our collective focus and attention span;

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 support ukraine? read and watch this and then ask yourself, rhetorically, why do i think this way;

You will have to copy and paste the link below.  It is a vid of a captured Russian soldier, hands tied behind his back,  then he is beaten and his eyes gouged,  and then he is shot.   Do not watch if you can’t handle a human being screaming in agony. Am not kidding.

https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/crime.mp4?_=1 

The same site (southfront.org) has TONS of videos.  Ukies bombing a Ukie church, with worshipers inside,  in Lugansk.  Or, maybe you’ll enjoy where a Russian prisoner is forced to <i> call his mother (!!)</i> and the Ukies then mock the mother, and later kill the captured soldier (although the killing is not recorded).  There are  vids of captured Russian solders bleeding and burned and not receiving medical care but, rather, have their eyes gouged out.  No this is not Russian propaganda — the Ukie Nazis themselves are the ones releasing these vids.  The torture is widespread. They show them on Ukie television nightly.  Really. The Ukies love this new kind of reality show. ........read more.........

 more moves by the 'most moral democracy' in the middle east;

On Thursday, a young Palestinian woman suffered life-threatening wounds after an Israeli military jeep rammed her near Tuqu’ town, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said the young woman, 19, was rammed by the army jeep immediately after stepping out of a bus.

The wounded young woman, a university student, was on a trip organized by her college when the incident occurred.

The soldiers called Israeli medics to the scene and moved her to an Israeli hospital in occupied Jerusalem......https://imemc.org/article/young-palestinian-woman-in-critical-condition-after-israeli-army-jeeps-rammed-her/

 max igan on ukraine and more..........

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 it looks like putin is doing some judo moves on the empire and one of those moves is taking the dollar down several notches which will be hard on those of us that spend dollars;

A new reality is being formed: the unipolar world is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past, a multipolar one is taking shape

It was something to behold. Dmitri Medvedev, former Russian President, unrepentant Atlanticist, current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, decided to go totally unplugged in an outburst matching the combat star turn of Mr. Khinzal that delivered palpable shock and awe all across NATOstan.

Medvedev said “hellish” Western sanctions not only have failed to cripple Russia, but are instead “returning to the West like a boomerang.” Confidence in reserve currencies is “fading like the morning mist”, and ditching the US dollar and the euro is not unrealistic anymore: “The era of regional currencies is coming.”

After all, he added, “no matter if they want it or not, they’ll have to negotiate a new financial order (…) And the decisive voice will then be with those countries that have a strong and advanced economy, healthy public finances and a reliable monetary system.”

Medvedev relayed his succinct analysis even before D Day – as in the deadline this Thursday established by President Putin after which payments for Russian gas by “unfriendly nations” will only be accepted in rubles.

The G7, predictably, had struck a (collective) pose: we won’t pay. “We” means the 4 that are not large Russian gas importers. “We”, moreover, means the Empire of Lies dictating the rules. As for the 3 that will be in dire straits, not only they are major importers but also happen to be WWII losers – Germany, Italy and Japan, still de facto occupied territories. History does have a habit of playing perverted tricks.........read more.......

this individual provides some reality based information on syria that 'our free press' will never provide, as they're part of the conspiracy they accuse others of joining in;

 The Syrian war was the first fully observed conflict on social-media and the ability to connect directly with Syrians real time as they were experiencing the crisis was unprecedented. This created a unique opportunity to get unfiltered information directly from all sides of the conflict to gain insights and understanding. The results have helped shake off the control by conventional news media over foreign events reporting and analysis. While this has created some chaos, valuable lessons have been (or should have been) learned.

I began researching Syria and the war there in late 2012, and have made seven extended journeys traveling around during the war from 2016 through 2019, meeting with hundreds of Syrians from different backgrounds, walks of life, and opinions as a 100 percent non-affiliated, unpaid, and self/crowd-funded, independent citizen-journalist.

It became clear that what’s been happening in Syria was not a spontaneous, organic, popular uprising against a tyrant, but a proxy regime-change attempt war in the works since the mid 2000’s against the quite popular Assad. This effort was spearheaded by the US, UK, France, and Israel, using Sunni violent fundamentalists and extremists (unpopular with the majority of Syria’s Sunni population as well as minority groups) armed and funded by the West and regional allies of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar to start the violence and do the dirty work. The basic character of the rebel groups was apparent from the beginning: Syrian and non-Syrian fighters most Westerners would call terrorists and be screaming for their government to crush if the same heavily armed groups had taken over their cities, towns, and suburbs by massacring, beheading, torturing, kidnapping, and raping.

Syrians often remarked to me that before the war their country was “almost a paradise.” The middle class was the largest economic sector and growing. Religious harmony was the norm and Christians there were doing well. International investment was increasing as were the tourists. Women were equal or outnumbering men in the universities and present in leadership roles in nearly all aspects of society. Syria had made the “Top 5” list of the world’s most personally safe countries. President Assad had brought the Internet into the country and kept it open throughout the war and the people there knew all that was being said in the West about the crisis.........read more.......

This doesn’t mean Syria was perfect and Assad beloved by all Syrians. There were and are many problems there which are directly attributed to the government with corruption always being number one on the list of grievances. These internal issues have been exacerbated by the war.

 pcr calls this ukrainian update #9. he presents ideas on the empire and ukraine;

Ukrainian Update #9

Paul Craig Roberts

Just as everything you were told about Covid by the media and health and government officials was false, so is everything you have been told by the same propagandistic liars about Ukraine. Americans have had nothing but lies since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, of his brother, US Senator Robert Kennedy President-in-Waiting, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam war, 9/11, Saddam Hussian’s nonexistent “weapons of mass destruction,” Assad’s “use of chemical weapons,” Iranian nukes, the extraordinary lies about Kaddafi, Covid pandemic, Russian invasions. The entire Western World lives in The Mattrix, a world created by propaganda. The vast majority of people in the West have no idea of the reality in which they live. This makes them impotent and completely unable to protect their freedom. They are sitting ducks for tyranny which is fast enclosing around them.

Take the Ukraine narrative, for example. The story as presented to the public by the Western media has no relationship to reality.  The Ukraine narrative has collapsed as completely as the Covid narrative.  There will be no going back to it.  The narrative will simply be dropped as the next crisis–inflation perhaps or a newly released pathogen–takes the front page.

There was never a Russian invasion of Ukraine.  Russian military focus was on the Donbass region in east and south Ukraine.  Inhabited by Russians and part of Russia herself until Soviet leaders transferred it, like Crimea, into Ukraine for their reasons.  When the US overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014 and took control over Ukraine, the Crimean and Donbass Russians voted overwhelmingly to be reunited with Russia.  The Kremlin accepted Crimea but not Donbass........read more......