…oh dear…several of the English papers still showing pictures of flares falling slowly and fizzling out when hitting the ground as evidence of a reckless attack on a nuclear power station…where is the fearless journalism…sure the Russians could have fired off a load of cruise missiles from the safety of their own borders if they’d wanted to do the yankee ‘shock and awe’ thing…
Vlad X. Novichok
That nazi boner for Putin of yours. I’m surprised you’ve got anything left to tug as surely it’s well worn out by now.
bisted
…wouldn’t like to be a nazi anything when the Red Army come to find the facist mob who stormed the capital building in Kyiv and replaced the democratically elected administration…
Vlad X. Novichok
Ah. I see you’re one of those that’s gone full swastika tattoo on your Putin boner.
SOQ
Russians are not the ones waving the swastikas- Ukraine’s Azov are one of the most extreme neo Nazi military outfits in all of Europe.
Uncomfortable truth but the graphics accompanying the ‘Who do you think you are Mr Hitler’ opening video would look very different this time around.
They’re more into waving their clusterbombs to be fair. Proving very generous too with those.
scottser
Now SOQ, we’ve been through this already. The more gack you watch on tik tok, the more gack it feeds you. The algorithm is designed to eliminate critical thought.
Seriously, clear your cookies and try another news source cos the Chinese are screwing your head right up.
SOQ
Yes of course- it is not like cluserbombs were ever used before now is it?
@scottser- TikTok is not that hard to figure out when you apply it to differing device platforms and national IP ranges.
Even then, you do not need to rely on being spoon fed random if you are checking your contacts on a regular basis.
It is the least censored and most used of all the social media platforms right now.
Take your patronising guff somewhere else.
scottser
‘Least censored’ does not equal ‘informed’. You’d swallow any old shite at this stage – enjoy the rabbit hole.
K.Cavan
Ah, Vlad, would ya stop! My ribs are aching from laughing at you guys. How ye can swallow so many bricks, while keeping your tongues shoved so far up the CIA’s ass is amazing.
You lads are dumb & dumber & even dumber & oh look, he’s soiled his pants, again.
George
SOQ, the Chinese Government owns a share of Tik Tok, they wouldn’t be the type to censor anything would they?
SOQ
Tell me scottser – do you understand how Neural networks work? Natural language processing? Expert systems? If not then I suggest you go learn the basics, and then I can explain to you how TikTok build their feeds.
That you don’t like the content some people are posting is not my problem, nor theirs.
K.Cavan
Ah, Vlad, are you Dolly? You’re certainly just as childish & immature. Go on, admit it, there’s a few quid hanging on it.
K.Cavan
Oh, scottser, is that what happened to you? You had your critical thinking abilities removed by a tiktok addiction? How tragic.
Get outta that, it’s obvious you were born bereft of the ability to think critically or think at all. Which was fine’n’dandy , back in the day, when there were still a few critical thinkers left in the media but now those industries are populated by Wokies and Womanists who can barely spell, never mind string a cohesive sentence together & you’re really left high & dry, aren’t you, poor thing.
K.Cavan
You’re not really keeping abreast of things, are you, George? Wakey, wakey, censorship is far more common in The West, these days, than it’s been in China for quite some time. TikTok is virtually uncensored, the Chinese like the depravity & mental illness that’s displayed by Wokies on there. It allows them to sit back and enjoy watching their enemies be destroyed from within, by the cancer of mindless screeching Wokery.
Cian
What are you talking about?
Was it the 2014 protests in Ukraine? And if so, what was the “democratically elected administration” replaced with?
bisted
…that’s the one Cian…where a mob stormed the Capital building…the irony…and replaced the elected administration with a puppet administration…the yanks ought to have learned after Turkey that EU membership is not in their gift…
Cian
I see your confusion. You have the whole thing upside-down.
Yanukovych was the puppet. He was elected in 2010 on a pro-EU manifesto. In 2013 he suddenly rejected the EU deal that was ready to sign and jumped to a Russian deal. There were protests to this that turned violent. Yanukovych is currently in exile in Russia. He is wanted in Ukraine for treason.
The protesters demanded new elections. There were democratic elections in 2014 where a new government was fairly elected.
Nigel
The idea that the Ukrainians might want support from the West to protect themselves from Putin is inconceivable to bisted.
RuilleBuille
The Yanks spent $4billion in 2014 to over throw the democratically elected government assisted by the openly Nazi Azov movement.
Nigel
Yeah, that’s the only possible explanation as to why Ukrainians would prefer the West to Putin’s Russia. Putin had to send in mercs (who are also Nazis, incidientally) to get the seperatist conflicts going in those pro-Russian enclaves.
K.Cavan
Cian, try to keep up. We haven’t got the time to be giving you children history lessons. There were, in fact, two CIA-led “Colour Revolutions” in Ukraine. Try looking it up on the internet, the first one didn’t hold, their puppet lost control, so they did it again. Looks like that one didn’t turn out to well either, eh?
K.Cavan
Ah, Nigel, you’re making me laugh like a drain, again. You actually have the temerity to come on here and comment about the situation in Ukraine, while not having the tiniest clue about it’s recent history. Clearly, you don’t mind exposing yourself as a clown. It’s hilarious.
What a spectacular ignoramus you are, what’s more, you’re clearly quite proud of your ignorance.
Nigel
You certainly are a drain.
K.Cavan
Ever hear about the snipers who killed 60 protestors & 17 cops, Cian? There was a negotiated settlement on the horizon between the protestors & the government, unsurprising, really, since it was a democratically-elected government, after all, but that just didn’t suit the psychopaths in the CIA, who’d already replaced the previous government a decade before, only to see their picks rejected repeatedly at elections, by the Ukrainians. So, the CIA sent in the snipers to randomly slaughter people on both sides, to ensure there was no peace until their man was installed.
The snipers were never apprehended, they’re probably all back in the US, now, enjoying their pay-off from The Firm.
Of course any decent person would be appalled by such cold-blooded calculation, shooting people just to stir up trouble but you, of course, would fully endorse & support such evil, I assume.
As soon as that low-life, Zelensky, was installed, he turned the entire country into a money-laundering operation for drug czars & corporate tax-dodgers & commenced a reign of terror on the two republics in Donbass, setting Ukrainian artillery to shelling civilians & letting the dogs of the Azov Brigade loose on women & children.
You’re surely some sort of sick scumbag yourself, to be mindlessly supporting these murdering savages.
K.Cavan
So, Nigel, these ”pro-Russian enclaves”, which by the way are Russian People’s Republics, are so pro-Russian that they needed mercenaries sent in to stir them up, yeah? The shelling from Ukraine and the tender attention of the Azovs wasn’t enough, you reckon?
You don’t even have any internal logic to call on in your posts, do you.
They were pro-Russian but Russia send mercenaries in, how does that work? Were they anti-pro-Russian?
K.Cavan
Actually, bisted, Putin has a rather cunning plan for those lads. The Azov Brigade, the Mercenaries and those in the Ukrainian army who fancy it, he’s going to dump them in Western Ukraine, bordering the EU. There they’ll find all the arms sent by the moronic governments of the EU, which unsurprisingly, nobody is moving into the East, where the war is being fought.
All those guns, all those scumbags, it’s gonna make Aleppo look like a holiday camp & it’s all gonna be right on Europe’s doorstep. Still, at least we’ll have our great leader, Queen Ursula, to guide us through the mayhem to come, eh? She’ll sort it all out like she’s sorted out, eh, wait, there must be something, she’s a Strong Woman, surely, no, nothing, she’ll do nothing. No, that’s wrong, she’ll go to the hairdressers, phew, saved.
Stunning & Brave.
goldenbrown
busted
you’re probably still drunk
try again this afternoon after a bit of kip and some food
then maybe you’ll be able to write blog comments that have some sort of value
Mad
I like bisted’s comments, clear-eyed, hates hypocrisy and many exponents if it, and mostly well-informed
bisted
…thanks Mad…just off out on my weekly pub crawl…I may resemble Goldens image when I return…as Churchill once said: tomorrow goldenbrown will still be goldenbrown…I’ll be sober…
K.Cavan
I quite like Cian & Nigel’s comments, they’re spectacularly, mind-blowingly dumb & that’s an achievement of sorts. They were both peppering this site with utter lunacy about the Covid scam, yet haven’t learned a single thing, even when that changed from Deadly Plague Sweeps The Planet to Meh! almost overnight.
You can lead a horse to water…
Nigel
I quite like your comments because
Haha no, psych!
K.Cavan
”Ha-ha, psyche”? ”Ha-ha, psyche”?
God help you Nigel, you have no sense, very few brain cells but what’s worse, no sense of humour. Don’t give up the day-job, lad.
How’s your sperm count?
K.Cavan
bisted, even if he was drunk, stoned & concussed, would make more sense than poor Nigel & Cian, who waste our time on here regurgitating puke from the MSM that was already rancid nonsense when the MSM spoon-fed them with it.
Nigel
bisted: look, the nuclear power plant was only subjected to a little light shelling, what’s the big deal?
bisted
…fair play to the Russians…they’ve learned US/Nato would stoop to any level to humiliate them…it will soon dawn on the Ukrainians that they have been used as pawns…taking Chernobyl and the largest power station under their control may prove to be pivotal…at least they have shown another feeble attempt to demonise them like in the failed Syrian adventure…
Nigel
Fair play to the Russians for shelling a nuclear power plant and setting it on fire? Or you’re blaming the US/Nato for them shelling the power plant? How are the Ukrainians going to come to the conclusion that they’ve been used as pawns, when Russia is using them as targets? Chemical attacks on civilians in Syria, shelling nuclear power plants and dropping cluster bombs on civilians in Ukraine – your hero Putin may be Problematic.
bisted
…your hero Obama bombed eight different countries and through Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks we know the extent of his lies…the Russians successfully stopped a further regime change in the middle east to appease his zionist chums…no lectures on truth from a continuity Democrat please…
Nigel
‘But-but Obama.’ Invading another country, shelling civilians, setting nuclear power plant on fire. Also, he’s a corrupt dictator who jails his enemies and shuts down dissent. Nice guy.
Maura
For God’s sake Nigel, if the nuclear plant was set on fire we’d all be kissing our a**holes goodbye by now; can you not engage some bit of critical analysis and understand that the likes of me isn’t a cheerleader for Putin but the guy does play hard ball and that’s the only thing the Yanks, the Brits and the EU Commissars understand. Putin had to react – and reaction it is – to the encroachment by NATO right up to his flank, anybody worth their salt would do likewise. And it’s not that long (WW2) that Finland helped Nazi Germany surround Leningrad and a siege of 872 days. No twitter, tiktok etc etc then but plenty of sheer b1oody suffering, starvation and death.
