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"Mirotvorets": Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list | MR Online MRONLINE.ORG “Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”

MSK, I've always had the greatest respect for Hanson. That's how to take apart the fake news - dry mockery. Is one expected to really believe THIS happened? ("Don't examine a folly, ask only what it accomplishes.") When even the fakers believe their own fakery, here's a sample of the concocted narrative, or - how Putin deliberately set out destroying the world, by a once esteemed British writer in The Telegraph. Anyone would think, reading most journalists and any politician, it is Russia to blame for imposing sanctions on every other country. Excuse me. But I'm quite sure all our global woes were self-inflicted (like Smollet's), the blowback from collective measures directed AT punishing Russia... Answer: we must redouble our "moral" efforts, tighten our belts more... "Putin's shock win could destroy the free world". By Allister Heath. "Britain is now in grave danger of falling into Vladimir Putin’s trap. His kamikaze economic war on the West will eventually take down his disgusting coterie of war criminals, but in the meantime it is beginning to inflict immense, permanent damage on the Western way of life, to the great delight of Moscow’s siloviki hard men. We risk ending up with calamitous poverty, civil disobedience, a new socialist government by next year, a break-up of the UK, nationalisations, price and incomes policies, punitive wealth taxes and eventually a complete economic and financial meltdown and IMF bailout. The situation in the EU is, if anything, worse. This is not a plea for pacifism, for looking away when Ukraine is being illegally invaded by a savage regime. Britain was – and remains – morally right to back Ukraine in a carefully calibrated way. Instead, this is a plea for an economic counter-offensive, for Liz Truss, the next PM, to tackle Putin’s economic and energy war head-on. Mass, immediate intervention is inevitable, but must be designed to avoid hastening Britain’s shift into demagoguery, welfarism and socialist central planning, all steps down Hayek’s “road to serfdom” that the Leftist and green elites are longing us to take. The wrong response – because too little is done, or because the wrong solutions are chosen – would merely advance Putin’s masterplan to cripple the West. [...] AH

"Not self, but the absence of self, is closer to being the root of all evil. Self-alienation impoverishes our capacity for empathy; and in dehumanizing ourselves, we inevitably dehumanize others. In failing to develop an independent and strong ego, to evolve to moral sovereignty, we become capable of unspeakable atrocities, since we do not experience ourselves as responsible for our actions". N Branden, Honoring the Self.

Up there with the most immoral actions in this war, was Boris Johnson discouraging Yelensky from negotiation with Russia in Istanbul, way back in March/April. His meddling in a (non - Nato) country's government amounted to blackmail: If you petition for peace you'll get no more money and arms, he has been quoted as saying, roughly. Why - because he believed Russia would be beaten by supposedly superior Ukraine forces - advantaging the West's agenda (following and tricked by the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv, turned into "a victory" by the msm). It seems from other reports Russia was genuinely prepared to negotiate, to avoid further conflict, expecting no greater concessions than was already agreed by Minsk, with the "security guarantees": a neutral Ukraine. I trust Johnson's personal responsibility for the subsequent sacrifices of lives that could have been averted, will be remembered. Report: Russia, Ukraine Tentatively Agreed on Peace Deal in April – scheerpost.com SCHEERPOST.COM Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv not long after the talks and told Zelensky not to negotiate with Russia, saying the West wasn’t ready to sign a...

A sane pair of peaceniks I like. Where does globalism tie in? Is there synchronicity? https://youtu.be/XX32WvXk4Nc

If this neanderthal future leader doesn't make everyone sick... The audience loved it.

The "neo-Nazis" of Ukraine? Which neo-Nazis, where? There never were any (for Putin to condemn...) The clean-up: Media once called Azov neo-Nazis. Now they hide that fact | MR Online MRONLINE.ORG News outlets have stopped labelling the Azov Regiment as neo-Nazis because it has become politically inconvenient.

