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Lavrov compares Macron to Hitler and Napoleon


RT
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:19 UTC
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© sky.com/aa.vcom.tr/peakpx/KJNFrench President Emmanuel Macron • Adolf Hitler • Napoleon Bonaparte
The French president wants to conquer Russia just as the two European dictators aspired to, Moscow's foreign minister has said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has compared French President Emmanuel Macron to Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte, saying that he is also looking to impose a defeat upon Russia.

During an address to the nation on Wednesday, Macron labeled Russia a "threat to France and Europe" and announced that he was considering expanding Paris's nuclear deterrent to cover other EU member states.

He insisted that the bloc needs to strengthen its independence when it comes to defense as there are doubts about the US continuing to protect the EU after the administration of President Donald Trump "changed its position" on the Ukraine conflict and became "less supportive" of Kiev. The French president insisted on further assistance to the government of Vladimir Zelensky, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop if he is allowed to defeat Ukraine.

When asked to comment on Macron's statements by journalists on Thursday, Lavrov mentioned Hitler and Bonaparte, describing them as the French president's "predecessors, who also wanted to fight Russia." The two European dictators sent their armies into Russia in 1812 and 1941, respectively, but ended up suffering crushing defeats.

Comment: Hitler and Bonaparte are unforgivably offended!

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Dems and blob together

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
Rep Al Green cartooon
"Why'd ya do that Al?"
"Why be a Democrat of you can't retire with millions of dollars? Hell hath no fury like a politician exposed!"
— Dinesh D'Souza
If the Jacobins of Paris, 1794, had not been bum-rushed to the "national razor," perhaps they would have acted-out as clownishly in defeat as America's Democratic Party does right now after their election debacle of 2024. Imagine Robespierre in Harlequin drag riding backwards on a goat over the Pont Neuf to do handsprings and a juggling act in the Parvis de Notre-Dame. Alas, foiled by the guillotine. . . .

Now imagine Rep. Al Green (9th Texas Dist) shaking his cane and hollering curses at the rostrum in Tuesday night's joint session of Congress. Two days later, he carried on again in the well of Congress as Speaker Johnson read out his bill of censure and a motley mob of Mr. Green's fellow Dems gathered 'round to sing We Shall Overcome — the once stately Civil Rights movement reduced to abject farce. Such things are really happening.

The Dems' game has been revealed. The revenue stream for their national wrecking operations is suddenly cut off and it's game-over. Everybody can see how this worked now. You funnel vast amounts of US taxpayer dollars into Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOs, spin off more NGOs below them, and add extra layers of subsidiary NGOs, and all of them pay their staffs of Dem Party foot-soldiers for do-nothing jobs — leaving plenty of time for riots and real-estate investing — a splendid racket that worked for years to support the insane antics of the Woke-Jacobin revolution. (And...you paid for it.)
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Trump has no idea where most of the Ukraine aid went - and honestly, who does?

Rachel Marsden
RT
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:43 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesVladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump
Throwing billions upon billions of cash at Kiev turned out to be such a massive scam no one seems to even know the exact amount.

Donald Trump is pulling Ukraine aid numbers out of thin air - or maybe somewhere less polite - but let's be real, does anyone actually know what's going on?

The US president keeps saying that the reason Washington wants dibs on Ukrainian natural resources is because "the United States has put up far more aid for Ukraine than any other nation, hundreds of billions of dollars," and that "we're in there for about $350 billion. I think that's a pretty big contribution." But ABC News' fact checking says that the figure is actually closer to $182 billion, which also includes the cost of making weapons and "restocking US weapons supplies." In other words, a lot of that "aid" never even left the US.

That's the dirty little secret regarding all of this so-called aid for Ukraine. There's no shortage of casual observers who believe that every dollar of committed foreign aid for Kiev actually went to the country to rescue kittens and kids.

Comment: Never 'a lull moment', the MIC is fat and sassy cultivating its long list of future wars and production ramp-ups. Poor Zelensky? McMansion(s) is what we heard.

