a russian announcement the brits won't enjoy; 

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 caitlin speaks of things equivalent to the n word. its the empire's attempt to say something with out saying it and here we have the same with these 'groups' that are and aren't the same time; 

The US has joined the UK in adding the activist group Palestine Action to its list of designated terrorist organizations. 

The UK proscribing Palestine Action was already arguably the most insane attack on free speech in recent western history, and now it’s the official position of the US government as well. Western support for Israel is poisoning our entire civilization.

The US has also made the unprecedented move of adding the Italian tech support collective Autistici/Inventati to its list of banned terrorist groups, not because they’ve been accused of any crimes, but explicitly because the company allows people to communicate with each other while staying “anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law.” Americans are now strictly forbidden from any transactions with the banned company.

In this dystopia, mass surveillance is now so normalized that you can be designated a terrorist for helping people avoid being surveilled.........more...........

 the nyt is racist. they use the euphemism, the n word. i've always wondered, it is supposed to be a replacement for speaking of niggers, so what's the difference. in both cases you refer to the same concept and citizen in question. essentially, in both cases you say the same thing; 

 

Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine has a long article on how — or even whether — Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn should be taught to American students. Reportedly, in 1989, it was the third most common novel students were assigned to read in high school. There is no comparable ranking today, but a recent study found that only 77 of 4,000 high school teachers used the book often.

The author of the article, Ruth Franklin, is a journalism professor and literary critic, who has written three books: one about Holocaust fiction, a biography of white novelist Shirley Jackson, and a book about Anne Frank. You can guess the main objection she and others have against Huckleberry Finn: “the racist slur known euphemistically as the N-word appears more than 200 times.” Some teachers think the word “endangers Black students.” (Miss Franklin gives blacks, but not whites, reverential upper-case treatment.) She also reports that many teachers have dropped the book because they don’t have “the intellectual energy to handle a text widely seen as radioactive — and . . . fear that a misstep could cost them their jobs.”

Fetishizing this two-syllable word is one of the supreme acts of white sycophancy, especially since blacks use it freely. The word “endangers black students” when whites use it, but is neutral, even friendly, when blacks use it. Whites don’t get a pass if they say “nigga” rather than “nigger.” If there are other examples in history of a word commonly used by one race in a society but its use is a punishable offense in another race, I can’t think of one. Blacks, and no one else, have the doubtful honor of a slur that is considered 10 times more terrible than the grossest obscenity or profanity. No doubt, liberals and blacks would tell you that this is because blacks have been uniquely stigmatized and exploited............more...........

It is absurd that the reputation of a great American novel has become hostage to white toadying of a kind Twain could never have imagined. It is even more absurd that teachers — and only white teachers, I imagine — can lose their jobs because of a “misstep” because of this terrifying word. This says a great deal about the whipped state of mind of whites and nothing about the novel...........more........

 brother nathanael takes four minutes to tell us about joos ideology, wars and immigrants;

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 larry johnson speaks about the cia director traveling to russia and more;

 

[Before diving into tonight’s featured article I want to offer a brief comment on John Ratcliffe’s strange visit to Moscow. The key for me is the C-17. Why use that plane? The CIA Director has a Gulfstream V (GV), which has a published maximum range of about 6,500 nautical miles, more than enough to reach Moscow. Commodore Steve Jermy has offered up the best possible explanation… Ratcliffe was picking up the bodies of dead CIA officers that the Russians had collected. Coffins travel better on a C-17 than a GV.]

Every commentator now reaches for the same word. The American century is ending, the dollar’s grip is loosening, new blocs are forming, and the world, we are told, is becoming “multipolar.” The word feels precise. It is not. “Multipolar” imports a set of twentieth-century assumptions that actively misdescribe what is emerging in the global economy, and because the word we choose determines what we look for and what we measure, the wrong word produces the wrong analysis. There is a better one, and it is not merely a matter of style. The order taking shape is multinodal.

The distinction matters most precisely in the domain where change is fastest — the geoeconomic one, the world of payment rails, trade corridors, currencies, energy routes, and supply chains. That is a networked world, and networks are made of nodes, not poles........more...........

 

 pcr says that the putin doesn't really want to win in the ukie war; 

 

Russia Under Putin Is an Example of Self-Defeat

Paul Craig Roberts

Since 2014 I have been puzzled by the absence of a Russian foreign policy strategy.  The Kremlin had the carrot–diplomacy–but no stick, the absence of which made the diplomacy ineffective.  If the diplomacy failed, there was no backup plan.

We saw this in 2014 when Washington overthrew without Russian opposition the Russian-friendly government in Ukraine and installed an anti-Russian puppet government.  Russian military intervention could easily have prevented the overthrow as the overthrow was not the product of an internal uprising but was an orchestration by an outside party.

The immediate consequence was that Crimea, the home of Russia’s Black Sea naval base, and Russian Donbas, which previous Soviet regimes had attached to Ukraine, voted overwhelmingly to be reincorporated into Russia.  The Kremlin accepted the Crimean vote to save its naval base, but not the Donbas vote. Instead, Russian President Putin came up with the Minsk Agreement in which Donbas was to remain part of Ukraine but have some autonomy, such as independent police and judicial system to prevent the Russian citizens from being oppressed by the neo-Nazi elements of the US imposed Ukrainian government.

The Response of the Kremlin-deserted Donbas Russians was to declare two independent Republics: Donbas and Luhansk. The independent republics were partly occupied by Ukrainian forces, but their militias were able to mainly fend off the anti-Russian Ukrainian forces that came to stamp out Russian language and culture in Donbas..........more..........

 tucker eviscerates mark cuban live on stage. nine minutes;

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