Ironic really isn’t it given that the poison dwarf Patel’s parents escaped to the UK to flee from Idi Amin murderous purge against Indians, Pakistanis & other Asians in Uganda- how conveniently the 2nd generation seem to forget their own family history and journey
Your non-functioning link to a story from 2018 presumably means something to you but maybe not so much to anyone else.
TheWhiteWolf
Broadsheet’s very own Putin Fluffer #1 is back for more hot takes…
Donald duck
Apparently they were not killed
There is so much fake news from both sides it’s hard to see fact or fiction
Now the Russian media has been blocked we only have one side to hear
I could say it’s an ideal time for a repeat of the end of the tzar
Even Putin is expendable and I believe the mood in Russia is not good
Yup, definitely a wrong vowel there in your username.
Moron.
stephen moran
Oh god are you going to set fire to RTE & watch Claire Byrne…if I had a euro for every time that jaded ignorant trope with regard to my name has been used I’d be an Irish oligarch. And @ least I don’t insult people with the all the bravery of hiding behind a childish anon moniker. The poison dwarf has given a generic number for Sun readers with the literacy level of 8 years olds to eat with their Frosties.. She has REFUSED to point blank give visa wavers as Ireland and most civilized countries in the EU have done. She is all hat & no cattle Maybe read a bit before falling for the Daily Excrement headlines.
TenPin Terry
There are sensible security reasons why the UK is not offering a visa waiver ( yes, it’s spelled with an i you imbecile ) programme for Ukrainians.
The Home Secretary will have taken the decision following advice from the intelligence services.
Of rather more urgent concern is the supply of British-made weapons to the Ukrainian defence forces which are being flown to Poland which is why President Zelensky called Boris yesterday with a detailed wish list.
This is proper grown-up stuff not your student union snivelling.
goldenbrown
stephen
you’re interacting with a longtime complex madbollix troll called Charger Salmons
he/she goes by a lot of other usernames on here including that one more recently, apparently has quite the history on other online forums and blogs too but who cares
will sometimes fill whole threads with the various personalities – yes talking to him/herself
don’t waste your time – it’s 100% disingenuous
Maura
Israel in Palestine.
Donald duck
Our record is pretty dire so stop throwing bricks in our glasshouse
Your remark about Patell is pretty racist
Unlike you I grew up in the UK and my best pal was one of those given refuge with just the shirt off their backs
The big problem is how can these people get out of a war zone
Still to this day we have not brought in our quota of Syrians
I think Vlad is going to need a bit more than Terry Prone or Carr Communications to turn his PR department round at this stage.
I see Monaco has now pulled the plug on his chums….will no one think of the yachts
Daisy Chainsaw
Even Putin has more scruples than to engage the crone for his PR.
stephen moran
Russian users can no longer pay for Netflix and Spotify subscriptions with their bank cards.
Like the complete global football ban on Russian teams, this is another thing that Putin will find hard to explain away to the ordinary no doubt confused Russian people.
BP yesterday – Shell disinvested today. Who’s next ? Exxon ? Canada weighed in with a ban on oil imports today. UPS & Fedex will no longer deliver to Russia and the worlds largest container shipping company Maersk are on the verge of following suit
But the big change is Germany’s 180 degree about turn from 20 years of being a Russaiphile country to Russiaphobe over one weekend with an SDP led government – that is a gam changer
Maura
Things woefully skewed when Big Oil is spun as the ‘good guy’.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Who exactly is spinning that?
No one with half a functional brain could possibly think that Shell are the ‘good’ guys here. Who even uses the term ‘good guys’ anyway?
It’s just that Putin is worse, and reporting on the fact that Shell and BP have decided to jump on the bandwagon, putting pressure on Russia, is just that: reporting. It doesn’t change anything about how dangerous and dishonest companies like Shell and BP are happy to destroy our natural resources for profit.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
+ all the willy waving megalomaniacs who play with our lives through their selfish self serving ” politics ” are all wretches…good guys in power ? hahahahaha I wish that was funny.