For me one of the most obscene things I ever saw was Obama and Hillary Clinton watching on-screen as Bin Laden was ‘taken out’ by US Seals. Please try to understand that I was never a cheerleader for Bin Laden either – do try, it’s not difficult. The obscenity lay in the fact that the so-called ‘leaders of the free word and defenders of democracy’ were watching a snuff movie – live.
I despise ALL warmongers equally.
Do try to develop some sense of perspective on things.
Nigel
No, if the fire had not been put out, we’d all be kissing our a**holes goodbye by now.
‘the likes of me isn’t a cheerleader for Putin but…’ here’s some cheerleading.
‘that’s the only thing the Yanks, the Brits and the EU Commissars understand’
You can’t make an omlette without breaking Ukraine.
‘I despise ALL warmongers equally.’
But not, apparently, the one who started this war. He’s just playing hardball.
Mad
Just wee off Nigel
Nigel
No.
K.Cavan
A small group of saboteurs died in a firefight in the grounds of the Soviet-built plant.
End Of Story.
Untwist your nickers, lads, there’s far worse news on the way, if you’re a supporter of the CIA-installed clown-puppet government.
Nigel
Is that the Official Kremiln Spin?
bisted
…it’s a spin Nigel…but not as we know it…
K.Cavan
Yes, Nigel, tomorrow, there’ll be more fiction from the MSM for you to naively consume & your bird-sized brain won’t be even able to recall that you were all upset about something, something at a power plant, as that fake story is dropped.
If you had any critical faculties you’d notice, over the next few days, that the power plant was still working, supplying power & that the “story” had turned out to be nonsense but you don’t, so you won’t.
There was a fire in an office, on the site & the MSM were the only ones who blew anything up.
Nigel
Always good to hear from an eyewitness like yourself.
Mad
He’s right though
You are also a coruscating fool
SOQ
It is the largest nuclear plant in Europe Nigel- put down your spoon fed propaganda for a minute and just think about it.
Given the political history of the region, those in charge would have set procedures in charge for if and when a regime change occurred. Their priority is to keep the plant safe, not behave like they are in the middle of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Likewise the Russians- nobody was or is going to bomb it because then, everyone dies.
Nigel
The probably shouldn’t have bombed it and set it on fire then.
K.Cavan
Now, now, Nigel, it looks to me as if you’re contradicting The Narrative, even though you’re still talking gibberish. You’ll lose your licence to pontificate on subjects you know nothing about & we’ll be forced to consume MSM to hear what you think, if you don’t get back on message, stat.
Try starting with something like ”that delusional madman Putin nuked a nuclear power plant…” & copy the rest from an article in The Sun.
Nigel
Now, now Cavan looks to me as if your straw men are getting dumber, but they’re still not dumb enough for you to win an argument with one.
stephen moran
For an epic Ukrainian sky over Dublin’s very own twin towers
The Currency have done some decent reportage on Russia’s links with the IFSC – it’s behind their paywall but there is an intro to each story that gives you a flavour of the serious amounts of Moskva monie$ flying around the financial wild west down the Dublin docks – financial neutrality anyone ?
“Eventually it became clear that much of that 2015 gain reflected Apple’s decision that year to shift its intellectual property assets to an Irish domicile. The IMF calculated in 2018 that a quarter of Ireland’s GDP growth could be attributed to global sales of iPhones, with other Apple units paying the Irish unit to use its IP.“
Yeah, but what’s great about that Johnny, is that the increased GDP caused the amount of money that the Irish give as alms to those pathetic losers in the EU to increase in proportion, probably wiping out the breadcrumbs we get from Apple in taxes, making Ireland into even more pathetic losers than the EU.
K.Cavan
Nobody’s interested, stephen. There’s nothing worthwhile appearing in the playpen for adults with arrested development that the West’s media has become, unless you enjoy laughing at the sort of idiots that might believe the utter nonsense they shovel out.
Try The Duran, on youtube.
Western brand and shop in Russia have been forced to close by American Imperialists…
When the perfume runs out, things will get pretty stinky….
stephen moran
Historically speaking March has been a dodgy month for Russian leaders
Nicholas I died on March 2nd
Stalin died on March 5th
Coca-Cola company was the only firm to publicly announce that it would be business as usual in Russia until they did a very quick and humiliating FIFA like u turn last night. Danone has also belatedly made a similar announcement. Looks like gruel from Brekkie and spam for tea,
Meanwhile the cultural and sporting isolation continues apace. The International Boxing Association bans Russian and Belarusian boxers and competition officials from participating in international boxing competitions.
International Gymnastics Federation bans Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions starting March 7, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
In an unprecedented move Singapore sanctions Russia in response to it’s all-out war against Ukraine. Singapore announced sanctions against Russia on March 5 that include four banks and an export ban on electronics, computers and military items.
K.Cavan
You forgot to mention that Russian oligarchs might be having their yachts stolen by thieving European governments & that The West, including the jokers in the Dail, is flooding western Ukraine with arms, where they’re being dumped, as there’s nobody to transport them into the war zone.
When Russia expells the Azovs, the mercenaries & the remnants of the Ukrainian army into that area, they’ll have ample old, unwanted small arms to play with. It’s gonna be fun having a permanent war-zone on the borders of the EU that’s been armed by the EU itself, doh! That incompetent bint, van der Layen will probably melt down & resign, so, every cloud, eh?
Nigel
You’re running around desperately trying to put out fires using only spittle and foam like the Russians just shelled your nuclear power plant.
ce
We’ll do the russian oligarchs first… and then it will be time to finally get ours….
stephen moran
The Currency have done some decent reportage on Russia’s links with the IFSC – it’s behind their paywall but there is an intro to each story that gives you a flavour of the serious amounts of Moskva monies flying around the financial wild west down the Dublin docks.
“Sanctioned Russian bankers resign from board of O’Brien-advised firm
Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, two “oligarchs” just added to the EU’s Russian sanctions list, are co-founders and shareholders of the LetterOne international investment vehicle that has Denis O’Brien on its technology advisory board.”
What a shock, Denis has some dodgy friends… we’re a grubby little country…
Hardly breaking news
It’s been established for some time
Here, amongst other places
as it happens
And one of the Swiss based handlers of dirty Russian money is a Paddy
Who qualified with and is full and paid up member of Chartered Accountants Ireland
And it’s a lot bigger and wider than just the IFSC dots
The rear war imo. Dirty money
And it’s money that will end the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Not diplomacy
Diplomacy is just window dressing now
Nice jobs
In the meantime
Delighted to the Currency are now calling for VAT to be taken off utility bills
Welcome to the gang lads
Better late than not at all
K.Cavan
Come on, Frilly, there’s not a cent in the IFSC that’s not stinkingly, repugnantly dirty. It’s a bloody money-laundering scheme, what would you expect?
The dirty money game is a lot bigger than government and law enforcement will admit to
The IFSC action is merely a minority stake in the game
And even smaller – are the pop ups shops being used by Gardai to raid for the cameras and news reels
stephen moran
Historically speaking March has been a dodgy month for Russian leaders
Nicholas I died on March 2nd
Stalin died on March 5th
Alexander II was murdered on March 13th by the “People’s Will” movement
Iván the Terrible died on March 28th March
Paul I was killed March 24th by his officers
K.Cavan
If you’re actually expecting Russians to overthrow Putin, you’re an even sillier person than this post might suggest, stephen.
Stop with your foolish nonsense, have you no grasp on objectivity? The Russians are having the possibility of nuclear weapons on their borders eliminated permanently, you don’t think they might actually like that? A lot?
Nigel
If Putin tells them to, they will, if they know what’s good for them.
ce
“Russians are having the possibility of nuclear weapons on their borders eliminated permanently,”… by taking over Ukraine and then their border will be with Poland, etc… etc… and nukes will be placed in all of those TAYTO bordering countries… so yeah, looking like awin-win there…
The russian people won’t overthrow The Putzar, but maybe a small group of insiders (or near insiders) stage a coup… this will only end with the removal or death of Putin (and any removal will likely mean his death…)
I would assume that the majority people under the age of 40 in Russia would not shed a tear for The Putzar or care much about the geopolitics, or have any interest in being drafted into an endless guerilla war with Ukraine… not that removing him will be smooth for them or the world…
Anyway, I’d get 15 years for saying that kind of thing in Russia…
George
Nukes can arrive from the US in 30mins. Nuclear weapons in the UK. France and Israel are even closer to Moscow. It doesn’t make any difference.
A lot of Russians are going to lose their jobs. there’ll be huge inflation, and a shortage of goods. They’re going to care more about that than imaginary bombs.
TenPin Terry
It was Pirates of the Caribbean night at the beach bar last night.
Rather amusingly, I thought, I borrowed a length of floor laminate and went as the plank.
Sadly I had to spend the night explaining why I was carrying a piece of laminate rather than enjoying the spectacle of people laughing at my witty joke.
Lashings of rum eased the embarrassment.
Anyhow, I read this morning that the City of London lost just 7,500 Brext-related jobs which is far far fewer than Project Fear warned.
Quelle surprise.
And it must be right because the Mayor is Irish. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/city-of-london-has-lost-just-7-500-jobs-due-to-brexit-irish-born-mayor-says-1.4818750
O’Marvellous™
Mad
Oh that’s excellent stuff blah blah blah
Has Giggidy’s alter ego been benched?
GiggidyGoo
Chargers paranoia looks like it’s contagious. Hitting the poor first. Hahahaaaaaaa.
Mad
You know when you roar despondently into a canyon and all you hear is your own echo?
GiggidyGoo
You get that when you open your wallet
Mad
Hahah very good
You’ve got great mileage out of that one
TenPin Terry
He’s gone to that lorry stack in the sky after being embarrassingly exposed on here.
Morto.
For shame.
GiggidyGoo
Ha haaaa. Paranoia and and Inferiority troubles – not a good combination there Walter. Long holiday this time. Hope your car is one piece when you retrieve it from the backstreet in Hounslow. It has an uncanny resemblance to the road outside your Blackpool bedsit though.
TenPin Terry
Your heart’s not really in it is it ?
Rope-a-dope going through the motions, flailing wild punches and droning on about parking in Hounslow.
Take a break.
Step away from the internet.
Pull into the layby of life and get some sleep – you’re out of hours.
Mad
She’s one of those who haven’t had much luck in life. Hence the focus on back street life, daily parking arrangements, access to credit etc – undue attention to the minutiae of humdrum existence. It’s alright though we all have our crosses to bear.