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Apple sues UK over data privacy dispute


RT
Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:16 UTC
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© Getty Images/Anadolu/ContributorApple store in London, UK
The British government has demanded that the US tech giant unlock protected user information stored in its cloud service worldwide.

US tech giant Apple has filed a legal complaint against the UK government over a demand to create a backdoor into its encrypted iCloud service, according to Financial Times, citing sources.

People familiar with the matter told the outlet on Tuesday that the iPhone maker had submitted a case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a judicial body that reviews complaints against the UK security services.

It reportedly marks the first legal test of the UK's 2016 Investigatory Powers Act and its provisions that compel companies to bypass encryption.

Apple received a "technical capability notice" under the act in January, targeting its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature, an optional extra layer of encryption that protects its iCloud system. The notice required the company to provide a means for decrypting user data, which is currently protected by end-to-end encryption, ensuring that only users can access their information.
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'Party of insanity and hate': US Democrats show their true colors

Robert Bridge
RT
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:46 UTC
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© Julia Demaree NIkhinson/APDevarjay 'DJ' Daniel holds and honorary US Secret Service special agent id • House Chamber US Capitol • Washington DC z8 March 4, 2025
Refusing to support a child who survived cancer might be the pettiest of gestures, but it's only one of the Dems' latest ungraceful antics.

During Donald Trump's address to Congress, the president made reference to a young man in the audience who survived one of the medical scourges of all time. Yet that distinction could not get the Democrats off their feet.

Trump began:
"Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police. His name is D.J. Daniel, he is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. But in 2018, D.J. was diagnosed with brain cancer; the doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago."
Trump continued, saying he would grant the young man the greatest honor of them all by asking the new Secret Service director to make him an agent of the US Secret Service.

Needless to say, it was not the time or place for political grandstanding. But the Democratic Party reared its ugly head and refused to stand for the young man who was seated in the president's guest suite accompanied by his father, who held up his son with a proud smile.

Social media quickly lit up across the board, condemning the Democrats.
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Paralyzed by acute dementia, Europe declares war on Russia all over again

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:55 UTC
Europe Leaders!
© Strategic Culture Foundation
Let's start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's Road to Damascus moment:

"Frankly, it's a proxy war between nuclear powers, the United States helping Ukraine and Russia, and it needs to come to an end".

Now that's a howler. Jeffrey Sachs to the rescue. Of course, the correct formulation would be "proxy war launched by the United States". But still: Hallelujah! Such illumination - by proxy - from Heavens Above could never had hit the previous American Secretary of Genocide.

Now cut to panic. Total European panic.

Le Petit Roi, as popular in France as nighttime mosquitoes in a five-star beach resort, has declared that peace in Europe is only possible with a "tamed" Russia - and that Russia is a direct threat to France and Europe.

On Ukraine, he pontificated that peace simply cannot take place under Russian terms or via the - inevitable - Ukrainian surrender.

Le breathless Petit Roi literally went nuclear. He stressed that France possesses a nuclear deterrent - and offered it to the rest of Europe, while insisting that Europe's future should not be dictated by Moscow or Washington.

Le Petit Roi napoleonically all but declared war on Russia. Well, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of France would gladly agree that mini-Napoleon should be dispatched to the battlefields in the black soil of Novorossiya right away - where he would surrender in less than 5 minutes, waving a rainbow flag, as he realizes he's about to be turned into an instant steak tartare.

Now couple this Moliere farce with the fate of the much larger, fatter, pan-European New Model Woke Army regimented by the Fuhrerin SS von der Lugen out of Brussels, allegedly to be financed to the tune of 800 billion euros - money that no one has, and would have to be loaned then repaid with sky-high extorsion interest rates to the usual international financial system vultures.

SS von der Lugen insists Europe is in danger, so the solution is a massive expansion of the military-industrial complex - in practice, buying more overpriced American weapons - and "rearmament".

Talk about Gotterdammerung on crack.
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Trump cuts Ukraine off from HIMARS targeting data used to bomb Russian civilians


RT
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:06 UTC
High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
© Ezra Acayan / Getty ImagesHigh Mobility Artillery Rocket System
The US has stopped providing Ukraine with the necessary data to use High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) for long-range strikes against Russia, according to Oliver Carroll, a staff writer for The Economist.

