going to a dance."
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  423. 1:24:19 I was told, back in the 1950s, by two people who visited North Korea in the course of their work, that the North Koreans had a surprisingly large and sophisticated chemical industry based iirc, on coal and limestone, out of which they made "almost everything they needed". They have many mineral deposits and a large hydroelectric plant on the Yalu river.
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  424. My impression is that the British Ruling class, whose members typically have but very limited contact with working class people, are quite exaggeratedly afraid of the working class. They bear in mind the way the French working class dealt with their aristocracy and the way the Russian working class with communist leaders, dealt wth their aristocracy and they fear what would happen if the British working class found out all the ways they had been duped and exploited. Aneurin Bevan, (Later Minister of Health in Attlee's government) or maybe it was Ernest Bevin (Later Foreign Minister) (I always get them muddled up.) wrote a paper about this in 1942, I believe. He was afraid that the working class had been armed and hardened in battle and would be coming home after the end of hostilities, armed and he suggested that it would be neccessary to have at least a simulacrum of Socialism for them to come home to, to avoid the danger of a revoulution. Maybe this is what scares Ben Wallace?
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  425. 49:29 The G7 is dominated by "Dual-passport holders" (If yerno wot i meen sorta thing like!). What do you expect from them? Balance? Fairness?
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  426. 1:02:47 Time was, when any power at all, would have been scared at the thought of attacking N@0 troops. It seems that the leaders of the CW have difficulty grasping the idea that those days have gone. This is one of the truly enormous effects of the war in Ukraine. It has totally changed the perception of N@0. It is no longer the "invincible" power, that it was so long perceived to be.
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  427. 2:25 I should think the Putin despatched the two dodgy characters who somehow poisoned the Skripals without ever going near their house. Sounds like their style.
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  428. 26:21 It was not just the people of Russia that the Soviet Union saved in WW2, it was the people of the World and the people of Europe in particular! They may may not appreciate it sufficiently Today, but that is a fact.
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  429. Isn't Putin calling the Western governments "Partners" a bit reminiscient of characters in old Coyboy Movies, calling each other "Pardner"? Even though they were shooting at each other ?
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  430. 29:37 It would be a first for NATO if they actually defended someone who was attacked. Normally it is they that attack. Another point that occurs to me is that they kept saying that "any country had the right to join NATO" if they wanted to. Well, Russia applied but was turned down, by whom? I wonder. Were all the members consulted?
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  431. 50:48 I suspect that the reason the US was/is so obsessive about getting Crimea is that they really, really want Sevastopol!
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  432. This reduction in insurance trade is entirely due to sanctions on Russian oil. The CW forbade Western insurers to insure cargos of Russian oil. I said at the time that it was a transparently stupid policy, because anyone with a deep pocket can insure such things and it was simply pushing business over to Chinese, Indian, Russian or Indonesian insurers and it was. Insurance, after all, is a profitable business! (The Two Ronnies: Insurance Against Becoming Jewish 3:16)
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  433. 1:19 Picture of a Ukrainian attack on a civilian target. "Apparently there were 15 people killed and 20 injured in this attack" No comment that this is a Terrorist tactic. Typical of a Western response. Same people treat the Gaza situation in the same calloused way.
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  434.  @redscope897  When did NATO ever defend anyone? Answer: So far it has only attacked.
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  435. 1:18:40 this is not "still making gradual progress". A couple of years ago, it was confidently stated that China was ten years behind the West and Taiwan in chip technology, but although the West and Taiwan have advanced somewhat since then the Chinese have almost caught up with where they are now. This in spite of the US embargoing the Dutch manufacturer of chip-making machines from supplying the Chinese market with their most advanced machines. This latter ploy is, I think , in the process of breaking down, as the Dutch are unwilling to give up their most lucrative market and are alarmed that the Chinese are threatening to overtake them anyway, as a result of their own research.
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  436. 25:19 You are absolutely spot on with your analogy to the British situation in 400AD! There is not one problem, there are a miriad and they have no skill in any of them! They have no diplomats not enough engineers, not enough skilled metal workers, not enough inspectors, not enough engineers and even management in Britain is mostly done by amateurs. (Only 1/4 of managerial staff in Britain had a formal qualification of any sort last time I heard.) They have no experienced generals and with the armed forces being so small, almost certainly, no corpus of NCOs. As I have said before, if you are going to make explosive devices, drones, no less than shells, you absolutely have to have skilled inspectors. Without them you will lose factories and everything in them.
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  437. 34;33 "What did they achieve?" There is an old Chinese expression that describes this very well: "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on one's own foot."
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  438. 53:03 You could say, "The Americans led them down a blind alley and then doubled back and left them deep in the doo-doo"!
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  439. Listening to your descriptionof Atritional war, it occurs to me, that it is much easier to do this if you are operating close to home, than if your doing it from the other side of an ocean.
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  440. We did have, more or less in the late 1940s. Since then, it has been sold off, bit by bit. First the dentists and then under Thatcher it was burdened with layer after layer of management and under Tony Blair with Private-Public Partnerships.
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  441. It's called "The Rules-Based International Order".
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  442. 19:45 This switch from the "Blitzkrieg Ukrainian push to the Black Sea and beyond" to "It's a marathon" reminds me of a wartime cartoon the day after the sinking of the Battleship, the Scharnhorst. It had Joseph Goebbels, in front of a microphone making a broadcast and saying: "And yesterday our glorious Navy increased our submarine fleet by 38,100 long tons!"
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  443. 1:06:18 I wonder what were the generation of Ursula von der Leyen's grandfather doing during the 1930s and '40s?
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  444. 20:13 Perhaps the US felt there was a danger that the war would end before the elections?
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  445. 1:15:03 What about the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, without trial? Are they counted as "hostages" and if not , why not?
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  446. It seems that reactionaries tend to put their faith in Wunderwaffen. The Germans did it in WW2. First they thought that the Blitzkrieg, would bring the UK to the negotiating table. It nearly did but they reckoned without the hatred they had stirred up. Then they thought that their superior Luftwaffe would destroy the RAF. Because the UK had a brilliant General in Dowding and brave and generous pilots, that did not happen. Then they thought that the V1 would bring the UK to its knees. It didn't. Then the V2 was going to do it. It didn't. They were using some of their best scientist to research flying saucers and thought transference. They still lost the war. They even declared war on the US! In Ukraine, the war was going to be decided by Javelins. (Some Ukrainians actually named their new-born children after this WW!) Then it was the Stinger. Then it was the Turkish Bayrackter Drone. Then the HYMARS. Now we have the Storm Shadow and the Patriot. After that comes the F-16. What the NATO forces really need is old fashioned artillery shells and this, it seems, is impossible to obtain in time. The Russians on the other hand have no Wunderwaffen. They have heavy, old fashioned, hardwearing artillery, masses of ammunition, masses of tough old fashioned tanks, masses of accurate guided missiles, masses of accurate guided bombs, masses of lethal drones and masses of observation drones and motivated soldiers and they are winning. None of the Wunderwaffen so far has helped to turn the tide of war, which the Russians have been "losing" all along. Strange that. Innit?
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  447. How does NATO intervene without 155mm shells?
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  448. 56:00 No one seems to mention the ethnic rights of the Greek-speaking or Hungarian-speaking minorities in Ukraine , who were equally oppressed by the Kiev regime. Maybe it's time they were mentioned. Maybe also there are other oppressed minorities of which I am unaware?
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  449. 1:09:48 There is a similar disaster shaping up over the (desired) war with China. The same underestimation of China's capabilities, its military's morale, its weapons, its defences, civilian support for the government and all the other mistakes that the CW made over Ukraine, they are making over China, including ignoring the crucial role that China plays in their own supply chains!
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  450. This is the first, second & third type of lie all in a couple of sentences. There are three types (as far as I am aware). Type 1. "The lie direct". A plain, straightforward untruth. Type 2. "False suggestion". Saying something which would lead someone who is not "on the ball" to think something that is not true. Type 3. Suppressing the truth. Not talking about something important or censoring truthful reports about an event or a person.
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  451. 32:25 This storm also affects Romania and Bulgaria, Turkey and Syria, where there has also been an earthquake.
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  452. The thing about officers in the British Army is that they all come from Wealthy families. I discovered this,when I was, for a couple, of years a soldier in the British Amry myself. The way it is done is very simple. A second lieutentant, is the lowest rank of officer and his pay is less than what he has to pay in "Mess Fees" , which are compulsory for him. This means, that If someone wants to be an officer in the British army, he has to have someone to subsidise him until he has a pay-grade high enough to allow him to pay his mess fees. The result is that a lot of British army officers are of very mediocre intelligence. I know. I have met some of them. I have served under them. In two years service, I met one really intelligent officer (I heard tell of two others) and one moderately intelligent one. The rest struck me as either moderately or very stupid.
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  453. 37:57 It seems to me likely that the Ukrainian operators of the Patriot system fired at the Kinjahl as it came in and it released jamming signals that made it look as though there were six Kinjals (or six other Kinjals) approaching, The Patriot operator assumed, that since only one arrived, he "must have destroyed" all the others! Hence the announcement to that effect.
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  454. I recall Jay Leno showing a vox pop interview with a passer-by in some town in the US. The question asked was: "I am standing on the bank of the River Po. Which country am I in?The answer, confidently given for once was "Poland!"
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  455.  @SuanLuang  More importantly he was not Tel Aviv approved. @ruthelainefry Being a man of principle is not enough. In his position, you have to be tougher than old boots and he is a rather gentle soul.
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  456. 5:28 Although Western governments will not discuss it, still less investigate it, the Canadian truckers were threatened with more than they realised; If they were not jabbed they lost their livelyhood, while if they were jabbed, they were quite likely to lose their life or their health! No joke! Follow Dr John Campbell &/or Dr MacMillan for more about this.
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  457. 6:37 Hydrogen. There are a number of problems with replacing natural gas with hydrogen. Hydrogen atoms are so small that keeping it in, is much harder than keeping in methane ethane or propane or ethylene or butane or whatever the natural gas happens to be. It seeps through apparently quite solid materials. It burns much hotter than natural gas. At the very least, every German gas appliance will need its burner nozzle(s) changed. It is much lighter than air and has no smell of its own. It is also very explosive when mixed with air and it is so over a big range of concentrations. However, in its favour, it is not poisonous or corrosive. Unlike NG, condensing it into a liquid is really hard work. At atmospheric pressure, its boiling point is -259.5 degrees C or about 24 degrees above absolute zero. That's cold.
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  458. 21:52 Isn't this method of bargaining well within theJewish tradition? Zelensk and his team are all Jewish, I don't know about Lloyd Austin but Blinken and Sullivan and Vicky \nuland are also of the same ethnicity. You start off with an outrageous demand and the other offers peanuts, so you drop your demand slightly and he offers a few lumps of sugar to add to the nuts and eventually you compromise on somethin in between. It's a very old proceedure.
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  459. It's not just the Ukraine, nor is it confined to the State Department, it is the Collective West.
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  460. 11:49 Trump is not fanatically Anti-Russian. That is what makes him different.
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  461. 15:36 Could have been an S-400, Buk, or Panzir that hit the F-16.
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  462. 3:12 The 3rd Brigade, mentioned here is the reconstituted Azov Brigade. Hardline neo-na*is.
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  463.  @Only1Kingmark  Replying to abhi brodha No. It's not just senseless, it is worse than that! It is mostly the exact opposite of the truth.
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  464. Admiral Sir Antony David Radakin, KCB, ADC (born 10 November 1965) i seems to me to be a prize example of the fact that the British officer cadre id drawn exclusively from the rich and that who your ancestors were is more important to your career than your competence. (Not that I am saying that he is incompetent, merely that he has never really been tested) In Newsweek 31 March 2022 he is quoted as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin had "already lost" the war in Ukraine due to "catastrophic misjudgments." I think one might categorize that as a "catastrophic misjudgments."
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  465. Oh yes. I forgot to add that one can see that Mao was not a "blood-thirsty homicidal maniac" by the fact that, for instance, Chiang Kai-shek had Mao's wife and child executed for being his wife and his child and later, Mao prevented Chiang's own troops from killing him, because he thought that China needed Chiang alive. As to Mao "causing famines": since 1949 China has had one episode of food shortage, which the West insists was a famine, while in the first half of the 20th century there was a famine in one part or another of China, every other year.
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  466. Sad to hear about your friends. There are other brave souls like Dr John Campbell, e.g Dr McMillan. Brett Weinstein and his wife (Dark Horse podcast). FLCCC and others.
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  467. 48:36 Why no mention of calling for the prosecution of the Israeli, alleged, perpetrators of war crimes? 48:45 Release of all of the hostages Without calling for the release of the Palestinians locked up on flimsy charges for long sentences? Hamas to hand over all the alleged perpetrators of war crimes to be prosecuted, without the Israelis similarly handing over their alleged war criminals who e.g. bombed the refugee camp, the hospital and numerous other similar alleged things? 49:18 "the Russians and the Chinese would have supported it", "Why wouldn't they?" Well, I can't answer for the Russians and the Chinese, but I wouldn't, because it seems altogether too unbalanced! The fact is that a war crime is a war crime no matter who commit it. If the UN is going to operate on the assumption that a warcrime committed by one group is OK and is not OK when committed by another group, then it is a sinister farce and the sooner it is thrown in the Dustbin of History the better.
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  468. 2:24 I saw a Hindustani Times report of the attack on the "Harry Potter Castle" in Odessa that said, in passing, that it was hit by the debris of a Russian missile that had been intercepted.
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  469. 20:27 I am not a lawyer but, I would have thought that it would in effect make the banks that participated in this scheme, in crininal slang, into Fences!
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  470. 3:49 I was watching the Duran just now, and Prof. Morandi made the point that there is a sort of stand-off between the US and Iran, in which if the US attacks Iran, their camps and oil installations, in the mostly Iran-friendly countries of the Middle East, will be destroyed, together with their battleships. He made the point that the thing to look out for, is the US moving its ships out of harm's way, not their presence in the East Med or the Persian Gulf. Their presence there, being a sort of pledge, that they are NOT going to attack Iran!
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  471. 10:29 Didn't you say some time ago, that the Russian tanks were lighter than the western tanks and thus better able to move when the ground was soft?
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  472.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  The stock market in China is a much smaller part of the economy than are the stock markets of the West.
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  473. I don't know what vehicles the Ukrainians have to transport goods into Bachmut, but when I was a soldier in Germany about 10 years after WW2 finished, the Belgian army had captured German vehicles called "half-tracks", which were a (at a guess) six-ton lorry which had tracks in place of the rear wheels and normal wheels for steering at the front, I should think these might well be more useful in muddy conditions than wheeled lorries.
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  474. "Ukraine has lost 30,000 troops in this war." The Ukrainian government seems to specialise in (Ehem!) innaccurate statistics and this is one of the least believable. Even some British newspapers have expressed doubts about it! I wonder why, with this scale of losses they are short of manpower? After all they started the war with an army of 800,000 (They were, confidently, expected to defeat the Russians easily. Remember?) and they have been recruiting frantically for a long time, so 30,00 should be no problem.
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  475. 1:08:15 Doesn't this show who is in control? Clearly it is the Israeli government who commands the US. Not the other way round. I hope more people in the US see this and join the campaign to force AIPAC to register as a foreign Agent. If the war goes on for a long time I think it is fairly certian that pressure for Hitzbolla and other forces to join in on a bigger scale will grow.
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  476. 23:34 In WW2 the British, to their credit, did not stop playing German music.
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  477. 38:34 It's not true that "they have very little leverage over Netanyahoo and Israel", They have the subsidy of $4 billion/annum, and the presence of the Aircraft carriers. If they remove either, the Israeli government is toast.
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  478. Yes, the point is that you cannot overcome faith with either logic or facts. I once asked a Christian priest: "What is the essence of religion? and without hesitation he replied: "Faith". Since faith means believing things which are not supported by evidence, there is no point in providing evidence to the faithful that their faith is based on nothing or false assumptions. That "don't cut the mustard"!
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  479. 1:17:28 Why do you think the Swiss have abandoned neutrality and come down on the Western side? After remaining out of Napoleon's wars and staying neutral all through the 20th century and the two hot World Wars and the first Cold war it seems odd that they should abandon it now. Did the "Rot set in" through theBanking sector?
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  480. 19:15 That is exactly the point! It never was about Communism, that was always an excuse for Russophobia! No, thinking about it more, I think it was always fear of any country that might displace the USA as Hegemon or even compete with it to more than a very small extent.
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  481. 2:31 Unlike you, most people in the Collective West do not very often see what Putin has said.
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  482. I would be interested to hear your comments on the news from Britain, that the population is turning its back on TV, of all types and turning to the internet for news and entertainment and the other news that one quarter of Britons are living in poverty.
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  483. If Taiwan were independent and the Chinese did not attack the US forces that would have to be there to prevent a Chinese invasion. The Chinese would not trade with Taiwan and the US would then have the job of keeping Taiwan supplied with everything it needed as well as keeping a very large force in place to deter the Chinese. It does not sound like a feasible plan to me.
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  484. 1:15:38 "Having made the land of Ukraine into a total disaster area and having wrung as much value out of it as we can, lets leave it to the Europeans to clean it up, if they can, and get on with making the next, much larger, disaster in the Pacific!"
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  485. 54:00 The Bren gun, which was the British Army's light machine gun for a long time (perhaps still is?), was so called because it was a joint Czechoslovak design and manufacture, made in BRuno and ENfield.
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  486. 30:00 The basic problem is that the ruling ideology is essentially no different to that of the mustache man's. It has the same Master Race idea, the same arrogance, the same methods, the same contempt for the sub-humans that they themselves complained of and the same proposed solutions to the problem of the indigenous population. (If you know what I mean, sort'a thing like. I am being very careful with my words.)
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  487. 10:16 I don't know much about Pakistan, but I would have thought that if re-elected, he would feel a good deal more secure in his popular support, than he could have felt the first time.
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  488.  @Србомбоница86  Не задуго, мислим. Свет се буди. Откако су Руси доказали да је НАТО тигар од папира, велики део света је поново пронашао своју храброст.
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  489. About "It could have been anybody who made this recording". Yes ! It could. Anyone who hacked into this conversation, even accidentally, having recorded it , could have sold it for a goodly sum.
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  490. 57:17 The behaviour of the Biden administration has all along reminded me of an inexpert gambler. Last Autumn, after the Ukrainian victories, they behaved like a gambler who think his luck has changed and goes on to put his house, his car and eventually his shirt on his bets.
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  491. 12:28 Clichés are a form of laziness. There are other forms of laziness that Blinken uses: "We don't need a plan; we'll just muddle through". "We are so overwhelmingly powerful that it is inconceivable that we will lose, therefore we do not need to think about what would happen if we were to lose." "The good always win in the end so, since we are the good guys, we are bound to win," "Because Russia and China are autocracies, the Russian and Chinese people are bound to get fed up with their rulers and will eventually come over to our side." "Everyone is as greedy and cowardly as we are so all we have to do is to make them suffer a bit and they will give up."
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  492.  @trending1543 " "But diabetes type 2 has to do with insulin resistance, how could stemcells help that?" I think it would not help with type 2, For that you need a keto diet.
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  493. 5:55 Who tried to take out Trump? Who was looking after Trump? Didn't the FBI play a large part in the "Russiagate" business? Don't you think that they might think that Trump, were he to become POTUS, might be just a wee bit vengeful?
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  494. "Too defensive". In the UK, I don't know about the US, there is an oft-repeated quotation from Shakespeare, from the Play MacBeth; "Methinks she doth protest too much!". In the play, Lady MacBeth is accused of a murder and is protesting her innocence and this remark is made by an onlooker. ("Methinks" is an archaic way of saying "It seems to me." "Doth" Is an archaic conjugation of "does". If I am "teaching my Granny to suck eggs", I apologize, I do so because English is not your first language.)
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  495. I have read that the Kinzhal missile is accompanied by electronic warfare which makes radars "see" six other missiles, which do not exist in physical form. So when one Kinzhal missile hits its target, the operators of the air defense sytem think they have shot down six and only one got through.
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  496. 1:22 Interesting choice of words! "/when you have false confidence . . . . . .you think you can do things that in fact you can't" This is, I think the exact description of the effect that cocaine has on people. Now the Thames Conservancy (a charity looking after the river Thames in London) says that the fish and other wildlife that lives in the Thames, is suffering from cocaine poisoning. This must mean (I think) that the inhabitants of London are using a vast amount of cocaine. Since coke is very expensive, this must mean that the rich and powerful in London must really be over-powdering their noses! If this is true in London, it is probably true in other Western capitals. Could this be the reason for the scene you are describing? I think it could.
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  497. I should think that if the Russians found that their industry was being stretched, they could ask the Chinese for help and it would be forthcoming.
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  498. 6:00 Bear in mind that an economy growing at 6%, doubles in size in a decade. So, to put it another way, an economy that maintained 6% growth between 2010 and 2020 is actually increasing in size by roughly the same amount as it was in 2010 if it grows by 3% in 2020.
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  499. Very clear exposition. Thank you for you research and putting it out to the wider public so clearly.
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  500. 35:43 According to Borzzikman, the story that the Ukrainians did not build fortifications on the border with Russia is a myth perpetrated to excuse the Ukrainian army;s poor showing. As is too the story that they are short of ammunition, though they really are short of manpower and guns.
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  501. 33:01 Borrell not accepting responsibility for decisions; this reminds me of my mother talking to some (Pro-PRC) Chinese students in Cambridge in 1950 when she called Chiang Kai-shek a "bad egg". The students looked shocked and one of them said: "We wouldn't say he's that bad! We might, however, call him a "sad pudding". I feel that that epithet, fits the current crop of European leaders (except Orban and the new Italians) pretty well!
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  502. Great!! Well done!
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  503. 17:22 Sounds to me as though in a pub, in some neutral place, like say Ankara or Yerevan, some US ex-officials bumped into some Russian ex-officials and they talked about the conflict in Ukraine. Then the US ex-officials talked to a reporter from the Moscow times and the story was born.
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  504. Sinister! Unlikely unless engineered to be more lethal and at least as infectious as omicron. That would of course be very profitable to shareholders in pharmaceutical companies.
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  505. I haven't been in France for decades, but last time I was there, I had the impression that Russia was regarded with rather warm, friendly feelings. How much has that changed, I wonder?
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  506. 32:00 I think the "Dirty Bomb" story goes back to the early days of the war to when the Russians liberated the Chernobyl site. IIRC they said that they had evidence that Ukrainians there were working on making just such a device,
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  507. 6:16 "But the worst of it was: he had wholly forgotten his name! He would answer to "Hi!" or any loud cry, such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter-me-wig", to "Whatch-may-callem" or "Whatwas'isname" but especially "Thingama-jig"! "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carrol.
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  508. During my (UK) National Service, I served in an infantry regiment which had just returned from Korea. The Sgt who oversaw my basic training had the utmost respect for the Chinese as infantry soldiers and profound contempt (Which he expressed freely.) for the US military that he had fought alongside. Bear in mind that, at that time, the US was probably at the peak of its military might and the Chinese were amongst the poorest people in Asia.
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  509. 16:26 Nepotism. I am reminded of a story from the 70s when a small number of companies adopted the Chinese idea of sending ruling class people to work in the fields or on the factory floor, to gain insight into how their actions and decisions affected ordinary people. Avis was one such company. There was a story that one of the vice-presidents, who was working as a booking clerk, had really messed up someone's booking and was confronted by a very angry customer, who asked him: "What is your position in this company?" and rather sheepishly, he admitted to being a vice-president. "Yeah!! And I'll bet your old man is chairman of the board!" was the bitter reply.
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  510. 59:09 If the US were to send boots to the Ukrainian ground, then the US Airforce would be up against something that they have never faced before which is an integrated, in-depth air defence system.
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  511. 1:40 Very curious situation in Moldova : the president of Moldova is a Romanian citizen and so are several members of her cabinet!
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  512.  @user-ow1bn6qv8q  So, presumably should attacking provinces of your own country with heavy artillery and killing 14,000 of them. Russia was left in January 2022, with an unenviable choice: either sit back and watch the Ukrainian army launch an all out attack on the Donbas, with the declared intention of ethnically cleansing the area or intervene to protect the Donbas and take on NATO. Which in your opinion would have been the better choice? The fact of the matter is, that NATO (Aka the US) wanted the Russians to invade Ukraine, to justify the sanctions they were going to impose on Russia, with a view to bringing about the collapse of the Russian economy. How many Civilians have, in fact been killed, by the Russians' SMO?
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  513. That could be an improvement! Could hardly be worse.
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  514. 10:57 You don't know what skeletons there are in Scholtz's cupboard. Probably, someone in Washinton does.
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  515. 24:10 At the start of the Blitz on Britain in WW2, there was much damage done and casualties caused by unexploded anti-aircraft shells falling back to earth. I believe they had to be redesigned, in a great hurry, to explode, on their way back, even if they had hit nothing, as they were doing damage comparable in scale, to that done by the Luftwaffe.
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  516. 8:22 It was a long time ago and I don't know that it is still true, but I heard that the commonest line in a Hollywood film was "Let's get out of here!" How appropriate for Zelensky!
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  517. 18:14 Mao understood this. quite early in the Chinese revolution, Chiang Kai-shek captured Mao's sweetheart/wife and his baby and had them executed BECAUSE they were Mao's family. Later, a part of Chiang's army revolted and were going to execute him and Mao stopped them, because he thought that it would hinder the war against Japan if they did.
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  518. 2:48 Well said, Mao Ning! You tell 'em!
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  519. 11:23 My fear is, that if anyone were to "turn up", with a real effective policy, committed let's say, to making Britain prosperous or fairer, they would be ragged to pieces by the MSM.
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  520. 10:13 It looks to me, I am sorry to say, as though until the warmongers in Washington DC are decisively defeated on the battlefield, they and their soulmates in London, Brussels and Berlin will never stop making trouble.
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  521. 11:49 I imagine that a lot of General Zaluzhny's support, will come from the "Far-Right" soldiers, as he was a volunteer to fight the Donbas in 2014, which I think, gives a clear indication of his political orientation.
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  522. 17:22 I don't know about te intention of this move, to resctrict export of LNG, but the effect will be to further damage the German economy.
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  523. 10:25 "The attacks have continued all weekend" - Wrong! The attacks have continued since 2014!
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  524. 0:33 "Ah! Those were the days ! My friend! We thought they'd never end!" Hard Luck, Trudeau!
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  525. 1:04:24 You mean like NATO gave Ukraine security? This must be some new definition of "Security" of which I was, hitherto, unaware!
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  526. 0:38 The Chinese have designed and built intrinsicly safe nuclear reactors. Thorium molten salt reactors. They sound particularly suitable for use on the moon as they are self -limiting and do not need water for cooling. They are also small and relatively light. A moon base would need something like this for the two-week long very cold, dark nights on the Moon.
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  527. 29:46 The Greeks did not just suffer under the N*ZIs, during WW2. After the end of the War the British, the collaborators who had supported the Germans and the German troops who had surrenders to the Allies, fought the Greek Partizans, who had fought with the British against the Germans, and having defeated them installed a group of Fascist Colonels who governed Greece until well into the 1970s.
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  528. 15:17 The Israeli genocide case is not being defended properly because it is indefensible.
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  529. 1:01:46 Hetzbolla says that they did not launch a missile in that direction and suggest that the damage was caused by a falling Israeli AA missile.
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  530. Not like those nice, gemtle, peaceful Israelis!
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  531. "Johnson - unpopular Biden - unpopular Trudeau - unpopular Macron - unpopular Scholtz - unpopular" It's called Western-style Democracy.
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  532. 5:07 You are completely right! Because there is no "Democracy" in European government policies (Excepting Hungary) because they are all, whatever party is "in Power" under the thumb of Washington. They quarrel among themselves but they do not quarrel with Washington.
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  533. It is very remarkable how advances in, not only technology but also even in evolution, take place more quickly once someone else has done "it". (Whatever "it" is.) That the Iranians have been able to develop things more quickly than expected, is, I think based on a lack of understanding how science works. Science is not like magic. If the solution to a problem exists and particularly, if the group working on a problem knows that the solution exists, they can usually work it out, using the same rules and clues that the previous group used. If you have a group of competent scientists and engineers working closely together they can solve all sorts of problems, particularly if they know that other groups of scientists have already solved the same problem. That Iran and North Korea have worked together is also quite probable. Why wouldn't they?
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  534. Thanks very much for sharing this very good news!
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  535.  @yvonneplant9434  Quite beside the point! The question is not: "are we going to die?" The question is: "Are all/most of these excess deaths due to delayed effects of the vaccination". I.e. "Should this vaccine be/have been used?" "Was it tested properly before it was forced on people who did not want it?" And many related questions.
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  536. 17:58 It would not surprise me at all if Bloomberg had been told, by the Integrity Initiative, to "stop rocking the boat!"
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  537. 34:47 I agree that the 2-state solution is unworkable, because the Yunohus would invade the Palestinian state or make life in it impossible and the US would protect them from consequences.
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  538. 36:34 "They might have to cut off supplies anyway" Well, yes, they might, but think of the optics! Think how much less embarrassing it would be, to deliberately cut off supplies to Zelensky, to force him to talk to the Russians, (a thoroughly admirable action) than to admit that you had, in effect, unilaterally disarmed yourself, trying to keep Ukraine fighting a lost battle!
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  539. 57:28 The launch of the SMO on Feb 24th last year was itself a pre-emptive attack. So it would not be a totally uncharacteristic action if the Russians attacked before the UAF got its Attack act together.
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  540. 27:00 Not only are Poland, Slovakia and Hungary going to be blocking Ukraine trucks but I see headlines saying that Turkey is leaving NA*O over NA*O's attitude on Palestine!
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  541. Very good suggestion!
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  542. The situation faced by Lord Ismay was different, in that China hardly figured in his calculations, even if it did at all. Talk of Europe taking on Russia, with or without US support, is ignoring the Elephant in the Room. Europe would not be taking on Russsia, but Russia +, who knows who else besides, but almost certainly China. Today, I learned that the White house has made it still harder for Europe to boost its production of 155mm ammo, by putting on hold LNG terminals in Texas. Thus reducing Europe's potential energy supplies. (To avoid making global warming worse, you understand.)
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  543. 33:40 Before you bring about Regime Change, it is as well to know what/who you want to replace the current rulers. Otherwise, you are taking a leap in the dark and hoping for a soft landing.
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  544. 3:47 Being kept waiting fot the Iranian response is costing the US and Israel a lot of money and nervous energy!
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  545. 30:56 The IMF, the World Bank ans all the rest, are operating under the Internation Rules Based Order, which as you well know, is, at all times, "infinitely flexible" in it interpretation of the "Rules".
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  546.  @andyhughes1776  The problem appears to be that NATO believed its own propaganda about Russian military and Russian arms! The Ukrainians were ready to fight - the forces they believed they were facing. Unfortunately for them, they were woefully misinformed.
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  547. Have you seen the "CRUX" video (Up today) where they say they are are "beginning to question the veracity" of the Ukrainian government and its western allies? Such perspicasity! Such analytical awareness! It makes me gasp with amazement!! Who'd a-thunk it?
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  548. 56:48 If the Isaeli government does no more than keep the blocade on Gaza, the younger and weaker inhabitants are going to start dying in large numbers. Is the World going to just stand around wringing its hands and saying how terrible that is?
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  549. I believe the original name of the 2003 war against Iraq was "Operation Iraqi Liberation". However at the last moment it was decided that the acronym was too suggestive and it was changed to "Operation Iraqi Freedom".
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  550. 23:40 I cannot remember reading any statements or figures from thr Ukrainian government that looked even remotely plausible, since the beginning of the SMO.
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  551. ABC reports 9 Iranian missiles hit two targets in Israel. Three targets were hit. So $1.3 Billion looks even more unlikely. I notice that I miswrote "million" for "billion" in my original comment.
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  552. I think what you are talking about is the "Integrity Initiative" set up by the "Institute for Responsible Statecraft" which is an outgrowth of MI6 and other agencies of the 5-eyes. It has its assets in every newsroom in the Collective West, to tell the Chief Editor on a daily basis, what is fact and what is misinformation.
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  553. 35:05 It doesn't make Netanyahoo look incompetent. It makes Netanyahoo look like a plotter whose plot went out of control. A plot to get an excuse for wiping Gaza out, that triggered far more opposition than he expected and triggerd far less enthusiastic support from Biden than he expected. Acunning but badly misjudged plot.
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  554. Or as we used to say in the British Army, "Nil illegitemos carborundum!"
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  555. Almost the whole trouble in the World, bar a few regional conflicts, which could almost certainly be sorted out by negotiations, is caused by the small group of neo-cons in the US. (Supported by the weird idea of American Execptionalism.) A resounding defeat of NATO/US might provide an opportunity, which might not recur for another century, to deal with this problem, to the advantage of the whole World.
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  556. 39:00 "Dirty Bomb" on Kherson region; Might the planning of such a FFO also explain the call of the Mayor of Nikolaiev to evacuate civilians?
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  557. 15:36 You could not be more wrong about the feeling towards the USSR in Britain during the war! I know, Ilived through that period and I can tell you that there was a great deal of friendly feeling and gratitude for the Red Army's and the Soviet people's struggle duringthe war. It was even to be found insuch un likely places as The Daily Mail! It's true that it faded away very quickly afterwards though.
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  558. I wonder if Tisdal has considered this: if, say, Poland were to send units of the Polish army into Ukraine to attack Russian troops, would the Russians be constrained to not attack military targets in Poland? Or suppose, for example, were the British, to send units of the British army, openly into the conflict in Ukraine, would the Russians feel free to shoot down planes bring them into Ukraine or even into Poland? Another thing I wonder is: how much 25mm ammo for the Bradleys does the US have? Or TOW missiles? Likewise, I wonder how plentiful the supply of 105mm ammo there is for the French AFVs ? I wonder how one goes about replacing artillery with AFVs and the like? With Great Difficulty, I should imagine.
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  559. 42:45 I have seen a video that purported to show a big hole blown in the deck of the US aircraft carrier by a Houthi missile. Whether true or misinformation I don't know, but I believe the ACC in question has been withdrawn to the port of Jedda.
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  560. 15:57 There can be no dispute at all that NATO's failure to win an immediate and crushing win over Russia in Ukraine, has already vastly diminished NATO's pretige. It has destroyed the MYTH of NATO Invincibility.
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  561. In recent times there have been four attacks on embassies, all of them carried out by the US or its close allies: The attack on the Equadorian Embassy in London to seize Julian assange, the US seizure of the San Fransisco Russian consulate, the Equadorian attack on the Mexican Embassy and the Israeli attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus.
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  562. It's not the Greens running the show in Germany, it is the Unohus and the Neocons in Wash D.C.
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  563. 4:03 It looks as though the West would struggle to go into war-time production mode, as it needs supplies from Russia and China to do so and it has no reserves of skilled labour, needed to make large amounts of ammunition. The US has ordered weapons for the Ukrainians but the delivery is for months or years ahead.
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  564. 1:00:22 The problem of "what to do with Western Ukraine", is essentially the same problem as "what to do with Chechnia" after the second Chechnia War and the problem that China had to solve after they defeated the CIA-Terrorist-Al Qaida War in Xinjiang. Difficult, but not, apparently, insoluble.
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  565. When you are reasonably comfortable, you just mind your own business and put up with small inconveniences. "I'm not interested in politics!" Maybe you'll grumble a bit. When you find yourself on the dole, you get a bit more angry and start looking for the causes of your misery. When the dole is inadequate to provide both food and warmth you tend to get really angry. "Politics" suddenly becomes a matter of consuming interest. Hunger and cold are great teachers, but however angry you get, you will not find correct answers in the MSM. Some will say: "read between the lines." My advice is "read between the lies." If you turn everything you read in the MSM upside down, you will usually have an approximation to the truth which is a closer approximation than the MSM's version.
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  566. 51:42 "Recognizes Russia's security concerns" No. "That recognizes EVERYBODY'S security concerns" is what that means, because if it doesn't, you are merely storing up trouble for the future.
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  567. 5:09 Perhaps the EU should be renamed "The Brussels Pact".
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  568. Very interesting and unexpected move by Europe! Et tu Brute! What does this move foretell? The Puppets' Revolt? The imminent crash of the dollar? Things are moving so fast! It is really difficult to keep up!
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  569. Why is China doing this?. At a guess China is looking at the long term (As usuall!) and is trying to generate goodwill in Latin America. China needs to import food and Argentina is an important source of food. Building goodwill in Argentina is a good long term tactic. It may also cause internal presssure in Argentina from people who would like their country to be in BRICS.
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  570. A piece of advice to the MOD, if you are going to send British troops to conquer Russia, please make sure you don't sent them in standard British .Army boots! They will need Valenki! When my regiment staged its own little winter exercise, in Germany and we encountered 16 degrees C of frost, not merely did all our vehicles fail to start, but our feet froze too, to the extent that the MO said that if the CO did not call off the exercise he would resign his commision.
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  571. I would like to see would be joint Russian-Chinese-Cuban Naval-air exercises in the international waters of the Caribbean Sea. Preferably, with a Chinese carrier battle group taking part. However, I doubt the Russians, the Chinese and the Cubans will be that provocative.
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  572. 13:16 Your complaining about the US yelling about other peoples' morality, while behaving immorally, reminded me of a story I heard many years ago. It seems there were two diplomats in the UNGA, sitting next to each other and when they went back to their hotels for the night, they accidentally took each other's (identical looking) briefcases instead of their own. One of the diplomats had that day, given a very passionate speech. When the other diplomat opened the briefcase he had brought with him, he was amused to find the text of the speech that his fellow delegate had given that afternoon. What struck him particularly was one section of the speech which was underlined in red, was annotated in the margin: "Weak Point! SHOUT!"
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  573. 1:01:59 Why are you sceptical of the story that the Ukrainian pilot are having great difficulty leanrning enough English to learn to fly the F-16s? If I were such a pilot, I would certainly have GREAT difficulty learning enough English! I am not suicidal.
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  574.  @nighthawk0077  This is a stupid criticism of a brave man! So what, if you are right? If, say, my country is invaded and I volunteer for the Army, I am also "furthering my own interests"? Should I for that reason, keep myself safe at home, instead? I can think of a nickname for the likes of you, but I'll keep it to myself, for the moment.
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  575. 5:37 The whole problem stems from the USA's determination to remain the most powerful, country in the World, alias the World Hegemon. This stance suits the US MIC and practically no one else, except the NATO burocracy. Apparently the US has this fixation and suffers from "Projection", whereby they think that because they try to dominate any country weaker, economically or militarily than themselves, any country that managed to be stronger than them, economically or militarily, would try to dominate them. They even seem to regard any country that might become economically superior to them as an "existential" threat. Like, for example, Japan, Germany or Britain.
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  576. 1:48 Those things, one of which seems to be on fire, are called cooling towers.
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  577. 5:02 You seem to have confused yourselves over your mixture of Metric and Imperial measurments; 463,00 lbs is NOT = 210 kg! It is more like 210 TONNES! Don't you ever review the script before publishing a video? It makes you look so amateurish, but it happens over and over again. Puzzling.
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  578. Our situation is more like: " We the ignorant and mis-informed, led by the-evil intentioned and greedy, Have been, largely unconsciously complicit, in so much foolishness and mischeif, that Karma is coming for us with a vengeance, that we will be lucky to survive at all.
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  579. 12:31 Reuters is owned by Rothschild.
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  580. These sums you mention are well within China's capacity to handle. It's wealthy, it can take losses. It has taken plenty in the past and carried on as though nothing had happened. No doubt it will lose more in the future, but that is something it can deal with.
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  581. 21:13 It was longer ago than 100 years. Lord Elgin bought the marbles from the Turkish authorities who were occupying Greece at the time. The British Museum say, that while the marbles which are in the British museum, are almost as they were in classical times, the ones that Lord Elgin left behind have been eroned away by air polution since, My proposal would be this : it is now possible, using modern machinery, to make very exact copies of three-dimensional objects, in easily worked materials like marble. Let the Greeks and the British governments commision such copies to be made in marble from the same quarry and then toss a coin, at a special public ceremony, to decide who goets the real thing and who gets the exact copy.
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  582. 1:00:57 Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd, that all these ministers of defence, are, one after another, publicly declaring that their contry has been disarmed? I mean, in previous war situations, such an admission would have been regarded as a major breach of Security! Wouldn't it? I am not saying that these admissions are false, but on the other hand, I find it a bit suspicious because it is so different to what one has come to expect. Could they be trying to lure the Russians into making a move based on a false evaluation of N@0's strength?
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  583. There is also news of a drone strike in the Murmansk area that may have come from Finland! That also merits your attention, I think. There is a war or two in the Middle East, one US - Houti and another between Israel and Palestine.
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  584.  @davidthompson4934  What you say is literally true but many people who refused were forced to give up their job, some their career. Not an easy decision to make.
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  585. Havana syndrome, I always thought it was a bad batch of coke.
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  586. 50:07 You might consider the possibility that the Yacht Andromeda story, the traces of explosive, etc. is a deliberate Polish contribution to the cover-up, rather than an indication of Polish participation in the sabotage.
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  587. 1:01:14 The Russians also have a long tradition of excellence in STEM education and scientific research in general, going back to before the Revolution.
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  588. The problem is not just gridlock in the US political system, the problem is mostly that the collective West cannot manufacture 155 mm shells as fast as the Ukrainians can fire them and the Russians destroy them. No amount of money can fix this problem in the short term. If you cannot make the shells, no amount of money will magically turn into shells. In other words, in planning this war (Which they did!) NATO planners did not correctly evaluate what they were taking on. They expected the Ukrainian army, the largest and best equipped army in Europe, an army they had trained and that had been battle hardened for seven years, to wipe the floor with the Russian Army. Nor, apparently, did they make any plans for what to do, if their plans did not work out as they hoped. This suggests that NATO has a very poor standard of generalship. They lost in VietNam, they lost in Afghanistan, they lost in Iraq, or at least they did not succeed in doing what they said they were going to do. Now, they are losing in Ukraine and failing in Yemen.
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  589. Very good summary of the situation facing us in Europe.
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  590. 18:00 To me it looks like a variety of "scorched Earth" policy. "You can have the Donbas, we will have the people."
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  591. harrapa-ht9to Would you care to give a few examples of China breaking International law? For that seems to be what you are implying. While you are at it you might also compare it with the USA's and Britain's record.
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  592. "French minister said western ecomomies will take a hit if Russia wins Ukraine war. Ukraine accounts for 30% of global wheat exports; Russia would control it if it wins; Sejourne" At the moment, European farmers are preventing Europe from importing wheat from Ukraine. They say that Ukrainian wheat is contaminated with pesticides and other things and is too cheap, undercutting them in their home markets. So how would Russia being in control in Ukraine make things worse?
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  593. 2:15 The whole discussion and Trumps speech is founded on a false prememise; namely the Idea that N@0 is a Defensive Alliance. It is not and it never has been. It has never "Defended" anyone or anything, It has only ever attacked, always in support of some USAmerican aggression. It is, in effect, the USA's "Foreign Legion" with these diferences from the French Foreign Legion, that the French pay 100% of the costs of theirs and they honestly admit that it is their mercenary organization dedicated to advance the interest of the French State. If Trump thinks it is not "Value for Money, well, hip hip hooray! Let's abandon it! Good riddance! It was set up to help the US to conquer Russia. That is, in any case, now obviously impossible, so it's time to wind it up.
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  594. HT has a report that Elensky is saying that much as he would like a spring offensive, it can't start until his western friends send some weapons and some ammunition.
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  595. 5:23 The point about airfields is that Western airfields are always super clean! Every morning the pilots who are not actually flying at that time walk up and down the runways looking for anything that the jet engines of their aircraft might pick up and suck into the engine. Even small pebbles have to be removed as they could damage the turbine blades. Russian airfields by contrast are not so clean. They do not need to be, because their jet fighters, have grills in front of the engines which catch such debris. US pilots who have visited Russian airfields, have been appalled at "How dirty" they are. As, until now the Ukrainians have been flying ex-Soviet jets, their airfields are, probably, also dirty.
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  596. 37:46 As someone who grew up during WW2, I can confirm that I remember no obvious animus against the Roman Catholic church or individual Roman Catholics in Britain.
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  597. 1:00:02 I can't reassure you that this is "the darkest hour before dawn" but there are huge changes afoot that have not been touched on in this program e,g. the rapid decline of the dollar and a backlash over the Pandemic and the way it was mis-handled. There is also the accellerating shift away from the domination of the MSM. Partly your's and Alex's work, for which many thanks!
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  598. 1:02:46 "The betrayal of Ukraine" was the whole "Using Ukraine to attack Russia, project". Failing to pass the $61 billion package is a minor detail campared to that.
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  599. 49:30 I read a little while ago, (perhaps a month) that the USG was having trouble sourcing TNT, to put in 155mm shells and had had to buy commercial TNT which, apparently, is of a lower grade than military TNT.
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  600. 52:55 "Truth is like the Rising Sun, when it comes above the horizon, it cannot be hidden behind a man's hand."
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  601. 12:20 Gorbaschov's ideas if followed,would have meant less arms being ordered and hence less money for the shareholders and other beneficiaries of the arms industry, the conress-critters and the lobbying industry and their dependents. That is beyond doubt, one reason why there was a backlash agains Gorbaschov's ideas in Washington. Another, reason was that Gorbaschov's iniative, largely removed the raison d'etre for NATO and the US armed forces. The third and in my view the most important reason for the pushback was the perrenial desire in Washington, to conquer, dismantle and loot, Russia.
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  602. Who provided the money? Who do you think!? The taxpayers, of course!!
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  603. 17:04 And after that, the same reatment as Ghaddafi!
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  604. 26:45 As neither you nor Alex claim to be financial experts, I wonder if you could arrange a livestream with Prof. Michael Hudson? (Who undoubtedly is!)
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  605. Animals have evolved to save energy wherever they can. Changing your mind take energy. The more committed to an idea you are the more energy it takes. I think that is why people are so unwilling to do it.
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  606. 3:26 The problem with those Ukrainian air-defense systems is, that they are located inside their cities and as a result many buildings are being damaged by Ukrainian missiles which have missed their targets and falling debis from Russian missiles which have been hit. These systems should be located away from residential areas.
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  607. 0:31 The Russian attack on Ukraine was launched as a result of Russia being left with an almost impossible choice: namely to sit idly by, while the Ukraine army masscred large numbers of Russian speaking Ukrainians and drove the rest out of East Ukraine (Which is what they were publicly tasked with doing.) or taking on N@0. It was only "Unexpected" in the sense that no one in the West thought that they would have the courage, the effronery even, to take on N@0, which was almost universally regarded as undefeatable.
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  608. The Scots have a proverb that goes something like: "Fact are chiels that winna ding". Which means "Facts are children that won't do what you want." (I think!)
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  609. 17:15 I heard this morning that the NYT is worrying about some of the prisoners taken in Avdiivka might change sides. Hmmm!
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  610. 4:47 Sorry Mr Freeman! Not Yeltsin, Johnson!JJk
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  611. 18:20 I wonder what has happened to the Skripals?
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  612. 4:50 If the Ukrainian soldiers were out of small arms ammo as well as artilery ammo, they would have found it difficult to make anything but a hasty reteat or surrender. Still, I suppose they could have used shovels?
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  613. 17:48 A million men along a 1,000km front = one man per metre. Just saying!
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  614. 10:43 Don't forget the BRI in South America.
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  615. This sounds like projection. I have heard of the same thing happening on the Ukrainian side. I am not saying that this is not true but the Ukrainska Pravda is not noted for its veracity.
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  616. "Highly likely" that the Iranians will blah blah blah! Yeah! I should think so, probably, If I were in the Iranian negotiators' shoes I would ask myself: "How often do the USAmericans honour their treaty commitments?" How is it possible to negotiate with the folks out of Washington DC? What is anything they sign worth? "The best part of not much", is my assessment. I will make no comment on the suitability of Bolton and Pompeo for "Termination with extreme prejudice" as Pompeo's organization called it. And even the "No comment" is not to be construed as a comment.
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  617. 3:59 Abkhazia is not Ngorno-Kharabakh (Excuse my spelling!). Methinks your mind has "slippped a cog." Abkhazia was a break-away part of Georgia, that Georgia attacked under Sakashvili and was defended by Russia.
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  618. 1:22:13 As Donald Rumsfeld said, there are four sorts of things: Known things, known unknown things, unknown unknown things and worst of all, things you know that aren't so! It was the last two sorts of thing, that has led to the West's downfall over the war they provoked in Ukraine.
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  619. Thank you for this video. Lies about the CPC go back to well before 1/10/49. The campaign started almost from the time the CPC was founded in 1927.
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  620. 18:12 Had the White House done what Alex suggested, they would have faced an enormous barrage of criticism from the MIC and the Media (N0t to say death threats!).
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  621. 54:29 Given the ICJ's ruling, the US would do better to not supply shells to Israel.
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  622. 7:10 According to an Anonymous Administration Official (AAO), these anti-aircraft guns were actually ones that had been mothballed after Dowding's Chicks had seen of the Luftwaffe around 1943.
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  623. 10:33 The US has been asked to leave by Iraq too. So they are there illegaly as well.
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  624. 8:32 They will "help Ukraine mitigate" the effects of cluster munitions on the civilian population, just as they have (NOT) done in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Where people, of all ages, are still losing lives and limbs to US Cluster Munitions. One of the worst things about these US cluster munitions is, that the fragments that lodge in victims bodies, are often made of plastic, which makes them almost impossible to locate with x-rays.
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  625. 1:13:56 The "disastrous policy" goes right back to the end of WW2, when the US/UK took over the NA*I Gehlen Organisation (Part of German intelligence) and used its close links with the Ukrainian Banderites, to conduct sabotage in Soviet Ukraine.
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  626. 1:18:07 There are shortages of vehicle spare parts in Europe too. I have Italian friends, who have been waiting months for a diesel injector for a Citroen and are faced with waits of many months for a smashed windscreen of one car and a smashed rear window for another, following a violent hailstorm in Padua.
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  627. 1:17:07 It is interesting, to consider what would happen if Macron did take the risk of sending a part of the French army into Ukraine, or to attack Russia. I think it unlikely that any European country would give him more than verbal backing, if even that. No doubt, the Russians would make short work of the French Troops. What would happen then? Regime change in Paris?
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  628. No! Dollarization is not the way to go. To me it sound suicidal.
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  629. 17:05 The Economist will get more and more reliable info on World affaires from watching your videos, than they will get from the "Integrity Initiative".
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  630.  @dmitryk7320  Wrong , The price of batteries will come down rapidly over the next ten years. There is so much competition and R&D going on at the moment.
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  631. Interesting situation! Ukraine launches its offensive, it uses up all the ammunition it has and all that the EU and US can supply. How then does the US deal with an angry, well-armed Russia? The French have a term that they use in warning road users of roadworks ahead: "Passage Difficile". It seems appropriate here!
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  632. About two years ago "The Viking Sagas" were translated into English. Perhaps, I should explain that they are oral History (quite recently written down) and are a fairly realistic account of what life in Iceland was like, from its colonization by human until about the 12th or 13th century. Anyone who thinks that life in a country without a government which Iceland was at that time, is any sort of paradise should read them before making up their mind. It has advantages, to be sure, but it has its drawbacks too.
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  633.  @4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944  E.g. the US Army invading Iraq took almost no casualties, and most of those were friendly fire!
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  634. 1:24:12 Isn't this all like an ancient Greek tradgedy? The way to avoid the disaster is obvious to the audience, but the actors, although aware of the looming trouble, seem quite unable to follow the route to save themselves from inevitable destruction.
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  635. Obviously the troops should go barefoot!
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  636. Aha! With a New (Yet to be invented.) WUNDERWAFFEN! Of Course!
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  637. 35:10 If I remember correctly "Al qaida" is derived from the Arabic word for "The database",qaeidat albayanat, قاعدة البيانات In other words, the list of likely Afghan lads who would do what the US or the US-inspired preachers, wanted.
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  638.  @FugueSt4te  You could have fooled me!
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  639. Attacks on US bases, arms dumps and ships could make supporting Israel much more expensive, and Israeli military sites, such as arms dumps arms factories and airfields, could embarras Israel.
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  640. In1955-56 In Germaany the Unit I was doing my NS in, had an exercise in Lüneberger Heide when the temperature dropped to -16 centigrade (Celcius.) All the vehicles froze up and we had to light little bofires under each of them to get them to turn over, never mind start. I made sarcastic remarks about us "defending Democracy" against the Russians, which did not go down well. Shortly after, the exercise was cancelled, because our MO threatened to resign if it were not, because he "could not guaranteed the health of the unit" under these conditions! That was the Cold War, that was. Ludicrous and all entirely pointless.
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  641. 21:00 But in spite of all the magical thinking, Putin can walk up stair to get into an airplane without stumbling! Clearly, the man is spell-proof!
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  642. Did Boris Johnson perhaps, persuade the European leaders that if they cut off the supply of Russian energy to their countries, the US would supply them with enough energy "For as long as it takes!"?
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  643. 2:58 Not so much "Sleep walking" as "Blindfolded."
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  644. 51:10 Many years ago I came across in a book I was reading, probably by P.G.Woodhouse, a word that I had to ask my mother, who was present, the meaning of. The word was "persiflage", which she said was a "frivolous way of talking about anything". I have seldom if ever, found a use for this word, but it sounds as though it would be an apt word to describe Macron's output. Unlike Ben Wallace, who strikes me as simply ignorant of basic reality and Stoltenberg who hopes that what he is saying will somehow come true.
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  645. 10:59 The military may also be alarmed at the thought that if things go on as they are at present, they may find themselves having (God forbid!!) to fight the Russians.
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  646. 13:32 You have it on the authority of the German foreign minister Analina Beerbock, that if the missile have been sold or given to Russia, they are Russian missiles, irrespective of the site of their manufacture. ("They are not German tanks they are Ukrainian tanks.)"
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  647. 8:38 In 1939, Britain declared war on NAZ* Germany, not because it was Extreme Right-Wing but because it was a rival to the British Empire. In fact it wanted parts of the British Empire. The hope in London and Washington at the time, was that the USSR and Germany would fight each other to exhaustion and the Western Allies would then come in and mop up both.
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  648. 14:45 Considering how many Italian leaders who wanted to follow independent paths have been assassinated or died mysteriously, one can easily understand Meloni's hesitation!
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  649.  @magicponyrides  Did I say that Russia is losing? I don't think so! Anyway, there is nothing secret about Russia fighting the majority of NATO.
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  650. 29:21 Probably the Ukrainians looked at the pipe which is, I understand, 80cms in diameter and thought that "no one could get in that way!" As to knowing about it, there are probably, in the forces drawn from the DPR and LPR, people who used to live in Avdi'ivka.
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  651. 54:32 Not only is the US sending increasing quantities of weapons to Taiwan, but is trebling the number of troops it is stationing in Taiwan. (!)
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  652. 32:49 "Of course the Ukrainian government would not do a masscre like this". Tell it to the relatives of the Ukrainian POWs who were struck by a missile in their prison camp in Donetsk City, last year and the relatives of the 'plane-load of POWs that were shot down, while they were on their way to be exchanged, a month or two back.
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  653. Peter Tait, who was a scientist in Edinburgh in the 1880s, pointed out that when you evaporate water it develops a charge (He put a metal dish of water on the electrode of a gold-leaf electroscope, and showed that it developed a charge while you watched.) If you used copper sulphate solution instead of water, it developed four times more charge in the same time. I don't think anyone has made use of this effect.
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  654. 1:20:50 Yes you are right to point this out. No doubt it would be better for the survival of the USA, in more or less its current form, but is that a good idea? I think that the only way the world is going to get peace, is if the US is forced to entirely reform itself, by which I mean drop the idea of "American Exceptionalism" and stop trying to prevent other countries (particularly China, but also e.g. Iran, Germany, Japan, India....) from developing economically and technically. I fear, I suspect, that the only way this will happen is if the US suffers a massive military defeat in the current conflict in Ukraine.
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  655. 1:06:08 Another thing that supports Russia's resilience, particularly it's powerful Science and Technological strength, is its educational system, which seems to turn out far fewer people with no technical skills or scientific knowledge at all. I may be mistaken in this but my impression is that there is a lack of people with what might be described as a "Secondary Modern" education. UK readers will know what I mean, I find it difficult to explain to others. Sorry!
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  656. 20:00 Even in Europe 8 countries are rebelling.
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  657. 49:55 The Ukrainians are also , almost certainly, short of people who know how to operate a lage gun. It is not, I imagine, something one can "just pick up". Handling 155 mm shells looks like (I have no experience to go on.) damned hard work.
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  658. 40:59 Immigration helps to keep wages down. This is good for the employers and bad for the employees. Without Class Analysis, politics is "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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  659. It's wonderful that someone even has to say that Russia has to be present! What were the others saying? "Go away! We're not talking to you, we're talking about you!" (?)
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  660. Even in the UK, you can purchase the "Freehold" of a piece of land. That is the nearest you will get to owning it. For almost all purposes, you do "own" it, but the term "Freehold " is a clue. It means you hold the land without paying rent for it. So, you may ask: "Who does own it? and the answer is : "The Crown." If the Crown decides they want it back, they can take it and there is not a thing you can do about it.
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  661. 5:15 I did read some weeks ago, that some Russian soldiers had loaded up a very old tank, with about 8 tons of explosive and set it going in the direction of a Ukrainian position. When it got right into the Ukrainian position somebody had the bad idea of blowing it up and the resulting explosion cleared everything of the ground for hundreds of metres around.
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  662. 11:57 What happened to the "Left" in Britain? The Communist party, the CPGB was at its strongest ever at the end of WW2. I don't know how it happened, but quite a number of communists and left-wing social democrats, got into the Education Corps during the war and had quite a radicalising effect on the armed forces, boosting the reputation of the Red Army. This effect was large enough to alarm Bevin and Bevan and the High command. Probably it was part of the reason why "Operation Unthinkable" never got off the drawing board. In the election immediately following the end of the war, which Churchill had expected to win, the Labour Party won. They introduced what they said was Socialism and was in fact a mixed economy. However, it was also a fraud, in that the state owned enterprises, were all charging large private industries rock bottom prices while the price to retail consumers was 4 -6 times higher and all the while the MSM kept up a contant mantra of "Socialism is all very well in theory, but inpractice it always makes a loss!! Around 1952 the Conservative party managed to be elected and immediatly started whittling away at the "Socialism" first by declaring "The War on Drugs" and making prescriptions for addictive drugs no longer free. This was a really destructive move, because up until then, there was practically no "Drugs Problem." There were a very few people, who had been working in the Far East and had become addicted to opium and were on diminishing doses of other narcotics to get them off their habits. The MSM made a great fuss about "Ordinary folks subsidizing these evil peoples' habits!" This change opened a way for organized Crime to make a huge financial ,killing which has never stopped since and it provided funding for organised crime and the excuse for many more policemen with much greater powers. "The Socialism" was used to take the old worn out industries, coal mining, iron and steel manufacture, road transport, railways, electricity generation and distribution, gas manufacture and distribution, Post Office including telephones, and modernise them at the taxpayers expense. These measures by Labour governments were followed by Conservative government that then sold off the refurbished enterprises to "friends" at rock-bottom prices. Very profitable for the moneid and very bad for leftwing thinking. In fact it was a very successful campaign by the Right and the Ruling Class. I don't remember exactly when but some time after Stalin's death the CPSU(B) pronulated a new doctrine called the "Parliamentary Road to Socialism" .(As opposed to the revolutionary road that had been the doctrine since about 1917) the CPGB of course followed the Soviet lead but when the Chinese Communist Party objected, it split not just the World Communist movement but a split occurred also in the CPGB. After the split occurred and the more left-wing faction left the Party in disgust, the leftists did not unite, but split up into numeroud little groups which each claimed to be more Marxis-Leninist than all thee rest occurred, a My impression is, that probably all of them were infiltrated by the Special Branch and gradually everyone in them got fed up and resigned. At least, that is how it looks to me.
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  663. 36:20 In other words, it would cause no more trouble than stealing Lybia's gold.
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  664. I have posted this (more or less) before but I think it is relevant here and I have been surprised that there has been almost no reaction to it. So, with apologies for posting old stuff here it is again: Almost all the conflict that has plagued the World since 1945 has originated in the US, because of its obssession with being the World Hegemon. The constsnt war-mongering has its seat in what I call the "Vicious circle" in Washington DC. This circular structure is fed, willy-nilly by the us taxpayer and passes out money to the shareholders and employees of the weapons mfgs and the lobbyist industry, shareholders and employees and the MSM feeds off advertising bought by the weapon mfgs. It consists of various parts: the congress-critters, the weapons manufacturers, the United States Government and the lobbying industry. The vicious circle functions in the following way: being circular there is no startpoint or end point, but I will start with the congress-critters, who vote for payments to the arms mfgs. The government then orders the weapons and pays the weapons mfgs. The weapons mfgs then pay their shareholders and employees and the lobbyists who pay the congress-critters' election expenses on condition that they vote "the right way" and so it goes round and round with the MSM carrying adverts from the arms mfgs and helping along with stories to alarm the general public. This structure is very powerful, very rich, quite ruthless and very well established. So long as it exists in its present form, I doubt that the World will ever know peace. The only solution I can think of, is if the US is handed a resounding defeat in Ukraine and the Russians insist that all arms mfgs must be nationalised enterprises, with no other shareholder than the government of their country. This, by cutting the financial nexus, would, I think, kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead
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  665. 13:36 It seems to be a choices now between, "The defeat of a NAT* proxy" and "The defeat of NAT*" and they are choosing the 1st option.
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  666. 45:34 It sounds as though Mr Woodhouse thinks the G20 is the World. A not uncommon attitude amongst the Anglo-Saxons.
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  667. 13:45 Trump needs to watch you and Alexander! Oh! Yes! and Brian Beletic and Col MacGregor too.
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  668. The US will not like having competion from European arms manufacturers.
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  669. 6:40 You could say that the silence is shouting the name of the guilty party. If it were anyone else, it would be in the headlines for months.
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  670. The British Ruling Class want the US in Britain. The population has never been asked.
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  671. During my NS, I met people who had fought in the Falkland Islands war and they all stressed how horrible the knee-deep mud was and how their primary focus when they found a dead Argentinian or captured a live one, was to take his boots and discard their own British army issue boots. I wonder what sort of boots the two armies in Ukraine have.
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  672. Note also, that the Collective West (CW) has supplied depleted Uranium rounds for Ukraine to use in the War, which will make it dangerous for anyone to eat food produced in Ukraine, as has already been shown in Iraq and Serbia.
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  673. 19:38 The horrific scenes that are bring plyed out in Gaza, seem fairly likely to put so many people off supporting Israel, at all, that it will make even one-party support for Israel impossible to achieve.
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  674. 4:47 This sounds like the British Navy in 1700. Samuel Pepys bought the position of Secretary to the Navy and discovered that there was no form of accounting in the Navy! The government bought what the Navy said they needed and handed it over to the Navy and that was the last the Government knew of it! Pepys, invented "double entry bookkeeping to remedy this situation. Interesting that the Pentagon seems to have adopted a similar system.
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  675. 610 The purpose of going after Chinese made EVs in Europe (Except Tesla) is to collect Brownie points in Washington.
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  676. 6:12 Maybe the authors of the two articles in the Telegraph and the Spectator, met and had a discussion in their club, before they went their separate ways and wrote their pieces for their respective journals?
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  677. Happy Easter to you too! Alex.
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  678. 2:35 "Why aren't we seeing advice from the WHO on optimising natural immunity?" At a guess, because the WHO is a creature of (Has been bought by) the pharmaceutical industry, which naturally, regards "Natural Immunity" as the greatest thre\aat to its profits that exists.
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  679. The gene for EVIL is not on the Y chromosome!
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  680. 1:19:41 I am not sure that it was a Chinese invention, though it may have been, but it was realised that the smallness of the details that can be printed on a chip depends on the wavelength of the light used to project the image onto the chip. Quite recently, someone realised that the wavelength of light is different in different media. The higher the refractive index of the medium the light is passing through, the shorter the wavelength. So, if instead of a gas or vacume you have a liquid between the positive and the image projected onto the chip, you can shrink the image further than you can in a gas. So, using basically the same machine, you can go from (I forget how many nanometres) down to the current 5.
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  681. 29:50 Even were the Europeans and the US united, Personally, I doubt that their combined power could defeat Russia, never mind Russia and China together.
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  682.  thulomanchay  No it can't. It is already in a war. No country that is already in a war is allowed to join NATO. For obvious reasons.
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  683. 22:17 No. This drift did not start during the Covid epidemic. It started with Senator Mccarthy and the group of politicians around him in the US. I remember that era well. It was almost impossible to voice an independent/unorthodox opinion without being shouted down or to get a "letter to the Editor" expressing such published. I can say, honestly, I have seen this current situation coming, all my adult life.
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  684. 1:02:43 The outcome of a "heavily armed, battle-hardened, belligerent Russia", would suit the warmongers in the West ONLY if they could benefit from it financially. In other words, only if they owned shares in the MIC. If, on the other hand they were taxpayers, like the rest of us, having been stripped of their shares, when the arms industries were all nationalized, then they would be as interesed in peace as anyone else. I hope, that the Russians will insist on this change, in any settlement of this war.
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  685. 20:14 Maybe the Ukrainian Marines are being transfered to the Kherson region because the Ukrainian high command was alarmed to find the the Wagner troops were in the Kherson area. (According to Borzzikman.)
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  686.  @jamespardue3055  I remember my late, dearly beloved wife saying to a man she had been arguing with: "The trouble with you is that you look intelligent."
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  687. 15:26 Quite apart from the cost of missiles that Israel and its allies expended on shooting down the Iranian missiles and drones, the cost of using the aircraft and battleships and the extra fuel they used and the maintenance caused by using them in the operation, must have been huge too.
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  688. 1:49 "We will do whatever it takes to ensure that Russia cannot win this war." You, Macron should have thought of that before you and your buddies provoked this war. The question that rises unbidden to my mind when I read your statement is: "Yeah? You and whose army?"
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  689. 8:15 I don't know if you know the Shakespeare play "King Henry V"? Anyway, in one of the scenes HV is giving his troops a peptalk before trying to retake the French town of Agincourt and he says: (IIRC) "In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of War blows in our ears, imitate the action of the Tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage!" Seems like the same idea.
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  690. The same in the UK. The department of Defence used to be called the War Office or the War Department.
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  691. I saw just now (Saturday morning ) in AFP, that the Russians have "Won a symbolic victory in Avdiivka". (!) "Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the frontline city of Avdiivka to avoid being encircled, new military chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Saturday, handing Russia its biggest symbolic victory following Kyiv's failed summer counter-offensive." How quickly Avdiivka went from being "of great strategic importance" to being "Symbolic"!
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  692. 3:38 "Three kilometers square" is not equal to "three square kilometers". In fact it is three times as big!
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  693. 1:19:16 The DPP seperatists, have gone from 56% to 43% of the vote (They got 5,586,019 votes) and the pro-china KMT have gone from I don't know what to 52 seats out of 113,(4,671,021 votes) and the pro-Chinese TPP got 3,690,466 votes) but, the DPP have won the election! I wonder how that works?
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  694. 16:40 Accountants' way with figures: You are being interviewed with regard to a position in a firm of accountants and you are asked the question "What does 2+2 equal?" The correct answer is "Which particular number does it need to equal in this case?"
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  695. 3:56 The West certainly did, no dispute about it, use depleted uranium weapons in Iraq.
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  696. 34:48 Trump chose some pretty bloody awful people to form his cabinet last time. Let's hope he doesn't do the same thing again!
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  697. 1:14:04 The security council permanent members are the victors of the WW2. Right? Well, Most of the "British" casualties (By a ratio of about 1:10) were not from the UK itself but from India. So I think India has a pretty sound claim.
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  698. 8:30 Not talking to the Russians but talking at them.
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  699. The International Rules-Based Order 1) We make the rules and you obey them. 2) The Rules are secret, until you break them. 3) The Rules do not apply to us. 4) There is no way to appeal the Rules.
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  700. 10:40 Napoleon got too big for his boots (hubris) and bit off more than he could chew. The warmongers in Washington have done the same. They did not do their due diligence before they provoked the Russians into their attack on 24/2/22.
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  701. 46:11 Terrorist activities by "State and non-state actors", does that include Terrorist activities by Israel?
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  702. 30:47 Maybe the people in charge of the military tactic are the same people as were in charge in 2014 and 2015? I.e this war was not and is not, being controlled by Kiev but by a small group in Washington and hence the tactics are the same now too.
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  703. Take plenty of vitamin D3
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  704.  @Lee_303  "Which country did the Nazis relocate to after ww2?" Seems a non-answer to my comment. However, since you ask, many quite senior Nazi officials went to Argentina after WW2. Many Nazi engineers and scientists, were taken by the US to help their war-industries under "Operation Paperclip". I know that some engineers and Scientists who had worked under the Nazis during WW2 and may or may not have been Nazis were taken to the USSR after the war. Is that any help?
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  705. I think that originally "Speculation" was a form of divination, IOW fortune telling. It involved sitting in a dark room between two parallel mirrors, which gives the illusion of an infinite space with an endless row of candels and sitters going off into the far distance in both directions. This (sometimes) induced a dream- or trance-like state in which one could (you hope!) see into the future. Speculation from the Latin word for a mirror, Speculum. Probably, as a Romanian, you know all this anyway.
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  706. 52:52 I bekieve that, I have read that, before the Maidan Coup, the Pentagon had issued calls for tenders for the reconstruction to Neightoe standards of Sevastapol Naval Base.
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  707. It could be true, on the other hand, many of the Ukrainian government stories are just that, stories.
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  708. 'On what is called a "Peacekeeping" mission.' Yes, It justifies its name. Since it arrived, there has been peace. Of course, as a visitor I cannot know what it is like to live there, but as a visitor I can say that it is one of the most attractive, friendly and peaceful places I have ever visited.
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  709. 2:04 Ohio should, as a matter of the utmost urgency, change its name to Ukraine! East Palestine should likewise change its name to Kiev.
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  710. Henry Kissenger is a prize illustration of the old English saying " The good die young and the bad flourish like the green bay tree."
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  711. 1:21:29 Perhaps what Macron and Cameron (C&M) are thinkng is "If the Israeli tail can was the US dog, why can't the European tail do the same trick?"
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  712. 23:19 The threat to Russia is not from France or Poland or Germany nor yet the "Baltic Chiwawas", it is the US and its vassals. Without the US driving them, the Europeans would still be living at peace with Russia, as they did from 1990 to 2014.
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  713. Thank you for showing this and similar events that the tame media we have here will not show.
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  714. 10;28 Elensky does not typically come as pills. It's more like an ointment or possible an unguent, a cream. Anyway, something slippery or slimy or oily.
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  715. The thought occurs to me, that were this "settled" on US or Israeli terms, no Arab state (least of all if they were mentioned in the Bible!) could feel safe within their borders.
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  716. There is an "interesting" issue of "Redacted" today which explains that the driving force behind the Israeli action in Gaza is the prospect of stealing the oil and gas deposits in and off-shore of Gaza and that US oil companies are deeply involved in it and have been from the beginning. Seeing this was, fo me at least, a revelation. I am surprised that you have not mentioned it.
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  717. It occurs to me that bigger drones, cost more to make, are easier to hit, easier to see coming, take up more space before they are used and perhaps soldiers might be less willing to use them as freely as they can, smaller and cheaper drones. I wonder if we shall see "attack drones" that fly around looking for enemy drones to destroy?
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  718.  @menkros1  How do you know that?
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  719.  @hongry-life  Yes, but I am told that being pro-Palestinian is being Anti-Semitic.
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  720. " why is it difficult for Russia to stop them from advancing deeper inside Russia." They stopped advancing some days ago. Maybe, the Russians are content to to have them where they are. These are some of Ukraine's best, most experienced, most ideologically motivated, best armed, troops. Bottled up in a wild part of Russia, they cannot stop the Russian advance in Donbas, nor influence the battle there. They control a large number of Russian settlements. However, these settlements are so small that Google Maps does not mention them! (Don't take my word for it, look for yourself.) Even Sugia, (Суджа) about which so much is said, in peacetime, had a population of abour 6,500. It seems, that the incursion into Kurst Oblast was intended to pull Russian trooops away from the battle in Donbas, but it did not do that. Instead it led to the mobilisation of troops, hitherto kept in reserve in Russia.
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  721. 5:34 A good lecture on the Class structure of society, for the politically naiive. When I did my national service in the British army, it suddenly struck me, on maybe the third day, that the Army was a sort of caricature of a class society.
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  722. One of the many ironies in the present situation is, I suspect, that the huge US arms manufacturers have since the end of WW2, been buying up and closing down European and other competitors, meaning that the CW, is much shorter than ever before, of firms that could make up these deficiencies, rapidly. I also suspect, as I said at the start of the sanctions campaign, that ammonia is an important raw material, for making explosives, as well as being needed for other things such as fertilizer, and about 40% of the CW's ammonia, came from Russia and Belarus. The other point is, that explosives contain a large amount of energy and this energy has to come from somewhere. So, cutting oneself off from a source of cheap energy, is not a very sensible thing to do if you want to make a lot of explosives.
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  723. 1:23:59 Another example is the Vietnamese war. How come the US did not "overwhelm" North Vietnam?
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  724. Tortoises are called "turtles" in US English. In UK English, "turtles" is the name given to the aquatic version of tortoises. As far as I know, in the US turtles, tortoises, they are all just called "turtles".
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  725. 2:46 It is usually to buy land cheaply, for development.
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  726. 13:30 There are no citizens in Britain, only subjects. What are you? A revolutionary?
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  727. 2:08 This morning there was a ludicrous article from AFP by Louise Delmotte, titled " China Marks Ten Years of Belt and Road forum, though interest is waning."
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  728. 33:47 Five or six years ago I was in Chishinev and I was alarmed to see, numerous posters in the streets, saying "For Free, Impartial, Expert Advice, Consult the Embassy of the USA".
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  729. 12:30 Might it be that the US is really scared of Hamas but grossly underestimated the Russians?
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  730. In the British army there is/was a song that went: "The CO kicks the Major. The Major has a go. He kicks the poor old Captain, who kicks the NCO And as the kicks grow harder, It's plain for all to see: They're doing it, me lads, To save Democracy!"
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  731. 12:01 The Empire Strikes Back! (Well, at least the colonies do.) The wars in Syria and Ukraine have shown the whole world that the Empire is no longer all-powerful, that one can stand up to it and survive and that you may find powerful friends who will work with you, if push comes to shove.
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  732. 5:28 Even Stoltenberg did not like the statement Baerbock issued!
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  733. 4:57 Correction! Not "Down the spine of every European", but "down the spine of almost every European "leader"".
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  734. 58:23 It goes back further than that. The British were shocked and surprised when the Japanese produced not only Scotch whisky, but first rate battleships too.
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  735.  @song4night  Putin can leave Ukraine to his generals. It is in good hands.
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  736.  @BboyKeny  Fasting means that the body goes into a state evolved to deal with starvation. This means that anything that is not essential tends to get used to replace the missing food and that includes things such as clots clogging blood vessels and (so it is alleged) cysts. It also, of course uses up fat stored in unwanted places, e.g. in the liver. So, counterintuitively, if it is not too prolonged, fasting can actually leave you healthier than you were before the fast. Insulin, which is a hormone, a growth hormone, particularly in excessive amounts, can upset the functioning of all sorts of different organs and fasting reduces insulin levels allowing the affected organs a break, an opportunity to recover.
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  737. You can't conquer a country from the air. Where are the "Boots-on-the-ground" to come from?
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  738. 11:12 In any case, they should have realized that China would support Russia, before they provoked the conflict. It wasn't surprising! More thoughtlessness.
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  739. 57:26 Probably Zelensky is more likely to believe the Seymour Hersh story than Putin is. Could this Poroshenko - Akhmetov video be made by Vovan and Lexis?
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  740. 59:27 The Chinese showed over Korea, that they were not afraid to take on a nuclear-armed superpower, even before they had nuclear weapons of their own.
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  741. 20:14 At a guess: Ukraine pulled out of the shipping deal because the inspecttion of incoming ships was going to be too rigerous.
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  742. 44:12 I remember in one of the psychiatist, Karen Horny's books, her recalling a patient saying: "I can cope with anything except reality!" Maybe, Western politicians are suffering from the same disorder?
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  743. If I am not mistaken the head of Ukraines Military Intelligence Organization (HUR Chief Kyrylo Budanov) has contradicted your statement, saying that Russia is recieving neither Drones from Iran nor missiles and shells from the DPRK.
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  744. The Rules-based International Order. I know what the rules are: Rule 1. The rules are secret. Rule 2. The rules apply to you and they do not apply to us. Ever! Rule 3. We make the rules. Rule 4. We decide when you have broken the rules and there is no appeal mechanism. Our verdict is final.
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  745. I don't see any alternative to total Russian control.
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  746. A year or two ago, a US spokesman called one of their carriers, IIRC steaming, at the time, towards Syria, "100,000 tons of diplomacy".
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  747. 47:29 I see elsewhere on the internet, that Janet Yellen and the Commerce Secretary are going to Beijing to ask for Chinese help in dealing with the US Financial Crisis and in particular, to ask the Chinese to sell off their Treasury Bills more slowly. I should think they will not be best pleased by Blinken's contribution!
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  748. 9:48 That sounds like Sirsky Dena*ifying Ukraine!
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  749. So what did you expect?
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  750. "Just peace and security can only be attained through strength" Maybe my memory is playing me, tricks but somehow that dictum reminds me very strongly, irresitably, of the sort of slogans that came out of Berlin, some 80+ years ago!
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  751. I think I see how this situation has come about. Over the last few years there have been two groups of people in our ruling class. There have been the politicians with practically zero military experience and the arms manufacturers. The arms manufacturers have grown accustomed to getting large amounts of money to engage in producing very expensive research and development projects, rather than building up stock of “boring ol' e.g. 155mm shells or run-of-the-mill equipment”. They did this because they understood that the Russians and the Chinese were not going to initiate a war and they thought (Mistakenly as it has turned out) that the politicians would have more sense than to push the Russians or the Chinese to the point that they felt they had to resort to arms. The politicians on the other hand, believed their own propaganda and having no practical experience of running a war, did not understand how small the depth of stored supplies was, nor how the facilities needed to make the materiel needed to wage a war had become obsolete or had gone out of existence nor even how little they understood about the problems they were going to face. Finally, they got so carried away with their own imagined power and prowess that they forced the Russians into a situation where they had, actually to either respond militarily to the western provocation or suffer a political backlash in Russia that might have overthrown the government.. The rest as they say, is history. That is how, IMHO we got to where we are today.
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  752. 10:50 The way that the SNP has declined mirrors the way all the alternatives to the Conservatives and Labour have withered away. Maybe, they have all been infiltrated and led down into the dust by (who knows?) MI6? MI5? Special Branch? We know that has happened to a number of other organizations.
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  753. The European population is fairly old, which always works against militancy.
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  754. 21:13 All that you are saying suggests that what most people have always assumed is in fact true. I.e. that the programs "Yes Minister!" and "Yes, Prime Minister" were, though fictional, entirely correct in the impression that they gave of life in government circles.
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  755. Correct! Calling this a threat is an admission. "We can dish it out, we can't take it!"
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  756. 1:41 How about some "Security guarantees" for the Palestinians? Without such, these proposals are just "kicking the can down the road." Likewise the proposal for "the release of all the hostages" If this does not mean all the Palestinians extra-judidicially locked up by Israel, as well as the hostages captured by Hamas, it is a non-starter, a dead-letter, a dud. The whole situation for the Collective West is horribly complicated by the hideous spectacle of their ally Israel, openly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity and the horrible spectacle being shown on television and social media around the World, coupled with their own long history of hypocritical concern for "Human Rights" around the World allegedly committed by their political opponents.
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  757. 36:10 "The fall of Putinis only a matter of time." Who can argue with that statement? Of course it is! The man is not immortal and has never claimed to be. The problem for the Telegraph is that it will, probably, be a rather longer time than they would like!
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  758. Like you, I don't know much about Africa in general and very little indeed about Niger or Gabon. However, I read recently that the militaries in countries all across central Africa have been trained in recent years, by the US Army. Just recently, these militaries have revolted, one after another, against France. (?!) Further, they seem to be inclined, like the people of these countries, to incline towards the Chinese-Russian side of politics.
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  759. 12L20 Lying government statistics. I remember when I was a child in the UK, the old age pensions were linked for a while to the consumer price index, or rather to the cost of a "Basket of household goods". One of the items in this basket was candles, though hardly anyone still used candles for lighting. After a time, I noticed that weight for weight, candles had become cheaper than coal!
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  760. 39: 33 Get the Chinese to build an artificial island in international waters and put the UN on it?
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  761. 6:27 Maybe the problem was that the figure of 100,000 was floating around as the rough figure in EU HQ and van der Lying thought that "everyone knew" that figure and did not realize that it was supposed to be secret?
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  762.  @bogdanmeleszczenko1271  Dream on, little matey!
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  763. I read some time ago that some scientific research had shown, that a random selection of people to be leaders of teams given a particular task, gave the best results! This was btw, more or less, the system in ancient Athens: selection by lot of any eligible adult willing to stand for the office. Ref. book by Thucydides "The History of the Peloponnesian War" I would add, that there are now, quite effective ways of weeding out psychopaths. Pity they are not used in modern political selections of candidates for high office!
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  764. 25:26 This account of the Yale Prof suggests to me, that he has been playing too many computer games and has entirely confused the World of his game and the real world. Previously, I have heard of this happening only to people aged 12 years old, or so but I suppose it is possible, in adults who grew up that way? Or perhaps, he thinks that the Pentagon is just being mean with their toys?
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  765. 1:17:58 I think that there were a number of things that caused the Soviet attempt to set up a parallel trading system to fail. First the Soviet mindset, that said that if something was "not in the plan" it should not be made and the ideological dispute with the Chinese which, despite the fact that the Chinese were making a lot of the things that Russians were crying out for, meant that China was excluded from the roster of approved participants. There were also, probably, similar blocks on the Chinese side, as the ideological dispute was at its height at that time.
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  766. 2:27 I don't understand how the US knows about transaction taking place, in Yuan, in a Chinese bank.
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  767. yes! I think that this going to be huge. Anyway it should be! Long live the AG of Kansas! I pray for his health and safety!
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  768. 19:45 You ask, rhetorically, "What are we smoking?" I don't know what Washington is smoking, but in the UK, the Thames Consevators report, that the wildlife living in the River Thames, downstream from London, is sufferring from cocaine poisoning. (I'm sure I don't need to explain the significance of that to you.)
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  769. 4:03 "NATO is not a defensive alliance." Absolutely NOT! I challenge anyone who says it is, to give an example of NATO defending anything or anyone. Every NATO action has been an attack.
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  770. 4:28 How in the name of everything Holy, can Russia "use its control over the Nothstream Pipeline" to do anything? Considering that last year, the Northstream Pipeline was blown up, by "someone" (Someone that is, that Norway, Denmark and Germany say they know who that someone is, but refuse to name!) Do you take us all for fools?
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  771. 1:14:51 It would be better still if the US gave up its dreams of eternal hegemony, which is at the root of almost all the wars and international problems since the end of WW2.
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  772.  @lorascelsi8102  Accessories after the fact, co-defendants, enablers.
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  773. Now. I wonder why you failed?? Could it just possibly be, that the "effort" was designed to fail? Hmmm,
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  774.  @vmasing1965  Consider the ideology of the people he was fighting.
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  775. 55:50 The British Establishment , like the Wows, "Have No Reverse Gear"! They seem to be stuck in the Crimean War mindset.
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  776. 11:33 I hear on other channels, that two officials who received large amounts of money to build the fortification in the Kharkiv area, have disappeared, with the money.
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  777. 14:31 To me there is also the implication that by Fec. 24th, Ukraine might no longer exist.
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  778. 20:07 IIRC shortly before Trump became POTUS, BoJo said that the did not want to go to the US, because "I might have to meet Trump!"
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  779. 15:10 Were he to do what Alex is suggesting, Sunak could find himself in the position of the PM in the play "A Very British Coup".
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  780.  @watchchimp3102  Yes. Intelligence and common sense do not always go together! I think the reason is that people tend to think in compartments and very often fail to make obvious connections between them, so that they fail to see the application of their knowledge in one compartment to their situation in another field.
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  781. 54:45 On the subject of the US being able to overwhelm the Russian in an air war. I, like you am not a military expert, however, that does not preclude my having an opinion. The Russians have a lot of ballistic missiles, against which the West has but poor defences. A US air war would require well maintained airfields, which I think would be rapidly and efficiently denied to them by Russian missiles. That would mean that the US 'planes would have to operate from US (British?) aircraft carriers,which would be vulnerable to Russian submarines and , probably, ballistic missiles too. There is also the question of Russian anti-aircraft defences as well. How extensive they are and how effective I do not know but they would be an extra difficulty. Penultimately, there is the Russian airforce, which while I read is rather small, I don't know how small and whether the people who say it is small know what they are talking about. However, it has some pretty advanced 'planes and expert pilots. Then there is the question of how this air war by the West would be fuelled? I imagine that there are fairly limited stocks of aviation fuel in Europe and what there is, would be vulnerable to Russian ballistic missiles. In any case it would be neccessary to land most aircraft to refuel them and even if aerial refueling were possible, the refuelling aircraft have to land to tank up and if the airfields are damaged that is going to be difficult too. In any case 'planes have to land for servicing, replenishing weaopons and for the pilots to sleep. that needs good runways. Extra supplies would, I imagine, have to come by ship, running the gauntlet of the Russian submarines. Finally, if it looked as though the Russians were losing, I do not suppose the Chinese would stand idly by and watch them go down to defeat and they have a very large airforce already, which is growing rapidly. In addition, there is the question of the supply of weapons? Does the US have the stocks of air-air missiles and other ammunition it would need? Or is it in the same position as it seems to be with artillery munitions?
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  782. 40:00 Can the US handle war on four fronts?
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  783. 11:28 Even before the PRC was declared, the Chinese economy (The part under Communist control) was not anti-Capitalist. The PRC has always had a mixed economy. The Chinese flag has five stars, a Big star for Communist Party and four smaller stars. What these stars stand for, is interesting, in this context. They stand for: the Workers, the Peasants, the Soldiers and the Patriotic Capitalists. The Communist party realised early on in their revolution, that they could not organise everything from the centre, (The mistake the USSR made.) So they encouraged any one with an idea of how to make things, that would help the people survive the Japanese invasion, the revolution, blockades and natural disasters (All of which the Chinese between 1927 and the 1970s had in abundance.) to do so. They also encouraged groups of people to get together, in cooperatives to do and make things that were needed. At the same time they recognised that some things had better be done by and were better run by the government and the local governments.
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  784. 32:30 Every statement about politics, that comes out of a US or EU official, can be best understood as pure projection.
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  785.  @stuartyaxley6689  Heros? Yes! Unfortunately, though, they have no superpowers! They need and they should have, the backing of huge numbers of us.
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  786. 33:47 Moldova has a very curious government, the President is a Romainian citizen and so are three or four of her ministers.
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  787. 10:40 The Sino-Indian dispute stems from the British annexing part of Tibet early in the 20th Century and the Indians sticking to it after independence. The Sino-Russian dispute IIRC, was over islands that were created when the Ussuri River, the river that formed quite a stretch of the border between China and Russia) changed its course.
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  788. 7:09 All that power! And yet, even with their support, the Ukrainians cannot defeat the Russians! How extraordinary!
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  789. It is also possible that there will be an electoral upset in Lithuania and a new, more rational government.
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  790. Why is the US supporting Genocide? Doesn't this make US "Concern about Human Rights" rather suspect? Isn't the "Right to life" part of "Human Rights"?
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  791. I was surprised that you did not mention Sakarova's bon mott on Lohnson's stupid "If Potin were a woman" remark. BTW, while searching for your video just now I saw a headline to a video in Russian, which said "Lugansk nash!" which I take it means "Lugansk is ours!".
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  792. 18:12 I think that in the 50s and 60s the British government was a bit more independent of the US than any recent government has been. They had, for example the practice of establishing diplomatic relations with the government in charge, actually ruling a country. E.g. the The PRC had diplomatic relations with Britain quite soon after it was founded. Harold Wilson refused to send troops to fight in Vietnam.
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  793. 26:19 I wonder whether the Chinese PM and Lukashenko will discuss extending the highspeed railway that is being built to connect Beijing to Moscow, to Minsk? Is Belarus currently in the BRI?
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  794. 9:00 NATO says: " the expansion was because of Russian aggression." What Russian aggression are they referring to?
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  795. 11:25 You do not need a sophisticated Intelligence Agency to see who is winning and who is losing in Ukraine
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  796. 12:30 Remember Operation Paperclip? that was an example of "Western-style De-NAZIfication". After WW2, in West Germany, the Judges were left in office and so were the school teachers, so were the police and the german army was reconstituted as "The German Service Organization". West Germany did not at first have an army, but you might have been forgiven, for thinking that the GSO was not very different from an army. It had tanks, for example.
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  797. Would start to fix the problem.
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  798. There is also the looming, potentially most important of all problems - de-dollarization.
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  799. 18:12 & for the 800+ bases abroad, I hope!
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  800. 47:20 It was not so much Churchill that saved the day in the Battle of Britain, though he undoubtedly played a part, (Not always a positive part, mind!) as the likes of De Haviland, Rolls-Royce and Hawker-Siddley who had been developing fighter aircraft without much help from the government, all through the period of appeasement under Chamberlain.
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  801. 22:57 I think this unwillingness to "engage in military activities in a foreign country" is very interesting and probably reflects the far higher level of political consciousness of the Russian military. Less of the "My country right or wrong!" or "I don't think, I just obey orders." than you would find in the British military.
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  802. 40:39 Unless I am mistaken, the original Olympic games, were intended to bring together the athletes of the warring states, in friendly competition.
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  803.  Bewlay Brother  Absolutely not true! "Dpleted Uranium" is not as radioactive as undepleted uranium but it is still radioactive. The ash from DU ammunition is still producing hideous deformities in Iraqi and Serbian babies and will do so for many, many generations to come.
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  804. 46:47 "Aggressively" in the vocabulary of these people, means that the people so described, will not knucle under when commanded to do so.
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  805.  @annemurphy9339  Look for a documentary called "Died Suddenly".
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  806. 4:15 Thank you for using "Right wing" in, what I regard as, the "proper" way! (Tory, reactionary, hard anti-working class, anti Russian, anti Chinese, etc.)
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  807. This is a "Democracy" to go with the "Rules Based International Order".!
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  808. 43:00 It occurs to me to wonder, seeing that Britain has run out of self-propelled Howitzers, would it even be possible for the UK to make some more? Do we still have the machinery, raw materials, the people to do the iron and steel production? Do we have the skilled mechanics, engineers, metallurgists, inspectors, foundry workers to do such work? I think it might be difficult. Then again, could we get the alloying elements needed to make the requisite steels?
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  809. 1;09:51 No it does not go back the end of the cold war. It goes right back to the end of WW2. The US has never given up on, its ambition of defeating and then dismembering the USSR/Russia. Even before the end of WW2, the Manhattan Project was really about that! Churchill dreamed up Operation Unthinkable, and just before the end of the war, proposed it to his generals who, fortunately, turned it down as they feared it would spark a mutiny.
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  810. Ursula is Macron's handler?
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  811. 22:58 "One of the most mendacious statements". . . . What? More mendacious than Rishi Sunak's speech outside No.10 the other day? Boy!
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  812. A reason for a more immediate call-up is fears about how the CW will react to a Ukrainian defeat. Will they accept it and negotiate or will they panic and launch all the strength they have left to overcome their overwhelming fears about a Russian victory? As you say, the WoWs have no reverse gear and given a Ukrainian defeat perhaps they will simply double down and throw in all their remaining strength to try to reverse their defeat? I haven't expressed that very well but perhaps you can understand what I am thinking.
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  813. 16:53 If by some remote chance the aides of the Iranian President and members of the IRGC or people pretending to be such, did in fact tell the Daily Telegraph correspondent this story; my guess would be that they did so in an effort to reduce the credibility of the DT to Zero.
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  814. Two very interesting clips! What a display of hypocrisy! I hope the PM was at least a bit shaken up by being caught in the open like that! I wonder if that exchange will feature on the BBC? (Fat chance!)
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  815.  @bbasleigh6149  As far as I know, no country's population/electorate has ever been asked if they want their country to be in NATO.
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  816. 19:27 Maybe the mines themselves are not prohibited, but IIRC, probably, flooding areas containing civilians is.
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  817. 34:00 You two are the nearest approach to an impartial news service that I have come across.
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  818. Well, that could be because, unlike Gonzalo Lira, Navalny was not an MI6 asset, which, according to Larry Johnson (Ex-CIA), Navalny was.
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  819. 4:10 Note too that none of the military applauded.
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  820. 9:38 We are in a time of what is, I believe, called a state of "meta-stability", (in Europe) i.e. a state which in fact, although not moving much at the moment, is poised to move a very great deal. You know, like, say, the East Coast of Norfolk, UK, where every now and then a huge chunk of cliff collapses into the sea.
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  821. 22:22 Perhaps one could say that Ukraine is a "Virtual Democracy"*. Therefore it holds "Virtual Elections"* as a result of which, Elensky is "VirtuallyElected"* as "Virtual President"*. *Newly invented terms to cover a need.
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  822. I would just ask, in what way was Russia a threat to the US? Was it threatening to invade North America? No it wasn't. Was it threatening to invade Western or even Eastern Europe? No. It wasn't. It wanted to discuss a settlement that would "give everyone in Erope security"! Boy! Oh Boy! How's that for a threat? It said that it could not tolerate having Ukraine in Neightoe and would not allow that, as it would mean that nuclear missiles could be fired from Ukraine and reach Moscow in a few minutes. (The same reason the US would not tolerate Soviet missiles in Cuba. Remember that?) It said that in 2008 and again in 2014. Why was it so "All fire" important to the "Security of the US" that Ukraine be in Neightoe?
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  823. 8:56 ISIS was founded by CIA.
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  824.  @skiptastic1000  Says who?
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  825. Probably, the weapons that can't get to Odessa are also important.
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  826. 1:20 The type of soil around Melitopol will have an effect on the fighting, only if, the fighting is around Melitopol! If the fighting is in the chernozerm area, then the weather there will be what is important.
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  827. What is widely not understood is this: the Pal*stinians had the J*ws thrust into what they regarded as their homeland, whether they liked it or not. Unsurprisingly, they objected and they formed various resistance movements. Eventually many of these groups merged into one secular organization which called itself "The Pal*stine Liberation Organization" (The PLO.) This organization had the support of left-wing organizations and parties throughout the World and it was opposed by Isra*l and the USA. In order to discredit the Pal*stinian liberation Organization and the Pal*stinians in general, the CIA set up the rival organization, Ham*s, which being overtly religious and super militant, attracted, particularly, Isl*mic militants. This scheme has been very successful.
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  828. 20:44 "Critical US Support for Ukraine" Which as All The World can see, has reduced Ukraine to a smoking shell of its former self!
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  829. 1:01:50 The capacity to analyse correctly probably still exists. It seems however, that the tendency to "tailor" the information to match the information to what the boss wants to hear, is stronger now than it ever was in the past. It was, afterall, glaringly evident when the Iraqis were accused of developing all sorts of terrifying WMD. People like Scott Riter and others told the administration what the facts were, but they were rejected and highly "selected" sources who told the story the administration wanted to hear, were preferred. The same was evident, in the N@0 assessments of the Russian military before the SMO.
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  830. 11:18 Yes I think those plans were drawn up in advance, but I also think that whoever did the planning, really messed up! It seems that these plans were drawn up, not on the basis of real, solid information, but on the basis of propaganda memes and wishful thinking.
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  831. 30:53 Two similies occur to me: A smash&grab raider robbs a jeweller's shop and takes the loot to a bank in the same street and offers it as security for a loan. Or, someone deposits his life's savings with another who offers to pay interest on it and then, subsequently, refuses to either pay interest or pay the money back, but instead, takes it to a bank and offers the other's life's savings as collateral for a loan, explicitly intending to spend it on his Boyfriend! I would have thought that in order to get this extremely risky scheme to fly, it would be necessary to offer very large returns, but that does not seem to be the case. What would be in it for people that bought these bonds?
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  832. Calling this trouble in the US a "Cancer" seems to me to be a very good analogy.. It is embedded deeply in the substance of the US, in the central nervous system if you like. It further resembles a cancer in that as time goes on it takes more and more of the substance of the US, more of its lifeblood, if you like. It is also a very hard thing to break into, because it is circular in nature and very self-protective. I am sure that if anyone were seriously to threaten this cancer, their life would be in danger. The flow of money in it is circular but it all eventually comes from outside the cancer which consumes, but produces absolutely nothing , but trouble. Being a vicious circle (A very vicious circle!), you cannot "start at the beginning", because there is no "beginning". So let's start with the Arms industry and the MIC. This is a series of very large companies and thousands of little companies that supply the big companies and their plants are spread in every state of the union. They all ultimately depend to a large extent, on orders from the USG. These orders are all more or less authorized, approved by or passed by or ignored by congress. The companies employ lobbyists to find out who will support the government in ordering large amounts of expensive equipment or expensive research from the MIC. The members of congress want the companies to prosper, because they provide relatively stable and well-paid work in their constituencies. As most of them have investments in the companies of the MIC they also like the fact that when these companies prosper, they themselves, receive large dividends from them. If a member of congress happens to land a position on a committee which has influence on what orders are placed with the MIC, when they retire, they will probably be offered a sinecure position on the board of one or more of these companies. When they are up for election, they will be given campaign contributions if they promise to support the arms program and if they do not so promise, their opponents will be given campaign contributions to run against them. The money that the lobbyists contribute, of course, comes from the companies of the MIC. Thus the circle is completed. For the people on the inside of this circle it is a very satisfactory set-up. For those on the outside it is really like a cancer in the body-politic.
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  833. Alex, have you ever read "the Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carrol? I think you would enjoy it. There are so many parallel situation in today's politics.
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  834. 2:45 I think it is characteristic of reactionaries that they are fixated on material things, on financial values on , gold and silver and Land, and consistently, undervalue people and ideas, but particularly "ordinary" people. As Edward III said in the film "Greatheart", "There's plenty more where they came from!"
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  835. Jens also said that: "It is up to Mr and Mrs Punch to decide on a compromise between them. It is clearly not our business to interfere in a domestic quarrel!"
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  836. It looks to me as though Europe's best plan would be to elect new, "right-wing" governments, and then to go to the Russians and say something along the lines of : "We are new governments, we repudiate absolutely, the policies that our predessors were following . We would like to re-establish reasonable relations to you and to start with, we would like to negotiate a security architecture to give everyone peace of mind and then we can go on to re-establish mutually benficial commercial relations. How about it?" (It won't happen, of course!)
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  837. 22:33 They could knock out the spy sattelites.
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  838. Whhy else would they, would anyone, train Nazis? It's not just Germany!
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  839. If the USAmericans settle for a permanent peace in Europe, that will be a first! Usually, for the last 70 years at least, they have finished one aggression, only to start on the next one, with hardly a break in between.
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  840. I would not call this "statesmanship" by the US over the last few year; "Outstanding". I think the word "Egregious" would be nearer the mark! I cannot remember a more extraordinarily ham-fisted disply of incompetence and amateurism, the way US establishment has simultaneously tried to split the Russians and the Chinese apart and, at the same time attacked them, in all sorts of different ways! At the same time, they have managed to alienate, all but their closest associates, by embracing wholeheartedly, the genocidal activities of their closest ally, Israel. Even some, who have been pretty closely associated with the US, even to the extent of ignoring the interests of their own countries to follow the US lead, such as the "G-7" have found it impossible to offer open support to the US's stance on the War in Gaza. As though this were not enough, they having frozen the assets of Iran, Venezuela and Afghanistan, they gave, or rather made the British give, without the slightest legal justification, the Venezuelan gold reserves to their puppet Juan Guaido and then to cap it all, are now busy trying to find a "legal" loophole, which would allow them "legally" to steal Russia's reserves which were left in their "safe-keeping". All this when they are drowning in debt and an economic downturn, complicated by a strengthening dollar.
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  841. 21:12 This report comes from an American source. So, It could be wishful thinking. It could be an attempt to sow suspicion between Putin and Gerasimov or it could be an attempt to discredit Sy Hersh.
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  842. 33:58 The Swiss banking system may be rescued by the advent of the BRICS currency. I.e. the destruction of the Petrodollar. (BTW, what is the unit of BRICS currency called? The Brick? The Gold Brick?)
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  843. 7:47 In WW2, if I understand correctly, the Russians set a trap in Kursk for the Germans, believimg that the Germans particularly liked to attack. Could this be something of the same sort?
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  844. One might ask why the USG is worried about the fate of Pannun. The excuse that "he was a citizen of the US" does not wash. Gonzalo Lira was also a citzen of the US, but when he was murdered by the Ukrainian government the USG protested not a word!
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  845. No! Conscription in Britain ended a few months after I was demobilised, which happened in February 1956.
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  846. 13:57 Anyone would think that Putin had been watching you and Alexander!
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  847. At the present moment Putin is also facing an adversary, who is not interested in compromise. An adversary, moreover, that seems to want, not one but three(or more) wars at once!
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  848. 17:13 Very interested to hear about this book telling people that if they thought something hard enough and with sufficient faith, it would happen. I had the misfortune to go into business with someone who had this idea. It took me months to realize that this was his thinking and it nearly bankrupted both of us. I did not know of this book until just now, but it explains a lot. Twenty years ago, hmm, this happened about thirty years ago.
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  849. 42:12 It shows a total devotion to Israel rather than the United States or to International law. It shows a complete disregard for the fact that these bombs are wanted to carry out a genocide!
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  850. 35:25 The Grinding down approach has the merit that while the Ukraine army fights, it is using up the CW's stock of weapons at an extraordinary rate. It is using these weapons profligately, probably faster than better trained troops would and, probably, with less effect than better trained troops would. If this goes on much longer, the CW's arsenals are going to be so depleted that they will not be able to sustain US or UK or French or German "boots on the Ground. (BotG). To sustain a war effort (and particularly if you are at the same time building ships as fast as you can) you need steel, lots and lots of it and not just any old steel either. You need alloy steel and for that you need, in addition to iron, nickel, chromium, vanadium, manganese and I dare say other, more exotic components. You will also need lots of titanium, copper, tin and aluminium. You would also need uranium for electricity, and for driving submarines. Most of the iron foundries and steel mills that used to be in Germany, the US and the UK have migrated to China. Steel comes, I believe, mostly from China these days. The UK used to make iron and steel but most of that industry was closed down by Thatcher. The aluminium mostly comes from Russia as does most of the titanium. Some, at least of the European plants making aluminium have closed down for lack of cheap Russian gas. So you would have to make do with the output of Iceland and Norway (and Canada?) Uranium also comes from Russia. You would also need a lot of oil, for fuel, for lubrication and to make plastics. My impression is that most plastics these days, come from China and, of course, oil can be a bit of a problem! It all looks like a logistical nightmare to me.
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  851. 35:46 Ruling classes envy Aparteid states!
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  852. 5:26 Once again, you are engaging in double-talk. The Europeans and America stopped buying Russian natural gas and oil as they said they wanted to "not fund Putin's war against Ukraine." So how can you blame Russia, for the shortage of gas in Europe? It is a "Voluntary Misfortune" to say the least!
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  853. 5:03 When the "Someone" mentioned below, blew - up the Nordstream Piplenes, they released a really enormous quantity of methane, a very powerful "Greenhouse Gas", into the atmosphere with no apparent worry about any effect it might cause.
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  854. 16:33 What would it do to the US's stocks of ammunition and armoured vehicles if it got into a war in the Middle East?
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  855. 26:00 Seeing that Israel has never recognised its own borders it is a bit difficult to define victory!
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  856.  @markcepeda8144  According to the UN (And everybody else who is telling the truth.) Geogia attacked the Russians, because they (Sackashvilii) thought Neightoe would back them up.
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  857.  @kahnfatman  Nice pun! Schönes Wortspiel
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  858.  @LetsEndHumanity  Explain what you mean.
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  859.  @user-ow1bn6qv8q  This is a vague allegation. Justify it, if you want to be credible. Are you by any chance implying that there is anything untrue, in what I said? If so, kindly point it out.
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  860. 5:16 IIRC the Red sea project was called "Operation Prosperity Guardian".
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  861. Wrong! Peace is the biggest threat to the US MIC. The US MIC is the biggest threat to humanity, by far.
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  862. The US even requires Cuban medical doctors to go to school in the US and pass exams, before they can practice in the US, in spite of the fact that the Cuban training is superior to the US training.
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  863. 1:00:01 What do you think the effect will be on the Israeli soldiers, of fighting in a built-up area where the inhabitants, men, women and particularly children are, deprived, by the soldiers' superiors, of the essentilas of life? Not to put too fine a point on it, are starving to death. Some of them I imagine will crack, I just wonder how many? And what they will do?
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  864. Anent the difference in views between the officer and the maintenance squaddie, as to the simplicity of the job, of maintaining a Challenger tank II, in the field, i.e. in Ukraine: there is was story that was current during my NS, that one of the questions that an officer in training in Sandhurst was asked was : "You have a platoon of thirty men , two corporals and a sergeant and materials to build a bridge. You are faced with, you have arrived on, the banks of a swift-flowing river, 30 metres wide of unknown depth. What should your first order be?" Correct answer: "Carry on Sergeant!"
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  865. Very interesting and pertinent observation! I had never thought about that, but now you mention it, it is obviously true.
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  866. 1:27:38 The Russian have had the experience of settling down Chechnia after a very damaging war, maybe they can apply what they learned from that to the Western parts of Ukraine? (If they can stop the CIA meddling!)
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  867. 1:21:26 Note also the irony that the US having put a verbot on the importation of Xinjiang cotton, is now complaininng that the Chinese are supplying it to Russia to make gun-cotton! (Nitrocellulose.)
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  868. 5:56 Perhaps it is that Sunak does not feel the same need for publicity that Truss and BoJo felt? Simply a difference in personal style? I don't know, I'm only guessing.
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  869. It is commonly said by people who know both countries: that in China if you complain about government nothing happens but if you complain about policies they can and usually do change. In the USA, by contrast, you can change the government, but the policies stay the same.
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  870. Gonzalo Lira.
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  871. I think the WEF is one of the most sinister organizations in the World. "Rebuilding trust"? Rebuilding trust in what? The medical establishment? The medical journals? The Ministry of Health? The CDC? Dr Fauci? Science? mRNA technology? Good Question!
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  872. 21:41 In the West, you could not have such a factory set up and ready to start producing, say, shells, because it would be privately owned. That would mean that the accountants and the shareholders would be complaining that it was non-working capital, tied up in a non-productive way. It would either have to be used for something else or it would have to be written off and scrapped and the factory used for something else or sold to a, preferably, non-competing company. Anyway, idle plant in private industry, is regarded as a waste of capital. This is why the west has too little ammunition and very little chance of making much more any time soon. In addition, I suspect that shells are relatively unprofitable and making state-of-the-art weapons pays many times better. So making shells has been neglected, and the factories that made them have been sold off for office building or some much more profitable activity such as financing car purchases.
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  873. 30:21 Listening to Alexander's description of "Plan B": it seems to be, absolutely, tailor-made for the likes of Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan and Biden!
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  874. 1:01:14 I wonder if General Brown is sure that it was General Saluzhny and not Vovan or Lexis?
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  875. 4:02 Time to end the war in the typical US fashion: Declare a victory and walk away.
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  876. 21:40 One might also ask, when it was that NATO ever defended anything or anybody against an attack?
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  877. 51:43 It is no longer the case that one needs "to defeat Russia", because Russia is not isolated. China, Iran and North Korea can all see that they would be next, or nexr but one or two. (So could India, if they were not so arrogant) Since the faiure in Ukraine the whole enterprise looks more and more like a sick fantasy.
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  878. 27:55 It is my understanding that the Iranians have been working on their own air-defense systems for some years now. Remeber, that some time ago now, they shot down a very expensive US spy-drone and spared the US manned spy plane that came into their airspace with it. It may well be that the techniques for using the two systems are similar, which should make it easier to train Iranian technicians to operate the Russian system.
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  879. 17:30 Maybe Shoigu was counting the attack drones rather than the little reconnaissance drones.
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  880. I don't always completely agree with you, but this video is 100% correct. Very good analysis.
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  881. 10:35 About the secret sauce: When I was a child, ladies who wanted to visit the bathroom, would excuse themselves with the words that they "needed to powder their nose". Just saying!
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  882. Talking about "Good Dude - Bad Dude" transformations: look into "OPERATION UNTHINKABLE" and how the Greek partizans, who were heroic allies of the British and Americans all through WW2, became Enemies as soon as the Germans were defeated and how the Brits and Americans teamed up with the N*ZIs to install a fascist regime in Greece. Look into the murky history of how the British MI6 cooperated with the French Communists, all through the German occupation of France until a few days before D-Day, when they betrayed them to the Gestapo. Those stories are only a small part of the betrayal of "allies" of the "Good Guys".
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  883. Interesting video as usual. Thank you for your hard work. Nice to see Yerevan too. It looks like a really cool place to visit. Did you go there just to see the place, or are you going to interview someone?
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  884. 6:45 FBI and comedy. It is very noticible that there are many fewer comedy programs in e.g. the BBC than there used to be before Tony Blair. I have the impression, probably you would know better than I, that the same is true in the USA.
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  885.  @robdrew2745  He has the mental flexibility to allow the evidence to change his mind. Don't knock it. It is a rare trait!
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  886.  @jebeda  Yes. It is very hard to know just how ignorant you are, or even that you are ignorant. Ignorance is, however, unlike stupidity, largely a voluntary misfortune.
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  887. No. They are simply cutting rival economies off at the knees. Not hypocritical, they don't even say they are sorry!
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  888.  @vaska1999  No, they have not all backfired! Well, not on them on them! The sanctions on Russia have backfired on Germany and the other European countries. They stagnated the Japanese economy by forcing a currency policy on them. They cut the British down to size by forcing various economic policies on them that favoured Big US Oil companies
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  889. 3:35 Of course, they did it without the knowledge or help of the CIA!
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  890. 20:04 The sooner the Europeans disengage themselves from this anti-Russian obsession, which has enthusiastic and well funded support in Washington, the better it will be for Europe and the peace of the World. On the whole, the US control of Europe since 1945 has been a disaster in many different ways for the people of Europe.
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  891. I forget where I saw it but someone was bemoaning the complete abscence of Naval Tenders, which the US Navy scrapped some time ago, as with nuclear engines, the carriers did not need refuelling,(?) This move had, apparently, not taken account of the fact that ships need more than just fuel and lubricants. So whereas, in the past, if a carrier on station needed some more supplies, a tender would come alongside and the goods would be offloaded by the tender into the carrier, now, when the carrier runs low on supplies, of almost anything, it has to go to a naval port to be resupplied.
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  892. 0:51 Information brought to you by the same people who told you about the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was making.
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  893. 41:14 This flexibility in the Russian High Command, contrasts with what I remember from WW2 and from my NS, in the '50s. For example, the Cambridge-based instrument-making firm called "Unicam", was charged with making gun sights for the Royal Navy. All through the war, Britain was very short of copper and Unicam found an aluminium alloy that stood up to sea water just as well as the bronze that was specified for these gun sights. They built an example and took it to the War Office and asked to be allowed to substitute the bronze, by this aluminium alloy. They explained that it was very difficult to find the neccessary material for these items, but they were told that the WO was quite satisfied with the sights made in bronze and as the Colonel who had designed them had died long ago, they had no one to authorise such a change and Unicam should simply fulfill the order as best they could. In Cambridge, the Army decided to build a massive gun emplacement on the roundabout at the junction between Cherry Hinton Rd, Perne Rd and Mowbray Rd. Unfortunately, when they tried it out, they found that it had been built in slightly the wrong place! As a result, the gun could not get a clear shot down the road towards Cherry Hinton. So they cut down all the large trees on the North side of Cherry Hinton Rd. At the time Britain had an acute shortage of fuel and wood and as many of these trees were very large the local inhabitants asked that they be given these trees. The reply they got was, that the army unit doing this work had orders to burn them and that was that! And they were burnt. It took many days to complete this waste of valuable resources. I saw similar waste when my unit relocated from Italy to Germany, The Signal Platoon, had a large shed stuffed with high-tention batteries, to operate their radio sets. When we left, these were put in a roughly rectangular pile about seven metres long, four metres wide and four metres high and set on fire. I have simply no idea how much that cost the taxpayer, but it must have been quite a lot!
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  894. 8:28 Mali; just like ISIS was winning, was "unstoppable" in Syria, until the Russians came to help.
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  895. Note to Alexander: if I suddenly stop seeing you, it is not because I had lost interest, fallen ill or died, but bc I am having "unexplained" difficulties getting into yt. NGST!
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  896. 1:02:56 It sounds exactly the sort of thing the British army would do. I remember two instances of grizzled old sergeants attacking tactical decisions of young inexperienced officers who were in command of them.
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  897. Don't you think that by the end of the cold war, the MIC was very largely in control of US policy and regarded the continuation and expansion of NATO as absolutely vital?
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  898. Yes! Very interesting. Not just for space, but any mobile application of solar power, where weight matters. E.g. Solar charged electric vehicles. Power producing tents for camping in remote places. Electric thrusters for astronauts to be able to move around in space without tethers. Incidentally, I noticed in the pictures shown during your video, there were solar panels which were being automatically wiped clean. Obviously needed for rovers on other planets!
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  899. "Truly insane they are still pushing this jab on people. " That's not insanity, it's greed.
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  900. 2:06 "Is it such a big problem? Is it not feasible to provide Ukraine with the minimum request?" Yes it is a problem. There are not many of them left.
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  901. If, If, IF, ! The problem is that the opposition was underestimated, the WoWs thought that their soldiers would be able to conquer easily and they went ahead on that assumption. They WANTED a war! In the second crisis, as you have said, the "terrorists" were set up by the government. I am not at all convinced that this crisis is not an entirely "put-up-job." The really important question is : what is going to happen about the people deprived of water? Humans can last for about 40 days without food, but only if they have water. Without it they die in about eight.
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  902. That was a helpful video. Thanks. I learnt quite a lot.
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  903.  @TarquinVale-yt2xp  That's what I meant. So are many. YT has twice warned me that they think what I say is "damaging the community" though they don't explain how and then and suspended me.
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  904. No. He's a bad joke. Sinister, but at the same time pathetic.
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  905. 19:35 If Seymour Hersh is getting his information from Americans, there may be a large component of wishful thinking in it.
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  906. 4:13 I wonder where the ammunition for the wars in the Middle East is to come from?
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  907. Thinking about this incident; it occurs to me that probably the tanks he was fighting in were much lighter than Leopard 2s
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  908. 9:45 Merkel was the performer who kept all the plates spinning.
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  909. About needing more children. I read elsewhere, that populations worldwide are deficient in Zinc, which is needed for(among other things) making spermatazoa. Zinc is needed by humans in really tiny amounts and zinc is not very expensive. Surely if governments want more children they should be supplementing staple foods with zinc. No doubt there are other thing which populations are borderline dfficient in that could be similarly supplemented in staple foods. I seem to remember that during WW2 the British government put extra calcium in the "National Loaf" (the only type of bread that was on sale everywhere.).
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  910. One thing that needs to be remembered, is that almost all the tensions, disputes and conflicts that have happened in the World since 1945 have the US at their heart. Almost all the disputes, either have their origins or are grossly exacerbated, by the Warmongers in Washington, because it is profitable for them to do so. This tiny group, has wasted trillions of dollars worth of time, money and energy and untold millions of lives, in that time and all for what?
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  911. 21:45 $61 Billion to make matters in Ukraime worse than they already are.
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  912. 2:54 "In a strong response, Zelensky drew parallels between Putin and Hitler" Strong response or not, insults are not arguments. They do not move the discussion forward. Nor are they going to affect the trajectory of the war.
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  913. Thank you for this alarming video! It is useful, if alarming and almost unbelievable, to know that the "massacre of the innocents" is continuing. I wonder how long it will be before people rise up and demand that it stop and the perpetrators are held to account? How many deaths does it take?
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  914. Can someone explain to me what is the essential difference between what the N*ZIs did to the J*ws during WW2 and what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians now? Please!
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  915. A worrying development. I don't know what to make of it.
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  916. 10:00 I agree entirely with the logic of what Alex has just said, but in the West we have this habit of apointing amateurs to positions where they haven't a clue, so, maybe it will be Budanov who gets Zaluxhny's old job.
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  917. Happy Christmas to you Alex! I hope you have a very fulfilling and satisfying 2024!
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  918. 34:15 In other words, Mahmout Abass did not fancy being given a poisoned chalice, that made him look like the US's puppet. What a surprize! The US admin must have thought that he had been asleep since 1948.
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  919. 30:25 Victoria Nuland, I was interested to learn yesterday, that VN, as a child/young woman frequented Ukrainian exile N*ZI camps in the wilds of the USA.
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  920. 23:33 It sounds a bit analogous to the action of Sakashvili. Macron should remember how vigerous the US's response to his plea for help was.
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  921. No kids. Maybe he could send his boy friend?
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  922. When the USSR collapsed there was a referendum held in Moldova that voted to stay in the RF. It was ignored.
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  923. 20:57 The Times of London is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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  924. A clown show in very poor taste!
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  925. 23:25 The US policy is made by a relatively small clique. Their financial strength comes primarily from the arms industry. The desire for arms, comes from the "America First and everybody else nowhere" policy. So this policy is good for the finances of this Clique.
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  926. I found this in Yahoo today. From the Telegraph, 27/2/24@ “If you are a Nato and EU member, by definition and by the very nature of this membership you have to support Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion,” Mr Tusk told reporters. “ Seems to be a split in the polish government.
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  927. 28:00 Both cactuses and cacti, (Pronounced cactee or cactai) are all "correct". Anyone who says otherwise is a snob!
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  928. 25:39 You could take your speculation one step further and suggest that the Israelis, perhaps, worked all this out before they planted the bomb, or whatever it was that caused the crash, in Raisi's helicopter.
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  929. "Why all of a sudden Malyuk decided to.." Confession is good for the soul!
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  930. 10:13 The research in question was not started in Wuhan, but was pursued for some years previously, in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Laboratory. It was moved out of there to Wuhan, when the USG decided it was too dangerous and was it supposed to be closed down, but Dr Fauci and others arranged for the research to be continued in Wuhan. I think it likely the Chinese agreed to this, thinking "we might as well know what is going on in the US Research into bioweapons, which this could well be". Particularly, as they had well-grounded suspicions that SARS, swine 'flu and Bird 'flu had been previous bio-weapon attacks on their agriculture. One of the funders of the research was the US Department of Defense and one of their laboratories was closed down for endangering public safety in late July or early August 2019. So yes, I should think it very probable that it was a lab-leak but I feel quite unsure which lab it was that leaked!
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  931.  @jamesvalpuesta  Join the club!
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  932. 11:00 Price cap? It isn't as though countries that need oil can do without it, while waiting for the price to go down!
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  933. Insurance is a profitable business. Forcing shipper carrying Russian oil to insure outside the CW is just "Lifting a Rock, only to drop it on your own toes." as the Chinese say, or "shooting yourself in the foot" as the Anglophone have it. Actually, I think the Chinese is more apt as the Anglphone expression dates back to WW1, where it was a means of getting out of the front line. The Chinese expression is descriptive of a failure to think ahead.
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  934. 29:59 And to add to their worries; yesterday the US navy shot down a Chinese helicopter, that came too near to one of their ships, killing the pilot and destroying the helicopter.
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  935.  @deutzallis6497  Commiseration to your uncle. Unfortunately a very common story.
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  936. 37:04 Not to forget that because Israel and the US are so closely linked, the damage to Israel's reputation caused by its behaviour in Gaza, carries over into damage to the US's Worldwide reputation also.
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  937. Well, Certain it is that with Kier Starmer at the head of Labour, voting Labour is no different to voting Conservative! I don't really know what the reform party platform is but it can hardly be worse that the current policies. However, the Party Platform as seen on the internet is a very skeletal document at the moment. It will be interesting to see what their policies are when it is fleshed out a bit!
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  938. 1:19:35 I should think that the letter from the five powers to Iran, was written the way it was, because it was written in Tel Aviv and just signed by the UK, France, Germany and Italy, because they were told to sign it by the US.
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  939. 31:31 "Pavel was a cold war communist" A real communist I used to know, once said to me when I mentioned that Prof. Rienäcker was a communistÖ "What youhave to understand, Tonz, is that there are Communists and then there are Party Members."
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  940. The importance of this statement by Reznikov is, simply that it unequivocally contradicts, repeated statements out of the West, that "Russia is attacking Ukraine", without reason, without justification. Multiple statements that "The Russians have No Reason to attack Ukraine" and so on and so forth. The Media war is an important part of this war, particularly in the Collective West, and that is what gives this statement, by a Ukrainian Minister of government, its importance, which, Emil, I agree, comes as no surprise to me or you!
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  941.  @FannyBunny  And Syrian Arab children?
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  942. Cut out sugar and starch, your missing calories with fat(Real fat, that is, butter, lard, tallow, muttonfat, coconut oil.) and try a few 24hr fasts and you will be astonished how easily you get rid of excess fat!
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  943. If we had a useful WHO, they should be ecouraging people, particularly poor people in Asia, to grow and eat carrots. They grow easily and grow quite quickly. They have not objectionable taste. As far as I know no religion objects to carrots!
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  944. Well said Scott! I went to China a long time ago (years before Nixon) and I could see then, that it was on th up & up, I had the first impression that everything was upside down, but later I formed the view that common sense was in control to an extent I had never experienced in the West.
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  945. How about this for Biden? For whenever the anger of divine spirits harms someone, it first does this: it steals away his mind and good sense, and turns his thought to foolishness, so that he should know nothing of his mistakes. Attributed to "some of the old poets" by Lycurgus of Athens in his Oratio In Leocratem [Oration Against Leocrates], section 92. Again, the meter suggests that the source is a tragic play. These lines are misattributed to the much earlier semi-mythical statesman Lycurgus of Sparta in a footnote of recent editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and other works.
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  946. 37:10 There is also the point that any of the bomblets from the cluster munitions that fall on the western / northern side of the battle-lines will hamper the advance of the Ukrainians, if they happen.
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  947.  @jackneuman5108  I must have missed that! However, I will do it for them: The Russian-speaking Ukrainians were being subjected to a genocidal attack and asked Russia for help. Russia asked for negotiations to solve the problem which was refused/ignored by Ukraine/NATO. This left the Russian government with two "impossible" options : either stand by and watch (and be overthrown by the Russian people) or go against International Law and intervene to stop the genocide* and at the same time save Russia from having nuclear weapons stationed too close to Moscow. Given the choice which would you have chosen? *I am not even sure that intervening to stop a massacre is illegal. Tanzania intervened in Uganda to overthrow Idi Amin Dada and the UN did not complain. As far as I remember.
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  948. Yes, looking back to 1945, we had a psuedo-socialist (Labour) government, which introduced half-hearted (Deeply flawed) Nationalization measures, which were slowly unpicked by successive Conservative governments and it has really been a gradual but consistent, decline since. Britain gave a sort of Last Gasp when it defeated Argentina and the coup de grasse was given by Tony Blair. Britain, since then has, so to speak, twitched a bit and that's about all it has done. It seems to be what happens when you are "allied" with the USA.
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  949. 10:49 "They get no pushback from the West." This is following the "Rules-Based International Order" This is the application of : Rule 3. "We make the Rules and You obey them!"
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  950. One good reason for the Russians not destroying Ukrainian bridges (or anything else) is that as the victors, they will have to organize and probably finance the reconstruction of them.
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  951. There is no money to be made in reporting excess deaths at this time.
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  952. I find your podcasts informative and useful but I wish you would speak more clearly. I agree he is unusually clear (probably because he trained as a lawyer who had to convince a court as part of his job) but Alexander Mercouris is a good example of how to speak clearly, taking care of each word.
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  953. I do hope that its DU armor did not burn too!
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  954. I have experienced during my NS, several visits by the Bridier who commanded the Brigade that my regiment was in and one visit by Princess Margaret, who was, i think, our Honorary Colonel. The officers were very anxious about the vists by the Brigadier and I have the impression that they were excvited about the visit of Princess Margaret We other ranks were mostly fed up with the sudden excess of insane levels of cleaning and polishing and hiding things, that preceded these visits. We mostly regarded them as a nuisance. Some of it was quite comic. For example the lawn in front of the Officers' Mess, was considered "too brown" and was painted green for her visit. When she arrived, it was being covered in snow by Mother Nature. The brigadiers, were very interested in everything but Princess Margaret looked more bored, than anyone I can remember seeing before or since.
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  955. 55:28 No! It is NOT a problem of convincing the Russians of anything! The Russians clearly understand the problem, it is the USAmericans who do not understand that it is their conception of themselves that is THE PROBLEM! There is no chance for a sustainable World Peace until the whole war making machine in the US is dismantled and thrown in the dustbin of history.
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  956.  @davidwong325  Sounds about par for the course! Got to protect big pharma!
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  957. On D-Day Zelensky was not even so much as a twinkle in his father's eye!
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  958. 1834 Western parliaments could never reach out to the Russian parliaments as that would mean recognosing (contrary to Sacred Dogma) that Russia ia not a Dictatorship, but a parliamentary democracy! That is unthinkable!
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  959. Russia is not  @olsaffa7679  " "defending" itself against Ukraine?" it is "defending itself against the USA and its satraps"!
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  960. 9:57 Far and away the most important thing about BRICS is that it limits or eliminates the US's ability to impose effective sanctions on other countries. The second most important effect is to enable the countries to borrow from each other without the crippling politico-economic conditions usually imposed by e.g. the World Bank or the IMF.
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  961. 1:09:05 Probably, at thiis point, all the skilled operators of construction machinery, have long since been called up and killed or wounded.