GiggidyGoo
The only dope that’s roped is yourself charger. Open the window and let some fresh air in. The carpet might dry out.
Both ailments are treatable by the way – then again you’re gone way past that. Sure Have Inferiority Troubles hovering around 45% today.
Strike!
You can’t book a hire car with a debit card, nor cash. And you have to have a good credit score to get one
All of which you found out to your embarrassment. I never had that problem, and only use credit cards for the likes of car hire. The rest is money on hand.
Mad
You can use debit cards to book cars in several countries which you would find out for yourself if you ever happened to leave Bastardstown
scottser
Sounds like your off-peak week at butlins is going well charger.
TenPin Terry
We’re here for the month And Dumber.
We always try to get away for March as it’s such a dull month back home.
March drags out the winter before April’s early promise of summer.
And it’s good to warm the bones.
Yourself ?
Santa Ponsa again this year ?
GiggidyGoo
Nice to see you’ve progressed from ‘dumb’ to ‘Dumber’
Strike! Dope ropes himself once again.
Cú Chulainn
Jayus Charger, Youghal sounds great.. I don’t remember it like that..
Wonderful, Terry, I was very worried for a while there that some of the Brexit fear-porn might actually migrate from the coke-addled brains of newspaper propaganda peddlers, out into the Real World.
No, I was.
Virtue signalling reaches new heights as Sainsbury’s renames chicken kiev to ‘Kyiv’ in support of Ukraine. Some marketing genius actually came up with that nonsense, then presented it to management, What is more scary is that they approved of it.
They are actually using the slaughter of innocent people to sell chicken?
But SOQ this is business ‘getting back to normal’ after the pandemic, thought you wanted that? Nothing less normal than commerce cynically responding to public sentiment about international events. That’s the kind of shallow, empty capitalist exploitation we all missed during lockdown!
She’s one of those who haven’t had much luck in life. Hence the focus on back street life, daily parking arrangements, access to credit etc – undue attention to the minutiae of humdrum existence. I could add online stalking etc to that. It’s alright though we all have our crosses to bear.
GiggidyGoo
Nope. It was you who thought you were smart attaching it to another poster, yet here you are, turning conversations around to your subject of the year. You’re getting to know yourself bit by bit, helped by commenters here.
GiggidyGoo
And the thick, Mad, copies and pastes his earlier comment and adds a little to it. Not are you broke in life, you’re broke in the thought department. No credit cards available for that either.
Whatever happened to your fetish with urinals then? You know, the references you made during your own stalking? Maybe you’ve no Ac cess to those?
Nigel
‘It was you who thought you were smart attaching it to another poster’
And since you obviously think these were brilliant gotchas, which you seem to crave with a desperation that’s almost touching, dare I say monomaniacal, you obviously don’t understand why.
GiggidyGoo
How many more times are you going to crash and burn this week? Your ‘gotcha’ yesterday wasn’t up to much now was it?
Nigel
See? You only see everything in terms of gotchas that either land or crash and burn. It wasn’t supposed to be a gotcha. It was a genuine response to the nature of the comment.
GiggidyGoo
You’re the one who brought the gotcha into the conversation. You’ve a weird obsession with the word.
You’re trying to defend your ‘gotcha’ by saying, that although the commenter made no reference in his post, he said something in previous posts that backed up your reason for saying it. But no links.
How spiffingly clever. Not.
Nigel
‘You’re the one who’
Trying to do it again. It’s your default mode, agressive defensiveness.
‘You’re trying to defend your ‘gotcha”
Wasn’t trying for a gotcha, in either of yesterday’s comments to which you responded, but which you seem to be mixing up here. Not that it matters, you didn’t have anything to actually say to either, and you still don’t.
Mad
Poor Giggidy. Repeats the same old guff for weeks. Didn’t have the sense to note that this comment wasn’t a copy and paste but had added elements. Not really that great at the online stalking then either. Poor oul divil
GiggidyGoo
Crash and burn no. 3 already today Nigel. Nice to see you’ve attracted a like-minded lap dog though. You’ll be happy together.
Nigel
You have a small bag of set responses to things you don’t understand and you’re not afraid to use it.
SOQ
There is nothing normal about using such an horrific event in that manner- it is disgusting.
The black Americans and the Indians have already copped on- the whole thing reeks of woke racism and hypocritical double standards.
It’s like everybody has already forgotten about freedom fries.
SOQ
Well it appears that Putin cured Covid- which in fairness is quote an achievement.
Although Antifa must be mighty confused at the moment- well, more so than usual I mean.
Nigel
Not on the US. Not in Homg Kong.
It’s easy enough. Putin is the fascist.
K.Cavan
No, Nigel, lockdown was shallow, empty capitalist exploitation.
Mad
Will there be added iron?
scottser
Won’t someone think of the chicken?
K.Cavan
There’s a meme with a chicken kiev wearing a Ukrainian flag, which had gone off & had managed to give food-poisoning to a Russian general.
It was being called “The Kiev of Kiev”
The russian and ukrainian kids have been called up to fight…
Kali
Is it not just the Ukraine that has enacted conscription?
K.Cavan
Ah, Kali, don’t be the one to tell the children there’s no Santa Claus. Their touching but pathetic belief, that The West is righteous in everything it does, is a comfort blanket that soothes their little minds, as they lie in their cots at night, thinking scaredey thoughts of that evil Mr Putin & his hordes of Russian bogeymen.
ce
many of the russians in the front are conscripted kids doing their mandatory 12 months… by russian law they are not meant to be there, but they are… especially now as the russian army is relatively small compared to what it used to be, and has a lot of commitments in the middle east and central asia
Also, often their NCO’s are late stage conscripts… survival of the fittest…
Senator Lyudmila Narusova will probably be saying no more on the matter – if she knows what’s good for her.
ce
She’ll be one of the few to be able to say anything for now… until the purges begin in a week or two… purges are always good for moral… Now That’s What I Call Cancel Culture 2022!!!…
stephen moran
What you won’t be wearing in Russia this season
Inditex, the owner of the brands Zara, Bershka, Pull & Bear, Oysho, ceases operations in Russia and closes stores.
@visegrad24
14 cargo planes carrying military aid landed near in Poland near Ukraine’s border on Friday.
Ukraine is about to receive some serious western firepower.
K.Cavan
I imagine their outlets in Ukraine won’t be selling too much of their tat, either, stephen.
Canadian Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich appeared in court in leg shackles.
“LEG SHACKLES!!!
In ten years of criminal law, including doing bail hearings for serious violent offences, I can’t remember an accused ever appearing at a bail hearing in shackles.”
Do these people not understand the damage they are doing to the institutions they claim to represent- or that the world is watching? Extraordinary stuff.
Grain of terror
LEG SHACKLES, LEG SHACKLES, LEG SHACKLES.
It’s a disgrace you were subjected to such brutal imagery over your breakfast dear, hope you can recover speedily enough to digest saturday evening’s ‘Ukraine are bad guys too’ tik toks.
K.Cavan
Yeah, leg shackles, who cares, Canada no longer a functioning democracy, who cares? Get in the pod & eat the bugs, Grain, you silly, silly person.
SOQ
Why is this troll allowed to change usernames at will? There is quite obviously some sort of personality disorder issues at play and I don’t mean to have a go by saying that.
jungleman
Crybaby
K.Cavan
Trudeau is the actual embodiment of the evil fascist image that the MSM are trying to paint onto Putin.
Vlad X. Novichok
That’s some special Putin boner snot right there.
Kali
You use the word boner a lot. You could try to leave your phallic fixation out of each sentence if you hope to be taken seriously. Or are you just trolling?
Vlad X. Novichok
Nah. That’s exactly what all you nazi Putin boner tugging choads are all about. And tugging your Putin boners for Putin boner snot is all you all do. All day, every day. Like the deluded – or well paid – Putin boner tugging choads that you all are.
There’s never any gee chat on here at the weekend.. it’s very disappointing.
Mad
Better out than in!
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I tend to take the weekend off, it’s all a bit bluetits up
ce
Stop flappin’ about that kind of thing…
stephen moran
Italian Financial Guard arrested the property of oligarch Alisher Usmanov and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.
We are talking about Usmanov’s villa in Sardinia and two villas of nightingale droppings on Lake Como.
Such a shame one can’t sail ones Tuscan bolt hole villa to the Maldives.
Paypal shuts down its services in Russia.
Ukrainian media report that a member of Ukrainian delegation at Gomel peace talks, Denys Kireyev, was killed by SBU as security agents tried to capture him on suspicion of high treason. He is reportedly linked to elements in the ex-president Yanukovych’s government. Clearly they don’t have much truck with quislings and apparatchiks from a hostile foreign invader. And who can blame them.
K.Cavan
Yes, stephen & you can see the effect this is having on the progress of the denazification of Ukraine.
None.
Stop cluttering up the thread with your useless bullcrap, please. It’s annoying the adults.
Folks, this guy is a prize prat, can we have him kicked out?
paddy apathy
Look at you, cock of the walk now that you were on that YouTube telly one time. Besties with the govnor now too.
f_lawless
This piece from Arta Moeini, the Director of Research at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, is the best I’ve read so far at articulating what’s behind western media’s extreme propagandistic reporting on Ukraine and why it is that the majority seem to be consuming it without question.
https://unherd.com/2022/03/how-western-elites-exploit-ukraine/
As far as the Western legacy media is concerned, we really do live in the post-historical age Francis Fukuyama triumphantly proclaimed in 1989, with liberal internationalism the only acceptable paradigm through which to understand the world. Alternative views are now tantamount to championing tyranny. In each instance, the dictator comes to personify internationally Hegel’s thymotic, if savage, primitive man — the inhumane antithesis of the “last man” — fighting maniacally against liberal democracy, the march of modernity, and progress itself. Assad, Ghaddafi, the Taliban, and Vladimir Putin all fit this archetype as reactionary actors par excellence necessitating a holy alliance to confront and civilise…
Such a melioristic framing of international politics justifies and indeed privileges a Manichean narrative of good and evil. In this context, rationality itself is bound to the good, defined as effective conformity with liberal hegemony
…Perhaps, given the profound crisis of meaning in the West and the gap in solidarity and social cohesion, we should not be surprised. Living under the conditions of rootlessness, spiritual emptiness, and angst, every crisis is an opportunity for mythopoesis. Tragedy is reborn, and we are easily enthralled by the periodic cycles of worship and hero-making. Our faith in the cult of expertise, meanwhile, blinds and lulls us to the potential dangers of such black and white thinking.”