This essay best sums up the causes of events--through wishful thinking, misidentification and indoctrination. The Norwegian Professor is one of the best balanced observers I've heard and read. Like I've been remarking, there has been a dichotomous identification by 'experts' and media on the Russian army's capacity all along. We heard it is too weak and badly led to survive fighting Ukraine -or - so powerful its next invasion is Europe? Can't be both, but the contradictory positions are held simultaneously. A writer named the phenomenon "Russophrenia". a. to build up/maintain belief in Final Victory and Putin's humiliation b. to frighten the European public into compliance. Since sacrifices were and are absolutely essential, except the reality was always going to be bleak for Ukraine, with or without their sacrifice or other nations' self-sacrifices. A dual propaganda method very much like the Covid pandemic's handling, it worked that time for world governments' total control of their people so why change? A piece lifted from RT because you won't see it anywhere else. https://www.rt.com/russia/561135-russia-nato-ukraine-propaganda/

Michael, hard times ahead. Must mention in passing how amazed I am at the belligerent British. They are completely out of touch with reality and have come out as the biggest warmongers (with Liz Truss, the probable incoming PM, the biggest chest-thumper) of all. I've regularly read the conservative The Telegraph, and their deliberate lies and fabrications about the progress of the war and whitewashing of Zelensky. A today's sample of the British wet, wishful thinking by one of their pundits, on how to end this war faster - naturally, no mention of seeking a truce and saving Ukrainians. We only have to refuse Russians travel visas to Europe! It would "harm the Kremlin". How simple is that! Maybe this writer too is collecting off the money train. Nothing much surprises me anymore how quickly people can sell out. The EU has a trump card against Putin – why isn't it playing it? T3.EMAILS.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK A visa ban would harm the Kremlin and bring the war in Ukraine to a close faster

“We were actually preparing for the war from December 2019, and all the claims that we were not dealing with it are absolutely out of touch with reality,” he was quoted as saying. “If we did not prepare for war, today Russian tanks would be in Warsaw, Prague, Tallinn and Vilnius.” [A. Danilov] If it's no longer the (surprised - shocked!) "innocent" victim of an "unprovoked, unjustified" invasion by a brutal aggressor, in the global public minds, how will Ukraine's govt. be thought of when the facts gradually come in? Not so blithely unaware, after all. Cynical and malicious? Dirty? Almost weekly, further leaks of Kiev's prescient anticipation "for the war", not looking to avert conflict, negotiate, nor pursue peaceful options. Evidence - provided by Ukraine Govt. and other officials needing to brag openly to brainwashed listeners about their premeditation to engage war with Russia, inviting one in fact. (Protecting Warsaw, Europe, Democracy, etc.etc. from Putin - their thin justification which the West has swallowed whole in its pathetic fearfulness. Anybody with sense could earlier tell Putin's forces were not intending to conquer - more, would never be able to permanently occupy and "absorb" the greater Ukraine - let alone European nations.). Only gearing up "since 2019"? The training by outside advisers and instructors, arming and preparations were taking place long before that. Apart from the (dismissed by Kyiv) 2014/15 agreements there was a long period for the EU, NATO, the UN to intervene and prevent the widening of a civil war into general warfare - and didn't. Now Kyiv's government and military is getting what it asked for, in rough justice. It's their people the sacrificial pawns in the conflict who don't deserve being cannon fodder. Kiev was gearing up for military conflict since 2019 – security chief — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM Ukraine’s security council chief Aleksey Danilov has stated Kiev had been preparing for an armed conflict with Russia since December 2019

Russia releases video of suspected Moscow car bomber — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM Footage shows Ukrainian citizen Natalya Vovk entering and leaving the country after assassinating Darya Dugina Russia blames Ukraine for deadly Moscow blast — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM Kiev is behind the deadly car bombing outside Moscow, Russia says

Agreed also with correspondent Patrick Lawrence, who knows true journalism, and this aint it. Patrick Lawrence: So Far As I Can Make Out – scheerpost.com SCHEERPOST.COM Patrick Lawrence explores how the truth about Ukraine has turned into a recipe for anger and contempt from the Western media.

You mean, not even the Ukraine citizens knew war was coming? So the well-known military build-up and training by Kyiv, with help from its friends, into one of the largest Armies in Europe was all for fun. Right. One cannot believe this dissembler, Zelensky was assured and knew Putin would *have to* invade, in defense and pre-emptively over the Donbas - and believed Ukraine would WIN (with a little help from his friends). All, so he could avoid giving in to an agreement. Looking forward: where is the way out? Not with negotiations - that is plain. It's quite a thing when I firmly agree with a socialist (and very sharp thinker): Caitlin Johnstone. Sure, it's about the "ordinary people". This proxy war has no exit strategy | MR Online MRONLINE.ORG The International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America has released a statement opposing the U.S. government’s ongoing...