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  962. I think the Chinese opposition to the Roman Catholic Church goes back a long way. I do not know which Emperor it was, that asked a Cardinal who had been sent to China to negotiate better treatment for RC missionaries than they had been getting: "The head of your Church, the Pope, is a very powerful ruler?" "Yes, he is!" replied the Cardinal, as one might expect. "And in a dispute between the Roman Catholic Church and a local ruler, for I understand that you have churches all over the World, would the followers of your faith side with the Pope or with the local ruler?" I am not sure how the Cardinal tried to wriggle out of saying that the Roman Catholics are morally bound to prefer martyrdom to going against the orders of the Pope, but the upshot was that the Emperor said: "Well, why should I want such an organization of traitors in my domains?"
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  963. Zelensky does not need to worry! Kaja Kallas, PM of Estonia, says her country will bring Russia to its knees for you.
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  964. 12:17 Yesterday I saw a video made by a man who said he had invented the World's best mouse trap. He had covered the mouth of a plastic bucket with a transparent plastic film. He then cut a little hole in the middle of the film and put some grain in the bucket. He put two little ladders (Mouse-sized ladders) to help the mice climb up to the film surface, set up his camera and went away. After a while some mice came and investigated this thing. A couple of them climbed up the ladders and looked down at the bottom of the bucket and saw the grain. They found the hole and jumped down to get the grain. Other mice noticed and followed them. Then crowds of mice arrived and followed the first ones. Then more and more and more came and jumped into the bucket, until it was almost full! Watching them, I was struck by how like people they were.
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  965. Making such shells should be made (If it isn't already.) a crime against Humanity.
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  966.  @Finlandlover-p7q  What makes you think they want to capture a Ukrainian village? It was not one of the aims told by Putin in Feb 2022.
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  967. 33:40 It would be fascinating to have Vova & Lexis on the Duran!
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  968.  @nusaibahibraheem8183  Probably.
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  969. Could I appeal to Dr Campbell to talk to the African Union about this? I should think they might well listen to him.
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  970. You are right, absolutely, about the language.
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  971. I read a story about a remote village where everybody except one old couple had been lifted out of poverty and the local Communist party put their heads together and discussed what to do. Then, they went to this couple and asked : "Are you on the internet?" When they replied that they were, the poverty alleviation official said: "Well I have a proposal to help you get out of poverty. If you go up the mountain behind your house, a few hundred metres, you will find ginger growing wild there. Go up there and pick some and bring it back here and advertize it on the internet. We'll give you paper and string to get started and the postman will take it for you. We think it will sell well. Try it and let us know how you get on. This solved the problem. The couple are now resonably prosperous. It is this sort of imaginative approach to problems that seems to me, to be typical of the Chines Communist Party.
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  972. 1:02:58 Attacking the Radars that warn of incoming nuclear missile is like Russia attacking Menwith Hill Radar station.
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  973. 32:03 There is a Russian interest in keeping the war going; insofar as the war is draining NATO's stockpiles of weapons and ammunition. It is also, at long last, killing large numbers of Banderites.
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  974. Even the reall, really stupid can recognise sh*t when their nose gets rubbed in it.
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  975. 1:03:09 It sounds to me, rather like a phrase used by a famous psychiartrist describing a type of neurotic behaviour, where peole get fixated on getting revenge on people that have slighted them: she called it a search fo a "Vindictive Truimph". This seems to describe the real motivation for destroying the Kerch Bridge.
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  976. 1028 Don't forget that Ursula is "being investigsted" in connection with allegations of Corruption over her dealings with Big Pharma and the Coof pandemic. This is, I think, Part of a huge scandal which is still under wraps but is likely to grow.
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  977. 16:52 You would also need to change the educational system, the Health Care system the infrastructure and all the rest or the newly imported industries would rapidly develop the same problems as beset the US's existing industries.
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  978. 18:23 This "Debt Trap" is a very popular argument in Western circles, it is, however, very hard to find examples of the Chinese doing it.
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  979. Sweden has been "non-aligned" for a long time. The change represented by Sweden's accession to N@0 is really the emergence of reallity from the fog of diplomacy. (As illustrated by the Sy Hersh accounr of the NS pipeline sabotage.)
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  980. 1:05:35 Do you suppose that after all the Israelis have done to the Palestinians, over the years and in this present war, the Palestinians themselves and the wider Muslim public, are going to be satisfied with an Israeli offer of a ceasefire? And, then presumably, a return to more or less, the status quo ante? Personally, I would be surprised.
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  981. 15:50 "They were decimated" No. They were not 'decimated', they were largely destroyed. "Decimated" means they lost 10%. Hence the word.
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  982. 18:00 The Saudis have gone over to the other side too!
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  983. I have read somewhere in the last few days, that the Russians have accepted not rupees in payment, but rubies.
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  984. "A warehouse which covers 6,000 square meters. Six kilometers. It's a huge fire." Yes, no doubt it is, but you are muddling up area measurements and linear measurements again. "6,000 square meters = 0.006 square kilometers" The point being, that there are one million square metres in one square kilometre. IOW, "six kilometres" ain't got nuttin to div it, baby.
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  985. 21:24 Tanklets?
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  986.  @Anonymous------  No I didn't. I said what I meant, The Chinese Communist Part set up a university while they were still fighting the Japanese. One at least, in Yenan. I
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  987. 25:12 And the US seems intent on getting itself into deeper trouble in the Indo-Pacific region too!.
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  988. 11:50 Russian troops encircling Bachmut will have to fight not only the Ukrainian troops inside Bachmut, but also the Ukrainian forces outside, to the the west of them.
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  989. It's called a "Turntable". .
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  990. 11:08 Why does it matter to the US whether they are top dog or merely a large economy in a world of large economies? After all, it is only a few years before Indonesia, Brazil, India and China are going to be large economies comparable to the USA. (Unless they think that they can keep them all down, simultaneously!) If Ukraine shows anything at all, it is that the US Empire, as an Empire, is on its last legs. They need too, to work out how to live in a world economy where the petrodollar is no more. Time to make arrangements to adjust to the new reality, but of course they won't.
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  991. Meanwhile, at least until he is free, stop lecturing other countries about "Human Rights"!
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  992. 1:16:30 There is an additional factor which as far as I am aware, has not impacted any previous US presidential election and that is a huge, complex looming financial crisis. Both a huge debt and de-dollarization, the breakdown of the petro-dollar and the collapse of the sytem of countries exchanging their earned dollars for treasury bills.
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  993. The lack of weapons-making capacity made perfect sense, so long as the West did not instigate a conflict. Russia, China and Iran had no intention of starting a conflict. The lack of Weapons-making capacity (WMC) was covered up to disguise the fact that the chief product of the Arms industry was profits for the shareholders and officers of the Big Arms Companies such as Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon + a number of extremely expensive products for show and export. As to "a staggering dereliction of duty and incompetance." you have to realise that as capitalist enterprises, WMCs are primarily responsible to their shareholders, not to the customers and not to the environment or the country. This is one good reason, why all such enterprises should be nationalized or at least be under very close governmt supervision. They should not have private shareholders. One has only to look at he situation in the USA, where you have the arms industry paying lobbyists, to pay congress-critters, to vote funds for the arms industry, who pay lobbyists and shareholders and the lobbyists, etc., etc. round and round, I'm sure you get the circular nature of this relationship, the whole set-up being financed by the taxpayers, while most of the money disappears into the pockets of the shareholders. Some might call it a "Merry-go-round" though I doubt many taxpayers would.
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  994. Since 2014 until the present day, Ukraine has bee shelling civilian area in Donbas and more recently, they have been shelling civilian areas daily, in e.g. Belgorod. This, curiously enough, in spite of saying that they do not have enough artillery shells.
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  995.  @Ty-hl5jk  Ask the Ukrainians how helpful US support against Russia is.
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  996. 14:19 This Sir Ivor Roberts article sounds like WMD Mk II.
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  997. The reaction of a high fever producing an allergic reaction to anything in the stomach at the time of the fever, does not seem to depend on whether the fever is a natural reaction to an infection or is induced by a too hot environment. Dr A.J.P. Martin accidentally gave himself an allergic reaction to chocolate and biscuits by driving his temperature up to 105F by means of a hot bath (as part of an experiment he was doing) and then eating a chocolate biscuit. I also met a farmer who had accidentally given himself an allergic reaction to straw by working moving tons of straw inside a corrugated-iron shed. on a very hot day.
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  998. 50:00 The problem is not just that they grossly underestimated the Russians and the capacities of their economy and MIC, but they also grossly overestimated the power of the CW. In fact, it looks as though they spent very little time thinking about how their attack on Russia would go, or, indeed, what they would do if they succeeded. Did they imagine that the Chinese would stand idly by, while they feasted on the Russian corpse? What did they think the Chinese would do? Did they think about it? They whole thing reeks of amateurism. Not very bright amateurs either!
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  999. 1:05:25 Zelensky is not a general. His is the behaviour of an amateur who thinks he has a "natural talent for generalship" and has the power to brush off any contrary view. What really surprises me, is that all this military activity is being overseen by NATO generals, who HAVE the power to enforce their views. This can only mean, I think, that they are as incompetent as generals as he is!
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  1000. Oh NO! I can't take it! FFS! Mike Pompeo v the Forces of Darkness!! It is too much! Already!
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  1001. Never mind chemical weapons! Who provided Iraq with BIOLOGICAL weapons?
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  1002.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  A load of cobblers'.
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  1003. It occurs to me, that at the next meeting of the shareholders of Fox News, there will be a few angry questions!
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  1004. Ich auch!
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  1005. Diego Garcia, Syria, Iraq, Japan, etc., etc.
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  1006. 27:45 "His words often do not track his intentions". What a wonderful euphemism for a serial monger of terminological inexactitudes!! ROFL!
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  1007. The whole thing makes sense if you assume that the CW and Ukraine's intel worked together to carry ou the Moscow attack. It would also explain the reply of the Chief of Ukrainian Military Intel when a reporter asked him how he felt about the Moscow events, he is reported as saying that he was "Very Happy" about them.
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  1008. You think that over time the story about Lizzy's security breach will come out. I wonder how long the real story of the Skripals will take to come out? I wonder if you have any idea where they are?
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  1009. 1:11:53 Deorivation of consular services? "They're doing it me lads, to save democracy!"
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  1010.  @Lipi19821  It is fascinating how much one learns from reading the comments!
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  1011. 7:37 The behaviour of the democrats may be triggered by stress and grief. Anyway, whether or not, it reminds me of a relative whose new-born baby was dying, rapidly, of an extremely aggressive sort of cancer. He kept obsessing about the injections, the poor kid was being given by the doctors, "leaving ugly scars on the baby's arms."!
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  1012. "NATO has unlimited resources" That's not what they are telling Zelensky!
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  1013. 22:39 It might massively violate International law but it would be perfectly OK under the International Rules Based Order.!
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  1014. 13:58 At the time you were discussing, Germany had about four leading aircraft manufacturers and a similar number of leading engine designers and mfgs.
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  1015. 6:00 We did not vote for Ursula, Mario, Josip, or Christina.
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  1016. @ Stephan Buchin Yes, I expect the Europeans will manage at least in part, to correct their mistake but it has already cost them dearly and will cost them still more in future. You say the Russians are struggling to sell their oil and gas. Where is your evidence for that? As there seems to be a shortage of both I find it difficult to believe it is much of a struggle. The co-operation between OPEC and Russia is likely to keep the prices high at least for the foreseeable future. Given that China and India are not going to co-operate in the price-cap idea, I doubt that the Russians are going to suffer much if at all.
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  1017. 1:44:20 The Rules Based International Order is propaganda slogan without any factual basis. No one has ever formally defined it , for the good reason that if one did formalize it realistically it would amount to "We make the rules and you obey them; or else." Naturally, no one could possible lend their support to such a formulation, so it has to remain undefined. It has to remain as an advertising slogan. It sounds good, just so long as you don't ask, what exactly it means. The Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series December 16, 2020 has this to say about it: "The rules-based international system was constructed mostly by leading democratic allies at the end of World War II, and was deepened and expanded by many other countries over time. The system is predicated on a set of norms and principles pertaining to global security, the economy, and governance. It consists of: a set of rules encouraging peaceful, predictable, and cooperative behavior among states that is consistent with liberal values and principles; formal institutional bodies, such as the United Nations (UN) and NATO, that serve to legitimize and uphold these rules, and provide a forum to discuss and settle disputes; and the role of powerful democratic states to help preserve and defend the system. In the security realm, the system is characterized by formal alliances in Europe and Asia, in addition to rules that protect state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and place limits on the use of military force and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. In the economic domain, the rules-based system has served to promote an interconnected global economy based on free markets and open trade and finance. Finally, in the realm of governance, the rules-based system advanced democratic values and human rights. The system has never been fixed, but has evolved over time, with major periods of adaptation and expansion at major inflection points after World War II and at the end of the Cold War. Note the last sentence: "The system has never been fixed," In other words "we make it up as we go along to suit our own convenience."
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  1018. Is Musk going to be any help with this information blockage?
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  1019. This set-up is one of the most obviously corrupt that I have ever come across! The problem is that I see no chance at the moment of getting out of this totally unacceptable situation. As you say: "We don't want scams" but it seems to me that we are well and truly lumbered with this one!
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  1020. 1:10:00 I cannot say "I told you so" because in those days when the Soviet Union collapsed I could only write "letters to the editor" and nobody published my letters. However, I did draw a cartoon, with an American general saying to Gorbachov "Hang about, Mr Secretary General! Are you sure you want to go through with this idea?!"
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  1021. 29:06 I don't know if it does, but it should also label VOA, Radio Free Europe and DW as "State funded Media"
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  1022. 1:08:53 It may well be that the Russians have no plans to attack Naytoe, when they have defeated Ukraine, but they will, at that point, be in a very dominant position. I hope they will make use of that, to impose security arrangements far beyond the confines of Europe. Such an opportunity may not come again for a century or longer. Never let a good crisis go to waste!
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  1023. 7:30 I thought that last year (?) Russia exported more food than oil. Was I wrong?
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  1024. My Father was a very athletic man. Every morning he would get up and go through a set of exercises, lasting about 15 minutes. 5 days a week he would then have breakfast and walk 3.7km to work wheeling his bicycle. At lunch he would cycle home, have lunch and cycle back to work. Then in the evening he would walk home along the same route, pushing his bike. At the weekends, until he reached 55, he would go for a run of several kms. He had a great fear of doctors and hardly ever consulted them. When he was eighty and looking about 50, he suddenly fell illl and died shortly after of "Incurable" Colorectal cancer. Moral: however fit you may normally be, don't ignore symptoms on the assumption that they will go away of themselves.
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  1025. 1:10:45 A thing which comes out of your talk today, that I had not thought about before, is that the WoW DCs are completely unable to concieve a relationship between two countries like that between Russia and China! They also, it seems, believe that the only reason the Russians are able to wage successful war on NATO, is the support from China. Their thinking is founded on the idea that "Countries do not have Friends, only Interests". Given this mindset, it is logical to assume that if the new sanctions damage China, China will immediately stop supporting Russia's war on Ukraine and that will mean that Russia has to stop! Thanks to you, it now makes much more sense than it did before I listened to this video.
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  1026. What makes you think that there is a word of truth in Ukrainska Pravda?
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  1027. I's a long list: Wheat, lumber, oil, aluminium, nickel, palladium, neon, deuterium, tritium, coal....... it goes on and on. I think the trouble is that the people in power in the west have graduated in political economy or media studies, or classical history or, you know, some other non-rigorous subject where imagination is more important than logical thought, appearance is more important than substance and no automatic application of scepticism is required. Add to that there is an almost complete lack of graduates in STEM subjects and apparently, no grasp of quantities and numbers. Worse, no grasp of the old discoveries that "action and reaction are equal and opposite" and "all actions have consequences."
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  1028. 31:13 Don't forget that these "bad decisions" were made by US puppets, in Brussels and NATO and were enthusiastically cheered on by the WoWs, the Warmongers of Washinton, who thought that their proxy Ukrainian army, was going to smash the Russian forces and bring about a Regime Change in Moscow, after which, with the help of a pliant Russian Regime, they would divide up Russia, into more managable sized countries, plunder them and live happily ever after on the proceeds. To anyone that doubts this scenario, as being more that my fantasy, I would say that this idea is not a secret! It was openly put forward in the 1980s and has remained as policy ever since. It is all published. I am not making it up.
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  1029. 29:15 It still talks loud ans wave its big stick about in a very threatening manner but, the Big Stick looks a bit, er, worm-eaten.
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  1030.  @bakfixx  Yes, a joke in very bad taste!
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  1031. With any luck this codswallop will stimulate a wide discussion of Sy Hersh's report. The story of the hire of the boat in Rostock, the going to the pipelines (How did they find them, 90ft down?) and then just blowing them up, is so improbable that I imagine a lot of professional divers will be outraged by the story. Where did they get the explosives? I imagine that that much explosive would cost quite a lot. Ah well, now we know how much credence to give Die Zeit!
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  1032. 8:43 Why are the NGOs so influential? The NGOs are all backed by US Money, large amounts of US money. Mostly from the NED. These NGOs have access to the acumulated expperience and expertise of Madison Avenue, since about 1900(?) This expertise, also incorporates the work of Dr Josef Goebels. It is formidable and backed by a lot of research.
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  1033. 1:07:51 Why would the Russians be interested in talking to the US when one cannot trust anything they say? After the Minsk "Agreements" turned out to be entirely fraudulent*, there really seems to be very little point in trying to make agreements with the CW. Far better, far more rewarding, to press on with disarming the CW and deN*ZIfying the Ukrainian military. *Not just fraudulent, the people concerned were boasting about how they had fooled the Russians!
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  1034. If ever there was an Open-&-shut case, this is it! They could have made an interim cease and desist order couldn't they?
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  1035. 13:37 The reason the US military "wants to resume conversation with the Chinese military" just at the moment, is in my cynical view, because it is out of ammunition. It will need to build up stocks, after the debacle in Ukraine which has used up most of the CW's ammunition, before it is in any position to fight with the Chinese.
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  1036. 15:08 What this situation suggests to me is that the CW has generals, who have gained their warfighting experience fighting militarily inferior armies or irregular troops, without heavy equipment, They also strike me as being rather ignorant of military history and not deep thinkers. For example, they seem to have gone into the Ukraine-Russia war without thinking about the extent of their stockpiles or accurate information about the Russian military and their stockpiles. This even suggests, that they had not read "The Art of War" by Sun Tse!
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  1037. 11:50 It seems that the trouble with the Kiev government is that it cannot take a hint.
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  1038. Am I right in thinking that the reason that prices, at least in the CW, always go up and almost never go down is that money is always borroed from the bankers at interest? This system, it seems to me is continually creating more moneyand more debt and there is never enough money to pay back all the debt, so that the price, initially of houses and then of everything else, has to go up because everything has to cost more to try to get enough money to repay the debts. If that is right, then the solution has to be, to abolish private banks and hand over their essential functions to the Treasury department of the government. (?)
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  1039. 31:47 The Israeli ex-PM Bennet says that the Ukrainian Defense Minister told him that the Ukrainian army had lost 257.000 men KIA in the war to date. This was according to an Indian video.
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  1040. 1:27:25 I have seen a number of videos recently, made by US visitors to China, who are taken aback by the fact that it seems to them, to be far more "Modern" than the US.
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  1041. 34:50 I wonder how far the "Idiocy" of the current crop of Western leaders is innate or is it induced by blackmail, bribery or personal greed? If it is none of these, what causes them to, all (Except Orban, Fico and Vucic) behave in this fashion?
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  1042. To my mind, the Biggest Threat to Humanity by a long way is the group of Warmongers of Washington. (WoWs)
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  1043. 18:40 "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" (Muhamid Ali)
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  1044. What does "Right-wing" mean these days. As an old fogey I feel confused. When I became interested in politics the "far right" was the dominant party in Germany and the "far left" was the party in the USSR (or King St.), Now that seems (to me) to have been turned on its head!
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  1045.  @carolynzaremba5469  As a Christian priest once said to me "The essence of religion is Faith." No doubt, he was right. But "Faith" is the belief in things that cannot be proved. (If you can prove something there is no need for faith to believe in it.) So, establishing a religion is establishing at least, some irrational thinking and it is thin end of a wedge. Once a wedge has been inserted, all sorts of irrational thinking can be shoved in behind it!
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  1046. Democracy is supposed to be "government of the people by the people", A populist is a person or party that "wants to do what the population wants." So, it seems to me that using the term "Populist" in a denigratory or dismissive sense is essentially Anti-Democratic.
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  1047. 34:30 Take heart! Quite a lot of churches in England and Europe took hundreds of years to complete. I think Milan Cathedral took more than 100 years to finish.
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  1048. 42:15 "I don't know where he's getting his figure of twelve months from" Any confident prediction of the future more than a few seconds distant, is drawn from the speaker's ar*e. You can bank on it.
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  1049. 38:00 I would guess that the surrounded Russian paratroopers had heard the accounts of Ukrainians castrating Russian POWs.
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  1050. You are implying that the debt that Sri Lanka owed was to China but was it? I think most of it was to the IMF. The same with the debt that Male owes. To whom does it owe this debt?
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  1051.  @sergiymotorin5769  It is obvious and has been throughout this war. International law says the same, that such systems should be outside cities. The same damage was caused in the UK during WW2 by falling AA shells which had not hit German bombers. I remember my father, who was an ARP Warden, talking about it. Probably, the Ukrainian govt puts these systems inside residential areas to make them harder to hit!
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  1052. 15:04 At the same time as the governments of the collective west are coming together and consolidating their cold war positions; it seems that the populations of their countries are showing more signs of discontent and resistance, than they have for many a year. I saw a HT video this morning about "Pro-Putin" (!) & anti-NATO demonstrations in at least four Australian cities yesterday and there were many demonstrations in Europe too.
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  1053. 41:59 When you have a boom in a "normal" capitalist country and wages start rising, the capitalist (Ruling) class get very worried and start bitching that wages are becoming "Ridiculous"! (Michael O'Leary of Ryanair.) This did not (As far as I know.) happen in Putin's Russia. Maybe that is why the chairwoman of the Russian central bank, wa so tacken aback by the behaviour of the Russian economy?
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  1054. The US has set up a very large and very secretive Biological Research Laboratory just outside Tblisi. that seems to be researching what differentiates the Slavic genome from other genomes and how to spread diseases, using drones. mosquitos and fleas. Also how to spread Army Worms and Locusts.
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  1055. Finally even you are beginning to doubt the words of those who brought us the Iraqi WMDs, the winning South Vietnamese Army, the incorruptible Chiang Kai Shek, that champion of Liberal Democracy, in the form of Synghman Rhee, the Democracy of General Franco, General Salazaar, General Peron, Marcos, the Oh so "Moderate" "Rebels" of Syria and all the rest. What took you so long? Were you blinded by your biases?
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  1056. I don't know about the German Ruling elite's motivations, but my belief is that the British ruling elite's motivation for the Thatcherite deindustrialization of Britain, was fear of and hatred for the Working Class and their overwhelming desire to 'stick it to' the Unions. Slogan: "Make Britain safe for the Ruling Class!"
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  1057. If there is any problem using up the $300billion there can always be Accountants' fees!
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  1058. 1:02:24 "His authoritarian streak is becoming harder to ignore" Well! Stap me with a three-man beetle! Who'd a thunk it! After all these years of ignoring the "authoritarian streak" of some fifty or so "friends", many of whom owed their very positions to the US (Not to mention Zelensky) ; you might have thought that the CW was well able to tolerate such pecadillos quite easily. What's making them so squeamish all of a sudden?
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  1059. 1:25:18 How long do you suppose before there will be a Peace-keeping force in the West Bank to protect the Palestinians from aggressive Israeli settlers?
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  1060. 44:01 You and I and the people who follow you and the other enlighteners, learned what was in the Istanbul agreements soon after they were agreed, but the US public, those that read the WSJ, and little else, ARE, probably, learning their content for the first time. No pretence there!
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  1061. 7:58 This is all part of the "Rules based International Order". (We make the rules and YOU obey them; or else!)
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  1062. 1:04:30 The remark about a "Gas Station that has started producing tanks", sounds tyoical of someone who has never had any experience of real production of any goods and hence, believes that all you need to do to produce anything, is to spend the neccessary cash. So, if your gas station is making a profit, you can just spend some of that money on tanks and Hey presto! There they are!
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  1063. 13:06 I have no way of knowing, but it occurs to me that if these generals have the pay for these men, that they send into Bachmut, and these men then "Disappear" (MIA) they then keep the said pay "until the missing men turn up"? Am I being too cynical?
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  1064.  @olgatarasova-chelpanova1109  Right! "Where the broom does not reach, the dirt will not disappear of itself!
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  1065. Yes. The war in Ukraine and the provocations over Taiwan have certainly shown both the Russians and the Chinese who their friends and who their enemies are! The Warmongers in the White House have done a great job of match making! Not so long ago, it was widely believed in the West, that there would never be friendship (Never mind an alliance ) between Moscow and Beijing. Now, thanks to skillful matchmaking by Washington, it looks Highly Likely!
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  1066. I 1:03:57 I think the Key Underestimations, from before the war was provoked, were Russia's military, capability, its army's morale, and the productive capability of the Russian war industries. These mistakes were compounded by a lack of understanding of the constraints affecting the West's capabilities.
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  1067. How can anyone negotiate with the US "in good faith", when the UGS changes its skin (so to say) every four years?
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  1068. The thing is that to support the US's war on Russia the European "Allies" (or more correctly "vassals") have given Ukraine almost all their weapons and none of them fancy taking on the Russian in a face-to-face fight. It's not just, as Trump has said, that The US's allies would not support them if the US were attacked, it is more that they COULD NOT support them if they WANTED to. Since the US is always "spoiling for a fight", very few of them would feel justified in supporting them or would fancy supporting them!
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  1069. 11:32 I have checked and Navalny was in Germany from 2020 to 2021, so he could well have been vaccinated with either Pfizer or Astra-Zenecker vaccine against Cov-19, and many men his age in the West are also dropping at a surprising rate, TV personalities, sports stars, and many others in the prime of life, many of them with circulatory problems. The rate of all-cause deaths, is well up on the average of the pre-covid years throughout the West.
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  1070. It is not that "the Ukrainians have failed to break through the three Russian defensive lines". No. That is not the problem. The problem is, that the Ukrainians have failed to reach the first of the Russian defensive lines.
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  1071. 5:03 I just want to draw attention to the hypocrisy of the US talking about the Russians "depriving the poor countries of food", while their forces, illegally in Syria, burn the Syrian's wheat fields, just before they can be harvested, "to prevent them falling into the hands of IS". (IS, which is being protected by the US.)
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  1072. 1:1854 I think that were the Collective West confident, that if they intervened in the Ukraine war, they could defeat the Russians in conventional conflict, without massie losses of personnel, they would have intervened long since.
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  1073. 13:34 The Wests' MICs are mostly privately owned. They are mostly very influencial over the foreign policy of their governments. (To put it mildly!) This is why the western goverments "pour gasoline on the fires". It is good for the MICs and good for the shareholders thereof, many of whom, I suspect are members of these governments. By contrast, the MICs of Russia and China, at least, are state owned. Selling arms, does not directly benefit the members of these governments.
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  1074. 43:42 Ben Wallace's sickening suggestions about sacrificing the remaining teenagers of Ukraine, to the god of the Rules Based International order, show just what a bloodthirsty, callous, heartless group of blackguards the neocons really are. It shows that they place no value on anything except the triumph of their peculiar religion which has no place for sympathy or kindness or humanity or any fellow feeling for other human beings. It is a really chilling reminder of just how dangerous these people really are.
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  1075. Not "may", will.
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  1076.  @johnwiks2597  Some countries e.g. Uganda, were too poor to buy the vaccines. For whatever reason they had almost no Cov-19.
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  1077. 13:56 "East of Bachmut". East of Bachmut? Are you sure you mean EAST of Bachmut? isn't the DNR East of Bachmut? I thought all this time that if the Ukrainians withdrew from Bachmut they would go to the West! Have I misunderstood something? I have noticed this phrase several times in the last few videos you have made.
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  1078.  @twistedsister2568  Good for you! More power to your elbow.
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  1079. 11:13 I wonder how the French and British militaries (Particularly the squaddies) think about Macron's plan?
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  1080. 6:49 Trump is beggining to look as though he has "The Mandate of Heaven".
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  1081.  @PhilipBaker-sf4yv  Yeah! Could be! Only time will tell.
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  1082. 3:07 A low intensity genocide?
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  1083.  @gabbagandalf2070  N@0 is not a "Defensive alliance". It has NEVER defended anything, it has only ever attacked. It is in effect, the US's Foreign Legion. The difference is that the French pay their foreign Legionaire's salaries. The countries in N@0 pay their own.
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  1084. I think that these six people are all relatives of the Ghost of Kiev.
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  1085. 4:14 I would imagine that Russian companies could pay Russian banks in yuan, or pay the Chinese central bank (which I am sure has a branch in Moscow). Sounds like a non-problem.
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  1086. 1:01:40 Maybe Russia does not want to buy shells from North Korea or anywhere else, having enough of its own.
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  1087. 41:39 The European "leaders" won't talk to the Russians because It's as simple as that.
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  1088. I got this info, IIRC, from Col McGregor on Stephen Harper's program, this afternoon.
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  1089. Happy victory to you too!
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  1090. 24@54 Odessa, Odessa! You know? These warmongers and globalist are always projecting. The allege without evidence that "Putin is trying to reconstruct the USSR". Could this be a projection of their own intention to reconstruct the British Empire? If so, the same motivation for wanting Crimea would still apply and would explain their apparent obssession with Crimea.
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  1091. I sometimes wonder if China will be able to broker a reconciliation between Pakistan and India as they did between Iran and Saudi Arabia? Maybe BRICS will, somehow, facillitate that?
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  1092. Happy Christmas to you too!
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  1093. 27:34 It occurs to me that at the end of the paleolithic period, more changed in our lives than just diet. We started living and even working in houses, society split up into classes, probably with Rich and Poor for the first time. These changes might well have had a big effect on our teeth, quite apart from our diet's effect on them. For example, it has very recently been discovered, that far infra-red radiation is important in the photosynthesis of melatonin in our bodies and that people who worked out of doors, where they were irradiated with far infrared (which ges through clouds, leaves and clothes!) were much less likely to die of Covid than people who worked indoors..
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  1094.  @josefinoaguirre8720  Better find more accurate reporters.
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  1095. 38:00 The whole "Ukraine story" since about 2000, has been discraceful and getting worse all the time
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  1096. How about the ancestors of Ursula von der Leyen?
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  1097. 1:40 It's more like a credo than an opinion piece! As I said to Alexander just now, it's reminiscient of the speech of a Crusader King to his troops on the eve of leading them into a battle against the Saracens.
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  1098. "There is a big difference between sending little robot vehicles and microwave-sized satellites to the moon and being able to send a full-sized crewed spacecraft to the moon." Those that can do, those that can't sneer. Let me guess the nationality of the person who made this remark. The Chinese sent their "little robot vehicle" to the moon and landed it on the far side of the Moon, first try, and it is still working. No mean feat, that. They also communicate with it by means of a satellite parked in a Lagrange point, another first that they pulled off first time. They also sent a rover to the moon that took samples of moon-rock and returned them to earth in a week or two, all without failure. Sneer all you like, it will not bother the Chinese nor change one single fact.
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  1099. 12:34 "Hey! Hey! Hey! LBJ How mankid didyer Kill Today?!"
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  1100. Soory about the typo. "Manykids"
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  1101. I am surprised neither you nor Alexander has mentioned the Ben Wallace prank.
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  1102. 12:38 Eine Wunder-Taktik.
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  1103. 22:25 Another "Shock & Awe" type action. I may be wrong, but I think panicking the Russian Army is a tall order.
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  1104. Thanks!
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  1105. 34:02 Why didn't the West heed the warnings by Russia that they would not tolerate NATO weapons and military infrastructure on their borders? Because they believed their own propaganda, about the weakness, corruption, inefficiency, ill-trainedness and mutinous nature of the Russian military and the fragility of the Russian government and they believed their own propaganda, about the overwhelming strength of NATO, "The Greatest and Most Powerful Military Machine Ever Assembled". They WANTED the Russians to attack them because they thought their own rapid victory was "written in the stars".
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  1106. 4:11 In other words the US is, as usual, trying to "have its cake and eat it" too.
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  1107. 6:56 Today, I saw a video from "DeepinMoments" which said that Germany has offered China $7 billion to reconstruct the NS pipelines.
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  1108. 14:15 This statement by the White House that he South African allegation of Genocide by Israel is worthless and without merit, means that the thousands Palestinians who have been killed, just recently by Israel were, in the view of the USG, also worthless and without merit!
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  1109. PMI stands for "Purchasing Managers Index". How much the purchasing managers think they are going to spend in the next three(?) months.
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  1110.  @pholippe1441  I am suspicious of NH's motives in pointing this out. Even if what you say is true, what is its relevance to this discussion?
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  1111. 14:34 Some of us are cynical enough to be not confused.
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  1112. 32:54 They have a hatred of Russia and Putin in common. They are not only obssessed, but also deeply irresponsible. "Let the Germans and the Russians fight, that will weaken both and we can pick over the pieces when it is all over. The reason that they are so contemptuous of the Russians for not taking more territory is that they do not value people. "Territory is worth money. People? There plenty more where those came from!"
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  1113. @SaltyShaman How to translate "De mo cide" to English? Well, you know the word Democracy, presumably, which means "rule by the people". "Demos" being Greek for people. "Cracy" being another Greek root word meaning "rule by". Likewise, you have probably come across the word "insecticide", meaning "something which kills insects". So you can work it out!
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  1114. 37:41 There is nothing wrong with the translation! During the Cold War, Britain was prohibited, on security grounds, to export woolen bathing costumes to the USSR, because, the cunning Soviets might unpick them and use the wool to make winter uniforms for the Red Army. Not a joke, a memory. Refrigerator bulbs? Yes, no doubt you need low power light bulbs to light the instrument panels in the cockpits of fighter jets. Makes sense, doesn't it? How else would the Russians get them?
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  1115. One of the troubles with US and EU loans is that they are usually in the form of money or credits, which is easily diverted into corrupt politician's pockets. (The US and the EU seem to prefer corrupt politicians for some reason!) The Chinese, on the other hand, usually give loans (Or sometimes grants) in the form of a highway, a railway, a port, an airport a hospital, a school or something similar which cannot easily disappear into a politician's bank account.
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  1116. 11:00 Bill Gates and other people including the Big Pharmaceutical companies were holding seminars/conferences just before (About a month before) the Pandemic was declared on how to react to a pandemic.
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  1117. IIRC the quarrrel between Saudi Arabia and Qatar was because the Saudis claimed that Al Jazeera had insulted them.
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  1118. Are you taking bets on that?
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  1119. A safe bet!
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  1120. "We", the Collective West are in Ukraine to further the US's plans to conquer Russia, to carve it up into smaller, more manegable-sized countries and loot it to their hearts content and get "wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice". We are doing this for reasons which are beyond stupid. This war could very easily spiral out of control into WW3. This war and the Sanctions that it is designed to justify, have wrecked the EU's economy, for years to come. The whole project is built on the West's own propaganda and wishful thinking. It is clear that NATO (The CW.) does not have the strength neccessary to conquer Russia, so what chance does it have against the Combo of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea? Not Very Good, I should think. Meanwhile the Ukrainian government, seems to go along with Lindsay Graham's idea of "fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian". Fine for LG, but an enormous, devastating tradgedy for Ukraine.
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  1121. 1:04:44 Are these lawyers paid for their opinions?
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  1122. 43:59 Little news from Ukraine, maybe, but I see that Saudi Arabia has decided to apply for membership of the BRICS organization.
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  1123. 9:39 Perhaps, what is taking them so long, is deciding whether to try to pin it on someone or to simply keep quiet about it. A difficult choice!
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  1124. 45:21 Isn't "la Manche" the French name for the English Channel?
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  1125.  @verar5844  "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!"
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  1126. Sounds as though someone has been reading Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. Build "Camps" to last centuries and roads to last millennia.
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  1127. Was that by any chance "Freedom for Avdiivka night"?
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  1128. 36:28 To my mind, the problem was not so much good ideals leading to bad consequences, as the attractiveness of good ideals, being used to disguise entirely selfish, hegemonic, political and commercial aims.
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  1129. A very well-constructed denoument. "Watertight" one could say. All statements given references. Thank you Brian, for such a well-researched opus.
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  1130. Why are Doctors' Unions Not objecting strongly to these mandates? Surely forcing people to have medical procedures that they do not want, is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Of course I realize that not all doctors take any sort of "Hippocratic Oath" or an amended version thereof (See Wikipedia etc.) but I did expect to see more pushback, against the non-medical authorities' (Most of the apparently in hock to the pharmaceutical industry!) imposition of vaccine mandates. I lost most of my respect for the medical profession when they failed in that task. Why so little solidarity?
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  1131. It seems that the European"Leaders" are, almost to a man, Israeli assets. This has been achieved over decades by taking over a large part of education and the communications industry and by infiltrating the political parties, with the help of Big Donors.
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  1132. 4:27 "Fifth: the spread of misinformation." Stand up Alex and Alexander!! Keep up the good work! Without your efforts many people would be much more misinformed than they are.
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  1133. 39:19 Wasn't Lloyd Austin in Kiev the other day? As to why Vissigrad "killed off" Gen Gerasimov, I should think it is more wishful/magical thinking.
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  1134. 34:13 Funny! I woke up in the middle of the night last night, thinking :" Isn't it time we heard from Vovan & Lexis?
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  1135. 22:20 If you lose land you can recapture it again and again. If you lose men, they are gone forever!
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  1136. 38:05 These Serbs are Russia's Wunderwaffen! You obviously don't appreciate the Serbs reputation as "Bonny Fechters"!
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  1137. \i find it incredible that Mr Freeman does not understand that the interests of the American population and the clique running America are different. Clearly, he is right that a neutral Ukraine, forming a buffer state between N@0 and Russia would have been in the interests of the USA population, but the desire of the clique running the US is to destroy Russia, divide it up into half a dozen states and loot it..
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  1138. Good informative video.
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  1139. 1:11:07 Why? Well, The US president is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is he? The Generals do not seem to be particularly bright either. The whole policy seems to be lacking plans, both in the ME and in Ukraine. It seems to be all of a piece. Come to that, even in domestic policy, what little I can see of it, seems to be without any plan except to oppose Trump by any means possible.
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  1140. Stoltenberg also said: "A defeat for Ukraine would be a defeat for NATO." NATO declared war on Russia? Russia declared war on NATO? Not that I have heard. "Barbaric attacks" What would you call shelling the civilians in the Donbas for eight years? What would you call the SBU "Hunting Russians (Aka Russian-speaking Ukrainian civilians) down like pigs." (To quote The Daily Mail.)
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  1141. 22:23 Strange, isn't it? The Ukrianians have the most experienced troops and officers in Europe and the Estonians are going to train them?
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  1142. 16:42 I do hope that you are right about Tokayev!
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  1143. "Untermenschen" & "Goys" are really exactly the same concepts. The're are both NAZI ideas, whatever name they are given.
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  1144. Yes! Sulivan is quite stupid enough to do anything.
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  1145. ​ @davidlazarus67  Yes! With the USA and Israel, it is difficult to tell which is Tail and which Dog! I remember as a rookie soldier during my NS, my Sgt (Who had just come back from Korea.) saying: "If you fight alongside the Yanks and you come across, say, a machine-gun nest that you can't deal with yourself, you can get on your radio and call in an airstrike; but if you do, you'd better make sure you are somewhere really safe, because otherwise, you'll get flattened yourself, like everything else in the area!"
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  1146. In Cambridge, UK in the 1960 there was a shadowy group who called themselves "Spies for Peace". At the same time, a large nuclear bunker was built under the civil service site in Brooklands Avenue, to shelter the "great and the good" in the event of a nuclear war. Eventually, the SfP obtained the list of the 250 people who had assigned places in the bunker and duplicated copies thereof, which they sold around the pubs in Cambridge at 6d each. As far as I know they were never caught and the list was never disputed. What particularly caused people's scorn was the fact that there were 249 male names on the list and only one female, the chairwoman of the WVS (The Womens' Voluntary Service.) "What sort of "survival Strategy" is that?" was the most frequent question.
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  1147. 2:20 Does Ben Wallace's visit to W.D.C. have aby relevance?
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  1148.  @FugueSt4te  They may be veterans of Syria.
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  1149. The fishing dispute betweenBritain and France could not "Spiral out of control" because both nations are armed with nuclear weapons!!"
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  1150. In fact sunflower oil is very damaging to heath. avoid it, if you can.
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  1151. Yesterday, I watched a western mercenary, back from Ukraine, interviewed by a Western channel, who said that he thought that about 25% of the weapons sent to Ukraine actually arrived in the country. I don't know where he got his figures, but that, for what it's worth, was his assessment.
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  1152. Thanks. @floriangeyer1 
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  1153.  @yianpap6093 You cannot alter history.
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  1154.  @yianpap6093  However much blood has been spilled (And God knows, a lot has been!) you cannnot alter history. Russia wanted negotiations and was rebuffed.
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  1155.  @yianpap6093  The video said that the Russians were not willing to negotiate. I said that was a lie because they had negotiated in March and April 2022 and then the Collective West had persuaded Zelensky tp tear up the agreed items.. You then said that "that was then, this is now" which I took to mean, that you were supporting the the lie that Russia was not willing to negotiate. If that was not what you meant, I'm sorry I misunderstood you. (Incidentally, I still don't understand what That was then, this is now"has to do with anything.) The Russians, as I understand it. have not refused to negotiate. Their point is, that as they regard Zelensky as a Puppet, they do not see any point in negotiating with him. They are waiting for the US or "Neightoe" to offer negotiations.
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  1156. 26:47 The Containment Strategy" i.e more of the same, is a continuation of Magical Thinking. It is, to cion a phrase: Doing the same thing over and over again and exppecting a different result." Which is generally thought to be a sign of insanity.
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  1157. 16:21 Do you think any Russian tourists will be holidaying in Turkey? How about Turkstream?
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  1158.  @teakkaye5364  Wishful thinking!
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  1159. 9:00 "No one in their right minds would ever think of using nuclear weapons or attacking the Russian Federation!" Putin. Are you sure that the WoWs, the Warmongers of Washington, are in their right minds?
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  1160. 4:00 Unfair to Birds! In spite of their reputation birds are really quite extraordinarily intelligent, probably because they have very small brains, they react very quickly, because their thinking-circuits are very short.
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  1161.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  The USAF's General Westmoreland, told the president that they needed a lot of aviation spirit to carry out the bombing campaign they wanted to stage and when the president found that there was not enough aviation fuel in the World to give it to him, the war was wound up. IIRC.
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  1162.  @leparibich4256  Thank you!
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  1163.  @malikmogekwu9781  Thank you for your endorsement! I try not to pass on misinfrmation. Sometimes (quite often) what I do pass on, is so shocking that people cannot believe it is true.
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  1164. Very interesting and very clear video. Thanks for setting the situation out so clearly! Yes I expect that Russia will go on seizing Western assets in Russia. Why wouldn't they? Another point in favour of their food exports, is their favouring "organic" or "biological" ways of growing food.
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  1165. 31:07 You have pointed out that a military solution is impossible and you are probably right. So that leaves two other solutions that occur to me: financial and pschological. The Yunohus as we all know are very focused on financial matters, it seems to have a greater importance to them as a group than it does generally. Are these possible lines to pursue?
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  1166. 0:47 You say you don't know why the Chinese did not collapse and disappear like the Romans, Assyrians, Sumerians and probably other ancient civilizations? Well the others collapsed because they exhausted their soil. They turned it into desert. The Chinese never did . They did not throw their excrements into their rivers they collected them, a daily service, called "the Golden Essence Trade", which sold them to farmers, who used them to fertilize their fields. This maintained the fertility of Chines fields.
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  1167. I have the handicap of being old. Up until about 1980? I knew what "left" and "right" meant in political terms. Today they seem to me to be almost entirely meaningless terms or at least they seem to mean entirely different things to what they meant in the past. Can anyone explain to me what they understand by these terms?
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  1168. "ALL YOU NEED" ? That's not much to ask! The target in space will be moving. The Sun will also be moving. The lens will be in orbit and also moving. Heating up the target will cause it to move. Then how much power do you need? Each kw will require at least a square metre of lens. Then as the Sun is about 160 million kms away from Earth, the target will have to be in the focus of the lens, so the distance will have to be pretty exactly right or you will need a variable focus "MAGIFING GLASS". Not as simple as you suggest.
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  1169.  @martinlouden9005  Abso-bally-lutely!
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  1170. Alexander will be familiar with this but I would like Jimmy and Glenn to see it if they haven't already. Almost all the conflict that has plagued the World since 1945 has originated in the US, because of its obssession with being the World Hegemon. The constsnt war-mongering has its seat in what I call the "Vicious circle" in Washington DC. This circular structure is fed, willy-nilly by the us taxpayer and passes out money to the shareholders and employees of the weapons mfgs and the lobbyist industry, shareholders and employees and the MSM feeds off advertising bought by the weapon mfgs. It consists of various parts: the congress-critters, the weapons manufacturers, the United States Government and the lobbying industry. The vicious circle functions in the following way: being circular there is no startpoint or end point, but I will start with the congress-critters, who vote for payments to the arms mfgs. The government then orders the weapons and pays the weapons mfgs. The weapons mfgs then pay their shareholders and employees and the lobbyists who pay the congress-critters' election expenses on condition that they vote "the right way" and so it goes round and round with the MSM carrying adverts from the arms mfgs and helping along with stories to alarm the general public. This structure is very powerful, very rich, quite ruthless and very well established. So long as it exists in its present form, I doubt that the World will ever know peace. The only solution I can think of, is if the US is handed a resounding defeat in Ukraine and the Russians insist that all arms mfgs must be nationalised enterprises, with no other shareholder than the government of their country. This, by cutting the financial nexus, and removing the built-in conflict of interest bedevilling the arms industry, would kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead
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  1171. 5:35 Caps on food prices can work well, when combined with Ration Cards as from 1939 to 1952! Britain's public health was never better! Of course you also need full employment. Duh!
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  1172. Maybe if Sunak wants to establish better relations with Russia, quietly, he could, perhaps, send his wife to talk to Putin? Or his father-in-law?
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  1173. 22:53 Not only will it not be a weaker Russia in a couple of years, if the war lasts that long, but an effect of this war will be to make the Chinese even more keen to build up their forces and stocks of weapons still faster than if the war had not happened.
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  1174. 21:04 All the Islamic terrorist organizations I have heard of previously, have been offshoots of the CIA. Some were funded directly by the CIA, some were funded by Saudi Arabia some by Turkey, some by Qatar, some by wealthy donors. Personally, I have not heard of ISIS-K before the events in Moscow.
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  1175. These articles by Wolf and Kemp, really need to define what their "Values" are, but of course, they never have and they never will. Presumably, their Values are shared by the Azov Btg and the other forces allied with them in this fight! (Introduce me to your friends and I'll tell you what sort of person you are.) I wonder, do they think (presumably they do) that Ukrainian-style democracy would make a good model to follow?
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  1176. 1:17:08 Mounting an air campaign on that sort of scale, would be not only a massive air operation, it would be a massive logistic operation across the Atlantic too. All fuel depots in Europe (They would need to be either very big or very numerous!) would be within range of smaller Russian ballistic missiles and ships crossing the Atlantic would be very vulnerable to Russian submarines. The other point that should nor be forgotten is, that were there a serious threat of Russia losing, the Chinese could not afford to stand idly by and watch Russia being defeated. It is also difficult to see how the CW could launch such a campaign, before sorting out the shortage of production facilities to produce replacement arms and ammunition.
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  1177. 17:36 Shortage of skilled workers in Russia? There is an acute shortage of skilled jobs in Western Europe, particularly in Germany, France and Italy, not to mention the UK. I don't know about the countries of the former Warsaw Pact but I would imagine that it is the same there.
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  1178. 24:43 I understood Putin to say that the Russians did not use depleted uranium to make armour piercing shells, they use tungsten which is not radioactive. Tungsten is somewhat toxic,but nothing like the hazard that DU is: the following is a quotation from wikipedia: "People can be exposed to tungsten in the workplace by breathing it in, swallowing it, skin contact, and eye contact. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has set a recommended exposure limit (REL) of 5 mg/m3 over an 8-hour workday and a short term limit of 10 mg/m3.[129]"
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  1179. So it is! However, to a large extent, the USA has always discouraged its satraps from buying weapons from their own MICs. See as an example, how the British have been discouraged from cultivating (Have gutted!) their own firms making fighter jets. The result is that to a large extent, the 13 countries are mostly limited to US made weaponry. This makes it a much less formidable combo than it would be were Russia facing 13/34 countries each capable of supplying all the needs of its own military. The other thing that plays very strongly in favour of the Russians, is the lack of corruption in the process of procurement of Weapon-systems. The Russian MIC is almost entirely state-owned. This means that the question of making a profit does not arise. The firms making the Russian weapons can spend what is needed to produce the result they want to achieve. Its effect on next quarter's share price does not arise. No one needs to go to Moscow to lobby for funds to do this or that. Either the funds are available or they aren't, and if they aren't, trying to bribe some committee member to make them available is probably a BAD IDEA! You would probably, do better to go to talk to the minister. The firm's remit is to make as cheaply as possible a really tough, really reliable, easy-to-use and easy-to-maintain weapon. The decisions about which weapons to produce, is probably decided by a committee whose working are secret and, which in any case, do not enrich the members of Parliament. Contrast that with the situation in the USA, where you have lobbyists paid by the arms manufacturers, to get members of Congress to vote for very expensive projects that can be made by their firm, preferably in every state of the Union. Weapons, which look impressive and are state-of-the-art, but which will soon need either replacement or very expensive repairs. Making run-of-the-mill items like 155mm artillery shells is not wildly profitable and tends to get neglected, as the Ukrainians are now finding out, the hard way.
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  1180. 31:20 "These are not statesmen" and the games they are playing are not designed to benefit the states, not even the United States! No. These games are designed to pander to the obsessions or private interests of the individuals playing them, at the expense of the US and its "allies" and even the rest of the World.
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  1181.  @JosephBisio  Yes, unprovoked if you don't think threatening to ethnically cleanse the Donbas was a provocation, if you don't think that threatening to station nuclear weapons in Ukraine was a provocation.
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  1182. 49:50 "The London Times" is not what it used to be; it is part of the Murdoch Empire, with standards of veracity to match.
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  1183.  @pausereflect5911  Can the leopard change his spots?
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  1184. 25:56 What a pleasure to hear a distinguish researcher making the same points that I have been making for some time! I think that the sooner all pharmaceutical research, marketing and production is either nationalized or better, Internationalised, the safer the World will be. Placing the pharmaceutical industry in the hands of convicted criminals as is the case at present and given the obvious conflict of interests to which Big Pharma is subject, the sooner this is done the better. Removing the conflict of interest, is only one of the advantages of nationalizing this industry, but it is, probably, the most important and would reduce to probability of another disaster like the recent/current pandemic to practically zero.
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  1185. Happy Easter to you and your family!
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  1186. 1:14:29 The only purpose of these missile strikes on Yemen is probably to garner Brownie points in Washington. Can anyone else think of a better reason for them?
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  1187.  @micnorton9487  An American veteran of the Viet Nam war told me of a vietnamese underground complex, that was located under the (US) co's house in their camp! It was only discovered, when his house fell into it.
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  1188.  @salnaturile8653  Yes, I know. That's no secret, either!
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  1189. 3:10 There was nothing illegal about cooperating with RT at the time. There was nothing illegal about working to bring about Brexit. You may not like Farage, but this looks like an abuse of power by non-state actors. Aloow this and we shall have banks taken over by, say, Christian Fundamentalists or a gang of crooks and all the non-Christians or all the honest people, respectively, driven out of the country! I don't see how it can be allowed.
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  1190. 10:52 There is an interesting fact (?) about this and other coups in this area. The USA has sent troops to this area some years ago (they are still there) to train the militaries of the area. One after the other, these militaries have staged coups against that France-oriented regimes. The coups however, seem to be pro-Eurasian rather than pro-American. Do you have any comment/info/opinion on this subject? Is it true or is it a myth?
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  1191. 12:24 This report does not tell you anything much, because it is part of an effort to fudge out the fact that the research which led to the production of the virus that caused all the trouble, was started in the US and later farmed out to the Chinese. There was even at least one patent on this research, filed in the US by the Laboratory in Chapel Hill, North Carolina before the research was moved to the WIV. I imagine the Chinese agreed to do this research because they were anxious to know what the US was working on and because they thought (Rightly or wrongly) that they had been attacked by the US with biological weapons in Korea and in the early 2000s with SARS ! and SARS 2 and Swine 'flu and Avian 'flu and Army Worms. They also knew that the US was working on bio-weapons and drones to spread diseases in their laboratory in Tblisii, Georgia and they felt a need to be prepared for whatever was coming their way.
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  1192. 23:24 Wasn't the "Domino Theory" a pretty exact analogue of the "Brezhnev Doctrine"?
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  1193. Lenin is quoted as saying; "Scratch a Social Democrat and you will find a Fascist."
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  1194. 9:13 & Jeremy Corbyn.
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  1195. 1:38 Oh America! Does everything you do have to be done covertly, in case someone sees what you are doing and gives you away? Is your middle name Sneaky? "The best disinfectant is sunlight" and your "Diplomacy" (Hahaha!) can't stand the light of day. Sounds about par for the course. I suppose you want: "An informal deal, one that is more or less off the record", so that when you renege on it, (As you will.) you can pretend that it "never really existed".
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  1196. Why don't the Russians just buy a Leopard II on the black market?
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  1197. That is what keeps the US taxpayers' money flowing to the MIC.
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  1198. 40:10 Polls in Israel show that about 80% of the inhabitants of Israel support the action of the Netanyahoo government. Almost incredible, but that is what is said.
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  1199.  @cestmoi3963  Thanks. I forgot that.
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  1200. 25:20 It seems that reactionaries are ALWAYS more interested in conquering territory than in people, even their own people. It was the same in the second WW and in the Chinese revolution. Before the Long March there was a faction in the communist side, that had this obsession with territory and it very nearly led to the defeat of the Communists. Mao argued against them, saying that lost territory could be recaptured but dead comrades could not be reanimated. He also advised that if you don't think you can win, you should avoid a fight. I think this correlates to your oft repeated "No reverse gear".
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  1201. 9:06 These organizations are "toothless" e.g. in the case of Diego Garcia, where Britain and the US are in contempt of the ICJ's ruling against them, because the ICJ is a creature of the US.
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  1202.  @jonasbarbury4013  For example?
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  1203. 23:54 The explanation of this assessment lies in the last sentences you read. He is working on info supplied by Ukrainian intelligence.
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  1204. 38:55 To be fair some Germans have a sense of humor. Maybe this general was being ironic or sarcastic! It could happen. I have, occasionally come across German jokes that I thought were funny.
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  1205. 2:50 The US announced that it was the work of ISIS-K Almost before the killers had time to leave the Concert Hall. The Chief of Ukrainian Military intelligence when asked for his reaction to the news of the attack is reported to have saidthat he was"Very Happy".
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  1206. What took you so long?
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  1207. "Stools" in the medical use of the word?
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  1208. "Even the UK" You joke surely! Britain has been inflating rapidly, all my life.
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  1209. 8:13 John Mearsheimer may well be right about what can be achieved in negotiations starting around now. However, what he is proposing is treating the symptoms, not the cause of the problem. What he is proposing, is going to leave the source of this and innumerable other, similar, problems untouched, and festering away in Washington.
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  1210. I am sure that the whole of this program is just chockfull of "Misinformation!" Keep up the good work!
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  1211. 5:50 Re: Putin? Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [ "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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  1212.  @jetsengoytredkl  This must be some new definition of "rare".
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  1213. I put this idea forward for discussion, I am not at all sure that it will turn out like this, but I think it is worth discussing. If thing go on as they are at the moment, and the weapons of increasing power and cost (Tanks, fighter jets.) are shoveled into the battle, if the Russians continue to destroy them at the same sort of rate as they are doing at present, (Which seems entirely possible.) then before very long we are going to see a situation where the Western powers are going to be faced with three alternatives. (Other than any nuclear options.) The Ukrainians go down to defeat and the Western powers stand and watch, being now functionally disarmed. Or they commit troops and get defeated themselves. Or they sue for peace from a very weak position. What would happen next?
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  1214. 9:36 As I wrote last night : the MSM are NOT "news" outlets, they carry some information merely to cover up their real role, which is spreading government propaganda. Hence the discrepency you speakof.
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  1215. The thing that really staggers me, is that the authorities and the doctors are still inflicting these vaccines on people!
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  1216.  @abdisalangure3599  Thank you!
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  1217.  @johnnysideline  Agreed.
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  1218. 44:23 "Why do we have this relationship; which is unparalelled in modern history" because you in the US have so many double-passport holders in leading position in the USG and burocracy.
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  1219.  @philipmain5701  Sneer all you like! Throw some more doubt. You wont alter history. Facts are things which don't change. As Lenin once said:"We would all like to bury History, unfortunately, we have to live with its stinking corpse!"
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  1220.  @dnik1260  Yes, true.
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  1221. 19:40 Trying to establish a "liberated Area", "under the control of Russian insurgents". I should think was what they were hoping to call them.
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  1222. Он и его друг Александр Меркурис не только умны, но и очень трудолюбивы!
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  1223. 2:45 "Crises and Events" These are all made by the USA.
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  1224. 12:07 Dual-use goods: A ham sandwich could "be of help" to a team making an atombomb. During the cold war, the British government forbade a manufacturer of woolen bathing costumes, to export them to the USSR because they might be unpicked and used to make uniforms for the Soviet Army! At the same time, Australia was happily exporting raw wool to the USSR.
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  1225. 44:11 Western intelligence agencies always (I think.) have had a different relationship to "Islamic Terrorists" to the FSB. I have never had themimpression that they wanted them testifying in court. They never gave me the impression that they did not expect the attack and some of the incidents were fantastically improbable, like the same cameraman filming an attack by Islamic terrorists in Munich one week and then "just happening to be" in the right spot, in the South of France to film another lot of Islamic terrorists, mowing down people walking on the Promenade (Or was it the beach?) in the next. As to the Crocus terrorist being "roughed up", I would imagine they probably resisted arrest and anyway they were running around in a forest in the dark and I would imagine, that the policemen who arrested them did not feel overly sympathetic to them, even if they had orders to take them alive.
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  1226. I have heard, that when an F-16 is idling at the end of the runway, waiting for the order to take off, it is using 600 pounds of fuel an hour, just to keep the engines warm.
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  1227. 55:47 What use wiil boots on the ground be if they lack ammunition and armor?
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  1228. 13:50 An appreciation from 100 to the dollar to 92 to the dollar is an 8% appreciation in a day. That's not nothing.
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  1229. 7:50 Illovais. Looks to me as though there was more than one bomb.
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  1230. 53:58 Google Maps does not mention that many villages in Kursk.
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  1231. 4:53 The Lloyd Austin story also shows that there is very littlefear of really serious fighting breaking out. (With apologies to those fighting in Ukraine and Gaza!)
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  1232. If one regards the international scene as a chess game; this is a move by the Red Queen and threatens Mate, some time in the next three or four moves! I don't like MBS, but I hope he has assembled a really competent Praetorian Guard. Somehow, I think he is going to need it.
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  1233. Well said!
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  1234. Yes. @user-markH68  But it's not all that new. Lewis Carrol was guying this sort of thinking in "The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in eight fits)" a century and a half ago.
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  1235. 18:52 These are another instance of a "Wunderwaffen". It seems that N*ZIs are rather addicted to them, starting with the V1 and the V2 of WW2, going on with Napalm, Anthrax, Blanket bombing and all the rest.
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  1236. I have posted this elsewhere, but I think it is appropriate to this discussion too, so I'll post it again. I would be interested to hear comments on it. It has elicited remarkably little reaction so far. At the moment in the US (Where almost all the threat of war comes from.) the driving force for wars and threats of war is the complex system, consisting of the arms industry, the USG, the Congress, the Lobbyist Industry and the Shareholders of the arms-manufacturing firms. This complex system functions as a sort of closed loop, with inputs and outputs. Inputs come from the taxpayers, while the outputs are, of course arms and (More importantly in this context.) money to the shareholders of the arms-manufacturers, As the loop is circular in nature we can start anywhere, Let's start with the congress critters. These representatives are chiefly concerned with keeping their positions and are very often shareholders in the Arms Industry as well. They are approched by the Lobbyist industry representatives with an offer which is difficult to ignore. The offer is: if you vote the way we tell you to, we will contribute generously to your re-election expenses. If you don't, we will fund your opponent(s). The Lobbyists are paid by the Arms manufacturers to do this. As a result when there is a proposal to spend money on arms, it is almost always passed, with the result that the taxpayers have to cough up more money and the shareholders get more dividends and the lobbyists get paid by the arm manufacturers, more money to do their next lot of work. This "Vicious Circle" (as I call it) is a very stable set up. It is also very self protective. Many have lost their seats in congress, trying to expose it and break its power. Some have probably died trying. In normal (!) circumstances, it is very difficult to see how this can be broken up by anyone. However, we do have, at the moment, quite abnormal times coming. (Or so it seems to me.) Neightoe is on the brink of a massive defeat and if/when that happens the Russians will be in a position to dictate a lot of the Terms of Settlement. If one of their terms was that all arms manufacturers had to be nationalized, it would disrupt this cosy arrangement. Or, at least, I think it would, because it would cut the financial knot that hold the whole system together. It would remove the financial basis for the "Vicious Circle." OK?
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  1237. 56:26 About your suggestion of somebody else with a new foreign policy and a new economic policy: don't forget these neocons "have no reverse gear."
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  1238. 19:27 I think that to be effective, ammunition must contain a lot of energy. Is finding the energy going to be a problem for the EU?
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  1239. This story is Childish! Just as though Trump can tell the Russians what to do! Come on!! Wakey, wakey!
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  1240. 1: 58 This is not really a correct assessment of the situation, The "dwindling" supplies are not caused by lack of interest on the part of the Collective West(CW). The "Dwindle" is caised by the CW running out of armarments to send to the Ukrainians. Over the past decades the arms industries of the European countries, have largely been taken over by the US arms companies (Rationalization) and closed down to prevent them competing, with the result, that the manufacturing capacity has greatly diminished from what it used to be. Another cause, is the energy to drive these industries and a lot of the raw materials has been sourced from Russia and a lot of the supply chains have been sent to China to avoid making greenhouse gases in Europe and the USA. Further, the CW's arms industries are run like almost all Western industries, by accountants and as a result, anything that was not particularly profitable, was either closed down and sold off or diverted into making something more profitable. So things like 155 mm shells, which were run-of-the-mill products, that fetched a not very high price and no "excitement" and for which, in the years of peace, following the Soviet collapse, there was only a small market, are now hardly made in the CW at all. New machine tools, needed for making shells, would need to be made anew and the majority of machine tools are currently made in China. To make things like shells you need skilled workers, skilled inspectors, tightly controlled factories, skilled engineers, and a whole gamut of other skills. Without these, you will lose whole factories, in a large puff of smoke. So, it will take time to rebuild the CW's capacity. It might be much better, quicker and cheaper to negotiate a complete settlement and a comprehensive peace treaty, that would give everyone real security, so we could get on with the real, pressing problems we have that need world cooperation.
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  1241. The US administration has never, at least since WW2, been more moral than it is at present. (I.e. comprehensively, totally immoral.). It is just that in the past, it was better at masking its real nature, it used nicer words. It had cleverer spokesmen. Its policies were absolutely as evil as they are today.
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  1242. 3:46 How can it be that "it is a very tight race"? I mean, how can anyone regard KH as "Presidential Material"?
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  1243. 35:30 "Whatever happens I will be here to cover it." Always assuming that the internet still functions and that voices of reason, such as yours, are still permitted to speak. Let's hope!
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  1244. 12:34 This is known as :"Delusions of adequacy"
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  1245. The meeting in Lucerene was also to strengthen Zelensky's shaky position as Ukraine's president, which, according to the Ukraine constitution, he no longer is.
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  1246. 13:48 Yes it's being emasculated. It's being suppressed. People in large numbers, with serious side effects, are being ignored by the authorities, charged with looking after such people. No doubt about it. It is happening all over the Western World. The Burning Question is : WHY? Why are the authorities trying to suppress discussion of this obviously Vital topic?
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  1247. The fact that the sentence is wrong and still there, shows that the "Fact Checkers" (So-called!) are not in the least concerned with "Misinformation" but only with information that the government wants suppressed.
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  1248. 21:16 Crucially, the US will not be able to sanction trade in BRICS currency. It will not even be able to follow trade in BRICS currency. (Or at least, that is what I have understood.)
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  1249.  @sw-en7wb  Agreed.
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  1250. 10:09 Probably a government of the AfD and Sahrar Wagenknecht's party could patch thing up with Russia.
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  1251. The usual double standards from the US and Australia. The Solomon Islands are thousands of km from Australia and much further from New Zealand and still further removed from the USA. Compare that with it "being OK" for the US to plant NATO (A "defensive" organization, which has only ever attacked!) on Russia's borders, just a few minutes, as the missile flies, from Moscow!
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  1252. 1:08:27 It does not seem so hard to me, to understand the US position vis-a-vis the Ukrainian and Israeli "stupid and irresponsible" actions. The point is, that the World regards the US and Israel as "joined at the hip" and the US is totally commited to both Israel and Ukraine. IOW, try as it might, it cannot pretend that it is not involved, to at least a large extent, in everything that Ukraine and Israel do. At the same time, it does not always agree with its sattellites at a tactical level, but Netanyahoo and Zelensky chafe, at what they see as US "timidity". This leads them to sometimes disregard US wishes and though it annoys the US it is not sufficient to cause a total rupture in the relationship.
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  1253. 39:18 The English do this all the time. In fact they get comparatively few foreign place names anywhere near the pronuciation of the natives of the place named. Muenchen becomes Munich, Padova becomes Padua, Fiorenze becomes Florence and Paris changes its pronunciation from Paree to Pariss. Bruxelles goes from Bruxelles to to Brussels (The Czechs, BTW, call Nueremberg, Norimbek. and the French call Aarchen, Aix la Chapelle.)
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  1254. 42:50 The Daily Mail specialises in alarmist articles. It, of course, assumes the US will win.
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  1255. 23:15 Lt Col Stewart Crawford. Another like Ben Wallace, went from school, to university to more learning and then into the /army and then into politics. Similar outlook, similar lack of contact with reality.
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  1256. 25:13 It looks to me as though the Western Millitary as a whole, perhaps through their training and a lack of experience of fighting a peer adversary, are sufferring from delusions of competence. They seem to behave more like drunken gamblers than like strategists.
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  1257. 22:38 Anent Lord Cameron. "A prince can mak' a belted Earl, a Marquis, Duke and a' that. An honest man's aboon his might, Faith! He canna fa that!" Robert Burns. For a' that and a' that.
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  1258. I have never seen the Ukrainian steppe, but to me it sounds very like the East Anglian Fenland. Very flat, with what used to be islands made of chalk, sticking up 100m or so above the swampy rich black earth plain, that stretches off to the horizon in all directions.
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  1259. What were they using as placebo? There seem to have been a large number of AESIs even in the placebo group.
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  1260. 1:30 I wonder, is there any way of finding out how many of these deaths were of vaccinated people? How many of them had had covid? And which vaccine they had had, if they had? No. Probably not. That would be expecting too much. It would probably take a major research effort, if it were possible at all. What would be interesting, though, would be to know if the countries that had very little in the way of Covid or were too poor to afford vaccines have had the same phenomenon of excess deaths.
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  1261. 1:57 I don't know if you know, but I have heard that the CIA was deeply involved with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. I had a school friend who worked there as a secretary and she said to me: "If you visit me at work and you see, on the stairs, someone who looks sane you can be sure they are a patient."
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  1262.  @somjrgebn  Yes, since the showing up of NA*O in Ukraine, the Middle East will feel vastly less intimidated in their reactions than in the past.. It will be "interesting" to see how it turns out.
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  1263. I wonder about the supply chain for increased production of artillery shells. I really have no idea what the quantities are involved, i can only assume that they are large. Artillery shells are, as far as I know, made with a projectile which is filled, typically, with explosive. How easy is it to increase the manufacture of explosives? I should think the rawmaterials are easy enough to come by but it would need a lot of energy. The other part, the part that stays behind when the shell is fired, seems to be made of brass (an alloy of copper and tin). How are the supplies of copper and tin and where do they come from? I think the price of copper is already high, presumably this would increase it. Then there is the mercury for the detonators, where does that come from? Last I heard, the world was running out of mercury and these days, you'll need all the electronics for proximity fuses and so on. Machine tools are, I presume still made in the USA, (?) but most are, I believe, made in China. It looks to me like a pretty horrible nightmare for the logistics people. Then there is the fact you'll need not only the skilled workers, but very careful skilled workers; as slapdash workers are not useful in ammunition production. You will also need, for obvious reasons, highly skilled, very experienced inspectors, which in such an environment is a dangerous and immensely responsible job. One dud inspector can demolish a whole factory in a matter of seconds. So of course can a careless worker or a broken machine. To me, he idea of setting up production lines, in a hurry, to produce explosive devices sounds, like advanced lunacy or at any rate, an accident waiting to happen.
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  1264. The two evil geniuses that drew up that treaty were two American lawyers, the brothers Dulles, John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen, (though Wikipedia does not mention their role, it does say that John FD was there.)
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  1265. 0:34 How did the US "Know" that it was ISIS that committed the attack, within 55 minutes of the attack taking place?
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  1266.  @corvanna4438  The Russians have at least as much say as the inhabitants of most of the Collective West. In the UK, for example we cannot chose the Head of State. The European leaders are not elected. Who voted for Ursula von der Leyen? These are usually refered to as "Governments" and as "Democracies". So, why the difference?
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  1267. 26:38 In addition to all the wars and crises you mention, there is at least one proxy war in SouthEast Asia and the De-dollarization crisis as well as numerous wars in the Middle East a brewing proxy war in the Philipines, something happening in Haiti and a crisis of homelessness at home! Not a good look.
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  1268. 29:30 The Greens want lots more wind turbines, which involve a lot of nickel which comes mostly from Russia. (And WTs need rare earths and semi-conductor chips, all sourced from China.) Where are they going to get them? Come to think about it, they also want a lot of solar panels, which also come from China, or if they make their own, the raw materials come from China. How likely is it that China will supply people who are trying to hurt Russia?
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  1269. 1:16:38 You have the "silent shells" the wrong way round. A subsonic shell could be heard coming, because the sound would travel faster than the shell. OTOH a supersonic or hypersonic shell would travel faster than the sound it made, as the term "supersonic" implies, meaning that you would hear it only after it had arrived. Perhap, the North Korean Shells are faster than the Russian ones? (I joke. If they were that different they would upset all the aiming.) Perhaps, they make less disturbance as they fly, having a slightly smoother surface??
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  1270. Thinking further about you and the other alternative sources of information; I think it may well be that you are literally saving the World from disaster by informing us about reality. You are a real "spoke in the wheel" of the evil plans of the people in charge of world events!
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  1271.  @eusebioorru7383  Come disse Shakespeare: o meglio fece dire a Giovanni di Gaunt: "Questa Inghilterra che era vincolata dalle onde del mare, ora è vincolata con macchie d'inchiostro e legami di pergamena marcia". E adesso vero!
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  1272. The problem in the West is that the US Military suppliers have bought up the other western makers of ammunition, closed them down and sold off their factories. Because until a very few years ago, there was very little demand for, e.g. 155 mm ammo, the machines to make it were, mostly, declared "redundant" by the accountants in these firms and sold for scrap. These firms being run by accountants, whose primary interest is PROFITS, they follow a policy of JIT working, (I.e. Anything that is not needed immediately is "stagnant capital" and needs to be sold off or used up as soon as possible. This saves borrowing from the bank and renting space.) The result is that the Collective West cannot quickly start making the ammo that Ukraine is using up at record speed. Another problem is, that a lot of the raw materials come/came from Russia and China and most machine tools come/came from China.
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  1273. 20:53 Another factor is that the War in Ukraine has shown that militarily, the US is a lot less fearsome, than it used to appear.
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  1274. 1:11:06 I clearly remember that when after the "Great Leap Forward" ran into difficulties, there was a flood of articles in the MSM and statements by the US government, bewailing the plight of the starving Chinese and at the same time, the US government forbade the Australians from selling a very large amount of grain to China.
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  1275.  @farukissa642  Biden, Victoria Nuland, and other warmongers.
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  1276.  @michaelkatz275  NATO's best armed and best-trained and battle hardened army in Europe fought the Russians and lost, not one but three armies and a mountain of heavy equipment and is still losing. This is not what was expected of it. They have used up so much equipment and ammunition that Europe and the US are afraid to give them more for fear that they will be left defenceless. What more do you require?
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  1277.  @geralvon  Depends what you mean by "eat right". I think, the idea that Alzheimer's is a form of diabetes is probably correct and the answer is to avoid all carbohydrates except fibre, as far as possible. There are no essential carbohydrates. Anyway, a "keto diet" as a treatment for the disease is well worth trying and is not dangerous.
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  1278. 46:33 Shortage of spare parts, equates to unemployment in the Western firms that used to supply the said spare parts.
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  1279. 22:11 Gerasimov's speech as you report it reminds me of Julius Caesar's Gallic War write up.
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  1280. 26:50 Warm Banks. No. this is not UK-wide this is Tower Hamlets - wide, it's a district of London. You wouldn't travel to these places, you would likely walk.
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  1281. 1:19:08 I too, would put my money on the BRICS system because since the end of the 1960s the economic life of working people in the West has been getting worse and worse and at present is becoming disastrous for very many of them. The Chinese by contrast, though apparently in a permanent state of imminent collapse, have managed their "defunct" economy so "incompetently" that they have lifted 700 million people out of extreme poverty and are running a country where almost everybody has a home to go to and homelessness is not a problem and the outlook for the future is good. As the Chinese are going to be almost certainly dominant in the new trading system, it seems to me, that it is extremely likely that the countries in it will be able to prosper in a way that countries subject to the IMF and World Bank, have never been allowed to.
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  1282. It miht make an interesting comparison to compare President Biden's speech, to a Crusader King's speech to his troops, before leading them into battle agianst the Saracens, or something similar. It is a long time since I read such a speech, but hearing you reading Biden, awakes echos that sound awfully similar!
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  1283. 17:09 Just to compound their problems they are now going to war with their biggest market.
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  1284. 2:49 "What were these people thinking?" They were thinking "Russia BAD! N*ZIs GOOD! They fought the BAD RUSSIANS!" I wonder how Canadian WW2 veterans react to this story?
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  1285. 11:09 According to a Moldovan I know, at the dissolution of the USSR there was a referendum in Moldova in which a majority opted to remain part of the USSR. The result of the referendum was ignored and they got independence. According to a correspondent in the internet All the states of the union (USSR) voted the same way, i.e. to remain together and all the others were ignored just as the Moldovans were. Incidentally, Moldova was part of Romania for a relatively few decades before it was seized by Stalin.
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  1286. Another interesting aspect of this new cold war, is that this time the warmongers are on the economically weaker side. That alone should make it very different.
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  1287. 26:51 I think I have realised why it is that over the last few decades, I'm not sure when it began, the CW has lost all its great statesmen and stateswomen and now has only mediocraties in leading positions.. It is that promotion, in the CW, does not depend on your success in your doing your job, but simply upon your willingness to agree with your boss and to not ask embarrassing questions.
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  1288. 17:00 This case concerns not only lives lost, but lives which still can be saved. So, really, speed should be of the essense!
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  1289. 17:32 Long range small drones: Are there any Ukrainian ship or boats operating in the Black sea?
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  1290. 1:21:04 Who would be surprised if it turned out that the CIA murdered this Sikh activist to implicate/embarass Modi?
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  1291. 7:13 The EU is going in for de-industrialization because that is what Washington wants.
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  1292. 1:06:33 It seems almost surplus to point out that "durable terms" means that the US has given up warmongering, at least for the duration! A likely story? I should think so!
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  1293. 13:17 To say "There can be no NA*is in Ukraine because their President is a Jew" sound to me exactly like Racism! Isn't it?
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  1294. Hello Emil. I would like to discuss an idea that I have had. There is in Washington a set-up, which as far as I know has as yet no proper name. I will call it :The "Vicious Circle". It is a circulatory structure, hence the name, and it consists of various interconnected groups, These are: the amrs-making industries, the lobbyist industry, the members of Congress (The "congress-critters") & the United States Government (USG). In action, the Congress-critters vote to tell the USG to order some weapons from the arms manufactureres. The USG then orders the arms from the arms manufacturers and send them money. The arms manufacturers then send some money to their employees, some to their shareholders and some to the lobbyists and use some for advertising themselves. (Many of the congress-critters and members of the USG are their shareholders. Many Ex-congress critters and ex military and ex-government people, are sinecured employees of the arms industry, the so called "Revolving Door".) The lobbyists use some of the moneyfrom the USG to pay their employees and their shareholders and some to persuade congress critters to vote the "Right" way to keep the money flowing to the arms manufacturers. This whole "Merry-go-round" is financed by the Taxpayers, who have almost no influence on it at all. This Vicious Circle is very powerful and completely ruthless and therefore very hard to break up - under normal circumstances. However, we are approaching a very abnormal set of circumstances, or so it seems to me. What I am refering to, is that it looks as though, in the near future, the US (N@0) is going to be defeated by the Russians. This means that the Russians are going to have a once-in-a-century opportunity to be able to impose conditions on the US and its sattelites, vassals, proxies and puppets. I suggest that if the Russians were to insist that all the arms manufacturers in the World had to be nationalized entities, and that no private individual or corporation would be allowed to have any share in an arms manufacturing industy or firm, then it would cut the financial lifeline of thw Warmongers in Washington, London, Berlin and Brussels (Or anywhere else.) and thus would destroy the Vicious Circle. This would I believe, be an enormous step towards bringing real peace to the World. What do you think?
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  1295. 1:15:42 I have two pieces of advice for anyone fighting the Russians in the Ukrainian armed forces. The first comes from Mao Tse-tung. the second from a surrealist poet in 1970s America (I regret to say I have forgotten his name.) "To rebel is justified!" Mao. "Don't hope, take dope. Give up." US poet.
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  1296. I wish you and Alexander a very fufilling and satifying New Year. (By the look of it, at the moment , thereis no point in wishing anyone a Peaceful New Year!)
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  1297. 17:13 "Alexander and I" Congratulations! You are correct! Though there are not a lot of people that know that! Most British and US journalists get it wrong, all the time. Most British people leave school confused about it, though it is dead-simple. The fact that there are/were two of us in the sentence does not change the case of the pronouns! For example: "I went to the station. " "You went to the station." Therefore: "You and I went to the station, together." is correct. AND "Mother met me at the station." "Mother met you at the station." Therefore: "Mother met me and you at the station." is also correct. It's not really so difficult is it?
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  1298. 28:09 Yes, that research was in the papers released at the start of the SMO when the Russians captured some of the "Biological Research Labs" (Tm Victoria Nuland). They collected DNA from Russia-speaking Ukrainians and they were also researching the birds which wintered somewhere in the South and migrated to the North of Russia in the Springtime, passing through Ukraine on their way North. Planned genocide, to say the least.
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  1299. 16:05 It occurs to me that probably, (Just guessing) the USAmericans will be far more concerned about the war in Israel than they are about the one in Europe.
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  1300. 35:05 Any legal sophistry, is likely to merely further put off, anyone that might be thinking of parking some money for safe keeping. The "Cleverer" the argument the more off-putting it would be. "These people are not just crooks they are devilishly cunning with it!"
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  1301. 56:49 How could the Russians take the puppet zelensky seriously, or the US, as a partner in negotiations, seeeing that the USA repudiates any treaty they negotiate? The war is not "really" with Ukraine, it is with the US or perhaps, with N@0.
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  1302. 15:04 Isn't Boko Harem an offshoot of the CIA?
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  1303. I think it is happening.
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  1304. Very interesting and clear exposition of a complex subject.
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  1305. 13:30 Wouldn't it make life for European governments ever so much simpler, if, if only, they could restore the supply of Cheap Russian Gas?
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  1306. 35:22 It seems to me that the situation you are describing; where the US troops are back to where they were in, say,1990, and Europe was not threatening Russia, would now be inadequate. Suppose the US pulled out of Europe completely and Europe was, so to speak, pacified, That would still leave US bases all around the Central Asian states and China; and how long would it be, before the WoWs would be up to their old tricks? IMHO the settlement has to be more "Root & Branch" than that and given the disarray that the US/NATO is in at the moment, there is a once-in-a-century chance for the Russians and the Chinese to make it happen without a war.
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  1307. 8:10 Listening to AC, I realised that the hunt for "Terrorists" exactly mirrors the medieval hunt for "Heretics" and later for "Catholics" and then, in turn for "Dissenters", "Diggers", "Levellers", "Anarchists", "Communists", & "Drug Pushers". It seems that the Ruling Class, always requires a "dangerous enemy" and lacking such, will always manufacture it. It does so because it is always afraid of its working classes and feels the need for extra protection against it. Hence the "Special Branch in Britan, and Homeland Security (and the other 16 or so 3-letter agencies) in the US.
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  1308. 1:05:28 Don't you think that this "mistake" of Zaluzhny is, in fact, typical of people who are high on cocaine? They always feel much more capable, much stronger, much cleverer than they really are. You and Alaex have often "joked" about president Zelensky being addicted to cocaine, it seems to me very likely that the whole administration is too.
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  1309. 22:36 1000 sq km is about 20km X 50km (or 12miles X 35miles).
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  1310.  @viscndeSCP  Yes! You are so right! AND the USA did not declare war on Germany. No, Germany declared war on the USA. That was when they came to "save" us.
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  1311. The CW should be nervous, because not only are the Arabs united, but they have the backing of the RF, Iran and China, as well as, at least, the moral support of most of the rest of World.
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  1312. 1:12:15 What Mr Lutwak (apologies for spelling!) is disregarding, is that if Poland stops poking the bear and prevents anyone else from poking it their behalf, Poland will be in NO danger from Russia.
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  1313. 1:19:27 The ICC is, obviously, part of the International Rules-Based Order.
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  1314.  @anjazapico6380 Das ist ja Schadenfreude.
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  1315. 21:02 It also probably explains why Putin is so careful about, for example , what he eats and drinks. Hr gets jeered at by the Western MSM for bringing his own drink with him to meetings, but personally, I'm glad he does.
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  1316. I have always found disgraceful, the failure of most of the British to acknowledge the fact that the majority of the "British" casualties in the Second World War were in fact Indian and Nepalese,.
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  1317. 26:24 What was the purpose of Zelensky's visit to Norway? The Norwegians, as you said, have been enthusiastic supporters of Ukraine in this war AND they have a very large Sovereign Wealth Fund.
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  1318. 1:22:58 Peace and security in Europe is not enough! It would just allow the WoWs to switch all their attention to the Indo-Pacific.
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  1319. 1:11:38 Apart from Africa, there are at last two other conflicts under way or preparing, one in Thailand Myanmar and the other in the Phipines!
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  1320. 20:50 We saw the lizard.
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  1321. 27:32 Don't ever forget to blame Xi Jinping too!
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  1322. "We are still funding" Yeah! we (aka DARPA) are still funding some hundreds of labs doing similar research all around the world
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  1323. 23:54 NATO was not "created to defend" anything! It was and still is designed to help the USA maintain its position as the World Hegemon. It wa orginally designed to defeat Russia, but since then other threats to the USA's dominance have emerged and so have the aspirations of the organisation.
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  1324. 1:07:22 I suspect that the problems are, that both TNT (Tri-Nitro-Toluene) and Gun Cotton (cordite) require nitric acid for their manufacture and this is usually made using natural gas. Gun-cotton, of course needs cotton as a raw material. They are not saying this, but I suspect that nitric acid comes from either Belorus or China, cotton comes from China and probably toluene does too. I wonder where the raw materials for the shell cases come from?
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  1325. 13:40 "Why isn't this being done?" The cynic in me says: "The answer is obvious, it would decrease the amount of pharmaceutical sales. Every increase in vitamin D in the blood of the population at large, is reflected in a decrease in morbidity and mortality and probably, in pharmaceutical sales." I imagine this is why, the pharmacist where I buy Vitamin D, (incidentally, I don't find it cheap!) is always very careful to warn me of the "dangers" of exceeding 2000 units / day.
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  1326. 22:37 Wishful thoughts seem to be very precious, to the people that have them. Such people are very loath to give up their wishful ideas and substitute them with cold,hard truths. I confess that I have noticed this tendency even in myself.
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  1327. After the $300 Billion is spent, What are they goingto do next? Force the Banks to bail Ukraine out?
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  1328.  @theonly6359  That's what I thought.
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  1329. 13:04 This is the usual inversion; turning reality on its head! "We must be kind to defeated Russia and trade with them once they have been defeated," In Fact, Germany is desperate for trade with Russia and Russia is winning the war in Ukraine. A sort of text-book example.
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  1330. 48:13 To put it in cartoonish terms it looks to me asthough the CW was a very large and proud, not to say "stuck-up" paper tiger, which thought itself invincible and went swaggering around poking a very large, real, flesh-and-blood bear, that it thought was weak and ill. Eventually it poked the bear once too often, in too sensitive a spot and got into a real fight. It is only now, that the paper is beginning to tear really badly, its wooden framework is starting to show through, its claws are blunted and its teeth have mostly dropped out, that it is starting to wonder, in a panic, "What comes next?" "Ah! How are the mighty fallen!" To put the cherry on the top of this mess, this poor, dilapidated beast has lined itself up with the most unpopular country in the world to help it commit unspeakable crimes which will, probably, haunt it for decades to come.
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  1331. 3:38 The US State Department really does excell at one thing: Euphemisms. No one does it better or even runs them close!
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  1332. "Why should Russia be the only country with such a leader." Russia isn't the only country with "such a leader". China is another. As to why the West is lacking such leaders, even one such leader, I wonder if the answer lies in JE's "Little Black Notebook." Or does the answer lie in a system, which picks its leaders from among the most conformist and almost exclusively from among the children of rich families, children, who have been to the "right" schools and the "right" universities? And that rewards failure in one job, with promotion to a more important job?
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  1333. The Versailles Treaty was drafted, I believe, by two young US lawyers, John Foster and Alan Dulles. Just saying!
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  1334.  @Frugivorix34  Good Point!
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  1335. 19:28 I bet that there have been Neightough troops involved since 2014.
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  1336.  @annarock8966  Britain had an agreement with the Soviet Union to share techniques that would aid the war effort. Britain did not even share penicillin. For evidence of what I am saying, see the 1949 film "The Third Man": Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard.
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  1337. That opening was Quite Something! Do these White House inhabitants have no self-awareness at all?
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  1338. 57:08 I would (I shall) look at what the Chinese say on the subject of the Western economies. About a year before it happened, I read articles in "Peking Review" explaining how it was absolutely certain that the US was going to have to go off the Gold Standard and explaining in detail why. I was sceptical, but I bought 10 gold Sovreigns, @ £3/15 on the strength of it. I cursed my scepticism roundly when the price shot up a few months later! Clearly Soros, also saw clearly that the British government would have to devalue, before it did, going from (wasn't it?), $4 to the pound to $2.40.
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  1339. 11:22 Absolutely! Reading predictions about today made in the past is hilarious!
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  1340. Yes, right! They talk in sorrowful terms about the "Cultural Genocide" in Xinjiang (NB Cultural) while forcing Ukraine to commit a real suicide in this offensive.
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  1341. Úplnú pravdu! Viac Clare Dalys tiež.
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  1342.  @jozefhorvat3625  Ďakujem!
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  1343. 1:03:44 One thing that the Russians are not going to do is to trust the Western powers. At least,I don't see how they could. Any such manifestation of trust would, surely, be widely regarded in Russia as a betrayal.
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  1344. If I had made a F-up like Prigozhin's, I would keep quiet for quite a long time too! It seems he has got off remarkably lightly.
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  1345. 59:19 I do have a vague memory of some talk of North Korean volunteers wanting to fight for Russia in Ukraine in Yahoo's headlines about a month or maybe six weeks ago.
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  1346. 31:03 In discussing Russian supplied figures of casualties, you never mention captured personnel. Why is that? Are there none? Do the Russians never mention them?
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  1347. 31:18 Note also that the Israeli ruling class is also obsessed with territory. Much less with soldiers lives.
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  1348. 15:32 It is precisely because the US has never worried about killing civilians that they whole-heartedly backed the g*nocid*l policies of their ally in the ME. They have never seen anything wrong with killing civilians and because they were perceived as being undefeatably strong they were allowed to get away with it. Since the failure of the "Multi-seasonal Offensive" in Ukraine, perceptions have changed, the fragile nature of the paper-tiger has come into focus and the whole edifice, which was held together by fear, has started to crumble away at an astonishing pace. Another point is (I don't know how important it is) that the war in Gaza has elements of an inter-religious war, which means, that at least on the Muslim side, people may well be willing to take inordinate risks, "to defeat the invaders", thinking that even if they die in the cause, they will automatically go to Heaven as Matryrs.
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  1349. 39:10 The thing which has freed up the majority of the countries in the UN, to an extraordinary extent , is the failure of NATO in Ukraine. That this "Greatest and Most Powerful Military Machine That The World Has Ever Seen" has been shown up as a paper tiger, has had an electrifying effect on the way countries have been willing to say "No!" to US demands, like never before.
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  1350. 1:20:51 This is what happens when the lunatics take over the running of the asylum.
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  1351.  @49jojob  Yes, in recent years, political discussion has been made extraordinarily difficult by the MSM inverting and transposing terms like "Left-wing" and "Right-wing" and "progressive" and "reactionary", etc.
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  1352. Too right! If a Putin-like figure emerged in the Collective West (CW) he would be described, vilified as an Anti-Semite or worse and almost nothing he said would be accurately reported in the MSM. Furthermore any alternative medium that tried to report him accurately would be closed down.
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  1353. 5:20 "China, with aspirations of global dominance...." Anything to back this up? I think you are mistaken. The Chinese look at countries that ran Empires and are running an empire and they say it looks like a lot of trouble. What China wants, IMHO, is a prosperous World that they can trade in freely. Nothing more, nothing less. So far they have had some success in doing this. They have invested some trillion dollars on building infrastructure all over. So far they have not acquired one single colony. When do you think they are going to start colonizing? What's keeping them?
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  1354. I hope when your wiring is complete you will get some really expert de-buggers to do a sweep!
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  1355. 10:43 Why can't you get someone (Or even, some robot!) that can read a script correctly? "The AIIB is expected to invest ten dollars" This is rubbish! The AIIB does not deal in sums measured in "dollars" ! It, like all such institutions, deals in millions of dollars or Billions of dollars. If you can't get even such petty details right how can you ask anyone to take what you say seriously? It's insulting to your audience and not worthy of the subject.
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  1356. China has also launched space rockets from floating platforms if I'm not mistaken.
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  1357. I liked the remark that someone made, that he thought the story "Fifty Shades of Grey" was a biography of John Major.
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  1358. This sounds very like a typical color revolution!
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  1359. 28:50 What the US/NATO say and what they mean are not neccesarily, or even very often, the same thing. The USA for example is always saying how much it is concerned about other countries respect for Human Rights and at the same time is supporting in word annd dee the Israeli massacre of innocent Palestinian civilians.
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  1360. c.13:00 Denazification. There was no will to denazify West Germany. E.g. the Gehlen Organization was taken over by the Anglo-US wholesale, as was. It very much spawned the rebirth of the NA*i in Ukraine, but it acted as a US Intelligence Agency throughout Eastern Europe during the Cold War. (Perhaps still does?) The judges appointed during Hit*er times were not purged and nor were the teachers or the police.
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  1361. The word is "traitor".
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  1362. As Gonzalo Lira pointed out in a recent video, the MSM is losing money and as it is the government's principle propaganda arm, they subsidize it. so they would almost certainly memory hole the Sy Hersh story.
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  1363. 8:34 It could also be a manufacturing/design defect in one piece of ammunition.
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  1364. 6:28 No proof yet, that Ukraine was behind this terrorist attack but, Ukraine has been waging terrorist attacks on Donetsk City for the last ten years and more recently on Russian civilians in Kursk and Belgorod.
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  1365. 58:08 I am sure you are right. This is a demonstration of the importance these people put on WILL! The alternative, you see is too horrible to contemplate, the alternative being, that it is impossible to defeat the Russians! Surely, if only there were enough WILL put into it we couold find some tanks, guns ammo, javelins, stingers, triple7s, HIMAS, Storm shadows, Shovels, what have you, that would turn the tide in Zelensky's favour! Couldn't we?
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  1366. You can sum up the situation by saying : There is only one country threatening World peace and that is the USA. If they were not so doing, who would? The Russians had a bellyful of war in WW2, the Chinese have not indulged in unprovoked aggression in a long time and are primarily interested in building up China and avoiding being conquered. (having experienced what that is like, in the century ending in 1949.) India is not on a war path. Nor is Japan, nor is Germany, nor is Iran. So who is threatening World Peace? Only the USA and its vassals. So the CW indulging in an arms-race with Russia and China, is good only for the US' MICC.
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  1367. 4:21 It's a pity to spoil this video by suggesting that the Ukrainian regimes under Poroshenko and Zelensky were not masscering Russin-speaking Ukrainians between 2014 and 2022. In fact, they had shelled the Donbass for all those years and 14,000 people had died, How many of them were combatants trying to defend their homes, how many were Ukrainian troops and how many were civilians I do not know but I have heard a figure of about 10,000.
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  1368. My impression is that western politicians get very upset when too many US soldiers come home in body-bags, but Western commanders, particularly British comanders, have the attitude shown by Edward III, in the film "Brave Heart". In the depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn, Edward orders the archers to fire into a mass of English and Scottish soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand fighting. One of his lieutenants protests that this order will kill a lot of English soldiers. His reply is to the effect: "There's plenty more where they came from!"
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  1369. 33:48 "We're not talking to you, we're talking about you!"
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  1370. What do you two think about the woman who was just behind Trump and just before the shot that hit his ear, turned towards the shooter and then started filming the back of Trump's head?!
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  1371. If you have a monetary system where banks invent money out of thin air and then lend it out at interest, (which we do have) is it even theoretically possible, to run such a system without periodic debt crises?
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  1372. 1:17:42 With the genocide of Palestinians being shown to the World, daily on TV and internet, it is difficult to see how the ICC can avoid issuing arrest warrants for Israeli ministers. If they don't, it is equally difficult to see how they can ever be taken seriously again. Surely if they buckle to such crude US pressure, they will have to slink off and hide somewhere.
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  1373. 3:19 Depleted uranium ammunition catches fire when it hits and somewhat radioactive smoke settles on the ground around where it lands and poisons it, not for decades, but for centuries. In my view this is a war-crime, as it means that the food grown on this land is contaminated with uranium and pregnant mother will eat this food and absorb atoms od DU. A single atom of DU, decaying inside a cell is enough to cause a mutation, So, where DU ammunition has been used, as in Iraq, hideously deformed babies are born. DU is only mildly radioactive so it has a very long half-life. It is a disgusting weapon and I am very ashamed that it is a British government which is sending this revolting weapon to be used.
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  1374. 32:05 Probably, the notoriuous, sneaky, Russian-owned, Putin-propaganda site called : "The Duran".
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  1375. 25:46 That's not a "Leak" That's a "Hole Below the Waterline."!
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  1376. 15:00 I predict that this will go very badly in the long term, for the ordinary people of Argentina and probably he will bring in US advisors to the Argentinian Armed forces, police and security services. He will need them, to keep himself in power. If it turns out, that the CIA was behind his election campaign, I shall not be surprised in the least.
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  1377. 21:15 There are approimately 1 billion Europeans. $50 billion is there fore approximately $50.00 per European man, woman and child. Generous? Huh? Considering that some of the are homeless.
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  1378. Another thing I felt really disgraced the medical profession was the lack of support that most of them gave to the brave few, many of the eminent doctors, with a long history of first rate practice (some of them even Nobel Prize winners), who tried to raise the alarm about what was being done to the population at large.
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  1379. 10:12 I understand 85MW and I undrstand 8500MW (85GW), but what does 85MW/8500MW mean?
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  1380. 6:57 Maybe this was not a bio-weapon designed to kill people so much as a weapon designed to damage an economy.
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  1381. 1:12:13 What we seem to have here, is the Big Dog being wagged, against its will, by its tail!
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  1382. 6:32 If you wade through the British MSM you should invert everything you read and you will be fairly near the truth. As far as the Ukrainian media is concerned, I leave reading and interpreting that to you. As far as I can see, it is fiction from start to finish. With the US media it is mostly projection.
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  1383. When have the Russians bombed subways and shelters? Dates and places please.
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  1384.  @OceanFrontVilla3  YES! Truth will out. You cannot destroy the truth because it is in the past. You can cover it up and you can try to distort it but the truth remains the truth whatever you may tryy to do to it. It i will always be there to be uncovered.
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  1385. Yeah! Never mind the ostensible meaning of a statement by a USAmerican official. The important part, is to be found in the "nuance"!
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  1386. When I was at school I had a black classmate, from Ghana, who said: "In my country, when you see someone sunbathing, you know he is sick."
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  1387. 18:21 Elensky should go as Dictator of Ukraine.
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  1388. That was my computer.
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  1389. Boris threw it all away for Brownie points in Washington.
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  1390. The uranium comes from Russia.
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  1391. Also a large measure of "projection". "If any country is stronger than us, they will, of course, behave towards us as we behave towards weaker countries."
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  1392.  @bengale9977  Too right!
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  1393. 1:26:56 The problem with the CW is that it is no longer (If it ever was) a proper democracy. Why do I say that? I say that because, to have a fuctioning democracy, the Demos, the voters iow, need access to reliable, accurate, information. The present set up is one where the source of "Information", for most voters is a monopoly of about six extremely wealthy corporations, who have their own firmly entrenched ideas, on what they want people to know and what falsehoods, they want people to believe. As there is, virtually no penalty, for telling the Demos complete lies, false suggestions and suppressing unwelcome news, the voting patterns are completely distorted in a way that is a mockery of the term"Democracy".
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  1394.  @sareeyemanusqaame8723  Thanks.
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  1395. I think this is propaganda based on the belief that most people will not bother to look up Putin's speech but will infer from Blinken (etc.)'s remarks that Putin was threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. It could also be projection: "We would, therefore, they will." It is typical of the propaganda of the Collective West, that they make things up and then treat them as facts and go on to reinforce the idea that they are real, by talking all round them. E.g. "Putin's Price Hike", "Russia's refusal to supply Europe with Gas".
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  1396. There is quite high unemployment of university graduates in China, at the moment.
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  1397. 11:06 It is also possible that the ideaology of these 2special" units causes them to relish the thought of battling Russians. Maybe it makes them feel heroic or perhaps martyrs?
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  1398. 2:10 Bogus Shop: How does one report appearances of this type? Perhaps there are others like me, who do not know how to go about it and would if we did.
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  1399.  @TheMerlin672  Good, Thanks.
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  1400. Even if there were a mechanism by which Russia could be "kicked out" of the UNSG, it would not pass the Chinese veto. As somebody said the other day: "Russia and China do not stand shoulder-to-shoulder, no, they stand back-to-back". Russia China and Iran know that if if they allowed the USA to defeat any one of them, one of the survivors would be the next to be attacked. I disagree with you that the Russians would not fight a convential war, as they are much better at it than NATO. The War in Ukraine has gobbled up so much of NATO's arms and ammunition that NATO's members' militaries are complaining that they are being disarmed. The Russians are using far more ammunition than the Ukrainians, but they show no sign of running short.
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  1401. 1:14:51 Consideringt that wars and practising for war is one of the largest, if not the largest cause of greenhouse gas emmission and radioactive pollution, the US Quest for Eternal Hegemony is the cause of more than just misery caused by military action but also that caused by floods,droughts and other natural disaters associated with accelerated climate upsets, as well.
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  1402. I wonder whether while Navalny was in the West recuperating from his poisoning, he was vaccinated with Pfizer or Astra-Zenecker vaccine, against Cov-19?
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  1403. 28:50 The frogs' good work is eating mosquitos!
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  1404.  @judyyee4163  The mining dust will be a lot lighter than uranium oxide, being mostly silicon dioxide and coal dust, but yes, some uranium oxide dust, no doubt, will be blown further afield.
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  1405. How refreshing to hear someone talking in terms of class war and explaining events in r=terms of contradictions!
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  1406. Why do you put Victory day in inverted commas? Do you think that the victory over the "Thousand Year Reich" was not a real victory?
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  1407.  @bobblue_west  Who drove the Islamic diaspora out of the Islamic countries? Who made it impossible for themto make a living in their own countries? Did you ever ask yourself that question?
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  1408. 28:11 This operation involving "Anti-Putin Russians" fighting on behalf of F*scist Ukraine, reminds me of the Anti-Castro Cubans attacking Cuba in the Bay of Pigs operation. The Pentagon is a beacon of stability in a rapidly changing, chaotic World! It's nice to know there are some things one can rely on.
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  1409. Don't forget that the WEF says that there are too many people in the World and the Western Governments are all signed up to the WEF's agenda.
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  1410. I have completely lost my previous feelings of respect for the medical profession, over the Vaccine Mandates! Such a mass turning away, such a denial of the Hippocratic Oath! I expected a massive revolt against forcing doctors and nurses to be vaccinated themselves and requiring them to pressure their patients into accepting a procedure that they KNEW had not been properly researched, but only a PRINCIPLED FEW left the profession. The rest just went along with the authorities and kept schtum. A disgrace, I had not expected.
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  1411. I wonder, were the drones the Israelis sent reconnaissance drones, designed to transmit back info about Iranian defences?
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  1412. Thank you, Brian! That was a very and interesting report that you gave there. I don't think most people in the west, even those who are generally opposed to the US's foreign policy, realize just what a ruthless and evil group are running the US.
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  1413. 1:09:19 It really is weird that the US administration seems to be SO STUPID that at one and the same time, they are trying to drive a wedge between Russia and China, in Russia and trying to drive a wedge between China and Russia in China, AND at the same time attacking both! Incidentally I saw a headline in Yahoo, today, that the US is gearing up for an attack on Iran!
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  1414. 47:59 It is clear what the British Government "thinks it is doing": It is collecting Brownie Points in Washington.
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  1415. 51:35 No Investigation. So now we know why when in 2019, people in the US started dying of "Vaping Disease" doctors were forbidden by Fauci to do Autopsies.
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  1416. Well said!
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  1417. I imagine that the reason they wanted people to believe that Covid had a natural origin was that they wanted to cover up the fact that the research that led to the pandemic, was started in the US (Some was done in Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina.) and when Obama outlawed such research in the USA, they did not stop, they subcontracted it, to Wuhan, and continued to fund it.
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  1418. 12:35 I have read about solar powered drones like that.
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  1419. 53:19 It is pretty certain that at least some of the "Jihardi groups" are financed, armed and trained by the US/UK. It is interesting that all over this area, the US has been "assisting local forces" and all over this region, there have been local, military revolts to remove the French and that all these revolting militaries have then turned toward the Russians (Wagner) for help!. Do I see a pattern or is this just paradolia?
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  1420. If it's true it is very good news indeed! Who would have thought that Kier Starmer would show this much courage?
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  1421. The "Rule of Law" in the USA ceased in 2012, when some banks were deemed "Too big to fail" and were allowed to behave illegally. When all are not equal before the Law there really is no Law.
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  1422. End. I bet the Brazilians know how many beans make five beans!
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  1423. It is, of course possible, though extremely unlikely, that a Patriot missile collided accident-tally with a Kinjal missile, just as it is not completely impossible, that a woman who threw a tin of tomatoes at a Russian cruise missile hit it. This does not mean, however, that the Patriot system is going to be a useful defense against Kinjal missiles, it won't be, Nor that the Ukrainian anti-aircraft force should invest in a supply of canned tomatoes!
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  1424. Prediction? It Is now 1624 31/10/22.
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  1425. 1:06:41 This provides clear proof that the relationship of Australia to the US is a colonial one.. I.e. Australia is now a US colony.
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  1426.  @owenbruce4120  Are you sure of that? What if the maker forgot to put a label on the missile? And these missiles were fired from an aircraft. In any case, it is quite obvoius who would commit such a crime!
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  1427. All the countries of the Collective West are being "run" (If that is the right word!) by nonentities. There is a striking lack of anyone that could be fairly described as "great". Businesses are largely run by accountants, who are chiefly concerned the next quarter's figures. I have been increasingly puzzled by this phenomenon. I wonder, to what extent this is a symptom of a widespread addiction to cocaine amongst our rulers? I used to think that it was just me, getting fussy in my old age, but I find that there are other people who are noticing the same things and no one contradicts this viewpoint. So, what is the reason? I have just watched a video made by an ex-marine (US) who is living in Thailand and he describes how the same thing is happening there and he shows how and why it is happening. You might find it interesting, so I give you herewith the address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BkhYL6HNms&t=1363s BTW, from the start of the Cold War, there never was a "Soviet Threat to invade Western Europe", only a plan of a counter attack, as was well known in NATO HQ. The purpose of the New Cold(?) War is the same as the first; to enrich the US arms industry.
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  1428. 1:25:13In the scenario you have just outlined; it would be the second bouncing blank cheque, the first having been delivered by BoJo in early April 2022.
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  1429. Congratulations! 3,000,000 is 5% of the population. some multiple of that, as a proportion of the Voting Population. Time to start a political party dedicated to getting an investigation into this "Mystery"? I have a name for a party going spare, it might be suitable, or there again it might be considered "Too Provocative;" "The Free Radicals".
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  1430. 7:13 You don't seem to understand, Alex. The SPD is proposing a ban on the populist AfD to SAVE DEMOCRACY!
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  1431. 13:29 This is not well thought through by me, but the contradiction between the statements of Bloomberg and the German Energy Minister's and the attitude of the UKG, suggests to me that the energy situation is much easier than the elites are letting on and that their real aim is the impoverishment, immiseration and deindustrialization of Europe, which is what , I think, you were suggesting back in February. I suppose if Jeremy Corbyn were to suggest some sensible policies, no one would get to hear about them.
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  1432. All that Putin is saying simply that "Two can play at that game!" "Nuke us and you will be nuked back."
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  1433. 20:56 Your description of Georgia, is almost like a scene from a novel writen by Lewis Carrol called "Sylvi and Bruno" where there is a street demonstration, with people more or less violently petitioning the government demanding: "Less bread and more taxes!"
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  1434.  @Researchmisinfomation  Yes. That Taliban. When the US left Afghanistan they abandoned $85 billion's worth of weapons as a parting gift to the Taliban!
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  1435. This plan of Millei's will make Argentina's exports much more expensive, because it will greatly increase the Argentine cost of living.
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  1436. This attack on civilians to try to intimidate people into not resisting, is absolutely typical behaviour of reactionaries. In WW2 The Germans did it, the Japanese did it, the Baderarites did it, The Nationalist Chinese did it, so, come to that, did the US and Britain. Vide Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It never worked. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot be cited as proof that it sometimes works as the Japanese were already putting out peace-feelers before that was done. In the Korean war the US boasted that "Not a stone was left on top of another in North Korea." But it did not win them the war.
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  1437. 9:51 You are talking about les "ecoles normals", I imagine. The policy of sending "second class elites" to run colonies, in this day and age, sounds remarkably stupid! I did not know about that. &btw the Portuguese were also colonizers in Africa. How are they coping with the independence of their ex-colonies? That was a very bloody divorce!
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  1438. 1:03:30 "I find it remarkabe that this attempt to re-write the history of the Istanbul Agreement" Surely by now you should be used to the MSM lying throigh their teeth! Aren't you?
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  1439.  @joshuamosley6483  Ukraine was not FORMALLY in Nato but was in effect part of NATO. It's troops were trained by MATO, to NATO standards and Organized by NATO and when trained sent to fight the Donbass republics for eight years. It's troops fought in Afgjanistan alongside NATO troop-s. It could hardly have been more "NATO" if it had been formalized. Moreover What Ukraine spent is not relevant, most of the spending on arming and training Ukraine was Spent by other NATO countries.
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  1440. Sorry that was posted before ready! DH is ignoring how NATO set a dilemma for Putin. After the coup in 2014, the Azov Brigade and other units of the U, were trained, supplied and financed by NATO and battle hardened by fighting the militias of the Russian-speaking Eastern provinces of Ukraine, by February 2022 they had killed 14,000 of them and were threatening to wipe out the rest. This left Putin with the choice of fighting the largest, best-trained, best armed NATO army in Europe (Effectively going to war with NATO) or being, probably, overthrown as a coward, by his own electorate. Is it fair to describe this as "Putin's Aggression"?
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  1441.  @jason8434  What you say is at least partly true, but, the Western socialists were able to make a lot of temporary gains in Western Europe after WW2, because the ruling class were scared that they were going to face a revolution if they did not match the benefits that the Russian working classes had gained by theirs.
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  1442.  @elenaustyuzhanina297  Yes I would agree with that. Make sure you keep those benefits! You will need to keep a close eye on any proposed "Reforms" of them. Ruling classes are always looking for ways to claw those rights and benefits back! Any proposed "Reform" needs to be looked at very closely, in the light of the old question "Qui bono?" For example: In the late '50s, there was in Britain almost no "Drugs problem". There were a very few ex-colonial civil servants who had acquired an opium habit during their service in the far East. These were treated free by the NHS. The police were almost completely unarmed. The Conservative government under PM Harold MaMillan, said that this "free treatment of a very few despicable characters" was unfair to the rest of the population and in future they would have to pay for their prescriptions, thus joining the US's "War on Drugs", which started about the same time. The result was a huge boost to Organised Crime's finances and a real "Drugs Problem" and many more armed police. I think the next to go, in Britain, was free dental treatment.
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  1443. Very alarming ! This whole business with the Drug companies building huge factories and governments signing up to buy the product and, Presumably, planning to inject them into their populations, reeks not olny of corruption but even darker motives!
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  1444.  @Porkypies6m  It is that There can be multiple motives for Evil. The different motives do not exclude each other. It can be regarded as "killing more than one bird with a stone."
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  1445. 52:23 Well, consider which of the states voting in the UNGA likes terrorism to the extent that they practice it? Which of them is sufficiently shameless to boast about it? There really are only very few that I can think of. 1) there is the United States which openly advocates torture, waterboarding, as a means of getting "Vital" information and is effectively getting its ally the UK to torture Julian assange at the moment, as well as the unfortunate, admittedly innocent inhabitants of Guantanamo Bay. 2) There is Israel, which is at the moment torturing the whole population in Gaza by depriving them of WATER! (And other things, such as life.) 3) Threre is Saudi Arabia which has various horrible means of putting people to death and is credibly alleged to have chopped up a journalist, with a saw, who was alive when they started. I am not saying these are the only ones, there may well be others, but at least those are too ashamed of doing it to admit to it. (Shame being the wicked's tribute to virtue.) However, that is by no means the only form of terrorism; Ethnic Cleansing is another and ther you can count Israel, the United States and the UK as practioners of that. (E.g. Gaza, West Bank and Diego Garcia.)
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  1446. 10:24 I think the people running the West were, perhaps still are, living in the "World" that they have created in their own minds, where what they say goes. Where they are all-powerful and where they lead the world follows.
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  1447. "EU is blocking Hungary's access to billions of funds over democratic standards" Funnily enough, the criticism of Hungary's "Democratic Standards" comes from Ursala von der Leyen (President of the EU) and Josip Borrell (the FM of the EU) neither of whom was elected! Howzat for doublethink?
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  1448.  @AdmiralBonetoPick  The trouble with the Polish government is that is blinded by its hatred of Russia. The hatred may be justified, but hatred is a bad advisor.
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  1449.  @soniavadnjal7553  Distantly.
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  1450. ​ @banzobeans  Yes, I agree with all that. It reminds me of an exchange in Bernard Shaw's play about the Liberation War of the settlers in the Americas against the British; "The Devil's Disciple". In this, the captured British General, General Burgoyne, is asked by the Judge or prosecutor (I forget which) : "Who are your enemies in London?" and he replies: "Jobbery, snobbery, incompetence and red tape!"
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  1451. "Great to hear from a military man who knows what he is talking about." and this not he! Try Scott Ritter or Brian Berletic.
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  1452. 13:50 We have had Ukrainian soldiers filming themselves, announcing their own names, showing their faces and boasting about, and showing the world, how they were equipping quadricopters with poison gas cannisters, to bomb Russian troops with, among other nasties, Hydrogen cyanide. Presumably, (?) the OPCW will be investigating shortly.
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  1453.  @vagabondvibes2578  You'll get more truth and good advice from Putin shills, than from the government or the media.
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  1454. "We" are not so much targeting Russian troops as Russian civilians and Russian civilian infrastructure.
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  1455. Yeah! Under Mao, the Chinese were set back so hard that the population doubled between 1949 and 1983! That (Can you believe it?) in spite of 40,000,000 starving to death at the same time! The poor Chinese, were so stupid, that they accepted Western advice and introduced a disastrous "One Child Policy, that is really causing them grief now.
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  1456. One of the cleverest things the Establishment has done in the last few years is to completely confuse all political discussion by effectively transposing "Left" & "Right", "Progressive" & "Reactionary" and all the rest! No-one knows what is what or what anyone else means, any more.
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  1457. 28:19 Joe Biden is not a "lame Duck" president. He is a "Busted Flush" president. I wonder which the European Commission would prefer as C-in-C of the Collective West: Trump or Kamala?
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  1458.  @tonyedwards3938  Not a lot!
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  1459.  @beachfrogg  Thanks for the confirmation.
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  1460.  @sislater6334  Thank you.
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  1461. The most important factor in any dog-fight, is the skill of the respective pilots.
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  1462. 9:54 Ukraine's military was also battle hardened, after fighting the LPR and DPR for eight years, which no other EU country's military was on 24/2/22.
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  1463. c.6:30 ICI and I.G.Farbenindustrie held joint board meetings every six months, in Madrid, throughout WW2.
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  1464. 32:20 It is an interesting admission by Aristovitch that Ukraine's policies are NOT decided in Kiev.
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  1465. 23:10 I think Putin is a bit like the Mills of God, which, as you probably know, "grind slow, but grind exceeding small."
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  1466. 19:34 Did I read, or did I imagine it, that Schwab's bank is going belly-up?
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  1467. Happy Christmas to you too!
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  1468. 51:20 You don't understand why Zelensky and other believe highly improbable things? It's probably partly a case of believing their own propaganda. They put it out into the World and it is repeated unattributed and they think: "Oh! Look! Soandso thinks the same as we said, so what we said must be true after all!" In addition there is the phenomenon summed up in the old British saying : "There's none so blind as those that won't see."
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  1469. 24:06 IIRC when George Orwell was working for the BBC, MI6 had an office in the Shepherds' Bush BBC building, Was it "Room 101?".
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  1470. 24:27 The CW also stole Venezuela's gold reserve, that were deposited with the Bank of England, and gave them to Juan Guaido!
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  1471. 2:43 The "International Tribunal" was set up on US initiative and the case against China was brought not by the Philippines, but by the USA!
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  1472. 11:20 "we can also provide the wind-turbines and we can show you how to green your deserts!"
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  1473. 38:20 There is also a report in one of the Indian News outlets (WION or VFI) that Britain is receiving LNG from the USA and Qatar(?) and sending it on by undersea pipeline to Europe. All well and good, you might think, but the Europeans are not happy, they are complaining that this gas is dirty (Full of dust) and worse, radioactive!
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  1474.  @markhirstwood4190  You forgot the Chinese, South East Asian and the Indian contributions to that victory.
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  1475. 27:58 The best analogy that I can think of is "Walking on thin ice".
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  1476. 1:13:39 The Western leaders want Sevastopol. That's why they want Ukraine to concentrate on capturing Crimea to the exclusion of all else. Probably their tactical orders are generated by AI. They look heartless because they are heartless.
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  1477.  @kaspertube512  For that bet you don't need money!
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  1478.  @Khayyam-vg9fw  There is a reason for that. Leaders in the Collective West are selected for their wealth, their ability to sound encouraging , their ability to "talk the talk", their friends, their university, their parents, their good looks even, . . . . All sorts of reasons, not for their proven ability. And IT SHOWS!
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  1479. Having decoupled/been decoupled from Russia with really disastrous results it would seem pure madness, quite suicidal in fact, for Germany to decouple from China as well. The Greens however, are not rational they are idealogues. So, in pursuit of their agenda they are quite prepared to destroy the German economy.
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  1480. So, first you make a "Connection" between Iran and Hamas. Then you assume that the Hamas attack on Israel, was ordered by Iran and then you "take revenge" on Iran and..... Bob's yer Uncle! Just what everyone needed.
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  1481. The "Far Right" used to have a particular, reasonably well-defined meaning. For example one could say that Sir Oswald Mosley's Party the BUF was on the far right. Those days have however, to quote Hans Breitmann: "Gone mit der Evigkeit"! Today, "the far right" (Or come to that: "the far left") is anything or anyone that you hate or want others to hate, quite irrespective of their policies.
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  1482. I have heard that "1984" was based not on the USSR but on his time working in the BBC!
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  1483. Is it possible that the fact that the air before the meteorite wiped out the dinosaures had about 40% OXYGEN IN IT, RATHER THAN THE APPROX 20% we have now, is the reason that animals were able to grow so large? Further, is it also possible that half the oxygen in the air was used up in the fires that followed the metorite's arrival?
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  1484. The problem China has with US diplomacy, is that they feel (based on long experience of it) that the US does not mean what it says. E.g. it says that it respects the "One China" policy and then arms, encourages and supports the separatict movement in Taiwan.
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  1485. 6:00 It's not the Democrats or the Republicans you need to worry about assassinating anyone. No, it's the Deep State. So far from worrying about rules, they ignore them whenever they don't get their way using the rules. They are ruthless and lawless.
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  1486. How do you like the idea of an additional quotient, a Stupidity Quotient or SQ for short? This would of course be independent of the IQ, because everybody has both! Some have a higher IQ and some lower while the same is true of the SQ.
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  1487. 25:20 Do you think that Ursula, Anthony, Jake, Josep and Joe would recognise the Truth if it bit them on the backside?
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  1488. $200 billion Would be a drop in the bucket.
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  1489. "Israel has not yet acknowledged its role in the attack", Well! There's a great surprise! So who do you think did it? Go On! Have a guess!
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  1490. 53:30 You say you cannot understand why the CW is continuing with this war in the fashion that it is. Well, for what it's worth, I think the CW is behaving like an unsuccessful gambler. They cannot stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, because if they did the Russians would have won and admitting defeat would involve too much loss of face. They cannot continue supplying Ukraine, because they are running out of the weaponry to supply it, so they are heading for a huge crash. They could see it if they could bear to look at it, but it is easier to think that maybe, something will turn up to save the situation. So they go on supplying what they can while averting their thoughts from what is coming. "Kicking the can down the road", so to speak. In fact, it is almost an exact parallel to the financial situation, re de-dollarization.
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  1491. 21:24 Shooting the breeze! Chewing the fat!
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  1492. 38:55 Your problem, Mr Schweikert, is that you are saying thing which the Big Phramaceutical firms do not like. These are Big Criminal Organizations with multiple convictions to prove it. If they are just making propaganda against you, you are getting off lightly!
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  1493. 0:37 Body double?
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  1494.  @vward4871  Unfortunately, you are probably right.
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  1495. The word means to grind.
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  1496. "Ukraine Submits to US and European Pressure for Talks with Russia" This is like saying: "Mr Punch submits to the stallholdr's pressure to talk nicely to Mrs Punch and to the policeman."
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  1497.  @Puffball-ll1ly  Yes probably. That would account for how successful British industry is!
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  1498. 47:44 The darkened room detail, makes Budanov sound like the Cold Duke, of Coffin Castle, the villain in James Thurber's fairy story "The Thiteen Clocks"!
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  1499. I think the "Baluchistan Liberation Front" (Or whatever it is called) is an offshoot of the CIA, just like the Taliban, ISIS, Al Qaida and all the rest. I dont think it is under the control of the Pakistan government.
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  1500. 1:16:48 What a flock of chickens coming home to roost! We have the White House in deep doo-doo in Ukraine and in the Middle East, We have The Ukrainian government equally mired in a quagmire and now we have Olaf Scholz caught in the middle of cooking Germay's books! None of them has any easy or obvious way of escape from the traps of their own making. Is this all the result of the Curse of Zelensky? No. This is all the result of the unintended consequences of "Project Ukraine". Just another step along the way of the Centuries old project to overthrow the Russian Government, carve up Russia into manegable pieces and live happily ever after on the proceeds of looting it! The Poles tried it & failed. Napoleon tried it & failed Hit*er tried it & failed. And it now looks as though the Biden White House has tried it & failed. When will they ever learn?
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  1501. 31:47 I think reactionaries always see wars in terms of territory lost or gained, To them Land = Money. Money is Important and people are not.
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  1502. 29:36 The term you seem to be looking for is "Confirmation Bias".
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  1503. Apologies for posting this twice.
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  1504.  @hermitoldguy6312  Yes agreed. However, the coment is interesting in the context of frequent statements that "NATO is not at war with Russia".
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  1505. 14:34 For "Chaos" read "Exit from wars".
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  1506.  @Lionheart-n6m  Thanks. I rather thought so!
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  1507. 36:20 The Israeli claim is not just to the land that the UN awarded to Israel and Palestine. They want the whole of what they allege was the State of Israel under King Solomon, or something of the sort.
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  1508. The problem of emigration is caused by the US, in the form of the Military and the CIA going around the World destroying economies, making it impossible or intolerable for people to make a living in their own countries and moving to where they can live comparitively well.
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  1509. 1:10:59 It wasn't Biden who said that, I think it was Lindsay Graham. I heard (I think it was he) say it on camera.
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  1510. 15:24 Telling Sirsky to "Hold on until the November elections." is not just absurd, it is a clear indication of Zelensky's puppet-status; sacrificing Ukrainian lives to win a result in a foreign election! Howzzat for treachery?!
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  1511. It simply isn't true that Putin declared that Kharkiv was his next target. When asked about the recent attackin that area he said that Kharkiv was not their aim but the aim was to set up a "buffer zone" to stop the Ukrainians from shelling Belgorod and other civilian areas.
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  1512. The key to China's rapid growth since November 1949 is the Communist Party. From the very beginning, from before they achieved victory and declared the PRC, the CPC understood that Education was the Philosopher's stone that would drive their development into a great power. They understood that having a great mass of ignorant people was a drag rather than an asset and though at first, desperately poor, they spent a large proportion of what they had, on building schools and universities and getting Chinese experts who were living overseas, to return and help to build up China. They also spent a lot on the healt of the people. Being desperately short of western-trained doctors, they mobilised the tradional doctors and set up research institutes to find out what was good and what was superstion in TMC. They They organised small teams of health workers to go out into the countryside to educate the peasantry in elementary health care measures (So-called "Bare-footed Doctors) and made teams of expert western-trained medics to go out into the villages to see for themselves what were problems and to tread diseases that the bare-footed Doctors had been unable to cure. They also fought large snd successful campaigns against numerous endemic diseases such as schistosomiasis, TB and syphilis They also understood, that the most destructive thing that hampers development in all societies, is corruption, and that corruption could be their Achilles's heel. Is spite of strenuous objections by their western "friends" they have stuck to their efforts to root out the corrupt. Anther great strength, has been their ability to find and apply the common sense solution to a problem. Unlike the USSR they waged a constant battle against dogmatism. Mao put it typically bluntly: "Dogma is more useless than dog-shit."
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  1513. 17:24 There is no doubt in my mind that when BoJo and Biden promised "Unlimited aid", until Russia was defeated, they meant it seriously. They believed, like nearly everyone else, that NATO was, vastly more powerful than it has turned out to be. They thought that NATO was a real Tiger and that Russia was a pussy-cat by comparison! Well that's what happens when you believe your own propaganda instead of doing the necessary calculations and research. They had no idea how many shells and drones and missiles and airplanes and helicopters the Russians had, nor how few the West had and they believed that the Russian forces were stupid, lazy, incompetent, corrupt, badly trained, badly armed, disorganized and mutinous. So of course, they thought the well-trained, battle-hardened, motivated, well-armed Ukrainians were going to wipe the floor with the Russians. Why would they not have thought that?
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  1514. If the Medical establishment insists on "double blind randomised trial" (or whatever the formulation is) of a cheap repurposed drug; would it be possible to crowd-fund such a trial? Supervised/organised, perhaps, by some of the medical staff that have/will lost/loose their jobs because of their objections to the mandates that were/are arbitrarily imposed on them?
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  1515. 3:54 The war in Ukraine is mostly a ground and air war. The black Sea Fleet plays a minor role. Knocking it out completely, would not make much diference. It wuld not change the end of the war.
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  1516. 1:41 There is the story of a geralist medical doctor who found himself at a conference of cosmetic surgeons. After the formal meeting there was a cocktail party for the participants. Our doctor found himself next to a stranger and asked what his field was. "I am a nose-man." was the reply "Interesting!" said the generalist "Which nostril?"
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  1517. Very clear and useful info. Thank you for all your work!
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  1518. 4:09 "A free and open Indo-Pacific" Yeah! Sounds good. Doesn't it? Just bear in mind that the only way to make statements coming out of Washington DC, correspond to reality, is to understand the EXACT opposite, of what you would understand were the words spoken by an ordinary man.
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  1519. 32:56 What you say about the immigrants "crushing the working poor" is correct. What you don't mention is, that the US foreign policy of staging "Color Revolutions" and military interventions in other countries in the "Third World", thus wrecking their economies, is the major cause of the pressure at the Border.
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  1520. If these talks are a real event and not mere daydreaming, my advice to the Russians, would be to ask the Chinese, if they were having similar proposals from US representatives.
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  1521.  @hadhkamusa740  Thanks.
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  1522. f @АлександрСтарыйметаллург  Русские также были вынуждены осознать, что США не желают терпеть каких-либо экономических или политических конкурентов и хотят балканизировать Россию, чтобы облегчить ее контроль.
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  1523. 1:06:22 How I sympathize with your having to read the British and US media every day! Such a load of twisted logic and BS! I frequently find myself thinking : "Oh come on! Reading this is an utter waste of time!" (Unlike, poor you!) I can just click on the little cross in the top RH side of the screen and move on to something more palatable.