The decision came after officials in Washington confirmed that they had frozen military aid and intelligence support to Kiev following a spat between Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Carroll wrote that "America cut a key intel link for alerts" at 2pm Kiev time. "Before that: targeting data for HIMARS. Ukraine also isn't receiving realtime information for long-range strikes," he added.

"Trump wanted a thank you," an unnamed source told the journalist. "We will be writing it on graves of dead Ukrainians."

The source was apparently referring to the US leader's remarks in which he accused Zelensky of ingratitude for American aid to Kiev, which served as a prelude to the suspension of assistance.
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$375B EPA slush fund handled by John Podesta handed out billions to charities created just months earlier

Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:03 UTC
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© Getty ImagesDemocratic political operative John Podesta was put in charge of overseeing hundreds of billions in cash for environmental groups under the Inflation Recovery Act in 2022.
The Biden administration funneled at least $20 billion dollars into environmental groups, most of which had only recently been founded, The Post has discovered.

In one case, former Vice President Kamala Harris handed over a check for nearly $7 billion to Bethesda, Maryland, based group Climate United Fund, which does not appear in the IRS's charities database, and has no federal filings.

The non-profit fund had only been incorporated in Delaware on November 30, 2023, according to public records, five months before Harris handed over the cash in April 2024.

Comment: Stacey Abrams is a classic case study in political grift:

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Best of the Web: Romania - The first 'post-election' democracy?

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:29 UTC
Romanian Protesters
© Off-Guardian
In December 2024, a Romanian court cancelled the second round of the planned Presidential election and annulled the completed first round, citing (totally theoretical) "Russian interference".

This caused massive protests in Romania, as you can imagine. The first round had been won by right winger Călin Georgescu following a social media-based campaign, and he was predicted to quite easily win the second round as well.

The Romanian opposition - denied a likely victory - took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Then, earlier today, the ECHR threw the case out without even hearing it. Apparently, the Romanian courts were perfectly within their rights to simply indefinitely postpone their election on the basis of unproven allegations, and all those people who already voted and wanted to vote again can just go to hell.

This is the ECHR, which lectures the world on rights and democratic norms on the regular.

And everyone is apparently just fine with it. It's crazy.
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A Europe frozen in time and without centrality

Hugo Dionisio
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownThe EU Crisis
The European Union is absolutely devastated. It remains unclear exactly why this is happening. Some say it is because the United States has abandoned it, shifting their attention from Europe to the Pacific, particularly to China. Others argue that the EU's fear stems from its inability to defend itself against threats, particularly from its arch-enemy, the Russian Federation. Still, others claim that the despair is due to the loss of leadership, which is ironic: so much talk of freedom, yet Europe seems afraid to be free. Europe is scared to break away from the U.S., and in the face of this possibility, it feels abandoned.

Whatever the reason, all these explanations boil down to one thing: the loss of its centrality. The European Union, often confused with "Europe" by those who do not understand what "Europe" truly is, is terrified of losing its centrality once and for all. Dubbed the "old continent," Western Europe has, for centuries, been the seat and cradle of the most advanced ideas of civilization and the recipient of the world's plundered resources. European "civilization" represented, in terms of importance during that period, what the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome once represented.

From ancient Greece to republican and imperial Rome, from Enlightenment France to liberal England, and ending with socialist Russia, Europe has been the birthplace of some of the most transformative ideas in human history. These ideas, with all their inherent contradictions, pushed the world forward. But Europe has also been the source of some of the greatest tragedies of our time, from the Inquisition to despotism, from the slave trade to slavery, from savage capitalism to fascism and Nazism. It has always proven that for every moment of action, dream, and adventure, there is a corresponding reaction, nightmare, and dystopia. Europe would not be what it was, or what it is, without these two sides of the coin, as no civilization would. It is part of the human condition. We must not forget that the hegemonic and imperial United States and the super-industrial socialist China are also concrete results of European influence and its central ideas of civilization. It is as if each represents an opposite pole of the ideological dispute that took place within Europe itself.

Comment: A long but intelligent read.

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