Mad
These guys are like a Hydra
You cut one head off and another one equally vapid and poisonous appears
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
worms do that when you chop them in half
stephen moran
Oh I totally agree with you all. I’m just flagging the bandwagonesque virue signaling like behavior- but we cannot ignore the fact that this is going to hurt the Russian economy- these are massive very long term joint venture projects leveraging off western expertise / technology and they are not coming back anytime soon as ERG will be all over the Russia thing for years after this – what out for French oil giant Total today & possibly Exxon to pull a similar stunt – but bottom line is this will cripple large parts of the two remaining functioning parts of the Russian economy oil & gas exploration.
Mad
Do they really Janet?
I recall hearing that as a kid and doing an experiment. I think only one side continues alive but could be wrong. I think the other side gets to live the rest of its life with Micko
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
ah, I like Micko
I tried to make slugs swim….they can’t
The Millie Obnoxious™
I loathe slugs.
Frogs are always welcome in the garden to eat them up.
Nigel
And hedgehogs! Love hedgehogs, they’re brilliant.
The Millie Obnoxious™
When we lived outside of the town, we used to get hedgehogs in the garden. Lovely little creatures. We used to get hares and pheasants too and even a badger once.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
my mum taught us to spit on slugs while saying ” you’re not my granny “, Scottish thing ?
Oro
We rescued one from a skip that ended up becoming very friendly, to the point that it would come into the house every evening when it woke up (scratching at the back door to be let in) run around the kitchen for 30 minutes, get a belly scratch, poke the dogs’ nose at least once, and then go off into the garden to chase some slugs around.
Micko
@Janet. x hun. Yer one of the best ;-)
@Mad. Stop being a derp and relax man.
Nigel
Nearly tripped over one walking in the woods at night a few weeks ago, which was cool, but also slightly worrying as it’s a bit early for them to be waking up.
Micko
Here’s a compilation of baby hedgehogs to bring some sense of normality.
The official line is that the weekly reports of people collapsing in the audience of football matches are no different to normal, only in the past the matches would not have been stopped. There may be an element of truth in that, but the rise in ambulance calls for cardiac and respiratory arrests suggests that people are right in their suspicions and that there are good reasons for genuine concern about the health of the nation’s hearts… “
anti bot
Seriously can you just retire and f off with your anti vax comments. look up Jordan Kepper on youtube and realise the kind of idiots you are associated with
f_lawless
I think you’re jumping the gun a bit there. There isn’t even a mention of vaccines in the entire article. In fact, there’s no attempt to attribute the rise in cardiac and respiratory arrests to anything – only that according to the available data (official UK govt sources which are linked to in article), it can’t simply be explained by Covid. The first step is to acknowledge that the problem exists, then establish what the cause is.
The Laying Tactic
You could fupp off anyway
Fearganainm
40 mile-long Russian convoy heading to Kyiv twice as long as previously thought
“New satellite images reveal that a convoy Russian military vehicles heading to the Ukrainian capital is even longer than previously thought. The column of military hardware is more than 40 miles long, more than twice the original estimates that it spanned 17 miles, according to satellite imaging firm Maxar Technologies. The convoy was photographed on Monday approaching Antonov airport on the outskirts of Kyiv, which remained under government control after days under Russian assault. Hundreds of armoured vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and logistics support vehicles were moving in line south towards the capital. Kyiv came under further bombardment on Monday, with Russian missile attacks destroying a major military radar complex, as fruitless ceasefire talks between the Ukraine government and Moscow took place on the Belarusian border…”
SailorGerry
I love it how the media cries out in pain, “the Russians are attacking schools”
Whilst at the same time they will not acknowledge cowardly Ukrainian soldiers parking field guns next to schools in residential areas, whilst not letting residents flee.
Brought to you by the same media that lied for two years over how deadly Covid was.
Zero credibility will ever return to the lame street media.
Great excuse for more censorship though and disinformation…..
I challenge you to find a dozen effective defensible positions with an Irish city that is not with a stones throw of a school/ hospital/ old people home etc. Due to their nature the are in every community and hard to avoid.
If I attacked you in your house you would likely find it hard to get away from a piece of furniture. You aren’t going to blame the bloody sofa for my aggression are you?
Propaganda is not new, and comes in all shapes and sizes. The challenge is for each of us to ensure our next generation can think critically, and to challenge the assumed values of a previous generation.
Tom J
People have been around for thousands of years or more, that’s a lot of generations. So whose assumed values got it wrong.
goldenbrown
go back to your PlayStation ffs
or is it double maths first thing?
stephen moran
Thanks for the head up earlier – I’ll refrain from taking the bait as I recall getting involved on Zerohedge’s “comments” page and I had to order a Devil’s pizza in from Hilary and George’s basement P place after it to recover.