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  1524. Where, I wonder, is a de-indusrtialized Europe going to get the money to pay for this "Indian", "Chinese" or "USAmerican" oil? Perhaps they can develop Ursula's piracy idea into piracy on the high seas? No trouble getting arms they can buy them from Elensky! Government Sponsored Piracy has paid well at times in the past. (E.g. 1560 - 1603.) We have nuclear powered submarines now.
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  1525. 1:25:13 "There are none so blind as those that will not see."
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  1526. You can't have a functioning democracy where the MSM is all or even 90% controlled by one faction.
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  1527. Wonerful how this video skirts around the pandemic of excess deaths in the countries that used the mRNA vaccines!
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  1528. I heard that the 14th sanctions package is a response to a begging .letter from Putin to Ursula
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  1529. One of the things that very few people seem to understand is that there is no requirement or even pressure on the "News Outlets" to tell the truth! They can tell any lie they like, almost, and the worst that will happen to them, is that they will lose viewers or readers.
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  1530. 1:26:08 That is THE problem, isn't it? The US says: "We are the source, the only source of stability!" And at the same time sets about creating instability, to keep the MIC funded.
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  1531. 14:28 He will I predict sell off Argentina's oil to the big oil companies and the Land to Monsanto, Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Conagra, Unilever, Cargill and Delmonte. This will impact the small Argentinian farmers, very badly and will up the price of food even more. It will also force the introduction of GMO, if it is not there already..
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  1532. There is no evidence in Russian statements, to suggest that the Russians want more than they have stated at the start of their SMO in Ukraine. Western "leaders" are forever trying to whip up fear, to make their populations willing to go along with their daft plans. One of the "Daft Plans" was provoking Russia into a war in Ukraine and using that as an excuse to place numerous sanctions on Russia, with a view to causing "Regime Change" (Otherwise known as "Color Revolution) in Moscow. I say "Daft" because it was based on wishful thinking, not on reality and it is hurting Europe very badly and shows no sign of achieving any of its objects.
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  1533. 54:13 Do you think that the Trump foreign policy team will/would be allowed to dump the Ukraine problem, like that? (Genuine question, you understand the US much better than I do.) To me, however, it seems that the Neo-con US Establishment is much more intimately involved than would allow that.
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  1534. 2:24 Not so much POTUS as PINO.
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  1535. 48:47 Mostly when people make mistakes, it costs them more or less dearly. How fortunate was Bill G. that it ended up making him billions!
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  1536. 1:04:61 A cheaper rouble will encourage import substitution and discourage people from buying stuff abroad.
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  1537.  @Avbait-t2u  I don't suppose you can! There's none so blind as those that won't see.
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  1538. I should think that one of the effects of replacing Zaluzhny will be, or could quite likely be, that the "Ideological" units will see more fighting that they have until now and this will aid the Russian objective of denazifying the state of Ukraine.
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  1539. 20:40 It seems quite likely that Ursula is an existential threat! Oh! &BTW, was there ever any investigation of her deal with Big Pharma? You know, the purchase of 9 billion Euro's (Was it?) worth of "vaccines"? After the pandemic was largely over.
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  1540. 37:20 I should think the Ukrainian government has made any such research a capital offense. That's why the BBC is not doing it.
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  1541. 1:09:21 Probably, the sort of thinking that spawns articles like the one advocating waiting until Ukraine regains some territory and then starting negotiations; is based on a misunderstanding of Russian tactics. What I mean is, that the author looks at the battle maps and sees that the Russians are advancing "very slowly" and concludes therefore, that they cannot advance any quicker, and that therefore, they are more or less evenly matched against the Ukrainians. This being the case, we just have to give the Ukrainians a bit mor equitpment and they will be able to beat the Russians back. Given the persistent depiction of the war in the MSM, it is quite logical!
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  1542. 32:40 Putin's "peddling dreams of an expanded Russian Empire" is Simon Tisdale doing what dishonest arguers do, i.e. constructing a strawman argument. "Putin wants to reconstruct a Russian Empire, this an evil idea, this proves that Putin is dreaming evil dreams, therefore we have to destroy Putin lest he put these evil dreams into effect!"
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  1543. 22:13 I think was is constraining Zaluzhny from admitting that the war is lost and giving up, is that he is a dyed-in-the-wool Narsie and as such does not fancy his chances in Russian captivity. I suspect that he may well prefer to die fighting. Why do I call him that? Well, he volunteered to go and fight the Donbas Militias in 2014.
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  1544. The logical conclusion of the idea that "winning an election does not entitle you to form the government" is that the only way for the majority to control who is the government, is armed rebellion!
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  1545. 2:33 As I said yesterday, depleted uranium weapons pollute the environment with radioactivity but that is only half the story! The other half is, that Ukraine is the "Breadbasket of Europe" and unless Europe is going to stop eating Ukrainian food all Europe is in danger from these weapons.
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  1546.  @SeaDrive300  Agree.
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  1547. 1:01:38 They cannot have a plan because, if they stop supplying weapons to Ukraine, Ukraine will be very quickly unable to fight and if the continue supplying weapons to Ukraine, the CW will be unable to fight.
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  1548. This is not a REAL "regime change". It's not "real" because the ideology has not changed, only the puppets have changed. A real RC would involve a change of e.g. policy towards Russia, Ukraine, the US or the EU or all of them. This "RC" does not even change the party! (Not that that would be much of a "change" if the new party were Labour.)
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  1549. 10:15 IIRC, Starlink was used by the Ukrainian military for communication between the battlefields and the HQ. Then Musk asked for payment and did not get it (?) and turned off the link. AFAIK Starlink did not provide guidance systems.
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  1550. 31:43 The Ukrainians helped the Russians, by shutting off at least one pipeline.
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  1551. Why critise us for trading with the Russians, when we are also trading with you? Is that also fuelling your war machine?
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  1552. 19:28 OMG! Doesm't that make the US stupid for pissing off the Chinese!? I mean, if the US had been just a little bit more careful over Taiwan, Huawei and TikTok, maybe the Chinese would have supported the Russians less or not at all and Zelensky would have won last summer!
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  1553. 10:43 "It's going to weaken the German econmy even further." I wonder does the German Green party get any of its funding from the NED or from George Soros?
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  1554. 17:14 The case of the invisible Elephant in the room!
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  1555. Anything Ukraine does is almost certainly cleared with Washington, so you need to ask what benefit does Washington get from Ukraine turning off the gas to Europe?
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  1556. 18:20 Not to forget that the Czechs are, or at least were great arms manufacturers.
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  1557. 1:47 You call that statement by Blinken "Criticism?" That is not even a "slap on the wrist"! Milk and water is strong stuff compared to that!
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  1558.  @xenusceptic  We'll see.
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  1559.  @knlazar08  Yes, I imagine they have used experts from Madison Avenue as consultants.
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  1560. About pronunciation: Xi Jinping is pronounced:" She (as in English) gin (as in English) Ping (as in Ping-Pong.) In the case of Wang Yi, the Wang is propounced Wong to rhyme with "gong", not with "Bang!"
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  1561. 12:48 These "warnings" could also be preparing the ground for a false-flag use of a mini-nuke in Ukraine. The Russians have no need to use nuclear weapons, as they are winning without.
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  1562. 26:11 One of the things that has become clear as a result of the war in Ukraine, where the Western Alliance has been giving military advice, at the General to General level, is that the West lacks competent Generals!
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  1563. Buy your shares in the Pharmaceutical Industry NOW!
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  1564. 1:20:16 If one saw analagous behaviour in a person, in an individual, to that shown by the USA, one would have no doubt whatever that they were mentally sick, or hiding something by pretending to be so. Why can't people see this? It can only be the result of decades of propaganda.
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  1565. Please ask your self : Who really benefits from the Hamas attack on the Israeli and the other civilians? It surely is not the Palestinians. Hamas has close links with Al Qaida which is notoriously funded and trained by the CIA. (As was shown in Syria.) Netanyahoo has benefitted, he has gone from heading a very shaky government to heading a rock-solid Unity government. Now! Isn't that a surprising result!? And all the criticism of Israel in the Collective West is muzzled, for the time being at least, whilst the Palestinians, as a people, are roundly condemned on all sides.
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  1566.  @okmickey232  Yes, The "dots" were there, I just hadn't joined them up.
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  1567. 2:12 "Trump too aggressive". This is absolutely typical of this administration and of the MSM in general. If you want the truth, look at the "News" and believe the opposite and you will be much better informed than the average. Take as an example: all through the war in Ukraine it has been the innocent West, the Democratic Ukraine, the non-aggressive NATO and the Russian aggressors who suddenly one day, launched an unprovoked war on Ukraine and throughout, the war has been won by the gallant Ukrainians who have consistently beaten the demoralized, inefficient, ill-armed Russians who were always running out of ammunition, drones, missiles. Only now, it is becoming clear that the Russians are winning, they are better trained, have better morale than the Ukrainians, that the West worked really hard to force the Russians into invading Ukraine. That the Russians are not so inefficient, that their arms are no worse than the western ones and in some ways much better and more robust and above all the Russians are not running out of weapons. No, it is the west that is scraping the bottoms of its arsenals to find weapons that the Ukrainians can use, left over from the Soviet Union in the warehouses of East European countries and even Africa! It promises hundreds of tanks to the Ukrainians, but then finds that this country can spare only a dozen and this one four or five and another can spare none at all! Finally Germany comes up with 87 old 1950s tanks (Leopard I s) which are considered too thinly armored to serve in a tank battle with modern or even old Soviet tanks.
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  1568. 29:09 Dominic Cummins for PM?
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  1569.  @ConstructiveMinds100  That has nothing to do with whether the Russians are/were willing to negotiate!
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  1570.  @sparkyfromel  True, it is, but it won't fly.
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  1571. Same to you.
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  1572.  @yianpap6093  Right! So we agree.
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  1573. 300 square km is about 18 km X 18 km (or 11miles X 11miles)
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  1574. 13;40 Exactly right! They are worried that the alternative narrative sounds more convincing than the BS the CW MSM pumps out. Worse wait a little while and you can see that the alternative media corresponds to the facts on the ground. E.g. " The Russians are losing, losing, losing.." Fact: the Russians are occupying 20% of Ukraine. "The Russian economy is in tatters!" Fact. The rouble is where it was against the dollar. before the war.
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  1575. This is the most important contribution in the comments today. Nearly thirty years ago I lost my much loved, wonderful first wife to Alzheimer's, so I sympathize profoundly with all who have a similar experience. If only I had had the knowledge that I have today!
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  1576. 5:30 I agree with you, about attacking Belarus, provided you believe what Ukraine says. The Ukrainians had the best-trained and the only battle-hardened NATO type armed forces. last February and they cannot defeat a small part of the Russian armed forces. The rest of NATO is running low on weapons, providing Ukraine with replacement weapons and ammo. Which NATO country is going to take on the Russians and who is going to supply them with the weapons they will need? Not the US! That's for certain! "Too risky" Starting a nuclear war, taking into account the Russian's "Dead Hand" system is also certain death. So there is no point in discussing how a nuclear war would unfold. I think that, probably, in the end, we are looking at a security treaty which will give everybody security. I know that the US will struggle desperately against it, but I do not see that they have a viable alternative. If they cannot keep up with the Russians' production of armaments, what chance have they against China + Russia + Iran? Because if they push it, that is what they will face.
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  1577. 28:13 Contraditions? You mean like using Badererrites to further and protect Democracy?
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  1578. S-300 is an anti-aircraft & anti-missile system, not usually used to attack ground targets.
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  1579.  @ike637  True! Try telling the MSM, they don't want to know. "Facts я are us" They aren't.
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  1580. I, my wife and daughter were mandated to be vaccinated (On pain of huge fine.) and refused until Novavax(TM) vaccine became available. None of us three suffered any reaction.
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  1581. 4:52 Much as I respect Wang Yi, I disagree with him in this assessment. Almost all the conflict that has plagued the World since 1945 has originated in the US, because of its obssession with being the World Hegemon. The constsnt war-mongering has its eat in what I call the "Vicious circle" in Washington DC. This circular structure is fed, willy-nilly by the us taxpayer and passes out money to the shareholders and employees ofthe weapons mfgs and the lobbyist industry, shareholders and employees and the MSM feeds off advertising bought by the weapon mfgs. consists of various parts: the congress-critters, the weapons manufacturers, the United States Government and the lobbying industry. The vicious circle functions in the following way: being circular there is no startpoint or end point, but I will start with the congress-critters, who vote for payments to the arms mfgs. The government then orders the weapons and pays the weapons mfgs. The weapons mfgs thenpay their shareholders and employees and the lobbyists who pay the congress-critters' election expenseson condition that they vote "the right way" and so it goes round and round with the MSM carrying adverts from the arms mfgs and helping along with stories to alarm the general public. This structure is very powerful, very rich, quite ruthless and very well established. So long as it exists in its present form I doubt that the World will ever know peace. The only solution I can think of: is if the US is handed a resounding defeat in Ukraine and the Russians insist that all arms mfgs must be nationalised enterprises, with no other shareholder than the government of their country. This, by cutting the financial nexus, would kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead
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  1582.  @robertmoriarty925  Some physicians were paid per vaccination.
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  1583. 29:39 Your lack of understanding of Blimken's lack of understanding of the Palestinians' feelings, reminds me of a remark my first wife once addressedt to a man she was arguing with. "The trouble with you is, you look intelligent!" I should think this is the trouble with Blinken too. He looks quite presentable, but the man is an arrogant fool. There is no cure for stupidity. If you are stupid enough, you may even think that you are not stupid, or even think yourself clever!
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  1584.  @david8157  Thanks.
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  1585. 36:10 Perhaps the Ukrainians in these fields have run out of fuel to move.
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  1586.  @GeoPoliticsCommentry  No I did not know that. Thanks for the info.
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  1587. 9:03 I think and have thought for a long time, that you will not be considered for an official position (elected or selected) unless you have at least one skeleton in your cupnoard.
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  1588.  @pcvn214  You have misread the Ukraine constitution. The Speaker of the Parliament (The Verkhovna Rada) is the current legal President. Under the constitution, martial law does not prolong the Presidence beyond its normal expirey.
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  1589. Of course, I do not know why Shoigu and Gerasimov did not go with Putin, but I can imagine, that, perhaps, Putin wanted to hear what the commanders in the field had to say, when their bosses were not present.
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  1590.  @TheCuriousLemming  " our own leaders are more than partially to blame." You're still kidding yourself! Our leaders are entirely to blame!! What did the Russians do to deserve any part of this?
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  1591.  @hanna8418  Correct.
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  1592. While it may be "Unacceptable" to press for an enquiry into why there are these "excess deaths"; there should be no "problems" about asking why there is this reluctance to hold a public enquiry into them? You might think! 7,000 deaths of young adults is horrific! I was a National Serviceman and I served in a Battalion that was 1,000 strong. So, I know what 1,000 young adults looks like. To think of seven times that number being, struck down in the prime of life, in such a short time, and hardly any official reaction is almost incomprehensible.
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  1593.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  "America is net exporter of oil, it sells it's Texas light sweet crude oil for 20% above market value." So why the hissy fit over Saudi Arabia cutting oil output?
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  1594. Again about population failing to replace themselves when they industrialise and "Civilise". Well, this is not neccessarily true. When I was a child, the Chinese had a population that was generally reckoned to be about 500 million. before 2000 they had so many babies that it was a cause for worry and the authorities imposed a so-called "One ChildPolicy". (The population was then said to be about one Billion!) What was it caused this increase in the population? To me, (No expert on such matters.) it looked like people could, suddenly, afford to have and bring up children and feed them and so, that is what they did. In Europe and the US, after WW2, there was a period unti the 1970s(?) when there was what was called a "Baby Boom". which coincided with a period when a man's wage was enough to keep a family. Later, when it became neccessary to have two wages to keep a family, the population stopped expanding. Causal or coincidental? I don't know, but it seems to me, there could be a cause & effect connection. I have also read that the sperm count of European males has been falling since the 1920s. I have never seen figures for other countries. I have seen recently statements that the (RDI?)reccommended daily intake of vitamin D is set far too low, and that majority of patients coming to one North American Clinic are found to have very low levels of vitamin D compared to people who work out of doors. Might this be related to very low levels of reproduction/fertility?
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  1595. What I think is that the collective West is led by a small clique of WEF/Warmongers in Washington DC and administered by an almost incredibly incompetent or evil bunch of amateur nonentities in the European capitals. The crisis is caused by their attempt to destroy the Russian economy (a perfect storm of sanctions) which was intended to cause a color revolution in Moscow. Unfortunately for them, the Russians "saw them coming" and were prepared, so the Russian economy though somewhat damaged, did not collapse, but almost immediately started to recover. Meanwhile, back in the Collective West, they discovered that they had cut themselves off from their cheapest supplier of fuel, fertilizer and food, without making sure that they had adequate back-up suppliers. Apologizing to the Russians and trying to make up with them, would be too embarrassing, so rather than do that, they are prepared to let their populations suffer and in some cases die. They are all the more prepared to do this because, they have the religious belief that there are too many people in the world and they do not have hearts but rather swinging bricks. Their masters also want European industry bankrupted, to consolidate the hegemonic position of the USA. Europe, particularly Germany was too much competition. The USA has largely deindustrialized itself, moving much of its production to China and now finds itself short of productive industries and skilled workers. So an influx of German capital, knowhow and skilled workers would come in very handy! Keeping up with China is apparently an existential matter but is not going to be easy.
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  1596. 6:31 Doesn't this demented behaviour insistantly suggest, that the POTUS is a puppet? And doesn't that beg the question: is it just Biden that is a puppet or is it always the case? And, in either case, if so, who is pulling the strings?
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  1597. Crooked officials in China face detection and punishment. You say that the local governments are owing $21trillion but you do not say to whom do they owe this money? If the debt is internal, this is an administrative matter.
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  1598. 1@21:26 All throughout the period, since very shortly after the end of WW2, the "THREAT FROM RUSSIA" has been played up, firstly to disable the threat from left wing and communist parties in Western Europe, particularly in France and Italy and later simply to enrich the MIC and its shareholders. This game has been played determinedly and diligently, for the best part of seventy years with considerable success. However, what with the advent of the internet the MSM has been less and less able to "Fool all the people all the time". This has become very obvious, since the start of the Pandemic. (Perhaps because more people had more time to look at the internet?) If you look back at the Chat Columns of yesteryear, this change is brought into sharp relief. One sign that things were changing, in a direction that the ptb did not like, was when such organs as "The Guardian" and "The Independant" cancelled ("Temporarily suspended") their chat columns. Nowadays, even in pro-government videos, where they have chat columns, the proportion of dissident voices is quite substantial and in some videos, almost 100%.
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  1599. I suspect that another reason for the reduction in demand for new cars in China, is that Electric cars wear out much slower than ICE cars do. I have heard reports from Moscow, of Chinese cars working as taxis, still in very good condition after 620,000 km.
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  1600. 37:10 The US's stingy supply of weapons to the Ukraine is rather reminiscent of the way it behaved over PPE and vaccines. Perhaps it is just the "Nature of the Beast"?
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  1601. Not only did you have a respiratory outbreak but the US Health authorities forbade autopsies on the dead victims. Or so I have heard.
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  1602. If the US did not like Imran Khan being elected, you can be certain that from the moment he took office, they would have been working around the clock, to ensure that his time in office, was not a great success.
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  1603.  @freedom4639  Yes, there are other resemblances too. An ancestor of mine, who though a protestant clergyman, because he dared to campaign for civil rights for Catholics, was hanged for it.
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  1604.  @Skanzool  & so?
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  1605. I think the British ministers, generals and newspapermen (Correction!) Newspaperpersons, can give then a good run for the money! If anything, the British hypocrits are a wee bit more polished!
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  1606. 1:00:32 Probably the purpose of the attack on Raffa is to keep Netanyahoo out of jail.
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  1607. 1030 Not so much "Incredible" as "Discreditable".
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  1608. 38:42 The River Seine. The English word which most nearly resembles it, is "sane". (Oppiste to "insane".)
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  1609. Why does Prof Mearsheimer see either Russsia or China as a "Threat"? What are they threatening to do?
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  1610. 1:03:50 If you don't have the vocabulary, you don't have the concepts and without the concepts you cannot think clearly about the subject in consideration. So losing the vocabulary of diplomacy is a very serious matter.
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  1611. 40:11 I am more conspiratorially minded that either of you two gentlemen and as a result, I think that big pharma is not merely not pushing vitamin D because there is not much money to be made by selling it. I think it is "highly likely" (to use Theresa May's phrase) that they are suppressing discussion and sale of vitamin D because of its health-protective effects damaging their bottom lines.
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  1612. 14:24 I am sure you feel that you have "your work cut out" with Ukraine and the other things that you cover, but please take a look at the WHO's extremely alarming Power Grab. It needs airing and if you don't do it, who will? Dr John Campbell has made a start on it but it needs all the publicity it can be given.
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  1613. Tien An Men was a color revolution too.
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  1614. Interesting point! If the Ukraine (coming) debacle is the fault of "some" western leaders, are they going to give them names? Are they going to name & shame them ? Or are they going to let these despicable traitors, slink away into the shadows of the Dustbins of History? What do you think?
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  1615.  @ЕленаЕрмоленко-т3э  Он нацист
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  1616.  @cbdp  I think it was undermined. For instance, Germany had a very good banking system of small regional banks which worked well with SMEs. That has been largely destroyed in favour of large banks which are interested only in large firms and neglect small ones.
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  1617. No. There has not!
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  1618. 1:16:41 That is why a wholesale defeat of NATO by the Russians is absolutely necessary. Without it, the US obsession with their own hegemony and wonderfulness, their exceptionalism, will not die and until it does we shall not have peace.
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  1619. And in "Alice" too, either In "In Wonderland" or in "Through the Looking Glass", I forget which. "Fury said to a mouse That he met in the house: "Come let's have a trial. I've nothing to do." Said the mouse to the cur: "Such a trial dear Sir, With no judge and no jury Would be wasting our breath." "Oh! I'll be judge! I'll be jury!" Said cunning old Fury: I'll try the whole case And condemn you to death!"
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  1620. 4:54 The "Coalition of the Insignificant" can hardly expect to achieve anything without air superiority. None of them have the men or machines or the wherewithall to provide that. Air superiority would take massive amounts of fuel.
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  1621. 1:22:36 This is in fact N@0 being shown up as the US's Foreign Legion. Being used to enforce the Washington Diktat, er, sorry! Consensus.
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  1622. 1:19:14 "Economic competetiveness" is going to be hard to achieve without Nordstream!
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  1623. 21:14 Can you imagine the joy in the US MIC to hear that Europe is going to be big in the Arms trade? Can you also see where Europe is going to get the fuel to drive this industry? To me this enterprise sounds like another flight of fancy. Are the Russians, having de-militarised Ukraine and the CW, going to sit and watch while the West builds up a new improved, deadlier version of its previous self? Really? Pardon my skeptical nature, but I have to say: I doubt it!
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  1624. 43:34 I don't see defeat in Ukraine as a disaster, well, not for ordinary people. It will be a disaster, I hope and believe for the ptb. It will certainly completely destroy the prestige of N@0 and I hope, will result in the end of the US's drive to be World Hegemon and what the Russians were asking for in December 2021, a treaty or series of treaties, ensuring the security interests of the whole of Europe, Russia and the US (And China too!)
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  1625. What white phosphorus attacks by the Russians? Why isn't Zelensky complaining to the OPCW? I'm sure they would love to hear from him!
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  1626. I think one can see just how dumb the idea of seizing the 4£00million is by asking "Would you accept a Russian donation, to the CW, if the condition on which it was made, was the destruction of any trust in the dollar as a store of value?"
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  1627. 1:01:57 I think that google maps shows a large number of railway lines leading into and out of Chasiv Yar.
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  1628. 25:32 I think I am right in believing, that the largest manufacturer of washing machines in the World is HAIER, a Chinese company.
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  1629. Palpable = can be felt. Palatable = tasty, easy to eat.
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  1630. If I remember correctly, the Iraqi PM asked the US to withdraw its forces from Iraq more than a year ago and the US sort of pretended not to hear him!
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  1631. This court ruling is presumably an example of "Democracy" to go with theUS's defence of "Human Rights" in Gaza.
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  1632. Allowing the production of weapons to lapse was entirely sensible because no one was threatening anybody! The idiocy, if you like, was deciding to play chicken with Russia and China, without preparing for the eventuality that they might respond to the challenge, not by backing down or retreating but by saying "OK. Come on! If you're looking for trouble we are your men!"
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  1633. 17:00 You also have to remove whoever is behind all this. The WEF, perhaps?
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  1634. 14:32 It isn't a contradiction, its a fraud. The reality is the hard-nosed bully "You do it my way or else!" the Soft and gentle, tolerant image, is a disguise, a camoflage.
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  1635. Who "they"?
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  1636. 36:31 With electronic warfare tools, it is possible to create virtual missiles (I believe the Kinzhal missile create six "simulacra" of itself as it homes in on its target.) So, perhaps, this missile was not "real" at all!
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  1637. Russian, Chinese or Iranian ships would be OK, I imagine.
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  1638. 29:36 Is it conceivable that the US can act as Mediator in this situation?
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  1639. 21:00 How could it ne otherwise? These people, the Western "Diplomats" and their colleagues discussing policy with them, being completely cynical cannot conceive that the Russians are not also as cynical as they are themselves.
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  1640. 7:40 "Nobody predicted the Arab Spring" Except the CIA who organized it, as one of a long series of "Color-Revolutions" which has swept across the World, happening wherever there was a government that the USG did not approve of.
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  1641. Don't forget Venezuela!
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  1642. I forgot 29:33.
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  1643. The behaviour you are talking about is exactly like the conduct of the German forces in occupied Russia and other Slavic countries, during WW2, like their herding people into a ban and then burning it to the ground which I think they did in both Czecoslovakia (Lidice) and France (Oradour), If a government talks kike a Nartsie government and behaves like a Nartsie government why would you think that it is not a Nartsie government? Sure it will be a wrench for both of you, to digest this, but facts are facts and illusions are essentially unhealthy things to have.
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  1644. The late Dr A.J.P. Martin (who got 1/2 a Nobel prize for gas chomatography) believed and when he died was working on, a theory that the reason that animals get sick, (vomit) when they run a high temperature is so that their stomachs are empty and that this is because, when you are running a high temperature, you are very likely to develop an allergy to whatever you have in your stomach. If he was correct, it follows that giving anything to an animal while is has a high temperature, is a really bad idea.
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  1645. 34:10 This is no surprise at all. Hamas was set up by the Israeli intelligence, to discredit the Palestinian cause. So it is "controlled oposition". Naturally they would plan their operations with their handlers and naturally any "warning" of forthcoming "surprises" would be unwelcome news - to be suppressed.
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  1646. There is nothing new in these media lying to us. It goes way back; Mark Twain warned about it. I have seen it myself, back to the second World War. The only difference (If difference it is.) is that the relationship between the MSM and the propaganda/intelligence function of government, seems to be more formal and tighter than it was a few years ago. It seems to me, that the relationship was screwed to a new pitch after Snowden defected and the Guardian was told to better toe the line.
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  1647. A big part of the problem is that the Arms industry can (and does) buy the support of the MSM. This would be addressed at the same time, if the idea I set out a few minutes ago, were followed. A nationalized arms industry, under government control, would not need the support of the MSM. I.e. the MSM would feel (Relatively) free to report what they liked about foreign affairs.
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  1648. Because Zelensky is a head of state.
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  1649. 31:13 Perhaps, part of the trouble with the Israeli behaviour in this crisis is the all-pervasive mediocrity of Western governments?
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  1650.  @surudog4929  I once asked a (Christian ) priest "What is the essemtial element in religion?" and without hesitation he replied: "Faith". I am sure he was right. What is "Faith"? Well, as far as I can see, it is a firm belief in something that cannot be proved. To me, that looks stupid. I'm sorry about that, because I admire some people who are religious.
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  1651. 52:53 I would not be surprised if the whole cast of actors in this farcical tradgedy, were utterly corrupt and know, perfectly well that the Zelensky plan is BS, but calculate that, for the near future, it will provide them with a continuing cash stream which they can, meanwhile, stash away for the undoubtedly coming "rainy day"!
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  1652. 14:02 Zaihan's predictions seem to me, to be a combination of Wishful Thinking and Magical Thinking. "If I believe this hard enough, it WILL HAPPEN!"
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  1653. 15:19 "In the UK we tend to go for drugs produced by er big pharma. Rather than simple correction of ah nutrient deficiencies. It's bizarre when you think about it!" Not so surprising when you understand that the Big Pharmaceutical companies have made it policy to fund medical schools and medical research directly and medical journals through advertising.
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  1654. 1:10:16 Who trained Zaluzhny? Wasn't the Ukrainian army trained for eight years by NATO before this war? It seems a bit late now, to "discover" that General Zaluzhny is sub-standard!
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  1655. NATO is not in the business of "learning lessons". It is in the business of keeping the US MIC in work. It seems, it does not care how.
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  1656. In 2000 I bought a packet of Soda bicarb and out of idle curiosity I looked to see the "Use By" date. I was amused to see "Best use by June 3002"
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  1657. As the driving force behind this continual warmongering, is a vicious circle in Washinton, it seems obvious that the first problem is to break up this circular, self-sustaining system that consists of the arms industry, the lobbying industry, the congress-critters, the USG and back to the arms industry. This system is fuelled by the taxpayer, who has no choice in the matter and the system benefits the employees of the arms industry, the employees of the lobbyist industry and the shareholders of both industries. The problem is exacerbated by the fact, that many congress-critters and members of the USG are sharehoders in the arms industry and probanly, in the lobbyist industry too. This "group", (I am not sure if there is a proper name for such a set-up. I will refer to it as the "Vicious Circle" or VC.) is extremely stable and it is also ruthless, so it will be very difficult for anyone to dismantle it, but I think that until it is destroyed and "relegated to the Dustbin of History", the World will never know peace. However, I think there is a chance of doing just that, or rather there will shortly be a chance of doing that, because the Collective West is going to be in a uniquely weak position in the near future, when the Russians achieve a victory in Ukraine, (As I am fairly certain they are going to do.) and the CW is out of conventional weapons. ( I hope no one will be suicidal enough to use, nuclear weapons.) If one of the conditions that the Russians insisted on, was that all arms industries had to be state owned and no individual or corporation was allowed to have a shareholding in an industry making arms, I think it would go a long way towards destroying the VC and thus solving this problem. I would very much like to have Prof Sach's opinion on this idea.
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  1658.  @micnorton9487  Yes, the tunnel could have been there before the CO's house was erected. I don't know that anyone knew when it was built.
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  1659. 28:50 Don't forget that it was not just Biden! He has such a wonderful support-team! First of all his VP Kamala Harris! Then the master Diplomat Anthony Blinken who has just charmed the whole of the Middle East and crushed (Crushed, I say.) the Chinese FM Wang Yi. And Jake Sullivan and Admiral Kirby the Man who will, given the chance, sweep the seas of the wretched Chinese Navy, which being run by the Army hasn't a clue at sea!
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  1660.  @vladtheimpala1  Unlike you, we can't all be wonderful all the time!
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  1661. Spot on!
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  1662. 19:09 Of course one has to excuse the Western planners for this tragic mistake, for who could have foreseen that the Chinese, the Iranians and the North Koreans, after all the kindness and understanding that the US has shown them, would treacherously turn on the US and aid the Russians against the Ukrainians? Talk about "biting the hand that fed them"!!
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  1663. Alexander's remark about criminals is interesting. I did not know that! But I suppose it is obvious that they would think that way. And yes, it is probably, by extension also true of our leaders, they are after, all criminals, almost to a man or woman!
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  1664. 1:04:50 Also the operation in Bachmut cost many thousands of lives on both sides and exhausted the ammunition of the Ukrainian side to a very large extent. How extensive the Israeli stocks and supply of ammo is, I, of course do not know. but I wonder if it can stand losses similar to those in Bachmut.
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  1665.  @josephvanwie6706  Yes. Good point!
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  1666.  @davidfarmer9118  I should imagine it is difficult to make explosives without the supply of ammonia that used to come from Russia. As any explosion releases a lot of energy, making explosives must use a lot of energy. Sanctions on Russian oil cannot help. It is, also, an inherently dangerous job. You need skilled workers who can really concentrate on what they are doing. The same is true of making munitions. Without the "Health and Safety" regulations being strictly enforced, you will lose the factories. Don't knock the inspectors! They are absolutely essential!
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  1667. 28:31 I may be wrong, but I think you will find that nobody can fix up the Ukrainian power grid, without the cooperation of China. Why do I say this? Because the only country that currently makes high-power transformers is China. Before the SMO, I remember an American (US) writer complaining that after the Californian wildfires, the power company was having trouble replacing the transformers destroyed by the fires, as the only source of supply, the only people that made them, was China and there was a 13month delay, between placing an order and taking delivery.
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  1668. "Wolf Blitzer" This name sound to me like something out of WW2 Germany. (If yer no wot I meen sorta thing like!)
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  1669. 27:22 Alex Christoforou has, today, a different hypothesis as to how this recording reached the light of day and why.
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  1670.  @richardanson2445  You are right, but that has nothing to do with what I said. I was talking about what Netanyahoo wants. He has made pretty clear what he wants.
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  1671.  @WilliamMurphy-vu8rk  Not true. I said nothing about the current population of Israel. You are changing the subject.
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  1672.  @Steinstra-vj7wl  I did not mention the present state of Israel. I was writing about : "What Netanyahoo wants". It helps to read and understand what you are reading before you "answer".
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  1673.  @richardanson2445  Another one who does not read and understand before "answering"! I wrote about : "What Netanyahoo wants". This has nothing to do with "who lives where."
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  1674.  @WilliamMurphy-vu8rk  And a third one! So many people who are not bothering to read before they reply!
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  1675. 17:57 "Low Russian morale". The fact of the matter seems to be, that the US has very little in the way of reliable informants inside Russia. Some three or four years ago, the Iranian intelligence discovered the US's means of communicating with their assets in Iran, via the internet. Having cracked it, and rounded up the whole network, they eliminated it and then shared their discovery with Russia and China. Since then the quality of information from inside these three countries has been very poor.
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  1676. 9:58 Have these criminal idiots really been using DU ammo in Britain? In their own country? Whatever one may think of the morality and cost-benefit analysis, of supplying it to the Ukrainians, to use on the Russians, in the "breadbasket of Europe", (and for all sorts of reasons I think it is criminal insanity) using it in your own country strikes me as actionable treason. Perhaps some lawyer can tell me if it isn't? And if not, why not?
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  1677.  @richardoldfield6714  From February 2014 until 24/2/22, Ukraine waged a genocidal war against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, in which 14,000 died. If that was not a provocation, what would you say would constitute a justification for invading?
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  1678.  @richardoldfield6714  Presumably you are counting the breakaway from Ukraine of Crimea in 2014 as the first "Invasion". It was a funny sort of invasion with no casualties. I take it you think the Russians ought to have stood by while NATO took over their only base in the Black sea?
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  1679. 9:24 I remember that during WW2 there was an offence called: "Causing alarm and despondency". i should think such a law would certainly cover what Prigozhin was doing!
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  1680.  @brandtbollers3183  Do you mean he has plenty of power in reserve? If so, I would imagine you are right.
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  1681. 26:40 You are asking very relevant questions. How are they going to be supplied? How long are their arms going to last? Are they prepared to face the condition on the front line facing the Russians? How are "the old folks at home" going to take having their menfollk being thrown into this battle?
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  1682. The only rational explanation for the State's behaviour is that it had been bought. There was/is no scientific explanation for forcing this poor lad to be jabbed, only commercial considerations. The whole business relied on a series of lies, based on hope(?) and unsupported by scientific testing, such as that the material concerned was "Safe" and "Effective". To say that the material was "safe" could not be justified, because it had not been tested. Equally to say that it was "effective" could not be justifieded because such a statement could only be made in hindsight of which there was none! I hope this case goes to the ECHR.
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  1683.  @kiprotichngetich8490  So why isn't Chicago helpingUkraine?
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  1684. NEWSMAX a prime example of the reliability of the MSM.
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  1685. 27:35 I think the balance of probabilities is the you are right. It was a sales pitch & the bloggers exposed it.
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  1686. Let's hope you are right! (I would however, bet you are wrong!)
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  1687. 9:23 Maybe he is going to recreate the Warsaw Pact?
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  1688. Brilliant program! You really ought to read Ron Unz's article on how the Chicago mob of the 1930s merged with the US government after WW2 and then completely took it over. It's a real eye-opener! See "The Unz Review" for details.
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  1689. IMOH Maduro should refuse to do ANYTHING to help the US, before he gets his gold back. Having that would be a psychological blow to his enemies and would give him immediate economic clout.
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  1690. Note to Liu Xin: As Mao said (Working from memory.) "In any situation there are contradictions. If you look carefully, you will see that one contradiction is the principal contradiction. If you solve that one, a lot of the minor contradictions will disappear. If you don't solve the principle contradiction, for every minor contradiction you solve, another two will appear. In my comments during this program, I have set out, what I think is the principle contradiction. I would be interested to hear any thoughts on what I have written that you might have.
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  1691. You can take this "Putin the All-Powerful" story further: he can not only win elections for Donald Trump, but he can do it with only $12,000's worth of advertising!!! What a publicist!! Eat yer heart out Madison Avenue!! He can raise the price of petrol (Gas) at the American pump and the President and all the president's men, cannot bring it down?! He can disappear all the baby formula and the USG cannot stop him? Just imagine what America would be like if they had Putin for President!!! Scary!
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  1692. What a pratt this Tobias Elwood is! There is no evidence that Huawei equipment is designed to spy on anyone. The German government reseachers were given the Huawei operating system to examine and after a year or two's reseach concluded that is had no "back doors " or other spy-type features, just as Huawei said. I remember another Tory MP, of an exactly similar stripe called, IIRC, Tufton Beamish, who shortly after WW2 ended, came to our school and gave us a lecture on the menaceof the USSR and explained how the Western powers, cheifly Britain and the US had to re-arm, in order to defend "Democracy" all over the World from the Soviet Threat. After his lecture we were invited by the Headmaster to ask him questions and I asked him how he reconciled the West's "Defenxse of Democracy" with its support, against their own popiulations, of numerous dictators such as: General Franco of Spain, General Salazaar of Portugal, the Colonels of Greece, King Farouk of Egypt, King Idris of Libya, General Chiang Kai-shek of China and numerous others , who, without exception were vehemently Anti-Democratic. I was shocked by the cynicism of his answer. "Ah well, me lad! You'll find as you grow up, that it doesn't do to look too closely at your friends, or you may find you haven't got any!" While this may have been good "Life advice", It was an evasion of my question and no sort of basis for "Defending Democracy". His lecture was in fact, just scaremongering. The same as Tobias Ellwoods remarks on Huawei. Both of them strike me, as being US puppets.
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  1693. 9:08 In medieval times the Italians produced armour for knights which was totally unsuitable for battle, but which was intended to look wonderful in a parade. There is also the story that when our moustachioed friend vitisted Italy, Mussolini had a huge number of cardboard battle tanks built and had them stationed all along the railway line that the visitor's train would travel. He also had the entire Italian army, send everyone it could spare for the day, to stand around near the tanks, so that his guest, got an entirely false impression of Italy's military might. Come to think of it, I once met a man who had been a tanker in North Africa during WW2. He told me that Italian tanks were much safer to be in than US or British tanks because they were made of such thin material that a bullet would pass straight tthrough them and unless you happened to be in the wrong place you were unhurt. Also they were much lighter and therefore much speedier than the lumbering giants of the allies, If you got hit by an anti-tank rocket the chances were that it too, would pass straight through without exploding, while if you were in an allied tank you would almost certainly be killed by the spray of molten steel that came into the interior.
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  1694. 44:08 Can you wonder that the British army is "at an all-time low"? The idiot warmongers in Britain are threatening to send them to fight the Russian! Bah Gar! If I were in the British army I would not hesitate for a moment to get my papers in quick!
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  1695. 1:19:53 I read yesterday that a large proportion of the Houthi "missiles" are in fact, plywood mock-ups designed to waste expensive sam missiles fired to protect ships from them!
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  1696. 43:16 The point is that Rizz is no substitue for ability. It may be charming. It may attract attention, but when it comes to intelligent reaction to events and far-sighted planning it doesn't cut the mustard. There is no substitutte for intelligence (Both senses of the ward.) and rizz is not it.
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  1697. The remarks by Trump threatening the European countries with "The Putin" is like a parent or baby sitter threatening a recalcitrant child with the "Bogey-man" coming to get them! (Ooh er! "If the Bogey-Man comes to get you, I shall not stop him! I'll tell him: "Take this naughty child away and do whatever you like with him! I just don't care!" ) Trump does not control Putin and anyway, N@0 is not a defensive alliance as is shown by its record. It has never defended even a single one of its members (None of them was ever attacked or threatened with attack) N@0 has only ever attacked other countries and always to assist the US in doing so. It is an AGGRESIVE, NOT A DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE! A sort of US Foreign Legion, where the Legoinaires, or at least their own taxpayers, pay their own salaries!
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  1698.  @gingerfox7143  Yes!
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  1699. Are the Russians, the Chinese and the Iranians going to give up their sovereignty to the WHO too?
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  1700. 11:53 According to the Hidustan Times the "Fairy Tale Castle" in Odessa that was struck, was hit by a missile that had been intercepted.
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  1701.  @walterstoll8043  I think political parties ought to screen all candidates for elected office for symptoms of paranoia, psychopathy and sociopathy. Yes, and independent candidates, should have to produce a certificate from a registered psychiatrist, to the effect that they do not have these symptoms either.
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  1702. I agree with a lot of what Mearsheimer says, but I think he should understand that the hatred for Russia, is far more prevalent among the elites, the governments of Europe than it is amongst the ordinary people, as can be seen by the demonstrations in e.g. Germany, France, Italy and even Britain.
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  1703.  @putthecandleback9  And not just immediately after they have exposed the government!
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  1704. 55:49 My impression is that the CW has all sorts of "plans" but most of them are so far-fetched that they are ashamed to talk about them! As the days tick by, it seems that yet another daft plan is exposed and so to say, bites the dust. Just recently, for example, there was the "plan" to get the Russians to agree to a ceasefire, so that Ukraine could be rapidly bundled into Neightoe and surruptitiously rearmed and then, would attack and defeat Russia! Problem is, that the Russians just refuse to go along with this! Then there was, a day or so before the most recent missile strike on Ukraine, (Which I should think has put paid to it.) the plan for European arms manufacturers, to take some of the seized $300billion and use it to set up an armarment industry in Ukraine! (A long way undergound, presumably?)
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  1705. Interesting point: Nato protects its members against being attacked. Does that mean that if one member attacks a non-member, the other members all have to come to its aid? I would have thought not!
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  1706. 8:57 No! They are waking Biden up every 4-6 hours to report progress to him and get his instructions.
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  1707. 1:03 Scientist who are challenged on their work, if they are real scientist, will welcome questions because they will believe in their own conclusions and will be happy to expound their reasoning, because they think they have "got it right". If they object to being questioned, either they are not scientists or they are, but they know that their data does not support the conclusions they are pushing. In other words, they have a sideline in snake-oil. Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of such corruption in "science" at the moment.
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  1708. The reason why the "Problem" could not be solved peacefully, was that it was not "The" problem, it was a means to an end. That end, was destabilising the Russian government and causing a Regime Change in Moscow, leading to a Navalny government and the subsequent looting of Russia, a la 1990s.
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  1709. The point that seems to be being overlooked here as elsewhere is that food grown on ground contaminated by these DU shellls is also toxic and taken together with the fact that a lot of the world relied on Ukraine for much of its food. this action by the British government is , in fact, an attack upon much of the world, with which it has no quarrel. It also means that the UK too is going to suffer. Of course, it is also true that feeding animals on grain grown in contaminated ground provides consumers with contaminated meat, cheese, milk and eggs.
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  1710.  @homeguardster  There are too many suspects to pick out any one of them as "Most likely". He had plenty of enemies we know about, there were probably many more we know nothing about.
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  1711. 5:15 You make the same mistake again! It seems to be a systemic error. 59,500 lbs is not equal to 27 kg. Your ignorance and carelessness is embarrassing.
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  1712. 7:22 What pieces of "Brutal Dictatorship" were you, Ameisha Cross talking about? I am not saying they don't exist, but I cannot off hand, think which you must be refering to.
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  1713. 1:31:16 The obvious conclusion from your discussion, is that there is a fundamental flaw in democracy. Being elected by the people is not a sufficient filter. It is an urgent neccessity to have, to devise, a system that not only filters out the unpopular but, much more importantly, the stupid and the ignorant as well. Come to think about it, maybe filtering out the unpopular is not neccessarily a good idea!
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  1714. 4:20 This sounds similar to what the Russians did in the battle of the Kursk Salient in WW2, where knowing the Germans wish to always be attacking, they set a trap, preparing for a German offensive, while making that part of the front look weak.
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  1715. 7:53 The "Isra*lis want to destroy Ham*s" That is not quite accurate. They are using "destroying Ham*s" as a cover for killing P*lestini*ns.
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  1716. I wonder how much the US has spent on setting up, arming and training these Islamic Terror Groups?
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  1717. Perhaps, Prigozhin is an illustration of one of the dangers in allowing private armies to exist? I have always thought that the example of the Praetorian Guard deciding who was to be the next Emperor, should give any government cause for a LOT of thought before allowing such organizations to exist in their state.
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  1718. The MSM are struggling because they are controlled in what they can report by their advertisers e.g. the big pharmaceutical firms ( Iverm*ctin) and they are controlled in the political news they can report by the so-called "Integrity Initiative" (I do not know if this applies to this channel) which is an offshoot of the "Five Eyes" security apparatus, which has its assets in every major English-language newsroom and tells the chief editor, in real time, what news is publishable and what is to be suppressed. This makes the MSM dull and unreliable. If it is losing readership, well, that's not such a bad thing! It is also predictable.
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  1719. 3:15 In 1949, China's population was thought to be about 500 million. Around the year 2000 it was about a billion. The economic conditions were nothing like as favourable to people who wanted to have and bring up a family as they are now. It's true that there is a problem, but an insoluable problem? No. I don't think so.
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  1720. 5:06 " "Iran acting in an ascalatory, destabilising way that undermines the stability across the broader Middle East is not in the interests" of China . . . ." Yes! No doubt, if Iran were, what Biden is saying would be true, BUT, Who is illegally in Syria, stealing their oil, burning their crops and killing their soldiers? Why! It's those peaceloving good ol' boys themselves! Sent there by (Guess who?) Biden! Do they think this is going to fool the Chinese? Do they think the rest of the World is not going to notice the blatent hypocrisy? Do they think that the World is populated entirely by fools and ignorami? GGMS!
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  1721.  @thomasmccormick-xp4it  The alternator may be good but the rectifier that turns the alternating current into DC is dud and will give trouble. 4.5A is the current it is taking at the moment, that is 60W which is quite a lot of heat. It could easily turn into a dead short and catch fire! The rectifier usually has either three or six diodes in it and one dud diode may not stop it charging, but it is a crisis waiting to happen.
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  1722.  @Johnathon10  I have been out of that scene for 30years+ now, so you may well be right. Alternatively, maybe, the man making the video does not really like dealing with electrical things. I have met car-mechanics who were afraid to touch 12V battery terminals!
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  1723. 1:14:21 Its all very well to blame the Europeans for not getting to know the Russians during the long years of the Cold War and I would agree that it was stupid on many levels and the amount of myth-making and story-telling that went on in the MSM was ridiculous, but, anyone that wanted to do that was regarded with the deepest suspicion by the ptb in Washington and was likely to find themselves demonised as a "Soviet Agent" and marginalised as quickly as possible. McArthyism was a real phenomenon.
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  1724. It seems to me "Highly Likely" that this is an example of a US attack on Germany. In any case, the leaders of both Canada and Germany are virtue-signalling dealogues.
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  1725. What concerns me more than the prospect of the Ukrainians shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, is the British government's supplying the Ukrainian forces with depleted uranium ammunition for "killing" tanks. The problem with the use of such ammo is that it spreads depleted uranium dust around the site of its use, which contaminates the soil. This contamination, as has been demonstrated in Serbia and Iraq, causes dreadful birth defects in children whose mothers have the terrible misfortune to ingest even single atoms of this substance, whilst pregnant. It seems to me that even the manufacture of such weapons should be made a "Crime Against Humanity", and the supply of them or the use of them a war crime. This British government idiocy is compounded by the fact that Ukraine is called "The Breadbasket of Europe"; so that the use of such weapons in the war in Ukraine, threatens the lives of children who have yet to be conceived for God alone knows how long, not just in Ukraine but in all the countries which might import foodstuffs from Ukraine.
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  1726. Further problems with trying to supply Ukraine with weapons on an ongoing basis, are that many of the necessary raw materials come from Russia and China and that much of the machinery needed to gear up for producing e.g. ammunition would also largely have to come from China. Also, not touched upon in either the Rand study or your talk about it, is the continuing de-dollarization of the world's commerce and the consequent flood of dollars onto the world's markets. I am reminded of the sign one often sees in France, by road-works, by deep hole or impossibly rough patches,: "Passage difficile."
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  1727. Why is the MSM freaking out? Simple! They have been lying "through their teeth" since forever and are about to be exposed, over their "coverage" of the war in Ukraine, or so they fear! Naturally, they are panicking, though they should not worry, because in the West, there are no penalties for telling lies in the Media, only penaties for telling truth that the authorities want suppressed.
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  1728. 2:22 Re: the permanence of the internet, clock this stanza from the Rubaiyat of Omah Khayyam (As translated by Edward Fitzgerald). "The moving finger writes And having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit Will call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it!"
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  1729. What matters is not so much the debt, as the interest payments on the debt and the terms under which the loan is made. Another important point is what was the purpose of the loan?
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  1730. 7:45 How would anyone know, that this "Anonymous Administration Official" (Shall we refer to them in future as "AAOs"?) had that position or even actually existed?
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  1731. For whatever reason, all CW governments behave as though they were paid servants of the USA and Israel.
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  1732. 49:47 Putin said, at the start of the SMO, that their aim was "Demilitarization of Ukraine" which can only mean destruction of their armed forces. So no ome has any excuse for not knowing that that was what the Russians were aiming to do.
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  1733. 0:14 "Today is Easter Monday" Really? Are you sure of that? Do the Orthodox really have Easter Monday on a Saturday? Strange calendar you have! I never knew.
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  1734.  @ianstobie  Thanks.
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  1735. These are not extra-terrestials these are distractions, they are designed as or are being used as distractions from the highly embarrassing investigation of the White House's attack on our ally, Germany. Btw, if these are Chinese balloons, it is costing the US far more to shoot them down that it costs the Chinese to put them up!
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  1736. 1:16:11 It was not so much the "Maidan Movement" that rejected the "Minsk" agreements, it was the Collective West, or at least its leading lights, that sabotaged it. It was not the Azov Brigade, it was more the White House, Hollande and Merkel, Oh! & never forget Boris Johnson!
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  1737. 10:06 Could well be! If I were commanding the Russian troops, why would I bother to defend the second line with more than a couple of men sitting behind a pick-up truck, when the Ukrainians have , so far, failed to reach the first? If and when they start attacking the first, it might be time to send troops to defend the second.
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  1738.  @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086  Yes, Interesting idea. Do you know any CGI hobbyists?
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  1739. 21:46 Tony Blair is himself Jewish.
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  1740.  @Dee-mj3pu  So did the Spanish Jews who set up the Spanish Inquisition.
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  1741.  @alickmunro8985  I wish you every success with that. Just reme,ber to keep control of your own currency! Don't allow any privately owned "Central Bank" to get their hands on it (Never mind the BoE or the European CB!). The currency needs to be firmly under the control of the government or the "Independence " will be an illusion.
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  1742.  @timonsolus  "Yes. It was kind of like Russia’s intervention after Ukraine’s revolution in 2014" What does "it" refer to, in this sentence?
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  1743. 55: 13 This comment on the lack of spare parts puts me in mind of the somewhat amused, slightly sarcastic comments on Soviet vehicles, when some of them were sold in the West (e.g. Lada) that, unlike Western vehicles, they came with all sorts of spare parts as part of the deal.)
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  1744. 39:06 I would say that they are both so bad that there nothing to choose between them, but James Cleverly is runner-up. (Or down.) How names do, sometimes, belie nature!
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  1745. 1:06:22 I agree with you entirely. Looking around Iutiub, i see numerous headlines saying that the war in Ukraine is over, or all but over. E.g. "Zelensky is LOSING CONTROL as NATO Warns of Ukraine's Coming Surrender" & "Col. Macgregor: Ukraine is COLLAPSING!" & ""Ukraine's ARMY is about to Collapse and it's OVER" Fmr. Marine Scott Ritter" Earlier today I came across a channel that I had never seen before calle "Velocity" that said flat out that "the War in Ukraine is over."
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  1746. 1:46 "of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria" NONE of which were there legally. IMHO the Iranians should dish out the same treatment to them, as they gave to the base in Ein Assad, Iraq, a few months back.
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  1747. 1:27:34 If it wasn't for money what was it for? WEF Agenda of reducing the population of the World? Pure Geon*cidal mania? How did whoever was behind this, get medical establishments and a majority of medocal doctors to go along with this? E.g. with mandatory vac*inations. Were they bullied, blackmailed or bought? If it wasn't any of these how was it done?
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  1748. The obvious answer to the "problem" is for North Africa to industrialize. All that cheap power, sooner or later, should attract industrialists to come to where it is generated. Probably the Chinese will be there first! Industries such as aluminium, copper, steel and semiconductor raw materials, (Silicon, silicon carbide) extracting water and CO2 from the air, Computer servers, come to mind. All should be attracted to masses of cheap power and cheap land. In any case, with rising sea levels, I think the towns, villages, and cities around the shores of the Mediterranean and connected seas will have to get together to dam the straits of Gibraltar, which will itself produce a lot of power and provide a land bridge to carry power via UHT overhead power lines to Europe without needing undersea cables.
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  1749. Yes, an impressive argument. It does so help to have the truth on your side!
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  1750. 5:45 "Along with their European partners" Is this Washington subtly distancing itself from the conflict?
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  1751. May be the reason that fascists have this obsession with territory rather than soldiers is that fascism is a death cult and values things more than people?
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  1752. The point about that was, that RUSSIA WAS NOT A PARTY TO THE MINSK AGREEMENTS! Therefore, there was NO way that Russia COULD "Implement the Minsk accords". (Cunning! Eh?)
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  1753.  @tonygard1424  Close, but the French FL is paid for by the French. NATO is paid for by the member countries.
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  1754. 24:13 China has also dealt with, at least two, color revolution attempts. Tien An-men and Hong Kong.
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  1755. Why is the west so inimical to Russia? I think a lot of the blame must go to the MSM. This goes way back, to long before WW1. The British elites were always fearful that the Russians were going to "steal" the Indian Empire from them! "The Great Game" goes back to well before MacKinder and the MSM in the 19th Century was always making flesh-creeping stories about the Russians. When in 1904, the Russian Baltic Fleet came past Britain on its way to the Far East, there was nearly a panic in London. Do you remember the scare when some Scotsman reported seeing a platoon of Russian soldiers marching in the Highlands? On inquiry he "knew" they were Russians (It turned out.) "because they had snow on their boots". (Sic.)
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  1756. I have never had an interview quite like yours but, when I was very much younger, every time I went through a border I was questioned about what I was doing and where I was going etc. Then one day, I was looking at my passport and I noticed that the corner of one page was "dog-eared". I wondered how that had happened, as I was very careful of my passport and I turned it back and smoothed it out with a finger nail. Since then, I have been through many borders but have never been questioned about anything.
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  1757. I think the thing about these old antiquated systems is that they were built to work and go on working. They were built to be efficient and easy to service and were built, as cheap as possible to make, while remaining effective. No frills stuff. Not built to make a profit, but to fire and fire and fire.
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  1758. 32;25 Perhaps the decline in the power of the MSM will help in bringing about real progress in Israel?
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  1759. Very pertinent questions! Why indeed!
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  1760.  @vilmaortega8450  This post makes no sense to me. What are you trying to say?
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  1761. 1:21:45 It would be very good if you could have another program with Prof Hudson on this "Paradox", How does the collapsing Chinese economy produce too much? How does the Chinese economy suddenly deal with an overwhelming property bubble? Etc.
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  1762. 1:14:20 The Guardian is not a "Leftwing" media outlet. It is "pseudo-leftwing" media outlet for the last few years (Since the Snowdon defection in fact) before that it was a liberal media outlet masquerading as leftwing. Now it is firmly under the control of MI6.
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  1763. 13:54 Maybe Putin didn't want to "rub their noses in it"!
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  1764. Isn't it interesting that the deaths from 'flu and pneumonia went down during ww2 and continued down until the conservatives got back into power in the 1950s. I would presume that this was the result of the improvements in diet caused by rationing, the lack of unemployment and the health service.
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  1765.  @lawrieyoutube4375  I thought when I wrote the comment, that the sarcasm in it was obvious enough not to need to add: "(Sarcasm.)".
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  1766.  @lawrieyoutube4375  No offence! I assure you! I'll bear in mind what you say.
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  1767. As far as I am aware, no NATO country has ever asked a referendum if the country wants to be in NATO. I wonder Why? (Sarcasm.)
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  1768. 3:57 The process of De-dollarisation was given an enormous boost and accelleration by Russia's DARING to take on N@0 and showing that it was NOT invincible. Since then, e.g. the votes in the UNGA have beeen quite different! All sorts of previously wildly improbable things have happened week after week.
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  1769. 19:55 Pascal Lottaz, there are indeed maximalists in the US, who are and have been running the US foreign policy, since way back when, certainly since before WW2. Thier aim has little concern with Ukraine, which is but a small step along the way to try to overthrow Russia and having balkanized it, to loot is a la 1990s and live happily ever after on the spoils.
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  1770. This video starts off with a lie: The war did not start in February 2022, it started in 2014. By February 2022 about 10,000 peope had already been killed. It goes on in the same vein. The "Great Mistake" that was made, was made by NATO, which thought that the Ukrainian Army, which they had built up, trained and armed over the previous seven years, was going to "wipe the floor " with the Russian Army and that the sanctions package that they had prepared, would cripple the Russian economy. They also thought, erroneously, that the collapse of the Russian economy and the defeat of the Russian Army would so anger the Russian public, that they would overthrow the "hated Putin Regime" in Moscow. The "Great Mistake" that Russia made in February 2022, was in failing to understand that the Collective West was living in a fantasy land , where NATO, the greatest military machine that the World had ever seen, was something that no one would dare to stand up against, where Russia was "a Gas-station masquerading as a country", whose economy and Banks, were totally unprepared for the sanctions that were coming , whose army was in shambles, mutinous, ill-trained, ill-equipped with out-dated weapons, manned by stupids, badly officered, etc., etc. They also failed, in not understanding at first, that their enemies, were expecting to carve up Russia into manegable portions and then plunder it as they had done in the 1990s. The combined effects of these mistakes is that NATO has been defeated militarily, for the first time, (Which is having a huge geo-political effect) the US has profitted from the partial collapse of the European Economies caused by the blow-back of the sanctions, and the Russian economy has profitted greatly from the "protectionist" effect of the sanctions! (Suddenly, the Russian industries found themselves freed of all Western competition!). Putin, so far from being overthrown, is more popular than ever. I don't know whether the US Intelligence agencies mis-informed the White house or whether they told them correctly what the situation was and were disbelieved. It rather looks as though, both believed their own propaganda.
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  1771.  @McCreeedy You're welcome! He who laughs last luaghs best.
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  1772. 9:59 At a guess, Cavoli gets all hisinformation direct from the Ukrainian Intelligence Service. Possibly via the British Ministry of Defence. Well known for the quality of the info they supply!
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  1773. 16:08 Good point! This is something that NO western commentator ever points out: that it is the US which is starting these fights. Every time, either an FFO or a poke in the eye, the fight is initiated by the US. Usually, the only visible beneficiary is the US MIC and its shareholders. When, for how long, is the World going to stop suffering these insults and turn on these War Criminals and hold them to account? It won't happen soon enough, but happen it surely sometime will!
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  1774. 56:13 I wonder if you would agree with me that the natural patogens that nature throws at us from time to time, are quite nasty enough and that "research" to make nastier pathogens "so that we can be prepared for them when they appear" should be absolutely prohibited, on pain (If convicted) of life imprisonment or death? I cannot so far, think of any justification for such "research" and I think, it is almost certain that it is really intended to find bioweapons.
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  1775. Presumably, the Pentagon always mounts an operation "to trace the source of the leaks" every time someone "invents false documents"? (Sarcasm.)
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  1776. If I might offer a possible explanation, of what I think these authors are saying, it is that: there was a "normal" amount of antibodies produced but the as the amount of spike-protein produced was larger than "normal" some SP was unbound. Does that make sense?
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  1777.  @KrazeDiamond  Yes, I'd agree with all that.
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  1778. 3:07 It is not just a "Rift between the Democrats and Republicans" that has crippled effort to fund the War in Ukraine, it is also the huge, balooning debt that the US has and the continuing de-dollarization that is being carried out by numerous central banks.
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  1779. About the opening statement: The General is comparing (I don't know how justly) the Russian economy of $2.2 Trillion faced by a combined European economy of $38 Trillion and he says it is going to lose. This leaves out of account that Europe if it decided to defeat Russia would have to take account of China as well as Russia nd probably other countries as well. Quite apart from that a lot ofthe European and US economies are relying on Chna for various neccessary inputs which come from China and or Russia.
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  1780. 9:22 The group that may not be named because to do so would be Rac**t!
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  1781.  @gfs1212  How do you produce oil, gas, ammonia, fertilizer, diesel, trucks, tractors, without food to feed the workers who produce them? You are putting the cart before the horse. To do work, people need food. People often talk as though the "most important Human Right" is the right to vote in an election. If you don't know where your next meal is coming from "the right to vote" is not one of your major concerns.
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  1782. 1:07:00 The West has no need of taking part in an arms race, unless they still harbour dreams of conquering Russia and/or China. The WHOLE cause of the armed conflicts in the world is the aggressive actions and design of the western powers. Without their multiple aggressions and plans for further, still more ambitious exploits, the world would be largely at peace. Neither the USSR nor Russia nor China had/has any ambition to conquer any other country, It's true that there are disputed borders but were these disputes left to the countries concerned most would be settled by diplomacy and there would be no prospect of any of them developing into WW3.
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  1783. This a continuation of the crass stupidity during the Cold War, when Britain was not allowed to export woolen bathing costumes to Russia, as wool has a dual use. Yes. Wool can also be used to make army uniforms! The idiocy was further confounded because at the same time Australia was selling lots of wool to Russia.
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  1784. NAT* is still running Gladio, or at least I have not heard that it has been closed down.
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  1785.  @joselugo4536  Dass schtimpt!
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  1786. 18:12 Oh Come on! When did these bodies ever hold the US or the UK to account? Lybia? Afghanistan? Iraq? Nicaragua? On and on!
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  1787. 15:02 It seems to me (and others) that there is "probably", (Highly Likely) a connection between this massacre and Victoria Nuland's remark about "Nasty surprises for Mr Putin", coming, as they did, just a few days apart.
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  1788. 5:07 It's actually worse than you stated, it's not just that there is no money to be made selling Vitamin D. Anything, such as Vitmin D, which reduces ill health, is inimical to pharmaceutical companies profits.
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  1789. 13:57 Venezuela has bee subjected to very harsh sanctions for years now, many years. These sanctions were intended to damage Venezuela's economy, so that people would lose faith in the Maduro government and overthrow it and then a pro-US government would come to power, with CIA support and guidance. These sanctions have done what they were supposed to do, they have badly damaged the Venezuelan economy. Is that surprising? I don't think so.
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  1790.  @wyliamulayye7534  Note the dates! "Obama signed an executive order on 29 Jan 2009 to close Gitmo. " And it stayed working until "Trump signed an executive order to keep Gitmo opened on 30 Jan 2018." So, are all US Presidents just figureheads or are they all just Bullsh*tters?
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  1791.  @sujok-acupuncture9246  It has been saved? This must be some new meaning for the word "Saved"!
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  1792. What is point of negotiating with people who continually break treaties? How can you negotiate with people who do not mean what they say? What is the point of talking with people who talk peace and go away to prepare the next poke in your eye? It is a waste of time and the Chinese are buzzy. They will waste a certain amount of time and after that they are just not interested. They hear what the USG says and they see what the USG does and they decided some time ago that the actions were a more reliable guide than the words. So they have taken the actions of the USG as the guide to their own and disregard the fine words as just so much froth.
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  1793. \\\it's just a "rounding error".
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  1794. 1:10:56 The idea that the Russians could have launched a Media campaign, is in my view farcical. The MSM is, as I have said frequently, the propaganda arm of the Collective West. You might as well "launch a media campaign against the Tory Party in the Daily Telegraph". The MSM may not be bought outright by the
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  1795. Does the British PM have the authority to initiate a nuclear war? Really? That much independence of Washington DC?
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  1796. 37:47 It seems to me that one has to understand that Hamas has a triple nature; it is one sense, an Israeli proxy organ, having been set up abd finaced by the Israeli government as a counter to the PLO and in order to discredit the Palestine cause in the eyes of the World. It also has elements of a genuine liberation organization fighting against the Israeli government, their repressive and the settlers. Thirdly it is an elected government with the usual preoccupations and attributes of any government. Although any one of these aspects may be the most evident at any one moment, one has to bear in mind that all three are existent, all the time.
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  1797. 48:17 You surely have to understand that the PURPOSE of the war now is to "Continue the Grift" IOW to continue to pump taxpayers' money into the coffers of the MIC and its beneficiaries. The deaths of anyone is, compared to that end, UTTERLY INSIGNIFICANT. The profits to be made from this war matter. As far as our "Leaders" are concerned, the rest of the picture does not.
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  1798. 1:01:34 "Not designed to harm China or thwart its economic development" As in the example of Huawei? 1:02:11 "The World has witnessed a disturbing rise of economic coercion" Like for example the 11 sanctions packages that Europe has imposed on Russia?
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  1799. 1:00 The confusion of political "Left" and "Right" has been a disaster for political discussions because you could not understand what anyone meant!
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  1800. 33:12 I have heard of a (something) paradox, which was that a group of clinical doctors treating Covid patients, found that the vitamin D levels on entry to the hospital, predicted how severly ill they would become and therefore, they treated patients admitted with low levels of vitamin D, with supplementary vitaminD but without much effect. Later, it was discovered that the inrfared component of Sunlight also, had an important protective effect, as it caused mitochondria to photosynthetically produce melatonin, which also helped reduce the severity of the disease.
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  1801. 51:50 Why does Gideon Rachman still cling onto the idea of freezinng the conflict? I think the fact that he does, must mean that he is still labouring under the illusion that the Russian economy is in tatters and the Russian army is disorganised and all their breakthroughs are accidental and their soldiers are mutinous and basicly stupid, etc., etc.
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  1802. Don't worry! The Chinese do not forget.
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  1803. 8:10 Typically, NATO uses terrorist tactics, I have even heard mercenaries say that they were taught by NATO instructors to use civilian housing blocks, hospitals and schools (with civilians in them) as artillery positions. So it seems quite likely, even probable that they would target cilians too with their long range strikes, just as, for the past ten years, they have been shelling Donetsk City.
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  1804.  @alexdetrojan4534  Yes. They fire bombed Dresden, Hamburg and A-bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, During WW2. These were all civilian targets. They bombed North Korea to the ground, Not a building left standing. They massacred the inhabitants of the village of MY Lai in Viet Nam among many ,many other crimes of the same nature. They carpet-bombed Mosul and Raqqa, they burned the Syrians fields of just ripe wheat, they ran the ghastly torture camp at Abu Graib and they still run the concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. This is but a small selection of the terrorist tactics that have been used by the US and its proxy NATO.
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  1805. 32:00 During my NS, I served with soldiers who had just come back from Korea. They told me that on their way towards the battle front they were told "You've not got much to worry about , the Chinks and Slants have no real artillery!" "It was true too! In a manner of speaking, they had very little artillery, BUT, B*gger! You should have SEENkjjj the ROCKETS they had!!"
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  1806. 12:39 "Xi Jinping has formulated some sort of response to the sanctions as well". I'm not sure that I have got this correct, but, I have heard (From the Electric Viking.) that China has passed a decree that from July there will be no more ICE cars sold in China.(!) If this is true (and I can hardly believe it is) it will be a huge blow to the likes of VW, Peugeot, and GM and much less so, to the Chinese manufacturers who make mostly electric vehicles. They have also told Boeing that they will not buy any of their products as they sell weapons to Taiwan. At the same time they placed an order for hundreds of planes from Airbus.
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  1807. The West lost its dominance as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. Yes, absolutely right! Before the conflict, NATO was regarded by most people as "the largest and most powerful military conglomeration the World had ever seen" and invincible. When it smashed itself, by attacking the Russians who had gone into Ukraine, and kept on smashing, unit after unit, weapon after weapon, trying to expel the Russians, the World gradually is coming to realize that it is not so all-powerful, after all. The result is, that the fear of offending the US has gone down a long way. It is a factor that plays a much smaller role in the decision-making process in poorer countries, and even in the capitals of Western Europe than it did before.
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  1808. 7:31 The Biden White House has never shown any sign of having any interest in humanity. They consistently preside over policies which kill people, in large numbers, frequently in horrible ways and never show anything more resembling sympathy than crocodile tears. As you say, they are interested in retaining power above all else and to the exclusion of everything else.
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  1809.  @worldoftruth9304  You have to understand the context. I believe Alexander is doing what you are objecting to, to keep this channel on YT. Roll on the day that EM takes over YT as well! In my view "Hate Speech" is bad, but censorship is vastly more damaging.
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  1810. 28:52 Condering that the US is said to have sent $300 billion to Ukraine and various people have said that the US has spent only 3% of its military budget on Ukraine; If we put these two figures together and we assume they are true, we can, calculate that the REAL US WAR CHEST is $10 Trillion! Which is just a bit more than is usually claimed! Where did it all go?
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  1811. 1:06:57 Wunderwaffen did not help the Wehrmacht much either.
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  1812. 15:56 The shambolic situation, is entirely caused by the political leaders of the CW being expert in nothing industrial, or technical and having entirely misjudged what the Russian reaction to their provocation in Ukraine was going to be. The situation is made more impossible still by the need for any company that might want to make, e.g. 155mm shells to set up a steel forging plant and make a profit! If they were to want to fill the shells with high explosive, they would have to source that (It probably used to come from Ukraine!) and set up training for operatives to do the filling and for inspectors to keep a very close eye indeed on how they were doing it and more inspectors to pass the finished product. None of that can be done safely in a hurry. One mistake, in a factory making such things, can destroy it utterly, in an instant.
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  1813. Being in a tank, you are about as safe as a sardine in a can. If someone scores a direct hit on almost any part of the tank you are in trouble if they hit a vulnerable part you are dead. Surviving a tank-tank battle depends very much on LUCK.
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  1814. The photos of the flash look reminiscieny pf that Chelyabindk meteor.
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  1815. It also shows where their REAL LOYALTY lies.
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  1816. 20:13 Maybe Biden was angling for the Ukrainian vote? Or maybe he thinks Zelensky is more popular than he really is?
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  1817. 14:48 Mao pointed out in the middle of the Chinese revolution, some time in the 1930s I think it was, that all the sucessful revolutions in Chinese history (There have been a good many of them.) have involved an alliance between the peasants and the intellectuals. The European farmers are riled up, but where are the intellectuals?
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  1818. 7:20 "Bulls in china shops " Anyone?
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  1819. 3:22 "The friendship between the three nations seems to be getting stronger" Yes, it does! Doesn't it! Is anyone surprised? All three have been attacked and threatened by the US in multiple ways. What did the US expect to happen? I should think that children of five could have accurately predicted the result of such behaviour.
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  1820.  @johnvanzo9543  What an illuminating remark!
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  1821. 41:04 It isn't even as though the sacrifice of these young lives is going to make any fundamental difference! Do they want to depopulate Ukraine?
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  1822. 12:07 There is no real mystery about where the CIA got the info about the NS Sabotage. They got it from the same place the Irish Central Banker got the figure of the losses that he gave the Irish Government: "I just pulled it out of my *rse!"
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  1823. Our ruling class are neurotic control freaks. How else can you explain their longterm spying on groups of people worried about animal rights or anti-hunt groups or even CND.
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  1824. A likely story! British intelligence? Where's 007 when you need him?
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  1825. Основная проблема в том, что есть люди, владеющие акциями производителей оружия и получающие большие прибыли. Поскольку они очень богаты, они также и очень могущественны. Пока существует такая ситуация, в мире никогда не будет мира, потому что они наживаются на войнах, угрозах войн и слухах о войнах. Я надеюсь, что когда Коллективный Запад потерпит решительное поражение на Украине (что вполне вероятно и произойдет), русские введут закон, запрещающий кому-либо владеть акциями производителя оружия. Я думаю, что такое условие было бы лучше и легче реализовать и обеспечить, чем полное разоружение, потому что большинство правительств не нуждаются или не хотят войн, которые являются дорогостоящими и непопулярными.
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  1826. I have seen a report from Italy where one health district reported no birth for three months this spring. I can't tell you which as I can't find the item again. If I find it I'll tell you.
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  1827. Да! Капризный капризный!
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  1828. If you want to go from, say, Shanghai to Beijing or even London to Birmingham, on your electric scooter it will take you quite a while. I saw a while ago, that a man was arrested on the M6 for being on an electric scooter! Brave soul indeed!
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  1829. 29:10 The Baluchistan Front (Devoted to liberating Baluchistan from Pakistan and China) is either a CIA construct or at least closely connected to the CIA. Its main purpose in life, seems to be to disrupt the building of the China - Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC. A very important project, allowing trade to flow easily from the Indian Ocean into China and allowing Pakistan to develop the backward province of Baluchistan. (A part of the BRI.)
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  1830.  @runeg987  Thanks. He looks interesting.
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  1831. The man who never made a mistake, never made anything.
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  1832.  @AttRandyReynolds  How does a drug which according to theauthorities (CDC, FDA) is Well tolerated" when used for other diseases and although has been prescribed some billions of times (Literally billions!) without causing a single recorded death, count as "harmful stuff"?
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  1833. If anyone thinks that Russia wanted this war, they are delusional or they have not studied the history and have been believing the lying MSM. NATO worked very hard to provoke Russia into this invasion. Right up to the last moment they were not sure that they would succeed. In order to do it, they massacred 14,000 Russian-speaking Ukrainians, between Feb 2014 and Feb 2022.
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  1834. Do I think NATO is a bit late to the party? NATO is not "late to the party". Its problem is how to and whether to make the party happen. Since well before the end of WW2, powerful people, mostly in Washington and London, have been trying to work out a scheme to conquer the USSR/Russia. So far, either their schemes have ultimately failed or "they have done the maths" and decided that "the time is not yet ripe" to put their plan into action. This war in Ukraine is the latest failure. NATO is a "defensive" alliance which has never defended anything! It has only ever attacked. Sometimes it gives lying excuses and sometimes it just attacks. Its permanent excuse is the allegedly "Aggressive" nature of Russia or the alleged human rights violations of those it wants to attack. Oddly, Russia's supposedly aggressive nature shows itself only when it is attacked, as e.g. in Georgia. Russia has one or two military bases in other countries and one peacekeeping operation. (I think.) The supposedly "Peaceful" USA, by contrast has attacked about fifty countries around the world since 1950 and has about 800 military bases spread across the Globe. NATO has mostly fought peasant or third world armies and is not geared up to fight a peer competitor. Its MIC is used to screwing the US taxpayer and making wonderful weapons at fantastic prices and to making fabulous profits for its shareholders, but seems to be a bit lacking when it comes to basic things like heavy artillery and the ammo to use in it, anti-tank missiles, anti aircraft/missile defenses. In conclusion, I would say this is not the right question. You should be asking do we need NATO and if so : what for?
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  1835. 26:10 You can see that the WSJ article was written by an American, because the sanctions he wants to continue hurt Europe far more than they damage Russia. In any case, the sanctions have not hurt, but rather helped Russia, so extnding them in hope of damaging Russia in the future, is More Magical Thinking!
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  1836. Try looking in the mirror occasionally!
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  1837.  @dsm5d723  Note the Deepin Moments' video headlined: "Support Russia! German People Set Fire To US Consulate."
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  1838. 28:04 Its not just that the US benefits from the Nordstream sabotage (NSS), that Biden, Sullivan (Or was it Blinken?) and Nuland said they were going to NSS, that they had the means to carry out NSS, and that they also had the opportunity to do the deed, but that the site of NSS, was heavily patrolled by N@0 and any Russian Naval Vessel in those waters would have been closely watched. If that is not an "open & shut case", it must be pretty close! So you have statement of intent, the opportunity, the means, the motive, and an alibi for everyone, else except those who might have done it for the US.
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  1839. Was the Chinese Embassy bombed on purpose? Well, that night the Chinese Embassy was holding the wreckage of the US's super secret Stealth jet that the Serbs had shot down earlier that day. Accident? Coincidence? I doubt it! You mean, that the CIA had NO IDEA where the Chinese Embassy really was? What do you take me for? A likely story, indeed!
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  1840. 1:27:59 Is Sirsky a Russian asset?
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  1841. 6:07 I think you are right that this attempt to re-write history is a reaction to losing in Ukraine. The Russians might tell the World in retaliation that the Manhattan Project leader was Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who wanted the A-bomb, not so much to deter the axis powers if they got one, but to use it to defeat the Soviet Union.
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  1842. This pressure on the Green Agenda, this Wash DC support for the Green Agenda, is primarily aimed at crippling European Industry. The Greens just got lucky.
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  1843. 9:07 It would be interesting to know how many of the EU leaders feature in JE's litlle book. Lavrov has said how when he asked many representatives in the UN why they had voted the way they had, i.e. in the way that the US wanted them to vote, they had told him that they and their families were threatened if they didn't. If one believes Lavrov is telling the truth (Which I do.) then it is easy to see that the same treatment may be being meted out to European "Leaders".
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  1844.  @peanut0brain  Depends on circumstances. Probably it is usually subject to negotiation but the Crown's decision is final.
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  1845.  @Virginie-a  As far as I am aware, the NP is given without strings attached. How do you know they don't need the money? Did you ask them?
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  1846. 21:12 If the grain is not fit for human consumption by reason of pesticides etc., then it is not fit to feed animals producing meat and/or milk, as they will concentrate these chemicals, so that their meat, milk etc. is even more contaminated than the grain was.
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  1847. 18:22 The difference from 1917 Russia is, that there are no revolutionaries working away at making a New United States or a PRA! More's the pity!
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  1848. 22:50 He's not called "Gee", he is calle "She".
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  1849. 38:38 How about Victor Orban for van der Crazy's replacement? Sounds good to me.
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  1850. 35:48 Note that the only "benefit" to Washington is that it puts it in a better position to defeat Russia. There is no other benefit that can be adduced from this.
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  1851. 55;00 "If you don't like the tune, don't complain to the Organ Grinder's Monkey! Speak to the Organ Grinder. himself." It stands to reason.
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  1852. 7:46 Pipeline sabotage; have you noticed that TFI Global are accusing the US of planning to attack the Norwegian pipeline?
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  1853.  @Maysie.567  You are probably right.
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  1854. Did any "head roll" over the Epstein case?(Except of course, as you pointed out, that of Ep himself?) Either I have forgotten that, or I missed it!
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  1855. I have said it before, but I think it needs to be pointed out continuously, that the solution to this problem is to Nationalize all pharmaceutical companies. Nationalized pharmaceutical companies have exactly the opposite motivations to privately owned ones. Governments financial interests are in having healthy active citizens (subjects). In having cheap, effective medicines that cure people as quickly and reliably as possible. They are interested in having value for money and have no interest in suppressing cures or superceding old medicines that work with more profitable medicines. They are interested in having heathy populations. Make privately owned pharma a thing of the past! Even better would be to have one central health research organization to find cures and one central organization to manufacture medicines, paid for by all governments. This way, there would be none of the stupid arguments that: "We cannot test the efficacyof this because it is out of patent." Or "We cannot make this, because there are not enough patients to make it profitable."
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  1856. Italy is leaving the BRI for one reason; to please Washington. It will not help Italy in the least. In the long run, I am pretty sure they will regret it.
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  1857.  @MeowMeow6118a  I sometimes use "USAmerican" just to be clear.
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  1858.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  " The drone was no where actual Russian territory." & the Russians did not shoot it down.
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  1859.  @atomiss6595  " IT IS A CRIME TO HELP NAZIS." Which is what the Collective West has been doing in Ukraine since well before 2014 and continues to do today.
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  1860.  @rashmigupta9  Alex and Alexander have both made a lot of progress politically, in the last couple of years. Clearing out old stereotypes from one's thinking, takes a lot of time and mental effort. Not everyone can do it. Very few can do it in a short time. The other problem, is the censorship in YT. One has to be very careful not to offend YT's rules, or you will be closed down.
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  1861. 30:54 I agree with almost all you say but Navalny was in prison for IIRC, fraud, a business fraud. He was given bail on that charge and then violated the terms of his bail. That, not some political offence, was why he was in Jail.
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  1862. 30:26 Ukraine cannot lose ground and must not use up precious ammo: Clearly the CW should send a large consignment of Shovels!
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  1863. 1:15:40 Very good analysis of the situation! The logical conclusion is, a conclusion that no western commentator seems able to articulate, is that the Urgent Task for the West is to to concentrate on how to acknowledge, to accept complete defeat. It is clear to anyone looking at the situation, without prior commitments to anything except the unvarnished truth, is that unmodified, complete defeat, is the most likely outcome of the war, in the very near future.
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  1864. Nagasaki not wanting to associate with a country whose leaders are openly asking for another people to be wiped out, seems to me to be entirely understandable. As for the US asking them to do just that, it seems both ridiculous and disgusting.
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  1865. 1:14:09 The greiviously offensive thing that Orban has done, is that he has not kowtowd to Washington as all true believers should! Thus making all the TBs feel both outraged and uncomfortable and at the same time, exposed as the puppets they are.
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  1866. You obviously don't understand the dangers of this! This Putin fella is so cunning and the American public is so innocent and do unused to dealing with sinister, shady characters like Putin, that they will be swept away by his sneaky rhetoric and it will be months of work for the real news outlets to repair the damage!
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  1867. 17:00 KS cannot fix the UK's problems, but electing him will enable the problems to be "kicked down the road".
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  1868. "Why Israel does not agree with China's peace plan?" A question with an obvious answer. The reason is very simple the Chinese are proposing a real two-state solution which is fair* to both the Israelis and the Palestinians. The Israelis are not interested in a fair solution they want the palestinian lands all to themselves. *In this context, "fair" = the division that was agreed in the UN in 1948. In my view this is more than fair to the Israelis.
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  1869. "If you don't like the tune, don't complain to the Organgrinder's monkey. Tell the Organgrinder himself."
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  1870. 21:21 It is even worse than you say! The US, I read, is still buying Russian oil, directly from Russia. How long before they sell some of it to Europe? Another story; last year, the Chinese bought a long-term contract with US suppliers for LNG. At the moment, they have enough gas from Russia to not need this LNG from the US companies, so they have agreed to the Americans selling this gas to the Europeans, for them, at US prices! ( I can't give references, but I am not making this up, it's just that I am bad at taking notes when I read these things.)
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  1871. 13:58 I wonder how many voluteers have heeded Lindsay Graham's call to fly F-16s in Ukraine?
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  1872. 27:49 One of the ways that the CW is falling behind is in relation to the Belt&road Initiative. The US announced that it was going to compete with the Chinese in building infrastructure throughout the global South. It looks as though that is going to fall victim to the current financial crisis in the CW, but so far there has been some talk, but almost nothing has been built. Meanwhile the Chinese have built railways, tunnels, docks, roads, hospitals and schools worth multiple billions of dollars and are looking to build more.
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  1873. 18:48 Permanent Secretary for Ukrainian Affairs, Die verehrte Frau Ursula von der Leyen.
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  1874. 5:45 "They're doing it me lads to save Democracy!"
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  1875.  @denzilnagel254  Well, just at the moment, you might find it a bit dificult to get weapons from the US. However, in the recent past (Up to 2022) the US was one of the greatest weapons supplier to the Western World. Many N@0 countries and Japan have bought the extremely expensive F-35, others have bought the "Patriot" air defence systems. Britain has bought "Trident" cruise missiles, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have bought F-16s. No doubt, there are plenty of other examples.
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  1876.  @KaosNova2  Well! Who provoked the war? Just a couple of months before the war entered the SMO phase, the russians proposed negotiations to provide a security architecture for Europe as a whole and the Collective West refused to discuss it. So to blame Ukrainian refugees on Russia seems a bit off target. Are there a lot of Chechin refugees in Euorope?
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  1877. 1:07:20 By Jove Eh?! West Germany was not wreckred like Ukraine at the end of WW2. "Building up Ukraine" if it means reconstructing it, with most of its manpower dead or disabled is going to be a heroic or perhapst Herculean task.
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  1878. This is all pure projection: it is the US that was not satisfied with the status quo. It was not the Beijing government which kept on provoking the US over the Taiwan issue, it was the US government which kept egging on the small separatist movement in Taiwan to edge ever loser to a declaration of independence. It was the US that kept trying to get the Taipei regime, accepted as a National Government in such bodies as the UN. It was the US that kept sending more and more senior officials to Taipei. It was the US that stationed troops in Taiwan, not the Chinese. So accusing the Beijing government of "upsetting the "Status Quo", is simply inverting the truth. It's quite Orwellian, in fact.
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  1879. You say that the country was stable with the Labour governments. I would say that these Labour governments were by way of being Pseudo-Socialist governments. In 1945 they nationalized the parts of the economy that the stock exchange did not want to fund and they ran the "Commanding Heights" of the economy in a way that subsidized Big Business for example, ICI got coal at a small fraction of the price that the ordinary consumer paid and the same with electricity. Thus in effect making the working people subsidizes big business. This enabled the MSM to harp on the theme that "Socialism is all very well in theory, but in practice it always makes a loss. (True of course if your socialism is run by Tories!) After the nationalized industries had been modernized at the cost of the working people, they were sold off at a low price to friends of the government. These "Socialists" were also firmly tied to Washington's apron strings. That is why the advent of a Labour government caused no upset in the Establishment.
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  1880.  @DK-ev9dg  I can see that. I just think it is a good idea to ask people to justify what they say, when I think their statements are unjustified by facts.
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  1881. The scheme in the USA whereby sponsors pay lobbyists to pay large sums into the election funds of candidates who, once elected, vote funds for the government to buy the products of the sponsors' firms, which provides the funds for the lobbyist to pay the for the congress critter to get re-elected, is what one might call a "vicious circle". (The tangent to the VC is the "Revolving Door".) This vicious circle, is a very strong structure, with very deep roots and will be very difficult to destroy. It is also the antithesis of democracy.
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  1882. Since Europe is way behindChina in batteries and there has recently been a breakthrough in making Sodium batteries (That use Sodium instead of Lithium.) and Sodium is cheaper than Lithium and is far more abundant, why doesn't Europe concentrate its research efforts on making Sodium batteries? No environmental problems with Sodium, I think!
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  1883.  @hallu6666  Sounds typically petty and vindictive.
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  1884.  @romana9476  I bet you are feeling fortunate!
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  1885. 1:09:21 I would go further: Give up, the fatuous idea of conquering and balkanizing Russia!! Yer wasting yer time!! Ain't gonna happen!
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  1886. 30:30 Don't you think the EU countries ought to ask the US, who, after all, caused this mess; to put up a large number of these refugees in their bases, which are dotted around Europe?
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  1887. 6:33 It'a a magpie.
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  1888.  @terrygivens132  Yes. They are completely ruthless.
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  1889. In my opinion, Kuleba is right to ask the question, if he is talking about the Collective West fighting the Russians. It is now becoming very clear that the Collective West is really struggling to find the arms and troops to fight the Russians. Not to put too fine a point on it, they are losing the fight in Ukraine. If they are contemplating a more general fight against Russia, there seems little reason to think they would do better and even if by some strange chance they did, the Chinese would not see Russia lose. If they cannot defeat Russia, what chance would they have against Russia and China together? This question does not even address the problem of "what would the CW fight the Russians with?" Would the Oil rich countries supply them with the oil they would need? How long would it take the Russians and Chinese to destroy the CW's arms/oil dumps, or their electricity systems? Really it's a no brainer. If they fight a conventional war with the Eurasian "Axis of Evil" they will lose. If they fight a nuclear war everybody will lose.
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  1890. 3:13 It is hardly surprising that the troops defending Avdiivka broke and ran, because they were a barely trained rabble. Brave they were, but they were hopelessly out of their depth.
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  1891. 9:55 I don't understand. If the Russian bonds reach maturity, how can a European bank get the Russians to pay up? Maybe it is just my ignorance of financial matters, but I thought that Bonds were loans to a goverment. Perhaps you or one of your commentators can explain it to me?
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  1892. 11:00 "Arguments in the Kremlin" Sounds like projection.
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  1893. 34:53 To say that Ukraine cannot be N*ZI because it has a Jewish president, seems to me to be an overtly, obviously racist statement.
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  1894. 1:09:21 It was a FONOPS. Nothing to get excited about! Just the Russians and Chinese sailing anywhere allowed by International Law!
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  1895. Democracy, where most of the demos gets their information from six capitalist corporations, who by definition will do whatever makes them and their shareholders the most money, is patent nonsense! Until one can, somehow, get media that are really independent organizations dedicated to putting out information that is as near the truth as they can get, "Democracy" is just a charming, distant dream. There is nothing like living in a democracy and living in Europe is nothing like living in a democracy. What little resemblance it has to a democracy is being whittled away pretty rapidly.
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  1896. 1:19:58 Biden should heed the warning: "If you sit too long on the fence,the iron will enter your soul."
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  1897. 31:43 Maybe the AP does not realise(?) that attacks to stir up unrest agains the government is almost the definition of a terrorist action!
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  1898.  @sunnymitra6372  Worse than banning Russian, in the "liberated" cities, they are using Russia-speaking as determining whether someone is a traitor or not!
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  1899. 17:18 It is a fact that the Chinese and the Russians are upholding International Law and the US and the UK are NOT, as witness the case of Diego Garcia. As witness the illegal occupation of Syria and Iraq, as witness the attack on Haiti, as witness the illegal Sanctions on all sorts of countries. China and Russia are, as far as I can remember not doing any of these things. This is NOT a "trap", it is simply these things coming into common view and general discussion. The Chinese and Russians talking about them, is hardly surprising, why would they not? After all they are continually bad-mouthed by the CW and its tame media.
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  1900.  @rogerburn5132  That may be (Probably is!) inconvenient, but as Shakespear said: "What's in a name?" Or, come to that in a number?
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  1901. 32:55 Wise up! It is nearer 70 years that we have been pouring money (and lost opportunities for cooperation) into the black hole called NATO.
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  1902.  @pup6728  Yes, but they are NOT an "Independent Country"! Any fool can see that!
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  1903. 3:30 It is not a"Half Century" It's 75 years since the "Century of Humiliation" ended. I was in China in 1964 and China was already visibly growing into a modern country with a huge industrial base and many flourishing universities. The parasitic foreigners were long gone and their relics were in museums. The country was peaceful and obviously developing rapidly.
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  1904. 36:58 Supose each NGO sent only two members to the protest; that would be a crowd of 20,000 right there without any "sympathisers" at all!
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  1905. Zelensky is a puppet. The war is not his fault. You might as well blame Mr Punch for attacking Mrs Punch or the Policeman!
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  1906. 25:46 What you are describing was the exact situation at the height of the "McArthy Period". This was the period of the "Reds under the Beds".
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  1907.  @upstairs1307  Thanks.
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  1908. Some industries are natural monopolies and most of those are naturals for state ownership. Electric power is one such. Handing it over to a company whose primary legal obligation is to its shareholders is simply stupid! You are almost always faced by a conflict of interests: "Do we spend money on safety measures or do we increase the dividend. All the time the bean-counters are harassing the engineers to "stop spending so much money on maintenance!" With a capitalist company there is always worry about the next quarter's bottom line and its effect on the share price. This is often made worse by the directors' remuneration being tied to the share price. In Britain, the price of electricity was never as low again, as it was before privatization. Yes, there are some things that private industries do better, sometimes, but the conflict of interests is very powerful, essentially damaging and unavoidable in them.
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  1909. 27:51 I may be wrong about this, but I seem to remember Keir Starmer, making some remark that I approved of in connection with Ukraine, a week or so ago. Perhaps, assuming this is not just my imagination, Zelensky was expressing his annoyance at this. It woulld be such a shocking contrast to dear Boris!
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  1910. 30:29 "The lady doth protest too much methinks"The dialogue "The lady doth protest too much methinks" appears in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet in Act 3, Scene 2. Presumably, when you made this video, you did not know about the alleged hacking of Lizz Truss's iPhone.
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  1911. "Drinking to defeat Putin". Sounds as though they have tried everything else and none of it worked, so why not?! You never know.
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  1912. 27:39 May I suggest that the whole situation and how it is controlled is made clear in a video entitled: "WAR Against NATO Not Russia | China vs. USA | BRICS | Michael Hudson " As to how the Green Party got such powerful positions in the present government, I would look to the activities of the Israeli embassy and the NED.
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  1913. Where does the US's seizure of a tanker full of oil from Iran bound for China, fit into this picture?
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  1914. Why does the CW always demand that people choose either them or the "other side"? Because their real aim is always total world domination; but except in their own circles and the "Foreign Policy" magazines they publish for their own circle they don't say this out loud. Anyone that is not committed to this aim is of course, an obstacle - "against us".
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  1915. 1:10:58 I wonder if N@0 were to try to impose a "No Fly Zone" on Ukraine, how long they could keep it up, given that such an undertaking would require enormous amounts of jet-fuel. If they had to bring it across the Atlantic, that would expose it to depredation by Russian submarines. The Russians have also shown themselves to be good at finding and destroying fuelstores.
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  1916.  @kathylarson8876  That would not surprise me.
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  1917. 28:10 Those look like silver birch to me.
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  1918. 27:30 I think the Russians were slower than the Collective West, because the CW journalists were all primed and ready to go, maybe, had their pieces written well in advance, while the Russians were reacting to events as they were reported and were therefore necessarily slower.
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  1919. 10:22 "We tend to view thing in black and white" I think this a Western tendency. It's sometimes called "Aristotelian reasoning". I think that Chinese thinkers grew out of this way of thinking, long before the Europeans did. Partly, perhaps largely, because it was favoured by the Roman Catholic Church.
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  1920. If NATO keeps on "doubling down" and runs right out of ammunition, or even nearly, it must be a considerable temptation to the Russians to "settle with the CW, once and for all". I shall be very interested to see how far they push us when this war ends. I imagine that there will be quite a large number of ordinary Russians, who will see this as an opportunity not to be missed.
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  1921. Keir Starmer is a Social Democrat. All Marxists will be acutely aware of what you will find if you scratch a Social Democrat!
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  1922.  @laurapearson3370  That is indeed frightening! How long, I wonder before similar laws are passed in the whole of the Collective West?
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  1923. For the USG to work for a cease-fire resolution in the UN, it would have to face down the AIPAC and in an election year, that might be "rather", ehem! difficult.
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  1924. 16:07 They also have to transport the shells to the front line, which has "not always been that easy"! (Litotes.)
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  1925. 26:00 It is clear that the US ambassador views himself as not so much an ambassador as a gauleiter.
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  1926.  @k14michael  Well, he was still far more active than most people, until he died, but he stopped running at 55, because someone told him that people his age who ran, tended to drop dead doing so. He retired from his job when he was about 71, but he still walked every day because he found that he could think better and solve more scientific problems while walking than when he was sitting still. Whe he was about 45, some of my friends built a tree-house which was reached by a rope ladder. My friends were much impressed when my father, being invited to go up to it, climbed up using only his arms. A climb of about 20ft (6m).
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  1927. 27:12 It seems to me that the only place that Elensky will be "relatively" safe, after the sh**show ends, will be in Israel, Assuming there still is an Israel!
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  1928. There ARE NO BIG BRAINS in the government of the CW. They are a bunch of mediocre brains. "Well, educated" in some of the finest schools and universities, no doubt, but evidently selected for their willingness to obey orders rather than original, joined-up thinking.
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  1929. 24:41 Half a million people needs $13.5 million dollars? that's $26.00 each? Huh! Cheap at half the price!
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  1930. In the 1970s there was a surrealist poet whose name I, unfortunately forget. He wrote a poem that seems appropriate to Elensky: it ended with the words: "Don't hope. Take dope. Give up."
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  1931.  @arthurtane6505  We'll see.
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  1932. 6:20 I think your erudite correspondents are splitting hairs. The English words "kettle, boiler and cauldron" translates equally into German as "Kessel". The fact is that English has many more words than German so there are many fewer synonyms.
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  1933. Whose?
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  1934. 2:49 I understand that the reason the USS Ford is returning to the US, is that some time ago, the bean-counters in the Pentagon, scrapped the Naval Tenders that used to supply ships, when they were away from the US. Now, they no longer exist and so, the ships that run out of supplies they need to function, have to go home to restock!
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  1935. Comedian Head of State talking about money: remember that in Russian (and I would guess in Ukrainian as well) money is Plural. I.e. he would talk about wanting "moneys", not "money".
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  1936. 25:16 Mislaid article; I have a similar problem, I have found that this is very helpful in keeping track of many diverse things. I have a file in "Open Office" (an analogue of "Word") I write a note of anything I want to locate, be it an article of clothing a tool, a video on the web, a book, an address... whatever; always with some keywords. Then if I want to locate it, I go to the file, go to the "search" mode (cntrl F) put the key word or anything that will be in the note, such as a date or a person's name or the colour of a pair of socks, press "Search" and in three or four key strokes at the most, I have the info I need. Typical entries are "Cables for the welder. In the toolbox beside the lathe. The Tartar Khan's Englishman, middle shelf, by the door, on the right." I find it saves me endless time trying to remember where I have put things. These files are endless so you will never run out of space and being machine-searchable, they are much quicker to search than real space.
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  1937. What are they going to use the weapons for? Are they going to fight the Russians? The Chinese? Where are they going to get the energy from?
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  1938. 4:17 A little bird tellls me, that Navalny was the illegitimate son of Yeltsin. Is this why the CW had such high expectations of him? Like father like son? (I have no idea if thie bird is right.)
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  1939. 1:15:21 Bellingcat are known liars. Aren't they an offshoot of MI6?
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  1940. 30:2 I think that at the moment there about three(3) derailment pwe day in the US.
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  1941. 17:16 It used to be that the Chinede imported all the wheels for their highspeed trains (HST) from Germany. Something like 2 million/year IIRC. About two years ago, the Germans abruptly cut off the supply. So the Chinese worked out how to make them themselves. They need a lot of them, because they change the wheels on their HSTs after they have done two million miles of travel.
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  1942.  @Ultra-Violet  For once you are correct! Like Putin, we shall all go, eventually. " 100% just a matter of time"
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  1943. All armies are primarily focused on internal enemies. (This is usually hidden.) They need, however, an external threat to justify their existence. This means that so long as we have a European Army, we shall have either a hot or a cold war with someone. Probably Russia, possibly China, quite likely both. Perhaps even the USA!
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  1944. Turkey, Turkie, It seems to me that each language has its own names for foreign countries. Is it "disrespectful" for the British to refer to "France" rather than "La Republique Francais"? or to "Germany", rather than to "Deutschland"? This looks to me like a variety of "Wokeness". I think I shall continue to refer to countries by their English names, when I am talking English.
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  1945. 1:19:04 The CW is also "stuck" without any effective or capable leaders. Truly, "up S*** Creek in a canoe made of barbed wire without a paddle!"
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  1946. It should be made a Crime against Humanity! Its long term effects will have a devastating impact on people who had nothing at all to do with the conflict, because they were not even conceived.
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  1947. 16:02 "I don't know where Prigozhin is getting this information. Maybe Wagner has its own intelligence gathering arm?
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  1948. 3:52 Did you notice the flag, on your right hand as you walked past it, in the background of you picture?
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  1949. 31:41 The WHOLE situation is CAUSED by the CW's search for regime change in Russia, The Russians had nothing to do with it! The ONLY viable "off-ramp" that I can think of is for the CW countries to undergo a regime change of their own (Preferably through the ballot box) and for the new regimes to apologize to the Russians, ask their forgiveness and reform their ways! Of course this is very, very unlikely to happen, but what realistic alternative is there? Absit this what does the future look like?
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  1950. 21:00 How come the Ukrainians have not got a surplus of tanks? Well, they have, the problem is that most of them are BLRs. (Aka beyond local repair.) They even have enough to export some to the EU!
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  1951. 18:37 I remember visiting Eastern Europe in the 1948 to 1963 period and being amazed at how rapidly the destroyed cities were being restored. Even in 1949 huge progress was already visible. Much faster than in the UK for example.
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  1952. I like your description but I find your map almost unreadable, The brown print on a brown background is illegible, A sketch map on a white board would be easier to read
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  1953. 10:19 The man whose QR code tattooed on his arm expired: In Italy your marriage certificate goes out of date after SIX MONTHS!
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  1954. In my opinion, in a free and democratic country, in disputes over wars in which the country itself is not involved, both sides should be free to demonstrate, (Peacefully, of course) under police protection, if needed. Exposing wrong-doing, such as torture, attacks on civilians, depriving civilians of food and or water, arbitary imprisonment, hostage taking, use of banned weapons and so on, should not be counted as a "Hate-Crime".
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  1955. 2:18 I have a suggestion for Stoltenberg: How about a situation where everybody agreed to keep within their own borders and avoid building up enough arms or the sort of arms that threatens their neighbours' security? It would be much cheaper and much less scary. It would harm nobody.
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  1956. 1:15:09 The British government is a puppet government. Trying to understand its action as though it were sovreign and independent, will just lead to confusion, because it isn't.
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  1957. Correction! It's either bought or blackmailed.
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  1958.  @fred4687  They will need to find a diplomat first. Blinken, Harris and Yellen don't seem fit for purpose.
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  1959. 56:30 I am not surprised that the Ukrainians are upset at the idea of having their soil permanently polluted! I learn from Alex, earlier today, that the Criminally Insane British have been TRAINING Ukrainian troops in the use of these weapons in Britain!!!! Does this mean that they have been firing these on Salisbury Plain? Whatever one might think about the cost-benefit analysis of using these weapons on the Russians, located as they are in the "Breadbasket of Europe" (and for the record, I regard ANY use of these shells as a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY,) the idea of using them in one's own country must be regarded as criminally stupid and surely, should rank as a case of HIGH TREASON.
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  1960. Very sad news! I hope that BRICS can overcome this obstructionism. It is so stupid of India, they should evaluate who is the great threat and who isn't and act accordingly.
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  1961. 25:12 With Biden being POTUS how can anyone imagine that the President of the USA is "Running America"? I mean! Could he run a sweet shop? This provokes the question: does the POTUS run the USA or is he a figurehead?
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  1962.  @NachttiSchlampE65  @JokerDR71 Denk ich auch. Hab rund um 2014/15 regelmäßig blau gewählt, weil die die einzige relevante Partei war, die die heutigen Probleme kommen sehen konnte. Inzwischen sind mir da zu viele fragwürdige Gestalten dabei, aber kann ich immer noch verstehen , warum man AfD wählt = I think so too. I regularly voted blue around 2014/15 because it was the only relevant party that could see today's problems coming. There are now too many questionable characters in it for me, but I can still understand why people vote for the AfD.
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  1963.  @NachttiSchlampE65  You're welcome!
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  1964.  @NachttiSchlampE65  Your welcome.
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  1965. 18:52 If you can't win in reality, you just win in the fantasy world (where it is much easier!) Pretend long enough and it will come true! Or, peoples' attention can be directed elsewhere.
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  1966.  @phoenixj1299  Sorry? Are you answering the right question?
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  1967.  @jvs333  I agree with all you say.
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  1968. Posted at 15:00hrs 3/9/24
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  1969. 19:03 I don't know that you would want to go there, but I would be very interested to hear your take on the organization called "Gladio". No doubt, it had a relationship to the "Red Brigades", "Bader-Meinhof Gang" & all the rest.
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  1970. 23:57 Anent the claim that Putin is making: I would ask anyone who thinks he is exaggerating: what would you call people who fund avowed NAZIs, arm them, train them to NATO standards. help them with weapons and tactic and intelligence info and food and medical help and turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to their atrocities? Who furthermore, shielded the German NAZIs in their sector of occupied Germany and helped many of them find employment in their own "security" apparatus, who cooperated with the Greek NAZIs to suppress the partisans who had, with some British help, fought the Germans during the War and took over wholesale the 12th Department of the German Army General Staff (Foreign Armies East, or FHO). to form the Gehlen Organization to attack and spy on the Soviet Union.
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  1971. 4:59 Iraq is not an "ally" of the United States! It is occupied by the US. The Iraqi governmenthas asked the US to take its troops away, but the US has not done so. It pretends not to hear!
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  1972. I hope that some day soon, the Chinese will do a series of encores and negotiate a peace between North and South Korea and between Pakistan and India. Maybe even Israel, Iran and Syria!
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  1973. Well! Who is surprised that Saudi Arabia is not going to take part in the Collective West's farcical "Peace Conference"? How could anyone expect anyone that takes themselves at all seriously, to take part in a Peace Conference" where one party to the war is not even invited to take part? It's like being asked to attend a wedding where one of the spouses is not invited!
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  1974. 14:17 Like Theresa May, they don't need to know. It is "Highly Likely"! And that should be good enough for anyone.
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  1975. 2:50 "Austin said he authorized the retaliatory strikes at the direction of President Biden." Which means that both of them are War Criminals.
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  1976. 8:00 Of course the economy of Germany is going down. The US does not want competition from anyone not even from its "allies" (vassals). Look at Japan, look at GB, look at any of the Collective West countries and ask yourself which of them are prospering? Answer (Correct me if I'm wrong.) none. Which are doing best? The least cooperative, i.e. Hungary.
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  1977. 5:21 The lack of plausible replacements is really extraordinary! How to explain it? We British have had dud PMs before but never such a dearth of believable stand-ins. It looks almost as though, someone or something was weeding out any capable candidate.
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  1978. 9:50 "When the sands are all dry He's as gay as a lark And will talk in contemptuous tones of the shark. When the waters rise high And the sharks are around His voice has a timid and tremulous sound." Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
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  1979. 8:06 Sounds like the Uncle Remus story of "Brer Fox and the Tar Baby".
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  1980. 21:22 Are you sure that when Pirate Scholz got the order he did not come to attention, click his heels together and say "Ja Wohl! Mein Herr!"? It seems, somehow, more appropriate behaviour.
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  1981. 13:00 It also suggests that he is assured of US support, (covert if neccessary.)
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  1982. This program was interesting!
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  1983. 24:54 Since when has Ukraine been "near to China?"
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  1984. 1:40 Bundeswer is the German armed forces, Bundestag is the German parliament.
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  1985. Minus the men with pitchforks.
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  1986. 0:51 This drill will use up vast quantities of aviation kerosine and will put many tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Where is Greta when you need her?
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  1987. Do you trust the UK government with Human Rights? I don't! I am glad of the influence of the ECHR on the situation in the UK.
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  1988. 23:52 I read about (I think it was a debating society) where before a speaker was allowed to reply to their opponet's argument, they had to show to the audience's satifaction, that they had understood what they were going to reply to.
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  1989. 2:51 The war began in 2014. The SMO began in 2022. The UAF have been shelling Donetsk civilians since shortly after the Maidan coup.
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  1990.  @brandtbollers3183  Yes. I thought so.
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  1991. I can't agree that Today we are "back to where we started from"! There has been a huge change in the time since David "Porky" Cameron was PM! China has grown enormously in strength and reolution and more importantly still the whole Ukrainian affaire has moved on tremendously and Russia has just about defeated the "invincible" NATO. Things in the Middle East are totally different too.
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  1992. 27:54 Harbeck was probably using "structural problems" for that steel pipe structure at the bottom of the Baltic.
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  1993. END Probably, the UK has a secret supply of cheap Russian Gas, that Germany lacks.
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  1994. 35:05 Talking of freedom and democracy and TikTok bans reminds me that I saw this morning that in Britain (England?) cat owners have a few days to get their cats chipped or they face a fine of £500 if their pet is more than 20 weeks old and unchipped! I wonder did parliament debate this or is it simply a ministerial diktat?
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  1995. 26:25 I read some time ago that the aquatic creatures that live in the River Thames are suffering from Cocaine poisoning.
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  1996. 32:09 I think a parallel to the SMO that you might explore, is the invasion of Tanzania of Uganda to free it from Idi Amin Dada.
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  1997.  @geopoliticsjunkie4114  Could be.
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  1998. In UK English there are really two verbs "to hang". There is the verb "To hang". Which basically means to suspend and there is the verb "to hang" which means to execute someone by putting a rope found their neck and then suddenly removimg the supoort from under their feet. The verbs have two past participles which are slightly different "hung" which is the pp of "hang" to suspend, and "hanged" which is the pp of "to hang" the method of execution. The English themselves, often confuse the two.
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  1999. Dr Sachs has leaned a lot since he was writing in the New Scientist in the 2010 (?) period, when he did not seem prepared to admit that a financial system where banks invented money and then lent it out at interest, was inherently unstable and would lead inevitably to a financial debt crisis. Great that one so old can still update his thinking! .
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  2000.  @MagMar-kv9ne  Ridiculous! Of course they can and will get round it! They have got round dozens, maybe hundreds of similar petty restrictions in the past.
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  2001. Sorry! Not 6:12 but 3:45.
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  2002. What can you call people who support N*ZIs with weapons, money, propaganda, training areas and moral support? People like Johnson, Blinken, Sullivan, Macron, Scholtz, Draghi, and all the rest? (There is only one answer.)
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  2003. 35:29 The MSM have , more or less openly become vehicles for govermnet propaganda. What most people seem to not understand, is that there are, practically speaking, no penalties levied on the MSM for blatant lying. (Ordinary people, by contrast, are penalised for "Misinformation" aka telling truths inconvenient to the ptb.)
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  2004. 30:00 "This is a one time thing, this is not going to happen commonly" The West might have got away with that once upon a time, but not after Iran and Venezuela had their assets impounded and in Iran's case impounded for fourteen years and in Venezuela's case, given to a "President", "appointed" by the USG! These countries may be "backward" but they are not terminally stupid.
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  2005. Earlier today I read a (I think) Russian blogger ("Latest News") who alleged that the increase in radioactivity in central Ukraine after the Russians blew up that huge ammunition dump, was not caused by destroyed DU ammunition but by destroyed mini-nukes.
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  2006. The sound is off!
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  2007. 12:35 "Further east, by the way, we've also had reports, the Russians have strengthened their positions around the towns of Orekhov..." By the way, Orekhov is well to the WEST of Bachmut.
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  2008.  @robertdlucas7418  I don't know about "slowly".
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  2009. All these Chinese local government loans are an internal Chinese matter. They have no external debts to worry about. If you imagine the Chinese government is going to fall over an internal problem like this, you are going to be disappointed.
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  2010. The thing that give me most alarm about the future is the WEF and their plans.
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  2011. Oh yes! And the WHO and their power to order mandatory vaccinations.
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  2012. It occurs to me that, although it may look to us as though the PM is lying through his teeth, in fact the problem is with us, rather with than him. You see: in political discourse in your lifetime and mine, the meanings of terms has changed out of all recognition. For example: the terms "Left" and "Right", "male" and "female", "Marxist", "Communist", "Conservative", "Socialist" and "Fascist", do not mean at all, what they did just a few years ago. So. Perhaps "Safe" and "Effective" have new meanings that you and I have not caught up with?
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  2013. Thank you for bringing this very welcome news to us!! At last! A breakthrough! Who'd athunk it coming from the House of Commons? It almost gives me back a glimmer of faith in the idea of "Parliamentary Dmocracy". Let's hope against hope, that it is not a "Flash in the pan"! Do you suppose that it will make any difference to the censorship on the social media?
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  2014. Another point which needs exploring is : Is there a connection between the WEF belief that there are too many humans on the planet and the XSDs ?
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  2015. 7:57 Would a Land Tax solve Brazil's and Argentina's problem with the 50 families?
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  2016. A few minutes ago, I looked at the subjects you two had covered in the last few days, as presented in Yahoo UK. Such a load of BS! It reminded me of Matilda! I felt like her Aunt. "Matilda told such awful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes! Her Aunt, who from her earliest youth Had had a strict regard for truth Attempted to believe Matilda. The effort very nearly killed her!"
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  2017.  @SuanLuang  As I usually do, I agree with every thing Lavrov says there.
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  2018. 48:35 One field where China could be very helpful to India is infrastructure, The Chinese have become World leaders in that and India has sore need of it.
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  2019.  @Xaq_udirir  Yes! It really underlies the whole of the Cold War and "Russophobia".
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  2020.  @orion6shot  Primarily to make money for BIG pharmaceutical companies (No names, no pack-drill!) and "Philanthropists", who made Billions. Secondarily, to test the effects of mRNA vaccines, which had never been tried on a large number of humans before. There may have been other motivations as well, but that is merely my speculating.
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  2021. If you were a policeman investigating a crime and you had one suspect who had said, at least three times, that he would commit this crime, he had motive to commit this crime, he was seen, around the time that the crime was committed, at the scene of the crime, he rejoiced publically that the crime had been committed, he benefitted financially from this crime in at least two ways, he and his friends were guarding the scene of the crime at the time the crime was committed, he had the means to commit the crime and nobody else had a motive to commit it, WHO would you suspect? I think at least you would make an arrest, "pending further investigation"!
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  2022. 10:49 This "Wish fulfillment stategy". If you believe something hard enough it WILL come true!
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  2023. 13:04 You two know the USA much better than I do: how do you think a US intervention in Black Africa would play out with Black Americans?
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  2024. 20:20 It's not just finger pointing, it is that the people pointing their fingers are such obvious hypocrites! "You lock up people without due process!" "Well, so do you. Many times as many as we do!" Etc., etc.
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  2025. I don't know. Who ever it was was very clever. Perhaps it was inspired by reading Orwell's "1984".
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  2026. Yes it's a possibility.
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  2027. I hope and expect that the BRICS+6 will be not only a trading system but also a system to help countries develop and to protect each other.
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  2028. 14:48 Is Timoshenko by any chance a descendant of the General Timoshenko that fought the Germans in the WW2? My family had a cat named after him, because he (the cat) helped us clear out the rats, that invaded our house when a government - owned granary nearby was bombed.
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  2029. "The Mirror" is and always has been a rag. I think it is owned by Rupert Murdoch, it is certainly his style. Probably only "The Sunday Sport" is a less reliable source of information.
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  2030. 5:15 Talking about the Skripals: That story, as told by the British government and its lacky media is so full of self contradictions that it is impossible to take it seriously. Theresa May, the British PM, sdaid that it was "Highly likely that it was the Russians who poisoned the Skripals. I would disagree. I think it is "virtually certain" that the whole affaire was a "Put-up job". &BTW whatever became of the Skripals?
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  2031.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Well, maybe I'm wrong. Somehow I doubt it but that can happen to anyone. We'll see.
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  2032.  @twlamSG  Yes. I should think you are right. The Chinese in their revolution had to deal with some extremely oppressive landlords. I am quite surprised to see landlords re-emerging in China now.
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  2033. The "failure of the Barrier" is, or at least looks like, the "failure" of the US security system on 11/9/2001.
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  2034. 1:32:52 Quite apart from the financial situation of Ukraine, one has to consider the financial situation of the US! That does not look too healthy to me. Can it afford to go on with the War in Ukraine? I doubt that Europe will or could do it for them. This article sounds like more fantasy from the Telegraph.
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  2035. 29:20 The US has been doing this ever since WW2 ended.
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  2036. 49:12 Of course it comes as a surprise to the Daily Telegraph and the like!! because early on in the conflict they determined that Brian Berletic, you, Alex and Col MacGregor, Scott Ritter and numerous other truth tellers, were all PUTIN SCHILLS. So, disbelieving everything they said, in fact, believing the exact opposite of what they said, became with them, an article of Faith, which it was unthinkable to doubt.
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  2037. 22:30 Maybe it was sold to Macron as an 80,000 euro watch?
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  2038. 36:40 There is an obvious contradiction between statements that "Ukraine should have a relationship with NATO" and the idea that "there should be security guarantees for Russia". Since the whole purpose of NATO is to conquer Russia, how is it going to survive "security guarantees for Russia" to "have a relationship with Ukraine"? It seems self-contradictory to me.
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  2039. 13:22 "Why weren't we told?" Because there would have been uproar and Pfizer would have made a lot less money. In fact, (I suspect) all the money spent buying off "Authorities" would have been wasted. (Pity about all the people who died and fell ill, but, hey!, there's too many people anyway!")
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  2040.  @woodytobiasjr8265  Sending the army into Gaza "to root out Hamas" is , yes, likely to lead to something very similar!
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  2041. 0:59 Two men who obviously like each other. Refreshing to see them give each other a firm handshake, rather than the, oh so sweet, hugs and kisses, we see between Zelensky and the other European leaders.
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  2042.  @warrenweaver6664  No, you're still putting the blame in the wrong place. Since the Maidan events of 2014, the Ukraine's real government has been centred in Washington DC. Zelensky is no more in control of the Ukrainian government's policies than Mr Punch is in control of his actions. There is a small but very powerful clique in Washington that has determined the USG's policies on Russia for many decades and still does. They are sometimes refered to as "the Deep State" and sometimes as the "Permanent State". Whatever you may call them, they are not up for election. The most prominent, visible, representative of this group is Victtoria (Cookies) Nuland. They are responsible for the ring of bases around the USSR and now around Russia and China. It is not clear who started the Korean War, but they have been responsible for the Cold War and almost all of the hot wars since.
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  2043. 1:10:52 You ask why the Ukrainians don't want to negotiate with the Russians but seem determined to get a worse beating than they have had up to now? Their policy is made in Washington DC and the point of the war is to kill as many Russians as possible. To do that the war needs to continue. Hard luck on the Ukrainians and their mercenary helpers but who is worried about them? Not the Neocons in Washington, that's certain!
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  2044. 48:57 The "leaders" of the Collective West are quite clearly a collection of US (Neo-con, Neo-lib) puppets. I see no other way to explain their actions.
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  2045. What is so transparent about NASA? What is wrong with the Chinese making discoveries? If the Chinese are not all that cooperative it might be because the USA has prohibited its space agency from cooperating with the Chinese.
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  2046. There is another that might be crazy enough to do something similar to this Macron assassination plot. The SouthAfrican Minister for Foreign Affairs and her family have been threated by Mossad, or so she says.
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  2047.  @willbass2869  I don't know that it was the last, but one Great Contribution was the preservation of a lot of the scientific/mathematical work that was done in classical times. After the Christians burned the Great Library at Alexandria, destroying the accumulated records of centuries of work, the Islamic World preserved a lot of what was left. The Crusaders managed to destroy only a part of that remnant.
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  2048. 12:03 Yes, it does look as though the US is clueless in financial terms. This is really surprising as their ecocnomy is so largely a financial one rather than a manufacturing one. Stealling the Russian Assets was disastrously stupid, but following that up with these new sanctions is almost incredible! However, they have been sanctioning China since 1949 and none of it has done them any good, so far as I am aware, but they still keep doing it.
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  2049.  @linkmeforfun  Agreed.
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  2050.  @GonzoDonzo  The reason that the gas is "dirty" (i.e. contaminated with H2S.) is that the fermentation vessel is too hot, i.e. above 32Degrees Celcius. If it is at 37 Degrees, it ferments faster, but it makes H2S as well as methane and CO2.
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  2051.  @klaspersson2598  Not merely did they stop, when they met the US and British forces, they went back to where they had agreed with Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta, was to be their zone.
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  2052.  @izajahmed8863  No joke intended. Can you explain why you think it is a joke? Or are you just trying to say I am wrong, without bothering to justify the implication? (On the "priciple" "If you throw enough muck, some of it is bound to stick"?)
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  2053. 1:32:54 The whole drive for all this rampant folly is a perrenial effort to get into a tactically advantageous position from which, Russia can be conquered and eventually looted, a la 1990. This has driven the Cold War and motivated almost everything in Western (Aka US) policy for many decades, perhaps back to 1917.
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  2054. 22:08 I wonder has Alexander seen the piece in the Telegraph, today by Hamish de Bretton -Gorgdon called: "Putin's Nuclear Arsenal is Crumbling, Ukraine can take it out For Good" ? Talk about "Warmongering"!
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  2055. 16:47 Maybe, Fox News has been watching Tucker Carlson's interview?
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  2056. 12:15 Thinking about this change in the balance of forces in the current situation compared to the BoF in the '60s and '70s, it occurs to me that perhaps this is result of decades of the USSR, later the RF and China, selling many poorer countries, defensive weapons that they could afford.
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  2057. Can you give examples of animal virus diseases that have spread to humans, other than Rabies? AIDS was almost certainly a "Lab leak". (The CIA asked Congress for the money (and got it) to develop a disease that sounds just like AIDS a few years before it appeared. (This is in the congressional record, BTW.) Where did influenza come from? Does anyone know?
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  2058.  @RoonnyAudisho  Even the Western media are having doubs about the Kursk Adventure.
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  2059. Are you sure that the "leaders" of the CW HAVE any plans? It seems to me, that they have blundered into this war, with a sort of belief that: "It will be alright on the Night" or "We will just play it by ear and make it up as we go along!" Can you discern any coherent strategic thinking from the very start of this op? Insofar as there seems to have been any strategic thinking at all, it seems to have been based on a wildly inaccurate assessment of both the Russian internal situation ("Russia is very weak. One good push and it will collapse.") and of Russia's international relations (We can get all the rest of the World to go along with our sanctions.") and an equally faulty assessment of the feelings of the World outside the CW, towards the USA ("Leave us out of your quarrels, we don't want to be involved.) and crucially, a wild overestimate of the depth of NATO's arsenals and an equally devastating underestimate of the strength and extent of Russian preparedness. From appearing to be "The Greatest and Most Powerful Military Machine ever Assembled on the Face of the Earth" to looking like a "Paper-Tiger", took just a few weeks! Still today as I write, Ukraine is bleeding out the arsenals of the CW and nobody seems to have a strategy to stop it or even so much as a tactic to slow it down, never mind how to repair the reputational damage or to restock the weapons stores in a reasonable time. In fact, were the West to try to do the latter, could it overcome its reliance on Russia and China for so many of the required raw material inputs?. Not in any reasonable time-frame, i would guess. Thank you so much for all your hard work, chasing down and making available to me, news that I would never otherwise hear about! A Very Happy and Peaceful New Year to You and Your Family!
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  2060. The US has been trying to PREVENT ANY other country from becoming a great power. This is the prime cause of the troubles in the World. They have been concentrating on Russia, since before WW2, because it is a prime candidate for Great Power status, but they want to prevent China as well and they are evidently not happy even with middle sized competitors e.g. Japan and Germany. Look out India, Nigeria, Brazil and Indonesia!
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  2061. I have read that when Tony Blair was PM he used to get his instructions from Lord Levy (Levi?) who spoke to him in quite condescending and contemptuous ways. Has LL been dethroned?
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  2062. 1:26:07 The mistake you are making, is taking what you read in the MSM, even "serious" parts of it, like The Telegraph or The Times, as ever being reliable sources of news or even imagining, that they WANT to be reliables sources of news.
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  2063. 53:01 If the Ukrainian figures for the Russians' losses were correct, it would be a first!
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  2064. 26:12 Do these Biden WH officials think that Russia is going to wait, while they work out a stategic plan for victory? Or is it that they think the US public is so thick, that they will not see this as a propaganda ploy?
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  2065. 45:06 One thing you can be certain of is that wherever, whenever and however Prigozhin met his fate, according to the Western media, it would be Putin's fault.
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  2066. 7:20 Some of those damaged by the by-passing of the rules on the introduction of new treatments have been damaged to death. Let that not be forgotten.
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  2067.  @yaoliang1580  Yes. But it won't do them a bit of good.
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  2068.  @yaoliang1580  Yes! It does look rather like a medical problem. I think it is a sort of extension of thee Christin drive in previous centuries, to "go out into the World and spread the light of the Gospel". I.e "God has given us the job of telling the rest of the World how they ought to live!"
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  2069. 13:00 The election of George Galloway, is as alarming in its own way (And in the same way!) as seeing a small jet of water coming out of a dyke, on what is supposed to be, the dry side!
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  2070. 1:10:10 This tail, unlike a real dog's tail, has very powerful sinews connecting deep into the body of the dog, even reaching deep into the decision-making centres of the brain and the heart.
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  2071. 12:02 The word you are looking for is "Ex-twitterati".
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  2072.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  He was smuggling the diluted penicillin across into the Soviet Zone, because the Russians did not have it. They should have been given info on how to make it (if Britain had lived up to their promises) during the war when they had desperate need of it. As to "evidence"; if the Russians had been given knowledge of how to make penicillin during the war the Film would have made no sense. He would have been smuggling something else.
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  2073. 1:21:19 The Leadership of the CW continues as always except that their pocket has sprung a big hole and cash ($s) is running out at an alarming rate.
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  2074. One of the many very important questions, this whole "business" raises, and one which I have not seen addressed anywhere, by anyone, is how were our MPs "persuaded" (If that is the right word!) to boycott en masse, debates on this extraordinarily important topic? This question, it seems to me, goes right to the heart of "what sort of Democracy we have"?
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  2075. 3:31 If you walk in the midle of the road, you will get hit by traffic going both ways.k
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  2076. 41:25 The West may be "Oh, so deeply" committed to Ukraine, but obviously, they do not care tuppence for Ukrainian people!
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  2077. 55:40 I also note that Ursula has just been convicted of corruption. (Not berfore time!)
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  2078. 5:33 I think it was Zelensky you meant, not Lukashenko.
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  2079. 3:56 Was that a graffiti flea on the wall behind you or just something that looked rather flea-like?
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  2080. 24:01 I heard that General Westmoreland asked for more oil that the world production to mount a "New, final" bombing campaign on North Vietnam and when he was told that there was not enough oil to fuel this, to be had, he gave up.
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  2081. What is particularly remarkable is that,at the same time the US is telling China not to support Russia, they are sanctioning Chinese products and openly trying to destroy their High Tech industry! Trying to "Keep Russia and China apart" and at the same time insulting and attacking both! It's sort of "raising, acting stupid to a fine art"!