Mad
Excellent article
Thank you
As one of American greatest strategists and the architect of “containment” against the Soviet Union, George Kennan’s reaction to the Clinton administration’s insistence on Nato’s enlargement is particularly telling: “I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn over in their graves.”
K.Cavan
There’s no doubt, f lawless, that we’re in a sorry state & our MSM has fallen into a financial hole from which they can only emerge by becoming full-time recipients of handouts from government & corporate interests.
They already are, in fact & they now just reflect the corporate & state interests’ chattering, right back at them, in an echo-chamber of enormous proportions.
Our time is up, I fear. The US, who’ve already opened up a De-escalation Hotline with the Russian military, will be withdrawing from Europe in the not-too-distant future, leaving us high & dry, without a single leader in power who hasn’t been taught to detest their own people & identity.
Time for some radical change, I think. We could make a good start by placing the enforcers of the Covid insanity in prison, awaiting trial at some stage in the next decade (or two). Hanging them upside down from lamposts would be a more suitable ending but we don’t want to continue with their callous, reckless disregard for human & civil rights & the rule of law.
Nigel
‘Alternative views are now tantamount to championing tyranny.’
Just the ones that do, in fact, champion tyranny.
‘Living under the conditions of rootlessness, spiritual emptiness, and angst,’
Lolwhut.
‘black and white thinking’
Putin is invading because: NATO
Denazification
To protect Christianity (from the Jews)
Corruption
The West is woke and weak
The Ukrainian and the Russian peoples are one
Pick whichever makes Putin the good guy in your own mind or for whichever audience you happen to be adressing.
‘mythopoesis’
I think we might actually be witnessing Putin dismantling his own mythification.
bisted
…careful what you wish for Nigel…looks like another term for Trump!
Nigel
The Republicans are working hard to establish Putin-style democracy in the US, so you never know.
Mad
This is why it’s impossible to take your guff seriously Nigel
Nigel
That’s just an excuse to pretend the right isn’t doing what it’s doing.
Mad
Not really pal.
The right as you put it has a few elements who admire Putin for sure. But your tiresome extrapolation is not going to convince me.
Nigel
It’s not even that much of an extrapolation.
SailorGerry
Nice bit of background on Zelensky, more of a crook than a hero.
How does a comedian become a billionaire president without grift and corruption?
Don’t worry they’ll be fine under Putin. No corruption either.
SOQ
Two wrongs don’t make a right Nigel. If it was Mexico being meddled with by Russia. you’d be cheering the carpet bombing on.
Nigel
Well, no, the invasion will only make it worse.
Grain of terror
Good man Gerry !
K.Cavan
Gerry, everyone who’s not a hypnotized chicken, gobbling up the MSM’s muck knows that Zekensky’s been shelling civilians in the Donbass for months, in fact all the Fake News pictures of him “on the frontline” with the Ukrainian military are from his recent visits there, to see how the civilian casualties were mounting up.
The Russians will put a cap in him, if they catch him & to be honest, I can’t see any moral objection to such an ending for a POS scumbag war criminal like that.
Vlad X. Novichok
More Putin boner snot.
johnny
BURN
BURN
the bondholders.
i always wondered did dodgy Declan and constantly wrong first meet and do much business in Moscow?
….from Russia with lots luv, is he still at Trinners?
When is the next Brofesf.
“The businessman set up St Columbanus AG with the economist Constantin Gurdgiev a year ago, promising to manage clients’ funds in a “conservative, transparent, manner”.
The Russian air force seems to be doing a very good impersonation of Lord Flashheart’s “20 Minuters” today over parts of occupied Ukraine and bits they are trying to invade by force against the will of the people.
K.Cavan
Funnily enough, stephen, it’s beginning to dawn on many ordinary Ukrainians that the Zelensky regime is not worth fighting for, as they sit in their homes with electricty & water services untouched by the advancing Russian army. Most of Eastern Ukraine is Russian-speaking, despite the fact that Zelensky has demoted the language from its official status, not to mention ethnically Russian & at this stage, Zelensky is just running around, shouting out orders than nobody can or will carry out. He’s recently bought a 24 million dollar mansion in Florida, from the huge amounts the US paid him, alas, unless the rumours are true & he’s already abandoned ship, he won’t ever get to enjoy it.
The Russian air force is, I’m sure you noticed, the only one operating in Ukraine.
Kali
I heard unconfirmed reports that he’s done a runner to Poland
SOQ
Yes I read something about his US property portfolio recently- I’ll try and dig it out.
He’s a con man
Hughie Luas
You’d miss the regular Saturday gilets jaunes derby midday kickoff of Maskup Gladbach versus FU Novax compared to this buffoonery.
Will you people ever get a life, brain, or heart when it comes to news about Ukraine.
Total berks.
Fearganainm
The lunatics have taken over the asylum…
“Russian forces have seized a psychiatric hospital with 670 people inside in the town of Borodyanka in Ukraine’s Kyiv region, the regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba has said. ” Today we do not understand how to evacuate these people, how to help them,” Kuleba said. “They are running out of water and medicines,” Kuleba said. “These are people with certain special needs, they need constant help … many of them have been bedridden for years.” Borodyanka is around 60km from Kyiv.”
I can only imagine the horrors these poor souls are going to endure. I reckon Putin’s mobile crematoriums will crank into action.
K.Cavan
Since this is about the newspapers, it’s worth commenting on the clown-show that’s emerging from the Legacy Print Media.
If you’re reporting on real life events, it’s fairly straightforward, you observe what unfolds, ponder & comment.
If, however, you’re welded to a narrative, a ludicrous, patently untrue narrative at that, with very little information, you have to invent the entire fantasy-world yourself. This is inherently problematic because not only are you commenting on events that never occurred, like any liar, you have to remember the lies you told, then those you told to cover the first lies up & so on, ad infinitum.
Thus we are witnessing a media which managed quite well during the Covid Scam, putting out a narrative that, while not convincing to intelligent people, at least fooled the midwits & dullards, now struggling to avoid being exposed as the charlatans they are. They’re contradicting themselves & especially noticeably, going into outrageous flights of fancy, that only the truly brain-dead can accept as being related to reality, never mind as the actual truth.
As I exit my local newsagent, I always walk by the newspaper shelves to glance down at the headlines. It’s a fascinating glimpse into The Bubble, albeit often with a cast of celebrities unknown to me. Over the last few days, it’s been a glimpse into an abyss, an abyss that our very civilization is on the brink of tumbling into. The level of puerile & unbelievable nonsense in the headlines has gone to unacceptable levels, we cannot sustain a civilization with this idiotic propaganda exerting any influence on public opinion, reading that stuff would scramble your brain & reduce your IQ.
Look, just look at the drooling nonsense Nigel, stephen & whatever other shills are around, are coming up with, and tremble.
We’re doomed, I tell you, doomed.
Desperate despot Putin goes the full Kim Jung-Un (never go the full Kim Jung-Un) with some lucky ladies from Aeroflot – which is fair enough considering they can’t fly anywhere anymore
Yeah, none of them look in the least bit terrified… don’t make too much or too little eye contact, facial expressions set to full “Should the cabin loose pressure…” demo mode…
From Russian Roulette to Russian Tinder courtesy of The Putzar…
bisted
…thanks Mad…just off out on my weekly pub crawl…I may resemble Goldens image when I return…as Churchill once said: tomorrow goldenbrown will still be goldenbrown…I’ll be sober…
BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, posts an illustrated guide on his BBC Twitter account for where to aim Molotov cocktails at Russian armoured vehicles – the “weak spots..viewing hatches and air inlets”.
Guys sorry to be blunt, but you’re coming across like a trio of infantilised adults. As though the gravity of war is just something to crack jokes at or like jeering the opposing side in a football match. Although maybe I’m assuming too much and you are still very young .
stephen moran
@AmichaiStein1
After meeting Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Bennett is currently on his way from Moscow to Berlin, where he will meet with German Chancellor @OlafScholz
Looks like Israeli Prime Minister Bennett has become the new mediator.
This may actually indicate some willingness among the Russians to negotiate.
goldenbrown
a very nicely done cross verified incident map here:
“The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a crowdsourced effort by Centre for Information Resilience, Bellingcat, Mnemonic, Conflict Intelligence Team and the wider open source community to map, document and verify significant incidents during the conflict in Ukraine”
‘Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?’
Same people funding regime change in Kiev at the Maidan did the same thing in Syria and still do, that is the CIA.
My prayers are with Dr. Assad and his long suffering country which he obviously loves above all else. In his shoes Boris or Macron would have moved to Monaco after a week of the conflict with their swag and pontificated in exile.
It is easy to see why President Putin will be viewed as being on the side of righteousness at the end of this current security operation.
BREAKING: Visa and Mastercard suspending their network services in Russia – the line at the ATM will be like the Bretzel bakery in Little Jerusalem of a Sunday morning
jungleman
Where the hell did BS get this K.Cavan guy? His presence in the comments sections is toxic. I dare say he might be the most abusive cretin to ever comment on this site.
And that’s saying something.
Steph Pinker
Some might say the same could be said of you.
Now, back to the more important issues at hand.
Mad
He’s a National Party aficionado
What else do you need to know?
…oh dear…several of the English papers still showing pictures of flares falling slowly and fizzling out when hitting the ground as evidence of a reckless attack on a nuclear power station…where is the fearless journalism…sure the Russians could have fired off a load of cruise missiles from the safety of their own borders if they’d wanted to do the yankee ‘shock and awe’ thing…
That nazi boner for Putin of yours. I’m surprised you’ve got anything left to tug as surely it’s well worn out by now.
…wouldn’t like to be a nazi anything when the Red Army come to find the facist mob who stormed the capital building in Kyiv and replaced the democratically elected administration…
Ah. I see you’re one of those that’s gone full swastika tattoo on your Putin boner.
Russians are not the ones waving the swastikas- Ukraine’s Azov are one of the most extreme neo Nazi military outfits in all of Europe.
Uncomfortable truth but the graphics accompanying the ‘Who do you think you are Mr Hitler’ opening video would look very different this time around.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/ukraine-russia-crisis-neo-nazism-and-fake-news-dominate-discourse/articleshow/90011393.cms
They’re more into waving their clusterbombs to be fair. Proving very generous too with those.
Now SOQ, we’ve been through this already. The more gack you watch on tik tok, the more gack it feeds you. The algorithm is designed to eliminate critical thought.
Seriously, clear your cookies and try another news source cos the Chinese are screwing your head right up.