Ian - oG
Zerohedge…..
A website for flaccid little crypto bros cosplaying at nihilist chic.
FFS one of the first things I noted was a piece by ‘Tyler Durden’.
Jesus wept.
stephen moran
Have you ever had the misfortune to wade into the cesspool of the comments section on ZH ? It is I’d rather be a Russian or a North Korean than a democrat Jesus freaks with bazookas post Ayn Rand one flew over the QAnon stuff
Mad
Didn’t you post a link from it here the other day?
Ian - oG
@Stephen Moran, no, have more self respect for myself than to read that idiocy.
Although it’s getting more and like closer to that you describe above on here after the last two years.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Putin thanks you for your contribution, comrade!
anti bot
yep all the Urkanians fault. they were not invaded by a fall large nation with a bigger military might, that are killing people? grow up!
bisted
…oh look…there’s Fergus Finlay, President in waiting, suggesting that we should abandon even our most tenuous hold on neutrality…hope somebody reminds him of this when the campaign gets going…
bisted
…and now Adi Roche on the radio…another entitled charity CEO…gonna need a bigger ballot paper…
Mad
You seem to have a lot of hate for many people Bisted, fair play
bisted
…grma Madser…
Nigel
Grim but essential: a read-through of the climate change report:
What depressing front pages.
How’s everyone doing?
Seriously?
I need to switch off from it all but it’s too hard to look away.
TenPin Terry
It’s all cool bro.
Sun is shining, the gin and tontons are strong and ice-cold.
And the sweet smell of MaryJane is wafting over from the villa next door.
Sometimes you’ve just got to put the depressing news to one side and slap on some more Ambre Solaire.
Marvellous™
Mad
lol I smoked but I didn’t inhale
TenPin Terry
Not me Holmes.
I do whole shebang if the bud is good.
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
Now everything is going wrong
I think I changed my mind again
I’m not sure if this is a song
I don’t even know what I’m saying
Everything is going wrong
I think I changed my mind again
I’m not sure if this is the kinda life
That I saw myself living
I don’t need no dating app
To tell me if I look like crap
To tell me if I’m thin or fat
To tell me should I shave my rat
I don’t need no radio
No MTV, no BBC
I just need a bubble bath
To set me on a higher path
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
on a serious note Spud, it’s terrifying whoever is at fault, torn between an urge to bury my head in the sand and check the headlines. Wondering what kind of world our children will have.
Fergalito
A few words of observation from Chip Taylor (and The New Ukrainians):
“To pray or not to pray
To sway or not to sway
Jesus died for something or nothing at all
Fuck all those perfect people
Sleepy eyes, waltzing through
I’m talking about you”
we need one now including the yachts and showing the gaffs
goldenbrown
that column of Russian/Belarusian gear..
surely a bit of out of the box dirty thinking could interrupt it
e.g. fill a gang of 737’s to the brim and drop them from the ceiling?
TenPin Terry
Oh look, it’s famed Irish military strategist Sun O’Tzu and his cunning plan to defeat the enemy.
Although your posts generally remind me of that old Confucius saying ” man who goes to sleep with sex problem on brain wakes up with solution in hand.”
Another child of Generation XBOX making a tool of himself.
goldenbrown
lol Charger, you’re too easy
any chance you could emigrate to Kiev?
bring the gang along too
Kali
His xbox analogy is pretty accurate. Your second scenario could be more of a Wiley coyote plan
Mad
Tone deaf Tatiana
TenPin Terry
So exactly where is the Russian air force ?
Sadly the answer is not a good one for Ukranian civilians.
Interesting take on why so few fixed wing sorties, the other option being a genuine desire to minimise civilian casualties. If the Russians do intend to depart after defanging the Bandarites and stopping NATO accession, it would be long term beneficial that they are not despised by the majority. That is going to be some special kind of PR stunt, which will involve rebuilding and assistance for years.
Tessa always has a good take on things for those that never found her site.
Meanwhile the weather/climate is the same as it’s always been.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Good thing you know better than the scientists.
Nigel
It literally isn’t, and getting less so.