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  2082. I forgot to mention the US trying, simultaneously, to find a "Legal" way to steal the Russian's bank reserves and asking the Chinese to buy US debt!
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  2083.  @albertgrant1017  Thank you.
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  2084. 15:12 I think the word that perfectly fits your need is "Gauleiter".
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  2085. 48:54 Not so long ago, iirc, Putin went to Iran and said that Russia would stand by any of its friends that were attacked. He then went on to Israel and spoke of Iran as a "friendly country". I think that might be important in the present situation.
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  2086. By the look of that selfie, they have all just powdered their noses.
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  2087.  @jonthomas9708  Yes, I agree that is a risk. However, I think that reducing the persuasive, attractive, seductive power of the MIC for people not directly involved in it, (shareholders) would be worth taking that risk for. It would also reduce the financial power and the incentive of/for warmongers to make propaganda for war. After all, that governments organized to defeat the Axis Powers, was only to be expected. That was a response to a real threat. The "Drive for War" that has afflicted US policy since the end of WW2, was not a response to a real threat, it war an artifact. Remove the financial muscle from the group that made that "Threat", and I think you would probably so;lve the problem which looks otherwise almost insoluble.
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  2088. !:18:28 It occurs to me, that the only people who are interested, permanently interested in war, are the arms manufacturers and their shareholders. Therefore, to ensure peace in the World, all arms companies should be nationalized. They should have only one shareholder, the government the people. No need in fact, for complicated disarmarment negotiations, all you need is to remove the finacial motivation and the rest is relatively simple. Am I wrong?
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  2089. I think the Russians want the civilian population out of the way of the fighting, iow out of harm's way. Also, whether the Russians want to advance or to retreat, the civilians will be in their way.
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  2090. I often find myself disagreeing with your analysis but I turn to it because you cover things, particularly the war in Ukraine, from a different perspective and more extensively and with less bias than that adopted by virtually the whole of the Collective West's media. The Guardian's criticism of you, is basically that you do not follow the dictates of the "Integrity Initiative", the CIA/MI6 backed organization that controls every newsroom in the CW's media, telling them 24/7, what to publish and what to say about it. More power to your elbow!
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  2091. Happy New Year to you too!
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  2092. 15:41What should the US/Israeli side have done on 9/10/23? This reminds me of the story about the Engliman on a walking holiday in Ireland who found himself lost and asked a local the way to Dublin. "You want to go to Dublin?" queried the local. "Oh, Dear!" Really, I wouldn't started from here ! If I was you."
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  2093. Things develop in China at anextraordinary speed: for example I think if I remeber correctly, all the eight huge buildings around Tien An Men Square were built in eight months. Eight months altogether, that is, not eight months each..
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  2094. 1:04:25 As Alex Christoforou said a few minutes ago, Biden is going to China to persuade the Chinese to stop helping the Russians, so that the US can defeat the Russians and then get on with defeating the Chinese! A mission impossible, I should imagine.
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  2095. 14:20 A new security architecture will be a pointless exercise, so long as the "cancer" at the heart of the problem, the USG-MIC-Congress-MSM-lobbyist industry complex in Washington DC, is left intact. In my opinion, it will sabotage peace so long as it exists in its present form. Its life depends on its so doing !
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  2096. As the Russians target military targets, most of the damage to civilian housing and shopping centres, is caused by S-300 missiles and the like, which have missed their target. So, if Ukraine is very short of anti-aircraft missiles, the Ukrainian civilians should be a bit safer.
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  2097. 52:00 "All have the fingerprints, again, of amateurs, people who really don't understand." This is really no surprise. Or at least, it should not have been a surprise, because in truth the Neightoe generals ARE all amateurs, in that they have never been involved in battles with PEER opponents. All the Neightoe Generals that had fought really strong opponents in WW2 or the Korean or Vietnam wars, are all either retired or dead and probably (I'm guessing) the current crop don't even play chess well!
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  2098. Yes! Quite remarkable! Isn't it?
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  2099. Я не вчера родился!
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  2100.  @bertanelson8062  It seems very probable, "highly likely" even, but I cannot honestly say that I know that.
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  2101. What Alex does not understand is that IF ONLY the Ukrainians can break through to the other side of Robotynie, the Russians will all panic and run away in fright! Believe us! It's written in the stars!
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  2102. I am immensely grateful to you and all the other heros who are fighting this most monstrous crime. Thank you both and all who are working with you. Future generations (Assuming there are some!) will remember you with gratitude.
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  2103. 19:10 Those figures are PROFITS, not the cost to us. The cost is far higher!
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  2104. 27:27 In fact Ursula is out of date. The Russians are stripping transistors out of captured western tanks and using them in their washing machines!
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  2105. Yes! Very good suggestion! Make a list of MPs that were absent from the Debates in Westminster Hall and send themas an email to all the opposition parties where they are sitting. Cheap legal and I should think, effective. Incidentally, it would be very interesting to know what sort of pressure, is/was being put on MPs, to stay away from such important debates.
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  2106. Glad you liked it!
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  2107. This is not only the biggest intervention, it is also, at least, potentially a massacre!
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  2108.  @MorningNapalm  Yeah! Maybe!
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  2109.  @kbkirati8761  Thanks.
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  2110. 1:48 "Washington in general has rejected diplomacy" NO! You are understating this. Ukraine and Russia almost negotiated a peace a year ago back, in Istanbul, but Washington sent Boris Johnson to tell Zelensky that, that was not allowed. 2:50 "War Fatigue"? You're joking! They are running out of weapons to send! Their great fear, is that Ukraine will drain the Collective West's arsenals to the point that they would have totally inadequate stocks to respond to a Russian attack if it happened. They still have some weapons, but they want them to use on China!
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  2111. Zelensky could become a great hero (Though I think it highly unlikely to happen) if he sent a note to the Chinese Embassy asking for the Chinese to mediate a cease-fire and a settlement, now. I.e. before this massacre begins. Really, the behaviour of the West in this, reminds me of nothing so much as "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
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  2112.  @jackklugman107  I'm not likely to "forget Perfidious Albion" but what is the relevance of it in this conrext?
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  2113. It occurs to me that perhaps it is not that the engine is weak, nor that the airframe of the F-16 is heavy, but that the air intake is too close to the ground and is , so to say, sucking the plane down onto the runway?
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  2114. 8:10 I forgot to put in which part of the video this remark applies to.
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  2115. 20:28 Cue "Real Alien Bodies"!
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  2116.  @paulmeaney1283  Thank you.
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  2117. 2:05 "Interbational coalition" or purely US, they are there illegally.
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  2118. 9:32 I just avoided being recalled for military service in the Suez debacle, a few months after my days as a conscript ended, because my name begins with a "W". Had it begun with an "H" I would have been sent.
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  2119. I agree that it was a lab leak but I am not convinced that it necessarily leaked in Wuhan. There seem to have been many people who caught Covid 19, before the outbreak was recognized as such, both in Europe and in the USA. In addition one of the pharmaceutical companies had a patent dated 2018 for a "remarkably similar" virus! Research into GoF with viruses like the one researched in Wuhan, were carried out by the North Carolina University at the Chapel Hill laboratory.
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  2120. 9:00 Fighting with less; It is almost as though they have taken inspiration from the Black Knight who barred the way to King Arthur, in the Monty Python sketch. Having lost both his arms and legs in the battle he shouts "Come back, and I'll bite yer legs off!!"
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  2121. 6:55 Thirty years ago I was a member of a "Computer Club" in Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, UK. One of the leading lights of the club, the person that all the other members went to when they had problems with their computers, was eight years old.
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  2122. 1:10:46 I wonder, would seizing Russia's central bank reserves, which resulted in Russsian military action against say, Belgium and/or France be a cause for clause 5 call for action by Neightoe? I rather think not!
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  2123. @blahblahblah blah The war was ending anyway. The question was the terms of surrender. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not nuked to end the war, it was done to frighten the Russians. The USG lied to the scientists who developed the Bomb, they said it was to prevent the Germans or Japanese from threatening the allies with an a-bomb. In fact, from the beginning, it was to enable them to conquer the USSR. They are still working on ways to conquer Russia! That's what this current war and the sanctions is all about.
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  2124. 4:40 I agree with you, Alex, CIA guesses about Iran's future actions are not worth diddly squat!
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  2125.  @jay90374  I see there is a piece in today's ukYahoo, quoting The New Voice of Ukraine to the effect that "Britain is weighing sending ground trooops to Ukraine in the event that Russia greatly escalates the war" Sounds delusional to me.
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  2126. 16:00 Why are the European leaders going along with this plan to illegally seize Sovreign assets, with all the predictable consequences for their countries credibilty as a safe have for financial assets? The answer is obvious: when Il Capo saus "Jump!" the mobsters ask only "How High?"
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  2127. Loss of trust: Yes! I was absolutely shocked that there was so little pushback from the medical profession, particularly doctors, when mandates were imposed on huge groups of people; forcing them to have experimental vaccines injected into their bodies. This seemed (it still seems) to me to be a complete denial of the Hippocratic oath. However, only a very brave, very few doctors resigned rather than pressure unwilling patients to have this stuff in their systems. The sort of pressure included huge fines (In Italy at least) and loss of job in many places, loss of position, loss of seniority and huge social pressure. All my long life I had had a great respect for the medical profession as a whole, but these last two years have certainly changed that! One thing that particularly shocked me was the almost complete lack of support for the very few doctors (Some of them very eminent doctors) who spoke out against the imposed ban on discussion of the fight against the disease. Unscientific, counter- productive and frankly unethical.
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  2128. 1:15:44 Today in Yahoo, the" New Voice of Ukraine" is quoted as saying that Ukraine has sent three brigades across the Dnieper River. Doesn't mention what happened to them. "Ukrainian forces have successfully deployed three brigades to the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, while the broader southern counteroffensive has culminated, The Guardian reported on Nov. 16, citing unnamed Western officials."
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  2129. Once again, overnight, I was "Unsubscribed"! I wonder why?
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  2130. 9:38 It is worse than a deafening silence. There iare active efforts to suppress discussion of this matter.
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  2131. 1:15:59 It would have been better still, if Victoria Nuland and her friends had not staged the Maidan Coup! That, however was merely one iteration of the permanent agenda of the Warmongers of Washingtons' preparations to defeat Russia and China and secure the USA's permanent hegemony.
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  2132. 12:14 "And if you won't eat your porridge, the wicked witch will take you away to her hideout in the woods!" "And if you don't give us the necessary weapons the wicked Putin will fly across the Atlantic and . . . . . ""
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  2133. Good luck with the move! Happy landings! As a European, however, I would warn you that Europe is currently going down. In particular, it is getting constantly more oppressive, particularly for small farmers, it's getting poorer and the governments are about to hand health policy over to the WHO, which is the creature of Bill Gates and the Big Pharmaceutical companies.
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  2134. 31:00 As I see it, there is a small but powerful faction in the West that really HATES Russia and wants all day and every day to attack and destroy Russia, so that they can feast on the remains. They can't do it, because Russia is too strong, but the intention, the hope, the aspiration, is always there. Hence the constant establishment of new bases all over the World, since the end of WW2. Sometimes it is more hidden than at other times but it is a constant factor. It really makes "Negotiations", with the West pointless. What is needed is to make sure that Russia is strong enough, to keep the desires of this clique as just desires. If I conclude anything from this, it is that the Russians should buck-up their propaganda and PR efforts, The Ukrainian war is, at least in part, the result of the West's underestimating the strength of the Russians, economically, politically and militarily. PR and propaganda, is MUCH CHEAPER than war and it may well be the alternative.
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  2135. It almost looks as though Zelensky is a Russian agent. How so? Putin has said that his intention is to "denazify and demilitarize Ukraine" and his army is killing off the NAZ*s and destroying the Ukraine military and its infrastructure and Zelensky is sending the best motivated and trained Ukrainian troops to be destroyed and giving them orders to stand and fight to the last man; which orders, if carried out, will ensure the rapid destruction of the most n*zified elements of the Ukrainian army as rapidly and completely as possible.
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  2136. "Russia is slowly loosing patience with West, They (are?) really asking for it. (What is "it"?) They will get it (What is "it"?)but not like they imagined"
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  2137. This program is about "the mouse in the room". The ELEPHANT is the number of Excess Deaths.
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  2138. If Erdogan said he knew how to get that pot of gold that the faries deposited at the end of the rainbow, would you pay him, in advance, for the information?
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  2139. Thank you for the explanation of why the Chinese stock market is going down. I am sure you are right that (Absit WW3!) after a time it will go up again. Probably much higher than before. I have been reading predictions of an "imminent collapse of the Chinese economy" since before the PRC was declared and frankly, I don't believe these predictions. I think most of them are wishful thinking. In any case, with war in Ukraine, War in Gaza, War in Yemen, War in Iran(?) predictions about the future, seem to me to be rather doubtful! We just have to wait and see what happens next!
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  2140. 36:05 Relying on narratives does not merely not win you wars, it activly works to meke sure you are defeated.
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  2141. When I was at school I avidly followed the progress of the Chinese revolution. Even before the declaration of the PRC, there were reports about the crisis in the Communists' economy. As soon as the PRC was declared, more re[ports of the imminent coming collapse started appearing in the British Newspapers and on the BBC. It has never stopped since, right up to this morning these reports keep coming. So far, the Chinese have had difficulties, but nothing they have been unable to cope with and through it all they have grown and grown and become stronger and more technologically advanced.
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  2142. Another Wuderwaffen! All reactionaries LOVE their Wunderwaffen! The Wunderwaffen of WW2 the V1 and the V2, were "going to win the war" for the Wehrmacht, but they didn't. The war in Ukraine has been lost and HIMARS are not going to alter that.
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  2143. 1:10:14 While not wishing to detract from the absolute importance of the resiliance of the Russian econaomy, in the face of massive sanctions, I would have thought, that the Military success of the Russian Armed Forces, against a large part of the reputedly "Undefeatable" forces of NATO, was by far the most significant Political event of this Century! It completely changes the whole way that the Global South, regards NATO and its begetter the USA.
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  2144. Most of the administration are Yunohus. The entirety of the MSM is controlled by Yunohus as well. where's the mystery of the good press? There is absolutely no constraint on the MSM to tell the truth or anything like it. So why should they, if it suits them not to?
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  2145. Kosovo was "given" independence by NATO without even a referendum and then it was recognized by most of the Collective West. The Russian are simply playing by the Kosovo playbook. Incidentally, the French sent a parliamentary delegation to Crimea, to find out what people there thought about unification with Russia and they concluded that it was very popular with the inhabitants.
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  2146. 5:46 Oh Bravo!! You got it right! And you correcctly converted feet to metres! What came over you?
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  2147. Mr Freeman speaks of there not being much evidence of thought. We have no one among the European leaders that strikes me as being a thinker.
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  2148. The native Americans or rather the Original Inhabitants of what is now the USA say: "the white men speak with forked tongues." They have reasons a-plenty to say this. Every treaty the USG made with them was broken. The Chinese say that they are unwilling to talk with the US, because they say one thing and do something else. So, By all means talk with the US, but keep your wits about you. Don't take anything on trust. If you have a contract with them, make sure it is watertight and bombproof. Make sure you know the definition of every word in it and the implications of every phrase. If you don't, you will kick yourselves for not doing so.
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  2149. 21:39 No doubt you are right to doubt that the Iranian government is stupid enough to want WW3 to stop the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, but ask yourself "Who is it that really, really likes chaos? Who is it that has consistently created Chaos, all over the globe?" The answer is obvious.
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  2150. 31:08 "Human Rights" Just like the rules of the "Rules-Based Order", are nowhere written down and are exactly defined by US! As and when and how we see fit. So stop mocking the ever-so Democratic Elensky!
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  2151.  @Baard2000  The more I study this the worse it looks!
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  2152. It is not that Europe does not know how to fight. There are a number of factors that makes Europe find itself in a position where it is not prepared to fight. For a start the European arms industry has been bought up and closed down by their US competittors. For the last 76-77 years there has been no real threat of a war in Europe except the one started by and largely waged by, the US in Yugoslavia. Another thing is, that the European arms industry is almost entirely privately owned, which means it is run by accountants. So, because there was very little demand for e.g. 155mm shells, the people who made them were mostly sacked and the machines that they were made on, were scrapped as "Stagnant Capital" and a "waste of space." Also, because of "Just-in-time -working" there are no stocks of arms. These too, would be regarded by an accountant as both "Stagnant Capital" and a "waste of space" Because there was no real threat, young men were mostly looking for careers or livings more comfortable than the one typically enjoyed by a soldier or sailor or even an Airman. Without a real,live threat, who wants a life of being ordered around? Some do, but not that many.
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  2153. 16:18 Maybe the Ukrainians tried to poison Erdogan, but he is tougher than they thought?
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  2154. A growth rate of 6% means that in ten years the economy will double in size. That means that if you have ten years when the economy grows by 6%, at the end of the ten years 3% growth is the same absolute amount of growth that 6% was ten years before.
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  2155. There are many other "laboratories" besides the WIV. Some 48 in Ukraine alone, hundreds all around the world.
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  2156. 18:08 Maybe Zelensky has been reading the British media and still thinks he has a chance of winning?
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  2157. I think that NATO would be very foolish indeed to provoke a war with Russia. The war with NATO in Ukraine has shown that the Russians, with a small part of their armed forces engaged, can exhaust NATO's supplies of ammunition, that their air defence system can give them air superiority and their hypersonic and other missile are very hard or even impossible to defend against. NATO is certainly not in a position at the moment to wage a war on Russia. If it did it would have to aim to win within a couple of months or it would have nothing to fire at the Russians except nukes and there is no future in that. If it dragged on for more than a couple of months, where would they get the raw materials needed to make arms and ammunition from? China? If NATO went to war with Russia it would be taking on not only Russia, but at least China and Iran as well, as both know that if Russia were defeated they would be the next to be attacked.
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  2158. 5:22 How did Zelensky think that Ukraine could defeat Russia. Look, Zelensky is an actor, a comedian. He has NO military experience. I have known only a couple of actors, but neither of them were interested in military matters or indeed anything outside their profession. I suspect Zelensky was the same. He was told by the representative of the British Government and the US government, something along the lines of "Tear up this agreement and we will give you enough weaponry to hand the Russians a bloody defeat. We will support you for as long as it takes!" Probably, he thought that BoJo knew what he was talking about. Bojo probably, sincerely believed, as did a majority of people at that time, that Neightoe was the Mightiest military machine that the World had ever seen and was effectively undefeatable, while "everyone knew" (or at least it was widely believed in government circles in the West) that the Russian army was in poor shape, mutinous, poorly trained, badly equipped with outdated machines and badly officered and lacking experience (and all the rest!), while the Ukrainian army was the largest Neightoe-style army in Europe and had been trained for seven years by US and European officers to Neightoe standards and was battle-hardened by seven years of war against the militias of LPR and DPR. So, one can see why he believed Bojo that Ukraine could win and why Bojo believed the same.
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  2159. 57:00 Russian FONOPS in the Carribean.
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  2160. 2:15 How do you know that Trumps accusations are false. The DoJ has had Hunter Biden's laptop since for ever and has done nothing about it. No investigation at all. So how can you be certain that the accusations are "False"?
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  2161.  @Dennis0824  Sounds like a good idea.
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  2162. What nullifies elections all across the West, (I say nothing about other elections.) as exercises in "Democracy", is that the "Demos" (the people) get almost all their information from just a few sources, almost all of which are controlled by huge and immensely wealthy corporations.
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  2163. 27:39 What is even more staggering, is that the Chinese have grown rich without an empire to rob! Oh, &BTW, private enterprise was an important part of the Chinese scene from well before the declaration of the PRC. For example, the PRC's flag has four small stars on it as well as the big "Communist" star. These four stars represent the peasants, workers, soldiers and (Wait for it!) the patriotic capitalists. When I went to China in 1964, I was amazed at the diversity of goods in the shops and enquiring about this, I discovered that unlike in the USSR, there was a thriving privately owned industry, making anything that would turn a penny, with firms ranging in size, from one-man ops to firms employing hundreds or even thousands.
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  2164. What about the reports of CV19 circulating in e.g. Northern Italy and Barcelona before it appeared in Wuhan? What about the USA turning over its info on the early days of the Pandemic? What indeed, about the report in the Jerusalem Times of a US intelligence report or a "Nasty virus circulating in Wuhan" before the Chinese reported it?
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  2165. 25:55 Kaiya Kallas, Russophage.
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  2166. Boris as the new Roman Emperor. Didn't he run on a platform of getting Britain OUT of Europe?
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  2167. So! At least we can see, that Harbeck is not a BS merchant.
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  2168. The problem is not a lack of will to defeat the Russians on the part of the West! NO! There is nothing our leaders would like better. The problem is that, in February 2022, they believed their own propaganda and gravely underestimated the power, determination and resilience of the Russians. They also gravely underestimated the Russian economy, the Russians' liking for Vladimir Putin and the West's own stock of weapons and their ability to make more. Put all these mistakes together and one can see that the whole enterprise of bringing about "Regime Change" in Russia and installing Navalny as the New Yeltsin, was doomed from the start.
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  2169.  @davidgladstone5261  A likely story! All those messages went back and forth and not one of them was picked up by the Israeli secret services nor yet by any of the 17 different Us spy agencies. By the sound of it, Hamas, and the Iranians and Hezbollah must all knock spots off the other agencies. (Must be tighter than a duck's rear end and that's watertight!)
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  2170. 26:16 This Reuters report, again illuminates the fact that Hamas is not an Iranian proxy nor is it a gebuine Palestinian Resistemce movement but it is rather, an Israeli construct, set up to discredit the PLO and the Palestinians.
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  2171.  @kgbgb3663  Yes, I think you are right. I mis-heard "Kavkahazia" as "Abkhazia".
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  2172. 2:16 "seven thousand tons annually" ? Really? 7,000tons? Are you sure? It sounds like the sort of quantity that might be handled per minute by, say, Shanghai. Of course I realize that this is a much smaller port than Shanghai, but that much smaller? I rather doubt it.
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  2173. 10:07 The problem is this: The Europeans have followed the USA down the rabbit hole into a severe slump, induced by cutting off Europe's supply of cheap energy from Russia and the USA is now demanding, that they contribute more to NATO, which in very fact is not and never has been, a "Defensive" alliance. (It has never come to the defenso of anyone except after 9/11 and that was a put-up job anyway.) It has always attacked other countries, that the US and Israel wanted reduced in power, no wonder they are worried. The other point to condider is that armies are always the last resort of the ruling class to keep themselves in power. That is the principal reason why countries have armies. The threats of external enemies are very largely and most of the time, excuses for having them. NATO backs up the other five or six layers of protection that the ruling classes surround themselves with, the Police, the Education system, the MSM and publishing system, the burocracy. Dismantling NATO at a time when the farmers in various NATO countries look as though they might be considering going home for their pitchforks, is an alarming idea. Particularly given the parlous state of most of the armies in the CW.
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  2174. No, I don't think the response to the question on troop losses was wrong, had he been a western spokesman he would have tried to spin it, but being who he is he didn't. What he said was factual. Neither upbeat nor downbeat. Your point about the undesirability of taking interviews with the MSM, however, is right.
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  2175. 11:11:12 It always seemed obvious to me that it was a weather balloon, because there was nothing that hard for the US authorities in recovering it and if it were anything other than a weather balloon, the Chinese government would have been shown up, not merely as liars , but as stupid liars! Imagine the loss of face that would have caused! Not just in the world at large, but in China itself.
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  2176. 6: 52 What a disappointment the Prigozhin uprising was! What a damp squib! All those people apparently in an uprising and hardly anyone got killed. ("There weren't even nobody drownded! In fact nothing to laugh at at all!") It's true that the mutineers killed twelve Russian airmen, but that was it. The whole thing ended in Prigozhin being sent into exile and the rest being sent in various directions, back to Ukraine, to Africa and to Syria, peacefully. I don't think that counts as Putin "Being very bad at standing up to mass uprisings." That was a mass uprising (I mean, it involved some 4000.) and it was resolved with very minimal strife. Who could have handled it as well as Putin and Lukashenko did? Who could have handled it better? Biden? BoJo? Rishi Sunak? Pardon my doubts!
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  2177.  @mariussima8500  So, It was Mike Jones? Thanks for the correction.
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  2178. 18:03 The Russian-Chinese drive to get a ceasefire in Gaza, shows their principled stand, in that were they as ruthless as the US, they would encourage the Israelis to use up as much of the West's stock of arms as quickly as possible, for example by smuggling arms to Hamas.
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  2179. 26:31 I have read that the cost of one Patriot missile is $3 million. If we assume that the Israelis were firing cheaper missiles costing "only"$1 million each and that they fired only two missiles at each incoming missile and drone and that "hundreds" of incoming missiles implies at least 200, then the cost would be at least $400 million.
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  2180. 59:10 All the British assesments I have seen, seem to have been taken direct from briefings by Ukrainian intelligence. They were all wrong without exception.
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  2181. The irony is that the Georgian law is almost a copy of a US law called the "FARA Law (Foreign Agents Regidtration Act) This is what Google says about it: §§611-621; FARA) was enacted to require individuals doing political or advocacy work on behalf of foreign entities in the United States to register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and to disclose their relationship, activities, receipts, and disbursements in support of their activities.Jan 5, 2024
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  2182. Trumpty-Dumpty caused a great fall Clever Professor repaired it all But all the dark forces And all Biden's men Couldn't squash Trumpty-Dumpty again!
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  2183. 1:15;39 I saw an advertisement for an investment advice service yesterday, that said that on 20/9/23, the US government is going to ditch paper dollars and move to a digital central bank currency. I do not know what the ramifications of that will be but I do not expect any good for ordinary people to come of it.
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  2184.  @garykendall3776  I think it will happen all over. The point I was making, was that there is going to be this shake up on the 20th, which is not much time to prepare (assuming you have some ideas of how to prepare). It could well mean as much disruption as did the going off the gold standard in 1971. I saw that was coming because I read it in Peking Review some weeks before it happened. I only half-believed it but I went to the bank and bought ten gold sovereigns @ £3/15s each. After it happened, I cursed myself (Oh! Ye of little faith!) for not mortgaging my house and buying thousands!
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  2185.  @garethrobinson2275  Yes you are right. I was misled by a statement that these new cells were "much more powerful". I did not realize when I wrote that, that they were much more powerful; weight for weight as against area for area. However, if they can be easily folded, you could carry a big area of solar cells in the boot and unfold it when you arrived to charge up your car's battery, perhaps?
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  2186. Another possibility occurs to me: namely that BOTH Israel and Hamas were setting a trap for the other. The Israelis may have thought, that by tipping Hamas off that there was going to be a weakening of the border, they would show the World "just how horrible Hamas really is", thus providing an excuse for killing massive numbers of Palestinians, while Hamas thought, that by behaving in this terroristic fashion, they would lure the Israelis into waging a ground war inside the Gaza Strip resulting in massive Israeli casualties. This, of course, is merest speculation on my part.
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  2187. Elections are not going solve anything. Whom to elect? Who is there? Hello! Is there anyone there?
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  2188. 20:40 It almost seems as though the Baltic states are making the same mistake as the Kurds!
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  2189. 54:51 The person who is the most to blame for the fact that Britain cannot manufacture the needed shells itself is, ironically enough, the PM who thought Britain could prosper on the FIRE economy (Finance, Insurance and Real Estate) alone: Margaret Thatcher!
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  2190. 53:09 What Has did and is doing is terrorism, no argument. What Israel is doing, bombing civilians in their homes, is also terrorism. Since Israel is supposed to be a responsible government and is always wailing about how the youknowhus were treated, it seems to me that they have even less excuse than Hamas.
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  2191. 1:04:00 That is not an "obtuse response"! It is a corrupted response.
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  2192. 10:28 My advice to the Russians is : Fortify your nurseries!. Move them deep underground!
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  2193. It occurs to me that the Chinese lockdown policy killed off all except the wildly infectious variant.
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  2194. It's high time that Mr Punch and his wife negotiated better terms with the Puppeteer.
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  2195.  @maxhugen  I have an explanation of why the Ukrainians think or at any rate thought that they had shot down 7 Kinzhals, The Kinzhal has an electronic system on board which makes it look to radar as though there are six other Kinzhals coming as well as the real one. The Patriot crew saw this and fired off a couple of dozen missiles and only one Kinzhal arrived, so, of course, they assumed that they "must have" destroyed all the rest! The Kinzhal is a powerful weapon, but it will not determine the course of the war. It just helps the Russians destroy some things more easily than they could without it.
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  2196. 29:53 I read/heard in a Douglas MacGregor program Yesterday, that the weather in Bachmut has already broken, He, or someone in the program, was talking about Ukrainian trenches with "Three feet of water" in them.
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  2197. 8:36 Odd in any context, but in an alleged "Dictatorship"?
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  2198. Except that the Russian export hardly any gold.
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  2199. this scheme was dreamed up by Baldrick.
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  2200. 54:00 The sound has gone!
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  2201. I would tell the minister that Tesla cars Can be hacked and have been. The fact that the opposition won gains, PROVES NOTHING. The The machines may have been unhacked and the opposition won "fair and square" or the opposition may have won by hacking.
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  2202. 1:07:54 "Wouldn't that be real cool?" Like those criminally insane "Scientists" in Boston, USA who recently announced that they had produced a Covid-19-like virus which was, however, not 1% lethal in human-modified mice but, Whoopee!, 80%!! Personally, though in general, I do not approve of the Death Penalty, if I had dictatorial powers, I would have them taken to the nearest suitable wall and shot. I cannot see a justification for any "gain of function" research. Why do we need it? Viruses jump from Nature to humans from time to time and surely that is problem enough. When we make viruses which are more deadly than those occurring naturally, there is always a chance that they will escape the lab and infect the world outside. This seems to be an entirely avoidable risk and one that has remarkably little upside, unless you are TRYING TO MAKE BIOWEAPONS. (If you are, you should be an outlaw and there should be a bounty on your head.)
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  2203. If you shove yourself into a space that is not yours and consistently beat-up and otherwise bully the neighbours, it is hardly surprising if they find you intolerable. If Israel continues to behave in the murderous way it has behaved until now, I think it is only a matter of time before its neighbour gang up on it and force it out. Or if they are very lucky, the neibours will force them to calm down, agree borders, mend fences and live as a "normal" country.
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  2204.  @somjrgebn  Like their accounts.
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  2205. You cannot alter the truth. The truth is what it is. You can twist it you can distort it but you cannot cancel it. It is fixed because it is in the past. More importantly you can fail to report it and this is why the censorship and de-platforming is so important. If Musk really means what he says he will be one of the most important figures in the history of the West in the 21st Century. Given an open debate, the truth will out, as eventually lies are weak, they are vulnerable to close examination which the truth is not.
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  2206. Making and worse, using such ammunition, should be made a Crime Against Humanity. Yes, I know it is very effective against tanks but when used, it poisons the ground around where it is used more or less for ever and ever. Food grown in the area causes stillbirths and hideously deformed children and other animals.
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  2207.  geranienbaum  If you know that, presumably you are more familiar with the company than I am; do you by any chance have an address for them? I have an idea that I would like to share with them, but I could not find where to send it! I would like to find the company's address or better still the address of their design bureau.
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  2208. 22:14 They don't think of these thing because of Hubir and intellectual laziness. They are not chess players.
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  2209. Sorry! Hubris
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  2210. 2:29 US armed forces are operating in Syria illegally. They have no right to be there, they are there stealing oil and stealing and burning wheat crops. Complaining that Su-35 violated coalition airspace in Syria is like a burglar complaining that a policeman hurt him when he arrested him in his victim's house! This complaint shows the disgusting arrogance with which the US treats the rest of the World.
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  2211. 33:41 It's not just Russian Reserves, they stole the reserves of Iran and Venezuela too. Not to mention the way the EU treated Hungary.
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  2212. The problem for the people in the US who see a need for negotiations, is that they are living in a Cloud-Cuckoo Land constructed for them by the MSM and the intelligence agencies. They think, sincerely that there is a looming stalemate and talk accordingly. The idea that there is a looming Russian victory, is so frightening that probably the fact-checkers and censors rule out any mention of it in the MSM. So it is never discussed or considered.
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  2213. The joint efforts of Israel's allies did not "defeat" the Iranian attack. They destroyed the drones and the cruise missiles that were designed to engage the Israeli defences (Which they did.) but faied to stop the 9 Iranian ballistic missiles which hit the targets they were aimed at. None of the Iranian ballistic missiles were intercepted. This looks, to me at least, more like a "successful attack" than a "defeat".
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  2214. 5:05 Aren't the LEOs going to do an investigation?
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  2215.  @kunik61  Is this supposed to be some sort of argument? Or is it just name-calling?
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  2216. 17:25 It really is the most extraordinary gamble that Borrel is asking Europe to make. "It looks as though Ukraine is LOSING, if we do not increase the arms we supply to Kiev, Ukraine WILL LOSE! So give them EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, on the assumption that they will then win and make all our efforts worth while!". IOW "Victory or bust!" WHOOPEE!
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  2217. Looking back over the period from 1945 to the present day; it seems to me that there was a very optimistic feeling in Britain after the war and each government since has gradually whitled that away. Though I did not like her at all, i must admit that there was a sort of surge of optimism for a short while under Thatcher, which quickly, disipated under Blair and things have contued down as before. since. All that time, the Britis government has been, more or less, a puppet of the warmongers of Washington. As Kissinger said, being a friend of the USA is fatal. what we are waiting for now is the Coup de grace.
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  2218. 31:36 This is the second time that this manifestation of the "British detterence" (Using a US made missile!) has failed. IIRC the last time, off the East coast of the US, the Trident missile went in the wrong direction! OOPS! Fortunately, in both cases the missiles had dummy warheads. In all probability, in the case of WW3, it would make no difference at all, which way the missile went. If it went.
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  2219. Look, its very simple: China has an MIC so does the USA. The USA's MIC is capitalist, it is privately owned and run for profit. It is immensly rich and very profitable and it uses part of that profit to pay its shareholders, part on advertizing so that the MSM supports its every action and puffs up its reputation, it uses part to pay Lobbyists to bribe congress critters to vote for more arms orders and it uses part to pay ex civil servants and ex-military officers who persuaded the Government to buy arms, while they were serving (The so-called "revolving door".) for serving as members of the boards of MIC companies and part to pay dividends to shareholders. Many of the shares are owned by members of the government and congress critters. As a result, the goverment's foreign policy is largely dictated by the MIC. What the MIC wants is Wars, threats of wars and rumours of wars. China, otoh, has an MIC which is wholly or mostly state owned, This means that the Chinese MIC does not make a profit, except by selling arms to another country and any profit it makes, just goes to reduce the amount the state spends on arms. The Chinese MIC spends nothing on persuading the Media to puff up its reputation. It has no or very few shareholders to pay and it spends nothing on persuading the government or lawmakers to change the foreign policy. There is no "revolving door". Consequently, it can produce many more arms for the same amount of money. To sum up: In the USA the government collects taxes and the MIC makes foreign policy while in China, the MIC makes arms and the government makes policy.
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  2220. Weirdly, they are still shelling Donbas civilians! In spite of being short of ammunition.
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  2221. This is the danger of having most of the sources of "information" owned by a half a dozen extremely rich families. Which is the situation today.
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  2222. Ha ha! Just listen to her! A US citizen criticising China and Russia on their Human Rights Record! This, after admitting that they have had Presidents and directors of the CIA that openly said, that they supported the use of torture. While the USA is still holding Chelsea Manning for not being willing to testify against Julian Assange, who is being persecuted by the USG for telling the truth about what the USG was doing. In other word for journalism. While the US is holding more than a dozen men in Guantanamo Bay while knowing that they are innocent of any crime! US Citizens seem to be totally unselfconscious!
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  2223. Accepting that Lizz Truss is a puppet and that Sunak is also, probably, a puppet, the question becomes : "Who is the Puppet-master?" The lack of "Leadership-Material" seems to be a problem bedeviling the whole of the collective West. What has caused it? Why has it not affected China and Russia? What is it? Food? Medicine? The water supply? Plastics? Education? Methods of selecting leaders? Any ideas?
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  2224.  @sui-sangvong7566  Il ne faut pas être bête, il faut seulment être « à vendre »
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  2225.  @akz7610  Thanks, that explains it.
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  2226. 8:00 What the US will be doing, is to make the alternative, BRICS currency arrangements, ABSOLUTELY essential! Of course, seeing how well the sanctions on Russia have worked, to cripple the Russian economy, it is hard to see how the White House could resist the temptation to do the same to China.
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  2227. If the US/Israeli side had labeled Ham*s as "a Terrorist" organization, that might have played well withthe other governments. How would it have played with the other terrorist organizations on the US payroll?
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  2228. I would add, that I think a lot of this fuss over unconventional sexual behavior is a distraction from vastly more important matters and is stoked-up for that reason.
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  2229. Just listen to the US! Complaining about "Putin's war of agression"! By which they mean the war in Ukraine that they worked so hard to cause, over about twenty years! Anyway. How can they complain about anyone else's "Unprovoked agression"? when they have, themselves, attackted something well over 100 countries since 1945! Their record puts Russia's well in the shade.
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  2230. 7:21 Now we know how long it takes! (Well, near enough!)
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  2231. The EU telling Hungary to "weed out corruption"? What?!! I should Coco! The same EU whose president bought ten doses of untested Pfzier vaccine for every member of the EU and tried to prevent any enquirey into why? That EU? LMAO,RAOFL! The EU is criticizing Hungary for issues of "Law & Order"? The same EU that Stole Russia's foreign exchange reserves? Talk about a nerve? They are utterly shameless!
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  2232. 6:29 It seems comforting to me that the military so casually overrules the president. Let's hope they would do the same if he wanted then to do something that might start WW3!
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  2233.  @jazondelta4976  Nehru wrote an autobiography and in the first edition, the fly leaves, (The pages on the inside of the covers.) showed a map of India. I don't know about the second edition but in the third edition, there were very similar maps which differed only in that the "border" between India and China had moved hundreds of miles to the North! This without any negotiations in the mean time.
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  2234. 21:02 It's not even their own butts they are saving, it's their own power, their own money!
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  2235. 15:26 Don't you think that perhaps the Pentagon does not want WW3 immediately either?
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  2236. "one remembers they were close to open conflict on the Oussouri river. " No. Wrong. They were fighting each other, Soldiers on both sides got killed and injured. I doubt the sanctions would have been as effective as the Collective West expected them to be, even without China's help and support, but no doubt it was important. I agree with the rest of your comment.
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  2237.  @ЮрийМаксимович-я7т  No likes? Hard luck! Sarcasm and irony do not fly on the internet. It seems that USAMericans do not "do" irony and second-language readers are not sure enough to be sure that you are joking. I'll give you a like.
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  2238.  @Radishindependent0409  There is no substitute for experience.
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  2239.  @jameslee-dp6cb  Sadly, I have to agree.
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  2240.  @thelemon5069  Possibly it does, but at a terrible cost!
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  2241. 12:20 To understand US foreign policy you have to bear in mind, all the time, that the aim and object of the policy is not to make friends, it is to achieve Global Hegemony. They cannot do it by out-competing the Eurasian bloc that they have succeeded in creating, so they are determined to do it by downgrading the Eurasians, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. By hook or by Crook! Actually, the BIGGEST OBSTACLE by far, at the moment, to their making Friends, at all, is their alliance with and support of Israel. Anyone looking at the genocide taking place there can be expected to think: "What is happening to the Palestinians Today, could just as well happen to us Tomorrow!"
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  2242.  @wobkgs  If you remember, the SMO started at the end of Feb 2022, the Russians and the Ukrainians started negotiations in March 2022. This was what the Russians wanted. They reached a tentative sgreement with Ukraine at the end of March. This agreement was sabotaged by Ukraine's Western handlers. They told the Ukrainians to keep on fighting and promised to supply Ukraine, "For as long as it takes" with enough weapons and finance to hand the Russians a"crushing defeat". "what everyone thought" is just tribute to Everyone" reading and listening to the MSM. The lesson here is that, the MSM are profit-driven organizations, which publish whatever is the most profitable to publish. They have absolutely no legal obligation to publish the truth and very little penalty for publishing extreme "misinformation". (Otherwise known as outrageous lies.)
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  2243. If Ukraine carries on as it is going it will lose many thousands more. It will not change the ending, it will just delay it. So what is the point of continuing? To please the US? Is that a good enough reason?
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  2244. The great advantage of a Trump win would be that the Democrats have a ready-made smear: "Trump is a Russian Agent! It is a well known fact! His stabbing Ukraine in the Back just proves it!" Etc., etc, ad nauseam.
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  2245. 27:15 Faithin the US. Yes "Faith" is exactly the right word!
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  2246. 52:44 What can we do about this? What is really vitally neccessary, is to nationalize (Or better, internationalize) the pharmaceutical industry's production and research. We have to do this, to get rid of the Conflict of Interest that bedevils the present set-up.
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  2247. Is this true? I thought that Hasina fled over pressure from the US, who are wanting to take over some island to build a military base to control the Bay of Bengal?
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  2248. 1:03:51 I should think it would be more likely to rattle the folk in Kiev rather more than those in Moscow!
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  2249. I wonder, can someone please explain to me what the essential difference is between how the Germans treated Jews in the period 1933 to 1945 and how the Jewish governmnet is treating Palestinians now?
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  2250.  @Dimitris-td5kb  Yes! The next step is "Eurobonds to support Ukraine" and after that Eurotaxation "to pay the interest on the Eurobonds"! You have been warned! This is what sparked the 1776 American Revolt against the British crown: "Taxation without Representation."
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  2251. "Why?" is a good question. I think the most probable reason is that they are being blackmailed or threatened. Otherwise, alternatively, it looks as though they have been bought. I suppose, it could be either or both. We know that the US uses threats to get the votes it wants in the UN.
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  2252. The media are almost all private, profit-making companies. Like all such organizations their job is to make money for their shareholders. They have NO LEGAL requirement to tell the truth. They can tell almost any lie they like, so long as it is not libellous. About current afairs or History, they are free to tell any lie they like. The worst that they will suffer is a loss of readers. If the government wants them to tell the public a narrative and that is the most profitable thing to do, then they will tell that narrative. In other words they are the propaganda arm of the government. The intelligence services read the MSM and know from it the goverment's preferred narrative. As the information goes up the chain of command in the intelligence services, it is "adjusted" to please the operative's boss. So, by the time it gets to the executive level, it is much the same as the narrative in the MSM! Hence the false ideas about the Russian Army.
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  2253. Once upon a time, (At a time when China was relatively weak.) the Collective West was very keen on "Free competition" and more or less forced the Chinese to join the World Trade Organization. Many friends of China were aghast at the Chinese for doing this, thinking that it would choke off Chinese development. However, a year or two back, the Chinese sued the US for infringing the WTO's rules, in the WTO's court and the US responded by blocking the functioning of the court!
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  2254. They probably will seize the frozen central bank reserves. They are greedy and think only in the short term. "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on their own feet", is absolutely typical of their behaviour.
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  2255. Assuming someone survives!
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  2256.  @ike637  Probably.
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  2257. 17:38 English is not the language of ANY EU nation!
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  2258.  @joellegerard148  Yes, you're right. I forgot. It's one of the many problems associated with being old.
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  2259.  @joellegerard148  Thanks.
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  2260.  @vadimsegida2320  Tes! One might almost think that they regard us a Goyim!
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  2261. 54:15 Western sources have been talking, even gloating about this sort of war after a Russian victory, for at least a year. Comparing it to the situation in Afghanistan.
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  2262.  @drencrum  Yes, the Russians will have to be very thorough in the way they negotiate the peace after this war ends.
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  2263.  @PeevyMctweevy  No. That's not what they said. They thought it was a satire on the USSR.
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  2264.  @malcolmabram2957  Ssssh!
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  2265.  @tishwilson517  Then, if what you say does not toe the establishment line, you will be de-platformed or prevented from commenting.
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  2266. 18:41 Methinks they will also have Russian problems!
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  2267. 23:37 I don't know but the Russians may not be attacking the water, sewage, etc facilities, all these things will stop working if they don't have electricity.
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  2268.  @JMM33RanMA  Yeah, and so have I. Go read it.
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  2269.  @CN_SFY_General  Wrong! Ukraine lost its sovreignity in the Maidan coup d'etat. After that it was and still is a US Puppet.
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  2270.  @kenmasters2025  I bet you have never been there!
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  2271.  @JMM33RanMA  good advice.
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  2272. I bet there was a powerful political opposition in Western countries, to products made in East Germany. I don't understand, however, why it was, that it was not exported to all thw Warsaw Pact countries.
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  2273. 15:14 The "Tone" of the Media, is set by an offshoot of the 5-eyes, called "The Integrity Initiative" (Google it) that has an asset in every major Western "News" organization, who tells the chief editors, on a daily basis, what is "News" and what Is misinformation.
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  2274. 6:30 Which of these countries had mandatory vaccinations? I know Italy did.
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  2275. 34:28 "Pressure, threats, intimidation, that's how the president makes his voice heard internationally." Examples?
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  2276. "If in any processthere are a number of contradictions, one of these must be the principle contradiction playing the leading and decisive role, while the rest occupy a secondary and subordinate position. Therefore, in studying any complex process, in which there are two or more contradictions, we must devote every effort to finding its principal contradiction. Once this principle contradiction is grasped, all problems can be readily solved." "On Contradiction" August 1937 p.224, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung.
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  2277. "dome" should be "some"
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  2278.  @judyyee4163  Being uranium oxide it will be very heavy and will therefore settle out fairly quickly.
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  2279.  @judyyee4163  The dust is uranium oxide and is very heavy, so it will quite quickly settle on and in the soil. Being only mildly radio-active, it has a very long half-life and this problem will persist for many, many generations.
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  2280. 28:30 I wonder: did the Elensky regime pay ISIS for a hit on Moscow?
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  2281. 48:54 If what you are saying is correct (and I am not saying that it isn't) then, if the S-400 systems can link up, to tell the Russians what is going on in Iranian airspace, (and 400kms around!) then all the owners of S-400 systems can, in principle, see what is going on in all the areas where there are S-400s (and 400kms around that!) As I said, if this is the case, then it radically alters the effect of the threat of the aggressive use of NATO air power. Wow!
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  2282. 6:20 The reason the government did not scrutinize the Neil Fergusson predictions, is simple and obvious. Our government and that of the US, is composed, almost exclusively, of politicians, i.e. people who have, in general, little to no scientific background or expertise. They have no training in any STEM subject or any training in logical thinking. I have the impression, that many of them have, in very fact, no idea what SCIENCE really is!
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  2283. 14:00 No offence intended, merely fyi: you consistently (mis)pronounce "exacerbated" as "exasperated". Exacerbated means "made worse". Exasperated means "made angry".
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  2284.  @sw-en7wb  Yes. That one.
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  2285.  @susiegreenwood8320  It always a scam. In N@0 HQ they knew there was NO Soviet Plan to conquer Europe. Only a plan for a counter-attack.
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  2286.  @bavros1998  Thank you for your commendation. However, it seems to me, that there are many like-minded respondents.
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  2287. No need to trust what the Russian are saying about Ukraine selling US weapons on the Black Market. Anyone that cares to look, can find the weapons being sold on the dark web. It's not Russia's actions that are causing the crisis in Europe, no, it is the Western Sanctions which are causing ALL the trouble. Who, after all, refused to open Nordstream2? Why is Germany short of gas? Did the Russians refuse to supply it? No, the Germans closed down NS2 and then embargoed the repair of the gas turbines needed to operate NS1, Not Putin's fault but Scholtz's. Was it Russia that mined Ukraine's ports? No, it was done by Ukraine. Was it Russia that stopped the ship carrying grain? No, that was done by Turkey at the request of Ukraine. And so on and so forth. You are supposed to be a news organization, you look more like a propaganda organ.
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  2288. 57:00 The US leaving NATO? Well, Lavrov warned the World a long time ago that "the US is not 'agreement capable' ". As usual, he is spot on. It is merely the US demonstrating what has been obvious (Though denied,) for a long time.
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  2289. 1:19:49 Not just a paper tiger, but toothless with it!
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  2290. 1:28:02 As far as I can see; there will be no longterm security while the -lobby-congress-USG-MIC--lobby-(and round and round) system that funds, fuels and finances the warmongers, at the expense of the taxpayers, is allowed to exist. Unless the MIC is nationalised and private shareholdings in the MIC are prohibited, the warmongers will mong war into the foreseeable future. Thaat is the canker at the heart of the international situation.
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  2291. 35:11 The CIA, The US intelligence Community, Gave us figures for the WMD held by Saddam Hussein, Which were 100% wrong. Just pointing out!
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  2292. 46:17 I wonder, what happens to N*TO if the US funds are cut off by the financial crisis that seems to be looming?
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  2293. 32:31 In fact, the Neocoms went to war against a "mythical" Russsian army with a "mythical" Nato war machine.
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  2294. 52:48 If Jens Stoltenberg is really urging the European states to give all their patriot missiles and launchers to Ukraine, it proves one of two things: either he does not believe his own stories about how the Russians will not stop at the Polish border, OR that he does not care what happens to the rest of Europe. Or, I sppose it could mean, that he is so stupid that he thinks a few batteries of Patriot missile will change the outcome of the war or he is just trying to please the White House.
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  2295. 18:55 I wonder: this "Ethnically-driven Russophobia" ; what was the ethnicity of the russophobes in question?
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  2296. Probably the "reason" (If that is not an incongruous concept in this context.) that Britain's military spending is increasing at the same time that its military capability is decreasing, is that it is spending its scarse funds on expensive toys like F-35s, aircraft carriers and Trident missiles.
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  2297. I have been thinking about "Writing" a book by collecting the headlines in Yahoo's daily digest of news, about Ukraine winning, Russia losing, failing, being corrupt, and China collapsing, breaking down in a civil war, attacking the USA and headlines about the USA's struggles to defend and promote Democracy! Might make interesting reading, if one could stomach it.
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  2298. END Why do the Russians carry on waging the SMO? I think they are still not going all out to win, they are still being very careful of the civilian population of the Ukraine. Less so than at the start but still not using all the power they could.
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  2299. 57:45 Were there actually any negotiations to leak in December 2021? I thought the Russians sent the EU and NATO/ US draft treaties and the CW (Who wanted a war to justify the sanctions.) refused to take them seriously. What was there to leak?
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  2300. 1:06:11 The Germans, perhaps more than any other European country have a tradition of obedience to the Law, whatever that law might be. To them, I would imagine, it must be something akin to an Amish locality finding that someone is opening a nightclub. I remember in East Berlin, seeing a notice in a bus: "Ein- und Aussteigen während der Fahrt ist Polizeilich verboten." The next year, in the same bus, I saw a new notice which said: "Beim Ein- und Aussteigen während der Fahrt besteht Gefahr für Leib und Leben." I remarked on this change to the conductor, who laughed and replied: "Yes. It's part of the De-Prussianization drive."
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  2301.  @quemades  Have you never heard of Google Translate? It's not hard to use.
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  2302. 35:49 No. I think you are wrong. Had the CW done as you are suggesting and implemented the Minsk agreement and, probably, the treaties that the Russians proposed around the New Year, true, there would not have been the War in Ukraine and the blown-back sanctions plaguing Europe at the moment. However, would that have meant all-round sweetness and light? No, the War Mongers in WDC don't give up that easily! Probably, all it would have meant would have been, feverish preparations for an attack on China!
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  2303. 5:40 You are absolutely right about there being no alternative (TINA?)! There used, way back, to be a Communist party. Long before the USSR collapsed and stopped financing it, it split over the "Parliamentary Road to Socialism" Khruschev's "Brilliant Idea" to appease the Westerners. It split into the Moscow-followers (Revisionists) and the Beijing followers (Marxist-Leninist) factions and then (I think) MI5 got to workalso amongst the M_L groups, infiltrated the M-L part and it spilt into dozens of "parties", which rapidly faded into insignificance. Since then. we have had Tony Blair and the Uni-party of "right"- and "left-wing conservatives!" Both wings of the uniparty have been much more concerned with Wokeness, BREXIT, with supporting the USG and Israel (For fear of being called "A*ti-S*mit*c") than anything to do with the well-being of Britain.
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  2304. There is a fundamental problem here. There is a Conflict of Interest, built into all privately -owned (Capitalist) pharmaceutical firms, namely that: "a customer cured is a customer lost". A capitalist firm has NO LEGAL obligation to its customers except to obey the local laws. In other words it is a case of "Caveat emptor" or "Let the buyer beware." The responsibility of a capitalist firm is to its shareholders. Its job is to make them money or go out of business. Sure, if you have been injured by their product, you can, in theory, sue the Big Pharmaceutical companies, if you can afford to go up against billion$ opponents, but you'll need a lot of luck, and very good lawyers and probanly a lot of money, if you try. This problem has an obvious solution, though it is one that will attract a lot of resistence in the US. That is to Nationalize the whole of the Pharmaceutical industry. Why? You may Ask. While the ideal patient for a privately owned pharmaceutical company, is one whose illness can be "stabilised", so that he is not too ill to work, but is sufficiently unwell to need constant medication, the ideal for a government - owned pharmaceutical firm is a medicine which will permanently cure a patient, in the shortest time possible and with the least cost to himself and the health - care industry. I had not thought about this before, but such a scheme would reduce the cost of living and hence the cost of goods manufactured in the USA. (Or any other country thay had its own pharmaceutical industry.) It would also, remove the suspicion, that "the pharmaceutical companies are sitting on cancer cures because cancer is so profitable."
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  2305. Sarah Wagenknecht = Za Ra Va Gen (Hard "G" as in "gun") Knecht (all these letters are pronounced) the "ch" is pronounced like the "ch" in the Scottish word "Loch". If you write these words into google translate, set it to translate German and click on the loudspeaker symbol it will speak the word for you.
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  2306. The same goes for any other foreign word, phrase or name. (My preferred means of communication is e-mail.)
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  2307. 6:28 Excuse me! Is Jungle Joseph Borrel sugesting that, perhaps, Netanyahoo might, just might be, part of the problem?
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  2308. 35:07 Could this "West German - style Ukraine" be a cunning US Plot to keep Europe down?
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  2309. 14:05 I nearly had a loan like that once! A long time ago, I had a large credit card debt. And I thought the interest rate charged by the bank would be less than the rate charged by the credit card company. So, I asked the bank manager for the loan and he said; "I can give it to you, if you pledge your house as security." I replied that my wife would not agree to borrow money from them, unless it was an unsecured loan." To my surprise, after a few minutes thought, he smiled and agreed to lend me the money! (@6%, if I remember correctly.)
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  2310.  @thisiskevin1000  The Congress-critters with shares in the "defense" industries are the cause of Wars, threats of wars and rumours of wars because all of these things, increase either the value of their shares, the size of their dividends or both. Also complicit are the "defence" industries, the Lobbyist industries and the MSM. All the above work together for their mutual benefit. Their victims, are the poor people who get attacked, the soldiers, who get killed and wounded and the taxpayers who fund it all.
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  2311. 52:04 Can anyone doubt, that had the US had some "Wonder Weapon", with which they could enable Ukraine to win the war, they would have supplied it already?
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  2312. But it can have consequences.
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  2313. What is up with you commentators? 463,000 lbs is not, repeat NOT, equal to 210 kg! It is, in fact equal to 209977 kg. Only three orders of magnitude out! One can tell that you are either an ill-programmed robot or a scientifically illiterate journalist.
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  2314. Does this mean that Russia is invading the USA?
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  2315. There is a phrase which is missing from that comment! It should have read: "The European "leaders" won't talk to the Russians because they are not allowed to! It's as simple as that."
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  2316.  @gregorylayne9044  Yeah! Happy days!
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  2317. 21:44 But this time it will be different because they will have F-15s!
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  2318. Easier said than done. They can buy enormous amounts of publicity and finance endless smear tactics. They have the MSM on their side.
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  2319.  @dw4956  ?
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  2320. 2:50 As to why the rate of long Covid is twice as high in the US as it is in the UK, I wonder could it be that a higher proportion of the patients in the US had m-rna vaccine treatment? Or could it be because certain pesticides are permitted in the US that are banned in Europe and the UK and are known to be present in US food and are known to be deleterious to human health? Or might it be due to the presence of lead in the drinking water of large numbers of US citizens? Personally my guess would be the vaccines used.
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  2321. 17:00 Human Rights. Maybe if the West goes on with its HR schtick long enough, the BRICS might be provoked into hitting back with an attack on the CW's HR record?
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  2322. Having dumps of fuel, ammunitions, vehicles, artillery and the like is MUCH TRICKIER than it was during the cold war because each of them will be known and will have a missile (Or several missiles) to itself, which in the event of a war will be despatched..
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  2323. 1:58 Exactly! These organs are not there to inform us, they are there to influence our thinking in the "Right direction"!
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  2324. 13:17 If a Western Leader existed, that had a great deal of Charisma and a record of being trustworthy. A real, strong, leader that exuded a certian "something", perhap, just perhaps, what you are saying might, just miight be possible, BUT in no more than eight years (He would have to be POTUS) he would be GONE. No guaranttee that his sucessor would not be another Biden or Trump! In any case, no such wonerful character seems to exist.
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  2325. 43:03 This looks as though NICE has been bought. It looks like a plot to keep the level of public ill-health well up. Call me a "Rotten old conspiracy theorist", if you like, but let's hear your explanation of these figures.
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  2326. OK wilco! Here's the translation: @remigiopalamini8378 Congratulations to the great Russian population, a people of the best with great ability and true humility With great President Putin who is the greatest President in the world and of the world A President who will save the world and the entire world population.
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  2327. Money is given its value by working people working. There is no other source of value. In other words; all the wealth in the World, all the wealth (By which I mean goods and services.) there has ever been, has been made by people working. This means that : no matter who you tax, it will be paid by working people. It has to be, because no one else makes anything of value!
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  2328. correction! Gardiner. I don't know why I keep making this mistake! Dementia, perhaps?
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  2329.  @JohnJohnson-n3n  No one is perfect.
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  2330. 8:45 Danny, You should see it more like a wasp trap than like a mouse trap, you know , a jam-jar with a paper cover, honey and water in the bottom and a a hole punched with a pencil in the top. The wasps go in and drown and none get out. That sort of trap.
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  2331. 3:32 Are the Russians, the Chinese and the Iranians signed up to this?
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  2332. 14:59 The Russians have been strung along by the USA and its allies at least since the collapse of the USSR. Maybe, since 1941.
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  2333. 8:50 This sort of attempt to portray the Russians as making threats of using nuclear weapons goes right back to the time when the USSR first detonated a nuclear bomb. As far as I can remember, they never have! All they have ever said is "don't try to overthrow us or we might be forced to use nuclear weapons to defend ourselves." The most they can ever be accused of, is threatening retaliation for existential threats to themselves. They have never, ever said anything resembling "Look out! We are going to bomb you to smithereens unless you do such and such." Always the talk of "Russian threats" is based on twisting things said by the Russians into statements that they did not say or mean.
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  2334. Yes! I agree with your analysis completely. This shouts "Put-up Job!"
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  2335. 16:20 About the reporting of the "Attack" on Iran: it suggests that when the Russians defeat Ukraine/N@0, the Western MSM will declare a Ukrainian Victory and then move on to the US election or "Stormy Daniels revelations", a Royal Baby, or something of the sort.
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  2336. The British government must be either the most ignorant bunch of clowns who ever posed as statesmen or they must be evil, almost beyond belief! If the problem is ignorance : they do not understand the dangers to the WHOLE WORLD of sending depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine. When the war is over, who blew up which tank will be of interest to very few people, mostly to relatives of the Tank crews. However, Ukraine is (or was) the "Breadbasket" of Europe. In fact, it sends food all over the World. DU ammunition is effective in destroying tanks, true, but when the round hits the tank, the depleted uranium catches fire, the smoke blows around and eventually settles in the soil. Food grown there, absorbs some of this uranium and when it is eaten by animals (including humans, of course) it lodges in the animal's cells like a time bomb waiting to go off. When this uranium is eaten by a pregnant mother, it can be incorporated in the baby. When one of these uranium atoms decays (Explodes) it can cause a mutation resulting in a stillbirth or worse, the birth of a hideously malformed child. Rishi Sunak and his Minister for Defence (There's a misnomer if ever I heard one!) are condemning the mothers of all countries that buy food from Ukraine to this monstrous possibility. If anyone thinks this is alarmist propaganda, they should ask the Iraqis or the countries of the former Yugoslavia. If they don't know this, they are so ignorant that they should be nowhere near the "levers of Power". If they know this and go ahead with this diabolical plan, they must be some of THE MOST EVIL people who have ever lived. It is extraordinary to me that there is so little outcry over this announcement! Extraordinary too, that Putin has not spelled out the danger of this move, in detail. It is not "just" a nuclear escalation, even if it does not result in a nuclear war (which it might) it condemns countless generations of children to the possibility, the probability of being grossly deformed or cancerous and condemns their mothers to grossly heightened worry around giving birth. This problem will not go away for HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS. The uranium in these shells, has a very long half-life. In short, this announcement, is telling the World that one of the greatest "Crimes Against Humanity", is in the process of being committed.
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  2337. That is true BUT, the Collective West believed their own propaganda, which had been propagated for years by the MSM. (Russia is a gas-station masquerading as a country. The Russian Army has no experience, it is officered by idiots, its troops are badly trained and badly equipped with out-of-date weapons. The Russian troops are badly paid and mutinous. As soon as the Ukrainians attack them the Russian troops will turn tail and flee.) Previously this did not matter much because the West was not at war with Russia. However, when they decided to get rid of "The Putin" by forcing his government into a war, with the biggest, best-trained NATO-style army in Europe and at the same time putting a huge number of crippling sanctions on the Russiaan economy, it led them into thinking that this would cause his downfall very quickly. Unfortunately for them, and absolutely disasterously for the people of Ukraine, they badly miscalculated.
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  2338. I bet it won't happen in Hungary!
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  2339.  @ike637  Thanks.
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  2340.  @crescencianominas2387  Yeah! Right!
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  2341.  @paulchen2224  Thanks!
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  2342.  @navneet8269  Right!
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  2343. This USA is a real cancer at the heart of the World! Until it gets its comeuppance, there can be no peace, because it will cause war, for as long as it is allowed to do so. The core of the problem, is a relatively small but rich and powerful group, whose greed is trully boundless, who profit from the MIC and control the government. They also control the MSM and the educational system, to the extent that the great mass of US citizens are abysmally ignorant and can be led by the nose.
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  2344. Ukraine has lost the war. There is no way round this fact. Prolonging the war is just wasting lives.
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  2345. 1:03:37 A possible mechanism by which the va88inations might have caused damage and still be causing damage is being studied by Dr McMillam, (Vejon Research) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKe7ftz9eL8 Dr Philip McMillan targetted on Youtube for asking questions
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  2346.  @michelegosse7116  How do YOU define "Democracy"? Where was "Democratic" up until 2010? I must have missed that!
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  2347. Insane? No. Bought. Ruling class people, almost always, feel much closer to other RC people than to their own Working Class people. Allowing in many migrants, keeps wages down. That's why "they" do it. If you you don't understand the Class Nature of society, you will never understand politics.
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  2348. 1:38 "The war is at our borders". Yes it is and it was you and you masters in Washington DC that deliberately provoked it to "justify" the sanctions you were putting on Russia, to collapse its economy. Bad Move!
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  2349.  @yuglesstube  Yes! It wasn't there because YT was afraid it would shock you or maybe misinform you! So they decided to protect you by removing it and warning me. Sorry about that!
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  2350. 28:46 Larry Johnson is very sound on US policy and on Russia, but he is way out of date on China. China has not only made commercial airliners, the first few are working commercially. It is designed to compete with the Boeing 737. It's called the C919 and they are working on the next version, which will be bigger. It is called C929. BTW, the engines in both are Chinese too.
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  2351. There is one country that is investing in energy and other infrastructure projects and that is the much-maligned PRC.
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  2352. 13:13 So, the US is full of double-talk and hypocrisy! What a shocking surprise! Whuda thunkit?
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  2353. 17:29 The War in the ME (WME) is losing the Democratic Party a lot of Palestinian - American votes.
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  2354.  @josefinoaguirre8720  Try Patrick Lancaster, Brian Berletic, Col Douglas MacGregor, Col Daniel Davis, WION, TFI International, Defence Politics-Asia, Alexander Mercouris, Alex Christforu. You might also try The Daily Telegraph.
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  2355.  @4411825  The Global Whiteness, as you call it is very keen on Observance of the Law, but only when it is their adversary that is alleged to be breaking it! (I would replace "it's" with "its", just saying.)
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  2356. 13:43 The funny thing is that though Putin "keeps poisoning people" Not one case has ever been proved and in the Skripals case, the "poisoners" never even went near him or his house!
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  2357. 12:11 There was nothing "allegedly" about the oil tankers going to Turkey. They WERE going to Turkey.
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  2358. The whole idea of this Ministry of Truth, whatever the government may call it , that is what this is, is frighteningly Orwellian. It makes a total mockery of all criticism of "Dictatorships" and "Oppresive" governments for censoring free speech. It makes it clear that our government, in this so-called free-speech area, is frightened of the truth. It has never criticized the mass media for spreading absolute rubbish, it could not care less, what misinformation the MSM spread, so long as it does not contradict their narrative! I lived all through the Cold war and the MSM produced a constant barrage of misinformation about the USSR, China and the Warsaw Pact Countries, some of it utterly ludicrous, and I cannot recall a single government protest about it. To cap it all, much of what the government told us about the Pandemic, the treatments and medicines for it and the supply of PPE was untrue and the CDU said not one word against any of it! They are not the slightest bit worried by lies, what worries them is the truth.
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  2359. The Collective West (US/NATO) believed their own proppaganda and hence thought that the "Shock & Awe" sanctions they were going to place on Russia,+ the defeat the Ukrainain army would give the Russians, would be enough to collapse the Russian economy, enrage the Russian people and they would then overthrow Putin and install a government more amenable to the US and the Collective West. Whoopee!
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  2360.  @weeguy52  This is Owellian double talk! The Warmongers in Washington have used the Ukraine as a tool to damage (They hoped to destroy) Russia and have pretty well destroyed Ukraine in theprocess. If this is not genocide I wonder what would qualify as such?
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  2361. This business with Putin sabotaging Kaja Kalas's bid to become Secretary General of NATO shows that Mark Rute and Klaus Johhanes are Putin stooges. Otherwise,k why did he do it?
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  2362. 17:20 I don't understand why you keep using such nasty-sounding words as "Seize" and "Steal". Surely. it would sound so much better to talk about "Liberating" these funds, so that they could do good work in Ukraine rather than mouldering away in some bank vault. Don't you think?
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  2363. 41:37 It's not just the Ukrainian flag that's upside down!
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  2364. Martin and Fox, like the editors of other MSM outlets, are told daily what is "news" and what is "misinformation" by the "Integrity Initiative". (Aka 5-eyes) Probably, they are given an outline of what their editorials should contain, which is why you can find the same article in so many different journals simultaneously. This is not my invention, this has been the case since "The Guardian" was taken over by MI6, after the Snowden revelations
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  2365. 2:34 Wrong! The war did not begin in 2022, it began i 2014 and by 2022 the Ukrainian government forces had killed 10,000 Russian speaking Ukrainians. It was to protect the rest, that the Russians launced their "special military operation" in 2022.
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  2366.  @transfattyexpress  OK. Probably it was a missile, bomb or a shell. Does that make a huge difference?
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  2367. 34:12 In other words the US was taken by surprise. If they had had prior knowledge they would have been involved.
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  2368. 35:55 "Son, I've been appointed Gauleiter of this here country...." I think that's the word you were looking for.
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  2369.  @AzizAziz-lc2qk  No. This is simply trying to imagine what would happen if statements by US politicians were put into action. I did not intend to imply that any of this phantasy was remotely possible to put into action! I would have thought that was obvious.
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  2370. 17:26 If I am not mistaken the Chinese are not thinking of building a high speed railway between Belgrade and Budapest, they have built it and it was opened for use the other day. Maybe Xi will go to Budapest that way?
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  2371. 9:30 Nit picking: Clayton, viruses dont have cells.
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  2372. 1:10:04 I would just point out that this behaviour, this lack of debate or pusback against obviously stupid and self-destructive policies, is exactly what you would expect of puppets.
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  2373. This program so far is a whitewash. If you were a policeman investigating a murder and you had a suspect with motive (and he was the only suspect with a motive!), opportunity and means, who was seen in the relevant area in the three days before the deed took place; who would you suspect? Let me guess! In case you don't know (Sarcasm.) the US is determined to maintain its hegemony and it took down Japan when it got too competitive and it is now in the process of taking down Europe in general and Germany in particular. In all probability, the war in Ukraine was started to provide an excuse to sanction Russia. Had those sanction destroyed the Russian economy and brought about a regime change, as was intended, perhaps Germany might have been spared, for now. As it did not work, Plan B came into operation to take down Germany and Europe. The war has not gone as expected either, but what is clear is that the leaders in Washington care not a whit for Ukrainians. My bet would be, that when they have lost, they will be abandoned, just as the Afghans were.
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  2374. 37:10 It makes you wonder how lax the "Security" would have been if the guardians of Trump had not been notified of the "Iranian Threat"?
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  2375. Yeah! We have Freedom of speech! Freedom to say anything they like! Big Pharma is a particular hate of mine. On another channel I wrote this. I thin it might interest you. The need to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders The job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks worth running.
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  2376.  @vumba1331  Oooh! Kinky!
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  2377. 13:01 It always used to work. These days however, it is less likely to work because the fearsome, all-conquering, NATO Tiger is beginning to look a bit, ah, tired? Papery? Tattered? I notice that ta lot of small, 3rd world countries are much more likely to say "No." to US requests than previously.
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  2378. As a FONOPS, of course!
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  2379. ONLY 23 World leaders? Oh dear! What a flop! Only 23! And how many were represented by ministers? How many summits outside the UN have as many World Leaders as that?
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  2380. 33:48 This business makes the US look like an Israeli client state.
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  2381. That is according to the International Rules Based Order rules. OK?
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  2382.  @spinnakerthegreat2612  Perhaps, Gabriel Bogdan can supply us with the "Credible" charges aginst Putin?
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  2383. 1:14:36 What would be the point of Xi Jinping talking to Biden when he does not believe anything that Biden says and, probably, does not think that Biden is capable of thinking rationally about anything.
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  2384. Methinks the reason that the US is imposing "steep" tariffs on Chinese solar equipment is less due to fears about "forced labour" (Coming from the country with the largest prison-labour force in the World!) than about fears of competition for Big Oil. Another thing that is going to speed the introduction of renewable energy is the continuing and accelerating research into cheaper and better batteries.
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  2385. I hold no brief for Netanyahoo's son, I have only in the last few days learnt of his existence. However, he is not responsible for what his father is or does. An Israeli, who does not want to take part in this war, has my approval. It might be that he is a coward or it might be that he is opposed to this war. Who knows? Who cares? What difference does it make?
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  2386. Is it not true that insurance is a highly profitable business? Isn't banning western insurers from insuring shipments of Russian oil just another "self-denying ordinance? I don't understand the logic of it, at all, on any level. How is it going to hurt the Russians?
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  2387. Ha ha! He is still far too optimistic! Does he really think the Russians would settle for as little as lifting SOME OF the sanctions? I doubt the Russians will settle for les than comprehensive security guarantees for EVERYONE in Europe and abolition of all sanctions. It would not surprise me if they stuck out for the abolition of NATO.
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  2388. 7:37 Where's the evidence? How can anyone prove where a cyberattack comes from? Any competent hacker could be pretending to be the GRU. You mean: "the CIA wouldn't do such a thing!"?
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  2389. When the Roman Empire ran out of money it withdrew its legions back to Rome. What do you think are the chances of the US Empire, which looks as though it is going to run out of money soon, if it has not already, will do the same?
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  2390.  @alansimms8023  What you write is true but does not answer the question.
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  2391. 12:36 Russia is the largest country in the World. It has had a bad experience of owning an empire. It has no need of anything in Europe. It does not want a large new Hostile population. In other words, Russia does not need nor does it want, any part of Europe. The Trip wire keeps thw Europeans in line more than anything else.
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  2392. 8:50 From time to time (very rarely) diseases do hop from animals to humans. However, diseases escape from "High Security" laboratories every year or so. There is good reason to believe that AIDS, Ebola, and Lymn disease are all lab-generated products. So an easy way to drastically reduce the number of pandemics, is to close down all resesrch on breeding new viruses, on "Gain of function" research in particular! Dr Fauci, Porton Down, CIA and DARPA please note!
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  2393. I have said it before but it bears repeating, that the western media (MSM) is NOT a source of NEWS but part of the governments' Propaganda Arm. Their job is not to inform people it is to spread government propaganda, dis- or mis- information, if you like.
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  2394. 18:19 The CIA has announced that it is conducting a recruitment campaign in Russia at the moment. (I understand they are advertising for recruits on the web) Could it be that this article is not what it appears to be, but some sort of coded message? Just a thought, I don't really have anything to back the idea.
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  2395. Another thing which is driving the detachment of Saudi Arabia from Dollars, is the OBVIOUS risk of holding dollars! One day you have hundreds of billions of dollars stored in the US or Europe and the next, they are "Frozen"! Also it is cheaper (Aka more profitable.) to trade in local currencies.
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  2396. Can you imagine why people might feel anti-sem*tic?
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  2397.  @casteretpollux  Thanks.
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  2398.  @casteretpollux  Thanks.
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  2399. 5:25 Yes, I know. It IS fibreglass, there are magnetic mines which are set off by the ship's disturbance of the magnetic field when it passes over the mine and also mines which are magnetic and are attracted to ships. So a "mine-sweeper" or "mine-hunter" needs to make as little magnetic disturbance as possible. This means it cannot be made of steel. So what better than to make it out of fibreglass reinforced with plastic resin? You could, I suppose, make it out of copper or stainless steel (Some types are non-magnetic) but both would be heavier and dearer.
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  2400. 1:15:52 I realise that this, whole idea, may well be wide of the mark, but I have heard about some psychological research on a group of monkeys, in which the leader was an alpha-male and when he was removed, he was replaced by another alpha male. However, when all the alpha-males of the group were removed, they were not replaced as leaders by beta-males, but by females. I also read that the populations, of practically all the western world, are deficient in zinc and the sperm-count and sperm-virilty (activity) is declining at about 1% per year(!) and that the quantity of testosterone in the blood of most males in the western world is also declining at the same rate. Zinc is also important to female fertility. Testosteron, the "male hormone" (Though females have some testosterone too.) is connected with, among other characteristics, aggression (Using the term in the sense of iniatiatve as well as belligerence) physical strength and leadership, among monkeys. Since humans are closely related to monkeys, it seems reasonable to assume that the same is true in human beings. Would this perhaps account for the current singular absence of outstanding leaders in the CW? As well as the declining birth-rate.? Might it also (I ask myself) also account for the rise of "wokeness" in the CW? Another thing tending to produce "softer" males in the CW is the tendency of parents to keep their children at home, insted of letting them go out to play with other children in the street, because it is no longer considered safe to allow them to do so. This it seems, (according to some psychologists) to produce males who are less accoustomed to fighting and are more afraid of getting hurt. As I said above, this maybe nothing to do with the case, but the absense of effective and competent leaders in the CW seems to be almost total and lacking in any rational explanation, so I offer it as a suggestion.
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  2401. 29:39 Rentamob.
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  2402. If you REALLY want to find the answer to your question, go to Chechnia or to Xinjiang, both of which had Islamic Terrorism in a big way and are now at peace and flourishing. Or maybe you could go and look at Syria where people of numerous different religions seem able to live and work together and have done so for generations. ( ISIS, Al Qaida and all the rest, were recruited, organized, supplied with weapons and trained, before being sent in by the CIA to overthrow Assad.)
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  2403. 5:33 Is George Galloway taking any part in uncovering this scandal?
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  2404.  @Porkypies6m  So is being pro-Palestinian!
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  2405.  @holymoly271  Is he? How close?
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  2406. I think there is a joke, a pun, somewhere in her name: "Pelosi" means "hairy". "Ieri sera" = "yesterday evening". It sounds like "Hairy Sara" to me. "Chi era la donna con cui ti ho visto ieri sera?" "Ieri sera?" "Hairy Sara? Is that her name? Pensavo fosse Nancy Pelosi!" (Or something)
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  2407. 3:22 I thought for a moment there, that you were talking about the "Race for the Champion of the Clown World"!
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  2408. 56:54 It also assumes that none of these shells are diverted to the black market and that none of them are destroyed in transit by the Russians.
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  2409. Disposal is not a great problem. Any competent chemist could do it, given a few facilities.
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  2410. 8:07 When one looks at the politicians who are, apparently, running the West; the thing that strikes one is their mediocrity. (If that is not too flattering a term.) How does this come about? Why does it seem to afflict all the nations of the CW? I don't know this for a fact, Certainly, I have not heard it said of all of them, only a few, but I wonder if they are all addicted to cocaine? We know that some are and I read the Thames Valley Water authority complaining that the creatures which inhabit the Thames are all or mostly suffering from cocaine poisoning! Now the Thames is a fair-sized river and to achieve a concentration of cocaine to cause that problem must mean a pretty large continual consumption of it. Maybe, it is more widespread among the wealthy than is generally realised? Just a suggestion.
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  2411. 5:02 Blinken says he is worried about the Russians killing innocent women Children and men, in Ukraine, but apparently, though in more than two years of war the Russians have killed fewer civilians in Ukraine than the USA's ally Israel killed in the first two weeks of it bombing of Gaza; Israel's killing of innocent civilians worries him not at all!
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  2412. Russia, it seems from people (Scott Ritter, Alex Chritaforou, Anja) who have visiited Russia in the last couple of months, say it has not instituted a "Wartime econimy". They have certainly beefed up the production of armarments, but that has only marginally impacted the rest of the economy.
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  2413. 26:29 Has DC been watching you and Aleander?
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  2414. Excuse me , but I don't think anyone is going to use a Kinzhal, which could probably put an aircraft carrier out of action, to shoot down a cruise missile. It's really like using a sledge hammer to kill fleas.
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  2415. I forget of whom it was said and who said it, but during the Cold War there was someone who expressed a wish to not take sides and this angered someone who said of him: "He has sat so long on the fence, that the iron has entered his soul!" (An amusing example of a mixed metaphor.) India should also bear in mind Kissingers dictum that "To be the US's enemy is dangerous. To be its friend is fatal." Look at history and you can see that he was not joking.
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  2416. 24:29 Alex, I think you may be onto something there. It would fit well, it would be all of a piece, with invegling Germany into the Ukraine caper and using it to eliminate German industrial competition.
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  2417. 5:52 "Misinformation" ubiquitous in the media. There have been whole books consisting of extracts from newspapers and journals that are laughable in their divorce from reality. None of them have ever been punished unless they broke some law, such as a libel law or some decency law. The government worry, is not about misinformation at all! It is entirely concerned with ordinary people learning things that that they do not want them to learn. In other words it is worried about INFORMATION that they want to suppress. It is an entirely undemocratic worry! If you like, it is an "Authoritarian worry".
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  2418. 2:44 "Israel doesnt want to do to war with Iran". True! What Israel wants is the USA to go to war with Iran.
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  2419. 22:32 I don't know, but perhaps the Houthis are practicing "Defensive (or aggressive) attrition" on the US and its sidekick. They maybe "wild tribesmen" but I bet they know the US is running low on armaments in Ukraine.
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  2420. I saw a video earlier today about "an illegal intenet referendum on regional independence for Siberia, the Urals region, the Kaliningrad enclave" and so on and so forth. It looked very like a CIA inspired attempt to Balkanise the RF. I don't know how this will develop, if it does.
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  2421. 49:03 Gideon Rachman accises Putin of breaking numerous agreements and cannot back the statement up with even one example? Really? Are you accusing a Western journalist of telling lies? I am shocked!! My Goodness!! Whatever next!!! What is the World coming to? You'll be telling us next, that Russian journalists sometimes tell the truth!
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  2422. 3:53 "Everything is possible" No. No. That is not correct. Everything that happens is possible.
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  2423. "And if you will plough me an acre of land Sing ivy leaves, sweet William and thyme Between the salt sea and the salt sea strand Then you shall be a true love of mine!" "And if you will plough it with one ram's horn, Sing ivy leaves, sweet William and thyme. And sow it all over with one peppercorn Then you shall be a true love of mine!" "And if you will reap it with a sickle of leather...." Elensky sings different words, but the coded meaning is similar: "It ain't gonna happen!"
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  2424. US need to fix their own health care!
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  2425. 4.53 That is now 5 times you have told us the same thing! How many more times are you going to repeat yourself? Once would have done, twice is more than enough, but FIVE times? To quote Old Father William in "Alice" "Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off! Or I'll kick you down stairs!"
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  2426. 29:29 "I don't think Western governments have reached that point." I don't think Western governments will ever reach that point, while they are dominated by Dual-Passport Holders. (As they are at present.)
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  2427. Vide: Ursula's remarks to Netanyahoo, post 7/10/2023.
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  2428. 1:15:29 Look at the ethnicity of the "European leaders". I think that will explain why they are asking Iran to "show restraint".
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  2429. 1:06:14 The internet is a powerful force for Democracy, for how can you have a "Democracy" where the Demos has only one source of information? And the same source controlls the publishing industry, & the educational system ?
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  2430. 25:12 Not to mention the 600 attempts on Fidel Castro's life!
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  2431. China has just finished building a High Speed Railway from Serbia to Hungary. From Belgrade to Budapest IIRC.
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  2432. 20:35 "Is it really worth destroying the gas deal with Qatar over it?" Well, yes, it might be if your real aim was to de-industrialize Europe.
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  2433.  @avijitgoswami3082  There is no cure for stupidity, it is genetic. Ignorance is, however, a voluntary misfortune. Duckduckgo is your friend!
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  2434. A very interesting and fair account of an extraordinary person. There is a lot more to tell in this story, perhaps you can do another on the same subject?
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  2435. 8:41 The word you were looking for, I think, was "dogmatic".
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  2436. 1:03 "Hamas War Wreaks Brutal Toll On Israel: 70,000+ Soldiers Disabled;" 35% Mental cases and 21% physical injuries and the rest?
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  2437. 2:41 "First I tell's' m what I'm gonna tell 'm. Then I tells 'm. Then I tells 'm wo' I told'm." Get on with it!
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  2438. 5:54 It sounds as though the Germans may be going the same way as the British in the sense that they are becoming more and more fed up with the Uniparty! At least in Germany they have some alternatives, though.
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  2439. 22:37 I should think it quite likely, that the polling was done and the result was so shocking, that tpb were afraid to publish it, for fear of encouraging people to vote for GG.
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  2440.  @walden6272  I said "Looming" and it is. This process will not be complete overnight, but it is gathering speed. If you are not worried, Janet Yellen is. Given the history of the US using sanctions as a weapon, I think it is a certainty.
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  2441.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Whay is? Care to elucidate?
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  2442.  @ricksemeniuk629  Thanks.
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  2443.  @jonahallen4867  Thanks.
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  2444. 8:59 Compare and contrast the NYT's article about "12 spy/sabotage/assassintation bases on the Ukrainian-Russian border" with this ever-so-peaceful-sounding statement on "no interference in Moldova"!
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  2445. 5:08 Keir Starmer is a Social-Democrat (Labour Party). I was always taught as a child in the '50s; "Scratch a Social-Democrat and you will find a Fas^ist." It seems that Sir Keir is proving the point,
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  2446. 1:12:39 The Russian economy sounds as though in some respects it resembles the British economy post WW2 until the late 50s(?). I am not sure, Alexander can probably correct me if I am wrong, but I have the impression that the NEP was abandoned because Lenin felt that some capitalists were getting too rich and too politically powerful. This is something that the Chinese have guarded against, not only recently but also historically. I understand that the Emperors were in the habit of inventing new taxes for entrepreneurs that they felt were getting too rich and acquiring too much political clout/ambition.
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  2447. 38:54 Can anyone in their right mind trust a treaty with the US? Without a "Regime Change" in Washington, I would not bet a pinch of shit on it!
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  2448. Correvtion! The US has been involved with all of the conflicts either as instigator or as aider and abbetor.
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  2449.  @veronicakovaly9513  Yes!! Democracy as in Afghanistan, Libya,.....
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  2450. I would suggest that the reason that the US and the UK had NO interest in researching c*vid in their countries before the Chinese announcement of the disease in Wuhan, was because they were desperately trying to prove that the Chinese were entirely responsible for the outbreak.
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  2451. This is exactly like the "Free Energy" machines that the Internet is full of. I don't know how the lamp is lit in the 1st video but that there is a trick that does it, is as certain as death and taxes. Likewise in the second video. That one I would guess is somehow connected to a welder. Nothing that produces electric power, does so without burning something up. Any stone that produced power like that, would have used up all its fuel years (Millions of years?) ago. My guess is "Clickbait".
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  2452. People in NATO countries have frequently blamed NATO for causing the War in Ukraine. Hardly surprising! Considering how hard NATO worked at so doing. From 2014 to February 2022 the NATO trained and led Ukraine army, attacked the Russian-speaking provinces of Ukraine, killing 14,000 of them in the process, about 10,000 of those being civilians. Then in Feb 2022 they announced that they were going to clear the Russian-speaking provinces (The Donbas) of all Russian-speakers either by driving them out or by killing them. This left the Russian government the choice of either: A) going to the rescue of their fellow Russian-speakers or standing by and letting them be killed or driven out and seeing a NA*I-led, NATO-affiliated government in Ukraine or B) going to war with NATO. The first choice would have been domestically politically impossible for the Russian government, the second choice looked (To many Western observers and particularly to NATO strategists:) suicidal. As it turned out, the Russians were not so weak, corrupt, incompetent, rebellious, inefficient, badly led, badly trained, badly-armed, etc., etc. as they had been portrayed in Western propaganda. The expected easy victory for "the largest NATO-trained and armed army in Europe", has failed to materialize and we are now looking at a possible Russian victory.
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  2453. Yes, I feel for your feeling let down by the scientific peer review system. I myself experienced a similar let down in the integrity of scientists in a different field back in the '60s. It is disappointing, one would think that scientists would be more or less immune to groupthink but they aren't. Maybe all science teaching should continuously drum into all students, the fundamental LAW : IT AINT NECESSARILY SO! I myself, translated a very interesting book on the structure of globular proteins, which I am convinced to this day was a quite possible solution to what is, still, today a matter of ongoing discussion, but when it was published, it received almost no discussion, but was dismissed as a phantasy, although it showed that for example, one could, from the chemical analysis of the protein, assuming this model to be true, predict the length of the molecule and its polar moment to within a very few percentage points, It also explained how such molecules denatured when heated and how if not heated too much could repair themselves, when cooled down. Instead of discussing the hypothesis, the alleged character of the author was attacked! When it was pointed out that another "reputable" scientist was a co-author of the book, it was waved away with: "I can't think how she comes to be mixed up with that man!". The trouble was, that the author of a rival theory, which explained nothing about the behavior of globular proteins and could predict nothing about the dimensions of the molecule from the analysis of it, had shortly previously won a Nobel Prize. It seems that there is an exactly similar situation in Archeology, regarding ancient giant humans and civilizations predating the Sumerians, by hundreds of thousands of years. I have no expertise in either subject, so my opinion is simply an opinion, but it seems that any "reputable" archeologist is likely to lose his academic status AND ANY HOPE OF FUNDING, if he interests himself in either field!
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  2454. 23:15 "Not mentioning the Ukraine" ... This morning I read an article on the Western econonomy, (right through, mind,) that did not once mention BRICS!
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  2455. 3:20 This business of shuffling the time slots and beinng surprised that nothing much changes; i.e. no increase in ratings: seems to me like a houswife, with a sack of "past sell-by date" potatoes. She has already served her family the edible potatos, (TC) and now she keeps shufflibg through the sprouting ones, looking (without success) for something interesting, something edible, to serve her family. "They" can't do what Tucker did, tell the truth, because that is taboo! But they cannot find a substitute, because, in very fact, there is no substitute for truth. People in general, like the detective in the old serial "Dragnet", "Just want to get the facts!" Until, unless, the MSM acknowledge this they will, I predict, go on losing audience numbers.
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  2456. 21@38 Interesting ! How did themUkrainians get the Iris T missile launcher across the Dnieper?
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  2457. 9:08 I am surprised that you do not mention the abiding German folk-memory, of the Hyperinfalation leading to the rise of the Man with the Mustasches and his gang!
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  2458. It seems to me that Robert Clarke is moving in the right direction, but he has not gone far enough. When Ukraine and its Collective Western backers have run out of the weapons they are prepared to send to Ukraine, the Russian will still have plenty of soldiers and plenty of all sorts of weapons and they will still have air superiority. Even if Ukraine stops fighting, what is to stop the Russians? Will the Russians stop? Why would they? To my mind the Collective West looks like an inexperienced gambler who is losing and cannot stop gambling, because he still hopes for "something to turn up". He also cannot stop, because if he does, he will be admitting that he is stupid and no one will trust him ever again. Then again, if the House wins, he will be bankrupt and he cannot think what he will do if that happens.
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  2459. 44:51 What they are "clinging to" is the bedrock of US policy since, I don't know when, but certainly back to WW2, at the latest; which is to destroy, dismantle and loot Russia and China for the Great Glory of the USA, after which they will live happily ever after, for ever and ever, Amen. This is so fundamental to their thinking, that it is no wonder, no surprise at all, that they cannot give up on it. It will take a Regime Change in Washington for that to be contemplated and as yet there is no sign of that.
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  2460. 23:20 Not true! In Japan a few months ago a laboratort was working on AI controlled Soldier-robots when they went rogue and killed (I think, if I remember correctly) twenty-nine researchers before two researchers managed to turn them off. This is very dangerous!
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  2461.  @peter.a.langan5872  Just so!
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  2462. ​ @wuppas  Thanks for the confirmation.
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  2463.  @thetreekeeper143  Agreed! The point was, however, that until the Russians demonstrated in Ukraine that NATO was a paper tiger, no one dared to do anything about changing the status quo.
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  2464.  @DD-vf9ow  Yeah! Let's just hope!
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  2465. Notice, all this "Aggression" is happening off China's coast. All the threatening behaviour is in the space around China. China's Ships are not conducting FONOPS off the coast of California. China is not complaining about the plight of the Prison Workers in the US and so on. This tension is there because the US wants it. Not because the Chinese do, though the US places the blame squarely on the Chinese.
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  2466.  @anthonywilson4873  B*gger! What a tribute to the quality of Russian WW2 trucks! How many WW2 US-nade trucks are still fit for battlefield service?
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  2467.  @anthonywilson4873  Incidentally; I hear that the Russians are taking transistors out of captured Western tanks, to power-up their washing machines!
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  2468. 38:00 It would be very interesting if you could o a program with Prof. Michael Hudson.
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  2469. You speak of the CW running out of weapons to send to Ukraine and indeed, it is difficult (for me) to see how that can be avoided if the war continues for much longer. Nor do I see how the neocons can really, stop sending arms before they run out of weapons to send to Ukraine. But what then!?! I would be very interested to hear what you think could/would happen if we find ourselves in a situation where the Russians are facing a NATO that is critically short of arms to defend itself. It seems to me that the safest course for the CW, would be for the current governments to resign and for opposing (I.e more rational) governments be elected on a ticket of negotiating a real peace with the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the Syrians and maybe others. This would , of course, only work if the Russians etc. were willing to "play along" (which I think they might.) If they were not, it seems to me, that all bets are off! I wonder what would be their minimum conditions?
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  2470. Yes! Of course I agree that countries should "side with Russia"! Russia was forced into this war in Ukraine. It is fighting the US's proxy army, which is spearheaded by unabashed fascists. (Who have Stepan Bandera as a figure to revere.) The Russians tried to negotiate a peace with Ukraine in March, and got Ukraine to almost agree to a deal, but then Ukraine was "persuaded" (by Boris Johnson) to go back on the deal and fight to the last Ukrainian or "total victory". In addition, the Kiev Regime has been waging a genocidal war against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, since 2014. How can any decent person support that?
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  2471. 10:13 Just goes to show you can't believe a word that Cy Hersh writes!
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  2472. Извини! Я не понимаю термина: "мед/ж/эксперимент/режим". @natalyataranova2826 
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  2473. Where's the evidence that "China wants to take over the moon and keep everyone else out". The "Dog in the manger" wears the stars and stripes.
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  2474. Russin washing machine mfgs have plenty of chips from captured tanks and IFVs.
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  2475.  @michaelpencio9573  That's news to me!
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  2476. "Talk to both sides and you will be enlightened. Talk to only one side and you will be confused."
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  2477. Any sort of positive content and you'll be labled as a "Putin Fanboy"! I have seen hand pumps in English villages too. That does not mean that houses in those villages do not have piped water provided by the Local Authority.
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  2478. This lack of discussion and research is not so much "disappointing" as disgraceful or even genocidal.
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  2479. 1:12:18 It would damage a commercial competitor. Can't be bad!
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  2480. 42:44 All the argument (such as it is) is all taking place in the Social Media. The MSM has been completely transformed, taken over, into government propaganda, with hardly a dissenting voice to be seen or heard.
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  2481. 6:30 Relation between India and the US were bound to deteriorate because India wants to balance between the Eurasian side and the US side, while the US says: "If you're not with us, you're against us!"
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  2482. What stupid arrogance! They think they can just make up the rules as they go along! Really, it is no wonder that, as Sy Hersh is apparently reporting, members of the military and the Intelligence community are getting fed up with the level of amateurism displayed by this White House!
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  2483. Far worse! Churchill spoiled for war with the USSR, collaborating with the remnants of the German troops. look up "Operation Unthinkable".
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  2484. 3:47 In general I agree with your attitude on government interfering with my risk-taking, e.g.whether I get vac*inated against a certain disease or not. However, there is an aspect of the seatbelt controversy that you may not have considered, A long time ago, when seatbelts had been introduced for motorists, but were not yet compulsory, my mother was very keen on them and so, I and my family wore them. I had a crash, when I took a corner too fast and landed up with my car straddling a roadside hedge. (In a village in Yorkshire, UK) We sat there for a few minutes, to check that we were all unhurt and a policeman came over to the car. I wound down the window and he asked if we were OK. When I told him we were, he exclaimed: "Oh, thank God for that !" He then said: "Sometimes I go to investigate crashes and they have their heads stuck through the windscreens and as though that were not bad enough, when you try to get them out, you can't! Because, they have somehow managed to get the windscreenwiper stuck though their neck! It really turns me up and I can't sleep for days after!" So, you see, it does not affect only you, if you choose not to wear a seatbelt when driving in a car. BTW, I have been in several crashes, including one where I was teaching someone else to drive and he turned the car over, but I have never been even slightly injured in any of them.
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  2485. 2:40 Isn't it really remarkable how easily Israel can bully the US, France and Germany into supporting its atrocities. I wonder how the Israelis do it? Could it have something to do with JE's little book?
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  2486. The UK helped the US wreck the economies of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria and many other countries. This is where the refugees and migrants are coming from. Had their countries not been wrecked, they would, prabably, be living and working happily, at home. The Moral of that is: Both actions and inactions have consequences.
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  2487. Arrogance, unjustifiable pride, ignorance and, above all, greed. Oh yes! & Don't forget "Illusions of adequacy"!
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  2488. 34:06 I wonder if Lloyd Austin is interested in Putin's announcement that Russia is soon to bring out an anti-cancer vaccine/serum/innoculation?
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  2489. 25:28 Elensky won't negotiate. It's time for the Russian partiers who came to London and Salisbury, to get out their Novichok and smear it on Elensky's door handle. Highly Likely! I would say!
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  2490. As to the question you ask: "Is Brics still relevant in today's world?" YES!! Indeed I do! It has the potential to speed up the de-dollarization of the world's trade. This in turn will, if successful, lead to the inability of the USA to bully other country with its illegal sanctions. As the war in Ukraine has shown the military weakness of NATO (which until very recently was assumed by most people to be invincible) the US is left with sanctions as its most potent weapon for forcing other countries to do as it demands. Destroying or downgrading this ability will have massive (almost entirely good) effects on the World. Long live the BRICS! More power to their elbows! May all countries that do not fancy slavery join BRICS!
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  2491. 13:00 Some time in the late 80s I had to replace the alternator on a Volvo. Unfortunately the bolt that the altervator pivoted about, to tension the drive belt, somehow got lost. Being (At that time) a Swedish car, I assumumed that what I had seen was an M12 X 1.5 bolt. So, I went and bought one and it would not screw in! On closer examination I found that what I needed was a Whitworth 1/2" x 19tpi bolt! Why Volvo used such an exotic thread, I have no idea.
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  2492. 14:20 The recording is quite extraordinarily broken up, with multple breaks and repetitions.
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  2493. 1:18:22 Can you really see Biden negotiating with anyone, let alone Putin?
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  2494. 53:58 This has been the mark of the US's foreign policy towards everybody since WW2 at least. They have never been averse to meddling in the internal affairs of other countries. On the contrary, they have always regarded it as their duty, to make sure they are run as far as possible in the interests of the US' Big business class and the US' hegemonic position.
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  2495. If this is real, then it concerns the whole of humanity. Is the US intelligence in communication with the Russians and Chinese about this subject? If not why not?
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  2496. Yes, you are right! People often forget that without food and water, doing anything for longer than a few days is impossible. All these sanctions are to please the overlords of the Collective West. It looks a bit as thought a revolt is coming.
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  2497. 45:17 You no doubt, have much more expert knowledge of this sort of thing, but when I come across articles like this in the British or US press, which I do, far too often, I mutter "BS" to my computer and look for something else. Funny cats, for example.
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  2498. 7:08 The point is that it looks as though it may well be that US citizens are NOT being protected by these medications but damaged by them. Particularly the younger ones who were hardly at any risk from the disease in the first place.
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  2499. 35:47 "The Elites in the West" Particularly the ones in the CFR and other Washinton Think Tanks, were quite open about their plans for Russia. This is in No Way, a Putin Phantasy"! This is all published stuff. No secret or clandestine plot. It is all open and above board. The only puzzle to me, is why Putin ever thought that Russia could make friends with the West, while these people held power.
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  2500. 3:01 "However Italy's FM Antonio Tajani said it was unacceptable to equate the Israelii democratic government with the Hamas terror group". What a stupid remark to make! The question before the ICC is not "Who or what are they?" but "What are they doing?"
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  2501. 19:13 Perhaps the US propaganda machine is trying to give people the idea that the Russians are too thick to make or pilot such drones themselves, they need the assistance of the awfully cunning Iranians!
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  2502. If Putin was removed by whatever, coup, accident or heart attack, it would not end the Western "hostility" to Russia. I put hostility in quotes, because really it is not hostility so much as concupiscence. They want the land and above all the minerals and Putin stands in their way. Absit Putin there would be someone else.
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  2503. 3:47 You fail to mention that back in 2008, Russia told the West that they would not tolerate having Ukraine join NA*O. They repated this several times, over the years since. The US Ambassador to Russia, William Burns, (Now head of the CIA.) told the USG "Niet means Niet". IOW "The Russians are really serious about this" In December 2021 the Russians said that they wanted negotiations with both the USA and NA*O to set up a real security apparatus for the whole of Europe and they WERE IGNORED BY BOTH. You also, (As per usual.) fail to mention the very important point that from 2015 to 2022 the Ukrainian army had been shelling the civilians in the Donbas "Because they insisted on talking Russian!" Further more, In January 2022 it became clear that the Ukrainian army was prepareing to invade the rebellious provinces, with a view to either driving out all the inhabitants or killing them. This forced the Russians to invade Ukraine to prevent this happening. (Ukraine has persisted in shelling the civilians in Donetsk City unil a couple of days ago, inspite of being desperately short of ammunition.)
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  2504. 40:00 The Eu countries might break free of N@0, but they would certainly run the risk of having color revolutions if they did.
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  2505.  @alysonmcvitty2867  Well, make sure you have enough of those too.
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  2506. 2:30 This is reminiscent of the occasion when Mao prevented Chiang's own troops from killing him, even though Chiang had earlier arrested and put to death Mao's wife and his baby daughter, because they were Mao's wife and daughter. Mao did this because he thought that China needed Chiang in the fight against Japan. Another man who put his country's interests before his own feelings.
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  2507. 52:24 I should think it is very likely that the N@0 plan IS to make an "Insurgency" in Ukraine, after the defeat of the present regime. After all, this is what they did in the Ukraine, from 1945 until the collapse of the USSR and it is what they have done in Syria and what they tried to do in Chechnia and Xinjiang. In fact, thinking about it, I would lay odds on it.
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  2508. 1:13:59 Simple arithmetic says: that if five missiles were shot down and two airbases were damaged there were at least seven missiles fired.
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  2509. 31:26 What I ask is qui bono? Who benefitted, enormously, from the pandemic? Who seems to have spent years preparing for the pandemic, almost as though the knew it was coming? Linked to that in my mind, is who took steps to cover up alternative treatments? Who persuaded the medical jouurnals to refuse to publish "Misinformation" even when it came from very eminent clinicians? Who was it and how did they get the medical establishment to impose mandatory vaccinations? Don't say I am a conspiracy nut I, am discussing a sydrome!
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  2510. 20:23 Isn't it odd that the Russian dissidents attack Russia only on the Ukrainian border? Just where the Russian forces could be expected to be best prepared to deal with them?
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  2511.  @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086  Thanks.
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  2512. 14:45 The Russians have already warned that if there are French troops in Ukraine, whatever they are doing, even if they are sitting on their hands, they will be targets. Any troops in Ukraine will be regarded as combatants.
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  2513.  @ihs51  &?
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  2514.  @MrAbhix7  They are occupying. That's what colonial powers do.
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  2515. 8:00 This is precisely why the healthcare industry and the pharmaceutical industry should be nationalised. If you are a doctor in a national health service and nearly everyone is healthy it just means that you have an easy life. If you are a nationalised pharmaceutical firm you can produce as many cheap drugs as are needed and test them properly, even if they are dirt cheap. If your reaech find a cure for cancer, there is no incentive to suppress it because you will sell less "Chemothrapy" and so on.
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  2516. Wrong! The absolutely basic human right is the right to food.
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  2517.  @clauso72 "Russia is now totally crippled " Bugg*r! Would that Britain and the EU were so crippled
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  2518.  @laulaja-7186  You are probably right. My memory is not as good as it used to be.
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  2519. Are you going to discuss the proposal which comes up for ratification very soon, to hand over National Health Policy to the WHO (Aka Bill Gates, WEF and Big Pharma) ? Are you going to mention the scandalous failure to discuss or even document, the increase in "All Deaths" in the Vac*inated West?
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  2520.  @Dennis0824  Yes, just about!
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  2521. 17:17 The Putin is obviously s***-scared that the next Wunderwaffen, the dreaded F-16s will be bursting onto the scene, next month (Or "within a few weeks", anyway!)
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  2522. 39:33 The thing I cannot see, is how can anyone, not just the Russians, but anyone at all, "negotiate" with the USA when they have a long history, going back centuries, of failing to honour any treaty they ever signed and cheating on and "doing down" even their "allies", even when they were not openly breaking a treaty with them?
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  2523. 14:20 Having a whole Ukraine was never a priority. As you and anyone who regularly watches this channel, the aim was to get rid of Putin, to collapse the Russian economy, to have a regime change in Moscow and to break up and colonize Russia.
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  2524. Of course, the chief opposition to nationalization of the Defense industry, will come from (Drum Roll!) the defense industry!
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  2525. Mock all you like, but the first time a man had his arm cut off in an industrial accident and had it sewn back so that it worked and he could use it normally, was done by a hospital in Shanghai. I notice that Duckduckgo does not record this, but gives the credit to a Boston Hospital but this is Fake News.
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  2526. 11:30 Don't forget that all the time the offensive is being postponed, the Russians are seeking out and destroying arms stores and weapons.
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  2527.  @mjaybain2016  "Russia already has them" Where is the reference? I don't believe you. I think the Russians have more sense.
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  2528. For the same reason one should not trust doctors! They "aren't allowed to go against the narrative or they'll be barred". So if the disease you have does not fit the narrative, it's just HARD LUCK! It seems that World-wide, the medical establishment and with it the great majority of doctors, have been captured by Big Pharma.
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  2529. 1:20:18 The thing that will sink the IMF?WB system is being -WOKE!
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  2530. Clearly it is a good idea to make as much energy from renewable sources as is conveniently possible. The cost of solar panels has come down by about 75%+ , but instead of welcoming this the EU is putting huge tarrifs on them "To protect the European mfgs". (Who make hardly any!) These Anti-farmer policies, are a WEF initiative and are not just anti-farmer, but they are basically anti-people. The WEF states quite openly that there are too many people on the planet and they want to reduce the population to about a tenth of what it is now. So, of course, we wont need so much food! These policies are aimed a people, all ordinary working people anyway. Unless a large number of ordinary people get together to force a change of policy/government, things will just get worse.
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  2531. 43:14 It brings a picture to my mind of the Trojan horse being allowed into Troy and proceeding to eat all the food and all the trees and grass inside the city walls.
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  2532. I just had a picture flash through my mind, of a Dalek that looked, somehow, remarkably like Lindsay Graham, advancing & saying in his Dalek type voice: "Mobilize! Mobilize! Mobilize!"
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  2533. 5:47 It would be no great surprise if some of the shells that Pavel bought, came from Kiev.
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  2534. 7:14 The answer is simple. No one is threatening to attack the US or the CW, come to that! They can give Ukraine ALL their weapons and while they might feel a bit exposed, I doubt that anyone would attack them. I mean, think about it. It would be a BIG OPERATION! and no one is preparing such an op. If they were I am sure that you or Alexander would have heard about it!
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  2535. 11:45 These mafiotic tactics were, no doubt inspired by their Washington masters. They shed an interesting side light on the "unanimety" rule! Everyone in the EU has a veto! (If you dare to use it, look out. We know where you and your family live.)"
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  2536. I hear that the Volksbanks are being destroyed.
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  2537. Vitamin Dis important for far more than "bone health". That thinking is at least ten years out of date. Vit D is very imortant to the immune systen, counteracting excessive inflamation and many other things. For a lot of information on it see Dr John Campbell, Dr Steve Eckberg and Prof. Angus Dalgleish and many others. For example people who were admitted to hospital with Cov-19 that had high levels of Vit D in their blood at the time of admission had a much bettter chance of recovering and of avoiding ICU care than those with low levels. At te start of the pandemic, Drs in Britain with darker skins started dying off at an alarming rate. If I remember the story correctly, by April 2021, 25 had died. At that point Prof Angus Dalgleish (I think it was) wrote to the secretary of the Organisation of African and Caribean Doctors (I hope that is right) asking him to contact his members to tell them to take supplementary vitamin D. By the Autumn of that year, only one further member had died.
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  2538. Very good, balanced and credible program. Thanks for your hard work. Interesting to hear a sane account of modern China, for a change.
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  2539. Can anyone explain the difference between the behaviour of the Israelis and that of a powerful gang of criminals?
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  2540. Why didn't the government scrutinize these models? Probably because the politicians are technologically incapable of doing such a thing. They have, for the most part NO STEM education whatever. Also, they probably liked the feeling of power that the lockdowns gave them. You have to remember that the ruling classes are almost always afraid that the lower classes are going to get too much power! Even too much power over their own lives.
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  2541. Windfall tax ? Not really! The USA provoked this war and used it to de-industrialize Germany in particular and Europe in general and then profiteered on the resulting "Crisis". This tax is not before time!
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  2542. 27:16 In the USA you have a number of enormous pharmaceutical firms. These are capitalist organizations. Their primary aim is to make a profit. What do they need to do that? Slice it any way you like, THEY NEED SICK PEOPLE! "A cure is a lost customer." Think about that. What can you do about that? It's not difficult to see that governments want healthy people! So. It is not "Rocket Science" or "Brain Surgery" to see that you need to move the ownership of the pharmaceutical companies from private industry to the government. This would immediately abolish the conflict of interest that, at present, exists. It also removes, from the cost of the health service, all the money that the governmeny pays to Big Pharma that goes to PROFIT. I.e. Most of it! It removes the block on proper testing of cheap medicines, "Because there is no money to be made from them" It prevents the replacement of medicines which work, "because they competes with a more expensive alternatives." It would also remove the block to finding a cure for cancer. (Which is, make no mistake, wildly profitable for Big Pharma.) There are also other benefits, which you can probably work out for youself.
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  2543. 51:04 Have you seen the piece in the "Telegraph" this morning By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon saying that "Putin's Nuclear Arsenal is Crumbling Ukraine Can Take It Out For Good"?
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  2544.  @Nehner  I take that this is an insult? In my opinion, insults are not an adequate substitute for arguments. If it isn't, I apologise. What does the word mean?
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  2545. I think you are underestimating the Iranians. When they attacked the US airbase in Ain Al Assad, the US was horrified at how accurate their missiles were. I doubt that at that time, they had Russian or Chinese help in designing and making the guidance systems for those.
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  2546.  @brandtbollers3183  Precisely!
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  2547. The Ukrainian government in exile will go the way of the Tibetan government in exile of which Wikipedia says: "The Central Tibetan Administration currently operates under the "Charter of the Tibetans In-Exile", adopted in 1991, amended in 2011. Executive authority is vested in the Sikyong, an office formerly held by Lobsang Sangay, who was elected in 2011."
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  2548. "If Taiwan has been paying attention to Ukraine conflict," they will aviod being the US's proxy fighters, which is undoubtedly the US's plan for them. The people of Taiwan are not stupid, so I doubt that they will fall into the trap being set for them by the warmongers in Washington and the traitors in power at the moment in Taipei.
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  2549. 14:04 "Nothing is going to change" I don't agree with you there. Things across the World are changing very rapidly. I have no idea how these changes are going to affect you and me and the rest of the UK, but have an effect they certainly will! De-dollarisation, the setting up of BRICS, the defeat and disarming of NATO in Ukraine, the Disgusting Scenes in Gaza and their effect in the ME and across the World (Including in the US!) the de-industrialisation of Europe, All of these things are going to have an effect, though it's beyond me to say what it will be.
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  2550. 13:07 Starmer is Tony Blair mk II.
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  2551. The Ukrainians keep on accusing Russia of damaging themselves. You can believe them if you like.
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  2552. Correction! That third line should be: " To dam forever Beaverbrook".
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  2553. Maybe Scholz thinks : "If you're going to flatter, lay it on with a shovel!" Or maybe, Joe cunningly "hides his light under a bushel"?
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  2554. 28:15 One reason that the UK might support it: this move to support the seizure of the Russian frozen assets, would damage the reputation of the dollar and the Euro as safe places to deposit wealth and it would thus help to cover up the UK's seizure of Venezuela's gold.
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  2555. 5:00 China recently announced its FIRST DEATH FROM COVID19 - IN MONTHS. Evidently, lockdowns are an infernal nuisance but they save lives.
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  2556. Why does the Collective West have NO great men (or women)? It puzzles me. We used to have.
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  2557. 9:33 We can hear that it is windy, but your voice is quite clear.
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  2558. 3:49 This is still wishful thinking! He is still dreaming!
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  2559. The real crime of Jordan Peterson is that he is drawing attention to the increasing resemblance of our rulers to Big Brother and the states we live in to the state portrayed in "1984" and doing it in a way that is noticed by a lot of people.
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  2560. The fighting over the time since February 2022 has not been "deadlocked". It has been a series of Ukrainian attacks on Russian defensive positions, which has led to continuous heavy Ukrainian losses of men and machines. The Russians too lost some men and some machines, but as they were mostly defending positions, rather than trying to capture new ones, they lost far less than did the Ukrainians. The results are now showing, the Ukrainians are running out of almost everything and, unable to defeat the Russian military, are resorting to terrorism. This will not win them the war. Neither the military war nor the media war.
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  2561. 16:57 Surely the principle aim of the War in Ukraine is nothing to do with the interests of Ukraine. This is a US Proxy war with US aims, i.e. to weaken Russia, to kill Russians to get rid of Putin. At the same time Zelensky seem to not have the interests of Ukrainians at heart, either.. He seems to have the interests of Zelensky at heart. He and his team, seem to think, mostly in theatrical terms, and "making a Good Show" of the war. Neither the US nor Zelensky (Nor come to that the British governments) seem to care at all for the interests of ordinary Ukrainians! They have arranged in an, as far as I know, unprecedented way, for several generations of Ukrainian men to be wiped out.
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  2562. Very interesting and fair summary. Well done. I leard quite a few details from that. Particularly the political aspects of the affair.
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  2563. 16:20 And the Lord said: "Let there be cash!" And behold! There was cash! Even beyond the dreams of avarice!
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  2564. You do know, I suppose, that the US government has refused any investigation of the possibility, that the leak occurred in the USA?
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  2565. 8:54 The US founded ISIS didn't they?
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  2566. Can you tell me: is it true that the rescue charities are funded by the Israeli government?
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  2567. Ivermecktin is very, very safe. After the 2.5 billon doses have been prescribed, IIRC there have been 10 (TEN) cases of adverse effects caused by overdoses. The worst of these adverse effects were three (3) cases of nausea, No deaths. Amidst all the scare stories spread by the CDC, there is not one death mentioned among people who overdosed on Ivermectin even where the animal variety was used.
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  2568.  @LudmilaDuhot  I was told this by a Moldovan who took part in the referendum I mentioned.
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  2569.  @kiki-zt8fz  Thank you for your support! There are not many people in these chat columns that know anything at all about Moldova! (Never mind "Transdniestria!")
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  2570.  @chrissmith7669  Just a matter of a very short while now.
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  2571.  @chriswong9158  I was not aware of it until I heard it from this video.
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  2572.  @nathancorbett999 12 Months, at the most. Probably much less.
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  2573.  @chriswong9158  Of course "it was not the war that made the change"! The change comes about because China is growing fast, very fast. It is growing about three times as fast as the US, maybe more. Short of a full-scale war, there is not much the US can do about it. If a war between China and the US remains "conventional", the US will lose.
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  2574.  @chrissmith7669  Just wail a little.
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  2575.  @chrissmith7669  The Daily Telegraph, today does not agree with you. If calling up teenagers and women and throwing them into the battlefield, with three week's training, is not a sign of defeat, I wonder what would be?
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  2576.  @chrissmith7669  Ukraine has not debunked the Russians.
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  2577.  @chrissmith7669  Big Deal! This shows a victorious country?
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  2578.  @chrissmith7669  Does a country that is winning call up teenagers, 70year old men and women, even pregnant women to serve in the front lines? Really?
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  2579.  @chrissmith7669  Better tell The Telegraph and Stoltenberg. They will be so happy!!
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  2580.  @chrissmith7669  By "that's" I take it you mean "any actual evidence that the yuan has overtaken the euro in international trade?" No It's difficult to veruify, because the Swift transactions are readily available but the transactions between say Russia and China or between the Chinese and Iran are much harder to find. Personally, I can not be bothered to check whether the info in this video is true or not. If you like to do the research and prove it wrong why don't you do just that?
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  2581.  @YabbaDabba-mi5ub  What should be called "uniparty"?
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  2582.  @ZioWillY  Huh?
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  2583. 14:59 There is one (and only one) cure for Germany's ills, that I can think of and that will take a lot of political courage. The cure is to make up with Russia and open the remaining Nordstream pipeline and buy Russian oil and Russian LNG and Russian food, lumber etc. Then they can repair or reconstruct the remaining NS pipes that were sabotaged and hope that "whoever" (No names, no pack drill, to keep YT happy!) sabotaged them before, does not do it again. Oh yes! And keep on the good side of China.
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  2584.  @user-rp2li7ks4e  Thanks!
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  2585. 22:36 What you have just shown is that the US use of double-speak is nothing new. You should also be aware that for a successful false-flag operation you do not need a real attack at all. Whether there is one or not is entirely irrelevant.
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  2586. 11:12 Do you tthink they are fools or are they puppets? It looks to me as though they are rather mediocre people who have been trapped into doing whatever the USG tells them to. They seem also to believe that they have much more strength and power than they really have and they seem to worry much less than seems reasonable in the circumstances they find themselves in. All this, makes me wonder if they are permanently under the influence of cocaine. What do you, Pepe, think?
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  2587. It will need one hell of a crisis and the destruction of the power of the MSM, before anyone as clever and knowledgeable as they, gets anywhere near No.10.
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  2588. 700,000 soldiers, all of a sudden? All Ukraine official figures, particularly those related to the war are wildly exaggerated. BTW I thought you might be interested to know that there are anti-tank "hedgehogs" in the streets of Iasi (A small city on the border with Moldova.) in Romania.
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  2589. Is it not normal for buyers and sellers to haggle? When you are buying enormous quantities, a tiny difference in unit price can amount to a LOT OF money! Listening to your commentary it seems to me that you are making mountains out of molehills. That price cap, had practically zero effect, but you make it sound like mortal blow.
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  2590. Ha ha! The Blinken says; "Let's you and them fight!" Egypt and Jordan say: "Hmm, er, maybe, perhaps . . " The other Arab countries, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies, including Jordan and Qatar, say (words to the effect of:) "P**s *ff C**t!"
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  2591. 25:59 For murdering Dugina? For attempting to murder Dugin?
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  2592. 23:25 It reminds me of some British aristocrats, who just before WW2, described Herr H*tler as "A jolly good chap, who knows how to deal with Communists!"
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  2593. 22:58 Maybe he could go to a villa in Turkye?
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  2594.  @Senninhamcl  Quite clearly, now more than ever before, the USA is no friend of Europe (or any country that "threatens" to be more prosperous than or to compete with the USA) e.g. Japan, China, Britain.
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  2595.  @SlowReactionDriversAreTheWorst  "So why are countries still part of an organization that has left them out high and dry." Very good question! Could it have some connection to Epstein's "Little Black Book"?
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  2596.  @peterlangan1181  Corpse? was everybody in the crew killed? Well somebody put out the story that they had shot down six Kinjals. Whether they died subsequently or someone put it out for them I don't know. It just struck me when Alexander was telling about the characteristics of the missile, that there could be a reason why this fantastic story had come out, a genuine, though mistaken, belief.
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  2597. 15 :58 Didn'some French monarch say when told that his subjects hated
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  2598. The effort to put NATO into Ukraine is part of an effort to keep the USA as the World's Hegemon. It was part of an effort to be able, credibly to threaten Russia with a decapitation strike. The ruling class of the West is OK with this effort, or if they are not, they go along with it, probably because they dare not oppose it. The weakening of Europe is part of the same effort to keep the USA as the pre-eminent country; economically, militarily, politically. Probably, with the US economy being in economic decline, the rulers in WDC decided that it would not "do" to have Europe more prosperous & economically stronger than the US. Many years ago, an old woman who had been a servant in the house of the Chairman of the local Conservative Party, told me how at meetings in this house she had heard in 1947, discussions on how to roll back the measures of "Socialization" introduced by the Attlee government. "They were really keen" she said "to get back to a situation where they could hire a servant for half-a-crown a week." ("Half-a-crown" or one eighth of a pound sterling, was about a fortieth of a living wage at the time.) Our rulers are not discussing amending the economic situation of ordinary people because they "are too busy sticking it to Putin". They are not discussing it, because they are quite happy with the situation of ordinary people, for whom they have hatred and contempt.
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  2599.  @PhiloSurfer  Yes! They keep trying and at the same time try to drive a wedge between China and Russia and ask the Chinese for help with their debt crisis! and ask the Chinese to buy their low-grade chips and refuse to sell them high-grade chips and prevent Holland, Japan and South Korea from selling chip-making machinery to China. One really, really could not make this stuff up!
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  2600. Yes! So do I. Not "Funny, amusing", but "funny, peculiar". Do these people never consider what they sound like? "Don't do as I do! Do as I say!!" Or else! Ray McGovern thinks they are "crazy" and I am inclined to agree.
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  2601. The reason there was so much pushback against people who questioned anything about the vaccines is clear. It is not hard to see. As always: FOLLOW THE MONEY!!. What do I mean? Pfizer (a notorious criminal organization, recently fined $2.3 billion) makes a huge profit by selling vaccines. It is a huge advertiser and it exerts enormous pressure on all the media outlets that it advertises in. It is also a big source of finance to Medical associations, the CDC, the WHO, the MSM, university medical colleges, etc., etc.. All of these organizations know that if they allow anyone to use their space to sow any sort of doubt about the Vaccines' safety, it will impact the profitability of Pfizer, Pfizer will be annoyed and will take revenge i.e. Pfizer will cut their funding. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is not a theory it is a fact.
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  2602. 15:29 If I were Erdogan I would ask Russia for some SU-35s to make up for the missing F-16s. See how that goes down.
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  2603. 13:20 Timoshenko is the name you were looking for, I think.
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  2604.  @CycOp  You think war with China is a good idea?
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  2605. This is a really bizarre story about Biden! His account of "flying over Tibet with Xi Jinping" is I think entirely fictional and it puts me in mind of dealings I had with two family members, who were suffering from Alzheimer's disease. One of them, when I asked if they had eaten, replied that they had and when I asked where, said "I ate there." pointing at the television, which happened to be showing a restaurant scene in a soap opera, at the time. On another occasion I was out for a walk with another sufferer and the conversation, which up to that point had been apparently completely rational, turned to the recent visit by astronauts to the Moon. He said: "I went to the Moon when I was an undergraduate." I asked: "Where did you take off from?" "From the University Rugger grounds." He replied. "Who built the rocket?" I asked. "Oh, I and two of my friends built it in the college's boat house." I am quite sure that in both cases what they said was sincerely believed.
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  2606. 27:39 What is even more staggering, is that the Chinese have grown rich without an empire to rob! Oh, &BTW, private enterprise was an important part of the Chinese scene from well before the declaration of the PRC. For example, the PRC's flag has four small stars on it as well as the big "Communist" star. These four stars represent the peasants, workers, soldiers and (Wait for it!) the patriotic capitalists. When I went to China in 1964, I was amazed at the diversity of goods in the shops and enquiring about this, I discovered that unlike in the USSR, there was a thriving privately owned industry, making anything that would turn a penny, with firms ranging in size, from one-man ops to firms employing hundreds or even thousands.
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  2607. 38:00 Trump's 1st experience and Joe Biden show that the "Power of the POTUS" is very limited. Trump the "C-in-C of the US armed forces", ordered the US army to get out of Syria. They stayed put. Joe Biden is visibly incapable of running anything as complicated as a sweet shop, but the US is still somehow functioning, so presumably, someone else is running the USA. That Someone Else is not up for election.
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  2608. 55:46 If I were Xi Jinping I would fear fpr my life if I went to the US. There are far too many nuts and far too many guns there.
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  2609. As always.
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  2610. 26:14 The propagandistas of the CW do not need any "original" statement to embroider. They frequently make up "Threats", statements, accusations out of whole cloth (much as they make up currency!). For example, the "Threat" by Iran to nuke Israel.
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  2611. 34:08 The turtle neck is inferior to a beard like yours! It provides much more efficient thermal insulation and best of all, it is more economical! Of course one can take it a lot further and grow your hair longer as well, to keep the back of your head and neck warm. (Very green, don'tcha know?
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  2612. 12:08 I like the slogan. (Behind you.)
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  2613. How do the corona virus deaths of the vaccinated and unvaccinated since the start of the pandemic compare? And how are "vaccinated" and "unvaccinated" defined?
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  2614. 1:38:07 What Alexander is missing, (Perhaps he does not want to admit it.) is that since, probably the Revolution, certainly since the start of the Manhattan Project, the Deep State in the USA has had as its ultimate goal, the destruction of the Soviet/Russian state and bringing under US control, the vast resources of Russia and eventually the Whole world. This has underlain their continual efforts to surround, initially Russia and now China. Only if you admit this and understand this, can you make sense of all their policies. Without this, none of it makes sense.
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  2615. 6:50 It is not just the politicians who are not talking about it, it is also the medical establishment, or at least, if they are, I have not heard or read about it. Nor, it would seem, are the trade unions. Have they been nobbled as well?
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  2616. It is hardly possible for Putin and Zelensky to negotiate a Peace Agreement because Putin regards Zelensky as an American puppet. It is equally difficult for Putin and the USA to come to an agreement, because the US, almost invariably goes back on all the agreements it signs.
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  2617. 4:03 More strokes in the 21 days after the jab, fewer strokes in the 42 days after the jab. This looks as though there is some slight protective effect over 42 days following the jab, but incipient strokes are sped up by being been jabbed!
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  2618. Apologies! Delete "been".
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  2619. 8:43 Spies are not the people to ask questions about scientific subjects. Particularly when this is the same organization that brought the World news about Saddam Hussein's WMD. Remember that? Remember the "Mobile biological laboratories" that were driving around in Iraq , brewing up germ weapons for use against the Americans? That was info from the same source.
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  2620. 4:21 Declaring Russia a state sponsoring terrorism, would mean, I think, that the US would be prohibited, under US law, from having any dealings with Russia.
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  2621. 1:00:16 Isn't there a difficulty in negotiating with the Russians in that the USG has declared Russia to be a "Terrorist State" and the Oh so virtuous Americans, do not allow themselves to negotiate with terrorists?
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  2622. 1:00:44 It does sound mystical and very reminiscient of the writings of Italian and Spanish Fascists in the 1930s.
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  2623. 38:02 The British government realised this need to have a government owned arms manufacturing capability in 1880! And set it up, using machinery sourced in Massachusetts. (I think they forgot it in 1960, though)
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  2624. Today is a national holiday in Italy.
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  2625. I think that the "Traditional Left" parties (Labour ,Communist and Maoist) have all been infiltrated, subverted and broken by internal strife, by the Special Branch and MI6, in Britain and probably the same or analogous thing has happened in Europe. They have also been relentlessly attacked by the MSM as soon as they showed any patriotic, anti-EU or anti-US or anti-Israel tendency. The Woke cult has also had a deleterious and confusing effect.
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  2626. I bet he is also a Zionist.
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  2627. End. The Germans will not find the Ghost of the Baltic Sea. But this discovery about the Drunken Evening and the escapade with the Andromeda, proves that one cannot believe a word written by Cy Hersh! (Or something!)
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  2628. 18:12 There is also the point that doing as Alexander is suggesting is MUCH CHEAPER! You may need all the drones etc that you have!
