So, the Russians are against fracking in Europe and have a safer fertilizer which puts much less toxic cancer-causing cadmium into the food supply which they want to sell in the European market and so support those Europeans who want to enact saver environmental regulations re fertilizer safety: beware it's Putin again trying to take over the world! This is one group of capitalists trying to grab market share by producing a better product -- this is normal inter-capitalist rivalry according to their own "free-market philosophy" but of course when the "Russians" [a general term for evil forces emanating out of the Kremlin - excluding only those who have pro-American and anti-Putin sentiments who are the "opposition"] are involved nothing is as it appears and the "whiff of intrigue" permeates the atmosphere. Western, and certainly American, companies obviously don't have any connections with their governments.
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Monday, October 22, 2018
NYT Article Provides Fertilizer for Thought
So, the Russians are against fracking in Europe and have a safer fertilizer which puts much less toxic cancer-causing cadmium into the food supply which they want to sell in the European market and so support those Europeans who want to enact saver environmental regulations re fertilizer safety: beware it's Putin again trying to take over the world! This is one group of capitalists trying to grab market share by producing a better product -- this is normal inter-capitalist rivalry according to their own "free-market philosophy" but of course when the "Russians" [a general term for evil forces emanating out of the Kremlin - excluding only those who have pro-American and anti-Putin sentiments who are the "opposition"] are involved nothing is as it appears and the "whiff of intrigue" permeates the atmosphere. Western, and certainly American, companies obviously don't have any connections with their governments.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Trump Ramps Up Chances for Nuclear War
So the US wants to leave the treaty because the Russians are threatening the Europeans (after NATO encamped on its borders) and it's the Europeans who want to keep the treaty. It is pretty obvious who is stirring up tensions and is a threat to the future of humanity -- and it isn't Russia.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Khashoggi Killing Will Blow Over (Oil, Arms, & Putin Didn't Do It)
"On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that four of the men identified by Turkish media as part of a 15-man hit squad sent from Riyadh to silence Khashoggi were members of [Prince] Bin Salman’s personal security detail. Another, Tubaigy, holds a senior position in the Saudi interior ministry." Rogue elements? We have a rogue element in the White House! Prediction: This will blow over for 3 reasons -- oil, arms sales, and Putin didn't do it.
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Will the FBI Whitewash Kavanaugh?
"Republicans and Democrats alike are all but certain to seize on the F.B.I.’s findings to bolster their cases, and some current and former agents fear that politics will drown out any truth uncovered by the investigation." Well, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and the people's movement has to monitor and make sure the Republicans don't try and use this investigation to whitewash Kavanaugh's reputation. In any case, the whole sordid affair has discredited the confirmation process, the nomination should be withdrawn for the sake of the reputation of the Supreme Court (what remains of it) and if Kavanaugh put the interests of the Court before his own he would voluntarily step down.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Truth & Light versus Propaganda
"Mr. Malkevich said he aimed to turn USAReally into a kind of digital-first version of RT or Sputnik — both Russian media organizations that broadcast pro-Kremlin views inside the United States — and a counterweight to organizations funded by the United States, like Radio Free Europe, that broadcast in Russia and other countries." Well there you have it: one side misinforms people with propaganda and the other brings truth and light. One side presents the values of a system that produced Trump, the other one that produced Putin. Diogenes with his lamp would have quite a search ahead of him.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Kissinger Rides Again
actor as its continuing incompetence has shown to this very day (it has no generals who know how to win a war and only throws out money and death in its efforts to postpone defeat -- its the most expensive, destructive and useless organization in history and should be prevented from hoodwinking young American men and women into thinking they are somehow "serving their country" by joining it when it is merely a political extension of Republican and Democratic politicians furthering the interests of Wall Street Banks and Arms Manufacturers and the tool of fraudsters such as Kissinger.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Russia Falls Behind on Domestic Abuse: Bring Back the USSR
Seventy years of "socialist" education and many Russian men (most?) and women still have medieval outlooks re the role of women. Women's rights have gone backward since the end of the Soviet Union as the following quote indicates: "Activists say that the idea that women in Russia are equal is a cliché left over from the constitution of the Soviet Union, particularly in the area of domestic abuse. And various organizations focused on domestic violence ... have been labeled “foreign agents,” forcing some of them to close." The US rejected the "Equal Rights Amendment" for its constitution and we also have a big problem with domestic violence but this article indicates Russian women are worse off than they were in Soviet times as under Putin the laws against domestic violence have been weakened to protect the family! Are families based on violence? Violence is the woman's fault for not obeying her husband: “A man beating his wife is less offensive than when a man is humiliated,” Yelena Mizulina, the lawmaker who led the effort to decriminalize domestic abuse, told reporters in 2016. She added that it was “mandatory” for a woman to respect her husband as the “authority” in the marriage." Sounds like some of the Republican Congressmen we read about!
Thursday, September 6, 2018
"Fear" by Bob Woodward: The Cheat Sheet"
Don't have time to read 420 pages of Woodward? Here is the "Fear" CHEAT SHEET"-- 10 points "to get" just from the NYT review -- the least you need for a nodding acquaintance!
[All points, except in brackets, are quotes from the NYT review]
1. Nothing in Bob Woodward’s sober and grainy new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” is especially surprising.
2. “Fear” is a typical Woodward book in that named sources for scenes, thoughts and quotations appear only sometimes.
3. Woodward dispenses in “Fear” with most of the small human details that brightened his earlier books. There is no moment like the one in “Bush at War” (2002) in which George W. Bush said to a Navy steward on
duty in the West Wing, “Ferdie, I want a hamburger.”[Do we really these brightened details?]
4. Among the primary sources for this book are clearly [Reince] Priebus; Gary D. Cohn, Trump’s former chief economic adviser; and Rob Porter, Trump’s former staff secretary'
5. Cohn is in some ways this book’s moral center. If this were a first-person novel, he would be its narrator. He is shocked at every turn by Trump’s lack of knowledge and utter lack of interest in learning anything at
all. It was pointless to prepare a presentation of any sort for him.
6. Mike Pence, the vice president, comes off as a glorified golf caddy who doesn’t want to rock the boat lest Trump tweet something mean about him.
7. About Melania Trump, [Steve] Bannon says: “Behind the scenes she’s a hammer.”
8. Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation rattles Trump to his core in “Fear.”
9. John M. Dowd, Trump’s former lawyer, does not think Trump is mentally capable of testifying to the special counsel. “Don’t testify,” he is quoted as saying. “It’s either that or an orange jump suit.”
10. If this book has a single point to drive home, it is that the president of the United States is a congenital liar.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
What the CIA "Knows" About Putin
So all the CIA, etc., knows about Putin comes from one or two informants who are "close" to him and have now "gone silent", and "American intelligence agencies have not been able to say precisely what are Mr. Putin’s intentions." In other words it's, as usual, just a lot of speculation designed to justify our rekindling the cold war. The State and Defense Departments are not left out of the CIA loop and presumably know which Russian diplomats are CIA informants and they would not be among those 60 expelled -- this part of the story was just put in as cover for them. We are also told that Putin wants to eliminate current US informants by poisoning retired ones by using a poison that points to him. He must be dumber than Trump. If Russia, with a mere pittance of the resources the US has, is able to stir up chaos over here just imagine what we are doing to Russia! And who are those "pro-Russian" politicians running for office in the midterms?
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