But between arable land suddenly becoming available as permafrost melts in sub-Arctic regions – never mind the sink-holes, methane pockets and wildfires – and fossil fuels being Putin’s only real source of money, influence and leverage, I’m beginning to understand why the venn diagram of climate change deniers and Putin apologists is a circle.
stephen moran
I wonder how our working class heroes Messrs Wallace, Daly, Ming & McManus will vote this time as they voted against a much softer resolution 2 weeks ago.
Here is Clare Daly last year slamming Russian opposition figure Alexis Navalny as “a vicious, anti-immigrant racist” in the European Parliament and accusing the Parliament of “relentless Russia-phobia,” a clip that was triumphantly disseminated by Russian state-backed media channel RT (now banned by the EU.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnkn-MvM3U
MEPs will not before time gather for an extraordinary session at noon to debate and vote on a resolution on the war. The resolution is hard-hitting, “condemning in the strongest possible terms the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified military aggression by the Russian Federation against and invasion of Ukraine, as well as the involvement of Belarus in this aggression against Ukraine. ”The resolution also backs a comprehensive list of measures — from “working towards” EU candidate status for Ukraine, to ensuring that the EU maintains a united front on sanctions, “without any exemptions induced by sectoral or national interests.” It also highlights “the need for Member States to acknowledge and accept that severe sanctions against the Russian Federation will unavoidably entail negative effects on their economic situation.”
Nigel
Really hate to be such a downer, but this is another thing people have been warning about for decades – antibiotic reistance, the next pandemic, is already here:
I had a particularly bad antibiotic resistant bug, it’s no joke.
The Laying Tactic
You’re a real fupping ray of sunshine
Nigel
Hong Kong going into lockdown with complulsory testing.
‘The Chinese-ruled territory reported 32,597 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday and a record 117 deaths in the past 24 hours. It has seen daily infections surge over 30 times from just over 100 at the start of February.’
Excellent primer on how the West’s sanctions will hurt Russia.
And the best way to apply them.
Putin has achieve the impossible already – uniting bickering western allies rapidly and effectively.
Yep he’s managed in one w/e to undo 30 years plus of German Russophile pacifist foreign policy & turn then into Russophobes with the SPD in government. Finland and Sweden will be joining NATO and even Victor O has has found his blue badge (though this may have a lot more to do with his impending election defeat and ECJ rulings re the legality of funding cuts than any Pauline conversion). Fair play to him for redrawing the geo-political map of Europe and reinforcing democracy. His Brexit divide and rule part 2 strategy is backfiring big time.
Fearganainm
Professor Ben Tonra resigns position at UCD over college’s Ukraine stance:
I hate how the papers get a pic of a very pretty child and plaster her everywhere as if to say “look! he’s even killing very pretty children”.. as if they need to be anything more than just a life for it to mean anything to us.
Fergalito
That’s what you hate? Really?
You hate that?
Fearganainm
Some people hate seeing images of casualties so much that they resort to labelling people ‘crisis actors’ or alleging that images are fake/ taken from incidents that occurred years ago, etc. We’ve had posters here doing exactly that in the case of this woman:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMqxoQJXIAMmCCW?format=jpg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMr9RwLWYAIkJ5M?format=jpg&name=medium
Ironic really isn’t it given that the poison dwarf Patel’s parents escaped to the UK to flee from Idi Amin murderous purge against Indians, Pakistanis & other Asians in Uganda- how conveniently the 2nd generation seem to forget their own family history and journey
The two fake news peddlers..
We don’t need another hero lads..
RIP Arkady and the lads off Snake Island..
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/russian-journalist-arkady-babchenko-who-was-reported-killed-is-still-alive
You’re very slow:
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2022/02/26/sundays-papers-123/#comment-2401074
Your non-functioning link to a story from 2018 presumably means something to you but maybe not so much to anyone else.
Broadsheet’s very own Putin Fluffer #1 is back for more hot takes…
Apparently they were not killed
There is so much fake news from both sides it’s hard to see fact or fiction
Now the Russian media has been blocked we only have one side to hear
I could say it’s an ideal time for a repeat of the end of the tzar
Even Putin is expendable and I believe the mood in Russia is not good
What part of Patel allowing 100,000 Ukrainian refugees immediate asylum into Britain do you not understand ?
