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And since you did watch that podcastumentary to the very end, you'll also remember how I pointed out that the top institutional investor in most of these companies is not BlackRock, but The Vanguard Group.
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Puppet Masters
And since you did watch that podcastumentary to the very end, you'll also remember how I pointed out that the top institutional investor in most of these companies is not BlackRock, but The Vanguard Group.
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Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, has asserted that US and British intelligence agencies supported Kiev during an attack on Sevastopol last Friday. The Ukrainian assault targeted the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Speaking at a weekly briefing on Wednesday, she said:
"There was no doubt that this attack was planned with the use of Western surveillance assets, NATO satellite equipment, and spy planes and conducted at the direction of and in close coordination with American and British special services."The Defense Ministry has reported that the missile strike on the fleet headquarters involved several Ukrainian missiles, with Russian air defenses successfully intercepting some of them. British media outlets have also disclosed that Kiev employed Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the UK in the attack, resulting in significant damage to the building.
Zakharova described the incident as one of many in which Kiev "targets Russian regions, using missiles and shells supplied by NATO states," citing several other recent examples. The goals of the Ukrainian government, she said, are "to draw attention away from the Ukrainian military's failed attempts at conducting a counteroffensive" and to destabilize Russian society.
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X CEO Elon Musk
X CEO Elon Musk
When the news was reported, Musk replied "Oh you mean the 'Election Integrity' Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they're gone." A person familiar with the circumstances, said that four people had been released, which constitutes the whole of the election integrity unit in Dublin.
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US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden
Driving the news: As voters express deep concerns about the 80-year-old president's age and fitness for office, Biden's team is taking extra steps to prevent him from stumbling in public — as he did in June, when he tripped over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy.
- With a physical therapist, Biden has been doing exercises to improve his balance as far back as November 2021.
- Since his stumble in June, he has been wearing tennis shoes more often to avoid slipping — and using the short stairs on Air Force One, entering the plane on a lower deck than before.
Zoom in: Some senior Democrats privately have been frustrated with Biden's advance team for months, citing the sandbag incident and noting that the president often appears not to know which direction to go after he speaks at a podium.
- Often without context, Republicans have used video clips of Biden looking confused about where to go after speeches to raise further questions about his age.
- Biden works out many mornings with physical therapist Drew Contreras, who also worked with former President Obama.
- Biden's doctor has recommended exercises for balance, which he called "proprioceptive maintenance maneuvers."
- What the maneuvers entail is unclear.
- "I have never heard the term 'proprioceptive maintenance maneuvers.' It is not a clinical term in standard use," said Professor James Gordon, associate dean and chair of the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California.
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Yet the post-everything, cancel culture West has also cancelled logic.
When in doubt, at least we can go back to foundation myths.
So let's go back to the birth of the West, as in Europe.
Legend tells us that one fine day Zeus happened to set his roving eye on a beautiful girl with big, bright eyes, a daughter from a thalassocratic civilization in the Levant: Europa.
A while later, on a pristine beach in the Phoenician coast, an extraordinary white bull showed up. Europa, intrigued, got closer and started to caress the bull; of course, that was Zeus in disguise. The bull duly annexed Europa and darted towards the sea.
Zeus had three sons with Europa — and left her a spear that never missed its target. One of these sons, as we all know, was Minos, who built a labyrinth.
But most of all what legend taught us was that the West was born out of a girl - Europa - who came from the East.
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In this satellite photo provided by Planet Labs, smoke billows from a headquarters building for the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, after it was struck in a missile attack launched by the Ukrainian military.
In this satellite photo provided by Planet Labs, smoke billows from a headquarters building for the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, after it was struck in a missile attack launched by the Ukrainian military.
"We clearly see which directions of pressure on Russia need to be strengthened to prevent [its] terrorist capabilities from growing," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on September 26.
He also said that an analysis of Russia's military industry shows that pressure on Moscow should be increased.
"We can clearly see which areas of pressure on Russia should be strengthened so that terrorist possibilities do not increase," he said. "Sanctions are not enough."
The Ukrainian military said earlier that 20 combat clashes took place on September 26 along the front line amid air strikes in the Donetsk region and fighting in the area around Bakhmut.
Comment: Seems REF/RL was a little too quick on the propaganda draw regarding the good admiral.
As is well known, the Mackinder 'Pivot of History' doctrine (1904) of 'he who controls the Asian heartland controls the world' was cemented into the U.S. zeitgeist as the unassailable doctrine that a united Heartland - which might challenge the U.S. - must never be allowed. To which Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, added that the Ukraine, by virtue of its divided national identities, entwined in old complexities, should be seen as the hinge around which heartland power revolved: 'Absent Ukraine, Russia would never become the heartland power; but with Ukraine, Russia can and would', Brzezinski averred.