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  2629. Eurobonds will need to pay interest. That money can come only from Eurotaxation. You fancy paying that? It's not only interest that will need paying, the European Financial Police will need paying too and, no doubt, a raft of very expensive Euroaccountants as well and a vast new Eurotax Centre in central Brussels.
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  2630. Sorry for the typo! wag not was!
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  2631. 13:24 The US told Turkey where and when the Russian bomber would be, but did not tell them that it was Russian. The Turks, thinking it was Syrian, shot it down. Clearly this was done by the US to generate bad blood between the Turks and the Russians.
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  2632. Even if it had been true a few years ago that the Russians and the Chinese deeply distrusted each other, the actions of the US, wouldhave driven them, willy-nilly into each others' arms! They would have been forced, by the US to realise that they needed each other for support against the hostile actions of the US. The whole situation is rendered ridiculous by the US asking the Chinese for help against the Russians and asking them the buy US debt (!) at the same time placing sanctions on the Chinese and the Russians, stealing the Russian bank reserves and trying to prevent the the Chinese from progressing in commerce and technology. Asking them at the same time to buy US made chips and preventing theiir own companies from selling advanced chips to China, refusing US companies permission to use Chinese made telephone equipment and prohibiting the Dutch, Japanese and South Koreans from exporting EUV chip making equipment to China and putting huge tariff barriers on Chinese exports of cars and solar panels to the US. As though that were not enough, they are encouraging, arming and inciting the "Independence" movements in Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong and their proxies are attacking (killing) their engineers working in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
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  2633. 1:42 It is no wonder that the Chinese think that what Ukraine does is controlled by the USA, seeing that the USA pays the government employees of the Ukraine government's salaries and supplies almost all the weapons the Ukraine military use and all the targeting information and all the fuel that the Ukraine army uses and all the ammunition.
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  2634. 42:50 What I would say to Tony Blinken is: Abu Ghraib, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Diego Garcia.
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  2635. 2:47 In spite of the "Conventional medical opinion" that there is no cure for age related dementia, there is an alternative view that Alzheimer's disease is, in fact, diabetes type 3 (I.e. diabetes of the of the brain). And is caused like DT2 by insulin insensitivity, which is to say that the brain has had so much insulin over a long time, that it has developed an insensitivity to insulin and the result is, that the brain cannot make use of the glucose in the blood, to provide energy for thinkng. However, since the brain can also function on ketones, which are derived from fat, if you stop eating foods which produce blood glucose, such as sugars and starches, and substitute fats such as lard, tallow, mutton fat, coconut oil you can reduce the insulin in the blood and the brain will then work normally, but running on ketones instead of glucose. There are several accounts of this in the internet, with people claiming to have cured their relatives' Alzheimer's disease in this way. I wonder if this is being tried on JB?
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  2636. If you remember, back in last winter, some Ukrainian minister and maybe Zelensk (I am not sure about him) boasted that this summer, they would go swimming in Crimea. Perhaps this visit was by them?
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  2637. 41:53 Would you agree with me that Gain of Function research should be completely outlawed and made a criminal offence if any body is convicted of doing it? IOW should it be made a "Crime against Humanity? Or are there any valid reasons for doing such research?
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  2638. 0:54 The MSM of the Collective West are all under the control of the so-called "Int*grity Initi*tive" (a branch of the 5-eyes) which has its asset in every major news outlet, to tell the chief editor, on a daily basis, what is news and what is "misinf*rmation". (I.e. is not for publication.) That is why the story is so similar, wherever you read it.
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  2639. 29:20 The Chinese have made no such statements. On the contrary, they unlike NASA, have spoken only in terms of welcoming international involvement in their space labs and their moon base when and if it is built. This concern that the Chinese "might colonize" the moon is projection. This, imho is how the USA thinks, not how the Chinese think. I forget which Chinese official replied to an American journalist who asked about China's ambitions in the World, by saying: "We do not want an empire, we can see from history that empires are a lot of trouble and they always end badly. We want a world where countries are prosperous and will trade freely with us and with each other."
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  2640. Lenin said that if you scratch a Social Democrat you'll find a Fasc*st. To me, it seems he was right.
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  2641. @timjrgebn If anyone did they would probably be attacked by the MSM as either Anti-S*mitic or pro-H*mas. Or possibly both!
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  2642. 8:32 Maybe, the cheapest solution is to ring up Putin and ask him how much he would be willing to pay for Ukraine "as it stands"? I mean, it woul save lives, both Russian and Ukraine and it would save the Collective West untold $billions, perhaps, $trillions.
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  2643. 2:56 "NATO remains ready and able to defend all allies" True, Ukraine is not, formally, a NATO ally but, it is a NATO proxy and at the moment, NATO is unable to defend Ukraine, because it cannot scrape together the arms that Ukraine needs. So Stoltenberg is talking wishful thinking, rather than facts. One of the MOST IMPORTANT results of the war in Ukraine is that the MYTH of NATO invincibility, has been shot to pieces by the Russians.
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  2644.  @NakatomiD  The Boston Marathon Bombing was a false-flag op. The FBI was alerted to the bomber by the Russians and they tracked him and knew what he was doing, if they did not actively help him. Ask always: "Who benefits from such acts?" Does Al Qaida? Not as far as I can see. Do the Security Services? Yes they do. It make their requests for more money harder to resist.
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  2645.  @djl5634  Is that the best you can come up with? Poor you!
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  2646.  @johnmitchell8925  No. This happened long before that.
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  2647. 28:26 Could putting KK on this list be a counter to TC being on Ukraine's Kill List?
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  2648. "United States and the United Kingdom said they would no longer attend the event." Since "United States and the United Kingdom" Were responsible for bombing Nagasaki I wonder that they were invited and I shold think it will make for a more relaxed atmoshere if they do not attend.
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  2649. 8:54 And a lot of fuel! An F-16 just ticking over on the runway, keeping its engine warm before take-off, uses 600lbs (1/4 ton) of fuel per hour. How much it uses when flying, I have no idea, but you can guarantee it is a lot!
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  2650. What is curious about this criminally idiotic decision of the British government is that they do not seem to care that they will be poisoning their own food! Do they get their food flown into London from some place where DU ammunition has not been used? (Canada perhaps?) As far as I am aware, some of the wheat that the British eat, comes from Ukraine, so they are in fact, poisoning their own food supply! Now, that really does need some explaining! What sort of nutcase does that?
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  2651. 10:31 It is not "hard to see" what these CA senators are talking about: unfortunately it is all too clear! What they are talking about is doctors who cast any doubt about anything to do with pharmaceutical companies or their products. Also, no doubt, about any possibility of using any alternative treatment that might cost less or be less risky than the pharmaceutical companies' products. Both sorts of "misinformation" have to be punished with the utmost rigour! Stands to reason! Doesn't it? Clearly anything that tends to damage pharmaceutical companies' reputations is contrary to the public interest.
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  2652. 26:48 Maybe the "weak link" in their situation, if Britain is anything to go by, is immigration. That situation can get a lot worse, very suddenly.
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  2653. India is not part of the BRI.
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  2654. 13:00 The Telegraph today has an article that is boasting about the amount of damage the Ukrainian saboteurs are doing inside Russia.
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  2655. Interesting to hear another pilot doing the commentary! Thank too to Krower for the explanation. Very helpful.
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  2656. This railroad, if it is built by China, will surely cut the time by more that half. The time freight takes to go from China to western Europe, is about 14 days and it must be about twice the distance from Bandar Abbas to St Petersburg.
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  2657. “We Have Nukes That Can Hit You,” Putin Warns. This seems to be the only thing the MSM extracted form Putin's State of the Nation speech, which lasted two hours or more!
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  2658. 9:00-9:07 That is the first time I can remember hearing Alexander say something silly. "You can go on strike; but how does that help you? Increase in wages that you extract that way, is going to be eaten up by inflation very fast and inflation in Britain is much higher than government figures say and when the price-caps on household bills...." So : what are you saying? That it is better not to strike but just to watch you wages dwindle away? Or are you saying : "Striking never solved anything! It's just a stop-gap measure. Better get yourself a trusty pitchfork, get your mates to do the same and go to Westminster to talk to the B*ggers responsible for this mess. Oh, and bye-the-way, best take some stout cord with you while you're at it!" Or what?
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  2659. Father: "Eat your porridge!" Johnny: "I'm not hungry" Father: There are thousands of children starving in Africa, who would be very grateful for your porridge!" Johnny: "Name one!"
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  2660.  @pariaheep  You, obviously know more than I do.
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  2661. 20:43 Bankrupt Pirates, at that!
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  2662. The problem with your suggestion is the Russian position is that: the first use of a nuclear weapon against them will trigger WW3.
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  2663. 0:59 Do you by any chance have such statistics for China?
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  2664. 12:50 Ukraine would not be anyone's problem, if the US Neocons had not made it so! I think JD Vance's thesis is a bit of unconscionable cheek! First the US asks its satraps tp to help it mess up Ukraine and then when the whole experiment turns out to be misconceived from the start, they ask the Europeans (Whose economies have been wrecked in the process!) to clear up the mess, the US created! Well, let that be a lesson to anyone thingking of being a US toady!
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  2665.  @suniacougar1056  The fact that Biden is senile, makes little difference as the POTUS is a puppet of the "Deep State" or "Permanent Civil Service". You can see this from the way the POTUS (Trump) ordered the Army to "leave Syria" and they refused! POTUSes have said that they were "refused information about UFOs". This also means, of course, that the presidential elections in the US are a sham. Does anyone believe that Biden is running the USA? Really?
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  2666. It would not be great for the shareholders and employees of the arms manufacturing comanies.
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  2667.  @entername3840  The USG does not change with elections. Personnel changes but policies do not.
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  2668.  @RodiyahJones  Are you a shareholder in the MIC?
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  2669.  @askyalumumba3573  Good Luck with that! I think the POTUS is more or less powerless.
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  2670. Thank you for explaining this tangle. It is a very clear exposition of a complex subject.
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  2671. 2:10 Gluck (luck) wunsch (Wish).
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  2672. 20:40 A Blood-Sacrifice to Moloch. All these warmonger are Satanist, I think.
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  2673.  @albertgrant1017  Thanks!
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  2674.  @johnbuterbaughsr.933  Yes! It was! It is very noticeable how the recent governments have got rid of (almost?) all satirical programs on TV or radio. Typical of all authoritarians.
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  2675. 1:08:06 Is it not possible to sell roubles in China, in India, in Saudi Arabia?
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  2676.  @charlesmartel6103  xe says 1 rupee= 1.15 roubles 1 saudi Arabian riyal = 25.56 roubles
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  2677.  @robyenney951  Yes! How ever did you guess?
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  2678.  @robyenney951  Đúng. Đó là trước khi rất nhiều của bạn đến đó!
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  2679. Yesterday I watched a video that was a lie from start to finish. It stated that Russia and China had attacked a US military base in Israel and went on to show scenes, that I should think, were shot in Gaza. I would bet that no accusation of misinformation or Fake News, will be levelled against the perpetrators of this video, which was absolutely both!
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  2680. 53:08 I should think there are two possible explanations for Seymour Hersh's story, either it is a Ukrainian propaganda "leak" somehow designed to disguise the nearness of the Ukrainian collapse or if the source is American there is a goodly potion of wishful thinking. Or it could even be a CIA planted story, to discredit Seymour.
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  2681.  @conservativemike3768  Yes, A global phenomenon driven by the BIS and other big banks. It is the tendency of Capitalist economies to turn into monopolistic economies. It is, so to say, built into capitalism.
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  2682. Russia has been "running out of missiles" since Feb 24th 2022. Any day now!
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  2683. This video "explains" nothing. It is informative but tells us .nothing that is not available elsewhere. Why are the Russians shutting down the Jewish agency? What has gone sour in the relationship? Is it retaliation for the Israelis' attacking Syria?
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  2684. This is clearly corruption in action. The WHO is very largely funded by Big Pharma and the likes of B. Gates and they will, by this move, be given the power to mandate the use of Big Pharma's products by the World's population! How's that for a profitable idea? Good for BP and potentially suicidal for the rest of us.
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  2685. I'm glad you liked it. I'm afraid that most British people either never knew about this disgraceful episode or have forgotten about it.
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  2686. 12:35 The problem, as I see it is not that Britain "tried to punch above its weight" so much as that after 1941, Britain became an appendage of the US Deep State. (And as seems to happen to US "Allies", is now treated like a used condom.) Well, at least it should put an end to the Imperial ambitions of the likes of Lizzy T and Ben Wallace! It has just occurred to me that perhaps the constant refrain of "Putin wants to restore the borders of the USSR" could be a projection of the desire to restore the borders of the British Empire? Just a thought.
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  2687. 26:36 Your talking about "Jokers" reminded me to ask if you might be interested in havig Dominic Cummings as a guest on the Duran? Just a suggestion. Other suggestions: Clare Daly, and George Galloway.
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  2688. 35:10 The protestations of Ukraine's "certain non-involvement" in the Crocus City Hall event, reminds me very strongly of the constant repetition of "Russia's UNPROVOKED agression" at the start of the SMO.
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  2689. I shall be surprised if the Russians accept anything less, than the dissolution of NATO at the end of this war.
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  2690. @Abbo888 The last laugh is the best laugh.
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  2691. 1:14:42 Perhaps he sent BoJO to apologise for giving Venezuela's Gold Reserves to Juan Guido?
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  2692.  @JosephBisio  "Uigurs slaughtering 1000 Han Chinese in the last few days", correct. They did not do that "a few says ago, they did that sort of thing some decade or so ago. Whether they took hostages too, I don't know. Nowadays, all the reports I see from Xinjiang, are of a safe and pleasant place. The Organization of Islamic States' reported on Xinjiang and said that the Chinese government was doing a good job in dealing with terrorists and they were satisfied that the majority of Muslims were content with the government. The UN sent a rapporteur to look at Xinjiang and the US refused to let the UN publish her report. They said it was "Biased", or something. In any case, the US, which has been slaughtering Muslims in large numbers for decades and decades and has locked up admittedly INNOCENT Muslims in Guantanamo bay for more than ten years, is in no position to criticize ANYONE for abuses of Human Rights. As they pretend to be so bothered about the Chinese record in this respect, why are they silent on the treatment of the Palestinians?
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  2693. 22:53 To my untutored mind, if the, say, French troops are handling military material and theRussians attack the arms dump in which they happen to be working then that does not sound like a war crime to me. If they are working in a war zone and they get killed, welll, isn't that a voluntary misfortune?
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  2694. !:34:38 When one learms about "science" and the "Scientific Method"; one learns that, in scientific work, one first observes and tries to draw conclusions to explain the thing observed. The explanation is called a hypothesis. One then devises experiments to test the conclusions, to test the hypothesis. One then observes the results of the experiments and either they confirm the hypothesis or they don't. If they do, one devises other experiments to test the hypothesis further. If they don't, one make a new hypothese to explain all the results and then test the new hypothesis and so on until you feel satisfied that you understand whatever it is you are studying. At that point your hypothesis, is dignified with the appelation of a theory. All the time, you have to keep in mind that you may be overlooking something important and that all conclusions are subject to revision, when newly discovered facts do not fit the theory. (I.e. "It ain't neccessarily so!") Now, in the West, most politicians are not scientists nor are they scientifically trained. This is shown up, by such episodes as the recent spate of sanctions on Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and many others.
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  2695. Not so. God puts on the BRAKES.
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  2696. It would be interesting to know what was Dr Fauci's relationship to the Bio-labs in Ukraine?
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  2697. 19:37 No, no! You've got it all wrong! The CIA warned the Ukrainian intelligence off, saying. "Don't bother, it's all ready to blow! Just leave it to the experts. You've got your work cut out here!"
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  2698. Dtd you mention hyenas?
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  2699. This video at least mentions the phenomenon, Most news outlets keep stum on the subject.
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  2700. 7:07 If the British "Defence" budget last year, was £50 Billion. where was most of it spent? How big is the British Army? How did it do in Afghanistan? Wasn't it part of N@0? Didn't N@0 fight the Russians in Ukraine? How well did that go? And now he wants the CW to fight, not Just the Russians, not just the Russians and the Chinese, Not just the Russian, the Chinese and the Iranians, but he want the CW to fight the North Koreans as well! Yes, I should Koko!! Last time the British fought the North Koreans, alongside the US forces and the Turks, they found them hard to beat. In fact they were fought to a standstill. And in those days (1951-53) Britain was a lot stronger, all round, than it is today and so was the US.
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  2701. 6:50 "The Kremlin had, successfully come to the aid of his beleaguered ally, the Syrian Dictator Assad." What makes Assad a "Dictator"? The man has been elected by large majorities and Syrians I have spoken to, here in the West have spoken approvingly of him. You bet the West was surprised by the Russian intervention! The US had been arming, supplying and training the Jihardis, while pretending to fight them. The Russian intervention quickly showed them up as US proxies and not the "Invincible Supervillians" that they had been made out to be and the US fight against them as shadow boxing.
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  2702. I saw a video yesterday that said that the US is sending more troops to Taiwan! This, they say is to "increase stability in the Taiwan Straits" (!) This is such an Orwellian abuse of language! Truly, they must be out of their tiny minds! Or they must think that everyone else is stupid.
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  2703. In fact, saying things like "I believe in: "the Rare Earth hypothesis" or , come to that "I believe in anything for which you have insufficient data to be reasonably certain of " is basically, fundamentally, unscientific. "Belief" is a tricky thing and something of which scientists should be very wary. Too often in the history of science, "belief" has prevented scientists from questioning invalid assumptions. Look how belief in the geocentric universe, hindered the realization/(re)discovery of the heliocentric solar system. Or how the belief in Caloric delayed the discovery of the laws of thermodynamics. Or how the belief in phlogiston delayed the discovery of oxygen. In fact, I sometimes think that the First Law of Science was not propounded by a scientist, but by Sporting Life, (the character in Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess.) "It ain't necessarily so!" That is so fundamental!
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  2704. William Wallace was a great man! (In all senses of the word.)
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  2705. 7:47 Watch it! India needs, quickly to nationalise all its large arms manuufacturers, or it risks finding itself warmongering like the USA. If the arms mfgs become rich and strong enough, they will take over your foreign policy and make sure that there is always a great "need" for arms! You have been warned! If you don't believe me just investigate the situation in the USA.
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  2706. 30:22 Whichever way you look at it, the US is financing this war. Biden/Blinken issues a feeble "Please,pretty please stop this war it is damaging out reputation!" And the Israelis ignore them. So who is in command of whom? Isn't it time for AIPAC to register as a foreign agent?
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  2707. Did you or any other group look at these statistics for the Novavax vaccine? Or was it only Pfizer and Moderna?
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  2708. 29:47 It sounds as though the next Wunderwaffen will be the F-35.
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  2709. The absolutely fundamental and crucial Problem is that the US regards itself as the Hegemon of the World. This is something that the World does not need! The World does not need or want a self-appointed policeman. This attitude, of the US's is, I think, a hangover, an outdated behaviour, inherited from the Evangelical Christians, who starting at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, felt it their duty to go out into the World and "teach the natives how to behave and how to live". This may have been, in its time, (a long time ago) a Good Idea (TM 1066 & All That) but it does not suit, when they try to impose this on countries that have civilizations that are far older than that of the US. (E.g. China, Iran, India, Russia) Particularly when it is accompanied by buckets of self-satisfied hypocrisy and assumed "superiority" and an appropriated "High Moral Position." Another problem, is the US's assumption that they have an inalienable right to be the most prosperous and advanced economy and their consequent assumption that anyone that looks as though they might become more prosperous and technically advanced than the US, (or even a moderate competitor, e.g Japan, Germany) is a "THREAT"! From their point of view, it seems to me, their most difficult problem must be that with a failing economy & gigantic debts, they have around 800-1000 overseas bases to maintain. All this at a time, when in FACT, there is no real threat to them. They have weak neighbours to the north and south of them and a huge ocean to both the East and the West of them and NO-ONE wants to attack them. Their "problems are all of their own manufacture.
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  2710. 35:22 I hope Rheinmetal has a good insurance policy.
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  2711.  @MichaelJang-yg1vu  That remark is too sweeping. I had a motor cycle accident 17 years ago and the hospital I was taken to, undoubtedly saved my life. Earlier this year I suddenly became breathless and was found to be bleeding internally (painlessly) and needed, and was given a blood transfusion that probably saved my life.
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  2712. Since the politicians in charge are clearly a disaster, their attempt to assassinate their opponent, is a measure of how insecure they feel. They don't want a new administration rummaging around in the cupboard where they store all the skeletons!
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  2713. 19:56 Macron is making propaganda which is designed for the really, really stupid. If it is for a domestic audience, it is an insult to the French educational system.
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  2714. This was not all that "unexpected"! A number of "misinformers" were predicting this from way back.
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  2715. 43:40 Looks as though the only reason to continue this war is that it kills Russians. "Not enough, of course, but better than none".
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  2716. 10:34 The Chinese "are trying to edge away from the Russians" and the US keeps trying to drive them back to the Russians! One arm of the USG tries to woo the Chinese to persuade the Russians to negotiate and another tries to foster the independence movement in Taiwan and get companies and countries to condemn China for imaginary slave labour and imaginary genocide in Xinjiang and Tibet.
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  2717. Happy Christmases to you too!!
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  2718. 0:16 If, iF, if Yeah, those are all big IFs.
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  2719. A week or so go, the Russian Foreign Ministry called in the British and French Ambassadors and told them that if they found that British or French long-range missiles were being used inside the Russian Federation, (Pre SMO Russia) they, the Russians, would regard it as an invitation to strike British or French military targets anywhere in the World.
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  2720. Until the declaration of the PRC, the USA thought that the South China Sea belonged to China. After the end of the WW2, the US Navy took Chinese soldiers back to the islands of the South China Sea to re-occupy them. It was only when the political colour of the Chinese government changed from Black to Red that the US discovered that the South China Sea did not belong to China! The Chinese and Russians are not engaged in an "incursion"! No! Perish the thought! they are engaged in an excursion! A FONOPS if you like.
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  2721. 2:20 Iran and Saudi Arabia have restored diplomatic relations, so this commentary is out of date.
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  2722. 1:16:42 And in that speech he used the word "China" twice and made no mention at all of the fact that for China WW2 started in 1931or that the Chinese lost some 20 million people in the war or that they tied down some million Japanese troops or, indeed, that the Chinese had any part in defeating the Japanese!
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  2723. More US paranoia.
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  2724. I nominate Lizz Truss. Failing her, how about Theresa May?
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  2725.  @MarkHockridge-qd2fb  Probably. I don't know much about the Tory MPs, I have not studied them. Probably you are right. On the few occasions I have met a Tory MP I have found them pretty stupid, but I have met only two or three to talk with personally.
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  2726.  @MarkHockridge-qd2fb  What we have is a sham democracy. Vote for whom you like it will make a marginal difference. The rhetoric will change, a lot, the policies will change but a little. This is not surprising, because the policies are not made in London, but in Washington DC. Not by the elected US government, but by the permanent US State Apparatus. It has been like this since, at least, 1945. These policies do not benefit Britain but the big businesses of the USA. Hence the steady decline of the UK.
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  2727. After the Minsk "Agreements" (So called!) How could the Russians negotiate with the CW? IFAICS only with a gun to the head of their "Partners"!
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  2728. 1:50 An even starker example of the West's double standards is the treatment (Silence about) of Israel's actual slaughtering (Killing, Murdering, Wiping out) of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of Palestinians (As shown on TV) while complaining about Russia's treatment (Lack of sumpathy for) of LGBQUXYZ groups and the Chinese alledged "Cultural" (not Physical, even) "Genoc*de"!
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  2729. Thank you for the program. A very interesting development indeed!
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  2730.  @JamesStreet-tp1vb  Who's "we"?
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  2731.  @nemesioansorin  The embarrassment is this: before the war in Ukraine was provoked, NATO (aka the US) was "The greatest, most powerful Military organization that the World had ever seen." It had more arms more military capabilities than the rest of the World put together, more ships, more military aircraft than any possible enemy and more than 800 military bases spread out all over the World. It was thought to be completely invincible. The Russians have proved that it isn't. If you can't see that as an embarrassment, it means you don't want to face reality.
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  2732.  @JamesStreet-tp1vb  Are you sure that NATO is not losing?
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  2733. 0:49 This proves that Jens Stoltenberg is human! Vide the saying: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast!"
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  2734. Happy May Day, Happy Easter to You Alex! Re the ICC; "The mills of God grind slow, but they grind exceedingly small." The ICC is clearly a part of the International Rules Based Order. Karma is a bitch.
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  2735. It would be interesting to know, how many of the depressed were vaccinated with the experimental mRNA vaccines. I predict that no one in the collective West will be allowed to investigate this question.
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  2736. 3:14 Absolutely right! Stop Gain of function research immediately. There is always a possibility of a lab-leak and Nature is capable of producing Nasty diseases, there is no need whatever to help it do so! On the whole it takes Nature far longer to come up with the next pandemic, than it does human researchers. To my mind, to my way of thinking, indulging in GOF research should be made a Crime-against-Humanity and punished with, at least, a long period in Jail. The only beneficiaries of this type of activity are the pharmaceutical companies. Organizations which should be nationalized forthwith, as they are completely out of control at the moment.
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  2737.  @ilttpvvm  No. It's not just like. If you notice the Russian strikes on Ukrainian citities are aimed at military targets and cause remarkably few civilian casualties and often those are caused by the Ukrainians shooting down missiles and the wreckage landing on civilian structures. In more than two years of bombardment, the Russians have caused fewer civilian casualties than the Israelis caused in the first two weeks in Gaza. The Ukrainians by contrast choose civilian targets, e.g. central Donetsk and central Belgorod and the POW camp in Donetsk.
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  2738.  @arikotiranta2689  I do not understand what you mean.
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  2739.  @reijoheikkila4578  He menevät sotaan miellyttääkseen isäntiään Washington DC:ssä
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  2740.  @georgearden7075  No. It's not just like. If you notice the Russian strikes on Ukrainian citities are aimed at military targets and cause remarkably few civilian casualties and often those are caused by the Ukrainians shooting down missiles and the wreckage landing on civilian structures. In more than two years of bombardment, the Russians have caused fewer civilian casualties than the Israelis caused in the first two weeks in Gaza. The Ukrainians by contrast choose civilian targets, e.g. central Donetsk and central Belgorod and the POW camp in Donetsk.
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  2741.  @dahighalvl  Thanks.
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  2742.  @georgearden7075  No. Are you? Why do you ask?
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  2743. ​ @fabianschrotter  The difference is that they have military targets in them. These are what are hit, when the missiles are not shot down on the way to its target. When that does happen, the wreckage sometimes falls on civilian buildings and civilians are injured or killed. You may not have noticed, but frequently when the Russians attack with many dozens of missile only very few civilians are reported killed. In the course of the SMO fewer civilians have been killed in Ukraine than have been killed in the first two weeks in Gaza. The targets in Donetsk and Belgorod were strictly civilian targets except for the camp housing Ukrainian PoWs! Another cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine is the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which miss their target and fall back to earth. These are the cause of the "Russsians using S-300 missiles to attack civilian buildings" reports, even when the building concerned are way beyond the range of S-300 missiles.
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  2744.  @georgearden7075  ​ The difference is that they have military targets in them. These are what are hit, when the missiles are not shot down on the way to its target. When that does happen, the wreckage sometimes falls on civilian buildings and civilians are injured or killed. You may not have noticed, but frequently when the Russians attack with many dozens of missile only very few civilians are reported killed. In the course of the SMO fewer civilians have been killed in Ukraine than have been killed in the first two weeks in Gaza. The targets in Donetsk and Belgorod were strictly civilian targets except for the camp housing Ukrainian PoWs! Another cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine is the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which miss their target and fall back to earth. These are the cause of the "Russsians using S-300 missiles to attack civilian buildings" reports, even when the building concerned are way beyond the range of S-300 missiles.
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  2745.  @ilttpvvm  ​ The difference is that they have military targets in them. These are what are hit, when the missiles are not shot down on the way to its target. When that does happen, the wreckage sometimes falls on civilian buildings and civilians are injured or killed. You may not have noticed, but frequently when the Russians attack with many dozens of missile only very few civilians are reported killed. In the course of the SMO fewer civilians have been killed in Ukraine than have been killed in the first two weeks in Gaza. The targets in Donetsk and Belgorod were strictly civilian targets except for the camp housing Ukrainian PoWs! Another cause of civilian casualties in Ukraine is the S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which miss their target and fall back to earth. These are the cause of the "Russsians using S-300 missiles to attack civilian buildings" reports, even when the building concerned are way beyond the range of S-300 missiles.
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  2746.  @fabianschrotter  Electricity is used to move arms around.
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  2747.  @fabianschrotter  That does not seem to be the case in Ukraine, The Russians did not use cluster munitions even against military targets until after the Ukrainians started using them having been given them by the US because they had run out of HE shells.
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  2748. This sort of behaviour, seems to be a characteristic of reactionaries. The US, the UK, Germany and Japan did it during WW2, The USSR did not. Chiang Kai-shek did it during the Chinese civil war, the Communists did not. NATO did it during each of their wars. Perhaps, it is BECAUSE reactionaries are always driven by greed or fear while progressives are always fighting for peoples' rights. They need the support of people. So killing people, would be directly contrary to what they are trying to do and would reduce the support of people, which is what they rely on.
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  2749. Don't you think that sailing US warships through the Taiwan Straights contributes to an atmosphere of distrust? What is the justification for doing this? The US recognises that Taiwan and mainland China is one country so what are they doing, constantly sailing through this strait when they know it annoys the Chinese. Aren't they doing it to "cause an atmosphere of distrust"?
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  2750. This "Study" sheds a new light on Sir Winston Churchill's remark in a parliamentary debate that there were "Three types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics!"
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  2751. C*vid 19 was a goldmine for the pharmaceutical industry. That explains a lot. Anyone who doubts that the industry is run by a gang of criminals, should look at their legal record!
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  2752. 27:27 I think you are attributing too much "joined-up" thinking to the White House. OPEC+ is pushing up oil prices. Ukraine is damaging some Russian oil installations, which will tend to cut the supply of Russian oil to the world market slightly and will tend to push oil prices higher. Higher Oil prices mean higheer prices at the pump, which, in an election year, is a Bad Move! Therefore, Stop hitting Russian Oil!!
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  2753. 33:20 What were the US bases doing in Syria? They are there illegally. To Have ILLEGAL BASES and launch airstrikes in another country (3:25) and then to talk about a third country "breaking International Law" (2:25)is both hypocritical and ridiculous!
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  2754. 1:04:34 I can tell you that I have been reading about the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy since 1950.
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  2755. When you make an agreement with someone and then don't perform your part of the bargain, what reason would they have to continue with their side of it?
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  2756. 30:50 The UK left-wing parties were infiltrated by Specil Branch and, probably, MI5. They came in as "Super militant" members and turned a lot of people off. Others were induced by them to do silly things and landed in jail. Still others got people who had leadership aspirations, to split their organisations into ever smaller parties, (With themselves as Leader.) until these parties became unviably small and disappeared. I think the UK authorities also had help and advice on how to break up and downgrade leftwing organizations, from the CIA and the Israeli Embassy.
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  2757. Very interesting account. Accurate too.
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  2758. 7:28 If there really is something there, that is intelligent and non-human, potentially extremely important to all humanity, would it not be appropriate, sensible, a "Good Idea", to cooperate in investigating the phenomenon with the Chinese, the Russians, the other major powers in the World, since we are all likely to be equally affected?
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  2759. I imagine you have seen "Redacted"'s account of the FoI request to the CDC showing that the DoD has been working on the pandemic since 2013 ? If you haven't I think you will find it interesting. Many thanks for your work! A Happy New Year to you!
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  2760. 53:01 Just one more example showing that the US is not "Agreement Capable", as I think Lavrov said, some months (years?) ago. Make a treaty in 1972 and abrogate it in about 50 years. It's probably about par for the course. Their problem is, of course, hubris and a consequent failure to realize that this action needs to be thought through. These people who lack "real-world experience" are not really lazy, they just lack understanding of the necessity to work things through in advance, rather than assuming that the US does not need to, because it is all-powerful.
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  2761. 23:10 Western Micawberism!
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  2762. 21:20 Again I think that Prof. Mearsheimer does not take into account, the shifting perception among ordinary people, of the US/NATO. The governments of the Collective West may be more united than ever, but I don't think that is true at the grass roots level. I think things are shifting. For one thing the perception of NATO as the Invincible Almighty Military Machine, the Greatest Military Machine the World has ever seen, the Power that can obliterate ANY opposition without breaking sweat, which was, I think, the generally prevailing view, has gone the way of the Dodo. True Ukraine was not formally "In NATO" but it trained alongside NATO, it fought alongside NATO in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was trained, advised and armed by NATO, so it was, to all intents and purposes, about as close to being a part of NATO as could be, without the formalities and Article 5. This, change in perception, is I think, is the primary reason for the neutral stance of so much of the Global South.
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  2763.  @themsmloveswar3985  I wonder how many of the current crop of Finnish politicians were friends of Jeffrey Epstein?
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  2764. 22:55 Defeat Russia and you have a free World." & China?
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  2765. At least some of The Elite, not merely despise the ordinary people but actively hates them. As a Nationalserviceman, I spent some time talking with Army, young, junior officers, who seemed to come mainly from the landed gentry, and I was rather surprised to find how closely they mirrored their cartoon counterparts. In particular, I was surprised to see with what contempt they regarded the private soldiers under their command.
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  2766.  @BSdetected  Partly true. During WW2, most of the "British casualties" were born in India.
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  2767.  @jameskrell4392  Excuse my ignorance! What is a "Div"?
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  2768.  @jameskrell4392  I second the "Translate to English" request.
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  2769. It sounds as though the JD Vance/Donald Trump combo, is no closer than Biden is, to recognising that the Whole anti-Russian, anti-Chinese orientation of Collective Western Policy, is based on the LIE of "Russian/Chinese aggressive intentions" and has been ever since the end of WW2.
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  2770.  @lynnfaulkner2706  You are probably right.
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  2771.  @RSingh100  Thanks.
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  2772. 24:39 There are three othher guidance systems that the Iranians could potentially have used to guide their missiles over the long distance from Iran to Israel: namely, the US sytem, GPS, the European system Galileo and the stars
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  2773.  @chanrasjid8688  None of these systems can be hacked?
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  2774. Potential Security risks. Who is it that, admittedly, is spying on everyone worldwide? Why! It's your friendly US NSA! The US pressured Germany to ban Huawei 5G telephone equipment because of the "Security Risk" in using Huawei equipment. The Germans set their top IT technisians into investigating the HUAWEI stuff, looking for backdoors and any other security risks. After three years of looking, they concluded that there were none. So Gemany has relaxed its ban on Huawe, because they cannot get substitute equipment from the USA. Who was it that hacked Angela Merlkel's cellphone? Was it the Russian? No it wasn't. Was it the Chinese? No. it wasn't the Chinese, either! It was the friendly USA, just keeping a friendly eye on her!
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  2775. Could one call the "leaders" of Europe "anoitocrats"?
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  2776. Zelensky's suggestion of "the same sort of protection for Ukraine", suggest a complete innumeracy on his part. Ukraine has an area of 603,550 square km while Israel has only 21,637. So one can assume, to the first order of magnitude, that it would take 30 times as much equipment to provide the same degree of protection to Ukraine, as that enjoyed by Israel. This equipment does not exist.
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  2777. 44:20 Why do you substitute "Denuclearization" for "DeNAZ*fication"? is it to satisfy YouTube?
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  2778. About N@0 moving into Ukraine to secure the West Bank of the Dnieper; there is in my mind, a query as to what the Chinese reaction to such a move would be? As to the idea being silly (Which it is!) The British military establishment has been spouting patent nonsense, from time to time, since the SMO started.
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  2779.  @Just_username_3161  Yes. Without the Soviet intervention and eventual defeat of the Wehrmacht, The Reich would have had the resources of the USSR at its disposal and would quite probably gone on (As they intended to do) to conquer the rest of the World.
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  2780. 3:29 What is the procedure for reporting these imposters?
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  2781. 44:30 "Bon Mots". "Catchy phrases."
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  2782. Was Genghis Khan the inspiration for the WEF's agenda of reducing the population of the World to 500 million (or whatever the target was)? Is this why the Western governments (Even Western Parliaments!) seem so undisposed to investigate or even discuss, the pandemic of unexplained excess deaths?
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  2783. Correction! The most basic human right is not the freedom to say what you want to say, important though that is,. The most basic, is the freedom to eat and drink (clean water), without which all the other human rights become meaningless,
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  2784. Just one criticism of your reply: there is nothing "unfortunate" about it! It is a logical outcome of legal lobbying and private, capitalist companies making up the US MIC and Bloody good-oh!. Long may it so continue!
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  2785. 12:54 Biafra. Breakaway, Oil-rich province. Hmmm. I should think, looking back on it, that though I had never, at that time, heard of "color revolutions", that that was a relatively early example.
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  2786. 10:58 Ooh! Scary!That should frighten the Ruskies! I should think the Security guarantees would be about as useful as the pledge to give Ukraine enough heavy weaponry to decisively defeat Russia "for as long as it takes." There is a phrase for this sort of pledge "on the tip of my tongue" but I can't at the moment find it.
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  2787. 10:34 Perhaps the word you want is "Fiat".
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  2788.  @captainalex157  How many homeless Chinese living on the streets?
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  2789. The "political instability", like most political instability everywhere, is funded by the NED. The aim is Regime Change, in each case.
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  2790. "Xi and Putin are getting together to do damage". Naiughty, naughty Xi and Naughty Putin! Of course, the USA would never do anything like that! Would they? (Ask the 50 or so countries they have invaded since 1950.)
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  2791. 14:05 You mention Johnson, Truss and Sunak, but you have forgotten the "Cherry on the Top", the "Crowning Jewel", the "Acme" the "Ne Plus Ultra" - Theresa May!
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  2792. 15:59 Why do the Ukrainians hang on to places while the Russians withdraw if they think it necessary? Simple! The NA*Is value possessions above people, while the Russian know that if you lose a position, you can get it back, but if you lose a soldier you can't. Typically, NA*Is love death, they decorate themselves with skulls and similar images. one Mussolini era Italian artist, proclaimed the slogan "LONG LIVE DEATH!"
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  2793. 5:43 It is no surprise to me, that the NYT does not mention casualties, but focuses on losses of equipment. This is characteristic of Reactionaries. They are always focused on losses of money and things. these are valuable. The casualties are just people and not even American people at that! Who's bothered about them?
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  2794. Why the absence of Liz Truss? Why no Vicky Nuland?
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  2795. 1:32:02 What is also incredible to me, is that at the same time that Biden is sending $10 billion's worth of arms to Taiwan "To make it like a porcupine", so that China will be detered from attacking it, the US Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, is in Beijing, begging the Chinese to stop selling US treasury bonds! And even to buy some instead, thus helping to finance the US's war efforts. Oh yes! And asking the Chinese to bring pressure to bear on the Russians, to stop their war in Ukraine.
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  2796. 13:37 No, it's more sinister than that! Admitting Ukraine to the EU would make it easier and "more logical" to send EU soldiers to fight in Ukraine.
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  2797. 4:32 With regard to your apology: I don't altogether agree. There are some organizations that no decent person should work for - the Azov Battalion for example. The Daily Mail, for another. Likewise CNN.
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  2798. Join the club!
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  2799. You count this a loss? Strange way for "diplomats to behave! Still, what would one expect from people who worship Bandera?
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  2800. 3:50 "WE continue to have sewrious concerns about Iran's efforts to expand its proliferation of dangerous weapons that prolong and exacerbate conflicts around the World." What a text-book example of double-think and hypocrisy! They are really worried about competition. Pretending to have a conscience, is part of their marketing strategy, nothing more, nothing less.
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  2801. 2:17 The Collective West seems to be concerned to damage the economies of all the countries except that of the USA. The Worst case, is, of course the German economy, where the source of Germany's former prosperity, Cheap Russian energy, has been nestroyed by "persons unknown". (So called!) However, the other thirty odd countries are suffering too, as they too benefitted from the supply of cheap and reliable supplies of Russian oil and gas. As of now, the misguided attempt to cause regime change in Russia, has left them paying about three to four times as much for US LPG and Russian oil bought through Indian middlemen. Messing with China, is an even stupider idea, but they seem to be unable to resist US pressure to go down that route. If our "leaders" don't soon wake up, it will end very badly for them and all of us in the Collective West. They will go down in history as the worst collection of patsies, incompetents and traitors ever to hold power in Europe. Of course by far and away the worst sufferers, are the Ukrainians.
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  2802. Correction! Germany's case is not the worst, it is the worst but one.
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  2803. Asalex has often pointed out Hunter B. is the ultimate Renaissance Man (As well as James Bond mk2!)
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  2804. 57:53 Is it not completely obvious, that the "Conflict of interest" (For want of a stronger term!) in a privately - owned pharmaceutical industry is so massive, that immediate nationalization is urgently required?
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  2805. 51:46 The US supporting geno*ide in Gaza, is a warning to the World, that this country is OK with geno*ide, so any talk about their opponents' geno*ide is BS. Talk of "Cultural geno*ide" is obviously, Propaganda & nothing more. Their attitude to Ukrainian casualties is another illustration of the same. (As if one were needed!)
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  2806. I see in uk.yahoo today that Britain too is selling arms to Israel. I suppose that given the ethnicity of our noble foreign secretary, that is inevitable.
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  2807. I can't hear you.
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  2808. Russia has food, fuel, fertilizer, men, up-to-date arms, a huge industrial base, vast natural resources, China as a backer, Iran as another potential ally, more than half the world is either on Russia's side or does not care about the "European's war". The Russians are seeing the West as an existential threat. (The West has made no secret of its desire to break up Russia!) The Russians are not having trouble finding recruits to fight in Ukraine. The West is evidently unwilling directly to fight the Russians. The west has a problem with its economy, with raw materials, with finding enough suitable recruits, with finding enough and suitable weapons and ammunition to send to Ukraine. It also lacks the heavy industry to make a lot of heavy weapons, or even enough ammunition, in the near term, If Russia conquers Ukraine, it poses no direct threat to any other country. If NATO defeats Russia in Ukraine, that poses a direct threat to Russia. The Russians have a plan, the War party in Washington DC, seems to have not consulted the military about this war, nor, it seems, did they war-game this conflict, but concentrated on sanctions that they convinced themselves would crush the Russian economy. They then set about provoking the Russians into invading Ukraine, believing, apparently that the Ukrainians (who had been trained for eight years by NATO) would easily destroy the Russians and bring about "Regime Change" in Moscow. I think it is obvious who will win.
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  2809. Your opening quote is frpm "The New VVoice of Ukraine" This almost guarantees that it is a lie.
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  2810. MI6, I think. MI5 is internal security, MI6 is for foreign ops.
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  2811. At the moment the driving force, destroying peace, seems to be the US obsession with maintaining a position of Global Hegemon.
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  2812. In the mean time (& Boy! Is it a mean time!) Venezuela should get Prof Michael Hudson to advise it on Economic policy, should get the Chinese and the Cubans to send advisors to help with diversifying and expanding its agricultural production, should get Russian advisors to help with its gold production and its Army. It might also help to get the CPC to send some advisors to help reform and streamline the Burocracy.
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  2813. The military budget has been around $700 billion for years, so, as you say, there should be by now an enormous pile of arms. The US has sent, say, $50 billion and is running short?! How can that be? I think the answer is either there is an extremely inefficient MIC or there is a massive amount of corruption. It's gotta be one or the other. Or could be both, i suppose.
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  2814. 28:15 We value your input because you cover topics that the Collective West's MSM neglects. Congratulations on your million!
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  2815. There is no "stalemate" in this very bloody war. This is a propaganda term, used by the CW media to disguise the fact that the Russians have been winning for a long time. They have not, however, been trying to take as much territory as they could have taken. They stated their policy at the start of the SMO in February 2022, and it did not include conquering Ukraine. Their aims were stated as : 1) Demilitarising Ukraine. 2) De-Nazifying Ukraine. 3) Making sure that Ukraine was neutral and stayed outside of NATO. Nothing about conquering Territory. It is characteristic of CW thinking that "Territory is important, people don't matter". The Russians think differently.
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  2816. 29:38 "An interesting statement! Huh?" Yes! Indeedy! It makes "the European Union" look like a "Front Organization" designed to funnel funds into Project Ukraine! Don't you think?
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  2817. 16:17 It's not just Merkel that is not there. The cheap, reliable Russian gas is not there either.
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  2818. 40:26 An exhausted Russia is going to flop all over Europe!
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  2819. Do I think. . . . .? Yes! Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch!
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  2820. 35:31 It is all very well to criticize the CPC, but "by their fruit shall ye know them". What other government has done as much to improve the life of their countrymen as has the Chinese? What other government has set itself the goal of abolishing poverty and largely succeeded? None, that I can think of. As to Russia, China and Iran wanting war, if they did there is unlikely to be a better time for them to go to war than now. The Russians have shown that the US and its allies cannot produce ammunition fast enough to defeat the Russians (alone) in a conventional war and even the US understands that no one wins a nuclear war.
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  2821. This war is turning out to be not only a disaster for European leaders (exposed as gutless, traitorous puppets) but also for NATO and US hegemony. It is also, probably, a "turn-up for the books" for Turkiye (or whatever it is called these days) and Erdogan. It could be a really important turning point. If "The Greatest War Machine Ever Assembled" comes off 2nd best in a conflict with Russia (I.e. with China and Iran as spectators), as seems likely. It seems to me that we might be/we could be, at the beginning of a real period of disarmament and peace. One can hope so, I suppose!
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  2822.  @foxythedirtydog4494  GollY! I wish the British government were this "incompetent"!
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  2823. 29:36 The CW may want to drop Ukraine, but they may find that Russia has other ideas. I think we may see something reminiscent of the old Uncle Remus story of "Brer Fox and The Tar Baby.".
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  2824.  @kateoneal4215  Thanks. will do. Not sure who he is, but one of the "reasonable" commentators has such a boring voice that I can hardly stay awake!
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  2825. 3:04 Taiwan has been, in fact, a US protectorate since 1949. There, I fixed that for you! "Self-governing" is a bit of immaginative spin.
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  2826.  @rjohansen9486  This statement of yours is the exact opposite of the truth.
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  2827.  @medusaslair  Bullseye!
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  2828.  @rjohansen9486  I said not so. Russia did not start the war in 2014. In fact Russia worked very hard to be friendly toward Ukraine even after the Maidan coup. They gave Ukrain a lot of coal free of charge and gas at a very low priice. After the Maidan Coup, Poroshenko was president for some years. I don't remember the exact date when Zelensky was elected. The War was provoked by the Collective West, because they wanted an excuse to put a whole faft of sanctions on Russia, which they did, thinking that Russia was in such a poor state that the war and the sanctions together, would cause a revolt in Russia, which would topple the hated Putin Regime.
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  2829. Yes! Blackwater.
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  2830. In my honest opinion, anyone making DU ammunition, after the terrible experience of Iraq and Serbia is guilty of a Crime Against Humanity. The US sending DU ammunition to Europe is another vile attack upon all European people now and for the long-term future. The use of these weapons will contaminate the soil of what has, in the past, been dubbed "The Breadbasket of Europe" and make sure that anyone who eats food grown in this area will be at risk of producing deformed children. In general I am against the Death Penalty, but for people making, advocating, sending or using such weapons, I would think it highly appropriate. Humans, after all have the right to defend themselves and these weapons are not, cannot be, aimed at anyone in particular, but attack humanity in general.
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  2831. Quoting "Bild" as a source for a story is a bit like quoting the British paper "The Sun" as a source.
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  2832.  @somjrgebn  All chaneles are! They get banned if they are not.
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  2833.  @МаринаКерн-й6г  Thanks.
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  2834. If Saudi Arabia chooses the US, they are choosing to go down with the loser. However long it takes, the US is not going to be able "to contain China". Can't be done! Ghina has four times the population of the US. It graduates around nine times as many STEM experts per year as the US does. It has a much better educational system than the the US. It has a meritocratic governance system. Imagine that! If you are bad at your job you don't get promoted. In the US, who your parents are largely determines what job you get. Very often, if you fail at your job, you get promoted! In the US If you want to get elected you have to say the right things and please the right donors, after you are elected, you can ignor the policies that you promised the electorate. What you cannot ignore are the wishes of your donors. In China, the government does not, in general, change much, however, the policies do. In the US the government changes every four or eight years, but the policies change hardly at all. All of this and many other factors will ensure that China gets wealthier and stronger, while the US will get weaker and poorer. The Saudis probably know this and will decide accordingly.
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  2835. 25:40 It seems even more alarming that you have stated because it looks as though it would be possible to sneak atomic weapons into critical parts of Russia without too much difficulty!
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  2836. 12:21 Isn't this Syndicated Reparations Loan a "Conspiracy Theory"?
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  2837.  @desmondho9567  Join the club!
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  2838. What this means is that Ukraine intends to blow up this chemical plant.
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  2839. 7:32 I don't know, but I would guess that Putin would be quite happy with Ukraine "having" Crimea, so long as it was "Psychologically"!
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  2840. 7:45 There is "No Evidence" that the US blew up the NS Pipelines? Have you ever heard of "circumstantial eviidence"? If so, what would you call Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan's saying that the US was going to destroy the NS pipelines? What would you say to Putin's point, that the US had the means of blowing up the NS pipelines and most countries did not? And, what do you make of the fact that the place where the pipelines were blown up, is an area which is heavily patrolled by N@0 countries and where Russian Naval Vessels would automatically be under constant surveillance?
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  2841. 1:08:14 "The market place of ideas" iow, the MSM is owned by six gigantic corporations, who, being capitalist entities are in it for profit. So, since they are effectively under the control of the deep state it is no surprise that the visible part of the discussion is heavily biased in favour of the DS point of view. The only part of the discussion that is relatively free, is in the internet and even here it is cencored, as Alexander points out in almost every video.
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  2842.  @ConstructiveMinds100  If you rely on the USA you are asking to be betrayed. the history is there to warn you. It is no secret. It is quicker and simpler to count the treaties the US has honoured than the one it has ignored or abrogated. It really is a poster-child for the saying "Countries do not have friends, only interests." Come to think of it, it is also a good illustration of anther saying: "Facts are facts." I.e. you cannot give someone that which you do not have.
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  2843. What people have to realise is that news outlets ( WSJ, NYT, The Times, NYP, etc.) are all profit-making organizations (At least in principle!) and therefore, they print what is profitable. If being a government propaganda outlet is the most profitable or the safest option, then that is what they will be. There is, absolutely, no legal requirement for them to tell the truth about anything. (Libel and slander excepted.) There are no penalties (Except, perhaps, losing readers.) on them for telling lies. The penalties on social media for "Misinformatin" are ALL levied for telling, not lies, but Truths that the authorities or the advertizers, do not want generally known.
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  2844. How could Xi Jinping do other than support Russia to the limit of China's ability and strength? The USA has made it clear, that they want to dominate the World and that they regard China, Russia and Iran as obstacles in their way to doing that. China knows full well, that if Russia falls, it will be their turn next. The same is true of Russia, it has no choice, but to support China over Taiwan. Both of them will support Iran, if that country is attacked, for exactly the same reason. Russia was provoked into invading Ukraine, to provide an excuse for the rafts of sanctions which were designed to crush the Russian econmy and bring about a regime change in Moscow. This policy was based, not on reality, but on the picture painted by Western propaganda and wishful thinking. That is why it is now coming unstuck. Blame it on Xi Jinping if you like, but I tell you. that is the wrong person to blame.
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  2845.  @lesbetts5694  The BBC unbiased? You joke, surely? I have never heard CBC, as far as I know, but if it means "Canadian Broadcast Company" I would bet it is no better than the BBC, because it will be controlled by the same so-called "Integrity Initiative".
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  2846. 49:00 The end of the Syrian conflict? What about the biggest terrorists of them all?
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  2847. When this war is over, the only place that Zelensky will be safe is Israel.
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  2848. 1:04 Don't you think, Col that the reason for inflation is that money is made by banks by lending it into existence and then charging interest on it? I mean, this way of working means that the people who borrow money from banks, have to pay back more than they borrowed, which means, that there is always an increasing amount of money in the economy. (Except of course, occassionally, when the banks decide to cause a slump and destroy a lot of money and seize property!)
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  2849. The collective West is fiercly defensive of Capitalism. It holds that it is the only good economic system. That state control of industry is "Authoritarian". That, for example Oil resources should be privatized. One of the effects of Capitalism and "Free Competition" is that the clever, inventive, companies are more financially successful than the less inovative and less cunning. This is touted as one of the benfits of Capitalism. And yet, Musk is too rich? Really? What you mean, I think is, that you do not like what Musk is doing! Well, Tough! Suck it up! He is a product of the Capitalist System.
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  2850. What are the "other" possible causes of Excess deaths? One, that cannot be mentioned, is obvious, but what are the others?
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  2851. I think anyone should beware of Israel and its "Firm Friends and Stategic Partners! They are gen*ciding the Palestinians today, but if our governments are OK with that, when they have finished with the Palestinians, who is next? If they have no objection to the Palestinians being wiped out, why would they object to YOU being wiped out similarly?
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  2852. 26:33 You can't kid me that they are not trying all the time! After all, they tried to kill Fidel 600 times. So why would they not be trying to off Putin and come to that, Xi Jinping as well? I mean to say, if they are trying to off Trump, as they apparently are, does anyone believe that they are not always looking for a way to get Putin? Seems improbable. The other aspect to this is: Who would replace Putin? Would they like that?
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  2853. I think that the misnamed Cleverly, is implying that if we don't give lots of money to Elensky, the dreadful Putin will win and that will be worse than anything that might happen as a result of "just" going broke. So. Turn out your pockets, Lads!
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  2854.  @numbersix8919  Yes! You could say that! So is being Pro-Palestinian!
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  2855. 26:28 I have seen reports in Yahoo's selection of "news" that say that the drones were aimed at "wealthy Russians and Putin's friends."
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  2856.  @ike637  So? Who trusts what Yahoo says? Anyway, the drones may well have gone of course as a result of Russian EW measures.
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  2857. You say that "Russia says it is willing to negotiate, but (only) on its own terms" This implies that the terms they are setting are unreasonable. You should have said what these terms are, but you didn't, so I'll say what they are: "We will negotiate any time, but we will not accept preconditions."
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  2858. 6:54 The conflict in Israel will, however, play into the Russians' aim in that it will speed up the de-militarization of the CW. Perhaps to an even lower level than the Ukraine war would have done.
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  2859. 19:08 Presumably, some of the money that Congress will vote to Project Ukraine will go to pay civil service salaries and to pay soldiers. Won't it? Surely, Elensky & Co. will be able to cream some of that off.
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  2860. The Chinese scientists seem to have been rather unhelpful in assisting in finding out where the pandemic came from, but the USA has flatly refused to allow anyone to investigate the course of the disease in that country! Even though it is well known that the research started in the US before being moved to China. There also seems to have been almost no research done into the cases of people including the Mayor of some city in NY state who swears that he had Covid some months before the pandemic and the Europeans who say the same thing. Curiously. before the Pandemic was declared, the CDC in the US forbade doctors whose patients died of "a particularly deadly form of 'flu", from performing autopsies! Certainly, there were lies, lies and still more lies, but I doubt very much that this sample is the last of them.
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  2861. These are "crazy" plans all right, but they are persistent, Governments change, but the new governments accept the same "Crazy" plans. I think you have to follow the command structure and the old adage: CUI BONO? If this is a Younohuish revenge on the Russian/the Christians (?) for being thrown out of Khazaria,1200 years ago, however absurd that idea sounds, it would explain the consistency. I mean, this is not new, it goes way back to the 19th Century at least. The excuses for the unremitting hostility vary, Russian imperialism, Communism, being "too large", not having the "Right Values" and so on but the hostility is constant. Look at the ethnicity of thr Hostiles, they are mostly of one type and or married to a spouse of that same ethnicity.
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  2862. To some extent the technological development of the World will, I think, inevitably favour the breakdown of borders. Just as the difference in the way the Welsh the Scots and the Irish speak more standardized English as the result of Television since 1946 and the internet has facilitated the spread of ideas and friendships across the globe, so I think the spread of high-speed railways across EurAsia and Africa will, over time, also have a similar effect. Another phenomenon that is aiding the integration of people all across the globe is the way that English (Or American.) has become a lingua franca.
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  2863. 7:30 Everybody who is anybody will love it! Nobody who is somebody will be agaist it !
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  2864. Do you have data for countries which had different (I.e non-mRNA) vaccines?
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  2865. 30:12 Given the damage Biden is doing to the US' reputation and standing in the world, the Russians have no incentive to stage a tit-for-tat attack on the White house.
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  2866. 26:00 "Muddling through" is an old English tradition.
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  2867.  @teakkaye5364  Your figures are contradicted by, of all organisations, the BBC!
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  2868.  @henrikstephenson2246  Where is this free world of which you speak? In this world, there is nothing to make the MSM tell the truth and they do so only when it suits them or the government., which is "not very often"!
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  2869.  @david8157  Thanks for your support!
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  2870. Anyone might think, anyone with a nasty cynical mind, that is, might almost suppose that somehow they had all been frightened or bought off! Of course, that is impossible! So why were they all absent?
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  2871. Senator Rand Paul could add, that he is looking for clues to what is potentially, the largest massacre the World has ever seen!
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  2872. Glen, your sound is badly distorted. Sometimes it affects just one of you, sometimes none of you sometimes, all of you.
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  2873. A bit over 1% does not sound like much of a crisis.
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  2874. I think "The Breadbasket of Europe" comes from the past. Russia has not been a great exporter of food until quite recently. I think if you can find the statistics you will see that Russian agriculture has grown enormously since 2014. IIRC until then, maybe even later that that, Russia had been a net importer of food. I read also that in spite of exporting quite a lot of food, Russia also still imports quite a lot though not from the CW. It looks as though the title "Breadbasket of Europe" could have come from the WEF. They say: "Ukraine is one of the world's top exporters of staple grains." Further on they say: "Often called the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine boasts roughly 42 million hectares of agricultural land and is home to vast quantities of black “chernozem” soil, which is highly fertile."
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  2875. Before the SMO started, Russia asked the Collective West for talks to settle the collective security of Europe. I.e. talks about how to give everyone in Europe security (Including the Russians!) and the West refused to discuss it. They treated the request with disdain! The Collective West wanted this war, because they believed their own propaganda and thought the Russians were no match for the Ukrainian army. (The largest, NATO-trained army in Europe, with seven years of battle-hardening and all the weapons it needed to defeat the Russians.)
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  2876.  @janetg.1477  You are completely right. I should have written: "Well, that could be because, Gonzalo Lira, unlike Navalny was not an MI6 asset, which, according to Larry Johnson (Ex-CIA), Navalny was." Sorry about that. It was careless of me.
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  2877. They are all wasting their countries' money, as none of them are under threat. Admittedly, they will get more bang for their bucks, but it is still a waste.
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  2878. Thanks for that explanation.
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  2879. I agree with what you are saying and what you are implying too. Our government is not to be trusted in anything. They are puppets and until it is clear who are/is pulling the strings one cannot even start to predict their next stupid act.
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  2880. They may be not in denial, they maybe just haven't looked beyond the MSM. If you rely on them, you might think that Ukraine is winning hands down!
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  2881. "Yeah, Sorry, son. We don't wear that kinda thing round here!"
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  2882. The reason why no war movement in the USA was able to stop a war and, at a guess, even Trump will be unable to stop a war, is the tightly bound, self-reinforcing structure in Washinton, that I have written about previously, calling it a "Vicious Circle", (VC) consisting of the MIC, the congress, the USG, the lobbying industry, the shareholders and employees of the MIC, the lobbying industry and its shareholders and employees. This VC structure is very tightly bound, self-protecting and quite ruthless. It has survived and only grown in strength, since the end of WW2. (at the latest.) Until and unless it is totally destroyed, it seems to me, the World will never achieve peace, because the VC needs war and threats of war to survive and it is deternined to survive. Of course even if it were destroyed, war could still break out, but the chance of it happening, would be very much reduced. The best way to permanently destroy it, would be to Nationalise all the arms manufacturing industries and make it illegal for any person or corporation (other than a government), to hold shares in an arms manufacturing company.
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  2883. What he "forgot" to mention is, that it was Israel and the US that set up Hamas, to undermine support for the PLO. He also did not mention, that the other terrorist organizations he did list (& many other similar groups.) were set up by the CIA, probably, with Israeli help. It's a bit like Mary Shelly's story of the Frankenstein Monster.
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  2884. 26:15 Look at the cost of medicine and examine the role of the pharmaceutical companies in that. The Pandemic, is a wake-up call for that if ever there was! Take also the case of Dr Barry Marshall and helicobacter pylorii. I think, (though I could be wrong) that these companies are waging a media war on anything cheap, that might help the population to stay healthy, such as Vitamins D3 & K2, sunlight and low carb diets. These companies, I do not believe are controlled by any sort of "Communist". At least nothing that I would recognise as any sort of "Left-winger"!
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  2885. Milley can consider himself lucky if it turs out to have been Zaluzhny and not Vovo or Lexis!
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  2886. The reason why the Russians get so much more "bang for their buck" is this: The Russian MIC is largely state owned, its remit is to make robust, effective, long-lasting , tough weapons which are easy to use and service in the field, as cheaply as possible. The USA's MIC by contrast, is (nearly?) all privately owned and its remit is to sell to Congress and the USG, weapons which will look wonderful and make a lot of money for the board and the shareholders, many of them congress-critters. Whether they work and are effective or whether they can be easily serviced, are other, not very important, questions. "Long-lasting" is a distinctly bad idea. A "fire and forget" weapon is a much better prospect. The long-range (100km) gun, that cannot be fired as its shells are too expensive (!) and the marvelous fighter, the F-22, that cannot be flown because it costs $68,000 an hour to fly are cases in point. There are many other examples.
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  2887.  @lollypop2413  I don't know what it is a sign of! Even making the things should be a war crime. Using it is homicidal mania. It betrays a lack of concern for the future of humanity.
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  2888. 4:31 I agree that JT does not do these things on his own initiative. This looks to me like part of "You are either for us or against us". India is a founding member of BRICS, so how can they be "for us"?
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  2889. Gilead Azmon and another elderly Jew came up with a wonderful formulation (or perhaps, I mean aphorism): "Ancient Athens taught us how to think. Modern Jerusalem tells us what to say."
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  2890. Very good question! Would anybody like to answer Jonny's question!? Anybody?
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  2891.  @lorenrogers9269  Thanks.
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  2892. 1:03:42 People eating a keto diet are trying to avoid carbohydrates. Beans have quite a large proportion of carbohydrate in them.
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  2893. So do peas.
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  2894. 11:35 Can you imagine the fuss that the Collective West would have made, if Russia had caused al the disruptions in trade and trading relationships, that have been caused by the 12 packages of sanctions, that have been imposed by the West?
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  2895. Yes, maybe it rhymes and maybe the behavior is going to be similar on the US side, but, leaving an angry and victorious Taliban in possession of the battlefield is one thing and leaving an angry and victorious Russia in possession of the battlefield is a very different situation. If it happens and I don't see how else this ends, how are the Russians going to proceed? How is the US going to react to being openly defeated ? Those are THE questions! There are, of course also other very important questions such as the sequilae of the Pandemic and questions around the actions of the medical authorities, both in the USA and in Europe and in the WHO, who will have to fight accusations of, together with Big Pharma, causing more deaths than the gang of four in the White House. These accusations seem set to ripen just about simultaneously with the revelation to the US and European public of the defeat in Ukraine. Add to that the growing financial crisis. Truly: "The air is full of chickens, coming home to roost!"
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  2896. 7:47 This fear, of the European diplomats, just goes to show the total stupidity of trusting the USA. Anything agreed with them is likely to be thrown in the dustbin (Trash) by the next administration. It provides a vivid illustration of Lavrov's remark that "The US is not Agreement Capable."
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  2897. This conversation, while important, is tinkering at the edges of the problem. The really important question is: "Why are the non-co^id deaths up so much?" Another important point which is hardly mentioned at all is the legality of mandating an untried experimental vac*ine on unwilling subjects. It looks like violating the rulings at Nur*mberg.
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  2898.  @gingerfox7143  Thanks.
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  2899. 44:19 The Deep State ignored Obama's orders. More proof, if proof were needed, that the POTUS is a puppet! The question then becomes; Who is the Puppet-Master?
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  2900.  @daveess698  Your guess is as good as mine. Or may be better.
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  2901. What, I ask myself, were Pfizer using as placebo ? I seem to recall that they had some adverse reactions to the placebo.
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  2902. Since 1945 there have been well over 100 military actions, "violent "color revolutions", putches and invasions and almost all of them have involved the USG directly or through the CIA and proxies. Until the problem of the USG and the members of congress being shareholders in the US MIC is solved, the World will not know peace.
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  2903. 34:13 Those were not "hints" that Prigozhin was giving! Those were outrageous demands! If the Russian government was not aware that "something was wrong" they must be incredibly insensitive, not to say thick. (Incidentally, I don't think they are.)
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  2904. 5:57 A good place to strart is the government's list of "Unreliable sites", I am not joking. True, a lot of them really are unreliable, some are plainly deranged, but amongst all the chaff there is wheat to be had, if you have the patience to look for it. Looking at the web, I find there are now dozens of such lists to choose from! When I collected my copy of the list in 16/08/20 there was only one!
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  2905. 2:18 "Britain will not support..." Is Britain a party to the conflict? Who asked Britain's opinion?
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  2906. It's amazing to hear Iain Duncan Smith, who heartlessly slaughtered his own people, en masse, as Minister for Work and Pensions (or whatever his exact title was) waxing so sympathetic over Ukrainian soldiers! What happened to him? A come-to-Jesus moment? Or just hypocrisy?
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  2907. 22:34 Yes I think Alexander has it correctly. His is a very likely explanation of the CW's elites' behaviour They are not only incompetent and arrogant, but perhaps (it seems likely to me) that they have been reading too much of their own propaganda and subconsciously absorbing its message. There is also the phenomenon called "confirmation bias"; they read their own rubbish and sort of believe it and then they read more of it and think something like: "Well every report is saying the same thing", and as it is what they want to believe it, they go on to think: "so it must be true!" It's something like "hoist with their own petard"!
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  2908. 14:30 It occurs to me that a bulwark against this "AI Enhanced" future is the EuAsian Block. It also seems to me that this may be one of the reasons of the fanatical hostility of the WEF affiliates to the said block. I think there is some time before Russia and China will go down this route.
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  2909. Of course, Greece needs its air-defense systems, not for Russia but for Turkey. I forgot.
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  2910. To illustrate the point: Imagine that during "the troubles", the IRA had been killing a battalion of British soldiers per week and the government was making all sorts of excuses for not doing anything about it.
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  2911. I wonder if Elensky wondered if was Xi Jinping or Vovan and Lexis?
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  2912. Oh! I see, it was Elensky that called!
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  2913. 1:22:37 Probanly the point, is that General Zaluzhny, being a general of a puppet government, cannot make a plan himself, and the Biden White House seems to work withoout plans, all the time.
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  2914. You might as well ask how does a horsey socialite like Ursula become "President" of Europe? Did anyone vote for her? I, sure as Hell, didn't!
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  2915. 49:49 This idea, that the rise of China was fuelled entirely by the misguided US government and the traitorous business class and that the Chinese just sat there and soaked up the lavish US Aid that was poured onto their undeserving heads, is all too prevalent. The corollary, that if the US were ever to stop, China would collapse, is also to be heard quite frequently.
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  2916. If the US were planning an amphibious invasion of Gaza, having stormed the beach, they would then stop to build a port to bring in the supplies for the troops? I wonder why the planners of D-Day, never thought of that?!
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  2917. 27:18 It also draws attention to the allegations of Hilary Clinton abducting hundreds of children from Haiti.
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  2918. The reason that the European arms industry "Slumbered" was not that Europe was "under the US Nuclear Umbrella." One can see that the said umbrella is no use in Ukraine. There are varioud reasons for the decline of the European arms industry and one of them is that the European governments "prefered" to buy their arms from US companies* and secondly that US arms mfgs bought up their European competitors, and thirdly and most importantly, European countries knew that there was no real threat from Russia! *See the problem Turkey had buying the S-400!
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  2919.  @timelordmagnums357  You flaming Tiger!!! Don't look in the mirror, you'll frighten yourself to death!
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  2920.  thulomanchay  The US has lots of NO MONEY! Trillions in Debt.
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  2921. 54:00 While the Chinese are pushing their image of being the peace-makers, the US is pushing its image of being desperate for a conflict over Taiwan. A nice example of Sino-American cooperation?
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  2922. Unless NATO is planning to start WW3 by using nuclear Weapons, this is all stupid phantasy. They don't have the men or the weapons to defeat the Russians. I doubt they have the fuel to power "Air Superiority". It would have to come across the Atlantic by sea and there are Russian submarines to stop that. Without air superiority, NATO cannot fight conventional war. Much better and vastly cheaper in money, infrastructure and lives would be to negotiate permanent peace and security for everyone, as the Russians asked for in December 2021. Why not?
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  2923. Of course there were domestic researchers involved, as Fauci well knew, as he had been funding them at UNC, Chapel Hill laboratory, before he was told to close it down (As too dangerous.) by Obama. That was when he arranged with other "independent" organizations to transfer the research to China and launder the funding through (Was it?) the NIH. They had even published papers on it from that lab. Then, of course, there was always the Department of Defense research to take into consideration.
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  2924. 31:02 Is it not true that before the Revolution of 1917, Abkhazia and South Ossetia were not part of Georgia and were bundled into Georgia by Stalin?
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  2925. About "Chinese Aggression": Have a look at (If you can find a copy) of Nehru's autobiography, first edition. Then compare it with the third edition and you will find that both have a map of India and a part of China as end-covers. The difference is, that in the third edition, the "border" between India and China has shifted several hundred miles North. There were no negotiations on the subject in the interval between the two editions.
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  2926. 2:37 So now it's up to one of the Baltic state to show the French the way!
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  2927. 9:45 Values and rights; how about pressuring Britain and the US to FREE JULIAN ASSANGE?
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  2928. 1:03:06 On the complete blackout on the subject of Sy Hershe's article: Gonzalo Lira points out in a video made the other day, that the MSM is losing money as their readership declines and as the governments rely on the MSM as their propaganda arm, they subsidize them and therefore the MSM will not do that which their governments do not like.
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  2929. 1:07:01 The problem is that the USG regards as their "Core Interest" the destruction and looting of first Russia and then China.
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  2930. 42:49 Another irony is that at the same time as violating all these principles of human rights law and commercial law, the CW continues as ever to accuse Russia, China and Iran of "Violating human rights" in their own countries and of stealing intellectual property.
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  2931.  @deborahdean8867  LMAO<ROFL!
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  2932. Good to see HT being objective, fair and balanced in its reporting.
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  2933. 3:10 Clayton is right it is a question of the type of crude. As I understand it (I am not an expert) to get a lot of diesel in the refined product, you need the really heavy crude such as is produced by Venezuela, Iran and Russia. Saudi crude is much lighter and produces more (petrol) Gasoline than diesel. West Texas intermediate (WTI), I imagine, produces some of each (but its hard to get, or something.) Yes. The West has sanctioned the countries that produce the crude that is best suited to make diesel.
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  2934.  @joemcminn3581  Some big corporations (No names, no packdrill!) made $billions by supressing knowledge about "alternatives" that worked better than their products and were "well tolerated" according to the CDC, unlike certain other of their very well advertised products.
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  2935. Putin Likens Israel's Gaza Actions To Nazi Leningrad Siege. Yes? Is he wrong? What's the great difference?
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  2936. 28:47 Even American troops need weapons.
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  2937. 34:30 there is an "Epidemic" of really feeble leaders in Europe as a whole. It's not just Germany, it's all over. Could they all have been selected by Klaus Swab? Or by the CIA for their pliability and lack of get-up-and-go? It certainly looks suspicious!
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  2938. 16:06 I thought , listening to Sunak's speech, that he was identifying the "far Right" with Hamas, because one of the things that the political class tries to blacken GG with, is that he is "Pro-Hamas".
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  2939. 28:18 It seems to be a characteristic of reactionaries that they undervalue humans, generalship, industrial strength and morale and overvalue and have great expectations of Wonderweapons. (Wunderwaffen). They have always been disappointed. The technological difference between the two sides has to be as great as that between the Europeans and the Natives of North America or between the Spanish and the Aztecs, for weapons to make that sort of difference. Even the difference between the US and the Vietnamese or between the US and the Afghans was not enough to make the difference, never mind the technological difference between the NA*Is and the Allies. The V1 and the V2 were really both flops and one could argue that the A-bomb has been a disappointment too.
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  2940. Yeah! Trump "talks the talk" and I think that usually he means well, but in office he surrounded himself with a collection of evil people like Bolton and Pompous Maximus and when he gave good orders, such as "Get out of Syria!" the Military ignored him and nobody's head rolled.
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  2941. 19:02 The "competetive advantage" the defense industry is interested in, is not over the Chinese or the Russians, it is rather, over the other Western companies in the same market place.
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  2942. 1:01:33 Another aspect of an atritional war, must be propaganda aimed at getting large numbers of enemy troops to surrender or change sides.
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  2943. Correction! You have been funding, arming, training and supplying them since 2014! Your Angela Merkel helped to fool the Russians into not attacking them earlier, so that these NAZ*s could get more arms and more training.
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  2944. It seems unlikely that the US and Britain will allow the Ukrainians to indulge in diplomacy. They tried that in March and were "dissuaded" by Boris Johnson. Lizz Truss seems to be more warlike than even Boris. The ideas behind this war and its associated sanctions, are to destroy the Putin government and to destroy the German economy. (Which is the first priority and which the second, I do not know, but that both aims are important to Washington, can hardly be doubted.) The regime change in Russia is an obvious failure; the destruction of the German economy will happen, unless the German people (Not the traitorous German government!) prevent it
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  2945. Hello Kim. about the permanent warmongering. I would like to discuss an idea that I have had. I have posted very simil comment before on various sites but have never got ANY feedback! So, I hope you don't mind that I post it again here. It will be impossible to change the present rotten system unless the problim outlined below is dealt with. I apologise for the fact that I have posted the following before but I think it bears repeating. There is in Washington a set-up, which as far as I know has as yet no proper name. I will call it :The "Vicious Circle". (VC) It is a circulatory structure, hence the name, and it consists of various interconnected groups, These are: the arms-making industries, the lobbyist industry, the members of Congress (The "congress-critters") & the United States Government (USG). Since it is a circular structure one cannot start at the beginning, it does not have a beginning, it roes round and round. In action, the Congress-critters vote to tell the USG to order some weapons from the arms manufactureres. The USG then orders the arms from the arms manufacturers and sends them money. The arms manufacturers then send some money to their employees, some to their shareholders and some to the lobbyists and use some for advertising themselves. (Many of the congress-critters and members of the USG are shareholders. Many Ex-congress critters and ex-military and ex-government people, who have helped the MIC while in office, are sinecured employees of the arms industry, the so called "Revolving Door".) The lobbyists use some of the money from the USG to pay their employees and their shareholders and some to persuade congress critters to vote the "Right" way to keep the money flowing to the arms manufacturers, if the congress-critters do not promise to vote "the right way", the lobbyist will support their rivals who will. This whole "Merry-go-round" is financed by the Taxpayers, who have almost no influence on it at all. The Shareholders and employees of the arms mfgs and the lobbying industry, thus have a vested interest in wars and threat and rumours of wars, because these justify the way they vote. This Vicious Circle is very powerful and completely ruthless and therefore very hard to break up - under normal circumstances. However, we are approaching a very abnormal set of circumstances, or so it seems to me. What I am refering to, is that it looks as though, in the near future, the US (NATO) is going to be defeated by the Russians. This means that, perhaps, the Russians are going to have a once-in-a-century opportunity to be able to impose conditions on the US and its sattelites, vassals, proxies and puppets. I suggest that if the Russians were to insist that all the arms manufacturers in the World had to be nationalized entities, and that no private individual or corporation would be allowed to have any share in an arms manufacturing industy or firm, then it would cut the financial lifeline of the Warmongers in Washington, London, Berlin and Brussels (Or anywhere else.) and thus would destroy the Vicious Circle. This would I believe, be an enormous step towards bringing real peace to the World. What do you think?
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  2946. Politico have been bought out by Trump and the Putin working together to discredit Biden with this "collapse "lie".
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  2947. 9:48 What evidence do you have that Russia, China and the DPRK are planning to launch wars of conquest like the Axis Powers of WW2? I challenge you to produce even some flimsy evidence for that suggestion. There is one country (Whose name I have no need to mention!) which has launched over 50 wars of aggression since 1945. Presumably, that is of no relevace or importance?
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  2948. 17:41 To me, the Israeli actions suggest that they may be trying to lull Iran into a false sense of security and that the Israeli strike, when it comes, will come without warning and will be very large and damaging.
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  2949. The poison was a plant poison called ricin, it is extracted from the castor oil plant, Ricinus Communis
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  2950.  @zoek1133  The invasion was intended as a distraction from the economic problems, not a cause of them, though, no doubt, it made them worse.
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  2951. 2:51 Yes. I would be interested in who owns US dept.
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  2952. Are you Ameisha satisfied with the current forms of government in the USA? Really? Ah well, "A chaque un son gout!"
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  2953.  basiledex2164  Thanks.
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  2954.  @freedom4639  Right!
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  2955.  @conormacnessa7723  Probably I am stupid, but I do not understand this comment.
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  2956. 9:26 The Spy balloon that the US refuses to say what it was carrying. The Chineserefuse to talk with the US because, they say, "What is the point of talking to people who say one thing and mean something else?" What is the point of talking to someone who says one thing and his officials do the opposite? It's just a waste of time!"
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  2957. 55:07 It is also possible that the intelligence bunker and a large ammunition store were attacked simultaneously.
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  2958. 20:21 The basic fallacy that a large majority of people are fooled by, is the title of "Newspapers" or "Newsbroadcasts" In fact, there is no pressure on these organizations, to transmit "News" (I.e. facts and stories about what is really happening) at all. There is no penalty levied against these organizations for spreading lies, misinformation or suppressing stories. Quite the contrary! They and the Big Tech chanels that run the social media, are penalised or threatened with penalties, for spreading the truth about things that the governments do not want discussed. Their chief function is to spread government propaganda and to make themselves look credible, the information they contain about sport, royal children and personalities and weather is nearly all accurate.
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  2959.  @dandare3627  Archimedes's mirrors were not in space, but each one was controlled by a person. Not the same at all.
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  2960. Evidently I did not remember correctly the wordis thus: Arabic: al-Qāʿidah (“the Base”)
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  2961.  @bitsbobs8613  "Good reason"? Must be some new definition of "good" of which I was hitherto unaware!
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  2962. Is Topher saying that Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair are/were cryptocommunists? These two contributed enormously to the cost of the NHS! Thatcher abolished the system of governance where a hospital was run by the /chief Surgeon and the Matron (Chief Nurse) and replaced them with about nine layers of management and instituted a series of "Independent Trusts", which if I remember correctly, were each required to make a profit or at least to break even?. She also forced hospitals to sub-contract out such things as cleaning, leading to worse cleaning and vastly increased cost. Tony Blair, set up a whole series of PPPs, Public-Private Partnerships, (The private part being mostly US health companies) which were given NHS property and forced to make a profit. It is no wonder, that Britain "cannot afford its NHS" but it did not have to happen.
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  2963. 5:43 An hour or so ago, I was watching an ITN broadcast on Gaza, in which a Palestinian man carrying a white flag was shot on camera. The first showing I saw, but when the channel tried to show it a second time, the internet suddenly "failed". MY! What a coincidence!
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  2964. 22:38 Apparently the US is sanctioning Chinese Banks that deal with Iran. Any comment?
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  2965. I have read that people suffering from Alzheimer's are unable to draw a clockface. I wonder if Greece's favourite son can do that?
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  2966. This Ben Wallace geezer is such a fantasist that, probably, the whole story is fiction from start to finish. If not it is probably exaggerated out of all resemblance to reality.
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  2967. 37:46 In the UK you can't buy the active form of vitamin D for humans? This ought to be actionable! It looks like corruption to me.
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  2968. Obviously the MHRA has been bought, 86% of its funding coming from the Pharmarceutical Industry. How'zatt for a red light?! Weird to see the Establishment censoring the Establishment! This story just reinforces my feeling that we shall never be safe from Pharmaceutical malpractice, until ALL such companies* are Nationalized, because of the built - in Conflict of Interest there is, where pharmaceutical firms are privately - owned, profit - driven organizations. Some industries are "naturals" for Nationalization, some for private enterprise and some are "naturals" for ownership by the local authority. Clearly, Pharmaceuticals are in the first category. *The same applies to Privately - owned health - care facilities.
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  2969. Well, there is a Democratic precedent for putting your political opponents in prison: the same thing was done by that exemplar of Democratic Western Values, Volodomyr Zelensky! So why shouldn't Biden do the same?
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  2970. 26:02 As I understand Putin's "tangential" remarks: What he was saying was that if the CW forces used longer-range missiles, the Russians would need to make a bigger buffer zone.
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  2971. 15:22 Is the same law that the US has (NGOs that get more than 20% of their funds from abroad must declare it to the government) also "Pro Russian?" How so?
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  2972. I made this comment in reply to another correspondent on a different program the other day but I think it is relevant here. At the moment in the US (Where almost all the threat of war comes from.) the driving force for wars and threats of war is the complex system, consisting of the arms industry, the USG, the Congress, the Lobbyist Industry and the Shareholders of the arms-manufacturing firms. This complex system functions as a sort of closed loop, with inputs and outputs. Inputs come from the taxpayers, while the outputs are, of course arms and (More importantly in this context.) money to the shareholders of the arms-manufacturers. As the loop is circular in nature, we can start anywhere, Let's start with the Congress Critters. These representatives are chiefly concerned with keeping their positions and are very often shareholders in the Arms Industry as well. They are approched by the Lobbyist industry representatives with an offer which is difficult to ignore. The offer is: if you vote the way we tell you to, we will contribute generously to your re-election expenses. If you don't, we will fund your opponent(s). The Lobbyists are paid by the Arms manufacturers to do this. As a result when there is a proposal to spend money on arms, it is almost always passed, with the result that the taxpayers have to cough up more money and the shareholders get more dividends and the lobbyists get paid by the arm manufacturers, more money to do their next lot of work. This "Vicious Circle" (as I call it) is a very stable set up. It is also very self protective. Many have lost their seats in congress, trying to expose it and break its power. Some have probably died trying. In normal (!) circumstances, it is very difficult to see how this can be broken up by anyone. However, we do have, at the moment, quite abnormal times coming. (Or so it seems to me.) Neightoe is on the brink of a massive defeat and if/when that happens the Russians will be in a position to dictate a lot of the Terms of Settlement. If one of their terms was that all arms manufacturers had to be nationalized, it would disrupt this cosy arrangement. Or, at least, I think it would, because it would cut the financial knot that holds the whole system together. It would remove the financial basis for the "Vicious Circle.
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  2973. If The people who made this program, would look into the Chinese political system, as closely as they look at the Chinese space program, they might find that the label "Autocratic" is not a really very enlightening term. This label, suggests that the whole of China's space efforts, are the result of Xi Jinping's whims. Needless to say, they are a bit more grounded in reality than that and that the Chinese politcal system, though very different to the US's, is more, not less, responsive to the peoples' wishes than is the US's democracy.
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  2974. 24:08 Only the day before yesterday on I think it was WION I heard a report on the Stalemate and how both side were out of ammunition and missiles and drones too!
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  2975. 1:03:55 When has a US campaigning platform borne much relationship to the policy persued in office?
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  2976.  @paulmentzer7658  Problems! Problems and still more problems! It almost seems as though whoever thought up this war, thought "We don't need to plan this in detail! We can just muddle through!" Or perhaps they really did think , as I have seen suggested; that when the Russians were confronted by the Ukrainian army, they would throw down their arms and run away. If they did spend time beforehand working out what they were going to do, and how the Russians would react, they got it fabulously wrong!
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  2977.  @paulmentzer7658  That speaks of either an extraordinary hubris or a severe lack of planning. LOL.
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  2978.  @paulmentzer7658  Obviously you have expert knowledge that I lack, so I do not doubt that what you say is true. However, shells make a big explosion when they land, so presumably they have some other explosive in them. Since this explosive contains a lot of energy, it must need a lot of energy to make it. So cutting off a cheap source of energy does not look like a helpful action. " Which make it a lack of planning more then anything else." As you say.
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  2979.  @UFO_computers  Isn't it always going on?
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  2980. 31:20 Elensky, NATO & All the Rest, are mot going to get what they say they want. In the end they will look more stupid than the SMO term looks. IMHO the Russians say what they think they are doing and if anyone does not like their terminology, too bad, they can lump it.
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  2981. 11:17 "Media driven narrative". Nah! The media, the MSM drives nothing. They are the propaganda arm of the US "Deep State". By which I mean the same group that determines the overall policy of the Collective West. The MSM is controlled on a day-today basis, by the so-called "Integrity Initiative" which was set up by and is run by the CIA/MI6. (Registered office, in a deserted mill on the English-Scottish border.)
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  2982. I think the most telling thing about these excess death in the UK at least is the unwillingness of the authorities to investigate whether the cause might be the Vaccines that the dead had.
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  2983. 18:50 There are not many people live in the city of London. It is nearly all offices, as far as I know.
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  2984. 1:45 The Tories are and always have been the Party for the employing class. So it stands to reason that they will be in favour of anything which tends to drive down wages. This explains entirely why they favour immigration, the more the merrier! I wonder if this was one reason that they supported so keenly US efforts to wreck the economy of so many countries in the MENA area.. The Labour party leaders, are not the working man's friend, they are, like Tony Blair, Tory Trojan Horses, as they have proved, over and over again since the LP was founded.
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  2985. "Russia generals tried to deflect from this by presenting the intervention, primarily as an "anti-terror mission"". So, what would DW describe the Jihardis as, if not Terrorists? After all, they delighted in throwing homosexuals off rooftops, putting women and children in cages as "human shields" to prevent Syrian and Russian troops from firing at them. Eating the liver of a fallen soldier, on camera and many other acts of a like horrific nature. Do you have some nice euphemism to cover such acts? "Extremist", maybe? No. I know. "Democratic forces." There, that's better!
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  2986. Apologies! Not DW But Die Welt.
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  2987.  @basook6116  Big wins indeed! To my mind all the tu*ds running the western toilet have been bought by Uncle and run it for his benefit. Otherwise, nothing they do makes sense.
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  2988. I think that there is a spectrum of intelligence in the newly-born. A child can become more capable of thinking correctly or less, depending on how it is educated by the people in its environment. Undoubtedly there are some extremely stupid and extremely intelligent people and this seems to be inborn rather than the result of their education or lack thereof. I myself, have met a quite extraordinarily cunning man with an uncanny ability to know what lies he could get away with on a particular mark, or in a particular situation, or to turn the situation to his own advantage, who had only an elementary school education, and I have seen also the quite self-destructive stupidity of a famously "wise" professor of Physics at a university College in London, UK. People who stop thinking and just obey orders for a long time, as happens to some low-ranking soldiers, seem to suffer atrophy of the thinking abilities, to a quite alarming degree. The Dunning-Kreuger syndrome is also relevant to this discussion.
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  2989. 25:25 Probably, by the sound of it, Zaluzhny, may be a disciple of the famous Spanish Artist who coined the slogsn "Viva la Muerte!". Perhaps, he is planning to die a (Glorious?) martyr's death, together with his troops?
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  2990. 1:00:17 All these N@0 countries giving away their arms. ammunitiom and anti-aircraft facilities, strongly suggests to me that none of them believe, that when the Russians have won in Ukraine, they are going to roll on into Western or even Eastern Europe. Alternatively, that if the Russians do, they are going to give up without a fight or they are going to nuclear war when, no weapons will be of any use to anyone.
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  2991. 6:00 Don't forget Venezuela!
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  2992. Sounds like a "repair job!!
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  2993. A Russian defeat in Ukraine is a fantasy. It ain't goin' t' happen. If Nay-Toe thought it could defeat Russia in Ukraine, it would have put regular troops on the ground already. Some ex-regular western troops have gone as mercenaries, to fight on the Ukrainian side and having experienced the front line, decided that this is not a war they want to fight in and who can blame them? The collective west is out of ammo to give to Ukraine and fighting the Russians without sufficient 155mm ammo is a non-starter. Best to not try it. The Collective West would do better to decide what to do when the Ukrainian defeat becomes obvious to everyone, even in Kiev and Washington.
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  2994.  @Ofasia777  Dream on! Little matey.
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  2995.  @Ofasia777  Tiny, but strategicly important and very well fortified.
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  2996.  @fastepo  No. I can't find it. Why don't you give me its address?
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  2997.  @ia1530  Dose chickens, ain't got nutin' to do wiv it! Destruction of Nordstream was not done by Africans.
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  2998.  @magis3775  Failure ? Like that in China? Compare China 1949 and China today and tell me about failure.
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  2999.  @harryflashman4542  It doesn't matter who votes, it's who counts the votes that matters!
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  3000.  @peterrinas3862  Germany ran on Cheap Energy. It was not "Left Wing Policies", but NATO wars that caused the floods of refugees. Nor was it the Left Wing that decided it was a GOOD IDEA to blow up the Nordstream pipelines.
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  3001. 27:00 It's not that unusual for the US/The MSM to take reality, turn it inside out, stand it on its head and present it to the public as "the latest news". Why are you surprised? Is it simply the virtuosity of the performance?
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  3002.  @N.kelvyn-m7r  Yes. I know that. The point was that some people that Alexander was talking about were saying that because Russia had a tiny little economy and the collective West has a much larger one, the West should be able to "overwhelm" the Russians. It's a non-sequitur.
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  3003.  @robyenney951  They were better fighters too. However, you misunderstood my post. The question related to 1:23:59 (In the video.) and what was said just before that.
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  3004.  @brandtbollers3183  My reply related to the part of the video that came just before 1:23:59. In any case the productive capacity of the US was, at that time, vastly greater than that of the Vietnamese and China put together. In any case, I never heard that there were many PLA soldiers involved. I thought that the Chinese help was mostly materiel and fighter jets.
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  3005. 3:09 relates to this comment.
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  3006. 13:16 My bet would be that we shall see the CW going after all the members of BRICS (Except oc Russian and China.) to persuade them to break away and join the CW.
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  3007. 9:19 I have read somewhere (Cyrus Jansen?) that the Chinese consumer prices index is not inflating.
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  3008.  @adamgates1142  Too right! "Handsome is as handsome does."
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  3009.  @williamcordasco945  You may well be right.
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  3010.  @heimomoilanen9654  I am inclined to forgive Trump quite a lot in his 1st term as I think he was "all at sea" and surrounded with criminal idiots like John Bolton and Pompeo. I have a faint hope that his 2nd term will be better.
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  3011. 49:19 And G-& goes Wriggle, Wriggle, Wriggle, Wriggle, Wriggle, Wriggle, ......
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  3012. Do you think that De-Dollarization is a Russsian ploy? It seems to me, that while the Russians are not, in the least, averse to helping it along, when they can, most of the "real push" is being provided by the US itself! Stealing Venezuela's gold and giving it to Juan Guaido, slapping sanctions on almost everyone, even their allies, building up enormous, unrepayable debts, failing to defeat the Russians in Ukraine and finally threatening to steal the Russian Central Bank's reserves! What more disincentives can they think of to make countries wary of relying on dollars?
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  3013. The "Problem of minority languages" is an entirely made-up problem. You simply increase the number of official languages and allow those that want to use a particular language to do so. The Swiss do it, the British do it, the Italians do it, the Iriish do it. There are many parts of Russia already, that talk and use languages other than Russian. Aren't there?
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  3014. 29:53 Any treatment of this with anti-biotics is likely to cause the evolution of anti-biotic resistent bacteria. Therefore, treatment with anti vitamin deficiency measures is probably cheaper and vastly preferable and as a backup, there should be research into a bacteriophage treatment for this particular infection, as it is without side effects, cheap and extremely effective. At least, that is my experience with bacteriophage treatment of intestinal disease and MRSA.
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  3015. Maybe the Iranian government should insist that they will sell oil only for Iranian Rials?
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  3016. 9:46 the Ministry of Truth's Unit 77, was set up some years before the Pandemic.
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  3017. I tought that Zelensky complained that the Great Offensive failed because someone leaked the details of it before it began. Didn't he? I do hope that no one on the Russian side is listening in to this video, or to CNN, because if they do, they will know about the next Great Offensive, a whole year before it is due to happen!
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  3018. 25:26 Almost anyone who has experienced US diplomacy, has come across US double dealing. This is nothing NEW! It is just a bit more blatant than usual. All the Native American tribes, who signed treaties with the US government experienced this (and then some!) False Flags have been a trade mark of US administrations. The Agreements with the USSR were almost all broken, at least when it suited the US to do so. The latest is the attack on Germany. It is all of a pattern that runs through the history of US foreign relations, like the wording in Blackpool Rock runs through from one end to the other.
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  3019. 25:34 "If you apply logic to this" you will be wasting your time, because the American public is not well versed in logic. Apparently it is largely driven by greed and other emotions. Logic comes well down on the tests that they apply to what they hear.
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  3020. Germany has been occupied since 1945. During the Cold War, the US wanted Germany to make armaments to help fight the Russians. More recently Germany, like Japan, has been seen as a competitor that has to be cut off at the knees and that is what is being done. Scholz and Co. are traitors who are helping this process along.
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  3021. 12:16 No! Of course there is not one leader in the CW to tell them that this is self-destructive stupidity, because these so-called leaders, have one job and on job only, and that is to tell the WoWs that they are right!
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  3022. 18:00 Note that the "Threat" posed by the NS pipelines was not military but commercial! Not even to existing sales but to potential sales. Talk about greedy!
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  3023. I hope they did not all travel together.
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  3024. How about using nuclear waste to provide heat? Could one, for example, have a boiler that would keep a house warm for years without attention? Or provide process heat for, for example, a food processing plant?
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  3025. I wonder, would it be possible to set up a new learned journal of Medicine in general, that was, maybe crowd-funded and guaranteed not to accept advertizing, at any rate from any medical-related field? A lot of work, certainly but perhaps a job for a dissident journalist to consider? I can imagine that it would have a big following if it had high enough standards.
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  3026.  @Maximilian0011  1946. It has been going downhill ever since. And, to be truthful, that government left a lot to be desired!
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  3027. 1:02L13 Your asking the Western (Global!) leaders to negotiate with the Russians is a bit like expecting the Pope to negotiate with Satan! You just cam't expect that! It is unthinkable. You see, it would mean us virtuous people, giving up on the fight against evil! And we are far too holy to even contemplate doing such a thing! To come down to Earth again, negotiating would mean giving up the plan to destroy Russia The "Global Leaders" have made it abundantly clear that the destruction and dismemberment of Russia is their aim and nothing less will do. They have said so since the 1980s, in print, in published books and articles in serious journals. This is what the worldwide military bases are for. They make no sense otherwise. The USA is not threatened with military conquest, It has an ocean on either side and friendly and much weaker, neighbours to the North and South. All the talk about "National Security Challenges" is patent eyewash. Without the aim of overcoming Russia, the whole of post WW2, US policy makes no sense at all. The "Minor Global Leaders" go along with this rubbish for some reason(s) of their own. I don't know what they are and really it does not matter much what they are because they are not rational.
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  3028. 13:05 Lo! A Wolf Warrior!
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  3029. There
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  3030.  @TeunisMaranus  What makes you think that?
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  3031.  @Jamicaman516  What has that to do with what I wrote? I have no idea why any phone mfg would use any chip. Not my field.
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  3032.  @thebestdylanburke5088  Have you tried learning Chinese?
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  3033.  @SeattlePioneer  " leaving Europe to solve it's own problems for a change." Like sabotaging the pipelines? you mean?
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  3034. 20:53 Better than the real thing? Well, a good bit cheaper to mantain, anyway!
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  3035. Actually it isi quite simple! The International Rules Based Order are "Secret until breached", are nowhere published and are known only to the permanent state in Washington DC. Furthermore they apply, only to the people or organizations that they are intended to apply to. They mean whatever we want them to mean. Is that clear now?
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  3036. It's a Clerihew! A good one too. Should be written : Silly Mille Tries lies But can't Fool the wise. I have most of another: Anthony Blinken Diplomat stinken Went to Beijing To see Xi Jinping
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  3037. Sorry for the typo! Should be "$300 million".
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  3038. From the point of view of the ordinary bod, banning electric scooters is a pest and stupid. From the point of view of the Oil companies, it is a very good idea indeed! Bet you can't guess who has influence with the politicians!
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  3039. Did the Germans start it?
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  3040. 19:58 The behaviour of the Western governments towards Ukraine, tells anyone that cares to look, exactly what sort of people they are! Decent, caring, Human Beings they are not! It also shows us in the West, how much sympathy we can expect from them, ourselves.
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  3041. I apologize if you have already discussed it, but I hope to hear your take on the quite extraordinary and very disturbing case of Graham Philips.
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  3042. 12:13 It sounds as though, a characteristic of the neocons, is that they see the world through distorting filters. Something like rose-tinted spectacles but giving a distorted vision of the World, where they can behave as brutally as they like and no one will object, because they are the"Exeptional" ones, who are beyond reproach and are always going to be victorious.
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  3043. 14:50 The war in Ukraine has proved, what most people thought in February 2022, was impossible, that NATO could not defeat Russia. Now, Russia has not merely defeated NATO, it has also destroyed a good part of its arms too. Russia has done this, with a very little help from its friends. If NATO cannot defeat Russia which is standing largely on its own feet, Russia and China + Iran + North Korea will be a completely undefeatable combination which it would take a very foohardy West to take on. Will they? I don't know, I wish I did.
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  3044.  @БогданБеркут  This is your way of arguing?
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  3045. 52:22 These figures probably come through the "Integrity Initiative" assets in the MSM's newsrooms, straight to the chief editor, each morning. Because the II is connected umbilically to the 5-Eyes and the Ministry of Defence, the chief Editors probably believe them to be the real figures. Or at any rate feel obliged to treat them as such. To publish figures that the government wants suppressed is, probably "Too Risky"!
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  3046. 17:30 It is interesting that you say there was a hope in the last days of NAZI Germany that the allies would fall out with each other. I wonder if they had wind of, or perhaps direct knowledge of Winston Churchill's "Operation Unthinkable"? And/or General Groves's plans to attack the USSR with atomic bombs?
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  3047. 1:12:09 The Republicans could reply, that the whole Ukraine debacle was planned and put into action under Obama and that therefore it is all the Democrat's fault! Trump, by contrast "Will end the war in 24 hours!"
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  3048. The point is that usually, forest land has planning protection. Burnt forest quite often does not.
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  3049. Considering that the White House considers blowing up the NS pipelines "a brazen act of international sabotage" (OWTTE) and that they knew about it three months in advance; Why did they not tell Elensky to "Knock it off!" or "To behave himself"? Rather careless, don't you think?
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  3050. Very interesting video. It is extraordinary how slow some governments are to appreciate the importance of railways. Personally, I have for many decades thought that this was due to the malign influence of the big oil companies and the big motor manufacturers, In Britain we had, when I was a child, a very extensive railway system which had a station in most villages. Yes, really. It is true that it was old fashioned in that the tracks were old and not very smooth and the engines were nearly all steam powered and the carriages were also old-fashioned and not very comfortable, for the most part and the trains did not move very fast, but you could go from almost any part of Britain to almost any part of Britain by rail. Likewise you could send a parcel from any part to any part and the railway would send a van to pick it up from your house and deliver it to where it was going at the destination. It was prettycheap too. However, when we got a Conservative government sometime in the 1960s, they employed a consultant called Dr Beeching (Hoochh! Spit!) who said that the network was "far too big" and a "waste of space" and he advised "pruning" the network to just the main lines, which the government, who I am sure were invested in or bought by, the big oil companies, agreed with his plan and the lines to smaller towns and villages were closed down, sold off and torn up. A lot of their friends got very rich off the land they acquired from the sale of railway land and the roads became very crowded, because to go to anywhere except betweeen big towns you needed a car. At the time Britain had a very complicated road system and no motorways. To go from Cambridge to London you had to go from one village to another to Royston and then to Baldock, from there to Stevenage, when you could get on the Great North Road which took you into London's Hampstead. It took a good many hours and was a fairly frustrating experience. Because the small railway lines had fed passengers and freight into the main lines, when they were "axed" the main lines were starved of passengers and probably freight too and lost a lot of revenue. Later, another Conservative Government, sold off the railways piece by piece, to private companies. The Banks were very cunning, they bought the track and the carriages and rented both out, to the companies which had bought the franchises for various parts of Britain. They leased these out to the "Railway" compaies at very high prices, so that travelling by train in Britain now is extremely expensive, but the blame goes to the Companies not to the Banks, because hardly anyone knows this. The banks have also "economised", very heavily, on maintaining the tracks, so that the railways are much less safe now than they used to be.
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  3051. Might the evacuation plans for Nickolaiev be connected to the "Dirty Bomb" project? If the plan were to use such a device on Kherson City, the area west of it might also be contaminated.
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  3052. It is so difficult to know what to believe and what to reject as being "Too fantastic"! On the one hand, the US regularly betrays its allies and on the other there is no visible space between the US and Israel. I will reserve judgement on this story! No doubt, the truth will come out some time.
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  3053. Boy! If I were a Ukrainian pilot training to fly an F-16, I would find English very, very difficult to learn! Believe me!
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  3054. Lula da Silva was "Corrupt" in that he was making the very rich poorer and the very poor richer. That is why he was ousted by a "Color Revolution. For once I do not agree with your assessment of the situation.
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  3055. 1:31 I think it is worth pointing out that while it is undoubtedly true that there was research into viruses which were almost (Or completely) identical to Sars corona virus-2 (or whatever the late pandemic was called) in the WIV, this research was partly financed by the US Department of Defense and was under the auspices of Dr Anthony Fauci and was continuation of research which had been done earlier (2014) in the Chapel Hill laboratory of the University of North Carolina, USA. Research which had been thrown out of the USA by Obama, as being too dangerous to do in the US.
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  3056.  @betseyhemmelgarn1230  It's more than just Oil, it is that THEY WON'T BOW DOWN AND DO AS WE TELL THEM!!
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  3057. 15:35 Why would Trump respect the "leaders" of the EU, when he knows that they are, almost all of them, US puppets?
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  3058. Can anyone think of a more cack-handed display of incompetent "diplomacy" than the recent (Last few years) US effort to "drive a wedge" between Russia and China, while at the same time, attacking both?!
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  3059. What I would like to know is this: Is Israel controlling the USA or is Israel part of the USA or is the USA controlling Israel? It seems quite unclear. Whatever, they are so close that there is very little to nothing between them. The other thing is, that neither of them has the slightest respect for "Law", neither the UN's law nor even their own! Perhaps this is not really surprising, since the spritual legacy of the USG, is the 1930s Chicago Mob, while the Israeli government is a direct descendant of the terrorist organization called the "Irgun".(Which seems to have been "Whitwashed" out of the record on the Internet!)
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  3060. 58: 47 It seems to me that the only solution to the problem of the MIC is to nationalise it. Off topic: but the same is true of the Pharmaceutical industry. Make private ownership of shares in either, illegal.
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  3061.  @williamfowler616  You don't get it ! Do you? The US tax-payer gives aid to poor countries and the US corporations benefit. Wakey, wakey!
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  3062. I am not clear what your point is.
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  3063. 19:46 My understanding is that the US and the EU get their large transformers from China. That is also where they get most of their copper wire.
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  3064. 1:22 "Ukraine said Donetsk witnessed over 1800 Russian strikes on Mat 24, killing three people." Which proves that Russia is deliberately trying to avoid killing civilians.
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  3065. I don't agree with the start of this video. A very common cause of difficulty starting a car is that the battery terminal(s) is/are dirty. Almost the first thing to check, is that they are tight and clean, both the lead terminals on the battery and the brass ones on the cables.
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  3066. Ursula van der Crazy meets Charles the tird?
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  3067.  @JustineBrownsBookshelf  Actually, we do. A lot of peoplethink the Monarch is powerless, but that is a carefully fostered illusion.
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  3068.  @JustineBrownsBookshelf  Tell Gough Whitlam (Australian PM 1972-1975) that the Monarch has no political power.
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  3069.  @spicesmuggler2452  Ah! So. You mean, that if the Russian press is bad, that means that it does not matter how bad ours is? Right! Capito! So. That also means, by the same logic that if the Secret Police in Russia are cruel, MI5 can do anything they like to us? Free Julian Assange!
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  3070. 6:00 The rest of the Collective West are absolutely the same as France in this regard. They all follow Washington's lead on such matters.
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  3071. Was the Polish, Slovak, ambassador invited?
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  3072. 1:08:15 Are you sure that the Russian requirements have not increased since then?
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  3073. 55:30 About the question of "Will" and "Capability". An interesting parallel occurs to me between the personal level and the state level. In psychiatry, it is well understood that people suffering from a neurosis, may have potential abilities, that they are quite incapable of using, because of some screw-up in the way their thinking works. In an analagous way it seems the Collective West has the ability, to make all the weapons Ukraine demands, but because of the way the economy is arranged, it is impossible for them to organise themselves to do so.
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  3074.  @rjung_ch  Wrong! You've got that upside down. The US IS involved in meddling with other nations all over the place
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  3075. There is also the danger that seems to have been hardly considered of what goods China might refuse to sell to the CW. I remember, for example, reading many years ago (As far as I know it is still true.) that 90% of the World's known Tungsten reseves are in North Korea and 9% are in China.
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  3076. Probably because the Palestinians are a much smaller and weaker group than the Russians. A lot of the World, probably, takes the view that the Russians can take care of themseves, without their support.
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  3077. 57:56 I wonder is the end of the financial year in the US, the same as it is in the UK, the 6th of April? Could this have anything to do with the "urgency" to pass the resolution in Congress?
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  3078. 8:30 Locking up a senior executive of Huawei at the behest of the USA, is not a good way of establishing cordial relations with China. Acting as a US puppet is not a good way to earn respect as a serious politician. No respect from Xi Jinping? Are you, is anyone surprised?
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  3079. 1:13:20 You seem to underestimate the two terrible difficulties in the way of asking for negotiations: firstly the loss of face. Its all very well for you, to say that it is obvious that that is what they ought to do, but it isn't your face that will be lost! The second is, after the negotiations are suxxessful and we have peace, what is going to happen to the culprits that caused this war? What are the post-war prospects for the Ukrainian regime like? You are asking them to embrace the consequences of their failure and risk being prosecuted for war-crimes and God alone knows what else..
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  3080.  @lilidezman624  That was sensible. They would have had no chance against the Wehrmacht at that time.
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  3081. 1:25:11 The visits by Rai'isy and the FN of Iran to Pakistan, could provide a version of "Stategic ambiguity" which does not compromise Iran's aversion to acquiring nuclear weapons. Don't you think?
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  3082. Sorry! Not "FN", FM.
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  3083.  @N.kelvyn-m7r  Are you clairvoyant? If not how do you know? Evidence?
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  3084. Britain telling China to live up to its international obligations, while it itself, is defying the international court over its ethnic cleansing of Diego Garcia? Howzat for Hypocrisy and double-think?
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  3085. Quite Right Too! Well done!
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  3086. 58:48 How to convince the Russians that it worth getting any promises from the US?
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  3087. HAha! Another little flock on its way home! Who's next? I wonder.
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  3088.  @zoranmarkovic9341  If you look at what I wrote "I have read that the Kinzhal missile is accompanied by electronic warfare " you will see that I made no claim that it was true. If it is true, I have no idea how it is done. Perhaps the is an preceeding EW missile, I believe it is only in the final stage that the Kinzhal accellerate to hypersonic speed, but really I am only guessing.
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  3089. I wonder if you two much respected doctors would agree with this that I wrote some time ag during the pandemic? The need to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders The job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them and failing to test repuposed drugs because there id no profit to be made from their sale. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks worth running
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  3090. Apologies for calling you doctors. I realised after I posted my contribution that one of you is a scientist and the other is a highly qualified nurse. I apologise too for any typos.
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  3091. 21:35 "That worked then and. . . " it led on to 911, the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, the proxy war on Syria, the continuing war on dissent in the US and the erosion of all sorts of civil rights in the US and its Anglo-Saxon and European satraps. Not good. Nixon and Kissinger did nothing at all to curb the Neocons. Nothing at all to give the ordinary American a better life. They instituted the Petrodollar system, which must rank as one of the most gigantic swindles in human history. I don't know to what extent the US interfered in the British electoral system but if they were to blame for Thatcher, I would not be surprised!
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  3092. Oh yes! Don't forget either, that between their "minor" wars in the middle East an North Africa and the depredations of the World Bank and the IMF, they unleashed the flood of refugees on both Europe and the USA itself, that continues to this day.
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  3093. 1:04:25 Probably, The reason the US cannot produce the "Seekers" is that they are built using chips which are sourced from China!
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  3094.  @michaelkatz275  Sorry! I did not make my meaning clear. I was talking about Sean's remark at 0:18 when he said; " this was a crazy act that destroyed the energy supply to Germany" Talking about the destruction of NS. I was not talking about the legal action. I don't think that was crazy!
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  3095. So India is just dicovering how hypocritical the EU government is? Welcome to the club! It is absolutely boundless! Actually, you (India) have to recognise that the EU government is a CIA Project and the (Unelected) leaders of it are all US puppets, with almost zero autonomy. \one of the main purposes of the war in Ukraine is to remove Germany and to a lesser extent, France and Italy as industrial competitors to the USA. The "Backfiring" sanctions on Russia, that the EUG have imposed on Russia are working well in that regard. No doubt the proposed sanctions will "help" the EU in a similar fashion. (IF Hungary allows them to pass!) Although the sanctions on Russia were passed to please Washington, the US is still importing more Russian oil than is Europe.
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  3096. 12:35 How do you think the British and French solldiers, who are potentially being sent to their deaths, (For nothing!) are going to react to this idea?
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  3097. This is projection by Netanyahoo. He knows that if the war with Hamas comes to an end, he is likely to be tried and sentenced to prison. It is he who is afraid, in my view, not the Security chiefs, who are losing men for no great result.
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  3098.  @ThomasHudson-yy7nj  Thanks.
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  3099. 26:18 Isn't the EU going to loan Ukraine more money?
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  3100. And probably about the future escalation. The only reason it may not happen, is that sending troops with no ammunition, does not sound like an idea that even the numbskulls in charge of the west would contemplate.
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  3101. 9:55 I wish I was as optimistic as Alexander! I am afraid there are still huge numbers of people in the collective West who still believe that "Ukraine is winning the War" and who think that the war was "unjustly, unreasonably forced on Ukraine by a whim of the Dictator Putin"! Rather than that the war was deliberately forced on Russia by the Collective West
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  3102. Why doesn't BoJo stand for N@0 secretary.
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  3103. I have had doubts about the "Moon Landing" for a long time. As time goes on it looks less and less probable. There is the flimsy nature of the craft in which they (Allegedly) landed, there is the difference in the condition of the travelers when they returned, there is the way that NASA "forgot" how to do it(!), and the extraordinary ease with which the calculations involved were done with so little computing power, the number of NASA records that got accidentally erased. Finally, there were silly things like the Astronaut who gave the King of Holland (Or was it?) Belgium, a "piece of Moon rock" that turned out on examination to be fossilized wood.(!) Against all that, there was the massive amount of evidence that "they really were there", the amount of testimony by astronauts that they really had done that and samples of Moon rock and finally the lack of any debunking by the Russians. You can suppress truth, but you cannot alter it. It is always there and if you lie about it, it can always pop up at the most awkward moment.
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  3104. That is upside-down and inside-out! It was the US that wanted Ukraine to fight Russia. It was the USA that stage-managed the Maidan coup, and having prepared the Ukrainian army for seven years convinced itself that the Ukrainians could easily defeat Russia. When, in March-April 2022 the Ukrainians looked set to settle with the Russians, the Warmongers in Washinton and London, sent Boris Johnson to talk them out of it, because they still thought, that with their help, the Ukrainian army could easily defeat the Russians. Partly, they fooled themselves that the Russians were an undisciplined rabble, who would run away when they saw the Ukrainians coming, that the Russians were badly led, stupid, unwilling to fight, disorganised, had incompetent officers and NCOs, poor arms, old outdated weapons, no reserves of shells and missiles and other things of a like nature. They believed these things, probably, because they had read this sort of thing for years in the MSM, who were parroting what their leaders said! If the Western Intelligence organizations knew different, they did not say so, because their bosses did not want to hear that sort of thing!
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  3105. 14:40 A good example of the fact that the MSM is NOT a source of information but an outlet for propaganda. This is the almost complete suppression of important information, by organs that most people regard as their principle source of information.
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  3106. 9:43 You call the countries of Russia, China and North Korea (More properly the DPRK) "Imperialist powers" Do you understand what an "imperialist" is? It's a country that has an Empire! Where is the Russian Empire? Where is the Chinese Empire? WTF is the DPRK Empire? Come on man! You can do better than that! I subscribed to this channel only today. Much more such rubbish and I'll unsubscribe.
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  3107. 20:18 How about a number of Chinese Tourists? I'm told they spend very much more than Western tourists.
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  3108. Correction, the word for oil and the like is "hydrocarbons" not "Carbohydrates", which are things like sugar, starch, cellulose, and similar things.
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  3109. 5:35 "An Unshakable Alliance" Sounds ominous to me! Remember the unshakable support for the South Vietnamese government, the Afghani government? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kissinger said it: "Countries don't have friends, only interests."
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  3110. Just a short time ago, NA*O was the"Greatest, the most powerful military machine, that the World has ever seen, In short: NA*O could not be defeated". Now the Russian have defeated it. (Or very soon will.) Now, the only force which could credibly take on Russia is China and that is not on the cards!
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  3111. 2:58 according to Google: "The State of Palestine is recognised by at least 143 countries around the world. Norway, Ireland and Spain have announced they will formally recognise Palestine as a state on Tuesday."
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  3112. How do they make us forget history? Easy! Feed people on star-spangled scandals and pictures of Royal babies, "Aaah ain't that sweet!", Royal divorces and Alien encounters.
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  3113. 33:54 Presumable the reaction to the Georgian FARA law is an example of the RBIO (Rules -based International Order) in action.
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  3114. 3:48 More Orwellian Double-Talk! ISIS is a product of the CIA. It is the excuse for the US's illegal occupation of Syria, which, contrary to the Pentagon spokesman's assertion is a recognised member of the UN, a legitimate government recognised as such, by most of the World outside the US sphere of influence.
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  3115. 20:16 Mearsheimer is opposed to any foreign government interfering in the political process in the USA? Does that include the Israeli government? Or are they in a special category? I am referring , of course, to AIPAC.
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  3116.  @Jamicaman516  a) Russia did not "Start this war". It was started, if you want to put a date on it in 1945, when the OSS adopted the Gehelen Organisation and in particular its Baderites, to harrass the USSR. Or, if you prefer it was started by Victori Nuland and friends, in 2014 with the Maidan color revolution. b) NATO maybe shouldn't have started the war than. Then it wouldn't be in this pickle. NATO is losing/has lost much more than Russia is.
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  3117.  @Jamicaman516  According to Prof Sachs, there was.
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  3118.  @Jamicaman516  No nation in their senses, but therein lies the rub!
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  3119.  @Samuel-hd3cp  According to Prof Sachs, it was written as well.
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  3120.  @Jamicaman516  Russia did not start this war. Wake up!
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  3121.  @Jamicaman516  Please give an example of "Russia going on about using a nuclear weapon." I must have missed that.
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  3122. @@clobhopper If you say so, Squire!
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  3123. 23:00 you forgot the Media support!
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  3124. 16:04 Yes! Remember how the US protected N*ZI scientists and othe prominet figures with "Operation Paperclip" and the utterly vile Japanese experimenters on Germ-warfare, in "Unit 731" after WW2.
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  3125. 24:45 To my mind the point is this: both the pharmaceutical companies and the media are capitalist or privately owned concerns. Their primary interest is in making money for their shareholders. The pharmaceutical companies have only a vague, largely moral, responsibility to the public and the media companies have no legal responsibility at all to tell the truth about anything, except occasional cases of libel and slander. Relying on them for medicines that cure or truth about what is going on respectively, is relying on "broken reeds". Big pharma can sell the public stuff for years that turns out to be much worse than useless, e.g. thalidomide and if they are punished at all, they can write it off to the "Cost of doing business. The MSM can tell the public anything they like about , say, China or Iran or Russia or the USA, without suffering any penalty at all, except, possibly, loss of readers.
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  3126. Stale news! Everyone knows that Russia is ALWAYS running out of missiles. It has been since the start of the SMO.
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  3127. 18:35 There is no penalty for peddling Fake News. The MSM are all capitalist companies and their primary job is to make money for their shareholders. They are all either owned or controlled by six extremely wealthy families and they take orders from MI6 and The CIA through an organization clled " The Integrity Initiative". This body has its assets in every major Newsroom and he/she tells the Chief Editor on a daily basis, what is "News" and what is "Disinformation". If carrying government propaganda, is the most profitable thing to do, that is what they will do. As to why people believe what the MSM tell them, well people don't like to think they have been systematically lied to, but things are changing. Fewer and fewer people are fooled.
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  3128. The statement in he Economist that "Putin cannot be trusted" reminds me of Matilda in the morality poem by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) "MATILDA WHO TOLD LIES, AND WAS BURNED TO DEATH MATILDA told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her, And would have done so, had not She discovered this infirmity." Maybe, just maybe, people are starting to think that attempting to believe Zelensky may be similarly dangerous!
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  3129. "Russia's brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine". Really?? "Unprovoked" Are you really sure that it was unprovoked? My impression was rather, that the Collective West (CW), left the Russians a choice of seeing an avowedly genocidal attack on the two unofficial Peoples' Republics and Crimea or launching a pre-emptive attack and I am not alone in this assessment.
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  3130. T - E. Here it is: @user-ic6so3uq3m The Strategic Missile Forces are the force that Russia has left over from the USSR! Now let's see who will lose their nerve first!
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  3131. 10:00 If the US goes on supplying weapons to Israel, they will, presumably, be accomplices in Genocide. Won't they?
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  3132. Yes, I think it is a very good and exciting development. It is so encouraging to see the BRICS making positive, non-military moves to help Africa and helping to end the constant kow-towing to the US and the almighty $ that has characterised world politics since WW2!
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  3133. "According to him, there is "not the slightest doubt" that Russia is allegedly "preparing for war" with NATO". How can one argue with that? It is beyond doubt, that people like himself, do allege that, all the time!
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  3134. 11:40 Could it be that the US residents are more likely to be Vitamin D3 deficient?
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  3135. 1:47:52 The one thing above all (It is not the only thing but it is the worst.) that prevents any breaking of the grip of the MICC on the foreign policy of the US, is making lobbying and the "Revolving Door", legal. With that legislation in place, I do not see how anything can be done about it by the US itself.
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  3136. 24:19 Do you think it is possible that the MSM were in on the planning for this terrorist incursion into Russiia and were expecting to be able to help panic the Russian populace? The MSM, after all, are the propaganda arm of the Collective West. The "journalists" all get their writing orders from the Integrity Initiative, daily.
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  3137. 4:10 It's not "frequently" It's "almost always"!
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  3138. 17:16 Do you, Alexander, happen to know whether the plan for "Operation Unthinkable" was leaked to the Germans before the end of WW2?
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  3139. 46:26 Blinken's objection to the Chinese "Peace Plan" is that it is Chinese and therefore BAD!
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  3140.  @hongry-life  IIRC the US threatened to bomb the ICC, if they dared to try a US citizen.
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  3141. What is Heaver News's view on the proposal by President Macron that France and Britain should send troops to Ukraine to prop up the Zelensky government in its fight with Russia?
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  3142. 5:26 They are all three!
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  3143.  @reshchak  After I wrote that, I remembered that one of the reasons Kenen Horny gave a search for a vindictive triumph, was often a slight or an imagined slight to an "Inflated self image". I should think that this fits the situation vis-a-vis NATO and the Russians very well!
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  3144. 30:10 Yes! I think your hypothesis is quite probable! Well reasoned, well deduced!
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  3145.  @des_smith7658  I wonder how many countries were represented?
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  3146.  @Steinstra-vj7wl  Are you saying that Netanyahoo WANTS Palestinians in Israel?
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  3147.  @bzn2sfo  You could have fooled me!
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  3148.  @nigelmaund9057  Thank you!
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  3149.  @gingerfox7143  Significance?
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  3150.  @andrear6094  Thanks.
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  3151.  @richardanson2445  Another who does not read and understand before "replying". I did not mention the population of Israel what I wrote was:" "What Netanyahoo wants" . This has nothing to do with the composition of the Knesset.
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  3152.  @gingerfox7143  God?
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  3153. 5:26 The "outsider" could be Germany. You have all the militany nuts , like Scholz, Baerbock, etc. They are daft enough to want "to get their hand in" at shooting up small countries.
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  3154.  @carlosgaspar8447  "When thieves fall out, honest men come into their own"!
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  3155. The noted Soviet scientist Peter Kapitsa, had a machine in his laboratory that produced ball lightning to order. He demonstrated it to my father, back in the 1970s.
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  3156. 27:36 One of the problems with the F-16s as with most US jet planes, is that the engines are very close to the ground and are unprotected from things that might get sucked into them. Consequently the US's airfields are kept scrupulously dlean and free of small stones which could be sucked into the engines and would destroy them, if they were. Russian 'planes do not suffer from the same problem, they are built to filter out such stones whilst they are on the gound.
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  3157. What a liar this man is! Everyone who knows anything about the Ukraine business knows that the sanctions were all thought out before the Russians invaded and the invasion was merely the excuse the Collective West wanted to impose them. It did so in the mistaken belief that it would bring about the collapse of the Russian economy in short order. (A prize example of not doing your due diligence before acting!) The actions of the CW before Feb 24/2/22 were designed to leave the Russian government no acceptable choice but to invade Ukraine. I feel that the nearest parallel to that invasion was the Tanzanian invasion of Uganda to save that country from Idi Amin Dada.
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  3158. 5:27 "It started with Clinton" No! It didn't! It started soon after WW2. The destruction of Yugoslavia by Clinton was almost the latest violation of the UN Charter. only a few countries came after that, while about 50 came before!
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  3159. Regime change ? Nah! Send for Captain America and Batman & Robin!
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  3160. Whilst I agree with you about the PlanA, I think you are discounting, unduly, (Or at least omitting) the western false belief in the feebleness of the Russian military. I think they thought that when the Russian forces came up against the Ukrainian forces, which had been "trained to NATO Standards" (Ra! Ra!) for eight years and battle=hardened by conflict with the Donbas Militias, they would turn tail and run or be cut to pieces in short order. After all, their "intelligence" agencies had be regaling their governments and people with stories of Russian military inefficiency, insufficiency, inadequate weaponry, cowardice and corruption, for years and by 24/2/22 their governments probably believed it.
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  3161.  @kateoneal4215  " Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235 U than natural uranium.[2] Natural uranium contains about 0.72% 235 U , while the DU used by the U.S. Department of Defense contains 0.3% 235 U or less. The less radioactive and non-fissile 238 U constitutes the main component of depleted uranium." As you can see from the above quotation from Wikipedia, DU is not a pure substance. I.e. it contains some more radioactive components than the U238 that makes up the bulk of it. It is this part which causes most of the trouble.
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  3162. 2:10 Poland helped to sabotage Germany's energy supply? Could the WSJ be trying to stir the sh*t between two NATO allies?
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  3163. 15:50 Why do Europe's leaders seem so feeble? What do you think of the possibility that they appear in Epstein's little book?
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  3164. What is absolutely clear from the way this war is going: is that "NATO cannot defend Europe."
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  3165. Elensky is not an independent actor. This war was wanted by the Neocons in WDC.
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  3166. 10:00 Al Jaz Aljazeera did a pretty convincing investigation. Did you see it?
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  3167. 29:55 The MSM will take it seriously.
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  3168.  @jonbon8598  Thanks for the info.
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  3169. 23:35 The Gazans will live in peace and enjoy the income from their oil, only if the Israelis and the US/Israeli Kleptocrats are prevented from stealing their land and their oil. The rest of the World should unite to prevent this, because if they don't, who knows who will be next? Thank you for exposing this outrage.
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  3170. To cut down the current and up the output you need more electrolysis cells and connect them in series.
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  3171. "Would cause the virus to contain o-glycans" It's called "Blinding with science."
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  3172.  @kaspertube512  And in spite of all that, the Russians keep winning. more fighting , less talking.
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  3173.  @rionijam727  He has enemies for mentors.
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  3174.  @rionijam727  They already did.
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  3175. 27:56 Saying that an NGO disclosing its sources of finance is "undemocratic", is like saying that being pro-Palestinian is being "Anti-Semitic"!
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  3176.  @danieljoseph4625  Almost, but here's a start: US ATTACKED China in 1945-46, US ATTACKED Japan in 1944 US ATTACKED Korea in 1950-53, US ATTACKED China in 1950-53 US ATTACKED Guatemala in 1954, US ATTACKED Indonesia in 1958 US ATTACKED Cuba in 1959-60, US ATTACKED Guatemala in 1960 US ATTACKED Belgian Congo in 1964, US ATTACKED Guatemala 1964 US ATTACKED Dominican Republic 1965-66, US ATTACKED Peru 1965, US ATTACKED Laos 1964-73, US ATTACKED Vietnam 1961-73, US ATTACKED Cambodia 1969-70, US ATTACKED Guatemala 1967-69, US ATTACKED Lebanon 1982-84, US ATTACKED Grenada 1983-84 US ATTACKED Libya 1986, US ATTACKED El Salvador 1981-92 US ATTACKED Nicaragua 1981-90, US ATTACKED Libya 1986 US ATTACKED Iran 1987-88, US ATTACKED Libya 1989 US ATTACKED Panama 1989-90, US ATTACKED Iraq 1991-2002 US ATTACKED Kuwait 1991, US ATTACKED Somalia 1992-94 US ATTACKED Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina) US ATTACKED Bosnia 1995, US ATTACKED Iran 1998 (airliner) US ATTACKED Sudan 1998, US ATTACKED Afghanistan 1998 US ATTACKED Yugoslavia 1999, US ATTACKED Afghanistan 2001-02 US ATTACKED Iraq 2002-06, US ATTACKED Libya 2011 US ATTACKED Syria 2013-19
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  3177. Emil, have you read about @Carthaginian refugees in Peru?