Ireland is still unable to take in Syrian refugees promised asylum two years ago.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/syrian-refugees-in-lebanon-waiting-two-years-to-get-to-ireland-1.4813501
Yup, definitely a wrong vowel there in your username.
Moron.
Oh god are you going to set fire to RTE & watch Claire Byrne…if I had a euro for every time that jaded ignorant trope with regard to my name has been used I’d be an Irish oligarch. And @ least I don’t insult people with the all the bravery of hiding behind a childish anon moniker. The poison dwarf has given a generic number for Sun readers with the literacy level of 8 years olds to eat with their Frosties.. She has REFUSED to point blank give visa wavers as Ireland and most civilized countries in the EU have done. She is all hat & no cattle Maybe read a bit before falling for the Daily Excrement headlines.
There are sensible security reasons why the UK is not offering a visa waiver ( yes, it’s spelled with an i you imbecile ) programme for Ukrainians.
The Home Secretary will have taken the decision following advice from the intelligence services.
Of rather more urgent concern is the supply of British-made weapons to the Ukrainian defence forces which are being flown to Poland which is why President Zelensky called Boris yesterday with a detailed wish list.
This is proper grown-up stuff not your student union snivelling.
stephen
you’re interacting with a longtime complex madbollix troll called Charger Salmons
he/she goes by a lot of other usernames on here including that one more recently, apparently has quite the history on other online forums and blogs too but who cares
will sometimes fill whole threads with the various personalities – yes talking to him/herself
don’t waste your time – it’s 100% disingenuous
Israel in Palestine.
Our record is pretty dire so stop throwing bricks in our glasshouse
Your remark about Patell is pretty racist
Unlike you I grew up in the UK and my best pal was one of those given refuge with just the shirt off their backs
The big problem is how can these people get out of a war zone
Still to this day we have not brought in our quota of Syrians
The reverse ferret:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/01/uk-to-relax-visa-rules-for-extended-family-of-ukrainians-in-britain
I think Vlad is going to need a bit more than Terry Prone or Carr Communications to turn his PR department round at this stage.
I see Monaco has now pulled the plug on his chums….will no one think of the yachts
Even Putin has more scruples than to engage the crone for his PR.
Russian users can no longer pay for Netflix and Spotify subscriptions with their bank cards.
Like the complete global football ban on Russian teams, this is another thing that Putin will find hard to explain away to the ordinary no doubt confused Russian people.
BP yesterday – Shell disinvested today. Who’s next ? Exxon ? Canada weighed in with a ban on oil imports today. UPS & Fedex will no longer deliver to Russia and the worlds largest container shipping company Maersk are on the verge of following suit
But the big change is Germany’s 180 degree about turn from 20 years of being a Russaiphile country to Russiaphobe over one weekend with an SDP led government – that is a gam changer
Things woefully skewed when Big Oil is spun as the ‘good guy’.
Who exactly is spinning that?
No one with half a functional brain could possibly think that Shell are the ‘good’ guys here. Who even uses the term ‘good guys’ anyway?
It’s just that Putin is worse, and reporting on the fact that Shell and BP have decided to jump on the bandwagon, putting pressure on Russia, is just that: reporting. It doesn’t change anything about how dangerous and dishonest companies like Shell and BP are happy to destroy our natural resources for profit.
+ all the willy waving megalomaniacs who play with our lives through their selfish self serving ” politics ” are all wretches…good guys in power ? hahahahaha I wish that was funny.
These guys are like a Hydra
You cut one head off and another one equally vapid and poisonous appears
worms do that when you chop them in half
Oh I totally agree with you all. I’m just flagging the bandwagonesque virue signaling like behavior- but we cannot ignore the fact that this is going to hurt the Russian economy- these are massive very long term joint venture projects leveraging off western expertise / technology and they are not coming back anytime soon as ERG will be all over the Russia thing for years after this – what out for French oil giant Total today & possibly Exxon to pull a similar stunt – but bottom line is this will cripple large parts of the two remaining functioning parts of the Russian economy oil & gas exploration.
Do they really Janet?
I recall hearing that as a kid and doing an experiment. I think only one side continues alive but could be wrong. I think the other side gets to live the rest of its life with Micko
ah, I like Micko
I tried to make slugs swim….they can’t
I loathe slugs.
Frogs are always welcome in the garden to eat them up.
And hedgehogs! Love hedgehogs, they’re brilliant.
