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Russia-Ukraine: A Different Invasion, The West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script

Simple-minded media propaganda – like the claim Russia’s Putin is deranged – is precisely what brought us to the crisis over Ukraine

By Jonathan Cook: How convenient for western leaders that every time another country defies the West’s projection of power, the western media can agree on one thing: that the foreign government in question is led by a madman, a psychopath or a megalomaniac. 

At a drop of a hat, western leaders are absolved of guilt or even responsibility for the terrible events that unfold. The West remains virtuous, simply a victim of the world’s madmen. Nothing the West did was a provocation. Nothing they could have done would have averted the disaster. 

The US may be the most powerful state on the planet by far, but its hands are apparently always tied by a deranged, implacable foe like Russia’s Vladimir Putin. 

Putin, we are told, is not advancing any rational – from his perspective – geopolitical or strategic interest by invading his neighbour, Ukraine. And so no concession could or should have been made because none would have prevented him from acting as he has.

All Your Climate Questions Answered In 60 SECONDS

"How easy it is to make people believe a lie and how hard it is to undo that work again." - Mark Twain

Corbett: First, we’ll need to define our terms, so we’ll have to determine what the average global temperature is and how it’s measured:

What is the Average Global Temperature?

Then we’ll have to examine the temperature record to make sure we have an accurate dataset to work from:

Ukraine: Questions For The US Anti-War Movement

Abby Martin & Brian Becker discuss the Ukraine war and what it means for the anti-war movement.

War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian And Reckless

Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.

By Glenn Greenwald: In the weeks leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, those warning of the possible dangers of U.S. involvement were assured that such concerns were baseless. The prevailing line insisted that nobody in Washington is even considering let alone advocating that the U.S. become militarily involved in a conflict with Russia. That the concern was based not on the belief that the U.S. would actively seek such a war, but rather on the oft-unintended consequences of being swamped with war propaganda and the high levels of tribalism, jingoism and emotionalism that accompany it, was ignored. It did not matter how many wars one could point to in history that began unintentionally, with unchecked, dangerous tensions spiraling out of control. Anyone warning of this obviously dangerous possibility was met with the “straw man” cliché: you are arguing against a position that literally nobody in D.C. is defending.

The French Government Has Long Been Bought And Paid For By The Jews' Pro-Apartheid Lobby

Zio-Shill France disagrees with the South Africans and Amnesty International and rejects apartheid label for genocidal anti-Gentile Jews' Israel regime.

By Ali Abunimah: President Emmanuel Macron has rejected the finding by several major human rights organizations that Israel perpetrates the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people.

“It is not acceptable in the name of a just struggle for liberty that organizations misuse historically charged, shameful terms to describe the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Jean Castex said at the gala dinner of CRIF, France’s main Jewish communal and Israel lobby group, on Thursday.

Castex was reading a speech that Macron had planned to deliver in person. However, the president sent his prime minister instead due to the crisis in Ukraine.

The Narrative Is Shifting + You Thought The Scamdemic Was Bad? Wait Till You See THIS!

 "All you've got to do is be in prison for the rest of your life. ...Safe from life, safe from freedom!" The gospel according to ultra Zionist Jew Bill Gates.

Russell Brand: Whilst it’s revealed that the CDC hasn’t been publishing a large part of the Covid-19 hospitalizations data it collects, Bill Gates has been speaking about the dangers of misinformation. So, shouldn’t this rule apply to everyone?

Patricians v Plebeians: The Great Realignment

...the most portentous moment in our political lives: the commercial elite, the new Patrician class, is drifting full fascist, while the Plebeians are pushing for uncompromised freedom.

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker: When I was a kid - and the same with my parents when they were young - you could count on certain fundamentals in politics. The Chamber of Commerce represented business, and business generally favored free enterprise. Not always, but mostly. 

Small businesses could become big and big could become small, but they generally opposed socialism, big government, regulation, and high taxes. For this reason, they generally supported the Republican Party. 

It was also a time of class malleability, with people moving in and out and up and down. There were always gaps between rich, middle, and poor but they were not as wide as now, and there was a healthy rotation among them. 

In the last ten years, and accelerating dramatically in the last three, this has changed.

Civilized Nations Kill With Sanctions And Proxy Armies: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Pouring more weapons into Ukraine is not how you save lives; you save lives by negotiating a ceasefire. Pouring more weapons into Ukraine is how you create a long and expensive military quagmire for Russia at the cost of many thousands of lives to advance US strategic interests. While making a vast fortune for the arms industry.

By Caitlin Johnstone: Issuing a guarantee that you would never add a nation to NATO who you don’t plan on adding anyway is a no-brainer when the alternative is mass military butchery.

I mean, unless your goal was to provoke mass military butchery.

The European Commission President Announces In Effect That EU Is Joining The War Against Russia

'It is stunning that no one in the Western leadership or media understood that Russia was serious about her security concern. Whether the West regarded the Kremlin’s concern as warranted or not, everything should have been done to reassure Russia.'

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The idiot European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced that, despite Putin’s warning, the EU is going to finance the purchase and delivery of weapons to Ukraine.  The idiot also said the EU is going to include Belarus, which is not involved in the fighting, in the sanctions, because it is a Russian ally.  She says the EU wants to ban Russian media because they don’t keep to the official war narrative. 

So, the European Commission president announces that the EU is joining the war on the side of the Ukrainian Nazis, and Washington’s idiot UN Ambassador accuses Putin of escalating the war.  We see here the results of Putin’s far too many years of keeping his patience with the West.  The West has grown accustomed to imposing punishment upon punishment on Russia with no consequences to itself.  Now suddenly there are consequences, and it is all Putin’s fault.

The Effect Of Sanctions On British & European Energy Prices

British And European Politicians Brought High Energy Price On Us For Their Jewish Paymasters With Idiotic Sanctions On Russia

Sputnik: The price of March futures for gas in Europe has jumped to over $1,636 per 1,000 cubic metres, up 60% from Wednesday's indices after Germany froze certification for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did not rule out on Tuesday that EU gas prices may hit the threshold of 2,000 euros per 1000 cubic metres.

The European gas price is continuing its rally: according to Bloomberg's Tuesday report, it had already jumped by as much as 13% on "geopolitical tensions" over the Ukraine crisis. Still, it's only the beginning, given that the EU appears ready to slap even more sanctions on Russia, according to Dr Paul Craig Roberts, former US assistant treasury secretary in the Ronald Reagan administration.

Sputnik: How will the unfolding events affect the already soaring gas prices in Europe?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The sharp rise in natural gas price in Europe is entirely due to Western hysteria and stupidity...

New Zealand High Court: Vaccine Mandate Not "Demonstrably Justified", Breach Of Rights

The New Zealand High Court has upheld a challenge to a vaccine mandate for Police and Defence Force staff, stating that it was not a “demonstrably justified” breach of the Bill of Rights.

Authored by Katabella Robert: Justice Francis Cooke was asked by a group of Police and Defence Force personnel to judicially review the vaccine mandate enacted under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act in December.

The mandate required all Defence Force personnel and all Police constables, recruits, and authorized officers to receive two doses of the vaccine by March 1.

But on Jan. 6, three unvaccinated staff who did not wish to receive the shots sought a judicial review of the mandate. They were supported by affidavits from 37 of their colleagues in the same position.