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  3178. 26:16 The US Military, consistently, for many years past, in fact back to 9/11, come to think of it, have used the "presense of IS, ISIS or ISIL as an excuse, to be in a place where the localinhabitants do not welcome them, "to combat ISIS". (E.g. Eastern Syria & Iraq.) If anyone still remembers the events of 2013-2016, they will recall that the US fought ISIS with such vigour, that the apparently unstoppable terrorists, carved out a large and rapidly expanding Califate, until the Russians pricked that bubble.
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  3179. "By seeking to reestablish itself at the expense of its neighbours,...." Sorry? Can you give examples of what you mean?
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  3180. 5:40 It seems to be an organization which is modelling itself on the Inquisition.
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  3181.  @carlrichieukmusic "And what are the side effects of this new treatment?" Lower profits for Big Pharma. Assuming that the cells that were modified, came from the patient him/her-self there would be no side effects. It's like having a blood-transfusion of your own stored blood - no reaction.
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  3182. Seeing that the regime in Kiev has been bombarding Donetsk city (A completely Civilian target) since 2014, it is a bit "Rich" for Zelensky to cry "Terrorism" about Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that helps move troops and other military supplies around.
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  3183. 1:08:21 Not only the current conflicts but, perhaps, also the dispute over the ethnic cleansing of Diego Garcia might be discussed in such a context.
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  3184. 18:14 I don't think it is a policeman's way of thinking. I think it is a bully's way of thinking or a gangster's way. Incidentally, I wonder has Farage tried the foreign banks in London, would that be possible? Can bitcoin help him?
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  3185. The vac*ine made and marketed by Novavax was spike protein.
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  3186. 5:17 To fix this problem you have to fix the two things which are draining your economy, that can be fixed. So what are they? In my view they are the cost of healthcare and the cost of being the World's Hegemon. Let's deal with health first. Why are medicines and healthcare so damned expensive in the USA compared to other countries? It is because, in the US, both of them are Privately owned. Why is that a disastrously bad idea? Simple! Think about it. There is a built-in Conflict of Interest in Both! Put Crudely, the problem is that "A cure is a Lost Customer!" The Pharmaceutical Industry is a number of Capitalist concerns. Well, what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that, is that the Primary Duty of a capitalist concern is to its shareholders. Its primary Duty, is to make a profit. Apart from laws to protect employees, customers, visitors to the company's premises and the environment, the capitalist company has No legal obligation to the country or its inhabitants. It is, however supposed to make a profit or go out of business. This leads to the pharmaceutical industry refusing to make medicines which ar known to work, because they compete with other medicines which do much the same, but sell for a higher price. Worse, it leads to the Industry trying to suppress cures to diseases which are highly profitable to treat! , A text-book example of this is Stomach Ulcers. For many many years, millions of people, world-wide, suffered (and died) of stomach ulcers and many were kept alive, though sufferring, by palliative medications, which they took every day for years and years. This was, from the point of view of the Pharmaceutical Industry, an Ideal Situation. The patients were not so sick that they could not work, but they needed daily doses of their product. What's to not like!? Then in 1982, in Austrailia, Professor Marshall, 54, and Dr Warren, 68, Discovered that these ulcers were caused by a quite common bacterium called Helicobacter Pylorii and these ulcers could be cured by a combination of bismuth and antibiotics, in a couple of weeks! They struggled for many years, to get this information out to the World, but they were blocked at every turn by the Pharmaceutical companies, which threatened the medical journals and the MSM with the withdrawal of advertising, if they dared to publish this news.I do not know if it was the BBC that brought this into the open bu in "Horizon: Ulcer Wars. BBC Two logo. BBC Two · Mon 16 May 1994, 20 ... Marshall found that it was the bacterium Helicobacter pylori that caused ulcers, treatable .." They published it and that was how I heard about it and was able to save three relatives from a life of misery! Finally in 2005 (!) these medical heroes, were cited for "their 1982 discovery of “the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.” (BMJ. 2005 Oct 8; 331(7520): 795) After that The surgical operations to treat the condition gradually died out as doctors gradually got the message. Qute clearly, the cure for this situation, is the Urgent Nationalization of the Pharmaceutical industry. The current situation is totally unacceptable. It is, for example, the cause of the present case being brought by the AG of Kansas, against Pfizer, which by the looks of it, will uncover one of the biggest crimes in History. The point is that a nationalized Pharmaceutical Industry would be interested in Cures, rather than Treatments. It would favour Public Health. It would not be constrained by costs in testing promising medicines, "because there is no profit to be made selling it". Another point in favour of the nationalization of this industry, is that it would not need to make a profit and so would have funds to research treatments and cures for "Rare Diseases" which cannot currently be reseached, because "there would be too few patients to be profitable". The same argument applies to the Arms industry. (With knobs on!) One of the biggest US expenditures is on the Military Industrial Complex. On the face of it, this is ridiculous! There has not been a real threat to the security of the US since WW2. The "Soviet Threat" was manufactured by NATO. They knew from early in the Cold War that here was no Soviet plan to invade Western Europe, let alone the US, only a plan to counter-attack if invaded. The US has a vast ocean to its East and a vast ocean to its west and friendly (Much weaker) neighbours to the North and the South, so how could it be threatened and by whom? So why the constant hysterical worry about "National Security"? Quite obviously, the answer lies in the old Roman adage: "QUI BONO?" (Follow the money.) This industry has effectivly bought congress through the lobbying industry and the government through the "Revolving Door" and the MSM through advertising. It thrives on wars, rumours of wars and threats of wars, so the US has an endless supply of these and it is bleeding (Correction! has bled) the national coffers dry, There will be no peace in the World until all arms producers are nationalized, world-wide. Government are not "Naturally" warlike unless they are really criminal organizations. On the whole, they do not like imposing taxations because it makes them unpopular. Whereas, Arms manufacturers, like Pharmaceutical concerns are interested in PROFITS and nothing else.
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  3187. 11:37 "If we just tax rich people more." All the value that mobey has comes from what it will buy, i.e. goods and services. This means that the entire value in the economy comes from the work of working people, which, in turn means that ; no matter where you extract the taxes from, THEY ARE ALWAYS PAID BY THE WORKING PEOPLE! There is no way round that FACT. (It is very, very seldom mentioned!)
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  3188. 17:44 It seems "Highly likely" that the destruction of European competition was "Plan B", when it became clear that the Russian "House of cards" was built of sterner stuff than had been assumed before February 2022.
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  3189.  @briancharters8720  Probably true, but Putin tends to cover all the possibilities.
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  3190. Согласованный! Однако идиотизм некоторых людей на Западе непостижим! @SvetlanaVladimirova8590 
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  3191. Agreed! @Give_Peace_a_Chance123 
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  3192. 1:06:49 All this uncertainty in Kiev, is taking place against the backdrop of the growing uncertainty surrounding the fate of the dollar, the US's ever-growing deficit, the rapidly changing situation in Africa, the upcoming elections in Eastern Europe, splits in Washington and the US's lack of weapons to challenge China. Is this a "Perfect Storm"?
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  3193. Typical! Venezuela and Guyana were negotiating, so Britain send a warship to stir things up!
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  3194. I would suggest that you install airconditioning that can heat your house as well as cool it. Its usually cheaper than gas and its "renewable", which gas isn't.
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  3195. Really, there will be no war unless the US starts it. There is no other country that wants a war. The "Reason" the US wants a war is that it is afraid that other countries may be big enough , economically and militarily, to say "No!" to the US. Instead of trying to make the US bigger and better, they rely on "Cutting the rest of the World down to size". The US elite are afraid of the rest of the World because of "Projection". Because their position as the biggest economy, military and the owner of the world's reserve currency has allowed them to bully other countries, they think that if they are not the TOP country, other countries will bully them! (This is infantile logic!)
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  3196. 38:00 In the 1970s, I worked in Cambridge, UK, alongside a "dead" Israeli hero. He was living in England when the Yom Kippur war happened and the call-up was so fast that proper records were not kept. As he was not present in his unit at the end of the war he was listed as KIA. As his unit had performed brilliantly, he like all the others in it, were awarded medals.
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  3197. 1:42 The US seems to be a classic example of "sore losers". Their government behaves like spoilt children. Nasty, destructive, spoilt children at that! It has never done them any good and I can't see how it will do them any good in the future. When, for example they refuse to supply something they make to China, the result is that the Chinese learn to make it themselves, only better and cheaper. Then they export it and the US loses, not only Chinese orders, but market share, in the rest of the World, as well.
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  3198. 41:59 "Transistion to clean energy," in spite of the opposition of the Big oil companies! In spite of the US's inability to compete with Chinese solar panels without (perhaps even with) huge import tariffs. It's nonsense.
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  3199. 12:49 It is even worse than you say, because even were it possible for the West to suooly enough weapons to Ukraine to enable them to defeat the Russins; There would still be the Chinese who are not yet engaged, nut certainly would be were the Russians to be defeated!
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  3200. 6:57 Maybe Annalena was afraid to ask? And nobody in her family wanted to alk about it. Could be.
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  3201. 11:45 Is it not the case that the Labour Party and the Conservative party are both parts of the Uni Party? I.e. all of them (Lab, Con, Dem & REP.) closely aligned with the PTB in Washington?
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  3202. The low quality of western politician can (perhaps) be largely explained by the assumption that they are all junkies. It seems to be very fashionable and they act as though they are. That they make such self-defeating decisions is harder to explain, but I think a lot of them must have been compromised by J. Epstein and his girlfriend (aka Mossad). That pair must have been up to something and so far, almost nothing has come out.
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  3203. Obviously if Brazil and South Africa are plagued by rising unemployment and increasing poverty they should look to China, which is far and away the country with the greatest record of success, in dealing with such problems, for advice and help.
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  3204. 34:51 This hitting the bottle to cope with the Counter-offensive stress: Is it projection? Is it perhaps in the editorial offices of the Telegraph where they have work out, somehow, how to break the real news of the Counteroffensive?
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  3205. 31:53 The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in Britain by Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson 1792 - Denmark bans import of slaves to its West Indies colonies, although the law only took effect from 1803. 1807 - Britain passes Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, outlawing British Atlantic slave trade. - United States passes legislation banning the slave trade, effective from start of 1808. 1811 - Spain abolishes slavery, including in its colonies, though Cuba rejects ban and continues to deal in slaves. 1813 - Sweden bans slave trading 1814 - Netherlands bans slave trading 1817 - France bans slave trading, but ban not effective until 1826 1833 - Britain passes Abolition of Slavery Act, ordering gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies. Plantation owners in the West Indies receive 20 million pounds in compensation, Reuters
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  3206. 1:01:51 Another point in the EurAsian Powers favour, is that there is no great popular support for these attacks upon the EAPs by the populations of the Western countries. The popularity of none of the Western leaders comes close to that enjoyed by Xi and Putin.
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  3207. 14:00 Could Orban claim that this is a declaration of war?
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  3208. 65:11 I should think that China should be very glad to not to have to share its work (and profits from) on chips, AI and quantum with US businesses.
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  3209. 1:05:00 Personally, I feel that logically, the defeat in Ukraine ought to lead to the winding up of NATO. After all, Nato was sold to the participating countries, as being this great, invincible, Military machine, "The greatest Military Machine the World has ever seen" (No less!), which no mere Russia would ever dare to attack, That, which if anyone did dare to attack any member, all would pile in to defend the victim, et hic genus omne. Having de-militarized NATO and the US, I would hope that the Russians would insist on something, more like what they were talking about in Gecember 2021.
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  3210. 25:30 "Endless war in Ukraine" is what the Neocons would like, but it looks as though they cannot sustain it at its present level. I suppose that they could try to wage a sort of terrorist war a la Syria, but I doubt they could keep it going for long. They tried it in Chechnya but it was defeated, They tried something of the sort in Xinjiang, but that seems to have been defeated too. What interest me is : if they go on too long and really run out of weapons - What then !!??
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  3211. I wonder why the Europeans are are having second thoughts about putting more sanctions on Russia! (Sarcasm.) Could it be that they feel that the US conned them into giving up cheap reliable supplies of Russian natural gas, oil and coal, in exchange for unreliable supplies of US LNG, at up to five times the price, by persuading them to "sanction" Russia? Could it be that they don't feel the need to put another bullet into their own feet? Could it be that they did not understand that the purpose of the sanctions was not only to collapse the Russian economy but also to de-industrialize Europe as well? Even after Jake Sullivan gloated that it was a "great opportunity" for the USA after they sabotaged the NS pipelines? Surely, they realize it now, even if it is a bit late in the day to do so. There is an old saying: "If you find you have dug yourself into a hole, stop digging!" Maybe they have decided to stop digging!
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  3212. Anent officers leading troops into battle or not: I am reminded of a quip from WW1: "Bread is the staff of life & the life of the Staff is one long loaf!"
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  3213. 1:05:38 To be consistent, these generals should be promoted.
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  3214. I would like to talk to you but I am having difficulty getting into Telegram. I can, however used e-mail.
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  3215. From the Telegraph, 27/2/24@ “If you are a Nato and EU member, by definition and by the very nature of this membership you have to support Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion,” Mr Tusk told reporters. “
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  3216.  @neptunestrident4364  What is? Care to explain?
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  3217. 37:00 US Lobbying. I forget what was the subject of the UNGA resolution in question, but I clearly remember Nikki Hayley telling the assembly that she was keeping careful note of who voted and how they voted and that there would be consequences if they voted the "wrong" way.
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  3218. Now ask what the relationship of the Wuhan research was to the USG's germ-warfare program and while you are at it, ask what relationship this pandemic has to the 27 Bio-research labs in Ukraine and Georgia. You might also ask why Victoria Nuland was worried that the Russians might get their hands on the organisms these labs were researching.
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  3219. Come to think of it you might also ask why the Bio-research labs in Ukraine and Georgia were funded by the US Department of Defense and not the US National Institute of Health or the US Center for Disease Control.
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  3220. 20:35 If you are eating a "low fat diet" you are likely to be lacking in fat-soluble vitamins. The same is true if you are lacking a gall bladder. Probably you will need suplements.
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  3221. "Hamas is worse than ISIS". Lloyd Austin. Well, they should know, after all, they set up both.
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  3222. 3:58 Don't forget the 4th member of the Axis! North Korea!
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  3223. 1:30 I have been following the course of the Chinese Revolution, since about 1946 and I can tell you that similar preditions of collapse, either economic or political, have been following the Chinese Communists since then. There has not been a year since then, when you could not read confident predictions of Chinese communist or Chinese state collapse coming soon. It still has not happened!
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  3224. 1:49 I 2022 the Ukrainin army had also been battle-hardened in seven years of fighting the Donbas militias.
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  3225. 7:50 It looks as though the WoWs (Warmongers of Washington) have decided that "Diplomatic immunity" is something that they can do without. The Rules-Based International Order (RBIO) in action! First the British storm the Equadorian Embassy and arrest Julian Assange. Then the Israelis bomb the Iranian Consulate, then the Equadorians storm the Mexican Embassy and seize the former VP. Come to think about it: didn't the US seize the Russian Consulate in SF, or something before all these other things happened?
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  3226. No. The problem is that this vaccine did not do what it was said to do . @fredneecher1746  Nor, although it was billed as "safe" was it in fact safe. It was highly risky. It did not prevent people passing on the disease, in fact it seems that boosted people can be more or less permanent carriers, shedding virus all the time. Compulsory vaccination is a blatant violation of human rights. In fact, this whole vaccination program was a massive experiment to test an untested treatment, using the whole population as lab-rats, or at least that was the intention. In principle, this is not much different to what the N*ZI doctors in 1940s Germany did, just they experimented on many more people.
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  3227. Extreme reight sort of Nazis!
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  3228. 1:05:41 Peter Dazak is not missing. Go to 1:02:35, look at the addressees and you will find he is the 5th person on the list.
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  3229. It is not just that the US has "lost all credibility"! It has that, to be sure, but looking at the US supporting the wiping out of Palestinian men, wonen and children, by the thousand; other countries think: "That could be us!" "This country is in the grip of utterly heartless monsters!" "Just listen to them supporting that and, at the same time, talking about how they support Human Rights! How do they do it?"
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  3230. 6:48 Baluchistan is the part of Pakistan that the Pakistan - China Econimic Corridor runs through, from Eastern China to the Indian Ocean, thus by-passing the straits that the US might blocade to stop China getting Oil from the Middle East. Predictably, the US, the NED Soros Etc., etc. are financing the "Balochistan Liberation Front" to stop China "spoiling" (With their construction and development) their part of Pakistan. I don't know anything about the connection between Iran and the Balochistan LF. That is new to me.
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  3231. 28:22 Yep! The new recruits that survive training on the front line, are certainly going to be tough! It's a sort of Super-Darwinian training! It's not going to be "the survival of the fittest", but survival of the indestructable.
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  3232. Give me an E-Mail address & we can talk all you like.
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  3233.  @eddieBanke22  Unlike you I cannot see into the future. So, tell us: what do you conclude from this?
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  3234. 26:11 I read a headline this morning (From Deepinmoments) that said a mob in a German city had attacked the US Consulate.
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  3235. If you want to control illegal migration, investigate the NGOs that are helping the illegal migrants to come here. Find out who is financing them and work out why they are doing it. When you know what you are dealing with, you may be able to work out a solution. If you don't, you don't stand a chance of making a difference. (Clue; These NGOs are NOT helping migrants to go to their own country.)
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  3236. 15:05 Why do these American officials travel around the world looking for the "Magic Sanction" which when implemented will bring down the Russian economy? Well, ask yourself: if you were offered the chance to travel the world in modified luxury at the USG's expense, on a potentially never-ending quest. Would you turn it down?
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  3237. How about India swallows its animosity towards China and Pakistan and joins the BRI? They could send goods by raiil, through China, Pakistan or Iran, probably. Of course using the BRI they would have to defy the US.
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  3238. The difference is in the relationship of the MIC of the two countries to their respective governmens. I have written about this before but since you ask I will repeat it. . Almost all the conflict that has plagued the World since 1945 has originated in the US, because of its obssession with being the World Hegemon. The constsnt war-mongering has its seat in what I call the "Vicious circle" in Washington DC. This circular structure is fed, willy-nilly by the US taxpayer and passes out money to the shareholders and employees of the weapons mfgs and the lobbyist industry, shareholders and employees while the MSM feeds off advertising bought by the weapon mfgs. The Vicious Circle consists of various parts: the congress-critters, the weapons manufacturers, the United States Government and the lobbying industry. The Vicious Circle functions in the following way: being circular there is no startpoint or end point, but I will start with the congress-critters, who vote for payments to the arms mfgs. The government then orders the weapons and pays the weapons mfgs. The weapons mfgs then pay their shareholders, employees and the lobbyists who pay the congress-critters' election expenses on condition that they vote "the right way" and so it goes round and round, with the MSM carrying adverts from the arms mfgs and helping along with stories to alarm the general public. This structure is very powerful, very rich, quite ruthless and very well established. So long as it exists in its present form, I doubt that the World will ever know peace. The only solution I can think of, is if the US is handed a resounding defeat in Ukraine and the Russians insist that all arms mfgs must be nationalised enterprises, with no other shareholder than the government of their respective country. This, by cutting the financial nexus, would kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead
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  3239. 23:48 The Russians have, probably, been behing the disruption of Britain's railways ever since they were privatized! That is, probably, the explanation too of the sky-high fares and it is Highly Likely too, that the Russians are subsidizing the National Union of Railwaymen!
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  3240. 37:01 No studio audience. Stage directions: "Puts on own record of applause."
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  3241.  @perryray3947  The nuclear weapons were not Ukraine's, they were Russian nuclear weapons on Ukrainin territory. Ukraine lost its independence in February 2014 in the Maidan coup. Since then it has been a US client state.
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  3242. 29:23 There is a really remarkable fact emerging from this situation, on which no one seems to be making any remark! Namely: that the "Age of Abundance" was, it now turns out, courtesy of the Russians! Now! Who'd a-thunk of that! Makes yer think, or at least it oughta.
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  3243. 1:18:23 You seem to be neglecting the fact that that the coup in 2014 was done to get Ukraine into NATO.
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  3244. I have tried to teach two professional soldiers who needed a qualification to keep their status as corporals. (I forget what the qualification was called it was approx one year junior to "O" level.) I found that after twenty years of doing what they were told to do, they had completely lost the ability to think. E.g. they could not grasp the meaning of vulgar fractions. One of them asked what 3 X 1/3 equaled, replied, triumphantly "Three quarters!"
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  3245.  @garygraham8373  Yup! The Chinese and the Russians do not stand shoulder to shoulder. No. They stand back to back. If either of them lost to an American attack the other would know that they would be next.
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  3246. 25:56 It'a hoopoe. Latin name Upupa epops
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  3247. 17:20 Milley's statement is in the tradition of his office. See also: Colin Powell with his little flask of washing powder talking to the UNGA about Saddam Hussein's WMD.
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  3248. 12:59 Do I think the Chinese will obey the US order over sanctions? Do you think we shall see a cow jump over the Moon?
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  3249. 36:10 I remember a year or two back, an American "Statesman" (I forget his name.) saying approvingly of an aircraft carrier that had been sent to threaten somewhere, that it was "100,000 tons of diplomacy", (!)
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  3250. Time for the pitchforks.
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  3251. If the West and its regime had not gone in for ethnic persecution of Russian- (and Hungarian- and Greek- and Romanian-language) speakers and had integrated Ukraine into the CW economy, it could have been a state like the one they are phantasising. So why didn't they? (Rhetorical question.)
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  3252. 10:18 Well, it's better than the Sunday Sport! (Does that still exist? BTW.)
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  3253. It looks like vote rigging in the National election. Alternatively, it could be that the current government got in on a load of promises that turn out to mean something a bit different to what people expected.
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  3254. 5:06 And "really bad news" for the poor b*ggers inside the Challenger 2! Let's not forget them.
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  3255.  @jimsyfert3288  Who?
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  3256. 9:10 The most ludicrous accusation levelled at GG by the reporter in this picture was that his election was "a threat to Democracy!"
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  3257. The picture is at 8:49.
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  3258. o:18 Happy Christmas to you and your family! I hope you have a very satifying and fulfilling 2024!
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  3259. 27:46 A possible explanation of the western ruling elites' obssessiom with capturing land and indifference to casualties. They are nearly all big land-owners or come from land-owning families!
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  3260. 5:35 General Zalujny's request for weapons reminds me of the Folk Song "Scarborough Fair". If you don't know it Duckduckgo is your friend. Happy NEW Year to you Brian!
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  3261. DH is ignoring how NATO set a dilemma for Putin. After the coup in 2014, the Azov Brigade and other units of the U, threatened to wipe out the rest. This left Putin with the choice of fighting the largest, best-trained, best armed NATO army in Europe (Effectively going to war with NATO) or being, probably, overthrown as a coward, by his own electorate. Is it fair to describe this as "Putin's Aggression"?
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  3262. 45:19 I think the US was hamstrung in its effeorts to split Russia and China, by not understanding the ideological underpinnings of the quarrel between the two parties. The Chinese accused the Russian party of becoming bourgeois and liberal in their thinking and my impression is that the US rulers (being both liberal and bourgeois themselves) never understood, what this really meant and that this was about the greatest condemnation/insult that one Communist could offer to another! (Incidentally, I think that the Chinese Communists were right in their assessment.) When the Russians stopped calling themselves "Communists" the way was clear, for the resumption of friendly relations between the two powers.
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  3263. Very informative, thank you.
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  3264.  @Jamicaman516  The Ukrainians were quite clearly (They said they were.) going to attack the Donbas, with a view to killing or driving out all the Russian-speaking residents. It cost the Russian a ton in the view of the western public, true, but, it would have cost the Russian government a public-relations disaster at home if they had stood bye and just let it happen. As to "world-wide opinion" it seems that outside the collective west, it has had relatively little effect.
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  3265. If you can't beat them, then negotiate. It standsd to reason. This HT report, shows that Ukraine was betrayed by Boris Johnson when he advised them not to negotiate, because the Collective West would support them "For as long as it takes" (Remember that much-repeated phrase?) with as many weapons as they needed, to acheive a decisive victory over the Russians. The trouble was, he did not know what he was talking about! He believed his own side's propaganda.
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  3266. "Mainland China wants a peaceful reunification but the US wants to sell more arms to Taiwan ". You are right about China but: the US wants FAR MORE than that! They want to collapse both China and Russia and Iran too, so that there will be no country in the world that can afford to say "No!" to any of Uncle Sam's wishes. They will then sell off the Assets of Russia, China and Iran to the highest bidders and "live happily ever after" on the proceeds. Yes, I know it sounds like a ridiculous fairy tale, but it is not an unfounded allegation. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the husband of the Undersecretary of State of the USA, Victoria Nuland, has written a book about it (Google it, or go to https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Grand_Chessboard) and so have many other powerful and highly placed American politicians. This policy has driven US foreign policy since the end of WW2 and continues to do so today. It is the purpose behind having more than 800 military bases all around the periphery of Russia, China and Iran.
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  3267. 58:56 This shortage of skilled manual workers is the direct result of Margaret Thatcher's idea that Britain can run on a FIRE economy. Neither Finance nor Insurance nor Real Estate will by itself, produce even one artillery shell.
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  3268. "Russia's first notable gain in months." This remark is characteristic of a reactionary mindset. Reactionaries always overvalue things, such as territory and undevalue people. The Russians announced at the start of the SMO, that they had 3 aims. 1) to demilitarise Ukraine. 2) To de-nazify Ukraine. 3) to prevent Ukraine joining NATO. Over the course of the last nearly two years they have largely de-militarised, not only Ukraine, but also drained the military stockpiles of the collective West. They have killed a large number of Ukrainian "Extreme right-wingers" (Particularly in Adviivka, where they were forced into the fight, which they have mostly kept out of!) These are both wins for the Russians. If they want territory they can now get it much more easily than they could before the "wins" mentioned above. Their third aim is not yet acheived, but it is pretty certain now that it will be.
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  3269. 4:14 "Rein in your press!" Yes! Exactly what they have done to their own press and made it so dull and predictably false as to be virtually unreadable.
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  3270.  @derekwood91  One can see that the Labour Party has sat so long on the fence, that the iron has entered their soul.
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  3271. 12:01 There would be also this difference, that the US currently relies on China for a lot of raw materials and semi-finished goods. I have read that 90% of the World's reserves of tungsten are in North Korea and 90% of the rest are in China. An arms race where one side has a shortage of tungsten is hard to imagine. Nearly all large electrical power transformers are made in China. And so on down the list. On a different topic, one of the effects of the flood of imports to Western Europe of Chinese goods is that DIY became suddenly much cheaper. For example a basic electric hand drill. went from around £50 to £13, Whereas a pair of Vernier calipers to read to the nearest 0.05mms or 0.005" would cost you £30 - £40 you could suddenly buy a digital caliper that would read to 0.01mm or 0,001" for around £12. I wonder if the Russians are going to experience the same change?
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  3272. Good that it is in the BMJ (Surprising too!) Let's hope it forces the Government to stop blocking investigation. Good also that the Tellegraph is taking note! I wonder how that happened? You can count this result as being something that you largely contributed to, for which many thanks!
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  3273. 20:45 "City of Lyman" before the war had a population of 15,000. That's not a city, that's a megapolis!
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  3274. 6:45 So am I! Why wouldn't they?
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  3275. I worked as a contract technician for various Philips companies in the 1970s to the 1990s, in the UK. The thing that struck me was the quite extraordinary inefficiencies in their ways of working. The first experience I had of this was a job for , I think it was called Pye Telecom. The job was manually inputting stock records into a computer database. This involved not writing numbers into a table, as one might expect, but writing, one character at a time, such entries as : 34,000 res. 1%, 2W, carb. comp. 1.0 Ohm. 240,000 res. 1%, 2W, carb. comp. 1.1 Ohm. 242,500 res. 1%, 2W, carb. comp. 1.2 Ohm. 240, etc ! Then I worked for another Philips company that made Cellphones, Pye Telecom. There my job was rectifying cellphone guts that had been inspected by a computer-controlled machine and came with a readout that said such things as : R1 wrong value R23 WRONG VALUE R96 WRONG VALUE C5 WRONG VALUE TR 7 WRONGLY INSERTED and so on. I wondered how to find R1 on this very crowded board and went to my supervisor and asked him how to find itand after a bit of searching through a lot of papers he cam up with an A4 sized map, which he allowed me to photocopy. I went back to my desk and started by drawing a 1cm grid over the photocopy and writing an identifying number against the lines parallel to one side of the paper and identifying letters against the lines at right-angles to them. I then set about writing a list of the coordinates of the various components while I was thus engaged my supervisor came ocer to me and asked: "WHAT ARE you doing!? You are supposed to be working!!" I told him I was working and I was doing what ought to have been done for all who had to do this job abd that what I was doing would save the company a lot of money. "Uh, yes, I see what you mean" he said in a less aggressive tone "But, take care not to let George see what you are doing!" (George was his boss.) "Look!" I said, "Let's go and talk to George and I will explain what I am doing and why and then you won't have to worry about him seeing me working on this map." So we went and saw George and I explained why I was doing and why and he listened to me and when I had finished he thought about it and said: "Yes, go ahead and finish your map, but for God's sake don't let Ken see what you are doing!" I had a friend, another contractor who worked in the same plant. He asked me when he met me there, what I was doing and I asked him the same question. "I work in the Recycling Department" he said. "What do yo do there?" I asked. "I throw away about £100k/year of components!" "You joke, surely!" I said "No, I really do." Of course I asked how and why and he explained that when Pye Telecom received an order for, for example 1,000 cellphones, they orderd the components that they would need from the central suppliers or firms Like Farnell and when the batch had been completed there were always components left over. For example, 220k, 1/2W resistors might come in a box of 10,000 and the job only needed 5,000. that would mean that 5000 were unused at the end of the batch and they would be sent to the Recycling Department, which had nowhere to store them and simply put them in the dustbins. "But why don't they put them back in the stores?" I asked. "They can't do that because the computer only recognizes whole boxes." Likewise with wire or cable, the computer could recognize only whole reels. Then I worked for Pye TVT which made TV transmitters. The first morning when I turned up and asked what work they had for me the person in HR said "How would you feel about assembling a TV transmitter?" "Well!" I said a bit nonplussed, "I expect if you give me the parts and a drawing I can assemble it." So he took me to the shop where the transmitters were assemble and handed me over to the foreman. He took me over to a pile of parts, on the floor and said: "There you are." I looked at the pile to find the drawing, but I could not see it. "Where's the drawing?" I asked. "Oh, I'm afraid there isn't a drawing." he said. "No drawing?" I queried, incredulously. "No. I'm afraid , we've been waiting six weeks for the drawings. and the Drawing Office still haven't given them us." "So, how am I supposed to know what goes where? I've never built a TV transmitter before!" "I'll tell you what" he responded, brightening up a bit "They're dismantling one in the packing department just now, you can go and look at that and it'll give you an idea of how it goes together." So, for the next six weeks I trotted to the Packing Department and back again with parts in my hands, trying to remember how they fitted into the rest of the apparatus that I had assembled. Then one day I went to lunch in their canteen and found myself sitting next to a man who said he worked in the Drawing Office. "Ah! You're just the man I want to meet! Can you tell me why I there are no drawings for the transmitter for Sweden that I am assembling? I've been assembling one for the last six weeks and I cannot, for the life of me, think why there are no drawings for it." "There are drawings for it." he said. "Well, why doesn't the Model Shop have any then?" I asked "We're a bit tied up with ITV at the moment." Another almost incredible inefficiency in this factory was the obtaining of parts that one needed for the job. Philips had instituted a universal numbering system for, more or less, everything in the galaxy or at any rate everything that Philips might ever use. Everything had been given a number, whether it was an M6 hex-headed bolt,15 cms long under the head or a 100W 240Volt, pearl, Edison screw light bulb, or whatever it was, it was identified by a (IIRC, 7-digit) code number which used all ten numbers and all 26 letters. Now, if you wanted, say, 6 off M4 hex. plated steel nuts you had to write out an application form for that number of those nuts and take it to the foreman. The foreman would then sign it as approved and you took the signed application to the office where they would give you a printed slip for 6 of whatever was in the bin with the corresponding number that they had put on the slip. You then went and queued up at the stores where they would give you six of whatever was in the bin with the corresponding number. If you were lucky, you got what you needed, but if not, you had to start all over again! So, I'm not surprised that Philips is on its way out.
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  3276.  @David1Neves  Is that relevant in this situation?
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  3277.  @nurlindafsihotang49  I don't understand why you call me "zionist". I don't think of myself that way. Please justify the remark.
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  3278. I think Slovakia suffered dreadfully under the N*ZIs during WW2. This may well have played a big part in Fico's victory.
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  3279.  @Prokop_Zabransky  Presumably, after the N*ZI take over of Czechoslovakia, engineered by Chamberlaine.
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  3280. 2:35 The US has completely reversed its opinion. So, is it right now or did it get it right the first time? It displayed no doubt either time. I think this is pure projection. IIRC the US Consulate (Note, consulate, not Embassy) in Hong Kong has 2000 employees. They must be really busy issuing visas there!
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  3281. It certainly looks like an effort to destroy the economy. Are the people running things stupid or are they in the grip of some ideology or are they essentially anti-people? It is diffficult to know! On the one hand they say "We want to produce more power from wind and solar energy" and then put tariffs on Chinese wind-turbines and Chinese solar panels, "to protect US producers of both". The problem with that is that the US producers are much more expensive than the Chinese and produce far less than the Chinese. To my mind this looks more like protecting the Big Oil Companies! As to why Chinese goods cost less, there are numerous reasons for this. In China, wages are lower. They can be lower and Chinese workers can still save, because food is cheaper, Most people live in their own flats or houses. Education is cheaper or Free (No Student debt problem.) Health insurance is cheaper, electricity is cheaper, transport is cheaper and so it goes on.
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  3282. The difference is in WHO they lost to. In Vietnam they lost to the Vietnamese, in Afghanistan, to the Taliban, in Cuba to the Cubans, but in Ukraine to the Russians. The Vietnamese, the Taliban, the Cubans are not a menace to the US but the Russians? Ha! That is a Good Question!
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  3283. 10:13 The Chinese noted their first Covid-19 death in several months. I think their rationale is that economic problems can be tolerated but the dead cannot be brought back to life.
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  3284. 1:03:34 "Doublethink = Doublegood!"
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  3285. Your problem is that you are not rich enough for the police to bother with. This is not a new problem nor is it confined to Coventry. When there was Apartheid in South Africa, I had a friend in Cambridge, who was rung up when he was at work and told that three men were emptying his workshop/garage into a van and asked "Is that OK by you?" He said it was not and rang the Cambridge City Police to tell them. He then went home to find his garage completely empty. He rang the police again and they told him to wait and they would sent a detective to investigate. He waited and after six hours a policeman arrived and looked at the garage. My friend asked what had kept him? "Oh, there was a student demonstration against a Apartheid in the centre of Cambridge and we had to deal with that". Having said that, the policeman left and my friend never heard any more from them.
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  3286. 27:49 After the end of WW2, NATO was set up to help the US defeat the USSR. When it became clear that doing that was too expensive (No one wins a nuclear war.) NATO became an organization to keep the US MIC in profitable work. It has been doing so, ever since. That is why NATO was not wound up after the end of the Cold War. Wars are one way of doing this, threats of wars are another and rumours of wars to come, are a third. There may well be others. The US MIC is as you say not about making weapons it is about making profits. It is run by accountants. Idle machinery or idle factories are stagnant capital. Hence the lack of a "surge capability".
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  3287. 9:00 The US, UK and the EU "peaked" so soon because they stopped making stuff themselves and instead bought it from China! For example, Britain and the US used to make a lot of iron and steel, both of which processes produce huge amounts of CO2. Today, they buy most of their iron and steel goods in finished form, from China and at the same time condemn the Chinese as "thoughtless polluters". This, in spite of the fact that the Chinese have made bigger efforts to produce "green energy" than any other country and have greened huge areas of desert. Also, come to think on it, the US government put huge tariffs on Chinese solar panels to protect their own manufacturers. The result was to slow down the production of green energy in the US and reduce the number of solar panels that China produces.! Typical double-think and hypocrisy.
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  3288. This man driving around Athens, is actually a Russian Agent who is really collecting the microchips out of old washing machines to smuggle to the Russian arms industry. (According to a person in circles familiar with these subjects who, however, wishes not to give his name.)
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  3289. 13:42 I think that the Administration know what it has to do, but is scared to go agains AIPAC, because that is such an overwhelmingly powerful entitiy in the US. Anyone or anything that goes against it, has no political future at all. Much the same is true in the UK. Vide Jeremy Corbyn. AIPAC is backed 100% by the MSM.
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  3290. I seem to remember that the F-16 burns up 600lbs of fuel an hour, just sitting on the runway, warming up its engine.
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  3291. I notice that again today "someone" has unsubcribed me from this channel overnight!.
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  3292.  Plain Truth  Thanks for the support.
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  3293.  @May-cz2uo  Thanks for your support.
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  3294. This "series of failed measures" was not imposed "in response to the Ukrainian war". No. This series of sanctions was dreamed up well before the war was provoked and the Collective West the War as an excuse to impose the sanctions. You can see that this was the case by the timing. How long would it take to prepare hundreds of sanctions including cutting Russia out of the SWIFT bank-clearing scheme? Less than 24 hours? I don't think so ! But that is how long it took after the Russians entered into the war that was going on in Donbas, to imposes these. You have to ask: Who benefits from the mess that Europe finds itself in?" Who benefits from the trebling of the price of gas? Who benefits from the destruction of the Nordsteam pipelines? Does Russia benefit from any of this? No. Who benefits from the huge expenditur on weapons in Ukraine? So, work out for yourself, who is behind all this. It will not strain your brain!
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  3295. 1:35:10 Don't you think they are merely trying to buy votes?
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  3296. Apology! that time should have been 1:03:00
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  3297. I think the mesage for Netanyahoo is "Mene mene tekel upharsin" (Or some such!)
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  3298. Absolutely right! The arms manufacturers control the US's foreign policy through payments to lobbying industries and their shareholders who are government ministers, permanent civil servants, congress-critters and they buy the media with advertizing. They thrive on wars, rumours of wars and threats of wars. To those short-sighted people who say "arms manufacturers do not invade countries" i would say: They have no need to, they get the government to pay poor mugs to do it for them and their shareholder to get the government to pay for these invasions and the weapons needed to do that.
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  3299.  @robertarnold3394  Yes. I can agree with that.
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  3300. 5:32 The reason the Chinese are not talking to the US is quite simple: When Xi Jinping met Biden, Biden told him that the US respected the "One China Policy". Almost immediately the US stepped up its cultivation of the separatist movement in Taiwan. The Chinese concluded that they could not trust anything the US said and asked themselves: "What is the point of talking to them? There is no point. It is a waste of time." Can you blame them?
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  3301. 10:21 "What's our objective?" That is the reallyimportant question! In my view the objective of the West has been, since Putin first became Russian president, to get back to the situation that obtained in the 1990s. In fact, since before the end of WW2 there has been a faction in the US, which has been growing in strength ever since, that wants to conquer Russia, balkanise it, loot its resources and live happily ever after as the undisputed World Hegemon. This not a secret, they have published books laying out these plans and this explains why the US has around 800+ bases all aroound the World and why it is so madly keen to expand NATO, even into the Western Pacific!
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  3302.  @homeguardster  Western propagandists? (Something to hang stories on.) The Russian government? (One less problem to worry about.) I really don't think his death is going to change much.
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  3303. 14:35 Another advantage to Beta-carotin is that vegetarians can eat e.g.carrots without feeling guilty about it! Important anywhere, but particularly in Buddist countries.
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  3304. 42:23 I don't know, of course, how far these Western leaders are fooling themselves, but I have found sometimes that people are quite unwilling to hear that they have got something wrong. It could even be, that their underlings who know the facts, fear for their jobs if they tell them what they know. There is a saying, I forget from whence it comes, that "There's none so blind as those that won't see!" Considering that one does not have to spout much nonsense to lose all credibility, I do wonder at the way people like e.g. Ben Wallace come out with obviously stupid remarks.
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  3305. How ill mannered these two men (louts?) are! They don't allow Kim to speak. They keep interrupting. Disgusting! They should learn to argue so hat the truth can emerge. Ththough they are both grown men, their behaviour is childish.
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  3306. 8:25 I don't see any reason why the BRICS payment system should not work. It depends on Science and technique and Russia, China, Iran and India have a lot of clever, ingenious, technically skilled people, so if the West can make a workable system I am sure that the BRICS can do so too.
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  3307. As the US stuck to Iran's money for a decade or more, as the US told Venezuela that its president was not its president, but some relatively obscure politician was and then gave him Venezuela's gold reserves, as the US has "Frozen" and is now in the process of stealing the Russian's foreign exchange reserves, it is hardly surprising that people are "starting to mistrust the US." What is REALLY surprising is that anyone trusts them at all!
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  3308. Seems to me that what Putin says is straightforward and common sense. The only surprise in what he says, is how different it is to what we are told he says, by the MSM. When you listen to what he says, it makes sense and it is clear that he is in full control of his senses and he does not appear to be hiding anything. Furthermore, he does not evade questions, he answers them. The widely spread idea in the West that he is on some drive to conquer the World, does not bear examination. (To me it looks like what the psychiartists call "projection". I.e. thinking that other people are thinking or doing what you yourself are doing or thinking. Like a man planning to murder his wife, imagining that his wife is planning to murder him.) In the case of Russia planning to conquer the World, one has to ask: "Who has about 900 military bases all over the World and why? Who has the largest military budget in the World BY FAR ?" (Bigger than the next 9 or 10 countries put together and some of those are allies!) Who has attacked and largely wrecked, at least 50 countries since 1950. Is it Russia? No, it isn't. Russia has one of the lowest population densities in the World (About 30 times less than the UK.) it has no need of more land. So why do so many people in the West think that Russia is on some drive to conquer the rest of Europe and after that the rest of the World? It is because, that is what they are told, over and over again. That repetition is a fact, but however many times a lie is repeated it does not make it true.
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  3309. 50:34 My feeling is that Budanov is a liar and that the British Ministry of Defense Laps up his every word as though it were the Gospel Truth. While the British MSM take their cue from the MOD.
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  3310. What is Sunak's attitude to Russia?
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  3311. 16:38 Do you suppose that were these British soldiers or even US soldiers (and there were no election to consider) they would show any more humanity towards them? I don't.
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  3312. 1:01:08 Presumably the NATO Parliamentary Assembly recognizing Russia as a terrorist state is not sufficient reason for the USG to be unable to negotiate with the Russians?
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  3313. 0:49 Quite clearly, The USA has no objection to extra-judicial killings, so its attack on India over alledged Indian government assassins working in the USA is a cover story. The real problem, thr real reason the USG is trying to embarrass Modi, is much more likely to be the Indian participation in BRICS.
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  3314. 2:45 I hold no brief for Lindsey Graham, but he has really shown up Lloyd Austin as too cowardly to come out and make the "Politiccaly incorrect" statement, that dropping atomic bombs on surrendering Japan, was a monstrous, unforgivable War Crime, though it is pretty clear that that is what he would like to say. As he doutless knows, the intention, behind the decision to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was to frighten the USSR. To shorten the war, so that the USSR did not invade Japan, which they were about to do.
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  3315. 1:02:14 For Israel to defy a Security Council Resolution, is particularly unwise, as Israel was, itself set up, legitimated, by a Scurity Council resolution!
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  3316. 3:55 The sanctions on Russia have hurt the Europeans very much indeed. They have, for example wrecked the German economy (To the benefit of the US.) Josep Borrel is a hard-line representative of the WEF/Brussels burocracy. We the people of Europe have not been asked but I do not think he represent the views of the Majority of Europeans. To us, the Sanction on Russia look like "cutting off our nose to spite out face". Probably, he and his colleagues will suffer not at all.
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  3317. Sounds as though the former PM knows what he is talking about. Does anyone doubt that the war strted in 2014 was the work of the USA (Victoria Nuland) and Ukrainian fascists?
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  3318. 1:23 "US State Department said China has threatened the security of Europe & not just Ukraine." Do these people ever think about what they are saying? General Wesley Clark recounts how he was told before 911, that the "US was going to invade seven countries in five years". If that isn't "threatening the security of the World" I wonder what would be?
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  3319. 2:03 If Putin deserves an arrest warrant on a charge of "War Crimes" (Evacuating Ukrainian children from a war zone! How evil is that?) then, every living US president and most UK prime ministers, deserve one too, for much worse war crimes.
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  3320. 4:53 Yes of course Jungle Josep meant that he would have much prefered ISIS to have taken over Syria. They would have been much preferable to Bashar Al Assad. For a start, they would have, probably, forced the Russian to leave their only naval base on the Mediterranian Sea.
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  3321. 5:51 Look! It is no secret that Hamas was set up by the Israeli secret service to discredit the Palestinian resistence and the Palestinian nation as a collection of savages. They did not like the PLO because they were "too, rational, too civilised". So why is everyone surprised that Hamas behaved the way they did? They were doing their job. You speak of the events of 7/11 being "Theatrical". Quite right, that's exactly what they were; what you might call "Snuff theatre". These events were supposed to provide an "excuse", a "justification", for the genocide to take place in Gaza. This time however, the World has moved on a bit. It is fed up with the self-serving rhetoric coming out of Tel Aviv and its echos worldwide. There is now the internet and more people have wised-up, and it shows in the reactions of places like Barcelona, calling out five decades of double standards and hypocrisy, and taking actiom to make their point felt.
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  3322. He's wrong you know! You can get suspended on YouTube for shredding what is government approved "Information", even if it is 100% incorrect, as was found out the hard way by the FLCCC, talking about Iver*ectin for example.
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  3323.  @Anonymous------  Right.
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  3324. 26:42 Patrick Lancaster speaking on the Duran yesterday said IINM that the attack on Donetsk city, a day or two ago, was done with attacams, They hit a library and a kindergarten(?).
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  3325.  @Sammyli99  I did not know that, but I did read that the tanks that the US supplied to Russia, (8000 of them IIRC) were so easy to destroy that The Russians used them only to train people to operate a tank.
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  3326. This is all so silly! It looks as though none of this had been thought about before turning down flat, Russia's request for negotiations over a comprhensive security architecture for Europe! Really! It is a bit late to start worrying about it now! Did the Collective West provoke this war between Ukraine and Russia with no thought for the consequences, if it all went South? These are our Leaders? I wonder why?
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  3327. 18:39 the port the Chinese took over for 99 years in payment for their loan, was built by the Chinese.
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  3328. 3:59 Since when has Poland moved to the Arctic (Or is, perhaps, moved to the South pole?) It must have done one or the other to have snow that deep!
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  3329. Thanks for airing this again. I hope no stupid reaction occurs as a result.
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  3330. Yes, absolutely right and important! I would add that Dr A.J.P. Martin NP, after he retired from being Professor of Chemistry at some Swiss University, I don't remember which, was researching a powerfully curative chemical, which he believed was to be found in fermented, unpasteurized milk. In the course of his studies, he infected himself with various diseases and then, drank fermented unpasteurized milk, or an extract thereof and then gave himself a fever by immersing himself in a bath of very hot water. As far as I know, he successfully cured the disease each time I don't think he ever succeeded in isolating this substance (if it exists) but he did discover, that eating something while you have a fever, is a way of developing an allergy to the eaten substance. (This would seem to chime in with of the folk saying: "Feed a cold but starve a fever.")
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  3331.  @Sarah-psalm127  In the '70s I caught 'flu and my temperature went up day by day 100, 101, 102, 103, 104 and I thought:: Tomorrow, I shall either be dead or on the way to recovery. In the morning my temperature was normal. I was adult at the time. I don't trust painkillers. In my teens I took, i think it was Tylenol for a sore throat and then drank tea that was much too hot without realizing that it was too hot. It took the skin off the inside of my mouth and burned my throat
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  3332. 30:33 Scholz says: "Sanctions are getting more effective week by week". Why are you surprised? this is standard western practice: You stand reality on its head and expound it as "what everyone knows".
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  3333.  @christinehomer2185  Could be. Depends on who's there.
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  3334.  @kathycollett4318  I don't smoke. I never have. I don't understand your reply. The Russian troops have encircled Bachmut, That is to say, they have sent troops to cut off the Ukrainians from the west. That means, that those Russian troops will have Ukrainian troops to the west and to the east of them. I was merely pointing out that in calculating the numbers on both sides the Russians encircling Bachmut had to fight, not only the Ukrainians inside Bachmut but those outside as well.
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  3335. I agree with almost everything you say about this war; however, I think you seem to have too high expectations of the MSM! The MSM is not primarily, a distributer of information. No. It is primarily, from its inception, a means of making money and hence, distributing information is strictly a secondary activity and not neccesary at all, except to keep the readership/viewers interested. There is, in addition no great penalty for distributing misinformation, "fake news", or outright lies. The only thing they really have to avoid, is spreading real information, that the powers-that-be want to suppress.
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  3336. 55:40 There is also the Belt and Road Initiative.
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  3337. 40:16 Probably both the Financial Times article and the article in Die Welt were "inspired" by a handout from the "Integrity initiative" (Google it.) which offshoot of the 5-eyes, tells editors, on a daily basis, what is "news" and what is "misinformation".
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  3338. How dare the Russians, the Chinese and those damned Iranians have and express an opinion on things in the US!? There ought to be a Law against it!
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  3339. A trickle charger will not provide 4.5Amps!
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  3340. "Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad!" The most stupid aspect of this idiocy is that even in the most "optimistic" scenario, these planes cannot win the war for the Collective West!
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  3341. "ICC prosecuterKarim Khan said he had reasonable grounds to believe that the five men bear 'criminal responsibility' for alleged war crimes." Yes, considering that Israeli forces have been bombing civilian apartments, hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure and at the same time, expressing openly genocidalintentions towards thei opponents, he has VERY "reasonable grounds"! In fact, he would have lost all credibility, over most of the World, had he said anything else.
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  3342. Yes! It is a dead (Npi!) givaway, It's like the "alleged" & "unfounded" allegation of vote-rigging in the last presidential election and the "unprovoked" aggression in Ukraine!
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  3343. 8:35 It's worse than just the loss of Russian airspace, there is also the loss of cheap Russian oil.
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  3344. Lenin warned that the Social Democrats were imperialists at heart. It's nothing new!
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  3345. Since long before November 1949 I have been reading authoritative accounts of the imminent collapse of the Chinese Communists' economy. It has not happened yet and I don't believe it is going to happen this time either.
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  3346. 35:51 I am not sure but I think this "excess of deaths over normal" is not confined to the UK. Personally, I think it is caused by the vaccinations with Pfizer vaccines (See internet for results of forcing Pfizer to disclose results of clinical trials, which they wanted to keep secret for 55 years!)
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  3347. 50:01 Worse than all that you have enumerated; is the fact that the Russians have Zero faith in anything the US say and the US have no competent negotiators.
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  3348. As Sherlock Holmes explained if you have exhausted all the rational explanations you have to start considering the apparently irrational explanations. It seems to me that there are no rational explanations for the policies pursued by the leaders of the West. As it is clear that the "Unohus" exert an enormous influence on the leaders of nearly all western leaders (particularly the US ones) and are clearly not opposing, but even "quietly" encouraging them in the idiotic policies they are following, it follows that these policies are (must be) the policies of the said Unohus. Why would Western leaders, almost without exception, follow these policies as they do, even though they are evidently inimical to the interests of their own countries? As far as I can see, there are very few possible (plausible) explanations. The only one that I can think of, is widespread blackmail, which brings the affaire of J.E and his sidekick G.M. to mind. I agree it seems far-fetched, but does anyone have a better suggestion?
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  3349. Maybe they could offer the Taliban to release the Afghan central bank's reserves in exchange for some of the ammo they left behind?
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  3350. 37:00 I think the word you were looking for was "hinterland". Just saying.
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  3351. 50:21 You obviously have not understood, or perhaps cannot bring yourself to accept, that there is NO PENALTY, for lying about facts, only for telling the truth about things that the PTB want covered up.
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  3352. Very interesting! Thanks for showing that. Yes, I would be interested to see what goes on inside the combustion chamber.
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  3353. 21:20 Why does the American general allow what are essentially terrorist attacks , particularly when Ukraine is short of ammo? I think it is merely confirmation of the Gangster-nature of the USG. This is what they do. This is what they did in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan and what they trained the Ukrainians to do befor Feb.2022. This is their MO.
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  3354. 8:58 The Fed is a private company. How can a "Democratic" system have a Private Company wielding so much power?
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  3355. 1:04:10 It would require, in effect, a planned economy!!
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  3356. 32:00 "Pro-Putin forces in Congress". "Communists in the State Department." It worked a treat for Senator McArthy, it should work again!
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  3357. 24:30 Gary Powers and the U2?.
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  3358. 10:52 How iis Ukraine "going to make a breakthrough in the spring" when it is desperately short of men to fight, to the extent that it is calling-up women to fight? To fight that is, in the front lines, not in the hospitals or the supply chains but in the trenches and the gun-emplacements. If Ukraine has not been defeated, I wonder what a defeated Ukraine would look like?
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  3359.  @bradongentile1651  IF.
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  3360.  @jimdickson1969  Tell it to the Ukrainians.
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  3361.  @donhaddix3770 "what Russian proxies?" They haven't started looking for Proxies yet.
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  3362. @ArturoNavarro-wx8bb "Russia is not the 4th economy in the world PPP is nonsense" Yep! It is the numbers that count! Not what you can buy with them!
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  3363.  @pcvn214  I don't think your maths adds up! If the economy is growing by 5%+ (As the World Bank says it is.) then 10% of that growth is 0.5% and the other 4.5% is real growth outside the war economy. meanwhile the Western economies outside the US are shrinking, whatever the governments say.
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  3364.  @bradongentile1651  "Russia is not the 4th, did Germany, South Korea, Japan etc fall off the map? Goofball" According to the World bBank it is.
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  3365.  @bradongentile1651  No idea! You tell me.
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  3366. "As historians will look back at the days when USA run the world as the sole hegemonic power it would be remembered as a time of great failures as USA succeeded to stabilize no region in the world and caused unnecessary death, destruction, caos and misery everywhere it went on the so called benign missions of liberal hegemonic wars to stablish democracies. " No, they won't. They will understand that these were not failure of good intentions. These were successes of really evil people, who wanted their arms (and other industries) to thrive at the expense of the horrific suffering of countless millions of other people. This was NOT the failure of good intentions, this was the fulfillment of an EVIL money making dream, which succeeded beyond the dreams of avarice!
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  3367. "Genocide is a crime which is very hard to prove" There are statements by Israeli government Ministers and other officials, including Benjamin Netanyahoo, if I am not mistaken, to the effect that the intention of the action of the IDF was to kill Palestinians. Bombing civilian targets such as hospitals and UN shelters, is hard to understand as anything other than as actions, intended to kill large numbers of Gazan, irrespective of what they had done or not done. How many does one have to kill for your actions to count as genocide? Can one legally "slide out from under" a charge of genocide, by showing that some members of the ethnicity concerned remain alive?
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  3368. One can see what real "Character Assassination looks like, if one examines the campaign against Jeremy Corbyn after he won the Labour leadership position in the UK, by a landslide victory and revived the spirits of a very dejected party. He made the grave mistake of trying to appease his critics and was, consequently, destroyed. He was replaced by a bog-standard. rightwing social democrat and the LP sank back into its previous apathy.
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  3369.  @voraxe3032  "sounds like a racket to me just eat decent" Type 1 Diabetes is a failure of the pancreas to produce insulin, which means you cannot clear glucose from your blood. Glucose is the breakdown product of sugar and starch. It is a genetic defect. You need supplementary insulin to replace the insulin that your pancreas is not producing. (Or this new Chinese treatment.) Type 2, means that, for too long, you have eaten too much sugar and starch and produced so much insulin, that the cells in your body have stopped responding to it and stopped absorbing glucose to make energy and fat. "Eating decent" is not helpful, if what you eat, contains sugar or starch. If you have type 2, you need to go on a keto diet and cut out as much sugar and starch as you can. Fortunately, if you get most of your calories from "decent" fat (Butter, Tallow, mutton fat, Lard, chicken fat coconut oil, real olive oil (and NO seed oils, NO Margarine!) you will feel hungry much less often and full much sooner. The reason for that is, when you eat sugar and you get glucose in your blood, your pancreas produces insulin and your muscles absorb the glucose and turn it into glycogen, which can be used later to make muscular energy. When the muscles have made all the glycogen they need, the fat cells turn the remaining glucose in the blood, into fat and store it. That leaves the insulin, that was produced to deal with the glucose, that has been stored, still in your blood and that makes you feel hungry! This is why sweet things make you want more sweet things. In other words, sugar and starch are highly addictive drugs which, when taken in excess, are very damaging. The Big Food Companies are the biggest pushers around! Read the labels on the food.
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  3370. @yamudda364 It is only the MSM and Western politicians that say that the Russians (PUTIN) want to use nuclear weapons. Show me one quote where a member of a Russian government has expressed a desire to use nuclear weapons. If you can!
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  3371. Most of the sanctions so far have hurt the sanctioners, rather more than the sanctioned. Of course, it takes time to recover from sanctions, but as the old proverb says: "If it doesn't kill you it will strengthen you." I have the distinct impression, that the peple running the USA are not terribly bright, so I rather expect their sanctions to be misconceived and ineffective. Whatever else, more sanctions will be seen by the World, as a further reason to de-dollarise.
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  3372. 43:53 Any such effort to win over the "G;obal South" (GS) has been well and truly aborted by the Israeli actions in Gaza! The whole world has had its nose rubbed in it an the US and Israel find themselves isolated as never before. Even the UK is openly torn between holding its nose and siding with the rest of the World in the face of the horror unfolding inGaza and on Al Jazeera.
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  3373. 47:00 Who is going to organize this putch? "Who will rid me of this turbulent Russkie?" "Aye! There's the rub!" Where have all the NGOs gone? Where, come to that, have all the spooks gone?
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  3374. I hope you have a great Christmas too!
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  3375. 1:15 The whole story is as fake as the kipper dragged across country, to leave a scent-trail for hounds to follow in a mock fox hunt!
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  3376. "The ICC request (actually the prosecuter's request to the ICC for warrants) for warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders also divided Europe" Along Ethnic lines?
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  3377.  @billykulim5202  Yes! Indeed it is! Well, it's part of it. The other parts that I have heard about are the "Right Sector" and "The National Militia", C14, . According to Reuters Josh Cohen in an article dated 20/3/2018: " Kiev's city government recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a "municipal guard" to patrol the streets; three such militia-run guard forces are already registered in Kiev, and at least 21 operate in other cities."
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  3378. 6:29This idea of "European Bonds" will lead inexorably to the demand for "European taxes" to pay the interest on the bonds. They are a sort of Trojan Horse measure to sneak European taxation in on an unsuspecting public. Without Eurotaxes, how are the commission going to pay the interest on the bonds? They don't do anything productive, after all, so it will have to come from us.
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  3379. 26:35 The Chinese have a new fire-fighting amphibious plane called iirc "A600" which has a huge water carrying capacity. It might be "politically easier" to get it from China than from Russia.
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  3380. 56:00 "If you are not FOR US you are AGAINST US!!"
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  3381. 1:10:41 Yeah! And who would you say is behind the Irano-phobia and the Russo-phobia? Seems to me, to be the same tribe in both cases.
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  3382. So why are these biolabs financed by not the NIH but by DARPA? AND why was Victoria F.T.E.U. Nuland afraid that the Russians might get their hands on the material that they were working on?
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  3383. It was to please the clique in Washington that Europe placed the boomerang sanctions on Russia.
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  3384.  @junctionfilms6348  It is very easy to say things like : "Albeit interesting, all Duran are often doing, is going over and over what we all know - it is fcuk'd - instead of being flabbergasted and throwing hands in the air about it - it would be most positive to find people talking about totally new ideas." It is very hard to put such ideas into operation! Unless you are some sort of Putschist, don't underestimate the importance of educating large numbers of people to enable them to see what is really going on. In my view the Duran is doing a very good job in that respect. No political movement in Britain (Or anywhere in the West.) is going to make a real, permanent difference without a lot of popular support. That requires at least a largish minority to distrust what they read/hear/see in the MSM. As of this video the Duran has 311K subscribers, which is a good start. If you have some better way forward, perhaps you can follow it or share it with the rest of us?
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  3385.  @junctionfilms6348  "It does get alarming to see people be knowledgeable and swing a cigar on the internet and basically point out all that is wrong with the world - but offer nothing or suggestions of how to fix it." "From each according to his ability" Pointing out what is wrong with the present set-up is part of the job. An important part of the job. Agreed it isn't enough to change things, it won't, but making enough people aware of the failings of the present system is a necessary condition for change to occur. If you yourself can't come up with a way of making changes to occur, don't knock other people for not making suggestions of how to bring about the necessary changes.
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  3386. P.s. If you want to see what a state with a really small government was like, read the "Icelandic Sagas". There was a very good translation published three or four years back.
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  3387. Interesting program. I had never heard of HTC. What I did not understand from the program, is how it gets rid of heavy metal pollutants. in the early '70s I was given a tour around the Anglian Water's sewage treatment plant in Cambridge UK, where they were fermenting the sewage (at 32C ) to make methane, CO2, water and solids. They had a gas engine driving a 300KW generator which powered the plant and AW's offices and their vehicles were all running on the methane-CO2 mixture. What shocked me, was that they had a large surplus which they burnt to waste! It was equivalent to burning about 60 gallons of petrol each day. They said that it would be "too complicated" (!) to feed it into their generator and put the power into the grid. They told me that the solid sludge resulting from the fermentation could not be used for fertilizer because of people flushing e.g. paint down the toilet, meaning that it was contaminated with lead.
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  3388. The difference between the US and Russian forces presence in Syria (Which you seem to be trying to obscure.) is that the Russians were invited to be there, by the internationally recognized Syrian government while the US forces are an invading force, which is doing severe damage to the Syrian people. In particular, they are stealing Syria's oil and Syria's wheat.
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  3389. Maybe there are a few people in Washington, London, Brussels and Warsaw who would just LOVE to start WW3, using any excuse! The SMO in Ukraine, has shown, beyond doubt, that NATO is a) unwilling to meet the Russians on the battlefield and b) unable to produce the necessary volume of arms to defeat them if they ever did get to fight them. Mao was right! "All reactionaries are Paper Tigers!" NATO is, in my view, hamstrung by the MIC which is intent on making, not usable, robust weapons, which can stand up to battlefield conditions, but weapons which look impressive, sound impressive, and make a lot of money for the MIC (and never mind the performance! In any case, they are not supposed to be USED!).
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  3390. The MSM is owned or controled by about six immensely wealthy corporatios. Being capitalist entities, their primary DUTY is to make money for their shareholders. They have no legal obligation to tell the truth or legal responsibility for the public's reaction to their statements (Barring some libel laws). Consequently they say what they think is the most profitable thing to say. If spouting government propaganda is the most profitable (Or least risky) thing to do, that is what they will do. Therefore, anyone with the slightest interest in what is, really, going on, should treat the offerings of the MSM, with a great deal of scepticism and assume that he is being told less than half of the truth.
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  3391.  @poliziagrammaticale9430  Keep up the good work! There's plenty more where that came from!
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  3392. 37:21 Do you suppose that if they renamed Avdiivka, Prage that the US Congress and the other leaders of N@0 would see through the deception?
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  3393. 1:20:10 I would suggest that the CW should offer various "sweetners" to the Russians such as compensation for the destruction of Nordstream, an end to sanctions, the return of the bank reserves and the return of US troops from their overseas bases to the US, an end to proxy wars and illegal occupations of other peoples' countries and NATO. Just for a start. I am sure that there are other measures that could be offered. (Certainly, I can think of others that I would favour, but being nobody, I don't suppose they will be even considered.)
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  3394. \\i notice that when I buy vitamin D3 is it horribly expensive and the pharmacist spent quite a while to impress on me not to take more than 2000 units per day. I wonder if the pharmaceutical companies are behind this? 6:40 The reason the Health Minister and his Experts are not trumpeting the virtues of Vitamin D is perfectly obvious but cannot be mentioned, as that would be misinformation. (As defined in the Act.)
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  3395. 1:08:54 It hardly needs to be pointed out that the Rich and the corporations make "their" money by the sale of the work done by their employees. So, "taxing the rich" is merely taxing the working poor at "second hand".
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  3396. 29:03 Why doesn't NATO invade Russia when they would only have to deal with 3% of the Russian Army? Three possibilities: 1) 3% is more than they care to confront. 2) They have Ben Wallace's understanding of mathematics and they do not realize that 3% is a very small fraction. Or: 3) that 1-97% = 3%?
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  3397. 9:30 The heart muscle depends on the coronary arteries for oxygen. It could be the heart muscle or the blood vessels being attacked, the same as in the brain or both..
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  3398. The people who are running the Collective West, based in Washington, care absolutely nothing about ordinary people of any nationality. They do not have hearts only cash registers, or swinging bricks.
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  3399.  @johnr.b.murray3417  At a guess, not many.
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  3400. 57:33 The "Hegemon" does not want strong countries, not even as allies. "Top Dogs" do not cheerfully share a kennel! On the one hand they cannot stand the thought of either Russia or China being strong, nor can they avoid deriving them together by being horrible to both!
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  3401.  @neilthompson8668  How do you know that? I understood that one of the things that the authorities were suppressing was statistics on whether people who had died had been vaccinated or not? Where did you get the information from? Another point is that if you die within a short time (I forget exactly how long, a week or so I think) your death certificate states that you were "unvaccinated". So all the people who die within a week of their first vaccine, count among the unvaccinated deaths.
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  3402.  @neilthompson8668  The statistics are skewed. The authorities count as "unvaccinated", all the really unvaccinated AND those that were vaccinated withind the last few days (week?). "Because, the vaccine has not had time to work".
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  3403. It occurs to me that I have had a few friends who were actors and one characteristic they all shared, was that they were not interested in politics. Zelensky and most of his crew, were also theatrical professionals in their previous lives. Maybe they did not know the tragic history of previous US puppet rulers?
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  3404. Do be careful Alex when you are walking and reading at the same time! It is very easy to walk into something. I know, I have done just that! It can be painful, believe me.
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  3405. It would be interesting to know what the situation with respect to kidney disease is.
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  3406.  @detlevkarlstotzel1357  Thank you!
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  3407. 24:42 I should think it is just within the bounds of human stupidity that Ursular van der Lying and Macaroon believed that the US would not do the dirty on its European allies. "I mean, we're white! They wouldn't treat us like that! Would they?"
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  3408. I have heard Soviet scientists say that in 1940, they noticed that all discussion of nuclear fission had completely disappeared from the West's scientific literature and this was what alerted them to the way research in the West was going.
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  3409. Why did you ignore the obvious point that if the Russians wanted to deprive Germany and Europe of the NS Pipelines' gas, they had only to turn off the tap? Done. Finished. No danger. No permanent loss, other than, perhaps, some sales.
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  3410.  @edmondgautier8301  Move along, please! Nothing to see here! No benefit to the US in sabotaging a competitor's cheap energy supply? Really? No benefit in having profitable companies transfer their operations to where you can tax them? To where they will employ your unemployed? No benefit in selling gas at sky-high prices? Come on Man! There really is no other suspect for this deed. Only Norway (a co-conspirator) benefits from the deed. No one else had the opportunity that the US had. Nearly no one had the means and expertise to do the deed. To cap it all, Biden, Victoria Nuland and Blinken, had all said they were going to do it. If you can't see that it was the US that sabotaged the NS pipelines, it is because you don't want to see it.
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  3411.  @alickmunro8985  Well! Fancy that! Here was I thinking that Scotland was part of Britain! Live and learn, I suppose.
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  3412.  @timonsolus  Russia remembers the Intervention after the revolution.
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  3413.  @magicponyrides  An arrogant prick. The Russians are not going to get humiliated, as you are going to see. Russia is fighting a puppet of the USA, not fighting "the poorest country in Europe" but fighting a proxy army armed by NATO, which in February 2022 was considered the "best armed and trained and the largest Army in Europe". It is now fighting NATO, the self-styled "Greatest Military force the World has ever seen." This may be true, but NATO must rank as one of the worst managed the World has ever seen, too. For example it has spent about four times the Russian Defence budget to support Ukraine and Zelensky still has to run around the world to cadge weapons.
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  3414.  @lukasbauer8783  Both options are.
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  3415.  @FrauUnibrow  Oh! Thank you.
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  3416.  @thomasfowler8212  Thanks.
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  3417.  @johnnysideline  Agreed.
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  3418.  @abdisalangure3599  Thank you.
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  3419. Intentional? Whose intention?
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  3420. There seems to be a bad contact in your mic. It imposes a crackle on your speech, particulrly when you raise your voice.
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  3421. 6:09 The Russians had nine months to prepare. Yes, at the time the "Great Ukrainian Offensive" to break the Russians' land corridor to Crimea was announced, I wondered: why announce what you re going to do months before you do it? Why be surprised that there are obstacles in your way, when you finally get round to trying to do it?
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  3422. In my view, making depleted Uranium armour or rounds is, or should be if it isn't, a Crime against Humanity, as the result of using it in combat will be the poisoning of the ground around for many, many generations, as has already been shown in Iraq. Supplying and using such is or at least, should be if it isn't, a War Crime, for the same reason.
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  3423. How hot does sodium have to be before it emmits light? Would it be possible, do you think, to have a layer of something containing sodium ions that fluoresced when irradiated with the Sun's UV, but which allowed the visible light through to hit a normal PV cell underneath? (By "NaPV cell" I mean a photovoltaic cell, which is adapted to capture sodium light.) If you could make a NaPV cell thin enough to be transparent and make a sandwich of NaPV cell - Fluorescence material - NaPV cell you could capture the Na-light produced, going in the direction of the incident light and also the light emmitted by the fluorescent material going back towards the Sun. and if, you could make it all transparent to visible light you could use that to generate power in a normal PV cell. (If you see what I mean, sorta thing like!) How much of the IR radiation in Sunlight is converted to electricity in a normal solar panel?
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  3424.  @skinny5771  What matters is what they want it for.
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  3425.  @justsceptic3085  Thanks.
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  3426.  @philipmain5701  Relevant?
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  3427.  @cadicamo8720  " Btw, what's the perform with a regime change in fascist Russia and its imperialist dictatorship?" Is this English? If so can you put it another way? Why do you call Russia "Fascist"? Where does Russia hide its colonies?
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  3428.  @Bogie-o9l  "Ukraine", that is to say thepeople of Ukraine did not have a choice. They were/are governed by a US Puppet Regime that was imposed on them in 2014. The war had almost nothing to do with what the people of the country wanted and everything to do with the fantastic ideas and plans of a small group of warmongers in Washington and London. It's not the Ukrainian's fault.
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  3429.  @aunalisadikot9541  Any evidence for that statement?
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  3430.  @Err_ror  That was, so to say, baked in the cake.
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  3431. 36:38 Strictly necessary for the insurance companies!
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  3432. 34:45 Paranoia? "The CPC wamts war?" Who says? The US warmongers and the tame MSM. The Chinese communists understand that you cannot safely appease the US Deep state. If you try, they just dare to go further. When they threatened Mao with nuclear weapons, when China had none, he simply replied "All reactionaries are paper tigers" and got one with governing China. They did not use their nukes because they did not dare. He understood that.
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  3433.  @JosephBisio  " What about that little Russian invasion of 2/24/22 ?? " That Invasion was provoked by the US whose proxy, the Ukrainian army, after spending seven and a bit years attacking the Russian-speaking Eastern provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk and killing thousands of them, threatened to wage an all out war on them and either etnicly cleanse the two provinces or masscre the inhabitants of them. The invasion was a pre-emptive strike to prevent this happenning. " What about Chinese threats vs, Taiwan," Taiwan is a province of China, as even the USG admits. The Chinese "threat" to invade its own province (?) is that if the province declares itself an independent country the Chinese government will invade to put it back under central government control, (Which, I should think, is what any government would do in their place!) but the Beijing government has always stated that they would much rather negotiate a peaceful union with two seperate systems in the mainland and Taiwan. " What about Chinese threats vs, Philippines, and Vietnam." Well what about them ? the relations between China and Vietnam are pretty good on the whole, true they have border disputes so do many other states in the region. The Chinese are not threatening to invade Vietnam. As to the Philipines there too the situation is similar. Until the Communists triuphed in China the US stated clearly that the islands and reefes that are disputed were Chinese. The Philipines have a new government which wants to please the US so they are upping the dispute over some islands. Thats about par for the course. Please detail Iran's threat against Israel. How do they compare to Israels genocidal actions and threats in Gaza?
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  3434. The last time I was in Chisinau, (just before the pandemic) I was alarmed to see many posters in the streets all saying "FOR FREE, IMPARTIAL, EXPERT ADVICE, COME TO THE EMBASSY OF THE USA".
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  3435. BTW these posters were in English.
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  3436. Since 1945 there have been many wars and threats of wars. I have not done the detailed research to be sure of the exact figure, but at a guess, I would say that the US was involved in about 95% of them. That is to say it provoked about 95% of them. If war breaks out over the status of Taiwan, it will be the US's fault and no one elses's. (Except its lapdog the UK!) The "Taiwan problem" is a hangover left from the Chinese civil war. The US supported the fascist regime of Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists who were led by Mao Tse-tung. In 1949 Chaing lost decisively and fled with all the treasures his forces could carry to Taiwan. The US Seventh Fleet stopped the Communists from pursuing them. That is to say the US was poking its nose into Chinas internal affairs. It has been doing that ever since. The US, seems to think, quite sincerely, they tell us so very often, that they are and should be for evermore, Top Dog. They are, the country which is so good, so perfect, has such wonderful Democracy, freedom, values, that all the world should do as they say. They mean it and they seem unwilling to listen to anyone who wants to tell them that "it aint neccessarily so!" If anyone does not understand this their message, they send their army or an army of their proxies, to convince them of the error of their ways.
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  3437. 19:40 What came over the Israeli officials, when they said the things they did? They have an ideaology that is essentially the same as that of the one with the moustaches in WW2 Germany. The Truth slipped out, as it sometimes does.
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  3438. 11:08 "It was very difficult for them to sort themselves out" Yes it was! Particularly as those that wanted to prevent them from sorting themselves out, included the CIA, who funded all sorts of terrorist groups to disrupt their development and drive towards independence. It is no surprise that the Ex-colonial powers are angry and upset at these developments, because for centuries they have been looting Africa and reducing them to abject poverty and extracting enormous wealth for themselves in the process. Look, for example at the Oil Companies and Nigeria! They have not just looted, but have done so in an incredibly damaging way for the environment.
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  3439.  @marymarlow3646  What has that got to do with what I wrote?
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  3440. 13:47 That's the Plan and it is a Plan worthy of IS/ISIL. It is a plan to hurt civilians to get them to turn on Putin. It won't work any more than fire-bombing Hamburg and Dresden persuaded the Germans to turn on Hitler or the Blitz on London, Liverpool, Belfast, etc., got the British to turn on Churchill. It seems that the CW's military is suffering the same lack of competent strategists as the CW political scene. It seems that none of them can see beyond the end of their nose.
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  3441. All these confrontations take place on the borders of China. If the US wants to avoid such incidents it is very simple: Just stop spying on China! The Chinese will not be sending spyplanes or warships to spy on the USA. As for Taiwan, there is a Civil war that the US has intervened in. The Chinese regard Taiwan as part of China, so do the Taiwan government, so, officially, do the USG! The difference is that the Mainland Chinese think that the Chinese government is located in Beijing and the Taiwan government thinks that it is located in Taipei.
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  3442. English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Hebrew?
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  3443. What this scandal shows is that beyond all possible doubt, the German Government, and by extension, all the other Western governments are run by TRAITORS! There can be no milder word for governments which so act against the interests of the countries they are supposed to protect. How they are going to weasel out of this situation, I don't know, but I fear they will, at least in the short term. However, I think this episode will act like an infection that will fester away underneath them and will speed up their inevitable eventual downfall. It cannot happen too soon. Congratulations on laying this story out so plainly and on your courage in doing so in these dangerous times.
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  3444. 15:56 The reason the sanctions have failed is because they were not designed by experts but by arrogant fools, who thought they knew far more than they did in fact know. It is the same reason that the war against Russia that they so enthusiastically provoked, failed. They designed NATO's military response on the basis of arrogant and deficient assumptions and it failed accordingly.
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  3445. 4:21 In what way is the US policy "In the interests of the US"? To me it seems a ridiculous polcy and one which threatens a disaster, how big a disaster is anyone's guess!
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  3446. 1:44 You call NASA Transparent? I think quite a lot of people will disagree with you!
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  3447. The US recognizes that Taiwan is part of China and promises not to encourage the Taiwanese independence movement. The US does everything it can to encourage the Taiwan independence movement. The US sends billions of dollars' worth of weapons to Taiwan to defend itself against China. I wonder how India would like it, if the US were to encourage/support with vast quantities of weapons, the Kashmiri independence movement?
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  3448. 48:54 Looking for the instigators in Teheran or Moscow or Beijing does not fit with the 911 analogy which seems to me, the most likely explanation of all of it.
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  3449. What is Borrell talking about? How cold anyone with two braincells to string together see the USA as a "Reliable partner"? The proposition is a joke! Ask the South Vietnamese or, or come to that, the Ukrainians! This "Reliable Partner" has reneged on far more treaties than it has honored. This must be some new, Woke definition of "Reliable".
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  3450. @stuartjarman4930 The Royal Navy has three admirals and 8 Vice-admirals and 30 Rear-admirals.
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  3451. Good to see WION talking to someone from the Russian side.
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  3452. "Farmers are putting too much nitrogen into the atmosphere." Clever ol' farmers! Nitrogen IS 80% of the atmosphere! No, I have not made a typo, you can look at any chemistry textbook and it well tell you the same as I: approximately 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and traces of other gases. Complaining that farmers are "putting nitrogen into the air" is like complaining that or that the water company is filling the rivers with water. ("I could not come to your party because I have a bone in my leg.") It is a nonsensical statement, attempted "Blinding with Science" at a guess.
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  3453. What has to be understood is that Hamas is NOT a friend of the Palestinians but a total fraud. It was set up to sabotage the Palestinian struggle, by Israel and the US, in exactly the same way as IS, ISIS, Al Qaida, and the Taliban. In other words its job is to blacken the name of the Palestinians, to make sympathy for Israel and to undermine support for the PLO and Fatah which are both secular.
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  3454. 54:20 This is not so much magical thinking as ignorant thinking. This is the thinking of people with NO real experience of battle. It shows a deep sense of their own superiority, not just to the Russians, but to the Ukrainians as well. Something along the lines of "If I were in charge, it would all be quite different!" To be frank, they may all have been senior ex-officials, but they sound, for all the World, like a room full of pub-bores!
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  3455. 16:43 Just imagine! If this was planned by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, it must have been over weeks and in all that time and all the communications that would entail, no one leaked anything to any of the Israeli secret services nor was anything picked up by any of the 17 US secret services. Hardly seems possible does it?
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  3456. 10:58 Most importantly of all: they also have good intentions towards the rest of the World.
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  3457.  @izzyplant8428  Not incisive enough. Look at the ethnicity of the owners of the MSM and while you are at it look at the funding and leadership of the NGOs that are helping refugees, from the messes that N@0 and the Collective West have made of their home countries, to get across the Med and the Channel. These are the real enemies.
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  3458.  @arthurhannan2681  Poorly ruled! Yes! I should say so!! "Something" is killing many hundreds of Britons per month, Some doctors and a couple of MPs want the government to mount an enquirey, to find out what the "Something" is and who is responsible. (You might think that the government would want to know that, anyway) However, not only is the government stonewalling the request for an enquirey, but (most shocking of all!) almost all MPs stay away from debates on the subject!!!
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  3459.  @song4night  The war in Ukraine may be unfinished but I think that Putin probably feels that he can safely leave it the hands of his generals. As to Putin mediating Peace in Israel: I feel grave doubt that anybody can do that. It seems to me that the Israelis are insatiable. OTOH, maybe, after NATO is defeated, (which looks probable) the US "Umbrella" will have been folded and the Israelis will settle for what they have and stop trying to nibble away at their neighbours' territory? Without such a change of policy, I cannot see peace any time soon. If you really want to understand what is happening in Gaza, go to Brian Berletic's "US Running Low on Weapons as Proxy Wars Target Russia, Iran, & China". It is a real eye-opener!
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  3460. 1:31 "Its economy, under the Communist Party, ephasises state control," The CPC emphasises State control over the basic industries, roads, railways, Electric power, iron and steel, water, education, food, and so on. From the get go, though, they were not against private enterprise. Except for a hiccup during the Cultural Revolution,there has been a mass of small businesses supplying the needs that people have. the mistake of trying to plan all production, made by the USSR, was not made by China. There is an outward sign of this in, of all places, the National Flag. There are five stars there: the Big gold star representing Communism, and four small stars which represent the Peasants, the Industrial Workers, the Soldiers and the Patriotic Capitalists.
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  3461.  @fastepo  That was not a question. That was a comment on what was said, up to 1:31. It was, if you like a rebuttal of the implication that the Chinese economy, like that of the USSR was entirely state controlled and planned from one end to the other.
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  3462.  @klyddkross  Wico, out.
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  3463. Sorry for typo! Wilco, out.
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  3464. 1:36 Quite Right! Did NATO ask Israel not to attack Iran? I don't think so! How about NATO asking Israel to stop attacking Palestinian civilians?
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  3465.  @dalvinderbasi3495  Thanks for your support. It is surprising that more people don't see it for what it is. All the MSM are under the control of the Orwellianly named "Integrity Initiative". There are MSM outlets tailored for rightwing audiences (Telegraph) and MSM outlets tailored for central (soft left/soft right) (SUN, Daily Express) audiences and others for leftwing audiences, (Guardian) but all are operating under the same daily "guidelines" as to what can be said and what must not.
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  3466.  @dalvinderbasi3495  "The Integrity Initiative is a project of the Institute for Statecraft with a stated mission of defending democracy from disinformation, in particular from Russia, as well as China and extremist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)." It seems to have placed a representative in every MSM newsroom, to give daily "guidance" to editors as to what they may say and what they may not. Its sway seems to extend throughout the five-eyes countries.
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  3467. Interesting! the first paragraph of what I wrote in reply to you seems to have "evaporated"! Something similar happened while I was writing it! Never mind, no doubt if you really look into the II you will find out who founded it. You will find, I think, that the government has published a register of "unreliable" sites. Some of them, of course are just that, but mixed in with the rubbish there are a large number of sites that publish stuff that the government would rather they didn't. you may well find info there.
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  3468.  @mahbrum  Thanks.
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  3469. The reason that people are not shouting about it, is that they fear that they will be sacked, if they work in the MSM or de-platformed if they work in the alternative media. It is not a mystery at all.
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  3470. 9:26 I notice that Today you're wearing a microphone a few inches from your mouth. I am relieved by that, because recently (When you wore no visible mike.) I have had to listen very hard and I thought that, maybe, my hearing was failing. Today, I can hear you as easily as ever.
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  3471. To understand the apparently idiotic measures imposed by the Europeans and the USG you have to look at who benefits. Clearly the US industry benefits by the elimination of German competition. Other than that it looks like a revenge by the Unohus on Russia for slinging them out 1300 years ago.
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  3472.  @kevinwaalker  Did I say that The USA had invaded Russia? Not that I am aware of. As to the USA invading Ukraine; they di not invade, they staged a "Color Revolution", in Kiev in 2014 and overthrew the properly elected government, replacing it with a puppet regime supported by openly N*ZI-affiliated armed thugs. They then proceeded, for eight years, to train and arm these troops. with a view to "damaging Russia" and causing a regime change in Moscow. No "straightforward", "in yer face", invasion needed. You should try to avoid making "strawman" arguments.
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  3473. Was Lord Cameron elected?
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  3474. How long was Moldova part of Romania and how long was it part of Russia?
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  3475. 24:20 It's not just in the last 40 years that China has improved; it has improved enormously since 1949! If you look at the situation in China at the time the PRC was declared, it is literally incredible that it is the same place. Yes, of course it has improved immensely in the last 40 years but it improved immensely before that too. Read "Red Star Over China" or "The Great Road" or "Journey to the Beginning" to see what sort of state China was in before the PRC, see the mess that the PRC inherited and the efforts that the USA made to keep China down. What has been achieved is really extraordinary and quite without historical precedent.
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  3476. 1:10:40 After Zelensky goes, one of those three take over, as "Acting President Pro-tem" and new elections are arranged?
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  3477. The car manufacturers are Big Business, arnen't they going to pressure governments to backtrack on these new regulations? Perhaps I am being naive, but that is usually what happens when BB feels threatened.
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  3478. 2:57 Biden is trotting out the same old, tired, discredited "Domino Theory" that was being spouted about the war in Viet Nam!
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  3479. Antidepressants stop people feeling depressed. The problem is that they also stop feeling anything including sympathy, compassion, fear and similar emotions.
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  3480. 1:38 Making false statements? On that charge you could lock up the whole political class and the Media wallahs as well!
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  3481. 1:30 'The US branded it as "unconscionable" accusing Putin of "weaponising food". This is the same US that, last year, burned Syria' s wheat fields just when they were ready to harvest! This is the US that prohibited Australia from supplying wheat to China during "The Great Famine" of the last century. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds!
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  3482. 15:45 So far as I can remember, N@0 has never done anything to sort out Intra-European squabbles, e.g British French disputes or British Icelandic disputes, but has worked merely as a sales adjunct for the MIC and as a foreign Legion for the US. As to contributing to "Stability in Europe"? Like what? Any Intra-European squables that happen, I would imagine, can be sorted out by diplomats and negotiations.
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  3483. 19:20 There is nothing like democracy and what we have in the west at the moment is nothing like a democracy!
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  3484. 10:37 " Analyses" is the word you were searching for. Anyway! Congratulations! You and we have acheived a sort of, no! a not sort of, an Important Victory! We/you have got the idea of the "Sunk Cost Fallacy" as it relates to the Ukraine Disaster out into the Wider World.! That is a truimph. Quite an important milestone. The truth is breaking through the blanket of lies and misrepresentation that the MSM have tried to hide it with. I see that you have 193,000 subscribers. Let's all try to push that up further.
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  3485. The "Blocade of Berlin" was a fiction. It was manufactured by the West. To replace the Reichsmark, without notice, they introduced a new currency, the Deutschmark, which the Russians had no control over. The Russians had to keep control of their currency or the west would have wrecked their economy. The "Berlin Airlift" was equally unnecessary, as the Russians offered to sell West Berlin all the food it needed. However, for the propaganda vallue of it, the West spent God alone knows how much money flying it in instead.
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  3486.  @QuattroSG  So. Some parts of the front are completely quiet?
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  3487. 41:24 This explains why Europe had NO GREAT LEADERS! This is the effect of Brezhinsky's deliberate policy! I don't know how it was done, but it is too close for coincidence.
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  3488. 9:55 From 2014 to 2022 the Ukraine regime banned the speaking of Russian, which was the mother tongue of most of the population of Eastern Ukraine. Poroshenko sent the Ukraine Army to violently suppress the revolt of the two Donbas provinces, which wanted no part of the regime that came to power as the result of the coup d'etat in 2014. From 2014 to 2022 the Ukraine Army killed more than 10,000 inhabitants of the Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts. What in your opinion, should Putin have done about that? He tried negotiating with the Ukrainian regime and signed the first and second Minsk Agreements with them and Merkel and Holland who were co-signatories to those agreements, later admitted that neither they nor the Ukrainian president Poroshenko, had the slightest intention of ever honouring them. Over to you. What do you suggest Putin should have done? Watch while the Ukrainian Army carried out their promise to ethnically cleanse the Donbas? Or what?
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  3489. 11:55 Biden, like the rest of the USG, does not care about anybody, not even the citizens of their own country.
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  3490. 34:44 In a sense, in an oblique sort of way, Matt Gatz's decision not to prosecute Biden, is a plus point for Trump!
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  3491. 7:46 Del Toro? Does he, by any chance produce "Caca del toro?" I expect it is a job requirement.
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  3492. As to whether the relationship with the Chinese is better than the relationship with the US. Which would you rather have : the US's help with "fighting" Al Qaida or a railway, a hospital, an airport, a highway.... Would you rather have an IMF loan with attached Austerity and 72 gendered bathrooms or a Chinese loan to build some infrastructure? The choice is theirs, if they can get the CW off their backs.
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  3493. 1:05:29 There are three sorts of lies: the lie direct, the distortion of the truth, and the suppression of the truth. Even hinting at the existence of this article would be destroying their most powerful lie. Bravo Redacted and Judge Napolitano and any other US-based bloggers who dare to break this silence!
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  3494. Quite clearly, this process for winning elections, can be applied inside the US itself. Easier than in foreign countries, because there is no opposition to overcome or to outwit. No opposition from the government!
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  3495. Oh! Yes! And you might like to look into where the US military contingent to the WUHAN MILITARY games trained.
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  3496. 17:11 Maybe Zelensky could do a Tony Blaire and become a consultant to governments around the World? How to make Lots of money, you know?
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  3497. 18:15 That is a VERY Important Question! Who IS wanting to continue the Ukraine debacle?
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  3498. The Chinese representative spoke the truth. NATO calls itself a "Defensive Alliance" but in fact, has never defended anyone (Unless you think North Korea started the Korean War) but has only ever attacked countries that the US wanted to conquer, on the flimsiest reasons or false flags. Good for them! It is time that the US were called out on their double-talk and hypocrisy.
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  3499. "The whole mess started with the coup in 2014." No it didn't. It started long before. Almost all the wars that the US has engaged in since 1945 have had the aim of weakening, regime-changing or damaging countries which were "Too friendly with the Russians. They were allworking towards the aim of conquering Russia, balkanizing it and looting its resources and living happily ever after. (The fairytale type ending is deliberate, because this is a fantasy. It ain't gonna happen!)
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  3500. 8:30 Very accurate description of the "Refugee problem"!
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  3501. Bravo Spain!
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  3502. 7:15 The idea that you are peddling, that the war on Ukraine by Russia was a Russian initiative, is , franky, Fake News. That the Maidan Coup was orchestrated by the US, by Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador to the Ukraine, is hardly a secret. After this, under US tutelage, Ukraine so alienated the Russian speaking regions of the Donbas, that they rebelled and demanded autonomous status. The Ukrainian army then attacked them and were defeated and had to be rescued by Angela Merkel by the negotiation of a ceacefire; which was the result of the "Minsk Agreement 1" which was constantly violated, mostly by the Ukrainian government side and was followed by the second Minsk Agrrement. which was also constantly violated, mostly by the government forces. Later, Merkel and Hollande admitted, even boasted, that they had negotiated the Minsk agreements with Russia simply to give NATO time to build up, arm and train the Ukrainian forces to be able to defeat Russia. By February 2022, NATO thought that the Ukrainian army was ready, so they faced Russia with a horrible choice: either Ukraine would launch an all out attack on the Russian-speaking Donbas and would wipe them out or expel them, or if the Russians would come to the aid of their Russian-speaking brothers in Ukraine, they would face the largest and best armed, best trained, best equipped NATO-style army in Europe (backed by NATO). This choice was made more dfficult for Putin by the fact that he knew that if he left the Donbas residents to their fate, the Russian people would be furious and would throw him out of power. As by February 2022, 10,000 residents of Donbas had already been killed, it left him very little choice. It is not as though Putin woke up one day and decided: "Let's go and invade Ukraine!" There is much more I could say that is relevant, but I think that is enough.
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  3503. 37:12 This arrangement of the loan and the guarantees and the legality of the "Arrangement" is clearly legal under the Rules Bases International Order. I don't see how there can be any question about it!
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  3504. "Shadow" admits in this interview that they were sniping from an "apartment block". Exactly what the Russians accused the Ukrainians of doing.
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  3505. Seven is a lucky number!
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  3506. 17:72I have very little liking for Donald Trump, however, I think it is crystal-clear that he is being attacked by a Democrat Administration which is afraid he might defeat them at the next election. Russiagate has been proved to be a fraud and now they are cooking up new charges which equally dubious soundin. The charges against Trump also sound very odd, compared to the DOJ's silence on the vastly more shocking revelations about Hunter Biden's Laptop!
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  3507. Rostock is not in Poland in Germany. Assassins? Who died?
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  3508. Excuse missing "but"
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  3509. What outrageous Hypocrisy on the part of the US Spokesman! This coming from the government which was/is plotting to assasinate Julian Assange! The government which admits that at least some of its presidents, have a "Kill List" presented to them daily, to decide whether to authourise these assassination or not. The people on these lists have not been charged, much less tried and found guilty. "Don't do as I do! Do as I say!"
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  3510. What you ask is in it for Porky? Well, suppose there might be a vote of "No Confidence" in Snooky, then maybe Porky, (sorry!) Lord Porky might become PM, again?
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  3511. 5:39 This breaking free by Niger is , indirectly, a result of the weakening of the CW by its defeat in Ukraine.
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  3512. 1:57 Another indication that the Russians are listening to you and Alex!
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  3513. No! Zelensky is but a puppet of the warmongers in the White House and the State Department. Principally those named by Sy Hersh, in his investigation of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines.
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  3514. 44:42 It sounds as though Budanov is the victim of a lot of wishful thinking!
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  3515. 2:13 The World is not in Chaos, it is the process of breaking free of US domination. The ill-advised provocation of Russian intervention in the war, started by the US in Ukraine in 2014, taken together with the defeat after 20 years in Afghanistan, has shown, in stark relief, the limits of US military power and the ill-advised attack on the Russian financial system by sanctions and stealing its foreign reserves, after stealing the financial reserves of Venezuela, has shown the folly of continuing to trade in dollars or trusting Western Banking. That's not chaos, that's awakening! Ironically, the wake-up call came from the White House itself!
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  3516.  @robyenney951  Thanks,
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  3517.  @foxythedirtydog4494  They have not told me that.
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  3518. 23:32 The United States and Europe are continuing to trade with Russia in spite of sanctions and despite all their talk about "not fuelling Putin's War!"
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  3519. 50:06 No it's not that the Chinese have restricted exports of cotton to the US. Karma comes into play here. The cotton comes from Xinjiang and the US has put an embargo on US firms dealing in anything that might come from Xinjiang!
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  3520.  @fraserbailey6347  There is one BBC program that I am very glad I watched and that is "Horizon". The program in question, was about Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of the cause of stomach ulcers, the bacterium Helicobacter Pylorii and the fact that you could cure it in about a fortnight. It also described how it had taken him TEN YEARS to bring this knowledge to the public, because of the opposition from the pharmaceutical industry. This program enabled me to save three relatives from years of suffering.
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  3521. 1:06:07 The purpose of the persecution of the Russophone people of the Donbas was not to prevent them having autonomy, no, it was to provoke the Russians into protecting them by invading Ukraine, as they eventually did. This invasion was intended (By the CW) to justify the sanctions that they were anyway going to levy on Russia. The refusal of autonomy and the verbot of the use of the Russian language, were not conviction driven acts, they were a means to an end. Namely to get the Russians to invade Ukraine. This was part of a plan, (To crush Russia and divide it up and loot it ,a la 1990s.) which was based on faulty beliefs in the weakness of the Russian military and the Russian economy and the weakness of the political standing of President Putin, in Russia. Like many a plan based on faulty beliefs and information before it, it has cone unstuck. In your account of it, you make the mistake of taking the excuses that the Ukrainian Junta made for their actions, as the real reasons behind their actions.
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  3522. I know that you really know all this, because it is based on what you and Alec have taught me over the last couple of years, but it seems that on this occasion you have "taken your eye off the ball" and have allowed the projected picture coming from Kiev to be taken for reality.
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  3523. If you are weak when you are bullied, it may be wise to keep quiet and absorb the hurt, until you are strong enough to deal with the bully properly. This is what both China and Russia have done.
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  3524. 28:38 DW is a source of lies since forever.
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  3525. 15:57 Maybe (and who could blame them if it is so?) the Israeli's legal teams' hearts are not in the job.
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  3526. 28:18 That's also what the Afghan government wanted!
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  3527. 33:53 I think this "moral Compass" got lost a long time ago. Probably shortly after the WW2 ended. The fostering of NA*I judges and policemenin West Germany, the Operation Paperclip and the adoption of Unit 731 and shipping it to the US. The adoption of the Gehlen Organization and letting it harras the USSR with terrorist attacks and sabotage. The using of Greek collaborators and NA*I troops to fight the Greeks who had fought the NA*Is throughout the occupation and the absolutely vile treatment of German POWs in Germany. From there it has continued with one horror after another ever since. I could mention many more, but I am sure you know what I am talking about.
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  3528. 1:13:03 "Little Action" ? When you are writing propaganda the only limits are what you think will be believed.
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  3529. 34:22 I can hardly believe that Prof Meaersheimer does not realise that the whole purpose of the War in Ukraine was simply to cause the callapse of the Russian government and all that was intended to follow that.
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  3530. 46:33 The Swedish writer you are talking about is "bolting the door after the horses have left the stable." The US "Guarantee" has been shot, some time since. It has been clear for some while now, that NATO did not have the strength to defeat the Russians in a conventional war. It is now time for the "small countries of Europe, if they really fear that the Russians are interested in conquering them, to consider making friends with the Russians rather than allying themselves to a "broken reed" organization which is antagonistic to Russia. The mystery to me is that the WoWs (Warmongers of Washington) do not seem to have made the logical extension to their proposed war with China. If they cannot defeat Russia, which has only minimal/zero Chinese support, why do they imagine they can defeat China which would have total Russian support? What is this? Compartmental thinking taken to an absurd extreme? Or is it a cover for something else altogether? How can one account for this? Do they still believe in their own invincibility? Have they so completely believed their own propaganda?
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  3531. If there were such a party, the Special Branch and MI6 would do their utmost to subvert it and the MSM would dump on it twenty times a day.
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  3532. 12:15 Could an AfD government turn things around?
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  3533.  @bassmanjr100  I'll leave your comment to speak for itself and you!
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  3534. that should have continued: the War Mongers of the Collective West, but they sure know what they are expected to say.
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  3535. 1:14:36 This blaming the Engergy Shortage on the "Russian Invasion", is really the lie direct. It ignores the fact that the sanctions were planned well before the SMO started and the CW needed the "Russian Invasion" to "Justify" the imposition of the sanctions.
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  3536.  @sarcasmunlimited1570  Too right!
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  3537.  @markusmahler3769  " "Hat jemand Rußland angegriffen???" (Has anyone attacked Russia?) You, a German ask that? Hmm. You must have a short memory! If you neglect the historical attacks on Russia and you do not count killing 10,000 Russia speakers in Ukraine between 2014 and 2022, and admiting that you lied to Russia about the Minsk agreement, so that You could use the time gained to build up the Ukrainian army to attack Russia. then, No. No one attacked Russia. The whole SMO was a whim of Putin's without any justification at all!
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  3538.  @koala6016  A really, really horrible dictatorship, propped up by the "Oh! so Democratic and Oh! so concerned with Human Rights" US!
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  3539. The nub of the problem is that the working people, the Working classes of the Western World, (of the "Collective West" if you like) are being exploited and oppressed by the Ruling Class and most of them have no understanding that they,( we) are in a CLASS WAR! Until they understand that THE PROBLEM is not Boris or Olaf or Ursula or any particular policy, but a flat-out class war, in which the ruling class does not care if common people die, there is no hope of a regime change that will make any great difference. In other words there is no way of reforming the governance of the Western World BECAUSE the governing (Ruling) class is quite happy with the way things are shaping up. Most working people have no understanding either of just hoe savage,ruthless and barbaric the members of the Ruling Class are!
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  3540. 48:39 Wrong word! Not stupid, corrupt.
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  3541. 37:00 There was another "intelligence failure" before 911 too! What a coincidence!
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  3542. What do you bet that the Sackler Family have numerous bank accounts with JPM? Do Pfizer have bank accounts with JPM? Both are convicted serial criminal organizations that have killed God alone knows how many people..
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  3543. 16:30 Reuters is owned by the Rothschild family.
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  3544.  @messire9837  What is a WON? Please define.
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  3545. 5:42 Isn't it extraordinary to hear a USG spokesman saying the "Putin is not willing to negotiate", when the Ukrainians and the Russians did negotiate a draft agreement at the end of March 2022 and his administration persuaded the Ukrianians to tear it up and before that, Russia proposed negotiating a permanent security achitecture for Europe and his administation refused to discuss it! More extraordinary still, is to hear him talk about the "Russians reneging on agreements" when anyone with any knowledge of history knows that the World Champion in this regard, is none other than the USG itself!
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  3546. Everything that happens is possible! Some months ago, according to Ukraine, a woman resident in Kiev downed a cruise missile with a tin of tomatoes.
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  3547.  @sylviam6535  What the lack of preparedness for the Pandemic showed, was that the story that we "had to do reseach into lethal pathogens SO THAT WE WOULD BE PREPARED AND READY FOR THEM WHEN THEY STRUCK" was a pack of ,ahem, fairy stories to cover up bioweapons reseach. Of course you are right, that any JITW in such preparations, if they really took place, would be completely inappropriate.
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  3548.  @mimasam5528  e dollarization: Are American Allies (the EU) joining BRICS move? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCA_Zmm2etI
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  3549. 9:16 So now you Indians know how the Chinese feel about the US meddling in Xinjiang.
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  3550.  @kygocrysmaine  Who instigated the Maidancoup? Before the Maisan cuop the Pentagon had asked for tenders to "Modernise" the naval base in Sevastopol to NATO standards. Who decided to shell the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Donbas?
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  3551. Apologies for typoos! Maidan coup for Maidancoup coup for cuop.
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  3552. What a collection of wallys! They provoked the war in Ukraine and they have now all but lost it. They should be thinking about what Russia will want when their defeat of N@0 is complete, rather than looking to stir up the next war "In the next few Decades". They should also think about the proposal the Russians made before the start of the Ukraine war, for a comprehensive peace treaty, to give the whole of Europe Security, Which the USA and N@0 refused to discuss.
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  3553. 19:51 Where is the Evidence that the Andromeda had anything to do with the NS sabotage?
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  3554. 1:18:44 Since Biden has given Netanyahoo a blank cheque and weapons to massacre the Palestinians, in a way that looks set to make Netanyahoo & Co. liable to arrest warrants from the ICC, doesn't that make Biden an "accessory after the fact" to all and any of Netanyahoo's crimes?
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  3555.  @Mortablunt  I agree completely. Thank you for settingit out so clearly.
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  3556.  @stephenvanwoert2447  It could well be.
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  3557.  @upstairs1307  Thanks.
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  3558.  @niarlatotepbasset  I think Mortablunt has answered you.
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  3559.  @kazimierzspaczynski7401  Yes, too coincidental.
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  3560. 1:06:03 I think that the ideas of "freezing the conflict" are more "hopium" as you or Alex called it, than realistic. What incentive do the Russians have to agree to anything so favourable to the CW? As far as I can see, the only "carrot" the CW can offer, is what the Russians asked for, a couple of months before the SMO began: a comprehensive security architecture for the whole of Europe and I would imagine, binding the US as well. As for "sticks", the CW seems to have used all those up! Of course if the Ukraine adventure goes down to a comprehensive defeat, the Russians might want even more than I have suggested, but we shall have to wait and see. We are truly, already in uncharted territory.
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  3561. 3:17 I am not convinced that "Russia was caught off guard". There were rumours about this operatin in both Western media and Russian, a couple of weeks before it happened. There is also the precedence of the Soviet army setting a similar trap for the Werhmacht in the 2nd World War. Stalin was rather addicted to attacking at all times, but on this occasion, his generals convinced him to set a trap for the /Germans in Kursk, by pretending to weaken the defences in this very area and they succeeded in luring them into making a push towards Kursk. The event went down in History as the "Battle of the Kursk Salient" and was a massive defeat for the German army. Before the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk the Russians removed the minefields along the border in this region, ostensibly to facilitate an offensive of their own, but they, obvoiusly did not prepare any such offensive. It looks to me like an invitation to the Ukrainian military, which is addicted to attacks, to "Please come and attack us here!"
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  3562. 26:12 Does this ban on "helping fund Russia's war machine" extend to buying Russian oil form India? To the US's purchase of Uranium from Rosatom? To Japan's buying oil from Sakhalin? Are they going to sanction Hungary, Turkey?
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  3563. 50:47 The West is "obliged to supply enough to defeat the Russians", because, that is what "it promised the Ukrainian government, when it persuaded them to ditch the negotiations with the Russian in March/April 2022". You can surely see why the Ukrainians might talk like that.
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  3564. 2:48 Look. The MSM is a group of a few (Half a dozen) corporations, that are essentially capitalist companies. The duty of capitalist companies is to maximize the shareholder's dividends. If that involves being the outlet for government propaganda, then that is what they are duty-bound to do. Evidently that is their situation right now. I don't know whether it is bribery or threats or common interests, but that is evidently what is clearly how they see their role and have done for some time. Hence one can, one must, distrust everything you see or hear or read in the MSM. Most of the time, if you believe the opposite of what they say you will be not far off the truth.
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  3565. 15:58 "How is the UK going to fight these countries?" Sactions? I read that the UK is thinking about starting to make gun barrels again. So there!
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  3566.  @vumba1331  Yes! Thanks.
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  3567. 10:43 Maybe it was a "Virtual" missile. I.e. an illusion created in Polish airspace by electronic means and when it was switched off, Voila! It disappeared.
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  3568. 1:17:29 I think you are absolutely right about the effect of a mandatory ceasefire. The times they are a-changin'!
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  3569. I think that what O'Neil is missing is the potential for the BRICS organization to nullify the sanctions weapon, wielded by the US. If they can do this, it will completely transform the global landscape and give a huge economic and political boost to the Global South.
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  3570. 0:48 It doesn't look as though he needs to worry! There isn't going to be a Ukrainian victory. Anyway, what evidence does he have that Putin is "Vindictive"? Does he know Putin personally? This is another, like Ben Wallace who has been at school, the university, then an officer and then a defence department employee. What does he know about the real world? What contact has he had with Putin?
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  3571. 3:49 The most significant remark that any one has made so far, to my knowledge was an Israeli security man who was quoted as saying ; "This is our 911...." There are such extraordinary similarities that ai am sure he was right.
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  3572. 0:53 I do not know anything about this allegation, however, I do know that the BBC is a British government propaganda organ and its output should be treated as such.
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  3573. 13:57 Isn't the disproving of the Weissman dogma a vindication of Lysenko?
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  3574. If congress gives Elensky $61 billion and the Russians still win, they will say it is because Congress went on holiday for 14 days and the money arrived too late. Then they will give the MSM their orders and no one will hear about it again.
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  3575. "When Russia failed to keep Ukraine in its orbit" That's a highly spun way of presenting a violent overthrow of the properly elected government by a NATO-backed neo-N*ZI regime!
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  3576. Belarus is a threat to the USA? Really? What are they going to do? Does Belarus have Navy?
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  3577. 17:54 This talk of "We cannot allow Russsia to win this war" Remids me of the old schoolboy reply to threats: "Oh! Yeah? You and whose army?"
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  3578. The point is that there is a capacitance between each conductor and earth and between the conductors. When the line is long, this capacitance become an important "short", taking power out of the system. With DC, this capacitance is unimportant.
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  3579.  @nmanduley  It's both.
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  3580. I have been saying for a long time now, that there is a clear conflict of interest in a private pharmaceutical firm. The firm has a clear, legal duty to its shareholders, Its duty to its customers is less clear, is moral not legal and is legally unenforceable. A cured customer is a lost sale. The best result of a product, is the "stabilization" of a chronic disease, where the patient is on the drug for the rest of his long life. (Better still if it is addictive.)This was made very clear to me by the case of Dr Barry Marshall N.P. who discovered that stomach ulcers (remember them?) were caused by Helicobacter Pylorii and could be CURED in a fortnight with antibiotics. It took him TEN YEARS to get this accepted by the medical profession as a result of the blocking tactics of the pharmaceutical industry. No doubt there are numerous other examples. They were able to do this because they own the Medical Journals through advertising and the Medical schools through sponsorship. Who can doubt that they own politicians too. As you say, we need the government to nationalize the production of generic pharmaceuticals, but I would go much further. I would say that Private pharmaceutical industry is an essentially bad idea. A bad idea in principle, What is needed is national pharmaceutical industries or better an international pharmaceutical industry funded by all governments. (The reason is simple: for the pharmaceutical firm the ideal medicine produces a customer who is sick of a chronic disease, while from the government's pov, the ideal medicine is one that produces a cured patient.) Nationalization would avoid price gouging, suppression of cures, and neglect of rare diseases among other advantages. It would prevent the suppression of medicines that work because they compete with newer, more profitable medicines which do the same or less. It would avoid a huge number of drawbacks that are built into private pharma. It would undoubtedly save billions. (Both meanings!) It would also free the medical journals to publish interesting papers without wondering if their advertisers would approve. Probably, the industry should be run, or at least supervised by a committee of practicing doctors, without more than the minimum of junior burocrats involved. Boy! Can you imagine the opposition such a proposal would meet?!
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  3581. 9:08 "Buddy-buddies? Yeah! Take a look at "Operation Unthinkable"! Some Buddy that Churchill! What do you think the Manhattan Project was all about? Eh?
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  3582. 15:42 As against what you are saying about the stability of the dyfunctionality of the EU ; The external environment is changing so rapidly, e.g. the huge US debt, de-dollarization, the Ukraine War, the growth and development of BRICS, the War in the ME, the possibility of a Trump re-election, that I think ANY predictions about the future, positive or negative, are all moot. ;
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  3583. 21:26 Just to put the cherry on top of this situation, I read that Janet Yellen and the Commerce Secretary are going to Beijing to ask the Chinese for help with their economic problems (!) in particular, with difficulty in selling US Treasury Debt. Boy! Imagine being one of those two!
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  3584. The coronation of Charles the Tird
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  3585. Biden and his family and his friends are, in a way a sort of metastasis from the central cancer.
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  3586. 9:46 Are not these figures for dead, wounded and captured?
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  3587. 17:54 Things will not be much better for the ICC if they do NOT issue arrest warrants for Netanyahoo & Co.! After having Genoc*de on TV for days, for months on end, how can they NOT issue arrest warrents?
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  3588. It seems to me, IIRC, that this is what the much-maligned Lysenko and Michurin were saying.
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  3589. 60:00 Why do the Western powers keep on making the same mistakes over and over again? There are two possible answers. 1) They, unlike you (and most of the rest of the world) like the results of their "Mistakes". 2) Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different result is a symptom of madness. Since this is what they do, therefore we can conclude they are mad. (Personally I prefer conclusion 1.)
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  3590. FYI, Wang Yi's surname is Wang.
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  3591. The West had some diplomats, once upon a time. It seems they have all retired. There was a time, when the West used to have some Great Statesmen. It seems they have all been replaced by evil, mentally sick pygmies.
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  3592. 7:01 Ukraine was "made dispensible" by cutting off the gas that came through Ukraine! This is a non-sequitur type "reason"!
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  3593. Business Insider has an article today, quoting Zelensky as saying that while it may be true that Hamas is using weapons supplied to Ukraine, it is not true that the Ukrainians have sold weapons to the Palestinians. No! It is the Russians, who have sold captured Western weapons to the Hamas fighters!
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  3594. 54:08 Walking on a rough path gives your brain exercise that walking on a pavement does not: you have to decide where your foot is goingto land for each step.
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  3595. 27:22 To me it looks as though Prigozhin had simply lost his mind. Had lost contact with reality. May be he was grossly misinformed about the amount of support he would get, but failing that, and it seems extremely unlikely that he was so misinformed,, that he had gone mad seems the most likely explanation.
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  3596. 25:05 Ten experts with surnames that suggest they are all of one ethnicity.
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  3597.  @SaundraRaynor  Thank you.
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  3598.  @SaundraRaynor  Yes, I agree with you. I think that perhaps they have mostly not seen it, previously, as a "circular", self reiforcing structure and they need time to think about it, before commenting? I don't know, maybe, as you suggest, they see it as an insoluble problem? Whatever, I see it as the principal problem, the problem without which being dealt with, the USA will just go on warmongering until it achieves a nuclear war or gets utterly crushed by a conventional war or its economy implodes.. Or something similar.
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  3599.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  Not "Well documented" at all! No one has clearly established who started the Korean War. The "Berlin Blockade" was a put-up-job, if ever there was. Have you read up on "Operation Unthinkable"? Oh! &BTW, thank you for the compliment on my English!
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  3600.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  No.
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  3601.  @jayovski82wreckingcrew  " it's not really important who started that whole cold war " If you say so, squire. "I know is that NATO didn't invade Ukraine," No. It staged a "Color Revolution" in Ukraine. Overthrowing the properly elected, pro-Russian government and installing a US Puppet and empowering the existing NA*I militias to take over the Army and stage a genocide, which killed 14,000 by Feb2021 of the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the country.
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  3602. Take Vitamiun D, it strengthrns the immune system. There is no danger of an overdose , in the short term it can hardly be done at all, take it with fat, it is a fat-soluble vitamin and it helps to absorb it, if you take it with vitamin K. I treat colds with massive doses (500mg) of vitamin C and vitamin B5, Take both every four hours and usually colds just clear up in half a day. If it doesn't stop, as it just a waste to go on. I hope you are better soon. Salute!
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  3603. Apologies for typos. had for had and look for looked.
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  3604. The Japanese used things very like modern high-explosive shells in the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. A long time ago I read a very interesting book called: "Tsushima, the Death of a Floating City" written by a man who was an engineering officer on a Russian battleship, of the Baltic Fleet, who was captured in the battle that effectively destroyed the Russian navy, at Tsushima, which is somewhere between Japan and China. He reported that the Russian shells, which were filled with black powder, "merely took the paint off" Japanese ships when they hit them, which was not that often. While Japanese shells, were filled with high-explosive and destroyed the Russian ships, when they hit, with most shells hitting what they were aimed at.
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  3605.  @sean1222221  They ARE running out. Making ordinary common and garden ammo is not profitable enough for the US MIC, so it has been neglected, in favour of really glamourous projects like the F-35, which really brings home the bacon! They have some ammo left, but they want to use that to attack China. The US military budget also has to support 800+ bases all over the World, and a lot of lobbyist and a lot of congress critters and a lot of shareholders which the Russians have not encumbered themselves with.
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  3606.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Got a reference for Putin saying that? I don't think so.
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  3607.  @luisekjeldsen1515  "Could" is NOT the same as "We are going to".
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  3608.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Yes, it makes good sense, if you want to keep a lot of Ukrainian troops away from the Donbas, defending Kiev. The Russians sent about 40,000 troops to near Kiev, nothing like enough to take the city, but enough to keep a large number of Ukrainian troops there to defend the it.
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  3609. The US used cluster munitions in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam where they are still killing people. The US has done nothing to clear them up. To make great evil worse, some of them contain plastic pellets, which are almost impossible to find with x-rays, causing immense suffering to those who are unfortunate enough to have them in their flesh.
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  3610. 12:40 Had you questioned this then, you would have been deplatformed for a long time at least.
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  3611. 1:23:14 "Jihadi Groups" are US proxies, aren't they?
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  3612. 36:24 I would bet that big commercial interests, such as the Big Pharmaceutical Companies, also wanted people "shadow banned".
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  3613. 17:05 "If you don't like the tune, don't complain to the Organgrinder's monkey, talk to the man himself."
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  3614. 11:58 If the US did not default in 1971 what did they do?
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  3615.  @glengrant3884  Thanks!
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  3616.  @blengi  I have no recent personal experience to go on, but that does not correspond to what recent visitors to Russia have told me.
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  3617.  @blengi  Come to think on it, that PISA score also does not jibe with Russia turning out vastly more STEM subject graduates than most countries in the west, which they do.
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  3618.  @garykendall3776  I had not realized that! What an extraordinary thing to do! They cannot have watched Jay Leno's interviews of random people in the street.
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  3619. NATO has been shown up as being incapable of either Conquering or Controlling by the SMO. Their real purpose is to keep (By any means neccessary) the US MIC in work.
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  3620. Very appropriate response to this report. You could also have mentioned Julian Assange, being tortured by the US's ally, Britain, for reporting the US's War Crimes. Held in Britain's worst Prison, for being a journalist!
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  3621. "China is also facing flak for its support for war by continuing to trade with Russia". China was facing flak for just not being an American colony before the war in Ukraine broke out. So, What else is new? Come to that, China is also "continuing to trade" with the USA. Isn't that also "supporting the war"? Does the US want the Chinese to stop suppling it with goods? The USA is still buying Russian oil. Isn't that "supporting Russia's war effort"? More "Don't do as I do! Do as I say!!" More of the "Rules Based International Order".Cr*p.
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  3622. 19:48 Surely, if it can be proved against one menmber of the Israeli government, that they had the intention of wiping out the population of Gaza, then all the others would be at least, accomplices. Wouldn't they? ?
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  3623. I forgot to say the prediction is by Victoria Nuland.
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  3624. But if Ukraine loses before October 2024 then Trump will get in anyway. So one can place one's bets now.
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  3625.  @kiwi8.  Actual military attack, not since the Revolution when the US and seven other powers assisted the Whites to fight against the Reds, but lots of niggling attack like sanctions and sabotage, more or less forever.
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  3626.  @ashfield1425  Real grown-ups would realise that ALL the real threats are coming from Washington and Tel Aviv. The "Threat" they see, is a threat to not do as Washinton tells them to. Which is intolerable to them. Why European "Leaders" go along with this policy is something that needs to be found out, for our own safety. If you look at all the countries that have been invaded since 1945, you will see that all but a couple were invaded by the US &/or N@0. On NO occasion has N@0 come to someones' defense, it has always attacked. Strange behaviour for a "defensive alliance", don't you think?
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  3627. I have posted this contribution to the discussion in a few other threads but I think it is worth doing so again, as, as faras I know no one else seems to thik along the same lines (Or circles.) Almost all the conflict that has plagued the World since 1945 has originated in the US, because of its obssession with being the World Hegemon. The constsnt war-mongering has its seat in what I call the "Vicious circle" in Washington DC. This circular structure is fed, willy-nilly by the us taxpayer and passes out money to the shareholders and employees of the weapons mfgs and the lobbyist industry, and its shareholders and employees and the MSM feeds off advertising bought by the weapon mfgs. The Vicious Circle consists of various parts: the congress-critters, the weapons manufacturers, the United States Government and the lobbying industry. The vicious circle functions in the following way: being circular there is no startpoint or end point, but I will start with the congress-critters, who vote for payments to the arms mfgs. The government then orders the weapons and pays the weapons mfgs. The weapons mfgs then pay their shareholders and employees and the lobbyists who pay the congress-critters' election expenses on condition that they vote "the right way" and so it goes round and round with the MSM carrying adverts from the arms mfgs and helping along with stories to alarm the general public. This structure is very powerful, very rich, quite ruthless and very well established. So long as it exists in its present form, I doubt that the World will ever know peace. The only solution I can think of, is if the US is handed a resounding defeat in Ukraine and the Russians insist that all arms mfgs must be nationalised enterprises, with no other shareholder than the government of their country. This, by cutting the financial nexus, would kill the "Vicious Circle" stone-dead. At least I hope it would, I think it would.
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  3628.  @Pomegranate_David  ?
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  3629. About "hung". It is confusing. There are two past participles for the verb "to hang": "hanged" and "hung". "Hanged" is what happens to e.g. criminals and washing, and "hung" is what happens to meat and pictures. Usually. One exception is in the school playground, taunting response to the declaration "I don't care!" "Don't care was made to care, Don't care was hung, Don't care was put in a pot, And boiled 'til he was done!"
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  3630. 2:51 The 5th name in that list was a leading light of at least two labs that this virus could have leaked from!
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  3631. 1:13:26 I wonder what, if anything the Russians will do in response to this Ukrainian move on consular services?
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  3632. 28:35 It would have been a fully armed and trained Ukrainian army backed up by the full power of NATO, not at all like today when NATO looks like a half-spent force and Ukraine is on the brink of collapse. (Practically the only dogs in NATO left barking, are Ben Wallace and Elensky.)
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  3633. Enjoyed? That's a strange term to use! I'm glad you published this, but there is nothing "enjoyable" about it. It a truly disgusting record of horrible people. I wish I believed in Hell!
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  3634. "4:16 What could be different?" It could be the vaccine that was different. I don't know what vaccine the Bulgarians used, but I do know that in Serbia they had the Russian vacccine, Again, I don't know whether they had western vaccines as well or not. It would be interesting to know if the people vaccinated with Novovax are sufferring the same as the Pfi*er and A--*eneker ones. Some countries in Eastern Europe had Chinese vaccines, though I don't remember which. Italy had mandatory vaccinations - if you did not get vaccinated you were liable to be fined 1000 euro or more.
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  3635. 29:22 "Everyone is against Israel now". The thing that alarms me, is that the polls inside Israel are said to show that 75% of Israelis support what the IDF is doing in Gaza! This seems to indicate that the Yunohus are largely a bunch, a population even, of Homicidal Maniacs! If it is true, how can anyone countenance a state of such people, armed with nuclear weapons? What can one say of countries that support such a state?
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  3636. The South China Sea contains shipping routes nearly all of which end or begin in China. It is "crucially necessary" for the United States to defend them against - China? I don't think so. The SCS is thousands of miles away from the USA, it is in China's backyard. How come what happens there is "vitally important" to the USA. This looks to me (and to most of the World) like the US itching for a fight.
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  3637.  @bitcoinzoomer9994  Some do. Most, however, start and end in China. Until Chiang Kaishek lost the civil war in China at the end of the 1940s, everyone, including the United States, agreed that the South China Sea and its islands were Chinese property. When a government that the US did not like came to power in China, the US suddenly "changed its mind" about who owned the SCS and the islands and reefs therein.
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  3638. 6:50 Russia's military has been 50% destroyed and yet, and yet, they can't do diddly squat about getting it to admit it or leave Ukraine!
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  3639.  @lelanalela7932  More insults to make up for content. Poor you.
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  3640.  @sebastianwurtz5294  The main problem is that there are people who own shares in armament-manufacturers and make large profits. Because they are very rich, they are also very powerful. As long as this situation exists, there will never be peace in the world because they profit from wars, threats of wars and rumors of wars. I hope that when the Collective West is decisively defeated in Ukraine (which seems likely to happen), the Russians will introduce a law prohibiting anyone from owning shares in a weapons manufacturer. I think such a condition would be better and easier to implement and enforce than complete disarmament, because most governments do not need or want wars that are costly and unpopular.
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  3641.  @andydouglas2108  Thanks.
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  3642. 1:09:06 It also, crucially, over-estimated its own standing with countries outside the Collective West.
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  3643. Did the report contain any information on the efficacy of the tried treatments?
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  3644.  @gribbler1695  The symptoms were reported without a control group. It might not be "rigerous " science but it would have been interesting to know what the people feporting symptoms found efficacious or not. For example: I see that some tried "intermittent fasting" while othere tried "Drug I." (!) (I think we can all guess what that is!)
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  3645. 6:16 You have not mentioned that France and Germany strung Russia along with the two Minsk "Agreements" which France, Germany and the Kiev Rgime had no intention of honouring! Nor have you mentioned, why "the Russian troops were massing along theborder". This a crucial omission! The Russian troops were massing along the border, because the troops of the Kiev Regime, which had been shelling the Donbass for seven years, were threatening to kill or drive out the inhabitants of the Russian-speaking provinces. What were the Russians supposed to do? Sit on their hands and watch? Your bias, your spin is showing.
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  3646. 5:43 Fleedom Morecures, plesumabry!
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  3647. 37:38 Israel is a US vassal state. The US is always wanting chaos. They also want to appear as "The Good Guys". It would therefore suit them to tell the Israelis not to respond, while secretly telling them to respond. Therefore I agree with you that the Israelis probably will take it further. If they don't, it probably, means that they are short of anti-missile missiles.
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  3648.  @xenuburger7924  That rather depends on what you mean by "Elitist".
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  3649.  @FreeBrunoPowroznik  "Whilst the claim of genocide is an obvious exaggeration, I don't think the fact that 14,000 died is of no importance" It wasn't that they "Just" killed 14,000 (10,000 of which were civilians) the Ukrainian government was talking about after defeating the rebels, hanging all those who spoke Russian. How many would count as "Genocide", in your estimation?
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  3650.  @vladtheimpala1  Oh! Only 3,400 civilians! That's all right then! Of course Poroshenko was only joking when he told the Azov Brigade to hang the Russian-speakers after they had defeated them? I suppose? If the Ukrainian government had treated its ethnic minorities in a civilized fashion there would have been no fighting in the first place.
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  3651. 2:15 "What are we doing here?" We are making Big Pharma richer. That's about it.
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  3652. 11:56 Perhaps as the G7 economies decline the "leaders" feel less and les adequate and the Meetings are a "jolly" which makes them feel important and they can boost each others' self confidence (And , probably, the food is splendid!) Also, like Zelensky, though to a lesser extent, it is good to be away from home with all its little and not so little problems!
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  3653. I'll believe they have done it, when Russia and China say that they are satisfied, that they really have.
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  3654.  @feydrautha012  As you no doubt know, that story has many, many more inconsistencies than that. It is a really weird mixture of unproven allegations, insinuations, non-sequiturs, improbable coincidences and a weird poison (Deadly to all who come into contact with it!!) that sometimes kills people, sometimes makes people ill and sometimes doesn't. Murderers who seem able to kill at a distance and spend the night before doing their very complicated and dangerous work partying! A poison that is fatal except for a policeman who touched the doorknob, a cat and two guinea pigs which were in the house but were not noticed by the police search of the crime scene (!) but which necessitated the removal of the roof of the house that had it smeared on the front doorknob (!!), You really would not make this stuff up, I mean, not if you had any respect for your audience.
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  3655. I would be interested to hear your reaction (Both of you.) to the US discovery that Fauci and a lot of related officials who were pushing the vaccine had not been properly appointed and that therefore their orders were not legally valid.
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  3656. 13:05 Ukraine taking the countries that are embargoing their grain to court, is an admission that the grain was not destined to go to Africa in the first place.