When we lived outside of the town, we used to get hedgehogs in the garden. Lovely little creatures. We used to get hares and pheasants too and even a badger once.
my mum taught us to spit on slugs while saying ” you’re not my granny “, Scottish thing ?
We rescued one from a skip that ended up becoming very friendly, to the point that it would come into the house every evening when it woke up (scratching at the back door to be let in) run around the kitchen for 30 minutes, get a belly scratch, poke the dogs’ nose at least once, and then go off into the garden to chase some slugs around.
@Janet. x hun. Yer one of the best ;-)
@Mad. Stop being a derp and relax man.
Nearly tripped over one walking in the woods at night a few weeks ago, which was cool, but also slightly worrying as it’s a bit early for them to be waking up.
Here’s a compilation of baby hedgehogs to bring some sense of normality.
https://youtu.be/giNP51aKMDQ
Thanks Micko
You’re the best xx hi hun
News from the UK :
https://www.hartgroup.org/an-epidemic-of-cardiac-arrests/
Over 20,000 excess arrest calls in 2021
The official line is that the weekly reports of people collapsing in the audience of football matches are no different to normal, only in the past the matches would not have been stopped. There may be an element of truth in that, but the rise in ambulance calls for cardiac and respiratory arrests suggests that people are right in their suspicions and that there are good reasons for genuine concern about the health of the nation’s hearts… “
Seriously can you just retire and f off with your anti vax comments. look up Jordan Kepper on youtube and realise the kind of idiots you are associated with
I think you’re jumping the gun a bit there. There isn’t even a mention of vaccines in the entire article. In fact, there’s no attempt to attribute the rise in cardiac and respiratory arrests to anything – only that according to the available data (official UK govt sources which are linked to in article), it can’t simply be explained by Covid. The first step is to acknowledge that the problem exists, then establish what the cause is.
You could fupp off anyway
40 mile-long Russian convoy heading to Kyiv twice as long as previously thought
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-maxar-b2025365.html
“New satellite images reveal that a convoy Russian military vehicles heading to the Ukrainian capital is even longer than previously thought. The column of military hardware is more than 40 miles long, more than twice the original estimates that it spanned 17 miles, according to satellite imaging firm Maxar Technologies. The convoy was photographed on Monday approaching Antonov airport on the outskirts of Kyiv, which remained under government control after days under Russian assault. Hundreds of armoured vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and logistics support vehicles were moving in line south towards the capital. Kyiv came under further bombardment on Monday, with Russian missile attacks destroying a major military radar complex, as fruitless ceasefire talks between the Ukraine government and Moscow took place on the Belarusian border…”
I love it how the media cries out in pain, “the Russians are attacking schools”
Whilst at the same time they will not acknowledge cowardly Ukrainian soldiers parking field guns next to schools in residential areas, whilst not letting residents flee.
Brought to you by the same media that lied for two years over how deadly Covid was.
Zero credibility will ever return to the lame street media.
Great excuse for more censorship though and disinformation…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-propaganda-latest-excuse-expand-censorship
I challenge you to find a dozen effective defensible positions with an Irish city that is not with a stones throw of a school/ hospital/ old people home etc. Due to their nature the are in every community and hard to avoid.
If I attacked you in your house you would likely find it hard to get away from a piece of furniture. You aren’t going to blame the bloody sofa for my aggression are you?
Propaganda is not new, and comes in all shapes and sizes. The challenge is for each of us to ensure our next generation can think critically, and to challenge the assumed values of a previous generation.
People have been around for thousands of years or more, that’s a lot of generations. So whose assumed values got it wrong.
go back to your PlayStation ffs
or is it double maths first thing?
Thanks for the head up earlier – I’ll refrain from taking the bait as I recall getting involved on Zerohedge’s “comments” page and I had to order a Devil’s pizza in from Hilary and George’s basement P place after it to recover.
Zerohedge…..
A website for flaccid little crypto bros cosplaying at nihilist chic.
FFS one of the first things I noted was a piece by ‘Tyler Durden’.
Jesus wept.
Have you ever had the misfortune to wade into the cesspool of the comments section on ZH ? It is I’d rather be a Russian or a North Korean than a democrat Jesus freaks with bazookas post Ayn Rand one flew over the QAnon stuff
Didn’t you post a link from it here the other day?
