Saturday 8th of February 2025

Gus Leonisky's blog

the deep state shadow in the shallows.....

The "deep state", never part of the Founding Fathers' design, has turned US democracy into fiction, former US assistant treasury secretary and renowned economist Dr Paul Craig Roberts says. What does he mean?

The deep state, described by US political scientist Francis Fukuyama as a network of "unaccountable professional bureaucrats," is really a far more extensive entity.

 

BY Ekaterina Blinova

 

biden gives medal of freedom to clinton, soros and chef....

US President Joe Biden has named 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s top civilian award. Among them are former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, liberal billionaire George Soros, and culinary innovator José Andrés, who once posed for a photo with the man who attempted to assassinate then-President-elect Donald Trump.

The ceremony to present the awards was held at the White House on Saturday. This honor is given to individuals who have made “exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors,”according to a statement from the White House.

the war in yuckraine is profitable to america's military industrial complex......

Washington is pressuring Zelensky to lower the draft age from 25 to 18. Meanwhile, Western media is reporting that Ukrainian recruits have begun deserting forces training in European NATO countries hundreds at a time. Retired Russian Army colonel and renowned military observer Viktor Litovkin explains how these events are connected.

 

Just Business: US MIC Wants Ukrainian Bloodbath to Continue Even If It Means Drafting 18-Year-Olds

 

greenwashing danmarks storbønder for at redde planeten......


Denmark’s new carbon tax targets an often-overlooked greenhouse-gas producer: agriculture. Yet the plan locks in big Danish farmers’ focus on energy-inefficient animal farming for export, frustrating hopes of a serious cut in emissions.

 

Greenwashing Denmark’s Big Farmers
BY ESBEN BØGH SØRENSEN

 

provocative blinken's bullshit and half-truths....

Washington supplied “a lot of weapons”to Ukraine in the months before the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev began in February 2022, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has admitted. [WE KNEW THIS].

The top diplomat made the remarks while speaking on the New York Times’ ‘The Interview’ podcast, aired on Saturday. The US saw the conflict between Russia and Ukraine “coming”and wanted to get Kiev “prepared” for it, according to Blinken. 

“Starting in September and then again in December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine to make sure that they had in hand what they needed to defend themselves – things like Stingers, Javelins that they could use,” he said.

how will 2025 come to be defined? not by nick, obviously....

NICK BRYANT IS CLEVER WITH WORDS AND CLICHéS, AND IN OUR MINDS THAT COULD BE WRONG — TO GUS AND HIS PUB DEVILS, BRYANT WRITES, TALKS AND POLISHES TURDS BRILLIANTLY... HERE HE IS:

If 2024 was the year of democracy, with elections taking place that directly affected more than half of the world’s population, how will 2025 come to be defined? 

Given a billionaire is set to return as US president, and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, conveys the impression of being his de facto co-president-elect, perhaps it will be the year of plutocracy. Government by the wealthy.

they will teach you, force you and trick you on how to think....

Voted many times by UK and US magazines as the most important public intellectual in the world, Noam Chomsky, scientist, linguist, human rights activist, suffered a stroke at age 95 and can no longer speak. Yet as 2025 begins, Chomsky at 96 gifts the world his examples of inquiry and dissent. These qualities he might say, remain the much needed means to strive for freedom, justice and peace.

 

Noam Chomsky, the voice silenced, the legacy unending    By Stuart Rees

 

His early life tells us something of the promise to follow.

half-pole or half-mast, the democrats are halfway to hell.....

WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump lashed out Friday over plans for the U.S. flag to be flown at half-staff during his upcoming inauguration to honor the late President Jimmy Carter ‒ but the White House said it isn't reconsidering the order.

we shouldn't abuse the elderlies, but this president abused our intelligence....

Only in the world of political make-believe we inhabit in the West would the Wall Street Journal’s account of Biden’s years-long cognitive decline, and its concealment by his officials, count as a scoop.

And only in a world in which the billionaire-owned media alone constructs and polices what counts as reality would the WSJ be able to run this story without also being expected to consider what it signifies about America’s professed democracy.

The emperor, we are now told, was naked all along. How did it take more than four years for the fearless, tenacious billionaire-owned media to notice?

The WSJ reports that even back in 2021 Biden had what his officials described as “bad days” when his mind worked so poorly he had to be kept away from senior Congresspeople and his own cabinet colleagues.

justice was a whore which ever way....

The Manhattan judge who presided over former and future President Donald Trump’s hush money trial has denied the motion to dismiss the case and set the sentencing date for January 10, just ten days before his inauguration for a second term.

Judge Juan Merchan stated in his ruling on Friday that Trump can appear in person or virtually for the sentencing and indicated that the President-elect will receive an unconditional discharge, avoiding jail time.

losing sino-friendship....

China scholar Mark Wang still remembers a time in the 2000s when Australia’s China studies was vibrant and in a leading position in the world.

 

Academics say China studies sector in ‘crisis’ amid a funding shortage and ‘climate of fear’    By Jenny Cai

 

“At that time, the student interest, government policy and funding for China studies in Australia were really strong,” said Professor Wang, the director of the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies.

“Australian universities once hired so many China-related experts like myself, researching and teaching specialised knowledge about China.

reshaping the middle-east....

Those currently celebrating the US and Israel’s decisive military victories against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and possibly the defeat of Ansar Allah in Yemen may soon discover the pyrrhic nature of “reshaping the Middle East” in the interests of Western civilization.

 

The dangers of ‘victory’    By Scott Burchill

 

Military actions enabled by Washington have left Israel more strategically dominant than it has ever been, but it is also now more politically isolated: in significant regions of the world including Europe and East Asia, it is now a pariah state.

business is relative...

Biden blocks $14.9 billion US-Japan steel deal over national security concerns
AMERICASUS President Joe Biden on Friday blocked the sale of US Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel, citing concerns that the deal could threaten national security and industrial supply chains. The companies said that the move was a "clear violation of due process and the law" in a joint statement.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250103-biden-blocks-us-japan-steel-deal

 

MEANWHILE:

 

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - The US State Department has approved a possible sale of advanced AIM-120D-3 and AIM-120C-8 air-to-air missiles and related equipment to Japan for $3.64 billion, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.

at the highest deceitful level of hypocritical diplomacy.....

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock were in the Syrian capital for talks on behalf of the European Union, in the highest-level visit by major Western powers since Islamist-led forces toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad

FBI fairy tales about a couple of nightmares....

Twin violent incidents rocked the US on New Year's Day, with an ex-US Army vet plowing a pickup into a crowd in New Orleans and going down guns blazing in a firefight with police, and an active-duty Green Beret blowing up in a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas. Sputnik asked renowned former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to weigh in.

“Right now, the FBI is trying to present this as what they call a ‘lone wolf individual’, acting on his own by himself. I know that’s the story. I don’t find it to be particularly credible,” Johnson said, commenting on the terror attack that rocked New Orleans and claimed scores of lives January 1.

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