Yes of course- it is not like cluserbombs were ever used before now is it?
http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/en-gb/cluster-bombs/use-of-cluster-bombs/a-timeline-of-cluster-bomb-use.aspx
Whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataout
That’s you, that is.
@scottser- TikTok is not that hard to figure out when you apply it to differing device platforms and national IP ranges.
Even then, you do not need to rely on being spoon fed random if you are checking your contacts on a regular basis.
It is the least censored and most used of all the social media platforms right now.
Take your patronising guff somewhere else.
‘Least censored’ does not equal ‘informed’. You’d swallow any old shite at this stage – enjoy the rabbit hole.
Ah, Vlad, would ya stop! My ribs are aching from laughing at you guys. How ye can swallow so many bricks, while keeping your tongues shoved so far up the CIA’s ass is amazing.
You lads are dumb & dumber & even dumber & oh look, he’s soiled his pants, again.
SOQ, the Chinese Government owns a share of Tik Tok, they wouldn’t be the type to censor anything would they?
Tell me scottser – do you understand how Neural networks work? Natural language processing? Expert systems? If not then I suggest you go learn the basics, and then I can explain to you how TikTok build their feeds.
That you don’t like the content some people are posting is not my problem, nor theirs.
Ah, Vlad, are you Dolly? You’re certainly just as childish & immature. Go on, admit it, there’s a few quid hanging on it.
Oh, scottser, is that what happened to you? You had your critical thinking abilities removed by a tiktok addiction? How tragic.
Get outta that, it’s obvious you were born bereft of the ability to think critically or think at all. Which was fine’n’dandy , back in the day, when there were still a few critical thinkers left in the media but now those industries are populated by Wokies and Womanists who can barely spell, never mind string a cohesive sentence together & you’re really left high & dry, aren’t you, poor thing.
You’re not really keeping abreast of things, are you, George? Wakey, wakey, censorship is far more common in The West, these days, than it’s been in China for quite some time. TikTok is virtually uncensored, the Chinese like the depravity & mental illness that’s displayed by Wokies on there. It allows them to sit back and enjoy watching their enemies be destroyed from within, by the cancer of mindless screeching Wokery.
What are you talking about?
Was it the 2014 protests in Ukraine? And if so, what was the “democratically elected administration” replaced with?
…that’s the one Cian…where a mob stormed the Capital building…the irony…and replaced the elected administration with a puppet administration…the yanks ought to have learned after Turkey that EU membership is not in their gift…
I see your confusion. You have the whole thing upside-down.
Yanukovych was the puppet. He was elected in 2010 on a pro-EU manifesto. In 2013 he suddenly rejected the EU deal that was ready to sign and jumped to a Russian deal. There were protests to this that turned violent. Yanukovych is currently in exile in Russia. He is wanted in Ukraine for treason.
The protesters demanded new elections. There were democratic elections in 2014 where a new government was fairly elected.
The idea that the Ukrainians might want support from the West to protect themselves from Putin is inconceivable to bisted.
The Yanks spent $4billion in 2014 to over throw the democratically elected government assisted by the openly Nazi Azov movement.
Yeah, that’s the only possible explanation as to why Ukrainians would prefer the West to Putin’s Russia. Putin had to send in mercs (who are also Nazis, incidientally) to get the seperatist conflicts going in those pro-Russian enclaves.
Cian, try to keep up. We haven’t got the time to be giving you children history lessons. There were, in fact, two CIA-led “Colour Revolutions” in Ukraine. Try looking it up on the internet, the first one didn’t hold, their puppet lost control, so they did it again. Looks like that one didn’t turn out to well either, eh?
Ah, Nigel, you’re making me laugh like a drain, again. You actually have the temerity to come on here and comment about the situation in Ukraine, while not having the tiniest clue about it’s recent history. Clearly, you don’t mind exposing yourself as a clown. It’s hilarious.
What a spectacular ignoramus you are, what’s more, you’re clearly quite proud of your ignorance.
You certainly are a drain.
Ever hear about the snipers who killed 60 protestors & 17 cops, Cian? There was a negotiated settlement on the horizon between the protestors & the government, unsurprising, really, since it was a democratically-elected government, after all, but that just didn’t suit the psychopaths in the CIA, who’d already replaced the previous government a decade before, only to see their picks rejected repeatedly at elections, by the Ukrainians. So, the CIA sent in the snipers to randomly slaughter people on both sides, to ensure there was no peace until their man was installed.
The snipers were never apprehended, they’re probably all back in the US, now, enjoying their pay-off from The Firm.
Of course any decent person would be appalled by such cold-blooded calculation, shooting people just to stir up trouble but you, of course, would fully endorse & support such evil, I assume.
As soon as that low-life, Zelensky, was installed, he turned the entire country into a money-laundering operation for drug czars & corporate tax-dodgers & commenced a reign of terror on the two republics in Donbass, setting Ukrainian artillery to shelling civilians & letting the dogs of the Azov Brigade loose on women & children.
You’re surely some sort of sick scumbag yourself, to be mindlessly supporting these murdering savages.
So, Nigel, these ”pro-Russian enclaves”, which by the way are Russian People’s Republics, are so pro-Russian that they needed mercenaries sent in to stir them up, yeah? The shelling from Ukraine and the tender attention of the Azovs wasn’t enough, you reckon?
You don’t even have any internal logic to call on in your posts, do you.
They were pro-Russian but Russia send mercenaries in, how does that work? Were they anti-pro-Russian?
Actually, bisted, Putin has a rather cunning plan for those lads. The Azov Brigade, the Mercenaries and those in the Ukrainian army who fancy it, he’s going to dump them in Western Ukraine, bordering the EU. There they’ll find all the arms sent by the moronic governments of the EU, which unsurprisingly, nobody is moving into the East, where the war is being fought.
All those guns, all those scumbags, it’s gonna make Aleppo look like a holiday camp & it’s all gonna be right on Europe’s doorstep. Still, at least we’ll have our great leader, Queen Ursula, to guide us through the mayhem to come, eh? She’ll sort it all out like she’s sorted out, eh, wait, there must be something, she’s a Strong Woman, surely, no, nothing, she’ll do nothing. No, that’s wrong, she’ll go to the hairdressers, phew, saved.
Stunning & Brave.
busted
you’re probably still drunk
try again this afternoon after a bit of kip and some food
then maybe you’ll be able to write blog comments that have some sort of value
I like bisted’s comments, clear-eyed, hates hypocrisy and many exponents if it, and mostly well-informed
…thanks Mad…just off out on my weekly pub crawl…I may resemble Goldens image when I return…as Churchill once said: tomorrow goldenbrown will still be goldenbrown…I’ll be sober…
I quite like Cian & Nigel’s comments, they’re spectacularly, mind-blowingly dumb & that’s an achievement of sorts. They were both peppering this site with utter lunacy about the Covid scam, yet haven’t learned a single thing, even when that changed from Deadly Plague Sweeps The Planet to Meh! almost overnight.
You can lead a horse to water…
I quite like your comments because
Haha no, psych!
”Ha-ha, psyche”? ”Ha-ha, psyche”?
God help you Nigel, you have no sense, very few brain cells but what’s worse, no sense of humour. Don’t give up the day-job, lad.
How’s your sperm count?
bisted, even if he was drunk, stoned & concussed, would make more sense than poor Nigel & Cian, who waste our time on here regurgitating puke from the MSM that was already rancid nonsense when the MSM spoon-fed them with it.
bisted: look, the nuclear power plant was only subjected to a little light shelling, what’s the big deal?
…fair play to the Russians…they’ve learned US/Nato would stoop to any level to humiliate them…it will soon dawn on the Ukrainians that they have been used as pawns…taking Chernobyl and the largest power station under their control may prove to be pivotal…at least they have shown another feeble attempt to demonise them like in the failed Syrian adventure…
Fair play to the Russians for shelling a nuclear power plant and setting it on fire? Or you’re blaming the US/Nato for them shelling the power plant? How are the Ukrainians going to come to the conclusion that they’ve been used as pawns, when Russia is using them as targets? Chemical attacks on civilians in Syria, shelling nuclear power plants and dropping cluster bombs on civilians in Ukraine – your hero Putin may be Problematic.
…your hero Obama bombed eight different countries and through Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks we know the extent of his lies…the Russians successfully stopped a further regime change in the middle east to appease his zionist chums…no lectures on truth from a continuity Democrat please…
‘But-but Obama.’ Invading another country, shelling civilians, setting nuclear power plant on fire. Also, he’s a corrupt dictator who jails his enemies and shuts down dissent. Nice guy.
For God’s sake Nigel, if the nuclear plant was set on fire we’d all be kissing our a**holes goodbye by now; can you not engage some bit of critical analysis and understand that the likes of me isn’t a cheerleader for Putin but the guy does play hard ball and that’s the only thing the Yanks, the Brits and the EU Commissars understand. Putin had to react – and reaction it is – to the encroachment by NATO right up to his flank, anybody worth their salt would do likewise. And it’s not that long (WW2) that Finland helped Nazi Germany surround Leningrad and a siege of 872 days. No twitter, tiktok etc etc then but plenty of sheer b1oody suffering, starvation and death.
For me one of the most obscene things I ever saw was Obama and Hillary Clinton watching on-screen as Bin Laden was ‘taken out’ by US Seals. Please try to understand that I was never a cheerleader for Bin Laden either – do try, it’s not difficult. The obscenity lay in the fact that the so-called ‘leaders of the free word and defenders of democracy’ were watching a snuff movie – live.
I despise ALL warmongers equally.
Do try to develop some sense of perspective on things.
No, if the fire had not been put out, we’d all be kissing our a**holes goodbye by now.
‘the likes of me isn’t a cheerleader for Putin but…’ here’s some cheerleading.
‘that’s the only thing the Yanks, the Brits and the EU Commissars understand’
You can’t make an omlette without breaking Ukraine.
‘I despise ALL warmongers equally.’
But not, apparently, the one who started this war. He’s just playing hardball.
Just wee off Nigel
No.
A small group of saboteurs died in a firefight in the grounds of the Soviet-built plant.
End Of Story.
Untwist your nickers, lads, there’s far worse news on the way, if you’re a supporter of the CIA-installed clown-puppet government.
Is that the Official Kremiln Spin?
…it’s a spin Nigel…but not as we know it…
Yes, Nigel, tomorrow, there’ll be more fiction from the MSM for you to naively consume & your bird-sized brain won’t be even able to recall that you were all upset about something, something at a power plant, as that fake story is dropped.
If you had any critical faculties you’d notice, over the next few days, that the power plant was still working, supplying power & that the “story” had turned out to be nonsense but you don’t, so you won’t.
