RN: The Minsk agreements were simply a falsification of the West! The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, at a regular briefing, announced that Russia had received irrefutable evidence that the West started the war in Ukraine! This evidence was reported by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her recent interview with the Zeit newspaper on December 7, 2022. Merkel admitted that the West and Ukraine were not going to implement the Minsk agreements of 2014 in order to give Ukraine time to pump Western weapons into the Kyiv regime.
11 Dec 2022
Why The Left Must Destroy Free Speech... Or Be Destroyed
Totalitarians who go toe-to-toe with truth always lose, eventually...
Authored by Thomas DiLorenzo: In Hayek’s famous 1944 book, The Road to Serfdom, he warned that the intellectual and political classes of the democracies of that time were embracing some of the same ideas that inspired Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s Russia: comprehensive government planning, hyper regulation of industry, nationalization, welfare statism, and collectivism in general. He did not predict that these societies would end up “in serfdom,” however, as some have mistakenly claimed. Quite the contrary. In his first chapter he clearly stated that he hoped the ideas in the book would help these countries to avoid that disastrous fate. He hoped the ideas of the book would be a roadblock on the road to serfdom.
The eleventh chapter of The Road to Serfdom is entitled “The End of Truth,” about the historical imperative in all totalitarian states throughout history to destroy freedom of speech so that the only true belief is “the social plan” imposed by the state, whatever that may be. This is achieved by relentless institutionalized lying and propaganda, coupled with harsh censorship of all contrary ideas or even questions about the propriety of forcefully imposing one single “social plan.”
Luongo: EU's Oil Price Cap Is "Simply Moronic", Chindia Already Filling Gaps
Janet Yellen may be stupid, but she’s not that stupid. She knows what this price cap she’s championed will do...
Authored by Tom Luongo: The
EU and the US went forward with their long-debated, long-telegraphed
move to put a price cap on Russian oil at $60 per barrel.
By
believing they can pressure suppliers into not hauling Russian oil lest
they run afoul of the sanctions that support the price cap, they
believe they can take only Russian oil off the market for the long run.
Because of the way oil is actually traded in the real world, versus the way it trades in Janet Yellen’s head, this policy is actually much harder to implement than it actually looks. You don’t buy oil at the crude oil counter at Target or Wal-Mart.
There isn’t a price tag you can look at and say yes or no too. As Tsvetana Paraskova at Oilprice points out, crude contracts are written based on a discount or premium to a benchmark price at a particular moment in time.
Oops!: DNA From 2 Million Years Ago Reveals Arctic Utopia That Was 50-65 Degrees Warmer
"The data suggests that more species can evolve and
adapt to wildly varying temperatures than previously thought,"
According to researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Coppenhagen, the northern peninsula of Greenland - which is now a polar desert - once contained boreal forests of popular and birch trees that were teeming with wildlife.
"A new chapter spanning 1m extra years of history has finally been opened and for the first time we can look directly at the DNA of a past ecosystem that far back in time," said the researchers, Prof. Eske Willerslev, adding "DNA can degrade quickly but we’ve shown that under the right circumstances, we can now go back further in time than anyone could have dared imagine."
We Need To Talk About This - Balenciaga & Why I Was "Cancelled"
Shoe0nHead: The clothing brand Balenciaga made a creepy photoshoot that threw the internet into complete chaos. Apparently we can't talk about it because it hurts the gays or something.
10 Dec 2022
"Ukraine Is Reeling" - Clare Daly
"The Ukrainian state is reeling, unable to finance services its people desperately need. But billions in EU financial assistance are not free; they're loans, which Ukraine will default on. Meanwhile there is little oversight or assurance the funds are going where they should." Clare Daly on Twitter
Didn't See This One Coming
"The conspiracy theorists who claimed that Twitter was Shadow Banning and censoring high profile accounts were right all along."
Anything Goes
The Anglosphere Dumbed Down On Russia
“The problem ain’t what people know. It’s what people know that ain’t so; that’s the problem...”
I can almost hear readers new to this website cry out in disbelief: "That cannot be. Official Washington and the media assured us that the Russians hacked those emails in order to help Trump win. And didn’t Obama throw out 35 Russian diplomats in reaction? And what about those 12 Russian intelligence agents indicted for hacking?" Were U.S. officials and media mistaken?
No, not mistaken. They were lying.
THE TWITTER FILES: The Removal Of Donald Trump, Part 1
Behind the curtain...
By Tyler Durden: The third installment of Elon Musk's release of internal Twitter communications has been released, once again via veteran journalist Matt Taibbi.
In this episode, which is a 3-parter, we learn what happened behind the scenes which led to the banishment of former President Donald Trump from the platform.
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th
2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th...3. We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.4. This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @ShellenbergerMD will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @bariweiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.5. Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech.
New Zealand Takes Baby From Parents Demanding "Unvaccinated" Blood For Heart Surgery
"You touch our child and we will press criminal charges against you..."
By Tyler Durden: New Zealand's High Court on Wednesday took custody of an infant whose parents demanded he only receive blood from donors who are unvaccinated against Covid-19 for an urgently needed heart surgery to repair a congenital defect.
The parents, Cole Reeves and Samantha Savage, rejected doctors' assertion that using blood donated from outside normal channels was "impractical" for the child's circumstance, and that surgery without donated blood was "not an available option."
Apparently an unvaccinated volunteer with the same blood type is not 'an available option.'
Judge Ian Gault ruled that it was in "Baby W's best interests" for the court to take temporary custody of him so the surgery could be performed. The infant was placed under the guardianship of the court from Wednesday until he recovers from surgery, but not beyond January 31st, the Washington Post reports.
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