the brits are doing all they can to start a war with the russians, and they have virtually no military worth a dime; 

 

The fighting in Ukraine continues to escalate. If this trajectory persists, the Continent will be at war again.

The Drone War

On Sunday, Ukraine launched a barrage of drone attacks on Moscow, killing civilians and damaging a vital refinery that supplies diesel, according to Russian officials. Russian state media said the military downed about 500 drones that approached Moscow, providing a glimpse into the magnitude of Ukrainian drone swarm attacks, which have been frustrating Russia all year. In total, the Russians say, Ukraine fired more than 1,000 drones in that one attack.

Ukraine’s weekend barrage came after intense Russian strikes on Kiev that also destroyed infrastructure and injured civilians, per reports.

Ukraine struck Russia just as Moscow was holding its version of elections. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bragged about the attack in a social media post.  “Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit,” he said. “These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine.”

On Monday, Russia retaliated with a wave of drone attacks of its own, this time on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. It also hit carriers or port infrastructure in Odessa and Izmail. The day before, it hit a radio electronics plant and data center on Kiev, per the Russians.

Effect on Global Energy

The war’s effect on global energy prices appears to be the most important thing at the moment for U.S. President Donald Trump. The president is facing intense political backlash over rising fuel prices at home and abroad. “Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine,” he said in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “A large number of their Diesel refineries have been blown up and are, at least temporarily, out of commission. This ridiculous and never ending War with Ukraine must be ended. The whole World suffers as 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, are being killed each month.”...........more..........

larry johnson says the orange man is attempting a bait and switch here blaming the ukies for the diesel shortage of his making; 

 

The charge is simple, and Donald Trump has built a very public demand on Kyiv around it: Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries are starving the world of diesel. Here is what that charge misses. Russia’s sour crude does not vanish when its refineries burn. It gets loaded onto tankers and sold, as crude, to India and China, whose refiners run it into diesel instead — Indian purchases of Russian crude have roughly doubled, Chinese ESPO imports keep climbing. The molecules keep moving; the refining simply relocates. What Ukraine destroys is Russia’s refining margin, not the world’s diesel supply.

Trump laid the accusation out on September 13, on his own golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, two days after US diesel cleared six dollars a gallon for the first time in history. He had found the culprit. It was not Iran. It was not the Strait of Hormuz. It was Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky “has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters; he could “go after targets, but not diesel fuel.” And then, removing any ambiguity about where he was pinning the blame: the shortage “isn’t done by the Middle East.”

That last clause is the tell, and it is false. To see why, you have to understand two things Trump either does not grasp or is counting on you not to: what kind of crude Russia actually produces, and where the world’s diesel is really made. Start with the crude, because the numbers settle the argument...........more...........

 look who owns how much of hawaii;

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 jfk to 911. everything is a rich man's trick. an excellent documentary i've got saved to my favs some long time ago. three hours and change. i'd save it to disk and watch bits when you have the time;

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 art neuveau at its finest;

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 caitlin speaks about the problems with ai due to its being controlled by its creators, warmongers all; 

The biggest AI threat isn’t artificial superintelligence wiping out humanity in a fit of mechanical vengeance like some digital Old Testament God, it’s the same oligarchs and empire managers as usual inflicting the same evils and abuses as usual upon their fellow man. 

We’re already presently watching the empire building AI into its killing machines and causing all kinds of horrifying problems while these technologies become more and more complex and unpredictable. 

CNN reports that US military AI “almost started a war” with China when it hallucinated intelligence showing a Chinese ship transporting nuclear weapon components to Iran; US military planes were apparently already in the air preparing to attack the vessel before human intelligence picked up on the error...........more..........

 the old trump vs the new one, same as the old one but you didn't notice; 

 

A growing number of MAGA voters are finding Donald Trump to be a colossal, dystopian disappointment. Many of these former supporters have taken to social media to wonder, ‘What happened to him?’

According to this perception of reality, Donald Trump was once America’s savior—a champion of the people, a warrior for freedom and against powerful interests, and the president of peace. But then something happened. He was compromised in his second term. He stopped caring and started selling out. Their hero fell from grace to join the swamp he once worked to drain. He abandoned America First principles to bow to Israel and AIPAC. He sold out to Big Tech, and he betrayed the MAHA crowd (to name a few examples).

I’ve seen countless expressions of this sentiment across social media platforms.

“I miss this guy…To see what he’s become today depresses me greatly,” reads one tweet accompanying a clip of Trump in 2016 criticizing the war in Iraq. A quote tweet of this clip says, “Me too, all of us OG real MAGA miss the guy we actually voted for 3 times, not sure what we have now.”

An Instagram reel titled “Trump before PAC money,” which features the same old Trump clip, has comments that feature a similar sentiment:

“He eventually became a real politician.”

“Before Don sold out! I just can’t believe he sold us out. He was a good first term president and terrible 2nd term.”

The only problem with these views? They’re rooted in a grotesquely false premise: that Trump was ever the anti-establishment hero he painted himself to be. The “old Trump” never existed. It was all smoke, mirrors, and rhetoric that told voters what they longed to hear (in a telling instance of this disconnect from reality, Trump received PAC money in 2016, when he made the comments in the featured clip, and was actively courting such donors)..........more..........