There was a fire in an office, on the site & the MSM were the only ones who blew anything up.
Always good to hear from an eyewitness like yourself.
He’s right though
You are also a coruscating fool
It is the largest nuclear plant in Europe Nigel- put down your spoon fed propaganda for a minute and just think about it.
Given the political history of the region, those in charge would have set procedures in charge for if and when a regime change occurred. Their priority is to keep the plant safe, not behave like they are in the middle of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Likewise the Russians- nobody was or is going to bomb it because then, everyone dies.
The probably shouldn’t have bombed it and set it on fire then.
Now, now, Nigel, it looks to me as if you’re contradicting The Narrative, even though you’re still talking gibberish. You’ll lose your licence to pontificate on subjects you know nothing about & we’ll be forced to consume MSM to hear what you think, if you don’t get back on message, stat.
Try starting with something like ”that delusional madman Putin nuked a nuclear power plant…” & copy the rest from an article in The Sun.
Now, now Cavan looks to me as if your straw men are getting dumber, but they’re still not dumb enough for you to win an argument with one.
For an epic Ukrainian sky over Dublin’s very own twin towers
https://twitter.com/DavidCostelloDC/status/1499016681796128775
The Currency have done some decent reportage on Russia’s links with the IFSC – it’s behind their paywall but there is an intro to each story that gives you a flavour of the serious amounts of Moskva monie$ flying around the financial wild west down the Dublin docks – financial neutrality anyone ?
https://thecurrency.news/articles/74900/russian-interests-face-new-sanctions-they-include-billions-of-euros-located-in-dublin/
…dobre.
No do apple.
“Eventually it became clear that much of that 2015 gain reflected Apple’s decision that year to shift its intellectual property assets to an Irish domicile. The IMF calculated in 2018 that a quarter of Ireland’s GDP growth could be attributed to global sales of iPhones, with other Apple units paying the Irish unit to use its IP.“
https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-gdp-growth-multinationals-misleading/
Yeah, but what’s great about that Johnny, is that the increased GDP caused the amount of money that the Irish give as alms to those pathetic losers in the EU to increase in proportion, probably wiping out the breadcrumbs we get from Apple in taxes, making Ireland into even more pathetic losers than the EU.
Nobody’s interested, stephen. There’s nothing worthwhile appearing in the playpen for adults with arrested development that the West’s media has become, unless you enjoy laughing at the sort of idiots that might believe the utter nonsense they shovel out.
Try The Duran, on youtube.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/hermes-says-it-is-temporarily-closing-russia-stores-linkedin-post-2022-03-04/
Western brand and shop in Russia have been forced to close by American Imperialists…
When the perfume runs out, things will get pretty stinky….
Historically speaking March has been a dodgy month for Russian leaders
Nicholas I died on March 2nd
Stalin died on March 5th
Coca-Cola company was the only firm to publicly announce that it would be business as usual in Russia until they did a very quick and humiliating FIFA like u turn last night. Danone has also belatedly made a similar announcement. Looks like gruel from Brekkie and spam for tea,
Meanwhile the cultural and sporting isolation continues apace. The International Boxing Association bans Russian and Belarusian boxers and competition officials from participating in international boxing competitions.
International Gymnastics Federation bans Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions starting March 7, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
In an unprecedented move Singapore sanctions Russia in response to it’s all-out war against Ukraine. Singapore announced sanctions against Russia on March 5 that include four banks and an export ban on electronics, computers and military items.
You forgot to mention that Russian oligarchs might be having their yachts stolen by thieving European governments & that The West, including the jokers in the Dail, is flooding western Ukraine with arms, where they’re being dumped, as there’s nobody to transport them into the war zone.
When Russia expells the Azovs, the mercenaries & the remnants of the Ukrainian army into that area, they’ll have ample old, unwanted small arms to play with. It’s gonna be fun having a permanent war-zone on the borders of the EU that’s been armed by the EU itself, doh! That incompetent bint, van der Layen will probably melt down & resign, so, every cloud, eh?
You’re running around desperately trying to put out fires using only spittle and foam like the Russians just shelled your nuclear power plant.
We’ll do the russian oligarchs first… and then it will be time to finally get ours….
The Currency have done some decent reportage on Russia’s links with the IFSC – it’s behind their paywall but there is an intro to each story that gives you a flavour of the serious amounts of Moskva monies flying around the financial wild west down the Dublin docks.
https://thecurrency.news/articles/74900/russian-interests-face-new-sanctions-they-include-billions-of-euros-located-in-dublin/
“Sanctioned Russian bankers resign from board of O’Brien-advised firm
Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, two “oligarchs” just added to the EU’s Russian sanctions list, are co-founders and shareholders of the LetterOne international investment vehicle that has Denis O’Brien on its technology advisory board.”
What a shock, Denis has some dodgy friends… we’re a grubby little country…
Hardly breaking news
It’s been established for some time
Here, amongst other places
as it happens
And one of the Swiss based handlers of dirty Russian money is a Paddy
Who qualified with and is full and paid up member of Chartered Accountants Ireland
And it’s a lot bigger and wider than just the IFSC dots
The rear war imo. Dirty money
And it’s money that will end the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Not diplomacy
Diplomacy is just window dressing now
Nice jobs
In the meantime
Delighted to the Currency are now calling for VAT to be taken off utility bills
Welcome to the gang lads
Better late than not at all
Come on, Frilly, there’s not a cent in the IFSC that’s not stinkingly, repugnantly dirty. It’s a bloody money-laundering scheme, what would you expect?
Yeah
You definitely need to put down the internet
Now
In small spoon fulls
The dirty money game is a lot bigger than government and law enforcement will admit to
The IFSC action is merely a minority stake in the game
And even smaller – are the pop ups shops being used by Gardai to raid for the cameras and news reels
Historically speaking March has been a dodgy month for Russian leaders
Nicholas I died on March 2nd
Stalin died on March 5th
Alexander II was murdered on March 13th by the “People’s Will” movement
Iván the Terrible died on March 28th March
Paul I was killed March 24th by his officers
If you’re actually expecting Russians to overthrow Putin, you’re an even sillier person than this post might suggest, stephen.
Stop with your foolish nonsense, have you no grasp on objectivity? The Russians are having the possibility of nuclear weapons on their borders eliminated permanently, you don’t think they might actually like that? A lot?
If Putin tells them to, they will, if they know what’s good for them.
“Russians are having the possibility of nuclear weapons on their borders eliminated permanently,”… by taking over Ukraine and then their border will be with Poland, etc… etc… and nukes will be placed in all of those TAYTO bordering countries… so yeah, looking like awin-win there…
The russian people won’t overthrow The Putzar, but maybe a small group of insiders (or near insiders) stage a coup… this will only end with the removal or death of Putin (and any removal will likely mean his death…)
I would assume that the majority people under the age of 40 in Russia would not shed a tear for The Putzar or care much about the geopolitics, or have any interest in being drafted into an endless guerilla war with Ukraine… not that removing him will be smooth for them or the world…
Anyway, I’d get 15 years for saying that kind of thing in Russia…
Nukes can arrive from the US in 30mins. Nuclear weapons in the UK. France and Israel are even closer to Moscow. It doesn’t make any difference.
A lot of Russians are going to lose their jobs. there’ll be huge inflation, and a shortage of goods. They’re going to care more about that than imaginary bombs.
It was Pirates of the Caribbean night at the beach bar last night.
Rather amusingly, I thought, I borrowed a length of floor laminate and went as the plank.
Sadly I had to spend the night explaining why I was carrying a piece of laminate rather than enjoying the spectacle of people laughing at my witty joke.
Lashings of rum eased the embarrassment.
Anyhow, I read this morning that the City of London lost just 7,500 Brext-related jobs which is far far fewer than Project Fear warned.
Quelle surprise.
And it must be right because the Mayor is Irish.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/city-of-london-has-lost-just-7-500-jobs-due-to-brexit-irish-born-mayor-says-1.4818750
O’Marvellous™
Oh that’s excellent stuff blah blah blah
Has Giggidy’s alter ego been benched?
Chargers paranoia looks like it’s contagious. Hitting the poor first. Hahahaaaaaaa.
You know when you roar despondently into a canyon and all you hear is your own echo?
You get that when you open your wallet
Hahah very good
You’ve got great mileage out of that one
He’s gone to that lorry stack in the sky after being embarrassingly exposed on here.
Morto.
For shame.
Ha haaaa. Paranoia and and Inferiority troubles – not a good combination there Walter. Long holiday this time. Hope your car is one piece when you retrieve it from the backstreet in Hounslow. It has an uncanny resemblance to the road outside your Blackpool bedsit though.
Your heart’s not really in it is it ?
Rope-a-dope going through the motions, flailing wild punches and droning on about parking in Hounslow.
Take a break.
Step away from the internet.
Pull into the layby of life and get some sleep – you’re out of hours.
She’s one of those who haven’t had much luck in life. Hence the focus on back street life, daily parking arrangements, access to credit etc – undue attention to the minutiae of humdrum existence. It’s alright though we all have our crosses to bear.
The only dope that’s roped is yourself charger. Open the window and let some fresh air in. The carpet might dry out.
Both ailments are treatable by the way – then again you’re gone way past that. Sure Have Inferiority Troubles hovering around 45% today.
Strike!
Mad getting thick now. What was that you were saying about access to credit?
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2022/02/05/sundays-papers-120/#comment-2394402
Ha haaaaaa. That’s some cross to bear, especially when you can’t hire a car to carry it.
I pay for everything in cash or with a debit card love: it’s only the down on their luck types like yourself who finance their day to day stuff on exorbitant credit card and payday lending rates, hence your fixation I suppose.
Here’s some advice for you to avoid getting into such a hole ongoing
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/pricewatch-ten-ways-you-end-up-paying-more-if-you-have-less-money-1.4804231
You can’t book a hire car with a debit card, nor cash. And you have to have a good credit score to get one
All of which you found out to your embarrassment. I never had that problem, and only use credit cards for the likes of car hire. The rest is money on hand.
You can use debit cards to book cars in several countries which you would find out for yourself if you ever happened to leave Bastardstown
Sounds like your off-peak week at butlins is going well charger.
We’re here for the month And Dumber.
We always try to get away for March as it’s such a dull month back home.
March drags out the winter before April’s early promise of summer.
And it’s good to warm the bones.
Yourself ?
Santa Ponsa again this year ?
Nice to see you’ve progressed from ‘dumb’ to ‘Dumber’
Strike! Dope ropes himself once again.
