Friday 29th of March 2024

grooming trumpoo...

grooming...grooming...

There is no way to verify the twaddle that follows, but coming from The Guardian, it has to be taken with a large dose of salt. But, though it's not in the vein of a Le Carré novel, it is entertaining enough if you believe in fairies. 

 

From  in Washington

 

Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.

Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.

Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.

Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.

Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.

Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.

 

Read more

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

 

Meanwhile we all know that Nostradamus has been reincarnated into Lisa or Bart Simpson...:

 

D'OH BELIEVE IT

 

23 of The Simpsons predictions that came true – from Donald Trump’s rise to power to Tom Hanks catching Covid

 

Sophie Roberts   Sofia Petkar   Tanyel Mustafa

Mar 13 2020, 7:58 ETUpdated: Oct 2 2020, 12:40 ET

 

THE Simpsons may be one of the most popular animated TV shows in history, but it's also proved eerily accurate at predicting major life events - apparently foreseeing everything from Trump's presidency to 9/11.

As coronavirus continues to wreak havoc around the world, fans are claiming the show even predicted Hollywood legend Tom Hanks being diagnosed and isolated.

 

 

Read more:

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/533193/the-simpsons-predict-future-coronavirus-donald-trump/

 

Meanwhile, at The Guardian:

 

Russia’s FSB security agency has confirmed it enforced a no-fly zone over the £1bn seaside palace that Vladimir Putin has assured the public he does not own. It said the restrictions were imposed last summer to protect the Black Sea coast from Nato spies. Coincidentally, that stretch of coastline also hid an opulent chateau of murky provenance boasting its own casino, skating rink and vineyard.

The Kremlin has been scrambling to explain away an investigation by Alexei Navalny into the 17,691 sq metre seaside mansion that was allegedly funded by a number of Putin’s friends and guarded by the government agencies that also protect Putin and his family. The investigation was released after Navalny, an opposition leader, was jailed and threatened with years in prison on charges he claims are political. the video has been viewed more than 95m times on YouTube.

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/27/no-fly-zone-putin-linked-palace-navalny-due-to-nato-spying-says-fsb

 

Wow! 95 million times!!!! Navalny's Video!!!!  Yes I know, Pravda does not like Putin either, but they seem not to fall for the trick... or is there something funny there????

 

 

From the "biased Sputnik" via the Ron Paul Institute:

 

The day after opposition figure Alexei Navalny was arrested in Moscow last week on his return from a provocative and prolonged decampment in Germany, Western media fell over themselves to condemn his detention.

In its online edition, the US government-owned Radio Free Europe news outlet ran seven articles dedicated to Navalny out of a total of 21. One of the top RFE articles openly called for Russian people to take to the streets to demand the release of the activist.

Last weekend, the US embassy in Moscow published detailed street maps of planned protests under the guise of advising American citizens on what areas to avoid potential trouble with law enforcement officers.

As it turned out, several protests held in over 100 Russian cities did turn violent with several thousands arrested by police. The Russian government says these rallies were unauthorized and illegal, and therefore the authorities had the right and duty to contain them for public order. 
[Didn't we see these things in the USA, banned as well?]

One thing is clear, however, Navalny and his supporters are being facilitated by brazen Western interference in Russia’s internal affairs.

Can you imagine the hue and cry if, for example, the Russian embassy in Washington had published maps of the Capitol buildings prior to the January 6 violent assault there by Trump supporters? Or if the Russian embassy in Netherlands published details over the weekend of demos against the Covid-19 curfews the Dutch government has imposed?

Can you imagine further the hysteria among Western governments if Russian media had published articles actually calling people out on the streets?

That’s the chasm of hypocrisy we are seeing with regard to Navalny.

The European Union parliament is calling for sanctions against Russia in support of this dubious agitator. Some European states – Poland and the Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – are demanding that the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia must be cancelled.

All this anti-Russia furore ignores Russian sovereignty and laws. When Navalny fled to Germany last August, more than five months ago, claiming that he was poisoned with a nerve agent by alleged Kremlin assassins, he spent most of his sojourn orchestrating a false-flag media operation making sensational claim after sensational claim of Russian government evil-doing.

Not only that but he was assisted in his provocation by Western governments, intelligence and corporate media in spinning the story that he was poisoned with a chemical weapon. No evidence has ever been presented to verify such a claim. Indeed a recent report by John Helmer shows how European authorities have actually suppressed any attempt to obtain sample data concerning the provenance of allegations about Navalny being poisoned.

Nevertheless, on the back of mere assertion and innuendo it has been peddled assiduously by the West to the point where the Russian government stands accused and condemned.

When Navalny returned to Russia from Germany on January 18, the Russian federal prison service had already warned him that he had gravely breached the terms of a suspended sentence for a serious fraud conviction in 2014. More especially because during his stay in Germany, Navalny engaged in a foreign-sponsored media plot to accuse President Putin, the Russian head of state, of attempted murder.