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  3657. 1:01:20 I think that the CW is going to find itself in such a weak position before "they stop digging", that the Russians will be in a position to make MORE ambitious demands than that. Maybe they will be able to force a long-overdue dismantling of NATO? Who knows? Perhaps with the help of China, they could force an end to the continual formentation of "Color Revolutions" around the World? And the dismantling of the 800 military bases, which are, after all, "justified" by the FICTION of a threat to the US. (I can dream, can't I?)
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  3658. 0:44 Only 12? I thought it was many more!
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  3659. 36:38 How much more proof does anyone need that the EU leaders are (with the exception of Orban {and Fico?}?) Puppets?
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  3660. Censoring one side of a medical controversy is UNSCIENTIFIC and politically HIHGLY AUTHORITARIAN. It is impossible to square this behaviour with claims about "Freedom and Democracy" in the Collecyive West
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  3661. 19:29 Is the US Ambassador in Russia? I had the idea that there was only a charge d'affaires there at the moment..
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  3662. That is a magnificent Campus! How many students does it have?
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  3663. 1:20:19 Maybe you can train an artificial intelligence to supplement your work? One of the great things (To me) about learning from a computer, is its infinite patience. I imagine that a lot of your interaction with people you are helping, will be questions followed by follow-up questions, that depend on the anwers they give?. This looks like something that an artificial intelligence would be more than capable of doing. I remember from back in the last century, the Edinbugh University Medical School students (I think it was the students) wrote a program that interviewed the patients that came into the first aid department with non-life-threatening diseases. The purpose of the program was to diagnose what the patient was suffering from. Its success rate was around 80% which compared very favourably with the success rate of the human doctors who scored around 66%. It seems that the patients found talking to the machine, ELSIE, much easier than talking to a human. Many commented on how patient it was and some refused to believe it was a machine. The Doctors however, got rid of it after about six months.
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  3664. 5:38 What is this "Chinese Threat"? What are the Chinese threatening to do? They are threatening to be bigger and stronger than the US. That is a "Threat"? In what way is that a threat? That that is a "Threat", is pure projection. The USA is /was bigger than every other country and it spent most of its time in existence, bullying other countries. That is not the usual Chinese modus vivendi. What makes the USG think that the Chinese are going to behave like them? Projection. "We are the Normal. Therefore everybody behaves like us. Therefore we have to prevent anyone becoming strong enoug to resist our bullying. Since we bully and suppress anyone who might become stronger than us, everybody/anybody who becomes strong enough, will bully us!" It's paranoia. You cannot cure this by argument because it is not rational. It is an "Article of Faith" You can no more convince the Warmongers in Washington of the lunacy of their thinking, than you can convince Fundamentalists of any religion, that God does not exist. You can try, but you are on a hiding to nothing. As far as I can see, nothing but a real, solid overwhelming, military defeat will do the job.
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  3665. Even if there is no proof that the US neocons destroyed the NS pipelines, the circumstantial evidence is so strong that any other explanation is incredible. They said they were going to do it. Not once, not twice but three times! they had the means, the motive, the opportunity the cover while they did it and the Swedes and the Danes and the Germans have investigated and say they know who did it, but refuse to say who that was. (!) If that is unclear, then I don't know what clear is. To cap it all, there is a detailed account of it by a very credible journalist, Seymour Hersh, telling how it was done and by whom and on whose orders.
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  3666. " how is that working out?" Working out quite well! But not for the Ukrainians or their Western backers.
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  3667. 5:54 Maybe CBS is trying to alert the public to the idea that Elensky is willing to negotiate, without telling them that the CW is losing the war. (?)
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  3668. Glad you liked it! Keep up the good work!
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  3669. Very interest and comprehensive program! Congratulations!
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  3670. 54:44 If Hetzbolla were to intervene and the US felt it expedient to put pressure on Netanyahoo, the US could "fight " in defence of Israel the way they "fought" ISIS in Syria.
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  3671. 32:36 It is vitally important to understand, that Hamas is a construct of the Israeli government and Al Qaida, while Iran is bitterly opposed to Al Qaida, but sympathizes with the Palestinians.
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  3672. 5:51 Hang about a minute! Look out! That's not a loophole, it's a snare!
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  3673. 6:13 I don't think that was a "mistranslation"> I think Meloni spoke in English. It looks more like plain misrepresentation.
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  3674. 32:25 Could the documents have been leaked by someone in the Kiev Security apparatus?
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  3675.  mentesinquietas9712  A good summary.
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  3676. 58:30 It is a "Beautiful statement" to be sure! But is is misguided because Ukraine is not controlling the war, it is the USA that is. The USA does not want the war to end, while it is killing Russians. The WoWs know the war is lost and probably, that they have lost Ukraine as well as the war, but while it kills Russians they want it to continue.
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  3677. NO! Criminally insane. Traitorous. Those terms are more like it.
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  3678. 18:20 Note: the TANKS will be ready for Ukraine "by the middle of 2024". He says nothing about the crews.
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  3679. 27:21 Remember the old Sea Shanty called "Hearts of Oak"? It contained the lines "Steady boys, steady! We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again!" Ah! Those were the days! "Oh where are the days that late we led? Where are they now? Totally dead!" RIP.
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  3680. British government panicking about vaccinating everybody a month early against a new mild form of Covid. Big Pharma must be running short of pocket money!
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  3681. 3:30 "Defending our interests" he says. While agreeing to supply Ukraine with DU ammunition, which if used, will contaminate the food coming to the UK! Whether you eat bread made with Ukrainian wheat or pork from pigs fed on Ukrainian beans, YOU ARE AT RISK!
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  3682. 41:14 "Sirsky was almost certainly a communist party member" As one Communist in East Germany said of another: "There are Party Members and then there are Communists."
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  3683. Viva Ben! Viva AMLO!!
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  3684. 22:12 You are absolutely right to point out that the point of the "Russian Threat" is to cut social spending. The same was true in the Cold War. Right from 1945, there was a constant effort to cut back on social spending. I think the first actual cuts started in 1952 under iirc Harold Macmillan.
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  3685. 54:55 Seems to me, to be wishful thinking and fantasy. If it is based on a real happening at all, I wonder if the "Russian officials" share these fantasies at all, or are merely politely listening? Are they as "away with the fairies" as these people sound?
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  3686. You raise an important point! When nearly everyone gets their information about the World from "News" outlets that are owned/controlled by about six families; what meaning does the word "democracy" have, in those circumstances?
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  3687. You cannot say that the "Chinese are not interested in diplomacy"! They are very, very, active in diplomacy and are making much more headway in it than is the US. De-dollarization, for example is a field where the Chinese diplomacy is having huge effects. The Belt and Road initiative, involving 140 countries, is a product of Chinese diplomacy, as is the new accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It is the US which has, apparently, forgotten what the word "diplomacy" means. One US general was quoted about a year ago as saying that a US aircraft carrier steaming towards the Middle East, was "100,000 tons of diplomacy". (!)
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  3688. 31:18 I'll tell you whose English I find really remarkably good and that is the South African Foreign Minister's. Really impecable stuff! If I could not see her, I would guess that she was really a high class English lady. Quite possibly from an aristocratic or possibly university background.
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  3689. I have heard that the original name of the war on Iraq was: "Operation Iraqi Liberation"! But later it was changed as being "too likely to be misinterpreted."
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  3690. 6:06 The Iranians downed a Reaper Drone years ago, when it entered Iranian airspace and persuaded it to land nicely. I think IMMSMC they copied it and passed it on to the Chinese.
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  3691. I wonder what was DARPA's interest in this organism?
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  3692. Well, of course, the West as the instigators of this war, ARE under an obligation to supply the equipment their puppets need to carry out their masters' wishes. Anything less, is totally unfair to the puppets!
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  3693. 1:16:15 Did you see today, the astonishing news that the UN has told the US to lay off the sanctions on China, over Xinjiang, because the UN Rapporteur has said, that they are not only unjustified by facts on the ground, but are harming the people of Xinjiang that they are supposedly intended to protect!
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  3694. 31:40 If the Ukrainians "feel betrayed", they have only themselves to blame, as if you look back in history to the founding of the colonies, i.e. even before the founding of the US, there a sorry trail of broken treaties. Hardly a treaty, in fact, that the US has ever signed that it has not sooner or later ducked out of. As the Russians have said, not long since, the Americans are not "agreement-capable". Indeed, I wonder why any country would waste time negotiating a treaty with the USA.
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  3695. I commend the courage of Tucker Carlson and Fox news for saying these (Currently!) controversial things. Many people have been deplatformed for much less. I wonder if he would like to comment on how Yahoo has removed the possibility of the public commenting on the items in their daily rundown of the so-called "news"? They have replaced the correspondence column, with a softly worded spiel about how they have "temporarily" (2 years and counting!) suspended this former facility in the interests of making a cosy space (or something. I can't remember the exact wording and it doesn't cut and paste) but every time I read it I remember "1984".
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  3696. 39:40 IOW, it is not a strategy, it is a strategem.
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  3697. 23:50 Maybe they are planning some other offensive altogether? And this May offensive is smokescreen? That would make more sense if it were so. May be, the offensive is REALLY scheduled for mid-April? You know, to catch the Russians off guard! Ha ha!
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  3698.  @DavyRo  At least you have understood! Burns was usually bang on!
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  3699. 4:00 What, if anything, is the evidence that Russia wants to expand its territory? It was after all, provoked, deliberately, into this war, by the US and its allies. They had to work really hard to do it.
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  3700. Since the Russians want PEACE and the US is not able to defend itself against the Russians if they attatck, why not make peace and live together instead of dieing together? The "reason" is that the people running America, are all or mostly invested in the arms industry and peace would make them much poorer. (Ugh! Imagine!!) In other words: the World is being deprived of peace, for the financial benefit of a small clique in Washington DC. It hardly seem an adequate reason!
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  3701. If ever one needed proof that the British government is a nest of TRAITORS this announcement is certainly enough!! Making the radioactive rounds is crime enough, poisoning the food coming out of Ukraine to the rest of the World is a huge and vile crime against humanity, including the population of the UK. I suppose it may be possible to sink lower than this, into criminal idiocy, but just at the moment I cannot think how!
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  3702. The G7 are all US vassals. Of course any member of the G7 has to choose either the BRI or the G7. Italy chose the G7. Who is surprised, no doubt they do not fancy the US's reaction if they chose the BRI.
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  3703. 30:30 Yes! You can look on Ukraine as an example of "Pacification" US Style!
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  3704. " What happened to this country???" The big businesses bought up the regulatory authorities, the media, the medical schools, the universities and the doctors (Well, some of them anyway.) Anyone who thinks this horrible situation "just happened" is fooling themselves. Anyone who thinks that the purpose in life of the big pharmaceutical companies is to help people is another Mary Poppins.
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  3705. You can see how unreliable Putin is: First he said there would be no "No-Fly Zone" over Ukraine and then he imposed a "No-Fly Zone" on the basement of the Azovstahl!
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  3706.  @marcdraco2189  Jealousy? What BS? Making vague allegations is easy and lazy. How about you give some examples of 1) Nuts. 2) BS.?
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  3707.  @Jamicaman516  You seem to have forgotten to give any examples of Russia and China engaging in this form of diplomacy.
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  3708. Happy Easter to you and yours!
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  3709. 10:24 In the present political climate, almost everything that comes out of the mouths of politicians of the Collective West, can be better understood, or relied on, if it is treated as being the exact opposite of what it appears to say. I could give examples without number but I don't think I really need to!
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  3710. 1:10:52 To get off this Escalation escalator, the WoWs would have to give up their perennial, lifelong, age-old project of destroying Russia and China, despoiling the remains for their raw materials and perhaps (Assuming that they allowed some of them to live.) the labour of their populations and then, themselves living happily ever after, as the sole hegemonic power, World without end, Amen!
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  3711. 18:59 Europe has nukes! The French have their "Force de Frappe!" Apart from that, the British sort of have nuclear "Trident" missiles. The problem with these is that when they tried one out, it went in the wrong direction and the UK needs US permissioin to use them. Or so I have heard.
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  3712. It is laughable that the US should be worried about the Indian government sending assassins to kill off someone they want removed! It is absolutely standard practice for the US to do this sort of thing. I do not know whether Biden has continued the practice, but Obama used to have a "Kill List" of people to be assassinated on his desk each morning, or so I have read and I have never seen a refutation of the story. President Trump, infamously had an Iranian General, on a peace missoin in a foreign country killed just a year or two back. There has never been an apology for that. It is a typical example of the "International Rules Based Order" at work. I.e. "Don't do as I do, do as I say!"
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  3713.  @GolDRoger-fx2fp A few days before, Russia learned that on 28/2/22, Ukraine was going to attack the Russian-speaking provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk with a view to "ethnically cleansing" them (I.e. wiping out the inhabitants.) The Russians decided that the only way to save them, was to attack first.
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  3714. 11:49 The West is like a gambler out of luck and money serching all his pockets looking for the odd coin that might have been, somehow, overlooked! (If he does find the odd coin or note, it will not change his luck!)
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  3715. 2;42 Please do cover the Skripal inquest story! I am very anxious to hear what girations the UKG makes this time! Last I heard about it the story as told by them was more full of holes than a piece of pumice! Where are the Skripals, BTW?
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  3716. 40:12 If the Russians were competing, their medics could cure this Belgian's e-coli infection in an hour or two with a dose of polyvalent bacteriophage. Perhaps the Georgians have some? They used to make it.
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  3717. 6:00 It was the CIA that set up ISIS in the first place. The US is still using "fighting ISIS" as their excuse for staying illegally, in Syria, stealing their oil and burning their crops. ISIS is protected from Syrian government troops by the US troops.
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  3718. How do the average number of deaths compare to the average for 2014-2019 ? (I suggest this span because we do not really know when the pandem*c started.)
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  3719. 9:23 If you put Western troops into the battle in Ukraine now, what are you going to use for weapons? (Assuming, of course, that you don't want to "go nuclear".)
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  3720. It's not "the West", it is a Western "elite" that is heavily invested in the arms industry. I think it most probable that they are all, either bribed, blackmailed or threatened. Otherwise, I cannot account for their actions, they make no sense otherwise. Ordinary, working people, do not in my experience, want war. For one thing, it is they who will have to do the fighting!
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  3721. There is no tactic too despicable for the USA to employ. They used Germs against the Koreans and Chinese in the Korean War and supplied anthrax and chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein for use against the Iranians. They staged FF incidents in Syria not so long ago.
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  3722. 1:55 "Berlin sees no threat to a peace process in Ukraine (posed) by Ukrainian extremist nationalists" Presumably, this is a case illustrating the old saying: "There are none so blind as those that won't see." Just imagine!! Germans training NAZ* soldiers!!! What a shock!! Who would have thought of such a thing?!?! Do you mean to say that there are real live NAZ*s in Ukraine? Why did nobody warn the German government about that? Oh! Lieber, oh Schatz!
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  3723. 0:39 This is a lie direct. Both China and Russia have called for an end to the hostilities.
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  3724. 38:23 Maybe, this prohibition on trade in Russian diamonds, is designed to destroy competition to the US diamond trade? Just as the embargo on Russian Gas. destroyed the German industries and the ban on buying Russian Gas benefitted the US trade in LNG? It all seems to be in the same pattern. I even see reports, that the US is buying Russian oil to give to the Ukrainian military!
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  3725. 12:52 This sounds very like Projection.
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  3726. As I said in a comment on one of Alex's pieces, Borzzikman reports that in the last month or so, there have been a surprisingly large number of Top NATO Brass, who have died, in accidents in cars, in boats, in helicopters on horseback and climbing mountains, with the implication that these "might be connected" with strikes on "command centres" or whatever it is they are called. Another commentator said that the same seemed to apply to NATO pilots.
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  3727. 1:12:22 Thinking about logistics; one of the reasons that the West is so strapped for production facilities to send more weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is the adoption by the West (and I suspect to a far lesser extent by Russia) of the philosophy of "Just-in-time Working". JITW implies no surplus anything; no surplus raw materials no surplus of half-finished goods, no surplus workers, no surplus space, no unused machines and that is just what they have! Add to that a lot of the raw materials and semi-finished goods they would need to supply materiel to Ukraine are sourced from Russia and China. It is interesting to ask: "What is the attraction of JITW?" It is a bean-counters version of common sense. Any surplus raw material represents "unused capital", i.e. capital tied up and not earning interest. The same is true of surplus half-finished goods. Unused machines are unused capital, Un- or under-used workers are just an un-necessary expense. Surplus space, could be rented out for someone else to use or if it can't be rented out it may attract tax, so better destroy it/sell it. Probably, this reasoning cuts less ice in Russia? In the West, the overriding concern of bean-counters and directors is the bottom line and the stock market price. Probably, the Russian are working on a longer timeline.
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  3728. 13:28 George Marshall et al were concerned to get Germany running again after the destruction of WW2 in order to get them to help defeat Russia. The same was true of Japan and South Korea. None of the motivation was to help the Germans, the Japanese or the Koreans. The aim has been constant throughout.
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  3729. 13:38 The fact that the Collective West is running out of materiel to send to Ukraine PROVES that up until the beginning of the SMO, they had NO FEAR that the Russians were going to attack them. So, all the talk about their "fear of Russian Aggression" was just that. Talk, propaganda. If their fear had been real fear, they would have had large stockpiles of weapons and weapon-systems all ready for use and masses of military men who knew how to use them. More lies, in fact. Who is surprised?
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  3730. 24:03 For many years past, I had a plaque where my carotid arteries divide in two, 25% blocked on one side and 35% on the other side, both very slowly getting worse. Last summer, having read that vitamin K2 caused the calcium in plaques to be deposited in bones, thus removing the plaque, I decided to try taking about 8,000 units of Vitamin D3 and 100micrograms of vitamin K2, daily. In December I had an echographic examination of my carotids and the plaques had completely disappeared. I know that correlation is not proof of causation, but I achieved what I intended so, I was satisfied.
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  3731. 21:35 When the NPP is in a shutdown state, its need for cooling is considerably less than when it is working normally. It looks as though there are/is still undamaged cooling towers. Probably, they (It?) will be enough.
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  3732. Too true!
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  3733.  @onerxowns2202  Yes. Could be.
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  3734. "How can it be that there are N*zi units in the Ukrainian armed forces when President Zelensky is a Jew?" Is a racist question. Being a N*ZI is a question of Ideology. It is not governed by genetic material. Being a Jew is largely a question of geneology, i.e. if your mother was Jewish you are a Jew, irrespective of what you believe.
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  3735. China and SaudiArabia skipped the meeting, as did Biden who sent that wonderful diplomat: Kamala Harris in his place! That should save the meeting from being entirely forgotten by next week.
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  3736. 5:47 Could this decrease in excess deaths from respiratory diseases be caused by mask-wearing?
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  3737. 17:28 If Trump is elected the course of events will depend crucially on how determined he is to have his way and how ruthless he is in cleaning the swamp. If he is not quick at firing a lot of enemies he will be corraled as he was last time. I wonder if he could have Jessie Ventura as VP? That would be some combo!
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  3738.  @PEST-rn7ip  No. What he has is a sky-high SQ.
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  3739. 13:05 I would suggest that Orban go and talk to the Chinese ambassodor and get in touch with Prof. Micharael Hudson.
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  3740. This is silly! It is so obvious that it was NATO or a NATO member country that it is a no-brainer. The USA said, through its officials, at least three times in public, that it was going to destroy the NS pipelines. They had opportunity to do the sabotage, US and British ships were in the area at the time of the attack. They have the means to carry out such an attack and they had the motive. (Sell expensive US LPG to the Europeans, sabotage the European economy.) To cap it all, you have Liz Truss, British PM sending a message to Biden a minute or so after the blast saying: "It's done!" So you have a "suspect" who has means, motive, capability and opportunity and who has stated clearly that they had the intention and you talk about "suspicion"? Come On, Man!
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  3741. 33:27 Not quite right. In 1870 the British invaded Afghanistan and the Afghans allowed them to get to Kabul, (together with their wives and children.!) and then they attacked and killed all except one man, whom they sent back to India to tell the British what had happened.
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  3742.  @d1d234  Examples?
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  3743. Funny to see the Unelected European Rulers accusing the elected (by a landslide) Orban of being "Undemocratic"! Orwellian.
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  3744. 29:13 While having a weakened EU may be a drag on the US, it is probably an advantage for US industries. (Cars for example.)
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  3745. I wrote a comment just now that when I posted it, immediately disappeared.
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  3746. 16:37 Did I dream it? Or is there support for the Maduro government from Iran? I seem to remember something about Iran supplying much-needed consumer goods to Venezuela.
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  3747. 32:25 If Nato gets to put 60,000 troops into Ukraine, to fight the Russians, what are they going to use as weapons?
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  3748. 1:10:25 Are you seriously suggesting that the NATO countries could possibly forgo their sacred mission to convince the rest of the World that homosexuality is normal? That not allowing children to decide (absent their parents, or parental consent, note!) which sex they want to be, is child-abuse? Ultimately, that pedophilia is simply a lifestyle choice? Surely that is a step too far! Geopolitical arrangements might be negotiated, but VALUES are surely sacred and therefore, non-negotiable!
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  3749. This reminds me : "If you are going for a job interview with an accountants firm, and the interviewer asks you ; 'What does 2+2 make?' Do you know the correct answer?" "Four?" "No. The correct answer, if you want the job, is: 'What do you want 2+2 to equal on this occasion?'"
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  3750.  @vamoua4036  Sorry? Idon't understand your reply.
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  3751.  @condorX2  Maybe the reason the Chinese physicians were able to spot that they were dealing with a virus and even to recognize what sort of virus it was (!) was that the Wuhan Virus Research Lab had, shortly before, been doing work for the (US) CDC on a "very similar" virus. Research, note, that the CDC was PROHIBITED from doing in the US. Yes a murky story I agree, but incredible though it sounds, it is true and publically acknowledged.
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  3752. The Point that you are missing, that most people miss is that Hamas was ADMITTEDLY created by the Israeli goverment, in order to discredit the Palestinian cause. The Israeli government did not like the PLO, because it was "too presentable", "too rational". Hamas is now doing what it was created for.
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  3753. 35:37 "Dissuade Beijing, Delhi and Ankara....." This speaks not so much to desperation as to the depths of self-deception possible in such circles.
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  3754. What is needed by everybody except a very few, though powerful, warmongers, is peace and security treaties, meeting everyone's need for peace. War is such a waste of people and resources! It is the stupidest way of settling arguments. In general, it does not settle arguments it just stores up resentments and postpones the Next War. The Russians submitted their requirements for peace in the months before February '22, but the Western countries led by the Warmongers in the USA and Stoltenberg, would not even discuss the proposals, they wanted WAR. Well, they got war and now they wonder what to do about it. The longer they delay finding a way to stop the war, the worse they will find the Russians' demands are.
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  3755.  @OldFriend80s  Christ ain't got nuttin to do wivv it!
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  3756.  @horatioalbert1363  Was this baloon goibg at Mach 6? If it was that's something I did not know. If it was, I wonder how the USAF shot it down? Some new Wundewaffen?
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  3757.  @OldFriend80s  My impression is, that finally, after a couple of months of silence, the DOD admitted that it was not a spy baloon, but a purely civilian weather baloon.
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  3758. 20:30 The Ukrainian MIC churning out all the weapons Ukraine needs (Including F-16s?) is not so much a fantasy as a propaganda theme. It is a determined effort to fool the ignorant and stupid. A fantasy, to be a fantasy would need to exist in the minds of the people putting it forward. Wouldn't it? Of course, for the Ukrainian MIC to build tanks, they would need lots and lots of scrap steel. They would be well placed for that!
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  3759. 1:36:10 How far do the European leaders follow the Washington lead because of the activities of Jeffery E. and his little black book? If it's not that, what keeps them toeing the line?
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  3760. The US army has been "fighting" Al Qaida in Syria for EIGHT YEARS? B*gger! What sort of Army is that? This is the army that is going to fight Russia in Ukraine and China in Taiwan, simultaneously? Really? The US is criticizing Russia for invading Ukraine? I wonder why the countries of the Global South are refusing to back the USA in its fight with Syria and refusing to side with it over Ukraine? Could it just be that they hate doubletalk? And don't trust doubletalkers?
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  3761. 7:40 Can these pharmaceutical firms claim immunity against charges of LYING?. Is that even possible? If so, what is to stop them selling water from the nearest ditch as a universal cure?
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  3762.  @xiaojiewang4651  Yes, but has the CW? That is what I am not sure about.
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  3763.  @xiaojiewang4651  I take it you mean "北约缺乏必要的技术工人"? Yes. Exactly. It's the result of years of outsourcing.
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  3764. 4:42 Can Italy change the EU from within? Not very likely. The real question is: can the EU survive the suicidal sanctions that it has placed on Russia? No government that does not have the power to tell its central bank what to do, is sovereign. I.e. a government which does not directly control its country's money supply, has any real power at all, as, if its Central Bank does not like a policy, it can refuse to fund it, thus killing the policy. Thus, one can, justifiably, say: that no eurozone country is sovereign. They all have to bow to the dictates of the ECB.
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  3765. 9L23 What these US officials (Ex-Officials) are saying, reinforces the view, that were Taiwan to vanish under the waves in some geological disaster, it would make no difference to the US desire for a war with China.
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  3766. 5:18 But The Palestinian Authority has ratified the Rome Convention.
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  3767. ​ @ggee7391  How's That for gratitude! I'll bet they were bitter!
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  3768. 2:28 "The NATO chief also said that only a Ukrainian win will result in lasting peace." This is belied by the people in the USA's government, who are saying that they need a win in Ukraine, so that they can prepare for a war against China!
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  3769.  @Markyellowcake  The price of anything is "what the market will bear". So, since "the market" (the USG) is not paying for the product (The taxpayers are) the price is more like "what they can get away with"! The Whole purpose of the exercise, is to enrich the shareholders and employees of the US MIC. Any other effect of the policy (Such as scaring smaller nations into submission.) are a bonus, but not the primary purpose.
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  3770. Look into the extra deaths amongst countries that were vac*inated. That is to say if you compare the number of non-lurgy deaths per month now, with the average number of deaths per month in the years before the p*ndemic, the number should be smaller because so many old people died off during the start of the pa*ndemic. Right? Well it isn't. The number of non-lurgy deaths is much higher, almost every month than it was in the corresponding month in previous (pre-lurgy) years. No one in authority is investigating this phenomenon. I wonder why?
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  3771. China will recover. Almost all its debt is internal. The New Development Bank is, as its name suggests, new. It is hardly surprising that it has a smaller operation at the moment that the World Bank and the IMF whose roots go back nearly a Century! Methinks you don't like the BRICS much.
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  3772. 47:37 The Western media, the MSM, are owned/controlled by six extremely wealthy corporations owned by very rich families. Being capitalist enterprises, their primary objective is to make a profit for their shareholders. They have no legal liability to cover any news story or to tell the truth about anything so long as it does not breach such laws as the laws about Libel and slander. They can suppress anything they like and tell any porkies the want or suggest anything that pleases them or the governments they work with. If being a mouthpiece for government propaganda is the most profitable activity, then that is what they will do. They have no legal obligations to inform the general public, whatever. The moral is : Caveat Emptor! Let the buyer beware!
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  3773.  @alrent2992  They can, but all prices have to be capped. For example in the UK during WW2 and for about 6 years after food was rationed and prices were fixed. As far as I remember it din not force all businesses out of the market because their costs were also fixed.
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  3774. 19:30 Probably in Bloombergworld reality=misinformation, and one would not want to be accused of peddling misinformation. Would one?
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  3775. 7:38 I have heard that the Kinzhal in flight sends out misleading signals which makes it look to radar, as though there is not one, but six Kinzhal missiles coming. I suggest that perhaps the Ukrainian operators saw six Kinzhals coming and when only one arrived, they assumed that they must have destroyed the others!
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  3776. Trump calls for Europe , which is in dire economic trouble because it followed the US in provoking a war in Ukraine and using it as an excuse to sanction Russia, to spend a thirtieth part of its income on supporting the US's military adventures. The "Leaders" of the European countries are daft enough to do so. Probably. Roll on the elections!
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  3777. 18:29 It sounds as though the "Telegraph" has taken over the "Sun's" war correspondent! I thought The Telegraph.though very reactionary, was more grounded in reality than this!
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  3778. The one you mention are/were executives. They are/were not the cause of the problem, which is the US's program of attacking and wrecking many different countries, in the name of bringing freedom and democracy to them. E.g. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam, Iran, Yemen, sudan, Somalia and all the rest. If these countries had been left to themselves in peace, they would not need to send all their most active sons to seek their fortunes in Europe. Merkel, Von der Leyen, Junker, Blair and all those other nameless, people were administering the mess created by the "War on Drugs" and then "The War on Terror", which were dreamed up in Washinton DC. (A side note: Before the "War on Drugs", we hardly had a drugs problem. Before the "War on Terror, there was much less terrorism.)
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  3779. The question I would ask Prof. John Mearsheimer, is how extensive in the US, is the base for the messianic idea, that the US is obliged to police the World and make it safe for "Democracy, freedom and woke ideas"? And, how far is it an artifact, cultivated by rh MIC and its beneficiaries?
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  3780. The US should ramp up production of Sodium Ion batteries. The sea is full of sodium chloride solutuon. There is no shortage of sodium. Somebody has worked out how to use sodium instead of lithium. The problem (I don't know for sure.) could be, that the owner of the patents is Chinese!
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  3781. 1:26;32 NATO being defeated in Ukraine, it would be sensible to ask what demands Russia has of NATO.
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  3782.  @StephanBuchin  Yes, I expect the Europeans will be able to partly get over their mistake. However, it will cost them dearly, it already has. I doubt that the Russians are (evidence) "struggling to sell its oil and gas" or that it will in future. The Russian and Chinese friendship with the Gulf Oil monarchs looks like a death knell for the petrodollar. If the Russians an OPEC cooperate they can keep the oil price high for a long time and the lower volume sales will be offset by higher prices.
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  3783. Correction I mis-wrote that 1948 should have been 1967.
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  3784. 19:01 The Chinese have proved that you do not need an Empire to become prosperous and abolish extreme poverty. You just need an organization like the Chinese Communist Party to show you how! "Aye, there's the rub."
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  3785. It occurs to me, that having a capitalist economy builds into a society, a fundamental conflict of interest. It means that one has to have, at the very least, a mixed economy and preferably, in addition, a government which will suppress the political ambitions of the richer members of the capitalist class and protect the working members of the society. This is particularly evident in the cases of the arms industry, the pharrmaceutical industry and the healthcare industry.
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  3786. The Problem is not Joe Biden, he is but a symptom. The problem is the USObsession with being Top Dog, come what may. With being "Exceptional" when they are clearly not. With their having the idea that they must go out and make the whole World safe for American Big Business. Those are the real problems; get rid of JB and hardly a thing will change. A big part of the problem is that far too many US citizens think, as you do, that getting rid of JB will make a fundamental difference
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  3787.  @danielscotti9471  Replacing him will make practically no difference. There are a dozen with the same policies as he, just waiting to be "chosen". Replacing him with Trump, might make a difference, but I doubt that it would be anything substantial. The problem is, that the REAL government of Western nations is not up for election, it's permanent.
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  3788. 23:47 I am not clear about the history of post WW2 Western Ukraine, but my impression is that the Banderites survived the defeat of Na*i Germany and were, after the war cultivated by the US/CIA/German intelligence organization called the "Gehlen Organization", which the CW took over wholesale from the German government, when they defeated them, to spy on and sabotage the USSR..
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  3789. Bill Gates is a very successful investor. A kid from a very rich family who when he was quite young had a good idea which paid off handsomely.
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  3790. 30:32 I think that stopping the supply of ammonia will also hamper the production of explosives.
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  3791. Very important video! Thanks for showing this. Among other things it shows that Putin is a straight talker, he says what he means and he means what he says. Our politicians mostly spout BS.
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  3792. 13:31 So what you are saying is that the US is becoming a Dictatorship, with an invisible, anonymous Dictator!? And a decorative President?
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  3793.  @michaelkatz275  Dream on, litlle matey!
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  3794.  @JuanPublo2023  I know, but, rebuilding Ukraine is a task which is orders of magnitude greater than rebuilding Mariupol. I hope and think the Chinese will help.
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  3795.  @michaelkatz275  If you say so, Squire!
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  3796.  @JuanPublo2023  Yes I know, What you say is true, but, reconstructing Ukraine will be a huge job, orders of magnitude bigger tha reconstructing Mariupol. I hope, I imagine the Chinese will help.
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  3797. 55:54 I don't know about wind or geothermal energy in Iran but there must be (I would imagine.) huge opportunities for solar energy.
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  3798. 22:45 Not only a very angry Russia, but also a very angry Europe, you might expect.
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  3799. What is hardly ever mentioned in connection with the problem of Muslim/3rd world immigration into Europe, is that the fault lies almost entirely with the United states, which since the late 1940s has been attacking and wrecking countries all over Eurasia and forcing people to migrate to where they can make a living. Had they not overthrown many government which were democratically elected, but too close politically to the USSR or Russia for US tastes, this problem would not exist.
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  3800. 14:00 Look at the "Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels and you will see the prediction that the petty bourgeoisie (middle classes) will be "Precipitated into the proletariat" (the working or unemployed poor). It reads today as though they were writing about today, though it was written in the mid-1800s.
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  3801. It is not "either the government or the media" it is both because they are both part of the same organization. They both have been bought up by the pharmaceutical industry. The government is supposed to protect us, the media are supposed to warn us of threats. The government covered up the failures and dangers in Pfizer's vaccines and the media suppressed news of them, and the government allowed the suppression of all discussion of alternative therapies, which might have stymied the "Emergency Use Authorization" of Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccines, while the media suppressed all such discussion because of Big Pharma's advertising. The whole Pandemic thing looks exactly like a conspiracy. Not a conspiracy theory, but a conspiracy! The more you dig into it, the more conspiratorial it looks.
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  3802. BTW, I would really like an e-mail to contact.
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  3803.  @stephenburnage7687  I don't know. I have not heard of its winding up.
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  3804. The Uniparty is wholly owned by AIPAC.
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  3805.  @michaeldavid6832  Well, N@0 is not going to help one way or the other with that "Invasion". So what is the relevance of your comment?
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  3806.  @stephenvanwoert2447  What will forcing N@0 coutries to pay 4% of their GDP to the MIC do to stop the "Invasion" you are remarking on? Frankly it won't. Your comment seems to me, to be entirely beside the point. It is, in any case, an entirely "home made" invasion", in the sense that almost all these refugees/immigrants, come from countries that have been wrecked by the US military and the CIA. Also having an open border is inviting them to "invade" your country.
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  3807.  @gurglejug627  Yes. You are probab;y right. I said "Almost" because I have not researched this subject in great detail and as far as I knew, there might be some arms manufacturing companies left in Britain and there certainly there are some left in Germany and France.E.g. Rhreinmettal and Dassault.
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  3808. In my view, this leak has been done to forestall the "Great Ukrainian Spring Offensive" because it will be a massacre of Ukrainians, who are under armed, under trained, short of ammo, without effective anti-aircraft defences and facing well-built Russian fortifications. They are also facing Russians with far more artillery and ample ammunition and a fully functional air defence system and a large fleet of aircraft.
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  3809. The US is stupid to think they might be able to get China to lean on the Russians to end the war in Ukraine. Just think, what is the US's declared reason for not wanting to supply Ukraine with ATACMS? It is they need them for "Other Conflicts". Like what? Well, like attacking China! So, they are asking China to free them up to get ready for a war on China? That's exactly what it looks like. The Russians are forcing the Ukrainians to use up NATO's stockpile of Weapons, faster than NATO can make new ones. NATO (Aka the US.) wants these weapons to fight China. So, the longer the war in Ukraine goes on the easier it will be for the Chinese to beat the US War Machine if they are attacked and the less is the likelihood of the US daring to attack them. There is an old Chinese proverb that says, something to the effect of: "When your enemy is making a stupid mistake, don't interrupt him!"
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  3810. How do you know that all these Chinese places around the world are "Spy Bases"? Was it the Chinese who told you or the Americans? I assume it was not the Indian secret service because, as we all know, the Indians don't do spying.
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  3811. Ja, vi har tillåtit en rad vinstdrivande företag, som har ett egenintresse i vår ohälsa, att avgöra vilka droger som är tillgängliga för oss och vilka som nekas oss. Samtidigt har vi tillåtit dem att korrumpera våra regeringar och medicinska institutioner, till den grad att de har kunnat tvinga ovilliga människor att få sin produkt injicerad i deras kroppar. Att dessa företag är kriminella organisationer bevisas av deras långa brottsregister! Vi kommer ingen av oss att vara säker förrän dessa företag alla är förstatligade, eftersom regeringar har en annan prioritet - nämligen en frisk befolkning!
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  3812. Vi har tillåtit att forskning och tillverkning av läkemedel monopoliseras av vinstdrivande företag som inte har våra intressen på hjärtat. Tvärtom, deras intresse är att maximera sina vinster, vilket innebär att de har en något sjuk befolkning. Vi har tillåtit dem att finansiera medicinskolorna och den medicinska institutionen inklusive medicinska tidskrifter. Det verkar som att de har köpt sjukvårdsinrättningen, lås, lager och fat. Vi kommer ingen av oss att vara säker förrän alla dessa företag är nationaliserade. Anledningen till att detta skulle vara en mycket bra idé är att till skillnad från stora läkemedel vill regeringar ha billig effektiv medicin och friska befolkningar.
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  3813.  @benriggan5267  What's strange about it? Or perhaps you're joking?
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  3814.  @milosstamenkovic465  To understand the behaviour in relation to the virus, you have to understand that the medical establishment, the WHO, the health ministries, the medical journals, the medical schools, the medical unions and to a large extent the doctors themselves were captured by big pharma and the doctors were intimidated; "Keep stumm or lose your license.!" Vide the treatment of the very eminent doctors in the USA who wanted to discuss alternative treatments to vaccines. (FLCCC.)
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  3815.  @tube.brasil  You are correct about the vaccines, but why do you accouse @ShotgunKawaii116 of being "a CCP robot."?
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  3816.  @shotgunkawaii116  Since Covid hardly infects small children, the question is why does the CDC recommend vaccinating them since there are obvious side effects in a considerable number of children?
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  3817. 17:34 What is Mearsheimer's evidence for Russia "Stirring up trouble in Europe"? I am not saying there is none, just that I cannot think what he is referring to.
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  3818. 4:50 Levels advised by our governments are too low. Here comes my conspiracy theory: this is to please Big Pharma who want high levels of public illness. This is also why vitamin D is sold by pharmacists with dire warnings about taking more than 2000 units per day.(!) Adequate Vitamin D levels are needed for a good immune system, so inadequate levels of Vitamin D will, presumably up the sales of medicines. Note also, that I have never heard a doctor advise me to take care to get enough Vitamin D.
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  3819. 13:41 I do wonder how the US propaganda organs are going to "explain" the US's real indifference to the suffering of the Palestinians who are admittedly currently being slaughtered en masse and their "anguish" about the sufferings of the people of Xinjiang who are alledgedly sufferring from Cultural genocide!
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  3820.  @juderamnarine5617  Does it sell the channel?
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  3821. Это правда. Насколько мне известно, это было правдой с момента окончания Великой Отечественной войны, но пропагандистские усилия по «доказыванию» обратного продолжаются. Сейчас больше, чем когда-либо.
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  3822. 8:45 Alternative Russian government. Dues the Russian royal family still maintain that they are the legitimate Russian government?
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  3823. 9:33 If the Deep State does not like you, even 100% compliance will not save you!
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  3824. It astonishes me that the issue of excess deaths and its possible link to compulsory/mandatory covid-2 vaccinations, is NOT EVEN MENTIONED! 6,000 extra people dying per week (or is it a month?) and nobody is interested? What a weird country!
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  3825. 5:58 This is solving a problem which is not a real problem.
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  3826. 24:50 Is this Coup in Niger, by any chance backed by the USG? You know: just finishing off the European economy?
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  3827. It will also encourage Russian tourists to go to China.
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  3828. 25:19 Giving up Kherson, is at this stage, a tactical decision. We don't know the Russian plans. Giving up the city permanently would be a strategic decision and a much more serious/complicated matter.
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  3829. 31:35 More than ever the expression "The air is full of chickens coming home to roost" seems appropriate. Thank you both for making contemporary History so clear. Maybe the BRICS's currency unit should be referred to as "The Brick". It could, perhaps, be represented by a "B" with two horizontal lines through it? If it were backed by gold, perhaps "The Gold Brick"?
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  3830. There is no mystery about why the course that was followed was followed. The medical establishment has been captured by Big Pharma. They fund medical schools, they advertise in learned medical journals, and other more popular outlets, they fund the WHO, the CDC and many other parts of the medical establishment. This pandemic, wherever and however it started was a huge opportunity. An opportunity to make sums of money, almost beyond the dreams of avarice and they took it. They took it with both hands and ran with it. All the voices that said "Wait! Think what we are doing! " were suppressed , de-platformed and threatened. With mandates. I think that at one time they thought that everyone in the world was going to be forced to have at least three vaccinations. Preferably four! As I said, there is no mystery about why thing turned out the way they did; it's the old adage: FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!
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  3831. 58:41 You can also say, that that goes for Iran with spades.
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  3832. 9:00 What about the Kurds?
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  3833. 4:29 If the Great Attractor is THAT BIG, even if it is not a black hole (& why would it not be?) it must have a gravitational pull sufficient to gobble up everything including light, so how could you ever see it through a telescope or anything else?
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  3834. 1:10:22 The purpose of the "Patriot" missile and all the other "Air-defense" systems, is NOT to help the Ukrainians! NO! Far from it! The purpose of all of this effort is, in every possible way, to benefit Large US Companies! Blackrock, Monsanto, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Bill Gates, etc., etc.
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  3835. 6:13 So. About £1.50 out of the pocket of every man, woman and child in Europe to prop up the Zelensky Regime? Or is it to defeat Russia Which 30 countries are just in the process of showing is impossible? It is beyond stupid.
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  3836. Iirc it was authorized for use in China, about the same time as the mRNA vaccines were in the USA. I don't remember which was first, but there was only a few weeks between the two dates.
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  3837. @Gretchen K. Anyone who has followed events in China will know that the Chinese government has always (Since before the declaration of the PRC 1/10/1949) been very concerned with the health of the Chinese people. After 1949 they wiped out opium addiction, fought schistosomiasis, (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 16312039) they wiped out syphilis after the revolution, but since "opening up" the contact with foreigners has resulted in a new resurgence in the disease. They also managed to have many fewer deaths from C19 than any other country with a large population. Do your research, before spouting.
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  3838.  @janvisagie231  So, what is your explanation?
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  3839.  @brucel7430  Unfortunately, Sinopharm like the other vaccines, does not prevent people from catching covid. It reduces the number of people falling ill and the number needing hospitalization and the number of deaths but does not prevent it entirely.
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  3840. @Gretchen K. This "reply" to Jet Li is not an argument it is an accusation. Where are your facts or arguments?
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  3841. My explanation of what?
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  3842. @Gretchen K. So. you have no facts and no argument. Just insults and blather. OK.
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  3843. It is absolutely characteristic of reactionaries, that they over-value territorial gains and care far less about people than they should.
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  3844.  @des_smith7658  Yes!
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  3845. 50:38 Saying that Ukraine is losing because... Is really covering up the fact that N@0 is losing!
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  3846. Off topic: it has just occurred to me that the "Woke" movement is a sort of overshoot from an unduly repressive and censorious past and will, probably, over time, correct itself, as people get fed up with its present gross idiocies. The "new equilibrium" will be, probably, more favourable to women, minorities and abnormal sexual self-perceptions than the previous climate was, but will be shorn of the more idiotic "corrections" of the present day.
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  3847. 29:30 100 tons among 2,5 million = 0.4kg (a bit less than 1lb.) each. Better than a kick in the teeth, but not much.
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  3848. I have just read a comment by @Peanutbrain that points out that the US's MO is to instigate a war and support one side until both sides are weakened and the war is nearly over and then, to intervene very forcibly and claim the victory and the spoils thereof as their own. Is this what the US is planning, over Ukraine? Are they saving weapons for a “final strike”? It's a new aspect, that I had not thought about till now. What do you think?
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  3849. 30:52 China has suffered all sorts of setbacks, it has not stopped them. No doubt they will suffer others and you will rejoice over them, but it won't stop them. It is no wonder, their enemies are the whole of the Collective West and they are powerful, but all the same, they are not powerful enough to stop the Chinese.
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  3850. 12:11 Does it, perhaps, mean that the Russians have captured some (well-known?) Azov men who are going to spill the beans on camera in the near future?
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  3851. Come to think of it: the World Service of the BBC is, in fact, funded by the Foreign Office. So, the Lie Direct!
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  3852. 43:48 the Neocons/Neoliberals also have stranglehold on the MSM.
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  3853. I suspect that the European "leaders" are all either cocaine addicts or being blackmailed (Where is J. Epstein's little black book?) or both. Their behaviour is so consistently deleterious to the interests of their own countries as to be explicable by "normal" stupidity.
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  3854. Correction! "explicable should be "inexplicable " (!)
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  3855. 7:09 US spokespeople complaining about "Russian hypocrisy"? And they kept a straight face whilst doing it? Bravo!
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  3856.  @gerrardstones4246  Yes, They were both invented stories. You could not make this stuff up!
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  3857. 4:16 The WHO is asking for more than NATO! Incredible! AND what good have they done the World to date?
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  3858. 55:56 The reason is simple: the MSM is not a source of News, it is a means of distributing propaganda.
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  3859. It is characteristic of all Neocons that they are Anti-Human. It's almost as though they were a different species!
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  3860. 4:35 Was Robert Fico on the Ukrainian hitlist?
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  3861. You should also remember the illegal occupation of Diego Garcia by the British and US forces, with the ethnic cleansing of the entire population of those tragic Islands
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  3862. When I visited Transdnistyia, I found it a very pleasant place,with very friendly and helpful people.
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  3863. 7:45 Do the USAmericans want the Chinese to stop buying Russian oil?
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  3864. 5:12 After many decades of ignoring Saudi Arabia's abysmal human rights record, and helping their regime to suppress any protest or political movement against the ruling clique; to start virtue signaling now, is really, really a bit late!
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  3865. Typical of This regime in Ukraine; they lose a battle and take revemge on civilians.
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  3866. 14:30 It looks to me as though the Israelis hoped to provoke Iran into attacking them, which would (They hope.) bring the US in, to attack Iran. The US Military is already there and they have allies in the US who would like that very much. E.g. John Bolton.
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  3867. 5:20 This must represent one of the biggest and best documented crimes in History. It must also represent one of the biggest, attempted, cover-ups in history too. Amazing!
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  3868. 6:00 It is not "strange" that British reporters report total BS, they get their instructions and quite probably their "news" too, from the "Integrity Initiative" aka MI6/CIA. They want to keep their jobs.
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  3869. 24:54 "Blenheim" is pronounced "Blenem", by the English.
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  3870. 15:45 It was not the war in Ukraine that interrupted the global supply chains. It was the decisions of the governments of the Collective West, to put sanctions on Russia, using the war that they had provoked in Ukraine as the excuse. This was done in the vain hope, and with the intention, that these sanctions would rapidly bring about the collapse of the Russian economy and the overthrow of the Putin government. A prize example of an ill thought-out policy causing a blowback.
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  3871. 12:39 "Why are you continuing to support this failed comedian?" It looks like the fallacy (I have forgotten its proper, technical name) that says: "We have spent so much money/goods/prospects, etc. on this project already, so to stop now, would be a betrayal of all the lives/goods/wealth/etc. sacrificed to this project in the past!"
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  3872. "What is going on?" To me it looks like something very, very bad is being covered up. This could be a massive mistake or it could be corruption on a truly massive scale. Either way some people and organizations have made massive amounts of money as a result of these events. The silence looks like collusion. Time for the ICC to start investigating?
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  3873.  @BoqPrecision  We shall see.
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  3874. 1:16:18 What makes you think the Israeki government wants an enquirey into Nov 7?
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  3875. 10:30 Ukraine setting the democratic example for the rest of Europe ? I don't see any problem with that.
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  3876. So, Chinese Capitalists are no better than any other capitalist. What a surprise! Any surprise at this fact is, in my view, racist.
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  3877. 1:13:33 Hahahahaha! Is mr Lutwak telling us that the US MIC makes cheap weapons? Really? How much do F-35s cost?
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  3878. 16:56 The European "leaders" in Kiev; There an old saying in Chinese that describes this sort of habitual behavior that has lost its meaning: "So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell."
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  3879. 28:14 "don't pay any attention" No, NO! If you get any assurance, treat it as a warning! These people don't just lie, almost everything they say is the exact opposite of what they are intending.
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  3880. 8:05 NATO is not weaker than it was, in February 2022, BUT, its real weakness has been exposed, like never before. "The mightiest military Machine the World has ever seen", with its massive armies, fleets of aircraft, thousands of tanks, limitless fleets of armoured vehicles of every sort, massive fleets patrolling the World's oceans and with the US at least, with military bases all over the World, etc., etc., that existed in the public imagination, has been shown to lack, not merely ammunition, but the ability to produce it in the quantities needed, in the requisite time-frame! It's expertise, has also suffered a terrible dimuniton in public estimation, for its reckless and frankly stupid, overestimation of the Ukrainians and its underestimation of the Russians. Its planning and forethought have also been shown to be severely deficient by the disaster that was the long-touted Offensive and its obvoius lack of any plan of what to do now that it is losing the war. ("Oops! We did not think of that!")
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  3881. The problem between India and the US it this: The US's position is: "You are either with us or against us" India's position is: "We want to be friends with any country that is willing to be our friend (More or less!)" So, the US is bringing pressure on India, hoping to change its stance. The US (ridiculously) is making a great "Moralistic" fuss about some alleged extrajudicial killing of an Indian dissident. Just as though "The US would never do such a thing!"
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  3882. If it comes from the Ukrainian government I woould bet it's a lie.
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  3883. 34:21 I expect these "war-journalists" are being briefed by the "Integrity Initiative", which largely controls the output of the CW's MSM and is itself an offshoot of the CW's intelligence apparatus.
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  3884.  @niblet112  Put it down to "British understatement."
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  3885.  @mikeaugust747  "they got taken down a peg." They got cut off at the knees, more like. Not the action of a friend!
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  3886.  @mikeaugust747  That is the sort of "Friend" I would pay good money not to have.
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  3887.  @peterrinas3862  As Kissinger put it: (Or words to that effect) "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, to be a friend is fatal." I am older than you, I worked in many dying companies in Britain. Post Margaret Thatcher, there were many of them. I applied for a job in a company that was not dying (It made machinery for making pet food.) I submitted a resume of my previous jobs, the interviewer said:" There is one thing I don't like about your resume, nearly every company you worked for has gone bankrupt!" I had to explain to him, that when companies were going out of business, staff left, but they still had orders to fulfil, so they had to employ people like me, on a temporary basis, to finish off the work. Many of the companies I worked for, were in the process of moving their work to Germany. I think you were 30-50 years ahead of us.
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  3888. 1:07:53 What is the US's objection to Peace and Comprehensive Security guarantees for everyone? LBGXYZ Values? 72 different sexes? Just asking.
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  3889. 50:39 Is the Russian MIC going to start manufacturing Turtle Tanks? If not, why not?
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  3890.  @pmp2559  Good Question!
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  3891. Link up with George Galloway.
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  3892. There is no limit to the hypocrisy of the collective west. The "International Rules-Based Order" is a prime example. So long as the action is performed by the US or to support the US, it is OK with the rulers of the Collective West. The CW is very hot in support of "Human Rights", just so long as the human are not the original inhabitants of Diego Garcia, who under the International Rules-Based Order, it seems, have no rights at all! Equally, Julian Assange has been imprisoned for many years, in England, that Great Bastion of Human Rights, for being suspected of being a publisher! (He has not been tried.) Then again, in the "Home of the Brave & the Land of the Free", Chelsea Manning has been imprisoned for many years for refusing to denounce Julian Assange. This business over Afghan opium does not surprise me one bit. It is par for the course. As is, paying Tunisia to keep out refugees, most of whom are refugees because, in their so-called "War on Terrorism", the CW wrecked their countries.
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  3893. !9:32 You are again blaming the puppet for his actions. This is not so much "Ukrainian double-dealing" as "US double dealing."
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  3894. It may be that the CW always think short-term and the Chinese always think long-term. The threat to put tariffs on Chinese EVs would cause (perhaps) a short term problem for China, putting a stop to trade with Russia would be a long-term threat to China. IDK, can the CW leaders be that stupid? If you judge by what they say and do, it seems, they are!
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  3895.  @PhiloSurfer  I am old and my memory is not what it was, but I think you are right.
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  3896.  @diamondback2085  That sounds like a deliberate snub.
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  3897. Welcome back Alex! Don't you think that the "Policy of Drift" that can be seen throughout the Collective West is not accidentally all-pervasive, but is rather the determined policy. Yes, it is bad for the common people but who, in the political class, cares about the common people? If they have it rough, well, so long as they don't revolt, so what? The real crisis is that the common people seem to have no even potential leader.
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  3898. 1:19:49 What the CW reminds me of is a puppet show where the puppetmaster is suffering from a severe case of Alzheimer's disease
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  3899. 8:38 Exchanging a government-owned Central Bank for the US Federal Reserve, is a policy which will please the Federal Reserve and the USG immensely, but will spell financial ruin for the Argentine economy and for the independence of Argentina. To undo such a step will take an armed insurrection. In general, I do not make predictions, as the future is so uncertain, but this prediction is something of which I am certain. The result will be the selling off, at firesale prices to international Billionaires, of all possible National Assets.
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  3900. 34:31 The Western media as a whole is under the control of the "Integrity Initiative". so yo will find very little difference in the coverage of "sensitive" topics from one end of Europe to the other.
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  3901. When did the US steal weapons from Iran? Those must be some "fairly" old weapons! Are we talking about Iran-Contra weapons?
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  3902. It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders The job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If, for example, a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks well worth running.
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  3903. 15:24 David Cameron was simply applying Dr Goebels's maxim that "If you are going to lie, you have a better chance of being believed, if you make it a big one."
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  3904. 29:10 Coud it be part of the campaign to discredit Zelensky? Sounds very odd!
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  3905.  @duellingscarguevara  Because there was less of a contrast with the present reality?
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  3906. 5:37 "They are moving step by step towards a visa ban for Russians, why?" They are doing it because they have no choice - puppets never have. The question is who is/are the puppeteers and how are they exerting their control?
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  3907.  @rogerburn5132  Thanks.
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  3908.  @rogerburn5132  I.C.U.R.YY for me!
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  3909. 31:40 "Steel" is a generic term. There are all sorts of steel from incredibly hard to incredibly tough to very soft and very flexible . The special steels for such things as rocket engines are sometimes secret alloys that the US cannot make. The steel in jet engines involves alloys containing all sorts of rare elements, many of which are imported from China. You might also wonder from where the US and the EU import their steel?
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  3910. Voters might just as well vote Tory as Labour. Since the destruction (Politically) of Jeremy Corbyn the LP has gone downhill and is seen by ordinary, working people as a "Posh-Dominated" or Blairite party. (Perhaps that should be spelled "Blairright")
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  3911. 2:39 I wonder, Jens, where you are going to get the weapons to drag this war out for decades?
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  3912. Seizing the Russian Bank Reserves will not only further antagonise the Russians it will speed up de-dolarization and the process of international trading in other currencies. In short it will even further erode trust in the countries of the West and their currencies.
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  3913. It seems, to me, it seems that it is less and less likely that the Russians are going to stop before they liberate Ukraine up to the Polish border. To do anything less would leave a part of Ukraine that would be like a septic ulcer on the Ukrainian body politik. It would be a very attractive place from which the US secret services would operateand the Ukronazis would make their nest. No. I just can't see it happening. As to what the Russians are "liberating" the Ukrainians from: it is obviously from US Bondage and the rule of the Zelensky clique and their Ukronazi minders.
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  3914. 6:29 Where was that demonstration? New York? London> Why were all the posters the demonstrators were carrying in English?
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  3915. 2:36 "Russia MIGHT be giving Nuclear weapons to Iran". Yes and maybe they aren't. How do you know? Did you get your info fromt the same people who told you about Sassam Husein's WMD?
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  3916. 23:17 Die Wessies haben neue Wunderwaffen!
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  3917. 21:23 You know where all the world goes to buy big transformers? China. They make the steel for the magnetic parts and they make the copper wire for the electrical parts. They also build the complete assemblies. I am not sure of this, but I think that all the firms that used to make them in Europe and the USA, have been driven out of the field by the competition from China.
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  3918. Europe, at the demand of Washington, has been busy "Poking the Bear" for the last few years. At the end of 2021, the Russians proposed that they and the Europeans and the US all sit down and work out how EVERYBODY could have security. The Collective west said "Nothing Doing!" We are going to crush your economy with sanctions and induce a regime change in Moscow and the current mess is the result. We shall all be very lucky, if it does not lead to WW3.
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  3919. It seems it is not so much a matter of "lack of commitment", to Ukraine as a "lack of arms", to send. Without the arms for them to use, what use is sending men, going to be?
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  3920. 30:56 And they used Al Qaida as their proxy, to carry the responsibility for 911.
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  3921. The Hur (Should that be "Hur?") verdict shows beyond all reasonable doubt, that the president, who it seems would be hard-pushed to run a sweet shop, is not running the USA. This means, that US "Democracy" is nothing of the sort, as the man elected to be in overall control is not. It also seems, that the woman elected to be his deputy, his stand-in, his vice President, is not running things either. As far as I can see (and I am largely ignorant of US Politics) the people who appear to be running the country's affairs, are all apointees. If it is not Nuland, Blinken, Sullivan and Burns who are in control, I wonder who is? Hunter?
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  3922. I donot agree with this assessment of NATO at all. After WW2 there was a very powerful MIC in the US and a lack of customers for it. The MIC itself was almost entirely privately owned. It needed customers to survive. It therefore invented "the Soviet threat", to persuade the population of the Western countries that they needed to buy large quantities of weapons to defend themselves from the imaginary threat posed by the Soviet Union. I say "imaginary" because at Yalta, Stalin, Churchill and FDR had carved up the World into sphere of influence which all of them, religiously, stuck to until the USSR finally collapsed. At some time after the end of WW2, I don't know exactly when it happened, the practice of Lobbying (Bribery) was legalised and the MIC was effectivly able to buy Congressional support and with that, to buy the US government, which has been the situation ever since. Since that happened, the foreign policy of the US has been determined by the interests, not of the US people, but the interests of the MIC! It still is. Being a collection of greedy capitalists and their shareholders, it is willing to take horrendous risks with the safety of the World merely to increase their quarterly returns. Expanding NATO simply increases the revenue stream. It is an odd phenomenon. I cannot think of another example of the same or an analogous phenomenon in history, nor even from evolution.
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  3923. 1:05:04 "Three thousand rounds a month!" surely some mistake here. I thought it was more like 3000 rounds per day. If I am not mistaken, that is what you have been reporting for some time now. As you say, if it is true, it would explain the failure of the much heralded counter offensive.
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  3924. If you are a member of the elite (and she is) you can get away with anything.
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  3925. 26:34 The neocons never think about the problems of production and similar matters. I should think that the reason for this is that hardly any of them have a STEM background. Probably hardly one of them has worked in a factory or even been in management.
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  3926.  @itskasmexx3995  1 mile = 1.605 metres
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  3927.  @russelljames5631  Corruption.
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  3928. Taxing Private Education. Isn't the problem that the Tories and the Labour are as similar as the Republicans and Democrats in the USA. If the government wants to economise they could easily stop subsidising Mr Zelensky and raise far more than this amount. If they do raise , say, £1.3 billion, are they actually going to spend it on extra teachers and breakfast clubs for deprived areas? I for one, would not trust them to do so!
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  3929. Abu Graib, Me Lai, Trump saying that Torture is AOK. Then videos that put Chelsea Manning behind bars. How can the US negotiate with someone who is "wanted" for a war crime?
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  3930. Hamas will not welcome what the Russians and Chinese are doing.
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  3931. 20:57 You can believe this if you like. Personally, I think that this will turn out to be an effort of the Ukrainian secret service, perhaps a joint effort of the Ukrainian secret service, MI6 and the CIA. Home grown? I doubt it! We shall see.
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  3932. At the moment, 28/11/23, The Russians and the Chinese together, have overwhelming military strength, even without roping in allies, that I am sure would support them. They can therefore force changes, even radical changes on the administration in Washington, even to the extent of breaking up the cosy little "MIC - Lobbyist+MSM -- Congress - USG - back to MIC", vicious circle that exists today and seems set to last for ever.
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  3933. IF!
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  3934. It occurs to me that the studies on hunter=gatherers are probably skewed, because modern hunter-gatherers are living in deserts, e.g. the Kalahari Desert, having been pushed out of more fertile places by farmers and pasturers, Prehistoric Europe, for example with a very low population, at least at first, must have been teeming with game of all sorts and sizes and far more vegetables and nuts that a dersert would offer. Hence it could have been, probably was, far less strenuous a life, than that of a modern hunter-gatherer.
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  3935. You seem to me, to harbour illusions still, about the role of the MSM. Whatever the position of the MSM in yesteryear was, the current manifestation of it, is simply and exclusively, a branch of government propaganda apparatus. At the moment, with respect to the social media, they have not worked out how to apparently support "Free Speech" and censorship at the same time, but they are working on it
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  3936. Laws always constrict your ability to do what you like. Is that an argument for lawlessness? I don't think so.
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  3937.  @Mr_G_in_Alba  I would not dispute that. What I would ask, however, is which of the ECHR laws do you object to? Can you quote it?
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  3938.  @Mr_G_in_Alba  So without looking to see what they are doing, you trust your government to do their best for you? Wow! Good luck with that! You are British, aren't you? How trustworthy have you found them so far?
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  3939.  @user-yl1xy5eg7b  That is not an answer to the question I asked. If you don't know what your government is objecting to and what it is going to replace the abandoned laws with, you are egging them on to do things that you don;t know about and may not like when you find out. If you don't know what legal protection you are being deprived of why do you support the exit from the ECHR's protection? It seems to me that you are being led by the nose into you know not where. IOW you are being used.
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  3940.  @williamforrest8658  The government in all western countries looks after the interests of the Employer class. Migrants force down the cost of labour which suits the employers. The more migrants there are, the more the downwards pressure on wage levels. To understand politics you have to understand that we live in a society that is divided into classes. You can't predict how an individual will behave but you can predict how a class will behave.
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  3941. 21:55 There seem to be a lot of Russian who are more hawkish than Putin's government. Maybe, they don't like Shoigu because he is not hawkish enough for their taste. As you say, it is hard to fault the preparations for this war, all in all.
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  3942. 12:33 Probably intended to scare the Russians.
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  3943. 2:39 I watch you with pleasure, most of the time and I applaud your courage in speaking truths that no one else in the MSM seems to want to articulate, but it seems to me that here you are slandering the Chinese government without justification. How do justify saying that the Chinese government wants a nuclear war? Which Chinese statesman has said anything to suggest that? I must have missed that!
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  3944. 1:01:17 The "European panic" will be exacerbated by the looming economic slump & de-dollarization and the looming victory by the "Hard Right" (Nationalist) parties in forthcoming EU and national elections.
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  3945. How long is the World going to tolerate these monsters? How long is the World going to accept the spiel that "Israel is the only Deocracy in the Middle East" without falling over laughing? If this is a "democracy" what is the difference between it and the Germany of the 30s and 40s? Elections?
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  3946. 18:23 I think Alex is playing down the "influence" of the"Integrity Initiative" (The media arm of the 5-Eyes) which has its asset in every MSM outlet to tell the chief editor, on a daily basis, what is "News" and what is "Non-news" and what is "Misinformation". (A sort of "triage nurse" for the newsroom.)
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  3947. 1:14:02 The regime in Washington knows that they do not rule the whole of the World, but they clearly, have always thought that they ought to rule every part of the World and since they are paying Israel's bills they feel entitled to say who should be the Israeli PM.
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  3948. 33:57 I don't imagine that this support for European arms mfgs will go down very well in the US MIC. Will it? They don't like competition. State-supported competition at that!
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  3949. 36:56 It seems to me that the AfD is the "negation of the negation", where the former Socialist and Communists have become the Right-wing with thoroughly reactionary policies and the allegedly Right-wing, while the AfD have become the party of the Working Class!
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  3950. Sorry! I miswrote that. I meant to say: " while the allegedly Right-wing, AfD have become the party of the Working Class!"
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  3951.  @lowersaxon  Thanks.
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  3952. The problem with US diplomacy is not that it is "not sensible". The problem is that it is dishonest. They say one thing today and something else tomorrow. They say one thing and do something quite else. Over and over again. They lambast China, and threaten war over Chinese "mistreatment" of Muslims in Xinjiang and at the same time support Israel, which really is mistreating Muslims and others in Gaza.
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  3953. 50:00 The MIC, the lobbyists, the voters, the congress critters and the USG, together form a loop. What you might call a "vicious circle". This loop is self protecting, it has the MSM to help it and to prevent its exposure and it has internal mechanisms, like the "revolving door" to give it strength. It is highly destructive to anyone that tries to attack it. As time goes on it seems to get stronger. I don't see how it will be defeated.
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  3954.  @Jamicaman516  You, it seems, cannot distinguish illusion from reality. How can it not be a "NATO army" when it was set up by NATO, Trained by NATO, armed by NATO, fought alongside NATO and is entirely dependent on NATO for Finance, arms supplies and intelligence, targeting etc.? BTW Insults will not help a rational discussion.
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  3955.  @michaelkatz275  How about you come up with some arguments to prove your point instead of lazily making insulting remarks about me? Too much like hard work? I have been insulted by people like you, since I started taking an interest in politics, back at the start of WW2. I am hardened to such. You are wasting your time.
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  3956. And?
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  3957. 18:33 Taking your "Paeasitic analogy" You two are, like it or not, cast in the role of anti-bodies!
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  3958. Apologies for typo. Parasitic
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  3959. 53:00 Since when has the USA developed this dislike of dictators? As you yourself will be very aware, the USA supported the Colonels in Greece after WW2. In addition, they supported and protected a lot of dictators such as Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, the Shah of Iran, King Farouk of Egypt, King Idris of Libya, Peron of Argentina and later his wife Evita, Marcos of the Philippines, Chiang Kai-shek of China, Syngman Rhee of South Korea, a succession of dictators in South Vietnam and so on and so forth. All of these were unashamedly Dictators. In addition the CIA has installed other dictators in other countries. So what has changed? Is it, perhaps, that dictators now are not Woke enough? Don't they like LBGTXVZ manifestations? Or are they opposed to installing separate toilets for 72 different genders? Perhaps someone in these comments can inform me.
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  3960. 17:26; I doubt that the MSM will "Stack up behind it". The MSM is owned and controlled by Yunohus who will mostly back Netanyahoo. Let's hope I am wrong.
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  3961. 3:10 NATO is not really (I.e. in the real World, ) a defensive alliance. It has never, defended anyone. It has only attacked. E.g. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libiya, Yugoslavia. Now, it is talking about attacking China. So why do YOU call it a "Defensive Alliance"?
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  3962. Probably Sir Tony Radikin will screw up the superdooper spring etc. offensive and then be promoted to be the next secretary of NATO to succeed Stoltenberg.
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  3963. 3:52 ""When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound." ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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  3964. I did two years NS and it was very largely a waste of my valuable time. it produced nothing of any value for Britain. As to reintroducing NS now, "to combat Russia", that is frankly ridiculous! It was ridulous when I did NS too, there never was a Soviet plan to invade Western Europe, as was well known in NATO HQ, from the start of the Cold War. If the West stops provoking Russia, the Russians will not attack anyone. That the whole Anti-Russian and Anti-Chinese schtick is phoney all through (the concern for "Cultural Genocide" in Xinjiang and Tibet and the "Human rights of the LBGTQXYZ and the 72 sexes" in Russia) can be seen by the US/UK's indifference to the REAL GENOCIDE and REAL abuse of EVERY HUMAN RIGHT in Gaza!
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  3965. I don't believe that NATO has a "huge overmatch". If that were the case, we would be in WW3 already!
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  3966. 1:41:03 I would like to ask Prof Sachs: what (If such there is.) is the relationship between the Israeli belief that they are "the chosen people and all the rest of us are mere cattle pretending to be humans" and the US belief that "the USA is the shining city on a hill that everyone wants to emulate. The Indespensible nation etc., etc"? To me they look very similar, but is this a case of a common origin or is it a case of convergent evolution?
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  3967.  @duncansmith7576  You think that the only purpose of a war is to take ground/cities? You should have listened to what Putin said was the purpose of the invasion when the Russians invaded. He said that the purpose of the invasion was to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine and make sure that it was Not part of NATO or in other words "neutral". Nothing about conquering the whole of the land mass of Ukraine. De-militarizing Ukraine means destroying Ukraine's weapons and their army. That is what they have done. Isn't it? De-NAZIfying the Ukraine means destroying (at least) the power of the Ukrainian NAZIs which they have very largely done. Making Ukraine into a non-NATO state, remains to be done, probably through negotiations when the fighting stops, or when negotiations start. The point of continuing "to fight an army with no ammunition" is that this war is disarming NATO! Ask yourself: "Why does Zelensky's army have no weapons, too few men and no ammunition?" "Is it because the West has not given it any? NO. Is it because the West does not want to give it weapons? No. The reason is that the West has used up its stocks of weapons supplying Zelensky's army. The Ukrainians have worn some out, they have used up a lot, the Ukrainian government has sold a lot on the World Black Market and the Russians have destroyed the rest. The longer the war goes on the fewer weapons the West has. Big-arrow offensives cost a lot of lives and the Russians want to lose as few men as possible. Advancing slowly, is more economical and the Ukrainians keep bringing Naxis to be killed and weapons to be destroyed, so why would the Russians go wild and advance rapidly? Do you understand now?
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  3968. 12:53 Worse! When the pilot of the Russian Su-24 bailed out of his striken 'plane, he was shot by jihadis working for Turkey.
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  3969. 11:42 All through the Cold War, the NATO top brass knew that the USSR had plans only for a Counter-Attack, in the event that the Western powers invaded Eastern Europe.
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  3970. 35:32 No. Not anthrax - washing powder.
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  3971. 38:34 All of what you are describing could only happen were the Washington Warmongers (WWs) to have had a "come-to-Jesus-moment" and to have given up their overriding aim and object, which is to get themselves into a position where they can blackmail or otherwise destroy Russia. They have been trying to achieve this, since about 1941, when they set up the Manhatten Project, on a false prospectus, of beating the Germans to an atom-bomb.
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  3972. 27:18 And it is all the more inexplicable that China should do this when we have been so friendly to China! They have entirely ignored all the brotherly gestures we have made towards them! Ingrates!
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  3973. This 20% are the excess deaths. Aren't they?
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  3974. 8:06 Pardon my conspiratorial bent! but is there any evidence that these low levels are being recommended to please the Pharmaceutical industries? I mean, low levels of Vitamin D in the population at large should boost their profits considerably and it is (I think) true that the Medical Schools are very largely financed by the Pharmaceutical companies.
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  3975. According to the head of Ukrainian (Military?) Intelligence, Navalny "died of a blood clot." I.e. of natural causes. I wonder whether when Navalny went to Germany in 2021, he was vac*inated against Cov-19 with either Pf*zer or Ast*a -Zen*ka jab(s)?
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  3976. Sorry! I mis-heard. That should be $13.5 Billion ! Right, that means $26,000.00 each. More reasonable than I gave credit for.
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  3977. Westerners us this mispronunciation either out of ignorance or though thinking that the Chinese pin yin orthography is the same as their own language's orthography or to show contempt. To be "fair" they do it to the leaders of other countries as well. They are all "funny foreigners" and therefore more or less contemptible, don'cher know?
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  3978. 1:16:20 What you, Alexander, are ignoring, is the opinion and leverage that The Donors in the USA, have on USG policy. The USG has to consider, not only the reactions of the Israeli government to USG advice, but the reaction of the Democratic Party Donors as well.
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  3979. 33:34 Maybe, Macron is going, a la Politico, to count the French troops that have already died in Ukraine?
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  3980. 5:50 Yet another resemblance to 911! The security cameras were not working at the time they were needed. The army was asleep. The coincidences just keep adding up! It almost looks as though "whoever" organized this attack was using the same playbook as was used 22 years ago. The only things that seems to be missing are the airliners full of hostages and the planes flying into skyscrapers.
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  3981. I wonder if the World will believe this? What about the UK? are they going to follow suit or are they the way that the USA will "get rid of its chemical weapons" while still keeping them?
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  3982. Usually you are correct, but in this opening statement you are not. The cutting off of cheap oil and gas from Russia and all the rest of that, was NOT the result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, was the RESULT of multiple provocations and was THE EXCUSE, for multiple sanctions, which were designed well before the invasion, to collapse the Russian economy and bring about Regime Change in Moscow and the end of the "Putin Regime".
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  3983. 3:12 ISIS is a construct of the CIA, "Fighting ISIS" is a US excuse for being in various countries in the Middle East. The Russians showed it up, for example, when they went into Syria to rescue the Syrian government from being overthrown by ISIS. They showed that the US's "fight" with ISIS was pantomime. ISIS had mile long convoys of oil trucks, carrying stolen Syrian oil to Turkey and Israel to sell to finance ISIS, and when the US was asked why they did not attack these convoys, they replied that the trucks were being "driven by civilians"!
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  3984. "Stay home and make love" Will ring very, very hollow to a lot of bereaved wives!
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  3985. 45:47 What the Russians "wanted with cruise missile in fighting gangs of terrorists" was shown in Syria when calibre missiles were used to destroy the command centres manned by NATO officers who were directing the activities of the gangs of terrorists.
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  3986. "They have exposed how out of his depth and lacking in skill Joe Biden is" Ne ullos dubitet!
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  3987. 9:51 It is not often I disagree with you, but I don't agree that the US objective of "Containing China" began around 1965. Even just after the end of WW2 when Chiang Kai-shek was fighting the Communists in China's revolution, the arms that Washinton gave to Chiang was just about enough to stop him losing (Or so they thought!). I think the fact is, traditionally, Great Powers do not want new Great powers. I don't think for example that Joseph Stalin was all that keen on having another Great Power in the World, even if it was another "Communist" power and therefore, presumably, an ally. The US thought, (I think) that the fight with the Chinese Communists would leave Nationalist China so exhausted that they would be very dependent on the US and Stalin started the Korean war and then backed out of it, believing that the US and China would weaken each other to his advantage, making China dependent on the USSR. As things turned out, it is clear that they both grossly underestimated the Chinese Communists and People. (Washington still does.)
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  3988.  @ericfisher1360  Yes! You're right! Thanks for pointing that out!
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  3989. 36:09 Biden makes it absolutely clear that the POTUS does not run the USA! Biden, i would guess, would be hard put to run a sweet shop opposite a school!
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  3990. 31:40 Was Soros vaccinated?
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  3991. There are several decisively important diferences from the 60s. First, there is the internet and social media. Second, there is the Muslim World, which had no religious interest in Vietnam. Thirdly, there is a big Muslim vote in the US which is largely Democratic voters. Fourthly, the Arab countries are far less puppets of Washington than they were then and are better armed. Fifthly there are Russia, China, Turkie and Iran hovering in the background and in the UN. Sixthly, there is far less US control of the UNGA and the Security Council. Seventhly, there is a far greater debt problem hanging over the US. There may well be others that I have forgotten.
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  3992. India gives me the impression of being overly jealous and suspicious of China. It has never really got over the unexploded bomb of South Tibet/Arunchal Pradesh that the British left in India. The relationship with China is still poisoned by the way that Indian maps (As for example the end covers of Mahama Ghandi's Autobiography) moved the "border" several decades of miles northward between the first and 3rd editions of that book without notice to or the agreement of China. It also sometimes, perhaps unfairly(?) looks as though it is a US "Trojan Horse" inside the BRICS.
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  3993. Quite clearly the people who "investigated" Trump, were working for PUTIN!
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  3994. Yeah! But, this clock is showing some courage. Telling the truth in Washington is not universally popular!
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  3995. 51:53 Even thinking of "it" as Western Agression is really wishful thinking! These people, who are supporting war in Ukraine and in Palestine are not pro-Western they are Anti-People! They don't care who gets killed so long as their pockets are filled! I suspect that they are secretly (Or not so secretly.) in league with the WEF idea that there are too many people in the World. Any talk about their "Values" is purest hogwash. If they have any values they are not anything that they would want any ordinary person to know about.
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  3996.  @KerwinWilliams-h4f  Right!
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  3997. 5:11 They are using Challenger 2 tanks, faux de mieux.
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  3998. Russia cannot be defeated. So, the obvious next move is to stop fighting and killing people and negotiate a peace. It stands to reason doesn't it? As the old saying has it "A bad peace is better than a good war" This war is not a good one, it is bad almost beyond belief and if, as seems almost certain, Ukraine, even with NATO's help cannot win it, further fighting is plain stupid. Not to say criminal.
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  3999. 17:18 Judging by past activities, as the move failed in Vietnam, it will be tried again in Ukraine.
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  4000. 1:08:16 I would agree with you entirely about the astonishing mediocrity of "our" leaders! As to why this is so unprecedented, I think it may be that the degree of puppetry in the collective West is unprecedented, being almost complete, and "a distinguished, capable puppets" is a contradiction in terms.
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  4001.  @brandtbollers3183  Good for you! Laughter is the best medicine.
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  4002. 1:21:53 By going after the ICC, the US is principally destroying its own standing. How can it expect to be taken seriously by anyone, when it talks about "The Rules -based International Order", after attacking the ICC for prosecuting obvious War Criminals?
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  4003. 1:11:19 One of the most peculiar aspects of the recent period is how the US elites have on the one hand been trying to cause a split between the Russians and the Chinese and at the same precise time, literally simultaneously, threatening, attacking and being beastly to both!
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  4004. Clickbait headline. Where is the "theory about why so many ufos are being spotted"?
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  4005. 48:00 No boots on the ground (NBOG) means that the US will tip-toe in, in their socks? No, they will go in sneakers!
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  4006. 3:27 Another thing that very badly damaged China-US relations wasthe arrest of Huawei's CFO in Canada and he r subsequent detention for a year, on a completely trumped up charge. Come to think of it, a trumped up charge similar to the one levied aganst Donald Trump!
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  4007. 8:00 Mass resignation due to mandatory vaccinations for large groups of workers, e.g. transport and health workers?
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  4008. 41:54 Interesting sky!
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  4009.  @izolabela  Thanks!
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  4010. Perhaps it's time for a trial of Athenian style democracy, i.e. you hold a lottery to pick your MPs and Ministers from all the willing and eligible adults? Could the result be worse than what you have? I doubt it. This scheme has a lot of advantages, it is a good cross section of the population, it favours minorities in that they get a fair number of seats, small of course, but that is fair, it favours neither sex, it does not discriminate against the rich or poor, it gets rid of nearly all the razzamataz of elections and all the canvassing and that sort of time-wasting activity, it does not lend itself to corruption. You audit everyone who wins a seat when they win and when their term is up. Sounds good to me.
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  4011. Oh yes! I forgot, you get rid of all lying election promises. Get the Magic Circle (The organization of professional {stage} magicians.) to supervise the selection process, because they know all the ways of making the "right" card jump out of the pack.
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  4012. I also forgot to add that if you limit each person selected, to one term in office, you not only make corruption very hard and dangerous and even if successful, limited to one term, but you do away with the profession of professional politician!
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  4013.  @eduardosimoes2228  Maybe, you are a bit out-of-date?
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  4014.  @anon21qwerty17  Thanks for the clarification.
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  4015.  @tyy5557  So should a lot of other people! I could mention a few, but what's the point the US does not recognize the ICC. so they will never stand trial.
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  4016.  @eduardosimoes2228  Seems to be breaking free, at the moment. They have probably seen that, that ship is sinking and decided to jump, rather than go down with it.
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  4017. 36:30 "Start thinking about how to bring this war to an end...." Another thing that needs thinking about is this: If this war goes on much longer, then the Russians will be facing, with a battle-hardened army, a "demilitarized" NATO. This will be a very great temptation to the Russians to "strike while the iron is hot" or perhaps, to not miss a golden opportunity to impose their ideas on the peace or even to simply go on to defeat NATO militarily while it is so weak. Such opportunities do not come more than once in a hundred years.
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  4018.  @franksmith417  "Russia can’t even defeat Ukraine," You sure of that?
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  4019. In Britain it is alleged, that there are sometimes "secret masonic signals" are exchanged betweent the Judge and either defending or prosecuting lawyers and policemen..
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  4020. 7:45What a shameful turn around! France which was occupied by NAZ*s all through WW2, now in 2014 and on, supporting an openly NAZ* regime! What a come-down! What a disgrace! ("And they're doing it me lads to save Democracy!")
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  4021. 25:36 Maybe it is to do with Scholz's visit to Beijing to mend trade relations with China in defiance of the US verbot?
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  4022. If I remember correctly, a group of doctors sued the FDA for exceeding its powers and the case was dismissed. They then appealed to the US Supreme court (Or it may have been their State's supreme court) which granted that the court was wrong to throw out their case and finally the court agreed with the Doctors that: the FDA is not a doctor and hence, it has NO AUTHORITY to give medical advice. Although the FDA tried to pretend, that it was "merely being humerous" and was "not giving medical advice" (!) the court told it to stop showing that stupid "You are not a Horse etc" advert and to watch its step in future.
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  4023. 1:10:35 Not to worry! The CW has NEVER worried about breaking International Law! It relies on the MSM to cover up for it and it bullies third world countries into pretending that nothing has happened. My feeling is, that this situation is changing, or has already changed, but that the leaders of the CW have not realised how much it has changed.
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  4024. 1:18:47 " . . . .the reconstruction of the European Security Architecture", which unfortunately, would be diametrically opposed to the selfish financial interests of the US MIC and its hangers-on and beneficiaries which is in Global Terms, a tiny minority and even in the US itself!
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  4025. 52:29 Another way out would be a coup d'etat in Kiev. The US is good at arranging them or they should be by now.
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  4026. What is needed is to find out who is behind the NGOs ("Charities") that are helping to organize the journeys of the refugees and migrants. Find out who they are and expose them and you will have, at least, reduced the problem. Leave them to work undisturbed nd it will just get worse.
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  4027. 25:20 You think the Israelis want restraint? You could have fooled me!
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  4028. 26:01 Come on, Man! It grieves me to tell you, that 600,000shells per year is not 5,000 shells per month but 50,000, a ten times more significant figure!
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  4029. ​ @homeguardster  You want to bet they aren't?_
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  4030. What is absolutely clear, is that suppression of free speech is anti-scientific. Without the freedom for anyone to express unpopular views, "Science" cannot progress. This has been shown over and over again. It really should not be neccessary to point it out now! It should never be forgotten that any censorship is like the ripples on a mill-pond, that show, that under the surface, something is going on! In other words, it is a confession, by the censor, that there is some TRUTH which needs to be covered up. Anyone who reads the MSM will see on any and every day, stories which are obviously untrue. They almost always pass without anything being said about them. However, publish something true, that the government or the Big Pharma companies want suppressed, and you WILL find yourself in trouble .
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  4031. China has a number of fairly obvious motives for helping its neighbours build up their infrastructure. 1) It helps China export and the neighbours export to China. 2) It makes the region more prosperous and therefore more stable and less subject to western exploitation. I.e. less likely to harbour US military bases. 3) It increases China's international standing, popularity and influence. 4) It showcases China's capabilities in building infrastructure.
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  4032. 32:21 It is going to be, ehem! "difficult" (Not to say chilly.) for Europe, if the Russian stop selling them LNG as they at present do.
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  4033.  @Zamerika-xr8nt  Thanks.
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  4034. It is typical of all reactionaries that they are obsessed with territory and do not care about people. When they can't win on the battlefield, they try to scare people into submission. It won't work in Russia, any more than the blitz on London in WW2 scared the British into submitting to Germany or the Blitz on Berlin, Hamburg or Dresden won the war for the allies.
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  4035. A lie may be believed, but it will never be the truth. Fortunately, NOTHING can damage or alter the truth. It will always be there, whole, complete and perfect, just waiting to be discovered. Lenin said: "We would all like to bury History. Unfortunately, instead, we have to live with its stinking corpse!"
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  4036. 7:20 It seems to me, that thr Russians, incvluding those in the UN, "missed a trick" in not championing the right to speak their own language of the Greek, Hungarian and Romanian Ukrainians who were similarly persecuted for wanting to use their own language.
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  4037. 38:10 The US has made clear, many times, explicitly, that it is hostile to anyone, any country that is not an ally! That is not prepared to declare itself an ally of the USA.
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  4038. By bombing them we will get them back!
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  4039. The USG shows about as much sensitivity as a bulldozer!
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  4040. That should have been time-marked 3:02.
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  4041.  @lorenzomagazzeni5425  China is a country about the same size as the US. It use to be the case that some parts were so far from the main centres of population that it took weeks or even month to get there. With enemy organizations always trying to stir up trouble, it made it easier for them if the centre was weeks away. It was difficult to develop the outer parts of the country, because it was so hard to get people and things into and out of the far away places. If someone fell seriously ill, in some parts of old China, they would die before a doctor could get to them or they could get to a doctor (See a book by Josh Horne called "Away with all pests!") To develop the economy and to raise all people out of poverty it was neccessary to enable everybody to be able to trade with each other. So the government built roads to every village, masses of bridges to shorten routs and then railways. Evidently, they thought that while they were building a railway they might as well make it a high speed one. The result is that the interior of China is now developing rapidly. Instead of weeks it now takes a matter of hours to get from one end of the country to the other. People in remote villages can sell stuff on the internet by post and they do. The problem with the wheels of an HST, is that the centrifugal force on a wheel rotating that fast is huge and unless the wheel is very strong it will fly to pieces. If you make it as a solid lump of steel the noise is terrible. The other problem is the bearings which have to be quite special, as otherwise they might seize up and derail the train, or as happened once in Germany a composite wheel came apart in the course of a journey, the rim of the wheel unrolled and came up through the floor of the carriage, passing between two people sitting there! The train left the track and IMMSMC hit a bridge. Quite a lot of people were killed. Obviously, the railways are an important strategic asset too.
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  4042. 4:38 For years, "tens of thousands of migrants and refugees have been fleeing war and conflict in countries like Syria nad Afghanistan". Those "wars and conflicts" having been caused by the USA and NATO.
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  4043. "Other G-7 countries are slated to follow suit" Well, there's a surprise! What would you expect puppets to do? Rebel? That takes dignity and that they lack.
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  4044. Very interesting video! Particularly coming from you. Congratulations to you and to the Chinese scientists involved!
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  4045. 29:01 I read somewhere that Kazakstan had denied the story. This would make it, probably, a Ukrainina effort to sow discord between Russia and Kazakstan.k
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  4046. 26:47 One of these days: The Sunday Sport will, accidentaly, publish something true!
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  4047. 22:26 The Muslims think they can win because of the failure of the Ukrainian forces.
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  4048. 12:51 Let's hope the French engineers are well insured.
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  4049. Hope springs eternal!
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  4050.  @UnionGunSlinger  Wrong! The sanctions were prepared before the war. Russia was forced into the war, partly to provide an excuse for the sanctions but they were going to be imposed anyway, in the hope of wrecking the Russian economy and bringing about Regime Change in Moscow. As I said: they were going to be imposed whether Russia attacked the Ukrainian fasc*sts or not.
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  4051.  @Ultra-Violet  You think Marine insurance is not profitable? I think that there will be certainly Russian and Chinese insurance companies that will be happy to pick up the business and probably Indian ones too. It is a fatuous idea!
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  4052.  @wankmaster69  The Indians, Saudis and Chinese buy Russian oil at a discount, refine it and sell it to the Europeans as "Chinese" or "Indian" or "Saudi" oil and everybody is as happy as Larry. Or Greek ships take Russian oil to Indonesia and mix it with Indonesian crude, take it to European refineries and sell it as "Latvian" oil.
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  4053. 8: 34 I wonder if you have seen the very detailed account of that utterly corrupt decision about the Japanese residents and how they were robbed of their property? If you haven't it is availalable in the Unz Review. A fascinating and at the same time disgusting read.
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  4054. 35:16 "And if you will plough me an acre of land Sing ivy leaves, sweet willliam and thyme. Between the salt sea and the salt sea strand, Then you shall be a true lover of mine!" It's near;y the same song as Zaluzhny is singing. BTW did he want 17 million or 70 million shells? Not that it really matters!
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  4055. The problem with western commentators is that they did not listen to what Putin said at the start of the SMO. To a western mind, the important thing in a war is how much territory is won. This war was/is not about territory, well, not primarily anyway, it is about political alignments. As Putin put it at the start of the SMO it is about "Demilitarizing, de-NA*Ifying and neutralizing Ukraine." Nothing about "conquering territory". As the Russians regard Ukrainians as "Russians" they have tried, as far as winning the war will allow, to avoid civilian casualties, concentrating on hitting military targets with very precise missiles and guided bombs. The SMO, has killed fewer civilians in two-&-a-bit years, than Israel killed in two weeks in Gaza, These factors explain why the Russians have been "so slow"! It's not that they are so weak, it is that they went slowly deliberately.
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  4056. 31:10 Over and over again, they come back, obsessively to Crimea. I am not a militarily trained man, but it seems to me that this focus on Crimea is not going to help Ukraine or N@0 in the ground war. It is not rational, it is obsessive. It is not as though it is Crimea that is supplying the Russian forces with weapons and other supplies, all that stuff comes from the rest of Russia. I don't know for certain, but I would be surprised if Crimea supplies more than some food and drink. It looks as though, the old British desire for Crimea, that provoked the Crimean War, is still operating. Almost as though the British Ruling Class was still miffed about their "defeat by those damned Ruskies!" As though they wanted Revenge for the way "The Charge of the Light Brigade" ended!
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  4057. Are not insurance services profitable? Isn't the remark during the "Two Ronnies" sketch, in which one, playing the insurance agent says: "You don't seem to understand the first principle of Insurance!" and the other rreplies: "All right, What is the "First principle of Insurance"?" "You give me a lot of money." "And then?" "Well, That's it. You give me a lot of money!" So. What is to stop Chinese or Russian or any other country's insurers from picking up the business?
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  4058. 4:13 Ren-min-bi. "Ren" means "person", "min" is a word that makes the word before it into a plural, so "renmin" is many "persons" or "people". "Bi" is a unit of currency, so "Renminbi" is the "People's currency".
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  4059. 6:15 Tien An Men was a color revolution too.
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  4060. As far as I know, the attack on the Iranian diplomatic building, was only the second time in the last 2,000, years that a diplomatic building was attacked. The previous attack, when the US Bombed the Chinese Embassy in Serbia, was said to be a mistake.
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  4061. 23:21 The great objection to democracy: "The Tyrrany of the Majority". That is what is making it so to get rid of Putin!
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  4062. That should have been : "so hard to get rid"
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  4063. 7:31 I read an expression by an American author, writing about something else, but the term seems appropriate here to describe the thing you are talking about: "Hostiles with smiling faces."
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  4064. 1:23:15 I fear for Xi Jinping in SanFansico. I wish this meeting were to take place in Beijing. I hope my fears are ungrounded.
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  4065.  @RebeccaPerry-Piper-u8x  Precisely!
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  4066. "Putin don't bluff." Is this a statement or an order?
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  4067. Privately-owned pharmaceutical firms have a built-in conflict of interest. They make their money from sick people. Their really ideal customers are those who are chronically sick but not so sick as to be unable to work. Being capitalist enterprises they have a duty to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. This in turn means that they have to be opposed to anything that tends to promote public health. A cured customer is a lost sale. A cure for a common disease is a thing to be avoided, what is needed (What they need.) is something which alleviates the suffering, costs a lot of money and does not cure the illness. In short, privately owned pharmaceutical companies are an OBVIOUSLY BAD IDEA. Letting a body owned by privately owned pharmaceutical companies (Like the WHO.) make the laws for all countries, is self-evidently self-destructively stupid. Just ask yourself: "In whose interests are they going to work?" We should all oppose it! Ideally, pharmaceutical research organizations would be owned by the governments of the World and private research would be strictly controlled and its results would be available to the World's pharmaceutical manufacturer. Apart from this, pharmaceutical research would be a monopoly of the international organization. This would solve a lot of problems, but crucially it would remove the conflict of interest. Governments, like ordinary people, want cures, not "treatments". They want healthy populations. There are also other benefits of international research organizations doing the research for the pharmaceutical industry. It removes all the problems over patents. It ensures equal access to all countries to the medicines their population needs. It means that there would be no "orphan" diseases, diseases that are too rare to be profitable to treat. There would be no incentive to replace satisfactory medications with newer, more profitable ones, just because they are more profitable. Above all, there would be no incentive to suppress cures. Of course there would be disadvantages too. There would, no doubt, be complaints that the organization was "too burocratic" and inflexible, but the advantages would outweigh all the drawbacks. In my view, this arrangement must come, sooner or later. People must see and avoid the stupidity of the present set-up eventually.
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  4068. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was PROVOKED by the USA. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or fooling themselves. Russia tried to reach a peaceful settlement with Ukraine in the Minsk Agreement I, in Minsk Agreement II and the agreement reached in Istanbul in March 2022. All three agreements were sabotaged by the US/NATO. VietNam would be daft to support the USA over Ukraine!
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  4069. The reason that Elensky could not agree to the Minsk accords or anything like them is that he is not in control and the neocons in Wash DC, who are, wanted a war with Russia. They probably believe(d) their own propaganda that the well-trained well-armed Ukrainian troops would/will defeat the Russians.
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  4070. 40:16 Nor so far, is there any mention of the financial crisis.
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  4071. If you put a dish of water on an electroscope (You know, the old fashioned detector of high voltages using gold leaves that repel each other.) as the water evaporates it produces a charge and oddly if you use not water but a solution of CuSO4, it produces four times as much charge. Does this relate to that phenomenon?
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  4072. 25:07 I was surprised to find recently, that ordinary, civilian trains, run several times a week, from Chishinev (Capital city of Moldova) to Kiev.
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  4073.  @naz.tanzeem5982  Thanks.
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  4074. I think something vitally important is being missed here: this discussion of "the lab-leak or natural" is pretty well settled, in favour of the lab-leak and culpability for that is, no doubt important, but there are at least two other potentially more important topics which are hardly being discussed at all. The first is the forcing onto the unsuspecting public of untested va**ines and mandating their use. The deliberate obscuring, in order to get authorization for "Emergency authorization" for these, ehem!, medications; of the fact that there were known alternative treatments for the disease and the subsequent suppression of any research into alternative treatments. And the persecution of medical technicians, doctors, health workers and others who protested against this. For example the dismissing of doctors who refused to implement mandated va**inations and soldiers who refused to be va**inated. The second subject which is being suppressed is the matter of the "unexplained" rise in the average mortality in all the *acc*nated populations. While the death toll from the pan*emic is horrifying, the toll from the v*cc*nations is potentially much bigger still!
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  4075. Yes, the "democracy" in the UK exists to some extent at the local level, but not at all in parliament. The MPs have been bought off by Pfizer, at a guess.
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  4076. On second thoughts, they may have been threatened.
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  4077. 7:46 There IS a massive benefit! Not for you or me, true. Not for many, people but for the shareholders of the pharmaceutical firms, who make vaccines, to "treat" these viruses there is an absolutely humungous benefit. Benefits "Beyond the Dreams of Avarice."
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  4078.  @jamiemcintosh3030  In Eastern Europe?
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  4079.  @jamiemcintosh3030  No. Czechoslavakia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Russia and the DDR. In Western Europe I saw only France, Belgium and West Germany.
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  4080. 25:22 Yesterday there were about four stories in Yahoo UK about the war, Today, just one.
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  4081.  @reginaldmcnab3265  The MIC is the Military-Industrial Complex. It was noted by Eisenhower in his final speech as something that needed to be carefully watched. And Boy! Was he ever correct! It should really be called "the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Media-Lobbying Complex". I call it "The Vicious Circle". It is a circular structure which is parasitic on the taxpayers and consists of the arms mfgs, the lobbying industry, the congress critters, the Media and the US government. Money comes into Vicious Circle (VC) by government taxation and goes out to the media, as advertising by the arms mfgs, as wages and salaries to the employees and shareholders of the, arms mfgs, to the employees and shareholders of the lobbying firms and as election expenses to congress-crittters paid by the lobbyists, to those who vote (Or agree that they will vote) "the right way". The congress-critters vote for the government to buy arms, the government pays the arms mfgs, the arms mfgs pay the lobbyists who tell the congress critters that if they vote the way they are told to vote, the lobbyist firm will help with their election expenses and that if they don't, the lobbyist will fund their opponent. In addition, people who have important goverment or Military jobs during their working lives and use their positions to help the arms mfgs, get well-paid sinecures with the arms mfgs and consultancy fees from the MSM after they retire. This is known as "the Revolving Door". This VC, is a group of relatively few people, but it is very, very rich, quite ruthless and extremely powerful. Its income depends on war, threats of wars and rumours of wars. Breaking it up will be extremely hard, but until it is and the arms-making industry is nationalised (preferably internationally) the World will never know peace.
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  4082. Yes, of course we need to know! We also have a right to say whether whether we want this research done at all. What is the justification for this research being secret? After all, it concerns EVERYBODY!!
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  4083. Talking against war? You must be one of Putin's puppets!
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  4084. 2:31 "Why aren't we seeing advice on optimising natural immunity?" Simple! Because this advice is issued by the WHO which is a creature of organizations which sell vaccines. The very worst thing for their bottom lines is natural immunity.
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  4085. 1:04:16 I think the reason the Russians may be growing their armed forces may be that they fear the irrational reaction of the Collective West to the coming comprehensive defeat in Ukraine. They wish to have such an overwhelming force, standing by, that even the most irrational warmongers will be detered from "starting something".
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  4086. 16:58 Seems to me that theo ONLY place Zelensky would be safe would be Israel, if there is an Israel.
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  4087. 10:11 It occurred to me today that the companies that make up the MSM are all capitalist companies. The significance of that is, that the duty of a capitalist organization is to make money for its shareholders. So, if the most profitable activity is spreading government propaganda, then that is what they will do. There is no legal requirement on these companies to tell the truth. They would probably lose money were they to do so at the wrong time. Therefore it is silly for anyone to expect them to tell the truth, ever. It may happen occasionally, but you certainly shouldn't rely on it!
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  4088. 22:33 If they do what is right, what about Diego Gacia?
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  4089. What do you bet Keir Starmer has two passports?
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  4090. This prosecution and "trial" is not for what he has done, but to prevent his doing what he is intending to do! And what he is intending to do, is perfectly Legal! It really does seem to be pretty fair to compare it to the trial at the end of "Alice"!
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  4091. 28:22 "What about the Europeans?" Yes, very good question! What is it that drives them to do the idiotic things they do? What is their motivation? Are they all afflicted with some infectious madness? It does not seem likely. Are they being blackmailed? Are they being threatened or are they, perhaps, being bribed? If, (Let's suppose) they were being bribed, would Trump cut off the supply of money? Is that, could that be, why they are afraid of Biden losing the election? Though none of them seem all that bright, they none of them look clinically insane, so wtf is it driving them?
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  4092. 21:34 No More Shengen Visas: They may be encouraging Russian Tourists to go to China.
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  4093. 1:13:34 How did the CW get to the point where really childish people are in charge of policy. This is the result, not of democracy but of Oligarchy. Oligachy moreover, that makes its principle source of wealtth from Arms.
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  4094. I wonder if I could get you gentlemen to comment on my idea that the central "Gordian Knot" at the centre of the warmongers power over Washington, is the circular structure consisting of: the investor/Congress-critters - the USG - the arms industry - the lobbyist industry - and back to the the investor/Congress-critters. All of course funded by the Taxpayers. I feel that this extremely stable and aggressively self-protective structure, could be broken, if there is a decisive defeat of N@0 in Ukraine and the Russians were to insist, as part of the settlement, that all arms manufacturers had to be nationalized. Do you think it would have a decisive effect or am I fooling myself?
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  4095. The MSM is a combination of a profit-making set-up and a propaganda arm of the Western Governments, particularly the US and the UK governments, so their narratives are set for them. The promulgate what makes money, what sells, and what suits the governments' narratives. Spreading information ain't got nuttin' to do wiv it!
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  4096. 6:48 Liver disease: could it be caused by the mRNA going to the liver and going into the liver's cells, causing the liver's cells to produce spike protein and being attacked by the immune system in consequence? Same as with the heart disease and the brain disease, the mRNA settling in the cells lining the blood vessels of the heart and brain respectively and then being attacked by the immune system?
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  4097. 17:17 It seems to me that you are seriously downplaying the efforts of the CIA to keep the quarrel between the Saudis and the Iranians, the Sunnis and the Shiites going
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  4098. I think that if the US administration saw the trouble coming (as they may have done) they did not care, because they still think (thought?) of themselves as "All powerful".
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  4099. 1:11:07 Ah yes, Construction equipment. Hmmm . . . Where does one buy construction equipment? Don't tell me, let me guess!
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  4100. The problem the US/Israeli side has, in PR terms is, that the terrible, outrageous things that Ham*s did, were exactlly like the things that Israel has been doing to the Palestinians, on and off since 1948 and even before!
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  4101. I wonder, had the Ukrainians had enough time and enough weapons to really apply "combined arms warfare" in their attack on the Russian Surovikin Line, would it have succeeded? Or would the outcome have been just the same?
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  4102. 13:12 Yeah! This is good for you like "mRNA vaccinations are good for you!" (Pity about the excess deaths, though.)
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  4103. Above all, they cannot admit that the REAL PLAN, was to overthrow the Russian Government, install a West-friendly puppet in Putins place, Carve up Russia into manegable-sized portions and loot them. I doubt that most Europeans would accept this as having been rational, never mind the morality of it.
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  4104. 1:27:42 You don't have to disagree with the US to get sanctioned, you need only to become too competitive with the US or an important US company, or too large!
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  4105.  @fred4687  If this an answer, it is too cryptic for me to understand.
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  4106.  @xenuburger7924  Right! There is. Too much sugar and starch and not enough exercise. Sugar is an insidious, addictive drug, with only long-term deleterious consequences, such as diabetes, obesity, Altzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, high blood-pressure, prostate problems and probably many other morbid conditions. In children under about 2.5 years old it causes myopia.
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  4107. Useful account. Thanks for the info.
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  4108.  @jackneuman5108  & so?
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  4109. Many of the videos I watched had "Fact check" overprinted on them and I never understood why, nor what I was expected to do about it.
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  4110.  @Psychiatrick  Pan = all, demos = people. demic = of the people.
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  4111.  @bohuslavbeno9135  Yeah! Could be! As one of our recent prime ministers said, of a far less probable story: : "It is highly likely."
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  4112.  @bohuslavbeno9135  Thank you for that reference. What nice clear German he speaks!
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  4113. It would be interesting to see how the stockmarket behaved in the run-up to the attack. Before 911, there was quite a flurry of activity.
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  4114. 6:45 This is obviously the Chinese reply to the US imposing sanctions on Chinese firms, people and products. They are saying, in effect: "If that's the game you want to play, we can play it too!" Or as the English have it: "Two can play at that game!" It is also a reply to the USG saying "We wand to de-couple from China!" The Chinese are saying : "OK! You want to decouple from us? We will help you de-couple, we will save you the bother!" This is a prize example of what the Chinese call: "Lifting a rock, only to drop it on your own feet."
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  4115. 30:08 Why do the Israeli and the US Ruling class want war? Because they are all invested in the MIC. Their incomes depend on there being Wars, threats of Wars and rumours of Wars. Without that, they would have to live on their salaries! They would be not just poor, but desperately poor! You know, down to their last million or something dreadful like that!
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  4116. It seems to me, that the US has "The Keys to Europe". It has, after all, Military Bases all over. If Putin (Or anyone else, for that matter!) could offer a big enough bribe, or threat, they would hand it over in a heartbeat.
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  4117. 26:42 It's not just the Biden White House, it is equally, their satraps and Gauleiters in Europe, who loyally echo every idiocy they pronounce.
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  4118.  @JokerDR71  "Solide Entscheidung" = Solid choice. (De)
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  4119. 33:31 It wasn't the CW "Supporting" Ukraine, it was, rather, the CW shoving Ukraine into a war with Russia. "Let's you and him fight!"
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  4120. Were all those pigeons that were wandering around Athens in shock, at Bidenopulos's being investigated, by any chance stool-pigeons?
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  4121.  @irritatedanglosaxon1705  Thanks.
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  4122.  @kickbackrelax2819  That was then, Now is now. Nothing stays the same for all time.
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  4123.  @jaibholenath6900  According to USAmericans visiting China, it is a very flattering mirror!
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  4124. Yes you are absolutely right, but, the problem is that Peace sells no weapons! And the lawmakers and rulers of the USA are very largely invested in the MIC. So, the policy you are advocating would reduce their income very greatly and to protect that, they are willing to risk WW3!
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  4125. 12:15 I see that this video was shown "2 hours ago", but I keep feeling deja vu! Are you sure it was not shown yeserday evening? Or perhaps, I am time-travelling in my dotage?
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  4126. 2:04 There is not much mystery about how Hamas got its weapons. Hamas is a totally fraudulent organization. It was set up by the CIA and the Israeli secret service, to discredit the Palestinian cause. It is, in that, like all the other Jihadist, fanatical Muslim sect-based organizations, such as Al Qaida, IS, ISIS, ISL, The Taliban, Boko Haram and no doubt many others. None of them are really fighting for the Arabs or for Islam, they are all dedicated to creating fear and chaos, preventing the area from developing, increasing arms sales and providing an excuse for the US to come in and "Provide Security".
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  4127. 39:50 The West did NOT set its face implacably against "this sort of thing" in Kosovo.
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  4128. 11:26 The Russians do blame Britain.
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  4129. "World Dominance" was the aim of the German Fascists of the 1930-40s.
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  4130. 7:40 Why are the governments doing this cencorship? To quote the chorus of an old, satirical song that I heard when I was doing my "National Service" in the British army: "They're doing it me lads to save Democracy!"
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  4131.  Waria Desnsen  Tanto quanto posso entender, entendo que isso é um elogio! Se sim, obrigado!
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  4132.  @lynnepostings  I don't understand. "Random" what?
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  4133.  GameTester  Thanks!
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  4134. 33:59 I expect the was so grief-stricken that he could not speak for choking over his tears.
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  4135.  andrew_koala2974  No. I did not know about the 80,000 Ukrainian NAZIs, though it does not really surprise me. Speaking foreign languages, I would imagine you find yourself a fairly "rare bird", though I knew there was a very good school for Russian in Cambrige that was run by the RAF. May be there still is?
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  4136. 1:08:21 Tis inability of the political West to give up its ideas of hegemony is a symptom of its underlying F*scism. It is really the modern incarnation of the idea of the Herrenvolk. (The Master race aka the Exceptionals.)
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  4137. I had a polydactyl cat that I had from about 12 weeks old. The reason she was that old when she came to me was that the family where she was born were a bit reluctant to say goodbye to her. Like your cat she was the dominant cat in the household from the time she arrived. We had two, well established, adult female cats before she arrived, but she made it clear on first meeting that she was the Boss. She was far and away the most intelligent animal I have ever met and the day she was killed (I think by a motor cycle) was one of the worst days I have ever suffered.
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  4138. Take a look at (investigate) who is financing the NGO that are bringing these immigrants to Europe. You may be surprised!
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  4139. Scott, I agree with what you say, more or less completely, what I think you are neglecting is the positive feedback loop that is driving the arms race, which is the nest of congress-critters who own shares in the arms industry and receive not only dividends but also direct bribes, campaign contributions and other kickbacks and operate a revolving door that reaches out to the military. Until that vipers' nest is dealt with, any emergent leader to lead us out of the current Slough of Despond (TM John Bunyan), will be cut down to nothingness by the MSM or assassinated. Many thanks to all three of you for a really fascinating and illuminating couple of hours. You brought up a number of important points which I had previously missed.
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  4140. What would you call people who arm, supply, train, fund, give targetting infomation to N*ZIs ?
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  4141. 2: 55 In the EU we are all free to do as we are told!
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  4142. Ask th AG of Kansas why you have a shrinking life expectancy in the collective West. He has the answer!
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  4143. Thank you Lena! You have just explained to me what has puzzled me for a long time: namely, why it is that when the interest paid on treasuries goes up the price goes down. I had not realised that the interest rate on the treasuries you hold is FIXED! I thought it went up and down with the decisions of the Treasury.
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  4144. I agree with most of what you say but, you are quite wrong about this attack on the Embassy being a first. This is the fifth I can think of, that have happened recently and have all been perpetrated by the US or its satraps. The first was the US bombing the Chinese Embassy in Serbia. The second was the US seizing the Russian San Fransico consulate. The third was the raid on the Equadorian Embassy in London to arrest Julian Assange. The fourth was the Equadorian raid on the Mexican Embassy and this was the fifth. As far as I am aware, these are the only instances of such an outrage carried out by a state in the last 2500 years.
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  4145. 35:23 "The Argument" you are talking about assumes that the POTUS has real power. I.e is not simply a puppet of the Deep State.
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  4146. 20:28 I suspect, that the Russians will say, that this supply of "longer Range" missiles, is likey or at any rate could be, the means of delivering a sneaky nuclear strike on Moscow and that if implemented, will be regarded as a MAJOR ESCALATION.
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  4147. 5:00 It is arrogance. It is one characteristic of the CW's MSM that is not in short supply. Never has been. Particularly in the British press. There is Claud Coburn's wonderful story about The Times headline which read; "Fog in Channel, Continent Cut off".
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  4148. The CIA's problem stems from a few years ago. They had a way of communicating with their spies, using the internet as the condiut for messages back and forth. The Iranian's counter espionage discovered how it worked and were able to round up the entire CIA network in Iran. Having done that successfully, they shared the secret with China, who also rounded up the whole network in China. Hence the current lack of info.
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  4149. "Telling us about the Russian invasion of Europe for the last three months" More like the last sevebty years, on and off!
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  4150. 16:55 I was once in a queue at a canteen at an auction sale and just next to me in the queue were two old Jews. One of them said to the other "I do like to make a SALE! A loss, I can take, but I just hate it when stuff sits on the shelf and sneers at me!" Perhaps Netyanyahu shares this feeling.?
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  4151. Al Capone is running out of money. It seems to me quite possible that he will withdraw his troops from many, perhaps even all his overseas bases because of the difficulty in paying them. I hope that when the Russians defeat N@0, they will insist on this condition: that all firms that manufacture arms should be state-owned. This would short-circuit the Congress - USG - Lobbyist - Congress - Vicious - circle which since, at least, the end of WW2, has been driving the World towards war. If there was no way for Congress-critters to profit from wars and rumours of wars, there would be no pressure on the USG, to find excuses for going to war and the voters might have some influence on foreign policy, which they lack at present.
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  4152. 15:15 The CDC's reaction is "Pretty close to ideal" from whose point of view? seems to me to be the important question.
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  4153. 30:25 Comelling evidence of the unreliability of intercepted conversations as evidence : Vovan and Lexis.
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  4154. 24:16 Will Netanyahoo agree to SA having Nukes?
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  4155. 21:17 Heaven forfend that a situation should arise where questions about the nuclear buttom had to be answered! Who would make the desision; Demented Joe or Bewildered Kamala?
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  4156. Probably, it would be best if they discussed it between them.
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  4157.  @kiwitrainguy  Let's hope they have the sense to not use them!
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  4158. 1:32$& Do you thik that the ludicous level of mediocrity in Western leaders, is a consequence of a system where the way to get promotion, is obeying orders rather than making a success of what you are doing?
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  4159. 27:11 The nearest thing to evidence that I have seen, the most persuasive, that is, was the series of timed photographs that Aljazeera has put together. It shows (If you believe it genuine) that the rocket that was fired just before the explosion in/by the hospital, was shot at and destroyed and the pieces fell to earth and a few moments later there was an explosion that was far too large to have been caused by any rocket from Hamas.
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  4160. This is a misleading headline. "Carpet bombing" is one thing and "Bombing the energy sector" is something else. Carpet bombing is what Germany did to London and what Britain and the US did to Germany during WW2 and the US/NAT* did to Mosul and Raqqa more recently. The Russians have been trying to minimise civilian casualties during the war in Ukraine and the civilian Deaths in the time since Feb. 2022, have been less that the civilian casualties in Gaza, in the first two weeks of the present war there. Present day Gaza is an example of REAL "Carpet Bombing".
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  4161. 19:55 There is a change in psychology. Up until about autumn 22 or spring 23 perhaps even as late as autmn 2023, countries were shit scared of offending the US. Since the Russians dared to go head-to-head with NATO, that fear has more or less evaporated and African countrries have thrown out French and US troops! And Saudi Arabia has stopped kow towing to the US and Turkey is toying with joining BRICS. If NATO had trounced the Russians in Ukraine, my feeling is, that none of these things would have happened.
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  4162. The address of the video, of pure FAKE NEWS is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu5up2F4H-M&t=17s It is pure fake war porn, a lie from start to finish. It has been up at least 24 hrs which shows that spreading false information is quite ok with the authorities, while we all know that spreading truth (The wrong truth) can get you de-platformed.
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  4163. 15:40 "Making the working poor poorer" Yes, the immigrants are and at the same time, they are making the employing class richer! That is why the USG is letting them in.
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  4164.  @vaska1999  Thanks.
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  4165.  @digitalnomad9985  Evidence?
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  4166.  @cknet1  是的。你可能是对的！
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  4167. You are so right! Since the beginning of the Cold War, the USA and the collective West, have known that there was no Soviet/Russian plan to conquer the rest of the World, not even a part of Western Europe. The "Russian Invasion Sccare", was always a means to direct money towards the US's MIC. It still is. The "Chinese scare" is a rather newer fraud, but it is just as fraudulent. The real fear of the Warmongers of Washington, is that China will grow stronger economically and militarily, than is the CW. Why is that scary? It is Scary because of "Projection". The USA bullies other weaker nations, because it can without dire consequences to itself and it is advantageous for the US to do so. They think therefore, that if any country becomes more powerful than they are, that country will treat them similarly. Personally, I am convinced that neither Russia nor China will behave in that way. It looks as though we are going to find out fairly soon!
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  4168. At the end of the Ukraine SMO, Russiais going to have an abundance of scrap iron!
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  4169. 24:15 I wonder how long it would take to build such hardened manufacturing facilities to make, say guns or tanks in Ukraine?
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  4170. 29:25 It highlights their gangster mentality. this is the sort of scheme that crooked lawyers in detective stories cook up. Sounds OK, until you examine it properly.
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  4171. This is a comment I have made elsewhere, but I'll risk showing it again. I agree with what you are saying in this video entirely. It seems to me, that there is an obvious and extremely serious objection, to privately owned pharmaceutical industries. Namely that there is a fundamental, built-in Conflict of Interest. To put it as simply as possible; to a privately -owned pharmaceutical firm, a cured customer is a lost customer. The ideal customer, is one who buys a drug that is still "in-patent", which is moderately expensive and needs to be taken indefinitely to "stabilise" the disease. A drug which does not cure the disease, but enables the patient to be well enough to earn a living. The treatment for stomach ulcers, before Dr Barry Marshall's discovery of Helicobacter pylorii and the fact that the disease could be cured in a couple of weeks with barium and antibiotics, was a text book example of just such a drug. The pharmaceutical industry fought hard to keep knowledge of this discovery from the public and succeeded in suppressing it for ten years! The obvious cure for this problem is to nationalise the Pharmaceutical industry in its entirety. (Better still, would be to internationalize it but that is a step for another time.) The point is, that a government has quite different priorities from those of a private firm. Whereas the job of a private company is to make money for its shareholders, the job of a publicly owned pharmaceutical firm is to produce the best range of medicines that it can, as cheaply as possible. To research cures for diseases that are troubling the public and to make sure that their products are safe or at least, that its side effects are known. As far as a government is concerned, the ideal drug is one that will quickly cure a disease, that costs very little and causes the least possible trouble to the patient. Having a nationalized pharmaceutical industry would avoid wasteful duplicated research, price gouging and neglect of "rare diseases" because there is no money to be made from treating them. Above all, such an industry has no motivation to suppress a cure, because it is making money from treating a disease. Another advantage of a nationalized pharmaceutical industry is that it would not have to worry about the cost of trials of experimental drugs in the same way as a private firm. If a new or repurposed drug was very cheap, but showed promise, the fact that it would not make money for the firm would not be an obstacle to setting up a test of it. Some people will object that "nationalizrd firms are always inefficient" and that such an industry "would be bogged down in burocrasy." Personally I think that removing the the "Conflict of Interest" would make running those supposed risks, worth running.
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  4172. Come to think about it: having such a chip in your hand would make for a new crime. You murder or kidnap a billionaire and steal his chip and implant it in your hand and Voila! Instant millionairedom! You could even increase the confusion, by implanting your chip in his hand.
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  4173. 54:01 This idea of improving the immune response (assuming that I have understood this correctly) by priming the immune response with a non-serious infection, seems to fit in with the idea, that was around when I was at school (1945-53) that children who grew up in very hygenic homes, were more likely to suffer and suffer badly, from poliomyelitis than children who "played in the dirt" as young kids. It might also explain, what I have observed in generations of kittens, that the first thing they do, the first time they go out into the garden, is they eat earth.
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  4174. Israel is being stupid. NAZIism is not dependent on genes but on political belief. IIRC Hitlers father was born out of wedlock at a time that his mother was working for a Jewish employer, the space for the father's name was left blank. This is no proof that Hitler had Jewish genes but it seems fairly probable and in any case it is IRRELEVANT. The "argument" that "Ukraine cannot be NAZI because its president is a Jew" is equally stupid and is, essentially, a racist argument. One might as well say: "Communists killed millions of Ukrainians, therefore, a Ukrainian cannot be a Communist"!
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  4175. Hungary blocked the EU@s aid to Ukraine because the EU refused to give Hungary the aid for the Pandemic that was Hungary's.
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  4176. You failed to mention that the same investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh who has a long and distinguished record of exposing US crimes, has written a fairly detailed expose on the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines. Why?
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  4177. 6:46 You are being "a bit economical with the truth". Moldova was part of the Russian Empire for a long time (150 years?) before it was part of Romania for 22(?) years.
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  4178. Thierry Bretton, candidate for the revolving door?
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  4179. !7:43 I understand that the food given to the Olimpic athletes left something to be desired too!
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  4180. 16:37 Tien Anmen Square was a failed "Color Revolution" too. Even earlier than Syria.
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  4181. 1:06 "the biggest risk is if Putin wins the war" Says Stoltenberg. This is a risk that NATO undertook enthusiastically a year ago, when they thought that they were invincible and Russia was going to be a push-over. Their trouble is, that they believed their own propaganda. They did not check that they had the means to fight, if the Russians fought back. To put it crudely, they were caught short. It is fascinating and at the same time, extremely alarming to see what NATO will do next. You can bet they will be the sorest of sore losers.
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  4182. 25:00 You can't figure out Musk's angle? He is of the elite class but he does not behave like the typical member of that class? Right. I think there is an analogy to be drawn between the behavior of molecules of water and a mass of water, and the behavior of members of a class and classes. For example, you can say that the river Thames flows from Oxford and the water later passes through London. It's in general true, but you cannot say the same about any particular molecule. On its way to London it might evaporate and go up into the sky, or it might be drunk by a cow or a fish and stay in Oxford. In the same way, in general you can predict the behavior of classes, but you cannot use that classification to predict the behavior of individual members of a class. Individuals are individuals and for all sorts of reasons they may act in unexpected, unpredictable ways. With Musk, we shall just have to wait and see!
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  4183. 50:54 May be they can buy some weapons on the Black Market?
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  4184.  @kathylarson8876  Right!
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  4185. This business between Germany and Canada looks very much like a "quarrel" between, say, Mr & Mrs Punch. I.e. a "quarrel" between two puppets.
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  4186. 57:23 This is just the US using Ukrainians to further US Interests. It has nothing to do with Ukraine's interests.
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  4187. 15:34 Long live the Ukrainian Liberation Front! (ULF) Not to be confused with The Front for the Liberation of Ukraine. (FLoU)! Nor with Вільна Україна! (ВУ).
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  4188.  @michaelkatz275  "Eva Bartlett is one who has propagated conspiracy theories in connection to the Syrian civil war. See her bio on Wikipedia." Talk about needing to vet sources! " the presence of, and helped identify, a Russian soldier suspected of torturing and castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war." Suspected of . . ." By whom? Where's the evidence? It's all very well to criticise Eva Bartlet and Patrick Lancaster but at least they are on the front lines and what they show is based in the reality of the front lines. Probably they are biased by being amongst civilians shelled by the Ukrainians. Who would not be?
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  4189. The covers of the First edition of Nehru's autobiography', featured a map of India. The third edition was almost identical, except that the border between India and China had shifted (Without consultation with China!) several hundred miles Northwards, so when you talk about the problems on the border being "without Indian provocation" I think you should bear that fact in mind. Tension between India and China benefits neither country, it helps only the evil minded-policies of the enemies of both.
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  4190.  @41corsair  Right!
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  4191.  @addpoiuytrewq354  Not a word!
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  4192.  @41corsair  No doubt they will.
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  4193. 30:26 It would probably be much easier and less risky for MI6 or the French equivalent to get such a recording than for the Russians. .
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  4194. "How did that happen?" Good question! The only thing that comes to (my) mind that would explain this unanimity across the Collective West, is blackmail/a satanic cult. Of course this is a "conspiracy theory". However, who says this is not a conspiracy against us, the Hoi polloi? Who has a better explanation? Let's have it! If anyone can propose a better explanation for this apparent collective madness of our rulers, I'll not dogmatize that the explanation is in Epstein's little book.
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  4195. I have a "cold cure" that has worked very well for me. When I catch cold, I take 500mg of Vitamin B5 (aka pantothenic acid) and about 250mg of vitamin C, with water, every four hours for a couple of days. Usually that is sufficient to cure it completely. If it doesn''t cure it by the end of the second day, I give up, as it is evidently not the usual cold but something else. Also, enough Vitamin D3 is necessary for a well-functioning immune system. Most people in Northern regions are probably sub-clinically deficient in this vitamin, particularly as the RDI is set ridiculously low, around 400i.u./day. 10,000i.u. is more like it but is too expensive for most people.
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  4196. 20:47 Probably, it is dangerous to be caught listening to Vladimir Putin in the original or even in translation. If you were, you would probably be suspected of disloyalty, or worse! Don't forget, that everything you access on the internet is logged and can "be used in evidence against you".
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  4197. 30:35 It is also, that the Machines that Europe would need, have been scrapped or if not scapped are, at least, 80-90 years old. Where do you go these days to get new machine tools? China! Oops!
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  4198. No one can use nuclear weapons because if they do we all, probably die. Therefore these weapons are
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  4199. 13:14 "Panicked" is the word you were looking for
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  4200. Could well be!
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  4201. Yes! imagine being an archeologist, 2000 years from now and finding a 20th Century landfill!
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  4202. 15:55 Time was when a country that aspired to EU membership, had to be at peace! Neither Ukraine nor Moldova come close. Both are at war. Ukraine with Russia and Moldova with Transdniestria.
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  4203. Finally! Endlich! Finalmente! Someone talking about other possibilities! Well done you. Thank you.
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  4204. 23:41 I don't understand the force of this argument. It sounds like sophistry to me; but who am I? Bomb, missile bludgeon, it's still an attack! The man was still killed while your guest.
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  4205. 45:30 The article you are quoting was, obviously, written by a Yunohu. Come in and trample on everybody's rights and feelings and complain that they are bein horrid to you. Then denounce your own side for being: "Pusillanimous" and "too gemtle and forgiving". This is standard practice and has been used in "certain circles" since the Balfour Declaration was signed.
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  4206. 2:91 I wonder why V. Nuland is not standing for president?
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  4207. You know that the Seymour Hersh version of events is credible and comes from a famously reliable source. The stories from the MS Western media are blatantly rubbishy. You can tell that the Hersh story is true by the way the MSM will not talk about it! If it were untrue, they would be rubbishing it 24/7.
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  4208. 4:15 56 years? That's nothing! Britain has been ruled by the same family since about 1700! Ever since shortly after the Cromwell regime collapsed after 14 years in power following the coup that overthrew the Stuart Family.
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  4209. I drove an A35 for many years, I endorse everything you said about this. They were very similar cars, they looked very similar but irritatingly, they were just slightly different, so a bit of the bodywork of an A30 could not be used to substitute damaged parts on the A35. I swapped the engine (I think it was about 1litre) for that out of a Triumph. Iirc it was a1240cc engine, and I also swapped the brakes with disc brakes from the Triumph too, as I got so fed up with replacing the brake pads in the front drum brakes. There was no problem doing the swap, as they were identical parts in both cars. It would go 60mph, but not for long as the valves would burn out at that speed pretty quickly. On the whole, treated correctly, a reliable and convenient car and very easy and economical to drive.
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  4210. 1:18:47 It was like Colin Powel's tube of "germs" and Netanyahoo's "bomb" cartoon. That speech that the Israeli delegate gave! It was far and away the most digusting speech that I have ever listened to! I thought the US "diplomats" and government spokespeople excelled at hypocrisy, blatant lying and obfuscation, false suggestions and spin, but I was wrong! Wrong! WRONG! They cannot hold a candle to that Israeli!
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  4211. Sidewalks: It is the same in Italy.
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  4212. Very true! As the vulgar English say: "All mouth and no trousers"> Typically, US (and European) Aid ends up mostly in the pockets of the corrupt, vide Afghanistan. Trillions spent and very little of substance to show for it. It "sounds good", but when you have said that you have said it all.
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  4213.  @danielkurtovic9099  Yes, I am. The firm developed colour photos and was called "Colorcare Internatiomal"
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  4214.  @ianhills8980 
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  4215. 1:32:20 The Conflict did not begin (as I know you know) in 2022 but in 2014. I wonder why the Russians are demanding security for everyone in EUROPE? By the time Russia has defeated N@0 in Ukraine, it will in effect, have defeated N@0 altogether, so why not, while they are at it, demand security guarantees for everybody? As I have said before, there is one easily identifiable threat to World Peace, which is privately owned arms manufacturers. They have a built-in need for wars, threats of wars and rumours of wars to maintain their profitability. They are not a neccesary part of society and, in my view, should be banned world-wide, They also have a clear record, particularly in the modern United States, but I dare say, that if one looks carefully, you can find their malign influence going back into ancient history. Until they are banned, I fear that the World will not know peace for any great period of time. I am not alone in understanding this, General (President) Eisenhower too, understood this.