Well, that was the idea - to mobilise fierce Ukrainian ultranationalism versus a weak Russia, and put them to fight each other. But the evolution of the 'Brzezinski doctrine' - quite surprisingly - segued into a series of western mythological errors: First, that Russia was easily defeated in Afghanistan, by a few lightly armed jihadists (not true). Secondly, that the Soviet Union and its satellites were overthrown by 'Revolutions from Below' (also not true). And thirdly, that a powerful U.S. Security-State 'Leviathan' could ensure U.S. hegemony (through mounting 'Revolutions from Below').
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Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukraine Presiden Vladimir Zelensky in better times.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and Ukraine Presiden Vladimir Zelensky in better times.
Formerly one of Ukraine's largest arms suppliers, Poland has said it will cease sending weapons to Kiev following Ukraine's filing of a lawsuit against Poland with the World Trade Organization (WTO). While on its face, the dispute seems to be over a grain shipment deal, experts told Sputnik that much deeper political currents are sending the governments of Ukraine, Poland, and the United States in different directions.
Everyone's talking about it! But when exactly is that big Russian offensive — the"Big Push" — going to begin?
Will the Russians be celebrating Christmas in Kiev?
Sorry to tell you==there will be no presents under the tree in Kiev for Vladimir Putin this Christmas.
And that's not because mainstream media says Russia is losing and about to collapse. Or because Putin is a Slavic Grinch.
Keep in mind that Putin does Judo. In Judo, you don't push. You get your opponent to push and you use his momentum and force against him,
Why why why?
With the Ukrainian counteroffensive stalled and Zelensky increasingly petulant, demanding, and unpopular in the West, it might seem that the time for Russian offensive is ripe -- just like Zelensky's unwashed fatigues. The only person who seems to like Zelensky these days is Justin Trudeau may be because he doesn't have any friends anymore in Canada. Or maybe just because he needs somebody to do coke with.
He is ripe too. Actually rotten.
Moreover....
The Ukrainians are launching a lot of terror attacks — which you would think would give the Russians good reason to finally go in and get it over with.
After all, they have the resources — a new army, somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 already in Ukraine; plenty of missiles, drones, and of course artillery; air defense systems second to none; the world's most advanced electronic warfare technology and even laser weapons.
Let's not forget hypersonic technology. They are even creating hypersonic bullets!
They have upgraded their ISR including new advanced radar platforms.
Russian losses during the counteroffensive were the lowest of any time during the SMO.
Will the Russians be celebrating Christmas in Kiev?
Sorry to tell you==there will be no presents under the tree in Kiev for Vladimir Putin this Christmas.
And that's not because mainstream media says Russia is losing and about to collapse. Or because Putin is a Slavic Grinch.
Keep in mind that Putin does Judo. In Judo, you don't push. You get your opponent to push and you use his momentum and force against him,
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With the Ukrainian counteroffensive stalled and Zelensky increasingly petulant, demanding, and unpopular in the West, it might seem that the time for Russian offensive is ripe -- just like Zelensky's unwashed fatigues. The only person who seems to like Zelensky these days is Justin Trudeau may be because he doesn't have any friends anymore in Canada. Or maybe just because he needs somebody to do coke with.
He is ripe too. Actually rotten.
Moreover....
The Ukrainians are launching a lot of terror attacks — which you would think would give the Russians good reason to finally go in and get it over with.
After all, they have the resources — a new army, somewhere between 300,000 and 600,000 already in Ukraine; plenty of missiles, drones, and of course artillery; air defense systems second to none; the world's most advanced electronic warfare technology and even laser weapons.
Let's not forget hypersonic technology. They are even creating hypersonic bullets!
They have upgraded their ISR including new advanced radar platforms.
Russian losses during the counteroffensive were the lowest of any time during the SMO.
© News Forensics
General Wayne Eyre is seen circled in red saluting the Nazi.
As Canada's top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country's military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine's notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years.
Canadian politicians have been in frantic damage control mode since feting a former member of the Waffen-SS during a parliamentary reception for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 22. The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rota, resigned following the incident, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lamented it as "extremely upsetting," and opposition leader Pierre Poilievre branded the affair the "biggest single diplomatic embarrassment" in Canada's history.
But amid the gratuitous public rites of contrition, one influential official has been conspicuously absent: Canada's highest-ranking general. According to the Ottawa Citizen, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre has "declined to apologize for his standing ovation" for Yaroslav Hunka, the now-notorious 98-year-old former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, whose members gained international infamy for hunting down anti-Nazi partisans, massacring thousands of civilians, and burning hundreds of Polish villagers alive.
Comment: The fall out is unlikely to be finished and could well make for an interesting October.
See also:
- Canada saluting a Ukrainian Nazi was no accident
- Canada and Ukraine
- Trudeau attempts to distract from Nazi controversy by growing cool new mustache
- Canadian Parliament gives standing ovation to man who served in Waffen SS
- NewsReal: Are Top Western Generals Being Killed in Ukraine?
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