The so-called anti-corruption campaigns run by Navalny and his confreres are long suspected of being funded by the US State Department and related Western spy agencies. He is a point-man in Washington’s attempts to subvert the Russian state by fomenting social unrest in the classic mode of American-inspired “color revolution”. The European states typically go along with Uncle Sam’s desires as they did in Ukraine in 2014, especially the rightwing Polish and Baltic countries who suffer from intense historical Russophobia.

But it seems obvious that the precipitating factor for the recent push with Navalny is the Nord Stream-2 gas project.

Washington has been piling pressure on the European Union over the past year to abandon the gas pipeline. Poland and the Baltic states which are most vociferous about the Navalny case are also most vocal in demands to cancel Nord Stream-2. The suspicion is they have been bought off by Washington with concessions for arms deals or subsidized future US supplies of Liquefied Natural Gas.

Despite sanctions to disrupt construction over the past year, Nord Stream-2 has resumed in recent weeks the final phase for completion involving finishing some 50 kilometers of pipe-laying to the German coastline in an overall 1,225-km route from Russia. The €10 billion project will double the supply of Russian gas to the EU.

From a strategic political and commercial viewpoint, the Americans are crazed by this partnership between Europe and Russia. Navalny’s bizarre poison story and subsequent media agitation is central to halting the Nord Stream-2 project.

So desperate is Washington to sabotage the pipeline that it is now throwing full pelt all its efforts at inciting a color revolution in Russia. The hypocrisy is astounding considering the shrill and unfounded accusations the Americans level at Russia about interference.

But so too astounding is the stupid servility of European governments and media who entertain the American agenda. Germany in particular. Germany wants and needs Russian gas as it phases out dirty coal and nuclear power. Yet Berlin has indulged the Navalny nonsense with double standards and duplicity in flagrant affront to Moscow.

Western hypocrisy is a gas.

Reprinted with permission from Sputnik.

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Meanwhile at Pravda:

 

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Despite all the anti-Russian rhetoric and insults against the Russian president, which Navalny was happy to produce in interviews to the Western press, he will be held accountable before the Russian law for criminal, rather than political cases.

Does it mean that Navalny is useless as a candidate for political leadership?

Daria Mitina, a Pravda.Ru observer, believes that the game, which Navalny is playing, has taken a different turn. 

When our opponents say:

"Why do the Russian authorities have claims against Navalny, what are they charging him with? What Kirovles, Yves Rocher or the Vyatka Timer Company? Look at the volumes that Putin and his people are plundering."

To put it mildly, this is strange logic.

It goes without saying that those who are closer to power have more opportunities. Does it mean, though, that we must raise our banners and listen to those who are no different from those whom we criticize?

Look at Navalny's criminal cases - they are absolutely the same charges that Navalny himself brings against Putin and people of his team. 

"Putin's entourage and the president himself, through shell companies, were sucking the money" from certain economic processes that started in the early 1990s and continue today."


Читайте больше на https://english.pravda.ru/society/145337-navalny_new_leader/

 

But we don't like Putin, do we? And he has a "palace"...

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied owning any of the property featured in opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s ‘Putin’s Palace’ video, which claimed last week that the president owns an expensive mansion on the Black Sea.

“Nothing which is said in Navalny's film to be my property belongs to me or my close relatives and never did,” Putin said in a conference call on Monday.

“I didn’t watch this film simply for lack of free time, but skimmed through clips that my assistant brought me,” the president noted.

 

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/russia/513552-putin-rejects-palace-navalny/

 

Actually, the Palace belongs to Trump?

 

 

vladimir-the-great did not like the curtains...

A Kremlin-loyal news outlet has gained access to the Black Sea palace that jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny links to President Vladimir Putin, confirming his claims that the property had to be gutted and rebuilt due to design flaws.

Video published by the Mash Telegram channel Friday showed its chief editor being escorted inside the marble palace teeming with construction.

 

Read more:

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/29/kremlin-aligned-media-confirms-putin-palace-still-under-construction-a72776

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Yes definitely, the palace looks like "America after Trump's stint" — a demolition job according to the Democrats... We didn't like the decoration either... (according to some non-Western news site, the lush, plush extravagant interior shown on "Navalny's video" was actually those of a German castle). And of course the security is so slack that someone could place a bomb in it...  Talking about bombs, the pipe bombs found at the Capitol HAD BEEN PLACED THE DAY BEFORE THE "RIOTS"... Who by? No-one knows? The FBI is looking for suspects... Now how can someone come inside this building and not be spotted?...

 

An update, which you won't find anywhere in "the news": American Magic, the Patriot contender to the America's Cup, has been eliminated by the Italians... It's a sad "Yankee Go Home" sort of thing... See also:

 

of competition and cooperation...

a massive win for trump against the chinese...