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  4216. 22:39 It is an assumption that the virus did not break out in more than one place because the US has REFUSED to carry out ANY investigations in the USA itself. There are numerous reports, some of them quite well-documented, of people falling ill with Covid-19 before the Pandemic was declared. There is still no adequate explanation of why the US government closed down one of their own Bio-war laboratories as a "danger to the public", shortly before the Pandemic began in Wuhan. Nor is there any explanation of why US doctors were PROHIBITED from doing autopsies on people who fell ill with strange (Covid-like) diseases in 2019-'20. There are also examples of people in Europe who seem to have fallen ill with Covid-19 before the pandemic began officially.
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  4217. 37:59 In the CW, there are thousands of unexpected deaths of people of Navlny's age, that the Western governments refuse to discuss, never mind investigate. TV personalities, sports stars ordninary office workers, people across all walks of life, but particularly in the 19-59 year age range.
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  4218. India should expel and/or wind up any group funded by George Soros for their own protection. To not do so seems suicidal.
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  4219. 12:20 "Why would you want to destroy transport?" Simple! You want to remove all regulation of transport, e.g. safety rules, minimum wages, to make it more attractive to International billionaires. As I said. "Why would you want to destroy the Department of Tourism?" For exactly similar reasons. You have to pay off the IMF somehow! Don't you?
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  4220. 1:02:48 Why are the Russians building up stocks of cruise missiles (And maybe other weapons too)? I speculate that possibly, it is in preparation for some violent Western reaction, when they finally and comprehensively defeat Ukraine.
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  4221. 1:00:00 Looking back the WW2, one can see that the terrorist Blitzes on Britain and Germany, waged by Germany and the Allies respectively, did not do anything very useful to the respective war-efforts of the two sides. Strange that Britain, at least, does not seem to have grasped this lesson.
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  4222. 14:11 I would likr the Russians to insist that all the minorities in Ukraine had the right to use their own languages, as is usual in most countries.
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  4223. 32:51 I heard a somewhat similar story from two men who fought in the Resistance in WW2 in Belgium. There was a coal mine which had all its machinery driven by compressed air to avoid sparks that might cause explosions and to provide ventiliation at the same time. This mine was particularly important, because the coal was suitable for producing fuel for Jet Fighters. The Resistance was given orders from London, to destroy the functioning of the mine , but in a way that would not permanently disable it, "As the owners of the mine, who were in London would not allow that" (!). The compressed air was produced by a turbo-compressor, driven by an electric motor and it was housed in a small building near the entrance to the mine. The entrance to the mine and the compressor house, were inside an electrified barbed wire fence guarded by a unit of the Gestapo. The Resistance men did their research and found that the electricity that supplied the compressor, went from the sub-station for the mine to the compressor house by a tunnel which was blocked at both ends. They gambled that the Gestapo did not know of the existence of the tunnel and to make sure that the great majority of the guards would be watching the fence they distributed leaflets announcing that they were planning a mass attack on the mine on the night they were planning to attack it. On the night in question, about five men IIRC, went along the tunnel and lifted the manhole cover that gave access to the inside of the compressor house and overpowered the two men looking after the compressor. They then put 1kg explosive charges on both ends of the compressor and another on the exposed bearing of the electric motor and two more inside the crates containing the spare compressor. (The owners of the mine had contacted the Swiss firm that made the compressor to ensure that no spare would be supplied before the end of the war.) They then set time fuses and left the same way they had come, taking the two mechanics they had captured with them. When the explosives went off, the turbine disintegrated and the flying turbine blades killed a large number of the Gestapo guards. One of the men telling me this story said: "And one of the most satisfying things about it was, that when I went later with an American unit, to Aachen we passed dozens of Messerschmitt 262s in hangars on the roadside, that had not been used, that could not be used, because there was no fuel for them."
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  4224. 29:26 Do any of them think that greenlighting Ukraine to launch attacks "deep inside Russia" is going to win them the war?
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  4225. 12:04 "They are acquiring a degree of confidence that they did not have before" Yes! & I should think that the one thing that gives them the most new confidence, is the way the War in Ukraine has shown up NATO for the paper tiger that is really is. Yes it it is still terrible and dangerous but no longer "invincible".
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  4226. 23:56 They can't back down because that would make them "look weak"! "What would the Chinese think?!?"
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  4227. Yes, you make a good case for colonizing the Moon. I am a bit surprised that you did not mention that the Chinese and the Russians are working on a project to do just that. How is that going? Any information?
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  4228. 16:20 Note that the "hair-raising predictions" all worked for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry (and the detriment of the populations) by frightening people into getting jabbed and justifying mandatory v*ccinations.
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  4229. 55:18 It was a myth, all righ! It was a Myth, because the CW was pursuing its goal of destroying Russia! It had only just started on this, the latest and it hoped, the penultimate phase, of its quest for Hegemony. There was NO WAY that it was going to stop at that point.
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  4230. No, Those Navaho blocks look too perfectly rectangular to be natural. Also, I cannot think why sandstone, should cleave like that, in three directions at perfect right angles, to each other, There seem to be too many examples of relics of a "Pre-historic civilization" to keep on pooh-poohing the idea. I have seen examples in other branches of science, of dogmatism and stubborn adherance to discredited ideas, so I can well imagine the sort of efforts to suppress knowledge of "inconvenient" evidence for unorthodox ideas in archeology. Sadly, some scientists seem to react as defensively to attacks on their "Brain children" as they probably would to attacks on their biological offspring.
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  4231. The principle contradiction today is that between the people running the US who want to preserve or re-impose the hegemony of the US, their allies/satraps/vassals/puppets and the rest of the World. That does not mean that the eternal class struugle, has disappeared. It just means that it is not, currently,* the principle contradiction. This is probably why the old "Left"-"Right" terms have been muddled up and half-forgotten. *Similarly to the situation during WW2.
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  4232. These hegemons in Washington are "sanctions Crazy"! They seem to think that sanctions are the only form of diplomacy. I believe it was Lavrov who said: (Words to the effect) "When I ask diplomats from the Global South how the US bribes them to vote "their way", the reply was: "They say: 'If you vote our way we won't punish you!' "
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  4233. Look! Since 1945 there have been over 100 armed conflicts, in almost every one of them the US has been involved usually as the overt instigator at other times as the "hidden hand behind the trouble". Since the 1970, the Chinese have not been involved except twice with India. I think that the US's "concern" about the "potential dual use" of these ports and bases (Correction, base) is an example of projection. "We would use these bases to bully and harry other countries, so obviously, that is what the Chinese are going to do, given the chance!"
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  4234. 16:07 The BBC is talking about the "Elder Statesmen". So that means Biden AND Trump.
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  4235. 25:50 IIRC Dearbourne Mich. has a large Arab population.
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  4236. 1:16:50 NATO is a symptom of the US desire, wish, ambition to conquer, not just Russia, but the whole World. Furthermore, tho do so for the exclusive benefit of Big Business. Not even for the benefit of the people of the US, but solely for the benefit of the 1% of the 1%.
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  4237. Absolutely! The government(s!) were wrong to censoror.
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  4238. 8:29 You say that the Big Counter-offensive "has not succeeded as well as you had hoped."
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  4239. 1:26 This senator Tuberville is right on all counts. The war was indisputably provoked and the Russians are winning it now and, provided the conflict remains conventional, the Collective West (CW) is going to lose it.
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  4240. The "deafening Silence" is itself a "Data point" which needs explaining!
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  4241. 7:55 Have you noticed the AG of Kansas taking a case out against Pfizer? IMHO this could be one of the most important cases this Decade (Century?).
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  4242. I think that what adults get up to in their own homes, provided that it hurts no child and no-one outside and does not hurt either one of them, should be their own business and nobody else's. Equally, I think that homosexuals and other deviants should not make propaganda for their peculiar lifestyles. Nor do I think that anyone, who is not adult should be allowed to try to change their gender and anyone who helps a child to try to do that, should be regarded ass a child-abuser and punished heavily.
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  4243. 35:38 Shaman Biden!
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  4244. 25:14 I am sure that yesterday I saw on the internet an interview with either Zelensky or Budanov or the defence minister who said explicitly that the plan had been to capture the NPP, with a view to using it as a bargaining chip in negotiations or possibly to exchange it for the Zaporozhia NPP. Anyway, the Ukrainians had, he said, no leverage with which to negotiate while they wanted to negotiate and this seemed to offer them a way to get some.
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  4245.  @kevinwaalker  Yes.
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  4246. 37:08 "A huge mistake". It seems to me that you can only make sense of the situation between the US and Russia today, if you onderstand that the long-term aim in Washington, is the conquest, break-up and looting of Russia, a la mode de the Yeltsin Era.
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  4247. 1:28 This probably means that this is what the US is planning to do or is about to do. If there is a treaty forbidding anyone from putting nuclear weapons in space, it is probably about time for the US to do "the usual": to violate its treaty obligations.
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  4248. I think the problem was local and caused by lightning..
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  4249. 46:12 Maybe they were talking to Vovan and Lexis?
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  4250. P.s. I think you tend to make this mistake quite often. I sympathize, as I frequently muddle left and right.
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  4251. 1:19:32 This is a typical "false suggestion" ! "Putin has made no secret of his intention of marching on into Wesern Europe once he has conquered Ukraine." (Neither has he mentioned it! But, we know what he is thinking.) Later on, we can claim, that Putin's "intention to march into Western Europe" has been "blocked by the brave threat from the Poles", "the Russians have been left so weak by conquering Ukraine", or whatever seems appropiate at the time.
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  4252. Dear Emil, have you looked into the Skripal Saga? If not, and you can make any sort of sense out of it, please make a program explaining what happened. Nobody else has come close to doing that, so far.
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  4253.  @ChristyBermingham  No. These two are barely related.
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  4254.  @JosephBisio  I don't see the two situations as equivalent. Russia is not the USSR and Scholtz is not Adolf. Putin (In spite of what the MSM says) is not Stalin. Rishi Sunak is not Chamberlain and there is no Winston waiting to take over from him. Macron is not Daladier. Before WW2, Europe & the UK, were not run by a collection of puppets. Now they are.
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  4255. So why don't they use them?
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  4256. 24:09 Do you, Alex & Alexander, think that the CIA believes that "the Elensky Regime blew up NS" ?
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  4257. 40:06 These stamps look to me like a sort of "In Memoriam". Usually done in marble or black granite, but postage stamp will do, I guess.
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  4258. "The New Security Architecture" has to encompass the whole World or it will not be stable.
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  4259.  @roniijav8304  You believe Blinken? Oh Boy!
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  4260. 27:45 It's not often that I disagree with Col MacGregor but, Yugoslavia was peaceful until the US started stirring things up in it. Sure, there havd been conflicts in the Balkans for centuries but there were no active conflicts until US proxies started or re-started them up again.
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  4261. How can the US "Crack down on" deals between Russia and China? I don't see how it can be done. How could China, for example "Crack down on" deals between, say, the British government and Lockheed-Martin? Likewise, can't be done. This is thinking divorced from reality, unless they are going to go to war over it. Otherwise it's like the Ant trying to push over the oak tree.
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  4262. 45:00 The lopsided balance that the USA favours, where the rest of the World is dominated by the USA is, of course, exactly opposed to the "Win-Win situation" advocated by China.
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  4263.  @MarineScoutSniper  Thanks.
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  4264. 8:40 Where there is chaos, you can probably get money if you are in the right position.
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  4265. Do you have any comparable figures for Russia or China?
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  4266. I take it you have no experience of fighting in a city built largely of reinforced concrete.
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  4267. The news, is too full of spin, Not just your channel, but, for example, until a few weeks ago, nearly everyone in the US thought that Ukraine was winning!, that Russia started the war in Ukraine at the end of February 2022 for unknown reasons. Too much of the MSM feels like and is, government propaganda. If you want reality you have to go to the "Alternative" or "Social" media and "read between the lies". The real news is there, if you look for it with a critical eye.
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  4268. 33:01 I wonder was Navalny "vac*inated" with Pf*zer or Ast*a-Zen*ker while he was in Germany?
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  4269. 1:10:38 How fortunate for Russia that this bod is an EX-Central Banker!
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  4270. There is nothing good to be said about the British Conservative Party, They are just as bad as the British Labour Party. In fact they are both very similar, being complete puppets of Washington. Unfortunately, there is no effective opposition to either of them.
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  4271. 19:25 This whole thing, this whole Project Ukraine is not the whole story. It and Zelemsky are just tools being used as part of a wider Project, namely PROJECT DESTROY RUSSIA! This what the 800 bases world wide are all about. Like Project Ukraine, N@0 is just part of a wider Whole. If Project Ukraine goes down the tubes, well, that's a pity and no doubt an important setback but it will not, by itself, be the end of the story. It could lead to that, but it will not neccessarily do so.
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  4272. NAT* is best understood as a Protection Racket.
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  4273.  @anjazapico6380  Du hast Recht! Ich stehe korrigiert.
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  4274. The whole of the working people of Poland are under attack. Farmers and fishermen are the foundations of society. They do not have the prestige, the recognition they deserve, because they are literally the MOST IMPORTANT people in society. The most basic "human right" is to food and water. Without a reliable supply of food, nothing can take place. Unless the supply of food is assured, nothing very constructive can happen, because everyone will be too busy looking for food. Therefore, all the working people of Poland should unite to either force the government to change their policy, or, probably, better, to resign.
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  4275. @Massimo Maghetti Thanks.
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  4276.  @dmac6312  Thanks.
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  4277. 49:15 It is not just the Ukraine that has "shot its bolt", it is also that NATO has used up its stock of weapons supporting Ukraine. (Assuming, of course, that they are telling the truth!) Time to break the habit of a lifetime and sue for peace? Or what?
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  4278. Very good speech! This is so necessary! Africans have been patronised and pushed around for so long and treated as "useful Idiots" (To borrow a phrase from another branch of politics.) The President of Kenya is absolutely right to tear the cloak of "inclusivity" off these "Summits" and show them for the hollow shams they really are. Unity is strength" is a very old slogan, but no one has yet been able to improve on it. Clearly someone speaking for Africa has more clout than someone speaking for an individual African country. However, this is the first time, as far as I am aware, that anyone has articulated this point in a meaningful way.
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  4279. 46:36 Come to think about it, I do remember hearing about Palestinian units fighting alongside the Iranian and Syrian units in the war in Syria.
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  4280. If one believed the reports coming from the Ukrainian Intelligence, one should expect Zelensky to be sitting in the Kremlin, long since! Oh! &BTW, the British Ministry of Defence takes their information directly from the Ukrainian Intelligence briefings.
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  4281. 11:38 Don't forget that this is also a sequel to Hong Kong.
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  4282. 5:50 You forgot (How could you!?) the Javelins and the Stingers and the TOWs and the TGMs and the Bayrakter drones.
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  4283. They can't beat the Russian army, so they take revenge on the Russian civilians. Typical of losers.
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  4284. 33:36 "They could have negotiated. . . . . . . " No they could not have negotiated, not without a Regime Change in Washington DC, because there is a ruling faction in WDC (and there has been since probably before WW2) that has always wanted to get into a position either to destroy or to blackmail the USSR/Russia and Ukraine in NATO, with nuclear weapons in Ukraine, would have been the fulfillment of a long-held dream. Destroying Europe/Germany, I think, was either an ad-lib afterthought, or an unexpected bonus, when the Russia collapse did not happen or just the icing on the cake. It was not the primary aim when egging the Russians into the attack. (I feel that that last sentence could be better constructed, but its late and I can't be bothered. Apologies.)
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  4285. I should think it is likely that te figures for EMPs' salaries and perks will be taken down as "Misinformation"! Oh! and BTW, the UK ministry of Defence gets all its project Ukraine information straight from the Ukrainian Department for Military Intelligence.
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  4286. I wouls aay that if you are repoting Shoigu correctly it is a profoundly stupid thing to say. Making things such as shells or bombs may be simple but you have onl to make a very small error and you cand lose the whole factory and everyone in it. I knew a woman who had been during the war a Civilian Inspector of Armaments in a factory making bombs in Liverpool. She told me of some of the hair-raising incidents that occured and how one morning she got to work to find a flattened area of open ground where her workshop had been. Of course, that may have been because of something the Germans did, but she also felt it quite possible that it was somebody's "small" mistake.
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  4287. Apologies for typos!
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  4288. Of course, if you and the "suspect", the victim and the suspect were all one family, you might try to blame it on some innocent bystander, who was collateral damaged in the crime, and tell all the onlookers: "Nothing to see here!! Move along please!"
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  4289.  @carlosipec2270  That is quite an endorsement!
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  4290.  @soniavadnjal7553  Indeed!
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  4291. I don't know. I am not privy to the Chinese government's thinking, but it occurs to me to ask what is their cumulative death from Covid figure now and are their excess deaths running high or are they normal? Since I suspect, that the coyness of our (UK, US) governments over the vaccination status of people dying these days in the west, is connected to a suspicion that the deaths and the dead's Covid status are related, and as the Chinese have overwhelmingly been (where vaccinated at all) vaccinated with non-mRNA vaccines, it would make an interesting comparison. (Apologies for the length of that sentence!) It is also notable that the authoritarian Chinese government has not imposed any mandates on people to get vaccinated and have on the contrary, told employers that forcing their employees to get vaccinated is illegal. Last time I saw a figure for the cumulative, Chinese, death from Covid total, it was very, very much smaller than other countries'. I imagine that if this is still true, this is their rational for continuing with their apparently counter-productive "Zero Covid" policy.
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  4292. About the labelling of Le Pen not being logical, considering her policies are almost the same as Melanchon's; you have to realize that propaganda is very seldom logical. I mean, look at the labelling of Jeremy Corbin as "Racist" and "Anti-Semitic"! Or the melt-down over the Security pact between The Solomon Islands and China, as a existential threat to , not only Australia and New Zealand but also to the USA! While Russia is being ridiculous for seeing NATO in Ukraine as a threat!
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  4293. Even the Chinese could not have mediated a ceasefire between the Russians and Ukraine for the same reason that you cannot mediate a ceasefire between Mr Punch and his wife. I.e. it's not in the script! It is not Ukraine that is behind this war, this is the Neocons (of Washington DC) using a proxy to attack Russia. The Russians cannot placate their demands, because they (the neocons), do not want peace, they want the destruction of Russia.
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  4294. 4:2`1 I thnk that the first cause of the loss of respect is the way they proclaim noble-sounding goals and then invade countries and simply wreck them and leave them far worse off than they were before. To make matters worse, more damaging for their prestige, they don't seem to benefit from their actions. The two other most important ways, that the US loses prestige, is by grandiose public statement of the utmodst arrogance and hypocrisy. Their public figures regularly proclaim their country to be "a shining city on a hill, that the rest of the World wants to emulate" and then people see pictures of magnificent American cities full of homeless people, criminals and potholes> They read about Flint, Michigan, where the drinking water is poisonous. Where people go bankrupt for falling ill. Where the police kill people at a rate of 1000 a year. At the same time this is one of the rich countries of the World.
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  4295. 7:00 What gets punished is Telling the Truth about things that the likes of these folks in Davos want suppressed. Misinformation? Feel free to tell any lie you like! So long, as you don't libel or slander anyone that can afford to sue you. Lookat the MSM and you can find innumerable lies that go totally free of even criticism.
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  4296. I have no idea who it was that came up with the idea of making use of the political illiteracy of the general population to swap the labels "Left" amd "Right"; but it has had the effect (I imagine that was the purpose of the move) of making a meaningful political discussion almost impossible. Or at least, you really have to spend time before a political discussion, defining terms! I suppose, come to think about it, it is all part of the Owellian turning everything upside down and back to front, War = Peace. Attack = Defense. Aid = Exploitation. Etc., etc. ad nauseam.
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  4297. It seems to me that a great deal of the trouble over freedom of speech and "misinformation" is the corruption of the medical establishment by the Big Pharmaceutical companies. There is a built-in Conflict of Interest in the privately owned or, if you prefer, Capitalist owned Pharmaceutical industry, that the Cured patient is a lost customer. The perception that the ideal medicine is not one which cures the patient that takes it, but one that "stabilises" the disease, so that the patient is able to work and earn money, but has continuously to buy medicine to keep his disease in check. The solution to this dillema is to nationalize all pharmaceutical industries. Of course I know that that will be an unpopular thing to suggest, particularly in the USA but to me it seems unarguable.
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  4298. This sounds like a major security breach! This would have meant that the NSA would have known that the Russians knew the Ukrainian plans!
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  4299. 59:15 IOW the problem is: that the US is refusing to pull its sock up!
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  4300. I know how Lord Dannat's story ends: "And they will all live happily ever after!"
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  4301. If this was not an attempt to get rid of Trump it is a most remarkable collection of unfortunate coincidences! I wonder what an a**assination plot would have looked like?
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  4302. Am I right in thinking that refurbishment is an inherently dangerous job? Isn't it a bit like rendering unexploded ordinance safe?
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  4303. 27:17 How dare they want Peace?! Whatever next? Bread? Electricity? Water!? Must be the Russians stirring them up to do this!!!
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  4304.  @Cui-bono987  Thanks.
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  4305.  @MichaelHolloway  Thanks.
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  4306. The countries of the Global South are not controlled by their respective MICs, so their policy tends to favour their own peoples' interests. Therefore, they want PEACE. Always have, always will. The USG, by contrast, is controlled by the US MIC and always wants war, rumours of war and threats of war. Aways has and for obvious resons, always will. That is why treaties with the USG tending to avoid war are essentially worthless.
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  4307. I still believe that "You get nothing for nothing and damned little for six pence." Where does the energy come from? Does something get colder? How, if at all, is this related to the alleged breaktrough in nuclear fusion, using water as fuel? There is a law, called "the conservation of energy". As far as I know it still applies, so what loses the energy that is being supplied to power e.g. the LED?
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  4308. You can tell, you cab be certain, when the Government or Big Industries feel threatened by a discussion, that what they are saying is BS.
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  4309. 1:19:51 When the Russians have defeated Nato on the battlefield, (Which they look set to do.) THE question will be: "Will the Neocons give up on their project "For the New American Century"? Personnaly, I think it is almost impossible for them to do so. I fear, that the Russians will let them off too lightly and they will just think : "Lose a fight and run away, fight again another day!" and the Vicious Circle in Washington DC will remain intact. We shall see.
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  4310. Sounds like "The institute for Responsible Statecraft" which spawned "The Integrity Initiative". Whatcha bet this is another offshoot of the same? (5-eyes)
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  4311. 8:45 It's not a "trap", it is the actual position! It is not some "trap" that the Russians or the Chinese set for the Washington Warmongers, it is simply the WWs exposing themselves.
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  4312. 31:23 You should say that the US has been "fighting" theses islamic groups, (which were all set up by the CIA with the heelp of the Muslim Brotherhood). Without the Quotation marks " " the phrase is misleading.
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  4313.  @olgag6581  Thanks for the information.
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  4314.  @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  That could well be! However, I have no info on that.
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  4315. I think that naturally occurring viruses are quite dangerous enough without scientists trying to make them more dangerous still. They say that it helps to prepare for future pandemics, but I do not see that the danger of future naturally-occurring viruses is greater than that of worse man-made viruses escaping the lab. Would it not be better for everyone, if Gain-of-function research were made a "Crime Against Humanity" with a suitable penalty for offenders?
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  4316. In spite of being "Out of everything" the leaders of the EU are apparently going to sanction India and China! Talk about "doubling-down on failure! Truly: whom the Gods would destroy. . . . . .
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  4317. I have read that the Russian Central Bank has been buying up the whole output of the Russian gold industry.
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  4318. 24:37 Iran has warned, many months ago, that in the event of an attack upon them by the US or Israel, they will instantly destroy all the US military bases and all the oilfields and all the US ships within a 1000 km radius + Tel Aviv and as they showed in their attack upon the US base in Ayn al Assad, they have the means to do so. Is that what the neocons want?
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  4319. 17:07 "Then the final, task is to Liberate Crimea!" Ben Hodges evidently has been reading too many thrillers in which the heroine and her lover are strapped e.g. to the bed of a saw mill and the saw is approaching: "And with one bound he was free!"
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  4320. 51:45 It sounds as though Milley is becoming a Putin Schill!
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  4321. Berlineren, berliners. This is either an inhabitant of Berlin, or a berliner sausage. There was some mild mockery of Kennedy, who famously said in a speech in Berlin: "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
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  4322. Correction! Fake news! Berliners are not sausages but doughnuts. Sorry!
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  4323. 20:17 "there hasn't been the incentive to keep those factories" Yes, there hasn't, because the heads of government and NATO, knew, despite all their scary rhetoric, that the Russians were not planning on invading the West. Not even a weeny little bit! If they had thought that the Russians were really planning what they said they were planning, they would have been guilty of a gross dereliction of duty! The late Victorian governments faced much the same problem with respect to the production of small arms. When they had a small colonial war, they had to go to the manufacturers of rifles (sporting gun manufactures) and get them to produce a large number of rifles in a short space of time, with all the problems you could expect from that MO. In particular, having all these guns from different manufacturers, meant that it was not possible to cannibalize damaged rifles, i.e. use parts from one damaged piece to repair another damaged one. Around 1880, they decided that they had to solve this problem, once and for all and they decided that the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich should make the army's rifles. They sent a commission to Massachusetts to buy the most up-to-date and accurate machinery available. This arrangement solved the problem and was only ended in the 1950s, when the same machines were still making the bolt action Lee-Enfield rifles used by the British army at that time.
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  4324. 1:26:58 Not merely are the risks incalculable but the chances of success (Whatever that would look like!) look vanishingly small.
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  4325. If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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  4326. 20:25 "We have to be able to defend ourselves." Against whom? You can't conquer a country with aircraft, you need boots on the ground. So who are you afraid off? Is it the Mexicans? The Canadians? You have the Pacific Ocean one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. The statement is self-serving rubbish. It is cover, for the delusional feeling that the Americans have allowed themselves: that they have to be the TOP Dog in the World. This I think, is pure "Projection". The Americans think, that because they use their strength to bully other countries, if any country became strong enough to be able to resist them, they would do the same to the Americans. It is a form of psychological illness. However, this "Illness" is very difficult to treat because the "Elite" are in the Vicious Circle, I have described earlier and it is very profitable to them. They, not the voters, control US Foreign Policy.
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  4327. 7:23 I am reminded of a Ronald Searle cartoon captioned "She drove up in a Tantrum".
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  4328. 14:28 I am willing to bet that when all this is properly investigated, by far and away the biggest "mistake" will turn out to have been the imposition of mRNA vaccines and the suppression of all other treatments.
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  4329. I wonder why the number of VAERS increased 50% in 2018?
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  4330. Europe will survive, but it will have old and poor citizens starving to death and perishing of cold in the process. The German government says that it knows who sabotaged the NS pipeline but cannot say who it was! Clearly, this a government which is more concerned with protecting the country's enemies than with protecting the country they were elected to protect. That looks like the very essence of Treason to me. .
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  4331.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  It is pure projedtion to think that the present Chinese government want to "dominate" westerners, or anyone else, outside China,come to that.
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  4332.  @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp  Also, there are a number of Western bloggers who live in China and seem very happy to live there. E.g. the Barrets, Sabrina and Reporterfly.
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  4333. "When will these governments take these excess deaths seriously?" Good Question! You are assuming, of course, that the excess deaths are not intended. The answer is, I think, some time after the big pharmaceutical companies are nationalised. Not before. Well, not if the Gig Pharamaceutical companies can help it.
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  4334. Take a look at who heads up these NGOs & in particular what their nationality is. It is also neccessary to notice who is personally financing them. Pointing out Germany is a start but the "Uberreich" are also interesting.
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  4335. How is this for hypocrisy? Jake Sullivan complaining that Russia is "attacking grain ships and infrastructure in many cities in an attempt to conquer territory that belongs to another sovereign state"! Just as though this was not the usual US MO since way back. Not to mention their burning the wheat fields in Syria, just before the harvest, to try to starve the Syrians! To listen to him, you would think that the US had never even thought about destroying another sovereign state's infrastructure!
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  4336. 9:54 And what about the other two US officials who also said that the NS2 would be destroyed? When the police have to solve a crime, they look for suspects with Motive, Opportunity and Means to commit it. Here we have a suspect that has not only all three, but boasted beforehand that they were going to do it! One of their associates (WSJ) says "Don't look here! Look over there! There's the guilty party! Oh! He's gone!" What do you believe? Huh? As Biden has been quoted as saying : "Come on, Man!"
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  4337. "In the 1940s, when China still had a feudal system with an Emperor . . . . " Sorry! That's misinformation. Do you mean 1914? 1840s? The Chinese revolution that overthrew the Emperor, took place in 1911. There followed a time of warlords and attempts at a central government. The only "Emperor" after 1911 was a Japanese puppet who "ruled" from some time in the 1920s to 1945, in a Japanese occupied part of China called "Manchukuo".
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  4338. Sounds as though you should examine what you child is eating (Or not eating). I seriously suggest, that you look at the internet. There is a lot of really useful info there, that I wish I had had when I was much younger. In particular, I would suggest, that it sounds as though your daughter is eating too much sugar and too much starch.
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  4339. I think the rouble is already convertible.
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  4340.  @pmkeith  It was not a captured fighter I was quoting. He was a Canadian who had fought briefly and then decided that he could not take the conditions in the front line and was on his way back to Canada.
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  4341.  @everaimless  Depends on whether you want to break international law or not.
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  4342.  @everaimless  Yeah! Kinda hard to decide whether to commit war crimes or stay within the law.
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  4343.  @pmkeith  This is the consistent pattern of NATO-trained troops. It shows their contempt for International Law.
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  4344.  @TheArdildo  In 2014, roops were sent by Poroshenko to wipe out the Russian-speakers of the Donbass. To be precise, the order said to hang them. The Donbass people were attacked in their towns, Where were they supposed to fire from?
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  4345. 4:19 Don't forget the Helicopter crash,
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  4346. 15:49 "They now have the culprit, if that is thr right word". Maybe I am mis-hearing this word, but if I have transcribed it here correctly, then, I respectfully submit that it is the wrong word. I am not sure what it is you wanted to say, but I am sure that what I heard, is the wrong word for the situation in Yemen.
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  4347.  @johnsagar1152  Yes, maybe. However, I doubt it's that different. Perhaps some Russian Army veteran can inform us?
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  4348. 49:21 Too right the situation is different! NATO/US no longer looks all-powerful.
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  4349. 34:58 Self-destructive decisions, collapse of religion etc. I don't remember who said it but shortly after the USSR collapsed someone said "People who believe in nothing will believe anything at all!"
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  4350.  @robertbrandywine  Thanks for the info.
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  4351.  @robertbrandywine  I would, however, point out that people who believe in God are more likely to believe in magic.
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  4352. NATO "needs" a more robust arms industry. So Stoltenberg says, but in truth the Russians and the Chinese want peace not war. If NATO would embrace peace too, we would not need more weapons. The USA has weaker, friendly neighbours to the North and South and a huge ocean to the East and West. it has a very heavily armed population and no one is threatening it, so why does anyone need more arms? What danger is the US in? The only danger it is in, is that may soon not be the largest economy in the World. All the other countries in the World, without exception, manage to survive not having the largest economy. Why cannot the US?
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  4353. In the UK the service that collects taxes is called the "Inland Revenue". In the US it is called the "Internal Revenue Service". The French government sounds clinically insane. Why would anyone voluteer for that mission?
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  4354. 2:34 "US Led Western allies expressed alarm over growing military ties between Iran and Russia." Yes. What did they expect to happen when they sanctioned both?
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  4355. 1:15:54 The question is, increasingly, who is in command? It is clearly not Biden. So, since it seems that the most likely candidate in the US camp is Blinken, the next quetion is it Blinken or Netanyahoo that is really running the show? Is Biden's "Blank Cheque" really just a sort of manouvre to avoid that question? It seems that the Chinese accept that Blinken is the effective POTUS, as do the Saudis. However, Netanyahoo does not seem to be under his control; so who is the boss and who the deputy?
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  4356. 25:51 It also shows that they are mathematically illiterate! Even supposing that 20% of Russians go abroard, there are only about 20% of Russians opposed to Putin, so while the Pro-Putin Russians are on holiday there will still be about 76% of the Russians in Russia in favour of Putin!
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  4357.  @pariaheep  That is the USG. For details see Ron Unz's long article on how the 1930 Chicago Mob morphed into the present admin.
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  4358.  @chrisgrossedout6914  " nonsense about depleted uranium being radioactive, which it isn’t." Tell it to the Serbians and the Iraqis and see what they do to you.
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  4359.  @thomaslaubli1886  This is not an argument, this is an insult. I am not into that sort of thing. If you have some evidence to refute what I am saying say it, otherwise keep your witticisms for someone who will like or dislike it.
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  4360.  @marietheresa7866  Only 15 years? Really? And then?
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  4361. The problem is Uncle.
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  4362. About the decision of the British government to send depleted Uranium weapons to Ukraine. This may look like a decision which may have a very damaging effect on the people of the Ukraine and Russia. What the "people" who made this decision may not have taken into account is that a lot of food that is grown in Ukraine is eaten in Europe. The danger of DU is that when a tank is hit by a DU shell, the DU catches fire and DU smoke settles on the ground. It then becomes part of the soil and some of it s absorbed by the plants that grow there. This food may be eaten directly by humans (e.g. as bread or flour) or it may be fed to animals, Either way, it may end up in an unborn child and if a single atom decays in a cell of that child, it may cause a mutation resulting in a hideous mutation, as Iraqis are finding out at the moment. Since DU is only mildly radio-active, it has a very long half-life, so this incredibly evil decision, may have consequences all over the world, for centuries to come, but particularly in Europe.
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  4363. Glad you agree!
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  4364. "Germany was heavily struck by war and Russia's decision to reduce gas supplies to Europe" This was not RUSSIA's decision! This was the German government refusing to certify the NS2 pipeline, the Bugg*ring about with the repair of gas turbines to drive NS1 and the US's sabotage of both NS1 and NS". None of this was Russia's doing. So why are you echoing this CW propaganda? Are you Indian or a US puppet?
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  4365. It seems to me that without the US and NATO "rattling their sabres" in the Western Pacific and encouraging Japan to recreate its old Imperial Navy, there would be no need for China to militarize and build up its navy. Who needs FONOPS "to protect international trade from Chinese attack", when almost all the trade that "needs protecting" is either coming from or going to China? It is abundantly clear who is and who is not "stirring up trouble in the West Pacific".
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  4366. 11:19 In Italian "c" in front of "a" is pronounced as a "k" sound. In front of an "i" it is pronounced lik"ch" (as in "chuff, chuff".)
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  4367. 59:57 I should think that the supply of Su-35s to Iran, may be payback for Israeli attacks on Syria
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  4368. 9:36 Once upon a time, the thought of having to fight NA*o would have been enough to scare almost anyone. Today, rather less so. The Putin has been tearing shreds of paper off the paper Tiger which is looking decidedly tattered!
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  4369. The West cannot deliver what it does not have. The problem is not that it failed to deliver what it promised. The problem is that it did not do its "Due diligence" before provoking the Russians into invading Ukraine. It did not correctly evaluate its own strength nor that of the Russians. In other words it believed its own propaganda about its own capabilities and about the capabilities of the Russians and the propaganda was innacurate in both cases.
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  4370. 4:00 Indeed! It does affect policy elsewhere! Take a look at the WHO's very alarming power grab that they have just announced. Or rather they have not so much announced it, as snuck it into parliaments.
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  4371. The thing above all else, that is making people sick is what they eat, Yes, there are bacteria, viruses and fungi that attack us and the doctors and the Pharmaceutical firms are ready to treat them, but the reason why we have an epidemic affecting a large part of the population is the food that we eat. To put it in simple terms humans can easily eat too much suger and too much starch,not eough zinc not enough vitamins and take too little exercise and that is what we are doing. Doctors are not tackling this problem and the medical schools, which are mostly funded by Big Pharma, do not teach about it.
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  4372. Incredible! What blatant BS! "No public health reason to investigate the elephant in the room" How can they possible justify those statements? To me (and I would imagine, to everyone else) this looks as though they have a "pretty good" idea of what is causing it and have bee intimidated into not voicing it.
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  4373. 24:12 Maybe the Russian central Bank Reserves were phantom funds in the first place? Maybe this figure was some MSM "Estimate" of the Russian reserves, that was uncritically picked up and repeated over and over, until everyone in the West was convinced that it was true?
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  4374. Another such victory for Ukraine and they will run out of soldiers.
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  4375. This "Peace Plan" of Zelensky's is no peace plan at all! In essence it is a demand for Russian capitulation, for Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine and for Regime Change in Russia. It hardly needs to be said that such conditions would only be suitable IF, Russia had suffered a humiliating defeat; but it hasn't! Hard Luck, Zelensky! Better try something else. Even his sponsor, Joe Biden, can't be bottered with this nonsense
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  4376. 4:46 Maybe Britain does not have such a comprehensive intelligence operation in Russia as the MoD would like us to believe. I have heard that some few years ago, the Iranian counter intelligence learned how the US, was using the internet to communicate with its spies in Iran, Using this knowledge, they then rounded up the entire network in Iran. Not only that, but they passed on their discovery to China and Russia, who also rounded up all the US spies in their countries. Of course, I have no way of checking the veracity of this story, but the apparent lack of reliable intelligence from these three countries, makes it look probable.
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  4377. So, you have no information either.
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  4378. If someone like Prigozhin could determine who was to be the defence minister, why not Biden and his son, Hunter?
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  4379. 1:22:41Faith alone will not win battles. It does help to win battles, no doubt, but to win battles with faith alone you need magic and that too, seems to be difficult to come by!
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  4380. 19:00 Google translate , in my experience, quite often leaves out the word "not" when translating from German to English and vv.
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  4381. 49:55 You can see that this argument, that you have to run a trade deficit to have your currency become a reserve currency, is absurd, because if it were true, gold could never be a reserve currency.
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  4382.  @georgecherian6520  Yes, more or less.
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  4383. 28:59 And the moral of that is: "Eat your carrots, dear!"
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  4384. 7:37 According the the USauthorities themselves 6% of the fentanyl in the US comes from China, the remaining 84% comes from Mexico or is made in the US. One might ask what is driving so many people in the US to becoming addicted to fentanyl?
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  4385. 5:48 I wonder: is it possible to know what the shareholdings of the people who voted for the money for Ukraine, are?
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  4386. A very much needed program! Kudos to WION! How seldom any large news organization says anything like this and oh, how necessary it is for someone to say it! Who can believe that the country that does this sort of thing, on a regular basis, is really so anxious about the plight of Uighurs who are being re-educated by the Chinese? Probably in all wars, some soldiers will commit atrocious acts, but this is not the case here. This is policy. This behaviour is sanctioned and condoned, even covertly encouraged from on high. Maybe, if more news outlets produced content like this, it would make the USG more careful of it servants' actions.
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  4387. No. The "main reason for the war " is the same as the reason for almost all the wars since 1945: it is long-held ambition of a small but powerful clique of warmongers in Washington and London to conquer Russia, balkanize it and loot it. That is what having all the 800 military bases is about. That explains the Cold War. It's a constant and we shall never have peace whilst these folks are in power.
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  4388.  @lukasbauer8783  Of course I understand that! That is why "determined to destroy Hamas" has inverted commas around it. The so-called fight was as fraudulent as a $14 banknote.
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  4389. 31:37 I agree with Col MacGregor about the Donors, absolutely. These are at the heart of the existential problem facing the World. I have posted this idea elsewhere on the net and I would be very interested to hear comments on it. At the moment in the US (Where almost all the threat of war comes from.) the driving force for wars and threats of war is the complex system, consisting of the arms industry, the USG, the Congress, the Lobbyist Industry and the Shareholders of the arms-manufacturing firms. This complex system functions as a sort of closed loop, with inputs and outputs. Inputs come from the taxpayers, while the outputs are, of course arms and (More importantly in this context.) money to the shareholders of the arms-manufacturers, As the loop is circular in nature we can start anywhere, Let's start with the congress critters. These representatives are chiefly concerned with keeping their positions and are very often shareholders in the Arms Industry as well. They are approched by the Lobbyist industry representatives with an offer which is difficult to ignore. The offer is: if you vote the way we tell you to, we will contribute generously to your re-election expenses. If you don't, we will fund your opponent(s). The Lobbyists are paid by the Arms manufacturers to do this. As a result when there is a proposal to spend money on arms, it is almost always passed, with the result that the taxpayers have to cough up more money and the shareholders get more dividends and the lobbyists get paid by the arm manufacturers, more money to do their next lot of work. This "Vicious Circle" (as I call it) is a very stable set up. It is also very self protective. Many have lost their seats in congress, trying to expose it and break its power. Some have probably died trying. In normal (!) circumstances, it is very difficult to see how this can be broken up by anyone. However, we do have, at the moment, quite abnormal times coming. (Or so it seems to me.) Neightoe is on the brink of a massive defeat and if/when that happens the Russians will be in a position to dictate a lot of the Terms of Settlement. If one of their terms was that all arms manufacturers had to be nationalized, it would disrupt this cosy arrangement. Or, at least, I think it would, because it would cut the financial knot that hold the whole system together. It would remove the financial basis for the "Vicious Circle."
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  4390.  @suryakumairi3622  Sorry! What is/are the " TRIPPLE H OF WWE"?
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  4391.  @TheAnkit211  What evidence do you have of back doors in Chinese equipment? The German government spent three years of specialists' time looking for backdoors in Huawei equipment and found NOTHING. (Much to US annoyance.)
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  4392.  @meow4619  At the risk of being called a Bot, I will say that other countries did not improve at anything like the same rate as China, because they were not led by Mao Tse-tung, Chou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and the CPC.
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  4393. You're putting the blame in the wrong place. It's like blaming the Organgrinder's Monkey for the tune that is playing.
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  4394.  @warrenweaver6664  I agree, absolutely.
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  4395. 25:23 Yes! Probably you have explained this apparent lunacy. Contracts and down payments. Makes sense now!
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  4396. 16:07 Perhaps it is to counter the White House's saying: "Don't just stand there! Do something!"
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  4397.  @kathylarson8876  It "Sticks out like a sore thumb!"
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  4398. 10:32 An agreement with the current US is good for, at the most, four years. Probably less. Ask the Iranians.
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  4399. 14:17 The ICC is and always has been, a tool of the CW. As the old proverb says: "Truth will out."
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  4400. A further thought on Prigozhin is that, is that when I was doing my NS, I was frequently punished for offenses called "Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline". (An offence type 252, Such as having the wrong pattern of bootlaces or being one minute late returning to barracks.)
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  4401. "A Russian weaponisation of energy, cutting off supplies of gas and fuel to Europe" Oh! Come on Man! Who put the sanctions on whom? Did the Russians sabotage the NS pipelines? Did the Russians hold up the certification of the NS2? Did they hold up and finally sabotage the repair of the gas-turbines needed to pump gas along NS1? No they did none of those things. The Collective West cut off trade with Russia and stole its foreign exchange reserves where it could, to collapse the Russian economy and bring about a color revolution in Moscow. The Collective West's attack failed, dismally, and the results have hurt the Europeans, far more than the Russian, but the initiative was the West's, not the Russians'. It is illogical, therefore to blame the Russians for the trouble that Europe is suffering, and is really an Orwellian inversion of reality.
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  4402. Russia is "not exporting" fertilizer and wheat, because the European and the USA governments don't approve of the Russian actions in Ukraine. The sanctions (don't buy Russian food, fertilizer and fuel) are misconceived and stupid because they will hurt the Russians hardly at all, but will seriously damage us in Europe. Above all, the Russians will have plenty of food, fertilizer and fuel. The Russians are attacking Ukraine to prevent NATO ( as was planned) from putting nuclear weapons "on their doorstep". You might wonder why the NATO countries thought this was a good idea.
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  4403. 6:03 These Russian warships were on a FONOPS mission.
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  4404. How about stocks and shares? How to protect against "Bank Bail-ins"? (E.g. as in Cyprus?)
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  4405. 22:48 Now you mention it this meme of "daring raids on enemy ship in their home harbours" goes much further back than WW2; there is also the "singeing of King Philip's beard by Sir Francis Drake. "on 19th April 1587.
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  4406. I2:00 it is just a statement in line with all the other statements that come from the warmongers. Stand it on its head and it is perfectly true.
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  4407. Ain't got nutin' to do with values! This has to do with Orban not hating Vladimir Putin half enough. "Values" is an excuse. True the EU just loves the LBGT (etc) community and would, if they dared, campaign for Pedophile Rights, but even so, what really bothers them is that Hungary is not an enthusiastic supporter of Zelensky and his Azov friends.
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  4408. 21:28 Option 5 : a White House Verbot. A la Suez adventure.
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  4409. This WSJ report is codswallop! It an obvious attempt to cloud the waters and hide their guilt. The story that it was done by amateurs is ridiculous! The account that is most believable, is the one published by Cy Hersh, which though it may be wrong in minor details, is almost certainly basicly right overall. US officials, including President Biden, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland , and another state Department official, I forget whether it was Admiral Kirby or Jake Sullivan said it was going to get rid of the Nordstream pipelines. Biden said it twice! They had the motive. They had the means. They had the opportunity. They controlled the area. They had the professionals with the expertise needed to do the deed. Does one need more? Even if it were true that Ukraine, was involved, it would not signify, because Ukraine is run by a US puppet government.
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  4410. 3:27 Zelensky has already (30/4/24) admitted that 31,00 is an "underestimate."
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  4411. 1:10:54 If people don't know what they are talking about, they probably also don't know how ignorant they are. They have no way of knowing how good or how bad the advice they are being given is. If they believe anything they read in the MSM, then of course, they are really up the traditional creek, in a barbed-wire canoue without a paddle.
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  4412. Why don't you measure the current? It is more meaningful in terms of the amount of stuff released by electolysis.
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  4413. 5:11 Acid reflux, I had acid reflux for years, treated with Lanzoprazole, the I discovered that If I eat slightly less for dinner (I mean slightly!) the reflux did not happen. I have not taken anything to prevent it for years now and it does not happen unless I eat slightly more than I really want. this happens maybe three or four times a year.
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  4414.  @louise_rose  Who know? That could change!
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  4415.  @NordicJarl27  The Russians are doing what they said they would. If they wanted territory they could have got it. Look at what they said were their war-aims. 1) Demilitarise Ukraine. 2) Denazify Ukraine. 3) Force Ukraine to be neutral. Nothing about conquering territory. Note also: that the Russians have been careful about hitting civilians. In two years of war, they have killed fewer civilians than Israel killed in the first two weeks.
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  4416.  @NordicJarl27  You, like so many people, assume that you know what the Russians wanted, when the SMO started. Why do you discount what they said they wanted? They wanted Negotiations about Ukraine NOT being part of NATO. They gave their aims as 1) De-militarization of Ukraine. 2) De-Nazification of Ukraine. 3) Ukraine to be a neutral state. At the end of March, they got the Ukrainians to negotiate on a peace agreement, but that was forbidden by the Ukrainian's Western handlers. BoJo went to Kiev and told the Ukrainians that they should denounce the tentative agreement they had reached with the Russians, because the West would give them enough weapons and finance to hand the Russians a crushing defeat. He said and this was repeated by numerous othe Western politicians, that they would support the Ukrainians against the Russians "For as long as it takes!" (Incidentally: In the phrase "should of had", what is the function of "of"? Usually , of is a mark of the genative. E.g. "Mark of the Beast" "Best of the bunch" "One of five" What is it doing in your sentence?)
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  4417.  @timonsolus  Which would have saved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives.
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  4418.  @NordicJarl27  You do not understand that the Russians reason thus: "Territory is always there. Lose it today, win it back tomorrow. People, soldiers, lose them once and they are gone for ever." Russia has lost far fewer soldiers that Ukraine and is now winning. "2nd best? Who is winning? Who is short of arms and ammo and soldiers? Wise up!
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  4419.  @NordicJarl27  Always assuming that that was what the Russians wanted to do.
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  4420.  @JohnBen-eu1kh  What will NATO use for ammunition?
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  4421.  @timonsolus  Believe what you like.
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  4422. 24:00 So the Chinese government is lying, as is the US government. Big surprise! In my opinion all Gain of Function Research should be outlawed and anyone who does it should be guilty of a Crime Against Humanity as should be anyone who aids or abets any such research. Viruses are naturally quite nasty enough, without actually making them artificially worse!!
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  4423.  @Denise-vn8wz  What you are saying seems improbable, but I am not an expert so I cannot say yes or no with any authority.
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  4424.  @Denise-vn8wz  IF! Personally, it would take a lot to convince me that viruses do not exist, as viruses (Bacteriophages) saved my leg, possibly my life from MRSA. I have heard this allegation that "Viruses do not exist" but I have no idea what it is based on.
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  4425. 26:49 There is a very interesting and powerful video by Richard Medhurst today, showing in considerable detail, how the trouble in Britain is being stirred up by Israel. Well worth a watch!
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  4426. 4:00 No. The swindling supplies of ammunition, was NOT the result of anything that Congress did. It was because between the Russian destroying Ukrainian arms dumps and the Ukrainians firing them off and the west being unable to make them at sufficient speed, the UAF ran out.. I wonder where Joe thinks he is going to get ammo for Zelensky now?
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  4427. Sorry! Apologies for typo! Not "Swindling" Dwindling!
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  4428. ​ @FTCWO  Fermenting ing the waste from one human, and burning the resulting gas, one can generate about 2.5Watts, continuously. which is about 0.06kWh/day. How much one can get from burning the remaining solid waste, I have no idea.
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  4429. I wonder, can anyone tell me: What is the key difference between the Israeli policy towards the Palestinians and *itler's government's policy towards the Russians or the Jews?
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  4430.  @klaspersson2598  Not true! The allies (US, UK, USSR, France?) agreed in Yalta in 1945 to divide up Europe between them. The Russians conquered much more than was agreed before Germany collapsed. They gave back all the excess without making any problem over it. I know because I was stationed in a part of Germany, that for a few days, was occupied by the Russians
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  4431.  @izajahmed8863  Ignoramus.
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  4432. The group running the US has one overriding aim: and that is World Dominance, as Prof Sachs said earlier. If China and Russia are economically and militarily stronger than the US then the US cannot consider itself to be "Top Dog". Apparently they find such a situation impossible to contemplate. So, they used to want to detroy the USSR, as their biggest "Competitor". Hence the ring of bases all around Russia. Recently, they have realised that China is already bigger than the US, in terms of real industry. They want to be The Dominant Power in the World and they keep trying to get into a position, where they can destroy all countries that might interfere with this aim.
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  4433. @ShakakuKoruna420 Nearly true!
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  4434. 10:08 What about the civilians who are deprived of water? People can survive 40 days or so without food provided they have water to drink, but without water they will start to die in eight (8) days. That time is about up, NOW!
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  4435. @gggg-xv7nb Yes! Absolutely! It was such a quick turnaround it was quite startling. I remember a workmate who had been fighting first in North Africa and later in Italy, remarking on how before the war he had read about the wicked awful Ruskies and the dreadful things that they did and what a terrible place Russia was, all filled with evil people and led by demons and then when they entered the war, on our side they were suddenly transformed into heroes! and remained so throughout the war and then, suddenly in 1946 they reverted to their former state. He gave this as justification for his belief that you could trust what the MSM said about sport and the weather and not much else.
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  4436. Everyone who has been interested in the War in Syria, has known from a long time back, that ISIS, ISIL, IS, Al Qaida and all the rest of these bodies were US proxies. At the start, in 2011, it seemed that angry Syrians were attacking the government of Syria and then, that this group suddenly became overpoweringly powerful. The alarmed US came in to fight them, (uninvited) but they continued to gain ground, in spite of the best efforts of the US to halt them. Over the years from 2011 to autmn 2015, ISIS got stronger and stronger and ruled a larger and larger Califate carved out of Syria, Jordan and Iraq. No one could stop them! The US bombed them continuously, but they continued to grow and to conquer more territory and to control a bigger population. The greatest mystery though was : who was financing them??? No one seemed to know! Then the Russians came to the aid of the Syrian government and ISIS (or whatever it was called at that time) started to lose ground. Then the Russians showed aerial photos, of the convoys of hundreds of oil tankers, carrying Syrian oil off to Turkey and Israel and the mystery of ISIS's finances was solved! The US "bombing of ISIS was shown up as make-believe and shadow-boxing, and ISIS as a US proxy. The rest is better known.
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  4437. Never mind the ECHR! A "Self selected Elite". How about the House of Lords? Who selected them?
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  4438. 8:23 While you are at it, you might also consider the "disproportion" between the US response to alleged (Disputed) "Cultural Genocide" in Xinjiang and the actual, undisputed, slaughter of 24,000 Gazan civilians, 70% of whom are women and children. How come?
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  4439. The Russians have infiltrated apartment buildings? Anyone would think, to hear your ridiculous propaganda, that the Russians no longer live in mud huts and dress in bear skins!
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  4440. 1:55 Didn't the US default before when Nixon closed the "Gold Window" in August 1971?
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  4441.  @vultoktok1848  Thanks!
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  4442.  @ccahill2322  I have been aware of the lying nature of US propaganda since the end of WW2. However, I do not think the US is run by lunatics so much as by gangsters. If you go to the Unz Review, in the archive you will find a very interesting and informative long essay by Ron Unz, about the roots of the present administration (and all the administrations since JFK) in the Chicago gang scene of the '20s and '30s.
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  4443.  @JosephBisio  So. According to you and zeno15STI, the Russians are heading into a slow collapse and ultimate defeat in the next few years. Correct me if I misinterpret you. We shall just have to wait and see how it turns out.
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  4444.  @ccahill2322  Thanks.
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  4445. 1:01:07 Might the threat of a total Arab oil embargo on the US and Israel concentrate minds in Washingtom and Tel Aviv, ennough to produce a ceasefire?
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  4446. I think the Chinese are asking for ALL biolabs to be investigated.
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  4447. This looks like projection. The Collective West is running out of weapons (particularly 155mm ammunition) so they assume that Russia must be running low on ammunition too. There seems to be no confirmation in reports from the battlefields that the Russians are running short of anything. However, the US is desperately trying to find someone to blame for the failure of their puppet to defeat the Russians. They have blamed the Iranians but that story does not seem impressive enough. Who better to blame then than the Chinese or the North Koreans or both?
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  4448.  @michaelpencio9573  So is your spelling!
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  4449. 37:05 I would suggest that the changes in the command structure in Russia are simpler than you suggest. I guess, that Gen. Gerasimov is being freed up to take care of the whole of Russia, because there is always a danger of the CW launching some diversionary attack if the Russians were to get too focused on Ukraine. Surovikin is still in overall command of the SMO and maybe the other deputy of Gerasimov will free Surovikin up somewhat, to concentrate on the war in the air. More like a tidying-up operation than promotion/demotion. (I don't know, I am only, like you, guessing.)
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  4450. I wonder why only one viewer in six, bothers to click on the "Like" button?
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  4451. 15:31 A large part of the CDC's money comes, not from the US taxpayer but from the Pharmaceutical companies!
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  4452. You are right. Almost the only source of serious conflict (conflict which cannot easily be sorted out by diplomacy) is the USA! Wherever there is a conflict, the USA buts in, to try to make it worse! By contrast, the Chinese seem to be trying to mend conflicts and get countries to solve their conflicts peacefully.
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  4453. 31:49 Maybe, someone should tell Grant Shapps: "Hit someone your own size!"
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  4454. Just listen to the HYPOCRACY of this US spokesman! No one listening to him would guess, that the Oh so peaceloving (!) USA has about a thousand military bases around the World in about130 countries and has in the last seventy years invaded and largely destroyed some 50+ countries. No one would guess either that the oh so aggressive Chinese (!) have fought three skirmishes with notably aggressive neighbours, with which it now has reasonably good relations. Just imagine the reverse scenario: Puerto Rico has an independence movement which is being encouraged by Beijing. How calmly would the US react to senior CPC officials coming to PR to confer with the dissidents? How would the USA like China to arm the said dissidents? Seeing how well the sanctions on Russia have turned out for the Europeans, one might think that the Collective West might think twice (or more!) about sanctioning China!
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  4455.  @z-RU_America  It was not only, it was far more than Father Frost and Mother Mud that defeated The N*ZIs. Whatever anyone says about the Communist philosophy, it was a much more inspiring idea than the N*ZIs ever had. The German War Machine was defeated by its taking on most of the World at once and by the grit, determination, courage and self sacrifice of millions of ordinary people all over the World, but particularly in Russia, China, occupied Europe and occupied and unoccupied Asia and many other places not occupied. (This is a very inadequate answer, but I think/hope you will get my drift.)
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  4456. 20:50 Do you think the drivers of this massacre in Ukraine will run out of Ukrainians or ammunition first?
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  4457.  @avae5343  I hope you are right. I was merely speculating on what might be the consequences of some NATO country following Simon Tisdal's advice.
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  4458.  @avae5343  Yes, yes! I know it's not practical politics. I was just extending S.Tisdal's idea in a "What if" to show it's idiocy.
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  4459.  @avae5343  The Guardian, like the rest o the MSM is simply the propaganda arm of the Ptb. Pharaonic is probably a good description. I am alarmed.
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  4460.  @TurbodanNM  Sorry if what I wrote upset you. It is merely that I feel that people forget that these are not just figures, but each one was a real person.
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  4461.  @emanuelhendrikx5233  Right! My bad!
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  4462. 23:00 "If we had some butter, we could have spme bread-and-butter, if we had some bread."
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  4463. 43:10 "Patriot shoots down Kinzhal hypersonic missile" Another day, another impossible British media lie. They are imitating the worst examples of the past, such as the Sunday Sport and the News of The World. Britain had, once upon a time, some very fine journalists; today, however, those that still exist find it almost impossible to find a publisher.
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  4464. 9:37 Only those few signatories? God help us!
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  4465. 0:34 "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
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  4466. 4:00 Personally, I should think that the things driving De-Dollarization the most, are the theft of Venezuela's gold reserves, the theft of Afgahanistan's gold reserves and the theft of the Russians' bank reserves, the expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT mechanism and the use of the dollar as a weapon. De-dollarization is a defence against being sanctioned.
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  4467. Usually I agree with everything that JP says. However, I don't agree with him about Putin, I think he should look again at how the West worked for eight years or more to force Russia into his "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine. In particular he should look at how the extemely unsavoury NAZIs in Ukraine were armed, empowered, organized, trained to NATO standards and then poised to wipe out the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass, in early March 2022, after shelling them, on and off for eight years.
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  4468. 40:45 This is a bit like someone in a fight, with a stronger opponent, while wearing vitualreality goggles, which show him a rather different opponent and his own avatar, is rather stronger and cleverer than he really is.
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  4469.  @jeremyatkinson4976  This is your substitute for argument? Ah well! Little things please little minds.
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  4470.  @jeremyatkinson4976  The opposing view is wrong. Can you show one example of "Russia formenting the conflict"? On the contrary Russia submitted proposed draft treaties to give everyone in Europe security and theUS and N@0 refused to even discuss them
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  4471.  @Simonsimon-fy3hq  Insults are not an adequate substitute for arguments. Your "answer" shows that you have nothing to add to the discussion.
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  4472.  @brian472  Which part of what I said is untrue? It is easy (and lazy) to suggest that what someone says is nonsense, it is much harder to prove it.
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  4473.  @plodiN3  Thanks.
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  4474.  @jeremyatkinson4976  I don't believe guff. You seem to have slipped a few years. Crimea went back to Russia, by referendum, in 2014. Not 2022.
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  4475. Very encouraging development!
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  4476. 37:33 They are in fact still "doubling down"! They are behaving exactly like the failing gambler who has lost most of his stash and is placing his last bets on the number which has so far failed to turn up and "therefore MUST turn up sometime SOON!" They are ignoring the fact, that even defence, requires ammunition and supplies of men, machines and other material.
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  4477. Why would they do that?This is the Big Pharma which has bought the government and medical establishment, coming for its pound of flesh.
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  4478.  @Jamicaman516  It is losing enormous numbers of troops. Land can be recovered, the dead are gone for ever.
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  4479.  @lloads642  So why does Jens Stoltenburg say that : "A defeat for Ukraine will be a defeat for NATO." ? How much more involved would the west have to be before you'd agreed that the west is fighting this war? Ukraine is not a tiny country, it is the largest in Europe. Before the war it had a population of 41 million. For eight years NATO has been training the AFU to NATO standards and it has received, from the west, enormous contributions in modern arms and money that is more than the Russian arms budget for a year, just since March.
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  4480.  @Jamicaman516  We'll see who wins.
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  4481. 1:12:30 The MSM says what is required of it. Whether it makes sense or not , is a 2ndary consideration. Most of the revenue of the MSM is advertising and subsidy. Relying, for information, on a company that is run for profit, (When someone else is paying it!) is like trusting a snake-oil salesman to sell you a cure for your TB or syphilis.
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  4482. 3:40 Another reason that the US did not persue thrium reactors is that whereas Uranium-fuelled reactors produce Plutonium, Thorium reactors do not. So, if you want to make nuclear weapons, thorium reactors are no use to you.
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  4483. Until NATO started really "Poking the Bear" hard, there was no danger to guard against. The German government policy was rational until very recently. Of course, if you are going to provoke an armed conflict with a neighbour, it is as well to find out how capable he is before you start! It seems that the Collective West, made the potentially fatal mistake of believing their own propaganda about Russia's feebleness, corruption, stupidity, laziness, cowardice, disorganization, dud equipment, "a gas-station masquerading as a country" and so on and so forth. They, obviously thought, that the barrage of sanctions, they imposed, would crash the Russian economy and the Ukrainians would crush the Russian army, (if the Russians even had the nerve to respond militarily to their challenge, (which was massacring 14,000 Russian-speaking Ukrainians between 2014 and 24/2/22 and threatening ethnic cleansing of the rest.) They thought, apparently, that the crashing economy and the military defeat would lead to a "color revolution" in Moscow that would remove Putin and install a pro-western government. They were wrong on all counts.
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  4484. "However, further debate about such accusations" This wording shows that they were acutely aware that what they were doing was evil, unnecessary and potentially illegal.
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  4485. 18:07 Obviously one can believe that the money is going to the people for whom it is intended! Sa va sans dir!
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  4486. 7:00 Do they all fly with her? That would be VERY anti-ecofriendly!
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  4487.  @GatecrasherSlim  Well my impression is that the news reports that I saw in Yahoo, were saying that the Russians would run away wheen they saw the very competent, wll trained (To NATO standards) and motivated army of Ukraine. If the Collective West did NOT expect the UAF to defat the Russians "easily", why did they not supply them, before the war began with all the heavy weapons that they supplied later? Also, the CW spent a lot of effort on provoking the Russians into taking on the UAF, why provoke a war if you are NOT expecting to win it easily?
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  4488.  @toddbrackett4277  No. I am just quoting "statistics" from the Ukrainian government.
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  4489. This is either mass idiocy amongst the rulers or it is corruption. Mass idiocy amongst a small group of well fed people is, as far as I know, unknown, corruption is very common. Which do you think this is?
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  4490. 4:16 It never fails! Almost every statement that comes out of the United States is hypocritical double-speak. Israel and the US are so close to each other that it is impossible to tell, which is the tail that wags the dog! Impossible to say: are they one organization or is Israel a puppet of the US or is the US run by the Israelis?
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  4491. 32:32 It occurs to me that there is an advantage to the Russians in prolonging this war (Not saying that it is a powerful motive, but it is real, not negligible.) and that is that this war is de-militarizing the West inasmuch as it is denuding weapons stockpiles in the West, who are short of raw materials to make weapons.
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  4492. 1:05:32 Oh, ich verstehe! Du hast recht: Die neue Finanz-Wunderwaffe!
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  4493. Why aren't we using geothermal energy ? At a guess because of the opposition of the big oil companies.
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  4494. 16:48 By Jove eh?! Tjkhat city of Rihad mus be crowded! 3.5 Billion people living there! Wow! I had no idea that Saudi Arabia had a city with a population twice that of China! Why have I never heard of this place?
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  4495.  @stephendgreen1502  Could be. I had not thought about that.
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  4496. That the relatively small war in Ukraine is depleting the US' weapon stocks to "dangerously low levels", in a matter of three months, suggests that the US is in no sort of shape to wage a full-scale war on Russia, let alone on Russia-China-Iran.
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  4497.  @yaoliang1580  Yes! It does sometimes, look like mental illness, but I think it is fuelled not so much by mental illness as by "common and garden" GREED. Big business controls the USG, in particular the arms manufacturing industry, and wars, threats of wars and actual wars, all profit these big industries to an obscene extent.
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  4498. Roll on the day, when the Daily Telegraph is in the business of informing (!) the Western public about anything (Other than sport, science and weather, of course) let alone about anything connected to Russia.
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  4499.  @TeunisMaranus  Thanks!
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  4500. We pretend that "Putin has laid down these Red Lines" and then we cross them and then we say; "Look Putin's a patsy! We crossed his red line and he didn't do anything about it!" It is the same technique as saying "The Russiand are going to try to conquer village X by the anniversary of Lavrov's birthday". Then when Lavrov's Birthday comes and village X is still in Ukrainian hands, we say look how feeble the Russians are!"
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  4501. 23:23 Isn't Saudi Arabia joining BRICS?
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  4502. Right! Almost everywhere there is trouble and strife you will find the USA, usually in the form of the CIA. Far too frequently it is assisted by MI6.
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  4503. 3:19 "It is very, very, important that the US follows the UK lead." Lo! Behold the British tail wagging the US dog!
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  4504. Thank you for your work. More power to your elbow! Take good care of yourself, if you can!
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  4505. 9:00
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  4506. I don't know where that comment went!
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  4507. Anyone who does not regard Putin as an evil madman is obviously a Putin-lover! I should have thought that was obvious!
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  4508.  @vmasing1965  In WW2 the Germans, the British, the Americans and the Japanese all deliberately attacked civilian targets.
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  4509.  @josephvanwie6706  So do I.
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  4510.  @JosephBisio  It was neither Russian nor Chinese. I think it was Indian. ToI, though I'm not sure.
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  4511. They are playing tiddleywinks.
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  4512. 0:56 What a childishly idiotic comments by the US! Just because the Russians are beating the US and dozens of its allies/satraps in Ukraine, and they cannot do much to stop Russia, they get, all petulant! I thought theUS's strength was in PR! This is no way to go!
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  4513. 9:01 You can sum up Donald Tusk and Zelensky by the slogan : "The Demos is us!"
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  4514.  @olgag6581  I had not heard that. So why was it possible to make a living smuggling penicillin across the East-West border in 1948? Was the Soviet production insufficient?
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  4515.  @jakobbergen7574  Thanks.
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  4516.  @arthurtane.1557  No one can chose his parents.
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  4517. 7:44 I would say that the "the Liberal International Order" was always, at least at heart, partly fraudulent. Take the WTO as an example. So long as the WTO was dominated by the US, the US was quite happy with it, as it enforced its rules on everyone except the US. The US was happy to strongly urge the Chinese to joint the WTO and China did, in spite of many well-wishers who told them it would ruin them and that it was a trap. Then when, some years down the line, the Chinese availed themselves of the WTO court, to ask them to enforce US compliance with WTO rules, the US sabotaged the Courrt and prevented its functioning!
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  4518.  @maxio08  Who do you think I am? I don't have any statistics and nor do most people. I could tell you what the Russians say and I could tell you what other countries say they have and have lost, but I cant guarantee any of them are correct, so I don't see the point. At the moment NATO is fighting a limited war and seems to be having trouble keeping up the supply of arms to their soldiers. If they got into a full-scale war, they would very quickly run out of raw materials, never mind, finished products. They would also not be fighting just the Russians but the Chinese and Iranians as well, quite possibly others. They also have no counter to hypersonic weapons.
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  4519.  @tsuunited5100  Soros & Co. want approx. 90% dead. About 100,000 elite and 600,000 servants or something like that, IIRC.
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  4520.  @takkiejakkie5458  We'll see.
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  4521. 23:27 The same or similar process, no doubt, accounts for the group of feeble nonentities that we have "running" Europe and the UK at the moment!
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  4522. I hope the protests will grow until we have a government which reflects some common sense. I.e. a government which is not trying to destabilize one country after another also a government which is not entirely subservient to masters in Washington and Israel, a goverm,emt which does not support regimes which follow the teachings of Stepan Bandera. I thought we saw such off in 1945, but apparently they are back in the good books of western governments. Such governments need to be voted out of office or if that is impossible more drastic measure may be needed.
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  4523.  @mballer  I take it that what you mean is "People are not elected for their brains."? If that is what you meant, then I would say that that is quite beside the point. It looks to me as though someone or something was either bribing or threatening them to get them to stay away when these debates were taking place. Many of them are, no doubt stupid, but not all of them are and in any case, that does not explain why they did not want to be present. They were, after all, elected to look after the interests of their constituents and that is what they are paid to do. They cannot do that, if they boycott debates.
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  4524.  @mballer  Yes, I know that problem!
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  4525. Anyone who trusts the US government is an example of the triumph of Faith over experience! I mean! Why would anyone trust them on anything? Can you think of anything, that you can say, hand on heart, that you, personally would always trust them about? I can't.
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  4526.  Patrick Lambert  I would not disagree with that but, they have to be defeated before that can happen.
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  4527. About the Germans using poison gas first in WW1: The man who taught me chemistry, said that the German use of Chlorine was triggered by the British use of Ammonium Perchlorate as a high explosive. One of the breakdown products of Ammonium Perchlorate, when it explodes, is Chlorine. When the Germans smelt Chlorine, they thought that the British were using Chlorine as a poison gas against them and retaliated by using various poison gasses against the Western Allies. It was a bad mistake because the prevailing wind in France is from the West so they suffered from it more than the Western allies did. (And they suffered more than horribly enough!)
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  4528. 7:05 This guy is assuming that Vaccination will prevent you being infectious ("A sentiment open to doubt"!) and will prevent you from catching the lurgy of the moment. The whole thing looks like an exercise in Control. And I don't mean disease-control.
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  4529. 13:30 Could it be to make negotiation to end the war impossible?
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  4530. Yes. I am sure you are right in this video, but what hubris! What arrogance this betrays! These people in WDC must either have some "secret weapon" that none of us have any inkling of or they are right out of touch with reality. Firstly what sort of "wedge" do they think they are going to use to separate Russia from China? For a start, both countries know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they "either hang together or will hang separately". Together, they are probably at least equal to the US militarily. Economically, they are much stronger than the US. Economically, the USA are very dependent on supplies of vital raw materials from both. Financially, they have just, gratuitously, shot themselves in both feet! Truly a case of "Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad."
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  4531. Suppressing debate, by whatever means, is anti scientific as well as anti-democratic. Note also, that the supposedly democratic governments, and parts of the medical establishment, (Including the WHO) have been among the worst offenders, with their de-platformings and sackings.
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  4532. 17:19 The point about the Jamming of Atacams Missiles: They are independent of external control, i.e they are launched and go on their way, without any operator controlling them, but they rely on GPS (or some such) information to tell them where they are and the Russians jam these sattelites. So the Atacam missile "thinks" it is somewhere it isn't or it just "gets lost".
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  4533. 27:08 Are these people that Israel is asking to leave Northern Israel, Israelis or are they Syrians? Is this really Israel or is it captured Syrian territory, like, say, the Golan Heights?
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  4534. 8:21 Reinsalu has made "a strategic mistake" in thinking that he can read Putin's mind.
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  4535. 1:05:25 One example of how difficult it would be for the West to change in the way Vershinin is suggesting, is that If you have a big factory, full of machine tools waiting maybe for decades, for a war, it is all "wasted Capital" bleeding money to the bank that lent the money for its construction. If you have a big workforce of skilled machinists, they have to be employed making something, whilst you are planning your war, or they will forget how to do things or emigrate or become insurance/vacuum cleaner salesmen or something!
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  4536. 4:37 It isn't even that these private companies making things for the DOD "Don't care". It is not a matter of sentiment. The companies' legal requirement, is to make a profit, so that they can pay their shareholders, or to go out of business if they cannot.
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  4537. 1:03:53 If the Ukrainian war goes to a complete defeat of the Ukrainian armed forces, the US may be willing to talk, yes, maybe even the Russian government, but will the Russian public agree to that? Or will they say: "This is the opportunity of the Century, don't throw it away!" "Impose the terms we all really want!"
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  4538. 41:12 It seems that the Iranian attack on Israel succeeded. It was in three waves, which started at different times and all arrived in Israel together. It consisted of a first wave of hundreds of drones, a second wave of cruise missiles and a third wave of ballistic missiles. Most of the drones were shot down at huge expense, A lot of the cruise missiles were also shot down, but the ballistic missiles, all nine of them, got through and destroyed part of an airfield No one was killed. That made Iran's point and it cost Israel and its allies a lot of money and a lot of scarse anti-aicraft missiles.
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  4539. 9:43 Since Elensky and his US masters have no respect at all for even International Law, why would anyone expect them to respect a law promulgated by Elensky himself?
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  4540.  @manoftheworld1000  "Did it" & "Had it done" are so similar as to be interchangable. No one thinks, for example, that King's College was actually built by HenryVII. (I expect he was too busy.)
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  4541. Note the number of Leopard 2s, 14 and the number of Lwopard 1s, 88. Then read this from ADL: "1488 | Hate Symbols Database | ADL The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs."
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  4542. 12:20 Sort of like Baltic Kurds?
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  4543.  @eskytan7472  God alone knows!
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  4544. The problem the NATO forces (Which is what the Ukrainian forces really are) have, is they are being trained in a style of warfare appropriate to Iraq or Serbia. This war differs from any previous war in that both sides can see the other side's every move, there are hundreds, or maybe thousands of drones in the air at any time, watching the enemy. There are satellites, on both sides, watching the battle space and relaying information back to their controllers constantly. There is no such thing as a "Surprise Attack"! The Ukrainians have not found a way to overcome the minefields, in front of the Russians defensive lines. When (if) they do and they get to the first Russian defense line, the real, hard, fighting will start.
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  4545. I seem to have seen the video posted a couple of hours ago before.
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  4546.  @myourob  Yes. I take your point. That is a different point though, than the one I was making.
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  4547. "Most of the Russian army's weapon systems are merely modifications, based on the achievements of Soviet designers". It seems that these old relics", have outgunned the (doubtless much more u-to-date) NATO weapons supplied in such large numbers to NATO's proxy army in Ukraine.
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  4548. 1:16 Is May Day no longer celebrated in Russia?
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  4549.  @tomgoodwill5675  &?
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  4550. BRICS is bigger than you say. It says just above where I am writing, that this video was posted 13 hours ago, so it should be up-to-date, but it is not.
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  4551. I have the impression, which grows ever stronger, that the "system" is skewed against anything that might improve public health and diminish the profits of certain companies (that shall be nameless to keep YT happy.)
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  4552. I'll bet that firms like Pfizer, consult lawyers all the time, particularly when they know they are breaking the law!
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  4553. Why are the Ukranians shelling the NPP? The Ukrainians and NATO know that they are going to lose this war (Correction! SMO!) and they want to leave the Russians as big a mess as possible to clear up.
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  4554. 1:13:57 This friendship of the US for corrupt statesmen and women is nothing new. Go back into the period since WW2 and you will find almost innumerable examples of deeply corrupt heads of state that the US helped to remain in power. Consider just for a few examples, the Colonels who ran Greece. King Idris of Libya, King Farouk of Egypt, General Franco of Spain General Salazaar of Portugal, Peron of Argentina Marcos of the Philippines and so on and so forth. These are only a small fraction of the whole roster and probably not the worst.
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  4555. 4:43 How about someone "imposing costs on the US government to hold IT accountable for ITS ACTIONS?
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  4556. 1:30 Why would they do that? If a good reason is not obvious. as ALWAYS, FOLLOW THE MONEY!!
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  4557. 6:55 It will not "spiral out of control" unless the US makes it "spiral out of control". Unlike the US, China is very controlled! All these "Unfortunate Incidents" could be avoided by the US keeping its spy-planes and battleships at home. You can be certain that if they did, the Chinese will not send spy-planes to patrol the Californian coast nor battleships to do FONOps in the seas off Florida.
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  4558. North Korea, China and Russia have this in common: the only "threat" they are making is to hit back if they are attacked. The USA cannot say the same.
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  4559. Why would they do that? Traditional wisdom says: "Follow the money."
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  4560. 2;15 "In 2014, when Russian attempts to keep Ukraine in its orbit failed" Whew! What a nice, fancy, euphemistic way of describing the US State Department's "Color Revolution", where they violently overthrew the properly, democratically, elected pro-Russian government of Ukraine! Look out! Your bias is showing!
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  4561. &?
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  4562. I thick you have got this story slightly wrong. The S-300 is an older system, the Russians probably thought : "lets use these up on the UAF, they are relatively easy targets, anyway we have S-500s coming soon so we need the space. The S-400s will do for now."
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  4563. Why do they lie like this? To make themselves look prescient?
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  4564. "All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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  4565. This is not stupidity! Give it its real name: TREASON!
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  4566. "Russia started preparing for a Nuclear since the US wantonly blew up Hiroshima" No. The Russians started work on an A-bomb when they noticed that all mention of "Nuclear chain-reactions" (which had been a hot topic for years in the scientific journals of the West) had completely disappeared from them. "Ah ha!" they said among themselves, "So that's what they are working on!"
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  4567.  @briansims1987  Japan had already started to sue for peace. The A-bombs were dropped on Japan so that they would surrender before the Russians invaded Japan. They were also intended to frighten the Russians.
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  4568.  @briansims1987  On Hiroshima the book to read is The Decision to Use the Bomb by Gar Alperovitz, On the start of the Soviet nuclear bomb program I heard it from Acadamician Pro.f. Peter Kapitsa
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  4569. 57:18 Ask yourself: Who cares about the "refugee situation in Europe"? Certainly not the WoWs! Certainly not CENTCOM, certainly not NATO, certainly not AFRICOM!
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  4570. No mention of Israel?
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  4571. "How does the anti-war and anti-us movement get labeled as FAR RIGHT??" The NA*Is were/are Far Right and that gave the term "Far Right" a bad name. Therefore, the Powers That Be and their MSM, label as "Far Right"any entity (Person or organization) they don't like. "Far Right" is just another "Cuss-word". It has nothing to do with the policies of the entities so designated. Twisting the political terms around in this fashion, is all part of a deliberate, Owellian effort to make politcal discussion difficult and confusing. In the same way and at the same time, as part of the same effort, "Left Wing" which used to be associated with Workers' rights, womens' rights, minority rights, peace movements, National Liberation movements, Revolutionary movements, trade unions, etc., has now been twisted around to mean precisely the opposite!
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  4572. 3:36 8 x F-16s this year, 22 in 2028
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  4573. 11:36 Presumably the samples of sperm are all dated, so the relevant data (currently missing from this paper) could be found?
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  4574. 4:00 "No indication that Russia is losing " is just a sort of apology for the abscence of the usual, the constant, theme that the MSM has projected throughout the SMO, in articles about the war, that "Russia is losing". "The \ukrainians are sinking their ships, they are downing their helicopters, they are destoying the HQ of their Baltic Fleet, they have captured krest'yanskaya derevnya and so on and so forth proving that the Ukrainians are beating the Russians at every turn".
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  4575. 11:20 Clearly, Elensky should take the time out of his no doubt busy schedule, to watch you or Alexander! Or both.
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  4576. 21:58 The Purpose of N@0 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING was to destroy Russia. The purpose of putting bases all around Russia was/is to get into a position to be able to overwhelm Russia with attacks from as many directions as possible. This purpose did not change when the USSR collapsed because, the purpose remained the same. The objection to the USSR was not that it was communist, or authoritarian, but that it was Russia.
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  4577.  @Charlie_Ses  These are stand-off weapons.
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  4578. In Imperial, China, theTriads would compete with each other for the right to buy the poop from a neighbourhood. This was known as "the Golden Essence Trade" and was very profitable. Big barrels on wheels, would go round the neighbourhood collecting every day. The "product" was taken to processing plants, well out of town, where it was formed into bricks and dried and sold to farmers for fertilizer. (This may be the reason that the Chinese civilization did not collapse with the exhaustion of the soil, as the Sumerians, Babylonians etc did.)
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  4579. "NATO follows a principle of collective defense" says you. Just when did NATO ever defend anything or anybody? So far it has only attacked! It has been involved in attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Sudan, Serbia and probably others. None of which posed any threat to anybody. Why do you give credence to this myth? Does NATO pay you for this service?
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  4580. How about the possibility that two Belarussian pilots made a mistake? Sounds possible to me!
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  4581. 3:09 The US denied that Ukraine had any hand in the terroris attack on Moscow within 55 minutes of the attack! Boy! What an intelligence service that must be!
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  4582. The point that you, and all Western commentators seem unable to grasp, is that the Russians are not all that interested in taking and holding territory. At the start of the "SMO", Putin stated the Russian aims as "prevent Ukraine joining NATO, to de-militarise Ukraine and to de-NA*Ify Ukraine". Nothing, about gaining a lot of ground. Unlike the Ukrainian government, which seems to have an obsession about holding onto "every millimetre of territory", even when it costs a mountain of killed and wounded, as was seen in Bachmut, the Russians have looked at the disposition of forces and when they saw that they were locally weak, they withdrew to a more easily defended position. In the result the Russians have largely done what they set out to do. Not only is Ukraine de-militarized, but NATO seems to be very short of weapons, most of the NA*I battalions are dead and Ukraine is not (Officially) part of NATO. Maybe the Russian aims are now changing, we shall have to wait and see, but there can be very little doubt they have done what they set out to do. It's mostly over, bar the shouting.
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  4583. 22:48 " The Mountain has gone into labour and produced - a Mouse!"
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  4584. 10:04 In any case, in a war stuff gets damaged. If this plane got damaged/destroyed, well, that's what happens in a war. It's not going to win the war for Ukraine. Even the MSM admit that the Russians have others just like it.
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  4585.  @stearlers069  You mean "A Texas drawl"? Yes, Could be!
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  4586. 25:05 I wonder where these NATO weapons are coming from?
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  4587. Control. Does not mean quite the same in continetal languages as in English. In English you "control", say, a horse with reigns or you "control" a car with the steering wheel brakes etc. In German or French and Italian, (and I am guessing Russian) to "control" means something more like to "keep under observation".
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  4588. 51:57 911 also took place on a Jewish Holiday.
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  4589. 1642 Is Macron doing a Sakashvili? IOW does he think that if he challenges the Russians and gets smashed the US will come galloping to his rescue? He should ask Michail Sakashvili!
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  4590. 25:04 This story sounds like James Bond fiction to me. That, of course, is just my feeling about the story.
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  4591. Are you telling me that there is a chink in the West's armour?
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  4592. 0:45 I wonder, while Navalny was in the West, recovering from his poisoning, was he vaccinated with either Pfizer or Astra-Zenecker mRNA vaccine against Cov-19?
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  4593. 4:40 It's not all that small a number of people! There are thousands of "Unexplained" extra deaths per month! That has been going on since shortly after the mRNA Vaccines were first administered.
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  4594.  @andrew30m  If you say so, squire!
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  4595.  @andrew30m  Well! If both Prigozhin and you say so, of course it must be so!
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  4596. 22:45 I heard some time ago that the US spy network in Iran, China and Russia had been completely destroyed, a couple of years ago. It happened in the following fashion. (I have no proof of any of this , it is simply what I was told.) The Iranian counter-intelligence discovered that the CIA was using a very simple code to communicate with their assets in Iran, using the internet. This enabled them to remove all the CIA's operative from Iran. They then passed the information on to the Chinese, who discovered that the same communication channel was bein used in China. The Chinese too were then able to eliminate the entire network in China, as a result. They passed the information on to the Russians, who were able to repeat the trick!
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  4597. 0:47 There you have it in his own words: "We have to remember who we are, we are the United States of America, we are the United States of America, and there is nothing, nothing beyond our capacity, if we do it together!" This is their delusion. We don't need to plan, we don't need to build up stocks before we wage a war, we can do anything we like because WE ARE AMERICA!
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  4598.  @watchchimp3102  By the measure of intelligence, I take it you mean IQ tests. I think this would be more useful if someone could define what "intelligence" is.
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  4599.  @jebeda  No. You are right about that. Like all organisms, human being are "economical". That is to say they do not spend energy (as a general rule) unnecessarily, if they can help it. The human brain takes about 25% of the human's energy, so thinking (and changing your mind is thinking) takes a lot of energy. Changing your mind about one thing may mean that you have to change your mind about a lot of other things so it probably takes a lot of energy. That, I think is why we are so reluctant to do it.
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  4600.  @nickiemcnichols5397  Ignorance is popular because people are often very lazy, particularly about thinking and searching. In the modern world it is possible to get away with being lazy, albeit at a fairly low level unless you inherit wealth. Some months ago, I read a very interesting article (or saw a very interesting video, I forget which) about why the Chinese are so tough and so smart. The idea of this piece was that the ancient Chinese system was ruthlessly meritocratic, unlike most societies you did not automatically inherit your father's position in society. E.g. if your father was a duke you did not inherit his title you had a lesser title and unless you earned merit, you son would inhert a still less important title and so on. Jobs in the civil service, (the main route to wealth) could be gained only by passing exams. So, if an obviously bright child was born he would be schooled to pass the exams. This was expensive, so in a poor family, the extended family would all rally round to pay for the child's education, because having a relative working in the civil service benefitted the whole family. The law meanwhile, was very hard on anyone who tried to prevent anyone from sitting for the entrance exam. At the same time getting married was also expensive and poor men had a poor chance of getting married. So to pass on his genes, a man who could not pass the exams, had to work very hard to be able to afford a wife. The stupid and the lazy often did not manage to do that. So, for several thousand years, you had a ruthless weeding out of the stupid and lazy and a promotion of the bright. It shows!
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  4601. I wonder, are you going to mention Victoria Nuland's admission, speaking to Congress under oath, that she was alarmed that some of the materials these labs in Ukraine were working on "might fall into the hands of the Russians". One might wonder, if these materials were such innocent materials why she was "Alarmed".? You skate very lightly over the US's "alleged'' use of biological weapons in the Korean War and omit completely, the import of German and Japanese experts in biological warfare at the end of WW2.
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  4602. 35:45 The CW is not showing any sympathy for Russians, rich or poor, oligarchs or not.
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  4603. 50:24 That piece of rhetoric that you just read out is such an example of \orwellian inversion, the like of which you very seldom hear exceeded!jk
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  4604. Does anyone seriously doubt that it was the US or its puppets that blew up the NS1 & NS2? As to Lizz Truss's msg to Antony Blinken, I would echo one of her predecessors: (Talking about something far less probable!) "It is highly likely."
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  4605. Have you, dear Dr, seen this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YV_iKnzDRg ? If not I think it would interest you. If you search for Light as "Medicine" you will see many on the same topic.
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  4606. 56:36 And in addition to all that you say, there is the destruction of the Myth of NATO Invulnarabity..
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  4607. There are millionaires whe genuinely favour democracy, but they a very few and far between.
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  4608. 5:01 Rishi Sunak - Incredible!
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  4609. Why doesn't Ben Wallace just send in the British Army to conquer Russia and install a British puppet? Should be easy!
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  4610. "Military tensions are rising between the US and China." The Blame is entirely the US's. If the US stopped "Poking the Dragon" there would be no tension. Xinjiang has been inspected by the Organization of Islamic States and they say the Chinese Government is doing a good job in Xinjiang. The USG does not want to listen to them. The UN's rapporteur on Human Rights has been to Xinjiang and the US does not want her conclusions to be published. I wonder Why? There is a Civil War which started in about 1927, in China and is still going on, because after the WW2 the US intervened and is still preventing the Communist side from finishing off the other side. Who gives the US the right to do this? Would the US tolerate it if the roles were reversed? I think they would not. Stop interfering and the problem will go away. This, of course will not happen because the Ultimate Aim of the US is to defeat Russia and then China and loot both countries. They have not yet realized that their strength is not up to the task, but until they do the World will be in danger.
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  4611. 54:00 I wonder if China will next try to get a peace-deal between North and South Korea?
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  4612. The peole running the US at the moment are anti-humans, or rather they reserve their care and affection for the super-rich. IF A PERSON IS NOT SUPER-RICH THEY SIMPLY DO NOT CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM! For a perfect illustration of this look at the way they talk about "Fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian." Ukraine has lost several generation of its men and the US is worried about the amount of money it is costing them. So, hamstringing the US medical researchers, will worry them only if some of them, fall ill with a disease for which, only China has the treatment.
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  4613. Apologies for typos.
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  4614. 30:18 If Poland, for example entered the war on Ukraine's behalf, would that not also enable Russia, legally to attack targets in Poland?
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  4615. 26:58 The spring offensive is going to be like Blitzkrieg! (Just fancy that!)
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  4616. 14:20 Are you familiar with the Dunning-Krueger effect?
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  4617. Interesting and important program. What I wonder is how far back does this group's control of the West go? Prof Hudson, in his book, "Forgive Them Their Debts" points out that the Babylonian, Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations lasted for thousands of years. The Roman Empire lasted a much shorter time and all the European Empires since, have collapsed after a few hundred years at the most. The reason the older civilizations lasted so long, he says, is because every now and again, the King or Emperor would declare a Jubilee, which meant that all debts were cancelled. This meant that even people who were slaves through indebtedness, were freed and that very rich, who were owed a lot of money, were suddenly much less rich and hence, less powerful. The Romans broke with this tradition and it has never been revived since. Each Empire since, has collapsed in indebtedness and corruption. It looks to me as though the Collective West is going the same way. The group I am thinking about, seem to really really hate the Babylonian Empire, even after all this time! I wonder why? Did they also take over the running of the Roman Empire before it collapsed? Have they been controlling every Western Empire since? It looks to me as though they took control of the British Empire after the collapse of the British Revolution of 1644. Somethime around 1700.
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  4618. 24:29 "Cometh the time, cometh the man." If someone who could hold out some hope appeared, he might find himself propelled into power. Unfortunately, I can't see hide nor hair of him!
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  4619. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there a clear message from the authorities that vaccination was a "guaranteed prevention method for Covid - 19"? It certainly was strongly suggested! I wonder is there a possibility of British Doctors suing the medical authorities for Ultra Vires actions in Britain? I.e. telling doctors what to prescribe and what to not prescribe without being doctors and having no doctor-patient relationship with the patients? I am no lawyer, but it seems plausible to me. After all, there are many similarities between our legal system and that in the USA.
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  4620. 10:58 Tik-tok is in good company! Socrates was condemned for "Perverting the Athenian youth. Wasn't he?
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  4621. 32:25 The Totygraph running a political Porn site?
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  4622. Note that the Russians have not imposed vaccine mandates and the Chinese government have made terminating anyone's employment because they refuse to get vaccinated.
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  4623. Sorry! Missing word - illegal.
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  4624. Iran says it does not want nuclear weapons. How do you know that it is lying?
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  4625. Sounds like a smear campagn to get rid of an opponent party. "If you cant beat 'em, ban 'em!"
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  4626. France lost its independence after De Gaulle died. Like most of the rest of Euope it is now a US satrap.
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  4627. Business Insider has a piece quoting Elensky as saying that while it is true that hamas is fighting with weapons from Ukraine, these were not sold to them by Ukraine. No! These are weapons that the Russians captured in Ukraine and gave to Hamas to embarrass the West in general and Ukraine in particular by smearing them as selling western supplied weapons on the Black Market. (A thing which, of course, they would not dream of doing!)
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  4628.  @sacco_vanzetti  Dass stimpt aber!
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  4629. It might be "interesting" to find out if left-wingers (however defined) are more likely to have traffic accidents!
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  4630. "To slow down Ukrainian troops" IF they ever get there, that is!
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  4631. It would not be a great surprise!
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  4632. As to the US "Fighting Al Qaida", well, who was it who set up Al Qaida? I thought it was formed when the US recruited a collection of Sunny muslim fanatics and mercenaries to fight the Syrian government after the "Color Revolution" in Syria in 2011.
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  4633. 33:10 The CPC has always been harrassed by the CIA and the NED. That makes them aware, not paranoid!
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  4634. 1:18:10 It shows the increasing Nazification of the Western elites. in the period 1945 - the present. I bet it still resonates still in Greece.
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  4635. 22:05 "Is a ham sandwich a dual use commodity"? If you are working in a factory making 152mm shells, wouldn't a ham sandwich come in handy?
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  4636.  @henrikstephenson2246  True, but the Russians were left little choice. Ukraine was conquered in 2014, by the US, led by VP Biden and Victoria Nuland.
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  4637. 2:45 I think I am correct in saying that Britain has a policy of having, at least, some diplomatic representation with the de facto rulers of a country. For instance, before the UK government recognised the PRC and still recognised the ROC as the real ruler of China, the PRC had a consulate in London.
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  4638.  @pariaheep  Alex had already mentioned them.
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  4639.  @bipolarbear9917  Too right!
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  4640.  @Fastbikkel  I have been watching news from China and predictions about China since about 1947. (It was about then that I read "Red Star Over China" by Edgar Snow.) Hardly any of the predictions that I have read in the MSM since then have come true.
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  4641.  @Fastbikkel  I did not write "Edgar Snowden", I wrote "Edgar Snow." I have never heard of Edgar Snowden. "saying could is not a prediction." "Could" = "Will be able to". If this is not a prediction, what is it?
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  4642.  @ctcole77  When? As far as I am aware your statement is based on a myth promulgated by the MSM. Putin said at the start of the SMO that the Russian aim was: "the demilitarization and de-Naz*fication of Ukraine and insuring that Ukraine would not join N@0". Nothing at all about taking Kiev, let alone taking it in two days! (Putin makes very few predictions.) (Pardon my "Typos"!) Stationing 40,000 troops near Kiev (Far too few to "take" Kiev, a city of 3 Million inhabitants,) was done to tie down a large Ukrainian force to protect Kiev, while the Russians got on with liberating the provinces in the East.
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  4643. Yes! Agreed, a very interesting interview! Thank you both, very much!
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  4644. 24:20 It occurrs to me, that CW's underestimation of the Russian military's fighting capacity, is, perhaps, another example of "projection"?
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  4645. As to the argument itself, in 2014, right after the Maidan coup (masterminded by Victoria N.) the new Ukrainian government passed a law banning the Russian language throughout Ukraine, although about half the Ukrainian population has Russian as their mother tongue. When the provinces (Oblasts) of Lugansk and Donets revolted and asked for autonomy within Ukraine, the new President (Poroshenko) sent gangs of actual, self-professed NAZIs, to suppress, them with instructions to hang all those who spoke Russian! The wonder is that it took the Russians so long to invade.
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  4646. 27:41 We are now going to see Toilet Paper smuggling. Betcha!
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  4647. It would be unfair to an extremely small minority of people, if the IOC were to define men as humans with a "Y" chromosome and women as humans that lacked a "Y" chromosome. They could perhaps institute special events for trans athletes? The "Transolympics" by analogy with the Paralympics"?
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  4648. 32:24 Don't forget the "shortage of supplies for a long war", longer than, say, 14 days.
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  4649. Let down? Betrayed, more like!
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  4650. 17:21 If the missiles, drones, etc. Iran launched numbered in the hundreds and 98% (or whatever figure was claimed) were shot down, Israel must have used up a good part of the CW's stock of anti-aircraft missiles last night. That is, of course, if one can believe any of these alleged shortages.
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  4651.  @alvarodiazrodriguez2603  Not a lot.
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  4652. Your headline is wrong or rather, malaprop. To "Decimate" is "to kill one in ten." The Russians are doing much more than that!
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  4653. Mearsheimer is very euphemistic about the members of Netanyahoo's cabinet! There are many there who are outspokenly genocidal. They want nothing more nor less than a Palesine empty of non-Jews. "How?" "Who cares!"
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  4654. 34:01 I cannot hear you.
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  4655. Probably my internet connection.
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  4656. 8:07 I have seen the other day, an article which said that the ring of US bases around China will be no advantage to the US, in the event of an all-out (conventional) war because they have no effective defense against ballistic missiles and the Chinese know exactly where these bases are and have missiles ready to take off for each base, at a moment's notice.
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  4657. Look, Mate! The MSM are profit-making companies. Capitalist organizations. As such their job is to make money. They may have a "moral" obligation to tell the public the truth but as sure as H*ll they have no legal obligation to tell the news like is really is! Their legal obligation is to make money for their shareholders. And that - is just what they do. (Or at least try to do.) If acting as purveyors of government propaganda is what fills the coffers, then that is what they will do. Under The Patriot Act anyone can be arrested by Homeland Security and locked up for an indefinite time with no right to a lawyer and no determined time of release and no right to contact family or anyone else. So, no wonder you cannot trust anything you come across in the MSM.
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  4658.  @winstond4445  I have been to China.
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  4659. You say that the behaviour of the EU politicians in general and the Greek and Cypriot politicians is "incredible". It is happening, so you have to believe it. What I wonder is how many of these politicians visited Jeffrey Epstein?
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  4660. 6:18 Don't say that the offensive failed, say rather that "The Great Uffensive has somehow not lived up to our high expectations" and put the first three words in large bold script and the rest in very small letters.
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  4661. Maybe the Italian proposal was not aimed at the Russians but at the Italian public?
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  4662. I don't know how it is in the RAF, but in the army, to become an officer you need to be from a rich family. The way poor, bright, lads are filtered out, is very simple, officers' mess fees are more than a second lieutenant's salary. So already, the intake is restricted and the result is a quite extraordinary number of really stupid people in senior positions. In my NS, I met only one really intelligent officer and one moderately intelligent one and far too many prize idiots. The intelligent one, whose mother, BTW, was Indian, left to join the Gurkars. These days, I see only soldiers turned politician and those that act as TV pundits and they are no more impressive than the officers I encountered as a squaddie, Do you, by any chance, understand why the British government is so obssessive about capturing Crimea? Is it something to do with revenge for the defeat in the Crimean War? If not, what is it about?
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  4663. 15:37 Government Accountability Office.
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  4664.  @fastepo  Yes. "The man who never made a mistake, never made anything" True. OTOH if we don't point out the mistakes, they just keep coming. If you don't notice them and we the audience don't tell you, they just go on & on.
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  4665. Sound quality quite OK.
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  4666. 4:05 Google translate is usually good at translating German to English and back again, with one persistent failure to note(!) It frequently fails to notice the word "not"! which, of course, makes the translation somewhat different to the original.
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  4667. You describe this report as hard-hitting. To my mind it is not hard-hitting enough. It is abundantly clear that unless there were some simply amazing coincidences, some people were aware not only that a pandemic was, so to say, "in the works" but when it was going to strike. For example there was a conference involving Bill Gates which gamed the pandemic about three months before it struck and at least one pharmaceutical company was working on a vaccine against it, before the pandemic started. On another point it is certainly true that some of the scientists who were working on gain-of-function research have admitted as much and if I remember correctly, the REASON that the NIH sent the research to Wuhan was that GoF research had been outlawed in the US! The labs that the Russians discovered in Ukraine had been working on organisms which Victoria Nuland was alarmed might fall into Russian hands. Vide her congressional testimony under oath.) Also there were numerous published (Sic!) papers on closely-related viruses both by the Wuhan Lab and by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill laboratory. There are "secret" bio-weapons research labs all over the world (Mostly like the one in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense) and this pandemic could potentially have come from any of them. There are of course, others funded by other countries. To my mind the dangers of a really dangerous virus coming out of Nature by accident are vastly less than the dangers of a Lab-Leak of really dangerous pathogens designed to kill people coming from bioweapons research labs. I think therefore, that research should be rigorously confined to finding ways of dealing with, that is curing, the diseases that we already suffer from. The alternative is ridiculously dangerous. Engaging in such evil research should be considered a crime against humanity.
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  4668. The governments over the years have followed policies that have come back to bite them now. They have failed to fund the development of tidal power, which while not continuous in any one place can be effectively continuous, because the tides happen at different times in different places. It has failed to fund adequately, the development of geothermal power, which is continuous, it has failed to build new nuclear power stations in time and to cap it all, it has had a lot of bad luck, in that the French nuclear power stations, which supplied a lot of cheap power to Britain, cannot do so at the moment because the drought affecting France has left the power stations there bereft of cooling water, while the Norwegian hydroelectric power stations are affected by drought also, as are, I imagine, British hydroelectric power stations too. On top of that wind turbines have produced less than expected because of a lack of wind. Then of course there is the issue of sanctions - a strictly, and willfully self-inflicted injury if ever there was! Probably, most of the British government's policy on power generation can be explained on the assumption that it was was designed to suit the major oil companies, as for example the decision to sell off the North Sea oil and gas fields to them. No doubt, they are large contributors to the Conservative party's funds and, maybe the Labour party's also.
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  4669. Kim, you look young enough to be new to this, but believe an old man who has been interested in politics since the start of WW2, when I say that this sort of spin has been a feature of the MSM since at least then. Probably during the war, there was a competition in the New Statesman (A "Left-wing" magazine controlled by the FO) to which one entry was: "When one looks round for public works Two urgent tasks at once appear: To drain forever Beaverbrook And drain the mud from Rothermere." (In case you don't know, Beaverbrook and Rothermere were both Press Barons at the time.) Neither was a more reliable source of info than the present-day MSM. Why they lie to us? I really don't know. Maybe it is to keep us confused. Probably something like that. One thing is certain though, a "Democracy" where 90% of the Demos gets its information from the same lying source (The Integrity Initiative) is not a democracy at all.
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  4670. 16;05 The reason the Hague will not investigate the Sabotage of the NSPs is that the USA does not recognize the ICC and has threatened to bomb it if they try to investigate US crimes.
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  4671. 13:04 No can read.
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  4672. Interesting program! It's along time since I heard any mention of the Levellers. "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the Gentleman? Also hardly mentioned in history classes is Wat Tyler and the crucial importance of understanding the importance of class! One can, no doubt criticize Marx and Engels for many things, but I think their contribution in that respect well outweighs their demerits.
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  4673. 34:02 I have read in "Times of India", that Kier Starmer has droppped the British government's objection to the ICJ's (Or do I mean the ICC's?) application for an arrest warrant for Netanyahoo and his crew, saying that unlike the Sunak government, they think that it is up to the court to decide. If it is true, it is an astonishing displayof courage!
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  4674. No real problem there! The CIA is very good at fixing election results.
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  4675. It really isn't the fault of the Zelensky regime, they are all puppets. You might as well blame the Organgrinder's monkey for the tune the barrel organ is playing! The blame for this whole catastrophe, lies in Washington, with the small clique which has been, since WW2 at the latest, intent on conquering Russia, dividing it up and looting it, as they did when the USSR broke down.
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  4676. 7:19 That anti-semitic incident at the airport in the caucasus (a Muslim region) which in the end was a nothing burgher, was probably organized by the Ukrainian secret service.
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  4677. Privately owned central banks are never "Apolitical"! They are the dictators of policy. If they do not like the policy of their government they refuse to fund it, as Harold Wilson found out, the hard way. This is why one can say that NO government that does not control its own money supply can be considered sovereign. A government with an "Independent" (Aka Privately owned.) central bank is no more independent than is a child reliant on its parents for pocket money.
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  4678. I thought I read some months ago now (1/2/24) about a Chinese ion thruster that produced 1 kg of thrust. Did I imagine it?
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  4679. I believe their chief export is electricity.
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  4680. 1:05:42 A case of OCD?
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  4681. There needs to be an international law against private arms manufacturers. They have proved over and over again that they cannot be trusted. The business of all private capitalist firms is to make money. Arms manufacturers make most money when there is a war or the threat of a war. Therefore they work assiduously to stir up trouble, the more the merrier! Governments on the other hand, (When not corrupted) are concerned to spend as little money as possible. Therefore, government owned arms firms are concerned to produce arms which are effective, robust, easily serviced, cheap to produce, easy to use or better still (if possible given the political situation) to downsize! Another idea, perhaps, easier to achieve, is a law banning politicians or politicians' families from owning shares in arms companies or "working" for them, even after they retire.
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  4682. 32:11 All these countries that have traditionally been friendly to Russia for historical reasons, like the Russians freeing them from the Turks, are being run or at any rate have been recently run, by puppets of the WoWs. Even if they saw the collapse in Ukraine coming, there was not much they could do about it . Probanly, they talked to the WoWs and were ignored. The people of these countries, I have the impression, are still friendly to the Russians Oh! and BTW Saluzhny is one of the Banderites. He had been fighting with them since 2014, when he was promoted (several ranks), to 4*General.
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  4683. 10:01 There is no need for a chip. The machine can recognize your hand!
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  4684. Can anyone remind me, please, of a treaty that the US has not violated? Just at the moment, I can't think of one. Oh! NATO, I suppose, because no one has attacked a NATO member.
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  4685.  @MusehanaH  Yes. You're right. I forgot.
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  4686. 5:33 ALL TAXES are "taxes on the working class". Why? Because money is given its value by the goods and services it will buy. All goods and services, all wealth, are/is made or done by people working, in other words by the working class. It does not make any difference who you collect the taxes from, the value of those taxes, was made by, is given to it by, working people working.
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  4687. When the battle for Donbas ends they may blame you for it!
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  4688. The medical schools are funded by big pharma. They mostly teach nothing about the importance of diet. The Medical Journals are dependent on advertising by big pharma. They do not like to publish anything that cuts across the sales of any pharmaceutical. The WHO is largely funded by big pharma and Bill Gates. E.g. of the influence of big pharma on the medical jounals: Dr Barry Marshall discovered that stomach ulcers were caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylorii and that stomach ulcers could be cured in a fortnight with bismuth and an antibiotic. It took him a ten-year fight with the medical journals to get this information published!
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  4689. Wrong! The job of a national army is to protect the Ruling Class against the rest of the population, They are a sort of backstop, after the educational system, the police and the MSM have all failed. Nato is the last layer of protection,
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  4690. Interesting program! I would quarrel with only one statement so far, "due to the reduction of gas supplies by Russia" (8:34) This suggests that it was Russia that cut the gas supplies to Europe, when in fact, it was European and American sanctions on Russian gas supplies, German foot-dragging over the licensing of the NS2 pipelines, US/UK sabotage of the Nordstream gas pipelines and Canadian sanctions on the repair of German gas turbines needed by Russia to pump gas to Europe and Ukrainian cutting off supplies of Russian gas to Europe that caused the shortages. Sorry to see your usually reliable program, falling into repeating propaganda.
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  4691.  @NerdyEngineer  It could try and convict its own war criminals. Instead it gives them medals.
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  4692. 10:07 Talking about "Press Freedom" you might mention Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, locked up for years for publishing dirty secrets of the USG. By the US and Britain. That is what "Press Freedom", US Style really looks like.
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  4693. What's the betting the Ukrainians will shoot at the Russian from the unblocked ports?
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  4694. 23:23 $400 million is almost nothing, in the context! An insulin producer alone could easily cost that. There is an epidemic of diabetes in both the US and China. This really is a cheap bet with potentially huge gains. However, I doubt that they will win.
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  4695. 10:19 Didn't the UK MoD say that Britain was goimg to make up the numbers in Ukraine? What happened to that idea?
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  4696. 1:10:37 Yes, of course it would have been better if the CW had accepted the compromise offered in March 2022, but that was never on the cards! The idea, the whole purpose of the sanctions and the attack on the Russian speakers in Donbas, was to FATALLY weaken the Russian state and bring about Regime Change in Moscow and to be rid of The Hated Putin!! The CW did not give up on that idea, their age-old dream, in March-April 2022, because at that time, they were still grossly underestimating the Russians in every respect. They still thought that the Russians were going to collapse in short order under the avalanche of sanctions and the attack of the large, well-trained (By NATO!) army.
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  4697. Elensky cannot negotiate a peace because the purpose of this war is to damage Russia. However much he may want it personally, he is a puppet and puppets do not make decisions. Peace will come when either Russia scores such a decisive victory that the Neocons/-libs see that further fighting is pointless or they see that the war is becoming too unpopular or maybe when they get trounced in the midterms and the Republicans put a stop to it. (Some hope, that!)
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  4698. The USA is a great and important country. Unfortunately, its government has been hijacked by its MIC and the MIC's shareholders who have taken control of the country and are running it for their own benefit. So long as this situation persists, the World will not know peace.
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  4699. I find the Davos crowd sinister. In particular, their idea that the World needs a much smaller population and their closeness to the very powerful pharmaceutical companies and the likes of the Rockafellas and Bill Gates. Taken together with the mandatory vaccination of huge numbers of people. who pretty obviously did not need vaccination and the apparent dire effects on people who were vaccinated, with this new and untried medicine, builds in my mind, a very alarming picture. I am very glad to hear that Putin, is not one of this group. I hope very much that Xi Jinping is also not of this company.
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  4700. 1:11:07 What makes you say that "Russia being the principle instigator" of the Ukraine conflict? To me it looks as though NATO and the Collective West were very anxious to provoke Russia into a situation where it had to intervene in Ukraine or see Russian-speakers in Donbas massacred.
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  4701. 44:31 Hamas was set up, specifically, to undermine the PLO which is secular and a genuine representative of the Palestinians, if a bit feeble sometimes. The Muslim Brother hood, was used as a tool, by the CIA in all the countries where "The Arab Spring" color revolutions happened. The Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaida are closely related and on good terms with each other. Hence, probably, Putin's cautious words about Hamas.
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  4702. 10:20 Oh! The poor US! Did the naughty Chinese intimidate you? When was that?
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  4703. I suspect that also in addition to the presssure from
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  4704. 37:10 Maybe the dog's name is really Cmr Bitin'?
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  4705. Nobody needs, a good reason to want to stay out of the frontline, at the moment!
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  4706. I worked for a short while in Central Instrument-making workshop of the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Ardlershof, Berlin. In the DDR at that time, they had difficulty in getting the screws they needed, so they made their own. They had a huge encyclopedia-like book called "Deutscher Industrie Normen" Which specified, in enormoous detail the dimentoins and tolerances of everything imaginable. It even specified the radius of the bevel on the edge of the screwdriver-slot in the head of a screw. The tool that they used for making these screws was a special lathe, the headstock of which, together with the chuck gould slide towards or away from the tailstock. On the outer end of the headstock you could mount what they called "Ein Patron" (a cartridge) which was an externally threaded tube made of hard steel. about 3cms in diameter, this cartridge was matched by another piece, I think it may have been bronze which was half a nut of the same pitch. This half-nut was easily mounted on an arm which pivoted about a shaft mounted on the lathe bed. The simple v-shaped or square-shaped cutting tool was mounted on the cross-slide, which had a simple handle to push the cross-slide in as far as the adjustable stop would allow. In use, the stop was set for the first cut, the tool was pushed as far as the stop would allow, the headstock was set to rotate and the half-nut was engaged with the cartridge. The work piece then moved forward towards the cutting tool and the first cut was made. When the half nut was disengaged from the carteidge, the headstoch was pulled back to its resting place and the cutting tool was retracted at the same time Then the stop was reset and and the next cut was made. The screw-blanks were made on a standard capstan lathe as a seperate operation. It was surprisingly quick and easy to use this machine.
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  4707. 29:46 It's all very well you sneering at Zelensky's brilliant plan, but what you seem to be discounting is the magical effect of having F-16s in the air to support the Ukrainians. (When they arrive.)
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  4708. 8:38 Come to think about it, the orders given to Elensky's forces in Donbas are very nearly the same as the orders given to the Light Brigade, in the poem about the Crimean War. Same result too!
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  4709. The US has been crazy for a long time, but when they were thought to be "overwhelmingly powerful" no one dared to contradict them and so, they were never upset and their crazyness was not so obvious. Since Russia dared to stand up to them and defeated their proxy, they have become hysterical and all judgement has "gone out the window"!
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  4710. 1:05:20 There was no need for the FIRST color revolution! Ukraine could have remained a neutral country, outside NATO. There was no need for the second (Maidan) color revolution engineered by Victoria Nuland and her friends. The whole responsibility for the situation belongs solely to the US permanent state. It wasn't Ukraine that "turned them all down" (1:05:39) it was the US puppets that turned them all down, no doubt, to fulfill the wishes of their puppet-masters.
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  4711. 23:15 The Anti-Russian fanatics like to hear anti-Russian stories, so that is what they get fed and they believe them, which clouds their judgement even further.
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  4712. The usual avoidance of mentioning SANCTIONS! What a load of misleading cobblers'! Russia ha s been a very reliable supplier right up to the present year and the recent rise in the price of gas was caused, not by Russia cutting supplies , but by the bean-counters in Brussels thinking that they could buy gas cheaper on the spot market, than the price Russia charged for long term contracts. It was true that SOMETIMES it is possible to buy gas cheaper on the spot-market, but one cannot rely on it. Just as one can sometimes buy almost anything cheaper on the spot market, so one can sometimes get gas at a bargain price, but industry needs a reliable supply and that is exactly what Russia has been, even all through the Cold war. Europe has put sanctions on Russia, thinking, even saying, (!) that they thought it was going to crash the Russian economy and lead to "Regime Change" in Russia. Well, it didn't work and now we, the people of Europe have to live with the consequences of our Masters' foolishness. So far, the only Russian retaliation ha s been to say: "if you want our gas you'll have to pay for it in roubles." which is nothing to what they could have done. If our leaders keep poking them, we may soon find out. They a) do not rely on selling gas to live and b) they will have no trouble selling gas and oil outside Europe and the USA. Incidentally, the USA, for all its earnest warnings, is itself, busy importing Russian oil as I write. The obvious cure for the "problem" of the gas shortage is to cut the cr*p and open NS2.
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  4713. Not so much of the "Oxy"!
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  4714. Will Biden do that? Sorry! Not a chance!
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  4715. It wasn't the "Health Advisors" that were making the policy. It was the Pharmaceutical compaies. It was, almost all, designed to maximise their profits from the Pandemic and the panic that they used the disease to generate.
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  4716. 7:26 Not only those thinkers inform the Chinese reaction to anything the US says or does, there are also Sūnzǐ and Mao.
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  4717. 32:40 There are three things that may prevent escalation: The election, the shortage of ammunition and Trump.
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  4718.  @davidbennett1697  Could be! I hadn't thought of that.
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  4719. AIPAC exerts control over the US because it pays the election expenses of a large number of congress critters. Further, it pays the electiom expenses of the opponents of any congress crittter that votes against the wishes of AIPAC. AIPAC is run by Zionists.
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  4720. Bear in mind that some of the most important of the sponsors of these vaccines think (They have said so publicly.) there are too many people. To me, it looks as though the virus was aimed at the old and infirm, post breeding age and the vaccines were aimed at the young and healthy and those of breeding age.
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  4721. 1:01:02 We are not so much "at sea" as we are "up Shit Creek in a barbed-wire canoe without a paddle"!
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  4722. 12:44 It seems that this will not address the problem of Idlib?
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  4723. I don't understand how a comment I wrote 8 months ago, turns up on a current news program that I did not watch.
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  4724. Let's hope that India and Pakistan can patch up their relations sometime soon!
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  4725. Odd? Surely yo joke!
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  4726. I wonder, would it be possible to use other small drones to attack such things?
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  4727. Kirby is projecting, as usual. The Russians have destroyed several armies in Donbas and they have depleted the NATO arsenals. If the Ukrainian Offensive fails, where does that leave the Collective West? At that point the CW may want to negotiate. Maybe, the Russians will too, but if they don't, what then?
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  4728. 34:24 You've been through shit? You must be doing something right! I would bet that anyone who threatens to improve public health, in any genuine way, will instantly become a target for destruction by the Pharmaceutical industry. It stands to reason! They rely on sick people for their profits. No two ways about it. Look at the case of Dr Barry Marshall NP and stomach ulcers. Look at the way they have for the last 50+ years suppressed the use of bacteriophages.
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  4729. 10:48 Almost every war that has erupted since 1945 has been initiated by the United States. I f they don't want a nuclear war they should rein in their own warmongers. It was they that planned and instigated the war in Ukraine, which was a dangerous game to play. They seem to want a war with Iran, which will be another dangerous game if they succeed. They also seem to want a war over Taiwan. Even more dangerous! If they "don't want a war", then they should stop provoking them! It's simple! Are they too simple to grasp that?
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  4730. Yeah! The Chinese are "Getting Aggressive"! No doubt about it! Just imagine how "Aggressive the US would get if the Chinese were fostering an independence movement in, say, Hawaii or Puerto Rico and the Chinese navy were threatening the US: "Don't you dare send troops to Hawaii!
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  4731. 55:21 Before the 1880s, the UK government used to get into a war and then find it did not have enough e.g. rifles. So, at vast expense to the taxpayer, it would dish out contracts (No doubt to the right people) to manufacture rifles. Then when the war stopped the orders would cease and the companies either went bankrupt or turned to making something else. Sometime in the 1880s Parliament decided to set up a commission to look into ways of improving this situation. One of their particular requirements was that the rifles should have interchangeable parts. I.e. if a two rifles were damaged beyond repair the undamaged parts from both could be cannibalized to make another rifle, This required a degree of precision that British machine tools of that time did not have. Eventually, the commission decided that the idea of sourcing standardized rifles from different private companies was a non-starter and they said that the manufacture of guns should be nationalized and the work be given to The Royal Arsenal. They also found that they could get machine tools capable of the required precision, from the machine tool factories in Massachusetts. These machines were bought and installed in the Royal Arsenal and produced rifles and other guns throughout the WW1 and WW2 and were still in use when I started doing my National service. In the 1980s I worked in the maintenance department of an English factory, employing about 150 people. I was told that the department had no current head, as the young, newly qualified Engineer who had been given the job, had been shown the department's only lathe (made sometime during Victoria's reign) and had asked: "But where is the keyboard?" On being told that that was not the way it was controlled he had resigned.
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  4732. 11:34 The minority that profits from war and threats of war, is very tiny. Until they are rendered powerless, however, the World will find no peace. They have the power they have, because they can tap into the flow of wealth that goes to the MIC. If that flow can be disrupted they will be toast.
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  4733. 28:58 Any time these countries start to examine differences they may have, the US attacks both of them and re-unites them.
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  4734. There is one tax which is really, really progressive and that is a Land Tax. What is a land tax? It is what it says: you own some land, you pay tax on it. It is very progressive and very economical and completely unaviodable. You cannot hide land nor the ownership of it. You don't pay the tax? You lose the land. You need very few burocrats to police such a tax. (Another saving!) You can abolish all other taxes, this is the only one you need. Oh yes! Another benefit! You don't need anything like so many "Tax Specialists" and "Tax Lawyers"! Very few countries have tried it and when Denmark tried it, their inflation went into reverse, so the people loved it, but the rich hated it and so, it was dropped after a few years.
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  4735. 6:46 I doubt that it was the European Agreement which provoked the protests, I should think it is pretty certain the protests were a put-up-job by Soros and Victoria Nuland et al.
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  4736. 32:21 Getting rid of the Western Air-Defence systems would, probably, improve the safety of civilans in the event of open hodstilities between Westrn countries and Russia, because it would mean that the civilians would not be endangered by Russian missiles being knocked off-target or by "friendly" anti-aircraft misssiles which missed their targets and crashed to earth at random. Left to themselves, the Russian missile are mostly on target and the Russians do not target buildnings containing large numbers of civilians.
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  4737. This is NOT "Putin's Gas War"!! Putin did NOT impose gas sanctions on Europe, it was exactly the reverse. Europe imposed sanctions on countries buying Russian gas. I am very disappointed to find WION peddling false information, (LIES) like this. This is typical of the Western MSM, I thought better of you.
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  4738. Just imagine if this were happening in China! We would hear of nothing else!!
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  4739. 30:04 Can anyone remember when the BBC criticized the government in power at the time? Or even in retrospect? I can't. Can anyone remember the BBC criticizing the warmongers in Washington DC? I can't remember a single instance of that. If it isn't a government-controlled organization, then it must be controlled by the "Integrity Initiative", which as is well known, is an arm of the Five-eyes intelligence organization.
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  4740. 24:19 Yeah! I bet that being sent to fight the Russians, without weapons or ammunition, is a bit offputting!
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  4741. 5:14 This idea will not go down well in the USA!
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  4742. "Just the place for a Snark", the Bellman cried, as he landed his crew with care; supporting each man on the top of the tide, by a finger entwined in his hair. "Just the place for a Snark. I have said it twice! That alone should encourage the crew. Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice. What I tell you three times is true!" Lewis Carrol, "The Hunting of the Snark."
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  4743. I think we all understand the cause of these unexpected deaths, even if we cannot say what we believe. The same pressure is exerted on the Society of Actuaries. Probably, we ought to start campaigning for freedom of speech (which is not yet prohibited or censored) rather than to campaign for freedom to discuss different types of health measures (which is!).
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  4744. 27:00 The countries of the CW are not sovereign. They move fast because their masters tell them to.
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  4745. 35:07 I'm afraid they would want to make up for the shortage of conventional weapons by using "mini"-nukes.
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  4746. 32:00 Maybe, Zelensky is going to personally invest in Africa. Have you thought of that?
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  4747. 13:48 It is debatable whether Trump WAS defeated by Biden in 2020. The reason he lost (If he did.) was the "Russiagate scandal", which has subsequently been proved to have been a fraud from start to finish.
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  4748. 24:38 How about a New Pro-Russian Maidan? Or at least, an Anti-Fas*ist Maidan? I would imagine that there are a lot of (Ehem!) Disgruntled people in Ukraine, particularly among the young men.
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  4749. The patriot Act was all written and ready to be put into law before 9?11 and enacted immediately after. What a remarkable coincidence!
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  4750.  @user-rp2li7ks4e  Thanks.
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  4751.  @mattbeckelhymer1669  Thanks.
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  4752. 54:01 The example of the Praetorian Guard (Cohors Praetoria) should be enough to make any government wary of private armies.
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  4753.  @sigma_six  The judges at Nuremberg would not agree with you.
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  4754.  @GeorgeGreene931  A) The referendum which separated Crimea from Ukraine was not illegal and B) more importantly, cutting off water from the inhabitants of a city is a "Collective Punishment" which is illegal. I.e. you are not allowed to prevent children from drinking just because you disapprove of their parents' actions. I would have thought that that was obvious! Attacking civilians to pressurize the military is not allowed under international law.
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  4755. This is a potentially a very important shift. It means that Powers That Be's power to brainwash the public is in steep decline. That can't be bad! "They" brought it on themselves by being too "in your face" prescriptive, telling lies like: "Safe and Effective", and shutting down satire like "Drop the Dead Donkey", "Yes Minister", "Spitting Image", "That Was The Week, That Was" and no doubt others that have slipped my mind. If this results, as it could, in a better informed public the results could be enormous and game changing.
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  4756. 0:39 Such a claim is pure propaganda. Putin does not, typically, set deadlines. He is too clever to make such a mistake. He knows that the future is essentially unpridictable. The purpose of the Kiev authorities in saying that he has set such a deadline, is to be able in three weeks time to say: "There! Putin's prediction has failed!! Wasn't he STUPID to make such a prediction!!!"
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  4757.  @riverstone1492  Sorry! I did not make a note of it! It was one of many videos shown immediately after the event.
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  4758.  @riverstone1492  Dr Jerome Corsi says in a Stephen H. video that she is a high official in the FBI.
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  4759. That should have been "Stephen Gardiner"
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  4760. 12:50 Yes., but they're only Ukrainian lives!
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  4761. Do you happen to know how the injury rates for the mRNA vaccines compare with the rates of injury experienced by those who had more traditional vaccines such as Novovax? Has any info about these complications following vaccination come out of China, where, I think, almost all the vaccinations were traditionally prepared?
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  4762. 1:07:44 To be really cynical, the longer the war goes on in Ukraine, the more the US is constrained in its preparations to attack China. So why would the Chinese want to pressure the Russians to stop fighting the US proxies? This is making an uncharacteristic assumption about the Chinese' good-heartedness!
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  4763. 7:37 It really does sound, if one is to believe Szijjarto, as though these ministers were all high on something like cocaine or maybe, on cocaine. Apparently, a small dose of the white nose-powder, is enough to give one 1000 X the normal quantity of dopamine (The neurotransmitter causing pleasure sensations.) in one's brain.
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  4764. US has nuclear weapons in Britain too.
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  4765. 2:57 The US worries that Russian, China, Iran and North Korea may gang up against them, and their diplomats try to put wedges between them, while other US statespeople, attack all four with sanctions and other means! Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing?
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  4766.  @herrlich1461  That depends on whether the facts contradict the faith or not. If they don't, there is is no reason for the faithful to reject them. Thus, the believers in God almost all believe in the "Big Bang" because it allows them to believe that this was how God created the Universe. They have great difficulty accepting that a lot of evidence suggests that the BB did not happen.
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  4767.  @herrlich1461  You don't need to have faith in human laws. It is usually not difficult to find out whether they exist or not. No Lawyer works on faith! Either he knows what he is talking about or he gets drummed out of the profession. There may be uncertainty about whether any given law applies in a particular case, but that again is a matter for argument not faith. "Divine" laws were promulgated, brought to you, by humans. How do you know that they were what God intended? You have faith that they were. I.e. you believe that, with no evidence to support it. Fine. Bully for you! As an Atheist, I prefer to believe things that can be proved, (or at least have supporting evidence) and doubt things which cannot. Many a doubtful thing can be treated as a "working hypothesis" and treated as though it were "true" until something proves that it is not. Animals have evolved to conserve energy. Changing your mind means rewiring circuits in your brain, which takes energy. So, on the whole, people do not lightly change their mind about anything. (Hence the importance of "first impressions" and the reluctance to give up "Faith".)
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  4768.  @korhanduranozel  ". But G'd the great creator exists, no one can deny G'd s existence, this is a FACT , have faith on this one." This is a typically statement by a faithful. First assert a fact (Without any proof) and then demand that you "believe it! . "no one can deny G'd s existence, this is a FACT" , This is transparently untrue - a lot of people do deny just this.
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  4769.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  The universities such as Cambridge and Oxford, Paris, Heidelberg, and Padua were, as you say, founded by the RC Church. However, as they were set up to study everything, not just how to be a priest, they naturally, over time, caused the people in them to question things and spot the contradictions in the Bible. (Which most "ordinary" people did not ever read for themselves). This led to disputes over dogma and eventually to the "Reformation".
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