@Stephen Moran, no, have more self respect for myself than to read that idiocy.
Although it’s getting more and like closer to that you describe above on here after the last two years.
Putin thanks you for your contribution, comrade!
yep all the Urkanians fault. they were not invaded by a fall large nation with a bigger military might, that are killing people? grow up!
…oh look…there’s Fergus Finlay, President in waiting, suggesting that we should abandon even our most tenuous hold on neutrality…hope somebody reminds him of this when the campaign gets going…
…and now Adi Roche on the radio…another entitled charity CEO…gonna need a bigger ballot paper…
You seem to have a lot of hate for many people Bisted, fair play
…grma Madser…
Grim but essential: a read-through of the climate change report:
https://mobile.twitter.com/GernotWagner/status/1498276860987326467
Site below does admit to Russian casualties and loss of hardware with the Ukrainian side putting up a stiff defence.
This misery is on NATO’s hand’s and the scum that shelled the civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk for 8 years, in violation of the Minsk Accords.
https://southfront.org/dpr-forces-vow-to-fully-encircle-mariupol-today-battle-for-kharkov-continues-video/
Comparing risks from higher temperatures:
https://mobile.twitter.com/lifewithsommer/status/1498580822261182467
What depressing front pages.
How’s everyone doing?
Seriously?
I need to switch off from it all but it’s too hard to look away.
It’s all cool bro.
Sun is shining, the gin and tontons are strong and ice-cold.
And the sweet smell of MaryJane is wafting over from the villa next door.
Sometimes you’ve just got to put the depressing news to one side and slap on some more Ambre Solaire.
Marvellous™
lol I smoked but I didn’t inhale
Not me Holmes.
I do whole shebang if the bud is good.
Now everything is going wrong
I think I changed my mind again
I’m not sure if this is a song
I don’t even know what I’m saying
Everything is going wrong
I think I changed my mind again
I’m not sure if this is the kinda life
That I saw myself living
I don’t need no dating app
To tell me if I look like crap
To tell me if I’m thin or fat
To tell me should I shave my rat
I don’t need no radio
No MTV, no BBC
I just need a bubble bath
To set me on a higher path
on a serious note Spud, it’s terrifying whoever is at fault, torn between an urge to bury my head in the sand and check the headlines. Wondering what kind of world our children will have.
A few words of observation from Chip Taylor (and The New Ukrainians):
“To pray or not to pray
To sway or not to sway
Jesus died for something or nothing at all
Fuck all those perfect people
Sleepy eyes, waltzing through
I’m talking about you”
Listen to his gravely drawl here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt9GBafFzjE
oh ta !
https://youtu.be/UB3PJwPMHzQ
Love it – want a dressing gown :)
Oh I love Taylor (Voight), he’s a great man for the street videos.
The band get a mention here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xK5YHU2-jY
Putin and
Oligarchhenchmen private jet trackerhttps://twitter.com/PutinJet
we need one now including the yachts and showing the gaffs
that column of Russian/Belarusian gear..
surely a bit of out of the box dirty thinking could interrupt it
e.g. fill a gang of 737’s to the brim and drop them from the ceiling?
Oh look, it’s famed Irish military strategist Sun O’Tzu and his cunning plan to defeat the enemy.
Although your posts generally remind me of that old Confucius saying ” man who goes to sleep with sex problem on brain wakes up with solution in hand.”
Another child of Generation XBOX making a tool of himself.
lol Charger, you’re too easy
any chance you could emigrate to Kiev?
bring the gang along too
His xbox analogy is pretty accurate. Your second scenario could be more of a Wiley coyote plan
Tone deaf Tatiana
So exactly where is the Russian air force ?
Sadly the answer is not a good one for Ukranian civilians.
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/mysterious-case-missing-russian-air-force
Another excellent article well done
Interesting take on why so few fixed wing sorties, the other option being a genuine desire to minimise civilian casualties. If the Russians do intend to depart after defanging the Bandarites and stopping NATO accession, it would be long term beneficial that they are not despised by the majority. That is going to be some special kind of PR stunt, which will involve rebuilding and assistance for years.
Tessa always has a good take on things for those that never found her site.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/narrative?utm_source=url
‘Climate change is going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous ‘
https://twitter.com/borenbears/status/1498326857661440002
Meanwhile the weather/climate is the same as it’s always been.