LONDON - China's top player Ding Junhui lost to world number one Judd Trump 5-3 in the quarterfinals at the German Snooker Masters on Friday.

Ding, 33, hasn't won any title after taking victory at the 2019 UK Championships. He got two frames back after falling behind 3-0. He shared the following two frames with Trump, but could not stop the defending champion from clinching the victory in the eighth game.

Trump, reaching the semifinal stage for the eighth time this season, will meet Barry Hawkins in the last four as the world number 18 saw off Jordan Brown 5-1.

"It has been incredible consistency that is something I'm proud of," Trump told the World Snooker Tour website. "I have worked very hard this season and I've practiced very hard for this tournament as well."

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was held behind closed doors in Milton Keynes, England, rather than in Germany.

Earlier this month, Trump was forced to withdraw from the Masters after receiving a positive COVID-19 test result ahead of his first-round match at the prestigious invitation event.

 

 

Read more:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202101/30/WS6014bc77a31024ad0baa62b6.html

oh, it's a RICH friend of putin?...

 

Russian oligarch Arkady Rotenberg says he is the owner of an opulent Black Sea mansion, not President Vladimir Putin, as the leaders' critics had alleged.

A video report about the vast palace, by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, went viral across Russia and has now been watched more than 100m times. 

The Russian president rubbished reports he owned the resort earlier this week. 

Mr Rotenberg, a billionaire with close links to Mr Putin, went public claiming to be the owner on Saturday.

The revelation came in an interview posted on the pro-Kremlin Mash Telegram channel, before being confirmed to the Interfax news agency.

"I have managed to strike a deal with creditors a few years ago, and I became a beneficiary of this site a few years ago," Mr Rotenberg's press office quoted him as saying.

 

 

Read more:

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55872249

 

 

 

It has been noted that Joe Biden DOES NOT HAVE ANY RICH FRIENDS.  His friends are all poor and struggling like Bernie Sanders — or homeless Greeks...

 

 

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covid is a relief when tired of war...


INTERVIEW WITH THIERRY MEYSSAN


And now what ?


by Costantino Ceoldo


Trump’s defeat in the race for the second term as US President has brought American foreign policy back on apparently already known tracks. If, on the one hand, The Donald was the first American president in 30 years to not start a war, on the other hand Joe Biden was in that same administration whose President Obama, useless Nobel Peace Prize winner, did not hesitate to destroy Gaddafi’s Libya under a hurricane of bombs. Plunging Syria into the abyss of a proxy war that has lasted for nine very long years. Exporting democracy in Ukraine by fomenting a Nazi coup d’état that triggered in a defensive key the Russian annexation of Crimea and the secession of the Russian-speaking regions of Donbass.


The overall foreign policy assessment of the Trump administration is particularly affected by the missile attack on Syria (more superficial than anything else) and the absurd assassination of the great Iranian general Soleimani, an elimination that, however, did not bring Trump to reappoint the White House. The American withdrawal from the INF treaty and the Open Skies treaty is nothing more than the consequence of the fact that those treaties concerned the relations between two geopolitical realities that have now disappeared: the United States in the 1970s and the Soviet Union. The unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, on the other hand, leaves the Islamic Republic of Iran a free hand to reorganize its national defense even if this involves the overthrow of some understandings between Tehran and Westerners.

What was Donald Trump’s presidency? The whim of a billionaire used to be obeyed at once? Perhaps the latest delight of a tycoon use to buy what he falls in love with? Alternatively, is there something deeper behind the undeniable dollar orgy that characterizes American politics?

Thierry Meyssan of Voltaire Network proposed an original analysis of the American internal political conflict, albeit different in its otherness, from that provided by the mainstream media.

According to Meyssan, the clash between the various souls of the American Deep State is epochal, unhealable and it will lead to the collapse of the “United States of America” ​​entity

Pravda.ru : Could you explain to our readers what you mean when you talk about “Jacksonians” and “Godless Puritans” referring to the American society?

Thierry Meyssan : The Jacksonians are the heirs of a pre-Civil War president Andrew Jackson. They are characterized by a fierce defence of their freedom and an animosity towards bankers. This political school had not been represented in Washington since World War II. The “Godless Puritans” are the heirs of the Founding Fathers celebrated on the “Thanksgiving” feast. They are secularized Calvinists. They invented the “woke” culture. To gain access to Happiness, a man must first atone for the faults of his parents. These two groups are engaged in a merciless battle that has its origins in British history.

Pravda.ru : Who belongs to these two factions and what level of penetration do these factions have in the circles of power in Washington?