I think you might be mistaking rationalism for "Reason" and rationality, Joas. For a quick definition, rationalism is reason lacking or devoid of reality. I.e.: "it's all in one's head" - so to speak. For fiction, particularly romanticist-realist fiction, it is the essentials the reader needs to take away for his benefits. The volitional, self-made virtues in action, you describe, measured against life and reality - and winning. One would believe that Roark naturally had a subconscious mind and indeed, exceptionally powerful emotions. Just that Rand chose to not explicitly expose them for that purpose. One has to use one's own mind to appreciate such a character. When one understands Roark's motivations, one learns of his values and virtues-in-action, and implicitly (on his behalf) feels his emotional states whenever his aims were defeated - or achieved. (That's a distinction from much modern and naturalist art, where the protagonists' emotions have to be made explcit, displayed in your face, continuously, and are often cause-less, at least for no good, discernable cause. Those don't celebrate human emotions and human values, they make them mundane and glib).

Right, it exerts a profound influence since it's the repository of the many of sense-experiences, once conscious (apprehended by conscious means) one earlier had and which were and are formative, later dimly recollected - or lost from direct consciousness. I believe Rand called that state the pre-conceptual mind. Because the subconscious is crucial to the automatized, "self-programing" of one's value-appraisals (pain-bad/pleasure-good) made of those sense-experiences, is why emotions may still arise, seemingly unbidden and unexplainable, due to some present stimulus. But like a flashback they each had a cause and one's (apparently inexplicable) emotions are the effects, even long after. Of course, there are the far greater, growing and more complex, ¬conscious¬ value judgments made with a maturing conceptual mind, causing identifiable, predictable and very explicable emotions. Reasoning (and evaluations) then is part and parcel of the emotional process.

US ‘on brink’ of war with Russia and China – Kissinger — RT World News WWW.RT.COM Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says the West’s diplomatic failures have led to the crises in Ukraine and Taiwan

What a difference a day (6 months) makes... The new war logic: When you're not losing, before major hostilities, rightly agree to a peace negotiation; when you are plainly losing, have lost so much and the situation is worsening, reject it. The civilised world is in the hands of reckless infants with 'feelings'.. 26 Feb /2022 Zelensky accepts Putin’s proposal, ready for peace talks - World - TASS TASS.COM According to his press secretary Sergey Nikoforov, consultations are underway about the place and time of the negotiations 13 August /22 Zelensky aide explains why Ukraine won’t negotiate with Russia — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM Kiev says it has “no motives” to engage in talks with Russia since it would mean the de-facto defeat of Ukraine and Europe

Or THAT? The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘butterfly’ mines — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union WWW.RT.COM

"Butterfly" anti-personnel mines scattered in [Russian occupied/'liberated'] Donetsk city: Who to believe? THIS? Ministry of Defence @DefenceHQ United Kingdom government organization (2/5) Russia is highly likely deploying anti-personnel mines to protect and deter freedom of movement along its defensive lines in the Donbas. These mines have the potential to inflict widespread casualties amongst both the military and the local civilian population. 7:32 AM · Aug 8, 2022·Hootsuite Inc. (The Telegraph)

Worse. I believe "he owns them" because they know he knows where the skeletons are buried. Things to prove this war was a partial set-up. When whistle-blowers begin emerging, revealing the background doings, writing books and exposes, things will get interesting. (Apparently, avaricious people holding power are little held responsible for corruption and grift, and don't feel the slightest shame when caught out. )

I need someone to explain again, how and why Zelensky that glorified little leech, had the right to demand ¬anything¬ from the West? And still demand more, presently, when the blow-back from sanctions is hurting western and other economies . Who established that Ukraine deserved any more than some humanitarian aid, for a man-made disaster which was - in part - Kyiv's own doing, they who played their part with NATO in its military planning? Absent the West's boosting of Ukraine and worship of Zelensky, he'd have had no alternative at the start (even pre-invasion) but negotiations and to make concessions. Which he will soon, after an unnecessarily prolonged conflict, after his people paid a much bigger cost and greater territory loss, we shall see in likelihood. The war-mongers wanted Russia to be humiliated, isolated and taught a lesson (and 'a message' sent to China I'm quite sure). For Russia, its not excessive demands for "security guarantees" were ridiculed and ignored. The consequences are in plain sight.

https://youtu.be/z4ZipKdI1sY https://youtu.be/wZf41UudAbI

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together". -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 Yup.

Done more than enough? Time to leave European partners to fend for themselves? Marjorie Taylor Greene urges U.S. to leave NATO to avoid war with Russia WWW.NEWSWEEK.COM Russian officials have also said that U.S.'s decision to expand in Europe will not restrain or intimidate the country as tensions remain high.

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