Good thing you know better than the scientists.
It literally isn’t, and getting less so.
But between arable land suddenly becoming available as permafrost melts in sub-Arctic regions – never mind the sink-holes, methane pockets and wildfires – and fossil fuels being Putin’s only real source of money, influence and leverage, I’m beginning to understand why the venn diagram of climate change deniers and Putin apologists is a circle.
I wonder how our working class heroes Messrs Wallace, Daly, Ming & McManus will vote this time as they voted against a much softer resolution 2 weeks ago.
Here is Clare Daly last year slamming Russian opposition figure Alexis Navalny as “a vicious, anti-immigrant racist” in the European Parliament and accusing the Parliament of “relentless Russia-phobia,” a clip that was triumphantly disseminated by Russian state-backed media channel RT (now banned by the EU.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dnkn-MvM3U
MEPs will not before time gather for an extraordinary session at noon to debate and vote on a resolution on the war. The resolution is hard-hitting, “condemning in the strongest possible terms the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified military aggression by the Russian Federation against and invasion of Ukraine, as well as the involvement of Belarus in this aggression against Ukraine. ”The resolution also backs a comprehensive list of measures — from “working towards” EU candidate status for Ukraine, to ensuring that the EU maintains a united front on sanctions, “without any exemptions induced by sectoral or national interests.” It also highlights “the need for Member States to acknowledge and accept that severe sanctions against the Russian Federation will unavoidably entail negative effects on their economic situation.”
Really hate to be such a downer, but this is another thing people have been warning about for decades – antibiotic reistance, the next pandemic, is already here:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2022-02-28/when-antibiotics-stop-working?utm_source=twitter_posts&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc
I had a particularly bad antibiotic resistant bug, it’s no joke.
You’re a real fupping ray of sunshine
Hong Kong going into lockdown with complulsory testing.
‘The Chinese-ruled territory reported 32,597 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday and a record 117 deaths in the past 24 hours. It has seen daily infections surge over 30 times from just over 100 at the start of February.’
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hong-kong-residents-brace-citywide-lockdown-leader-calls-calm-2022-03-01/?taid=621e0e4daf8d2b0001575a3b&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Excellent primer on how the West’s sanctions will hurt Russia.
And the best way to apply them.
Putin has achieve the impossible already – uniting bickering western allies rapidly and effectively.
http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/how-russian-sanctions-work/622940/
Yep he’s managed in one w/e to undo 30 years plus of German Russophile pacifist foreign policy & turn then into Russophobes with the SPD in government. Finland and Sweden will be joining NATO and even Victor O has has found his blue badge (though this may have a lot more to do with his impending election defeat and ECJ rulings re the legality of funding cuts than any Pauline conversion). Fair play to him for redrawing the geo-political map of Europe and reinforcing democracy. His Brexit divide and rule part 2 strategy is backfiring big time.
Professor Ben Tonra resigns position at UCD over college’s Ukraine stance:
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/professor-ben-tonra-resigns-position-at-ucd-over-colleges-ukraine-stance-41398114.html
UCD ‘clarifies’ its stance to ‘condemn’ Ukraine invasion after Professor Ben Tonra resigns position:
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/ucd-clarifies-its-stance-to-condemn-ukraine-invasion-after-professor-ben-tonra-resigns-position-41398114.html
I hate how the papers get a pic of a very pretty child and plaster her everywhere as if to say “look! he’s even killing very pretty children”.. as if they need to be anything more than just a life for it to mean anything to us.
That’s what you hate? Really?
You hate that?
Some people hate seeing images of casualties so much that they resort to labelling people ‘crisis actors’ or alleging that images are fake/ taken from incidents that occurred years ago, etc. We’ve had posters here doing exactly that in the case of this woman:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10560223/Ukrainian-image-war-shows-wounds-Russia-accused-faking-injuries.html
Putinbots are very aggressive when it comes to ‘policing’ any images that may earn sympathy for Putin’s innocent victims.
UN admits refugees have faced racism at Ukraine borders:
https://www.independent.co.uk/world/ukraine-racism-refugees-russia-war-un-b2025771.html
Elderly woman dies after eight hour ambulance wait at Ulster Hospital:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/elderly-woman-dies-after-eight-hour-ambulance-wait-at-ulster-hospital-41399430.html