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Lambert and I, and plenty of readers, agree that Ukraine has prompted the worst informational setting ever. We hope readers will collaborate in mitigating the fog of battle — each actual fog and stage fog — in feedback. None of us want extra cheerleading and link-free repetition of memes; there are platforms for that. Low-value, link-free pom pom-wavers might be summarily whacked.

And for individuals who are new right here, this isn’t a mere well mannered request. Now we have written website Insurance policies and those that remark have accepted these phrases. To forestall having to resort to the nuclear possibility of shutting feedback down completely till extra sanity prevails, as we did through the 2015 Greek bailout negotiations and shortly after the 2020 election, we are going to be ruthless about moderating and blacklisting offenders.

EU prepares Russia oil embargo – media RT (Kevin W). I can’t even…

Ukrainians Suffer Gasoline Shortages After Russian Strikes on Fuel Infrastructure Wall Street Journal. Erm, we reported on this over two weeks ago, based on a report on a Ukrainian business site.

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“Not only would everybody be killed but it would probably be impossible for people to inhabit NYC for hundreds of years after a nuclear war. The life of Russia depends on stopping NATO from advancing to their borders.” — Col. Richard Black (Video Clip 17)https://t.co/EWGkJj7AAI pic.twitter.com/8Oys16VXZg

— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 (@apocalypseos) April 28, 2022

Ukraine and the Doomsday Machine Larry Wilkerson and Paul Jay (fk). Because of not feeling so sizzling, I’ve not tracked down what Scott Ritter stated on this subject. It doesn’t sound like Wilkerson learn supply materials on Russian doctrine with respect to the usage of nuclear weapons. Ritter as a UN former weapons inspector who reads Russian would have the proper tackle this.

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The New Flip in Ukraine: Putin’s Warfare Turns into Biden’s Warfare CounterPunch (resilc)

Biden Seeks to Rob Putin of His High Scientists With Visa Lure Bloomberg. Um, I feel a variety of Russians have labored out that they’re now hated within the West. Even the Economist pointed it out in a latest story: There are numerous studies of hostility in direction of Russians in Germany. It added they have been much less badly handled in France and Italy…as a result of the Russian diaspora was small.

$33B Request Will Assist Ukraine Battle Russia In The ‘Longer Time period,’ Biden Says Protection One (resilc). The dough solely goes to the top of Sept.

Russian media right now, 28 April 2022 Gilbert Doctorow. On US and Poland schemes for western Ukraine.

Ukraine Newest: Russia Says It Plans to Stop Area Station Bloomberg

The Second Degree Geopolitical Warfare in Ukraine Takes Over CounterPunch. Word that commentators who acknowledge that Ukraine is shedding the battle (as mirrored within the subdued and even selectively downbeat feedback from UK officers and within the British press, an enormous shift from their former boosterism) depict the shift in narrative to “the aim is to weaken Russia” as an effort to divert consideration. Nevertheless the US is so propaganda-driven that we are going to now attempt to act on that. Resilc quotes:

What has been obvious to critics for a while is that Western diplomacy has develop into primarily dedicated to second stage Geopolitical Warfare even at the price of drastically prolonging and aggravating the Ukrainian battle on the bottom and producing rising dangers of a wider battle. Solely prior to now few days has this precedence been roughly acknowledged by excessive officers within the U.S. Authorities, most dramatically within the go to of Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, and Austin, Secretary of Protection to Ukraine and later to assembly in Europe with their NATO counterparts. What was revealed was that the primary coverage aim of the U.S. was ‘the weakening of Russia’ made a viable endeavor by the surprising resistance capabilities of Ukrainian armed forces bolstered by a present unified patriotic resolve.

Why Europe can not perceive Russia Pepe Escobar, The Cradle

Syraqistan

Iran’s Guards commander says Israel creating circumstances for destruction Jerusalem Put up

Huge Brother Is Watching You Watch

FBI Carried out Doubtlessly Hundreds of thousands of Warrantless Searches of People’ Knowledge Wall Road Journal

Imperial Collapse Watch

The Ukraine Warfare Is Ballooning America’s Navy Industrial Complicated New Republic. Resilc: “By no means ending love for a shedding navy.”

U.S. Military To Check Networked Drone Swarms Flying Journal (David L). Um, how are networked drones any extra proof against Russia’s sign/GPS jamming? Seem to be this may be preventing the final battle.

FIRST ON CNN: US left behind $7 billion of navy tools in Afghanistan after 2021 withdrawal, Pentagon report says CNN. Resilc: “It’ allllll good, jobs for merikin staff.”

Trump

Trump loses bid to raise contempt cost regardless of swearing he can’t discover subpoenaed paperwork CNBC

Biden

Joe Manchin’s Method to Biden’s Presidency Is Paying Off in West Virginia Morning Seek the advice of (resilc)

Sanders: Democrats’ technique for dealing with Manchin, Sinema an ‘absolute political failure’ The Hill

Bernie Sanders Needs Democrats to Make Unions Their Greatest Message Self-importance Truthful (furzy). Over the social gathering’s useless physique.

Our No Longer Free Press

Nina Jamcowicz, head of the ‘disinformation bureau’ wrote a ebook known as ‘the right way to be a lady on-line’ and her banner says ‘the right way to survive abuse and harassment and struggle again’

That is ‘false flag feminism’.

She desires to censor you, however she might be framing herself because the sufferer. pic.twitter.com/LFVJrgSW8B

— Blue Moon (@bmrwshow) April 29, 2022

The Candy Sound of Censorship: The Biden Administration Seeks the Excellent Pitch for Disinformation Governance Jonathan Turley

“That is This” James Howard Kunstler. Unsure concerning the Maoist reference until he means the Cultural Revolution.

Musk advised banks he’ll rein in Twitter pay, make cash from tweets Reuters. Furzy appropriately says this might characterize the top of Twitter. Musk proposes charging for embedding tweets. They’re now as utilized in a major method even in mainstream media. I can’t think about anybody will associate with this. It will cut back the curiosity of journalists in Twitter.

The issues with Elon Musk’s plan to open-source the Twitter algorithm MIT Expertise Assessment (David L)

Choose Rejects Elon Musk’s Quest To Scrap Deal Over 2018 Tweets HuffPost (furzy)

Illinois’ Schooling Chief Urges Colleges to Cease Working With Police to Ticket College students for Misbehavior ProPublica (resilc)

Air France airplane ‘went nuts’ as pilots pulled controls in reverse instructions Telegraph (Kevin W)

EIA Month-to-month Knowledge Reveals A Dip In U.S. Oil Manufacturing OilPrice

Nasdaq index marks worst month-to-month drop since 2008 monetary disaster Monetary Instances

Class Warfare

Malcolm X about Liberals:https://t.co/WXWM3thLe1 pic.twitter.com/uxiqyvmQRU

— Abdullah (@KasaSaaz) April 29, 2022

School-Educated Employees Assist Unionize Locations Like Starbucks New York Instances. Go class traitors! Or maybe extra precisely, individuals who have been betrayed by their class and should not taking it sitting down.

Wages Went Up Throughout the Covid Pandemic. Now We’re Again to the Crap-Job Economic system. New Republic (resilc)

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