Thierry Meyssan : The Jacksonians are a popular movement, little represented in Washington. The election of one of them, Donald Trump, came as a shock to the entire political class, Republicans and Democrats alike. It is wrong to interpret events in the US since the 2008 financial crisis in terms of political affiliations. It is above all a popular revolt against bank bailouts to the detriment of the common people; plans that were devised by Presidents Bush (Republican) and Obama (Democrat).

Pravda.ru : Are there other factions in American society that are not, at least for the moment, completely marginalized in the struggle for power?

Thierry Meyssan : Society has become radicalized. People were forced to choose sides. On the one hand the political class, bankers and global billionaires, on the other the Tea Party (Republican) and Senator Bernie Sanders (Democrat). There is no more room for more ideas at the moment.

Pravda.ru : Is the faction represented by the Biden-Harris couple the ultimate winner of the American political conflict and therefore has it a free hand in the management of the State?

Thierry Meyssan : I don’t believe the Biden-Harris couple won anything. The counting of the presidential election took place in many places behind closed doors, as in a dictatorship. Occupying the White House is certainly a victory, but it is poisoned. A third of Americans consider this Power illegitimate. The people are losing their respect for the authorities. This government will not be able to do much internally, but it can act externally. The country is becoming more divided every day and is heading towards a civil war.

Pravda.ru : Your ideas are very original: are there other scholars who share them, perhaps even at the government level?

Thierry Meyssan : President Nixon’s electoral adviser, Kevin Phillips, had a very precise analysis of this divide. Nixon, on the other hand, believed this was America’s greatest danger. Phillips, as an historian, has studied the opposition that the Puritans have raised throughout history. He showed that Lord Cromwell’s Revolution in England, the American War of Independence and the American Civil War are a continuation of the same conflict. 
On the other hand, when the Soviet Union broke up, Professor Panarin (whom I met in Moscow) predicted that the United States would soon fall apart too. He envisioned a division into several distinct countries along ethnic lines. The events of September 11 decided otherwise and allowed Washington to once again become master of the world. 
During all these years, Americans have moved within their own country and grouped together by cultural communities. The shift between Professor Panarin’s vision and the current situation no longer allows room for a black zone. These are distributed in different cultural zones which refer to the identity of the masters of their ancestors; identity by which they entered the culture of the other side of the Atlantic.

Pravda.ru : Do you think that hostilities against Syria will openly resume in a short time?

Thierry Meyssan : I do not know. What is certain is that Iran will make a 180° turn. President Rouhani wants to re-establish the Safavid Empire; an entity based on Shiite Islam. While the Revolutionary Guards aspire to continue Ayatollah Khomeini’s work and liberate the Middle East from Anglo-Saxon imperialism. Rouhani was the first contact of the Israelis and the United States during the Iran-Contras affair, more than 30 years ago. His rise to power follows negotiations between the Guide, Ayatollah Khamenei and the Obama administration. The three then US negotiators now occupying prominent positions in the Biden administration (CIA Director, National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State). Together they will try to make modern Iran what it was in the days of the Shah: the region’s gendarme. Iran, which is now Syria’s ally, will therefore become its enemy.

Pravda.ru : What do you think will be the most likely position of Russia on the Syrian issue?

Thierry Meyssan : There is a ridiculous arrogance of the Syrian bourgeoisie to believe itself indispensable. But Russia has no need of Syria. It saved it in the continuity of the policy of Tsarina Catherine II, only because Christianity was born in Damascus. That being said, Russia will get a return on its investment. Russia will rely on President Assad to reorganize the country. Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin just happen to respect each other.

Pravda.ru : And that of Erdogan’s Turkey? The political-military activism of the Turkish president is particularly evident in the enlarged Middle East…

Thierry Meyssan : Turkey is a country apart that has still not understood who it is since its creation at the end of World War I. Depending on the moment, it wants to re-establish the Ottoman Empire, or integrate into the European Union, or even turn to the Turkish-speaking countries of Central Asia. President Erdogan himself successively tried these three positions and even two new ones: to be the midpoint between the USA and Russia, or to become the new Caliph of the Sunnis. He is now paying the price for these relentless reversals. Russia postpones the moment of rupture, but she knows very well that Turkey is for her a historic enemy.

Pravda.ru : As a last question, I would like to ask you what the health situation in Syria is: at what point is the COVID-19 pandemic, what decisions has the government implemented to contain it, how is the morale of the population?

Thierry Meyssan : Damascus and Aleppo are the two oldest inhabited cities in the world. Syria is a cultural region today divided into several states: Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus and part of Turkey. After a decade of war, the Syrian Arab Republic is largely destroyed. Its inhabitants may remember the sufferings of their ancestors, they are exhausted. In the face of such hardships, the COVID is not much. After a few weeks of collective hysteria, as in Europe, the Syrians have come to their senses. They accept that this disease is fatal, it kills so little in the face of war.

Costantino Ceoldo
Source
Pravda.ru (Russia)


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