Jayus Charger, Youghal sounds great.. I don’t remember it like that..
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Sounds like a blast TPT.
Wonderful, Terry, I was very worried for a while there that some of the Brexit fear-porn might actually migrate from the coke-addled brains of newspaper propaganda peddlers, out into the Real World.
No, I was.
Very meditative…
https://twitter.com/RUOligarchJets
Anyway – time to go out into the beautiful day …
Nice not to worry about bombs dropping or getting 15 years for saying “fake” stuff…
Sure everything is the Shinner’s fault anyways… https://twitter.com/BTriagain/status/1498945165079322627/photo/1
A epic Ukrainian sky over Dublin’s very own twin towers
https://twitter.com/DavidCostelloDC/status/1499016681796128775
Virtue signalling reaches new heights as Sainsbury’s renames chicken kiev to ‘Kyiv’ in support of Ukraine. Some marketing genius actually came up with that nonsense, then presented it to management, What is more scary is that they approved of it.
They are actually using the slaughter of innocent people to sell chicken?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/04/sainsburys-renames-chicken-kievs-in-support-of-ukraine-16216590/
But SOQ this is business ‘getting back to normal’ after the pandemic, thought you wanted that? Nothing less normal than commerce cynically responding to public sentiment about international events. That’s the kind of shallow, empty capitalist exploitation we all missed during lockdown!
Covid Nigel? https://www.broadsheet.ie/2022/03/03/fridays-papers-123/#comment-2403831
Getting monomaniacal, Giggidy?
She’s one of those who haven’t had much luck in life. Hence the focus on back street life, daily parking arrangements, access to credit etc – undue attention to the minutiae of humdrum existence. I could add online stalking etc to that. It’s alright though we all have our crosses to bear.
Nope. It was you who thought you were smart attaching it to another poster, yet here you are, turning conversations around to your subject of the year. You’re getting to know yourself bit by bit, helped by commenters here.
And the thick, Mad, copies and pastes his earlier comment and adds a little to it. Not are you broke in life, you’re broke in the thought department. No credit cards available for that either.
Whatever happened to your fetish with urinals then? You know, the references you made during your own stalking? Maybe you’ve no Ac cess to those?
‘It was you who thought you were smart attaching it to another poster’
And since you obviously think these were brilliant gotchas, which you seem to crave with a desperation that’s almost touching, dare I say monomaniacal, you obviously don’t understand why.
How many more times are you going to crash and burn this week? Your ‘gotcha’ yesterday wasn’t up to much now was it?
See? You only see everything in terms of gotchas that either land or crash and burn. It wasn’t supposed to be a gotcha. It was a genuine response to the nature of the comment.
You’re the one who brought the gotcha into the conversation. You’ve a weird obsession with the word.
You’re trying to defend your ‘gotcha’ by saying, that although the commenter made no reference in his post, he said something in previous posts that backed up your reason for saying it. But no links.
How spiffingly clever. Not.
‘You’re the one who’
Trying to do it again. It’s your default mode, agressive defensiveness.
‘You’re trying to defend your ‘gotcha”
Wasn’t trying for a gotcha, in either of yesterday’s comments to which you responded, but which you seem to be mixing up here. Not that it matters, you didn’t have anything to actually say to either, and you still don’t.
Poor Giggidy. Repeats the same old guff for weeks. Didn’t have the sense to note that this comment wasn’t a copy and paste but had added elements. Not really that great at the online stalking then either. Poor oul divil
Crash and burn no. 3 already today Nigel. Nice to see you’ve attracted a like-minded lap dog though. You’ll be happy together.
You have a small bag of set responses to things you don’t understand and you’re not afraid to use it.
There is nothing normal about using such an horrific event in that manner- it is disgusting.
The black Americans and the Indians have already copped on- the whole thing reeks of woke racism and hypocritical double standards.
https://www.tiktok.com/@bepropalestine/video/7070738606863797506
It’s like everybody has already forgotten about freedom fries.
Well it appears that Putin cured Covid- which in fairness is quote an achievement.
Although Antifa must be mighty confused at the moment- well, more so than usual I mean.
Not on the US. Not in Homg Kong.
It’s easy enough. Putin is the fascist.
No, Nigel, lockdown was shallow, empty capitalist exploitation.
Will there be added iron?
Won’t someone think of the chicken?
There’s a meme with a chicken kiev wearing a Ukrainian flag, which had gone off & had managed to give food-poisoning to a Russian general.
It was being called “The Kiev of Kiev”
If kids of today got called up to fight.
https://www.tiktok.com/@dapperlaughs/video/7070093972810616069
The russian and ukrainian kids have been called up to fight…
Is it not just the Ukraine that has enacted conscription?
Ah, Kali, don’t be the one to tell the children there’s no Santa Claus. Their touching but pathetic belief, that The West is righteous in everything it does, is a comfort blanket that soothes their little minds, as they lie in their cots at night, thinking scaredey thoughts of that evil Mr Putin & his hordes of Russian bogeymen.
many of the russians in the front are conscripted kids doing their mandatory 12 months… by russian law they are not meant to be there, but they are… especially now as the russian army is relatively small compared to what it used to be, and has a lot of commitments in the middle east and central asia
Also, often their NCO’s are late stage conscripts… survival of the fittest…
So not exactly the FCA…
Vladimir has rushed out a ‘nyet’ on that today:
https://tass.com/politics/1417483
Putin was possibly responding to remarks attributed to Senator Lyudmila Narusova of the Russian Federation Council:
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/03/4/7328225/
Senator Lyudmila Narusova will probably be saying no more on the matter – if she knows what’s good for her.
She’ll be one of the few to be able to say anything for now… until the purges begin in a week or two… purges are always good for moral… Now That’s What I Call Cancel Culture 2022!!!…
What you won’t be wearing in Russia this season
Inditex, the owner of the brands Zara, Bershka, Pull & Bear, Oysho, ceases operations in Russia and closes stores.
The Russian army seems to be like something from the Flintstones – the don’t even have secure comms
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1499897531286831105
@visegrad24
14 cargo planes carrying military aid landed near in Poland near Ukraine’s border on Friday.
Ukraine is about to receive some serious western firepower.
I imagine their outlets in Ukraine won’t be selling too much of their tat, either, stephen.
AN-225 “Mriya” (The Dream) dead…pics here:
https://twitter.com/ua_industrial/status/1499701237301796869
“The largest ex-Soviet money laundering scandals that have been exposed in recent times have all had a British nexus, thanks to the total absence of checks on the information entered when creating companies or other corporate structures at Companies House, the U.K.’s registrar of companies.“
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-united-kingdom-investment-oligarch-money-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin/
Canadian Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich appeared in court in leg shackles.
“LEG SHACKLES!!!
In ten years of criminal law, including doing bail hearings for serious violent offences, I can’t remember an accused ever appearing at a bail hearing in shackles.”
https://twitter.com/BrianJeanAB/status/1499068861273890817
Do these people not understand the damage they are doing to the institutions they claim to represent- or that the world is watching? Extraordinary stuff.
LEG SHACKLES, LEG SHACKLES, LEG SHACKLES.
It’s a disgrace you were subjected to such brutal imagery over your breakfast dear, hope you can recover speedily enough to digest saturday evening’s ‘Ukraine are bad guys too’ tik toks.
Yeah, leg shackles, who cares, Canada no longer a functioning democracy, who cares? Get in the pod & eat the bugs, Grain, you silly, silly person.
Why is this troll allowed to change usernames at will? There is quite obviously some sort of personality disorder issues at play and I don’t mean to have a go by saying that.
Crybaby
Trudeau is the actual embodiment of the evil fascist image that the MSM are trying to paint onto Putin.
That’s some special Putin boner snot right there.
You use the word boner a lot. You could try to leave your phallic fixation out of each sentence if you hope to be taken seriously. Or are you just trolling?
Nah. That’s exactly what all you nazi Putin boner tugging choads are all about. And tugging your Putin boners for Putin boner snot is all you all do. All day, every day. Like the deluded – or well paid – Putin boner tugging choads that you all are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-IOuFCHfmmg
Yeah, they loves a bit of Putin-Pudden/Pudding…
There’s never any gee chat on here at the weekend.. it’s very disappointing.
Better out than in!
I tend to take the weekend off, it’s all a bit bluetits up
Stop flappin’ about that kind of thing…
Italian Financial Guard arrested the property of oligarch Alisher Usmanov and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov.
We are talking about Usmanov’s villa in Sardinia and two villas of nightingale droppings on Lake Como.
Such a shame one can’t sail ones Tuscan bolt hole villa to the Maldives.
Paypal shuts down its services in Russia.
Ukrainian media report that a member of Ukrainian delegation at Gomel peace talks, Denys Kireyev, was killed by SBU as security agents tried to capture him on suspicion of high treason. He is reportedly linked to elements in the ex-president Yanukovych’s government. Clearly they don’t have much truck with quislings and apparatchiks from a hostile foreign invader. And who can blame them.
Yes, stephen & you can see the effect this is having on the progress of the denazification of Ukraine.
None.
Stop cluttering up the thread with your useless bullcrap, please. It’s annoying the adults.
Folks, this guy is a prize prat, can we have him kicked out?
Look at you, cock of the walk now that you were on that YouTube telly one time. Besties with the govnor now too.
This piece from Arta Moeini, the Director of Research at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, is the best I’ve read so far at articulating what’s behind western media’s extreme propagandistic reporting on Ukraine and why it is that the majority seem to be consuming it without question.
https://unherd.com/2022/03/how-western-elites-exploit-ukraine/
As far as the Western legacy media is concerned, we really do live in the post-historical age Francis Fukuyama triumphantly proclaimed in 1989, with liberal internationalism the only acceptable paradigm through which to understand the world. Alternative views are now tantamount to championing tyranny. In each instance, the dictator comes to personify internationally Hegel’s thymotic, if savage, primitive man — the inhumane antithesis of the “last man” — fighting maniacally against liberal democracy, the march of modernity, and progress itself. Assad, Ghaddafi, the Taliban, and Vladimir Putin all fit this archetype as reactionary actors par excellence necessitating a holy alliance to confront and civilise…
Such a melioristic framing of international politics justifies and indeed privileges a Manichean narrative of good and evil. In this context, rationality itself is bound to the good, defined as effective conformity with liberal hegemony
…Perhaps, given the profound crisis of meaning in the West and the gap in solidarity and social cohesion, we should not be surprised. Living under the conditions of rootlessness, spiritual emptiness, and angst, every crisis is an opportunity for mythopoesis. Tragedy is reborn, and we are easily enthralled by the periodic cycles of worship and hero-making. Our faith in the cult of expertise, meanwhile, blinds and lulls us to the potential dangers of such black and white thinking.”
Excellent article
Thank you
As one of American greatest strategists and the architect of “containment” against the Soviet Union, George Kennan’s reaction to the Clinton administration’s insistence on Nato’s enlargement is particularly telling: “I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn over in their graves.”
There’s no doubt, f lawless, that we’re in a sorry state & our MSM has fallen into a financial hole from which they can only emerge by becoming full-time recipients of handouts from government & corporate interests.
They already are, in fact & they now just reflect the corporate & state interests’ chattering, right back at them, in an echo-chamber of enormous proportions.
Our time is up, I fear. The US, who’ve already opened up a De-escalation Hotline with the Russian military, will be withdrawing from Europe in the not-too-distant future, leaving us high & dry, without a single leader in power who hasn’t been taught to detest their own people & identity.
Time for some radical change, I think. We could make a good start by placing the enforcers of the Covid insanity in prison, awaiting trial at some stage in the next decade (or two). Hanging them upside down from lamposts would be a more suitable ending but we don’t want to continue with their callous, reckless disregard for human & civil rights & the rule of law.
‘Alternative views are now tantamount to championing tyranny.’
Just the ones that do, in fact, champion tyranny.
‘Living under the conditions of rootlessness, spiritual emptiness, and angst,’
Lolwhut.
‘black and white thinking’
Putin is invading because: NATO
Denazification
To protect Christianity (from the Jews)
Corruption
The West is woke and weak
The Ukrainian and the Russian peoples are one
Pick whichever makes Putin the good guy in your own mind or for whichever audience you happen to be adressing.
‘mythopoesis’
I think we might actually be witnessing Putin dismantling his own mythification.
…careful what you wish for Nigel…looks like another term for Trump!
The Republicans are working hard to establish Putin-style democracy in the US, so you never know.
This is why it’s impossible to take your guff seriously Nigel
That’s just an excuse to pretend the right isn’t doing what it’s doing.
Not really pal.
The right as you put it has a few elements who admire Putin for sure. But your tiresome extrapolation is not going to convince me.
It’s not even that much of an extrapolation.
Nice bit of background on Zelensky, more of a crook than a hero.
How does a comedian become a billionaire president without grift and corruption?
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/04/rise-of-zelensky-from-comedian-to-president/
And not as ‘liberal’ as he claims either by the looks of it.
https://gcn.ie/trans-trapped-ukraine-gender-documents/
Don’t worry they’ll be fine under Putin. No corruption either.
Two wrongs don’t make a right Nigel. If it was Mexico being meddled with by Russia. you’d be cheering the carpet bombing on.
Well, no, the invasion will only make it worse.
Good man Gerry !
Gerry, everyone who’s not a hypnotized chicken, gobbling up the MSM’s muck knows that Zekensky’s been shelling civilians in the Donbass for months, in fact all the Fake News pictures of him “on the frontline” with the Ukrainian military are from his recent visits there, to see how the civilian casualties were mounting up.
The Russians will put a cap in him, if they catch him & to be honest, I can’t see any moral objection to such an ending for a POS scumbag war criminal like that.
More Putin boner snot.
BURN
BURN
the bondholders.
i always wondered did dodgy Declan and constantly wrong first meet and do much business in Moscow?
….from Russia with lots luv, is he still at Trinners?
When is the next Brofesf.
“The businessman set up St Columbanus AG with the economist Constantin Gurdgiev a year ago, promising to manage clients’ funds in a “conservative, transparent, manner”.
https://www.thejournal.ie/its-a-lie-on-so-many-levels-ganley-denies-conflict-of-interest-over-fund-458791-May2012/
The Russian air force seems to be doing a very good impersonation of Lord Flashheart’s “20 Minuters” today over parts of occupied Ukraine and bits they are trying to invade by force against the will of the people.
Funnily enough, stephen, it’s beginning to dawn on many ordinary Ukrainians that the Zelensky regime is not worth fighting for, as they sit in their homes with electricty & water services untouched by the advancing Russian army. Most of Eastern Ukraine is Russian-speaking, despite the fact that Zelensky has demoted the language from its official status, not to mention ethnically Russian & at this stage, Zelensky is just running around, shouting out orders than nobody can or will carry out. He’s recently bought a 24 million dollar mansion in Florida, from the huge amounts the US paid him, alas, unless the rumours are true & he’s already abandoned ship, he won’t ever get to enjoy it.
The Russian air force is, I’m sure you noticed, the only one operating in Ukraine.
I heard unconfirmed reports that he’s done a runner to Poland
Yes I read something about his US property portfolio recently- I’ll try and dig it out.
He’s a con man
You’d miss the regular Saturday gilets jaunes derby midday kickoff of Maskup Gladbach versus FU Novax compared to this buffoonery.
Will you people ever get a life, brain, or heart when it comes to news about Ukraine.
Total berks.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum…
“Russian forces have seized a psychiatric hospital with 670 people inside in the town of Borodyanka in Ukraine’s Kyiv region, the regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba has said. ” Today we do not understand how to evacuate these people, how to help them,” Kuleba said. “They are running out of water and medicines,” Kuleba said. “These are people with certain special needs, they need constant help … many of them have been bedridden for years.” Borodyanka is around 60km from Kyiv.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/05/russia-ukraine-war-latest-news-nato-gives-green-light-to-bombing-with-lack-of-no-fly-zone-says-zelenskiy?page=with:block-622383778f08d4a3a989fad5#block-622383778f08d4a3a989fad5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aItpjF5vXc
I can only imagine the horrors these poor souls are going to endure. I reckon Putin’s mobile crematoriums will crank into action.
Since this is about the newspapers, it’s worth commenting on the clown-show that’s emerging from the Legacy Print Media.
If you’re reporting on real life events, it’s fairly straightforward, you observe what unfolds, ponder & comment.
If, however, you’re welded to a narrative, a ludicrous, patently untrue narrative at that, with very little information, you have to invent the entire fantasy-world yourself. This is inherently problematic because not only are you commenting on events that never occurred, like any liar, you have to remember the lies you told, then those you told to cover the first lies up & so on, ad infinitum.
Thus we are witnessing a media which managed quite well during the Covid Scam, putting out a narrative that, while not convincing to intelligent people, at least fooled the midwits & dullards, now struggling to avoid being exposed as the charlatans they are. They’re contradicting themselves & especially noticeably, going into outrageous flights of fancy, that only the truly brain-dead can accept as being related to reality, never mind as the actual truth.
As I exit my local newsagent, I always walk by the newspaper shelves to glance down at the headlines. It’s a fascinating glimpse into The Bubble, albeit often with a cast of celebrities unknown to me. Over the last few days, it’s been a glimpse into an abyss, an abyss that our very civilization is on the brink of tumbling into. The level of puerile & unbelievable nonsense in the headlines has gone to unacceptable levels, we cannot sustain a civilization with this idiotic propaganda exerting any influence on public opinion, reading that stuff would scramble your brain & reduce your IQ.
Look, just look at the drooling nonsense Nigel, stephen & whatever other shills are around, are coming up with, and tremble.
We’re doomed, I tell you, doomed.
Just to change the subject for a minute…
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40822416.html
Orange Order, great bunch of lads all the same…
Come stay grounded with me…….
Desperate despot Putin goes the full Kim Jung-Un (never go the full Kim Jung-Un) with some lucky ladies from Aeroflot – which is fair enough considering they can’t fly anywhere anymore
https://twitter.com/mikegalsworthy/status/1500140999242403842
Captive audience indeed.
Yeah, none of them look in the least bit terrified… don’t make too much or too little eye contact, facial expressions set to full “Should the cabin loose pressure…” demo mode…
From Russian Roulette to Russian Tinder courtesy of The Putzar…
…thanks Mad…just off out on my weekly pub crawl…I may resemble Goldens image when I return…as Churchill once said: tomorrow goldenbrown will still be goldenbrown…I’ll be sober…
am I inside your head? eww you weirdo
LOL
Conversations with gutless millennials.
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/05/sally-rooney-normal-people-hulu-bbc-soap-opera
“Do you see that?” I asked my cat, pointing at Marianne’s circle of friends on the screen. “That’s social capital.”
This is surreal:
BBC’s Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, posts an illustrated guide on his BBC Twitter account for where to aim Molotov cocktails at Russian armoured vehicles – the “weak spots..viewing hatches and air inlets”.
https://twitter.com/BowenBBC/status/1499668674940133378
I believe the PC term for them is “Ukrainian smoothies”. I must have missed out that class with the FCA
Yeah and White Russians will now be referred to as Milk With Attitude
this is what a Putin Mi-24 helicopter looks like
after it meets a Stinger
https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/status/1500096326507319303
just like in the movies only better
Guys sorry to be blunt, but you’re coming across like a trio of infantilised adults. As though the gravity of war is just something to crack jokes at or like jeering the opposing side in a football match. Although maybe I’m assuming too much and you are still very young .
@AmichaiStein1
After meeting Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Bennett is currently on his way from Moscow to Berlin, where he will meet with German Chancellor @OlafScholz
Looks like Israeli Prime Minister Bennett has become the new mediator.
This may actually indicate some willingness among the Russians to negotiate.
a very nicely done cross verified incident map here:
“The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a crowdsourced effort by Centre for Information Resilience, Bellingcat, Mnemonic, Conflict Intelligence Team and the wider open source community to map, document and verify significant incidents during the conflict in Ukraine”
https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor
‘Toxic Nostalgia, From Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?’
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/01/war-climate-crisis-putin-trump-oil-gas/
Same people funding regime change in Kiev at the Maidan did the same thing in Syria and still do, that is the CIA.
My prayers are with Dr. Assad and his long suffering country which he obviously loves above all else. In his shoes Boris or Macron would have moved to Monaco after a week of the conflict with their swag and pontificated in exile.
It is easy to see why President Putin will be viewed as being on the side of righteousness at the end of this current security operation.
https://syrianews.cc/jaafari-interview-nato-ukraine-propaganda-identical-to-that-of-syria/
Plastic fantastic surgery
BREAKING: Visa and Mastercard suspending their network services in Russia – the line at the ATM will be like the Bretzel bakery in Little Jerusalem of a Sunday morning
Where the hell did BS get this K.Cavan guy? His presence in the comments sections is toxic. I dare say he might be the most abusive cretin to ever comment on this site.
And that’s saying something.
Some might say the same could be said of you.
Now, back to the more important issues at hand.
He’s a National Party aficionado
What else do you need to know?