Same Old Same Old In Ukraine, Trumps Deal Will Fail Because Ukies Do Not Want Peace

US President Donald Trump's latest peace plan is dead,stillborn as all previous peace plans have been. While mainstream media reports and comment are blaming the Russians again, saying Putin does not want peace, the reality is that once again Ukraine's position, supported by most of its European allies, is that they will only agree to peace on their terms. This means in in effect that Ukraine does not want peace. 

The truth is Kiev and its European sponsors seem to be in complete denial of the severity of Ukraine’s predicament. These latest negotiations are happening at a time Ukraine’s military is facing a number of bitter setbacks, with Russian forces approaching the important city of Zaporizhzhia from the east and besieging a large and strategicall vital Ukrainian garrison near Pokrovsk. 

Mass desertion from the army has crippled Ukrainian front line units and resulted in chaos. U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has told European ambassadors in Kyiv that “the honest US military assessment is that Ukraine is in a very bad position and that now is the time for peace.” 

Similarly, President Zelensky’s former spokeswoman Iuliia Mende, in a rare attck of realisml wrote on Novemnber 22nd that “Every subsequent deal for Ukraine will only be worse—because we are losing. We are losing people, territory, and the economy. … Many who reflexively oppose every peace proposal believe they are defending Ukraine. With all respect, that is the clearest proof they have no idea what is actually happening on the front lines and inside the country right now.” 

 Volodymyr Zelensky, currently entangled in a massive corruption scandal involving many of his cose associates, said this week that Ukraine risked losing the US as a military partner over Donald Trump’s peace plan.

“Now is one of the most difficult moments of our history,” the Ukrainian president said, calling it a choice between “a loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner”. Unfortunately he omitted to mention that failure to agree peace now guarantees Ukraine will lose much more that dignity in the coming months. However Ukraine's dignity is not a priority for Zlensky and Co who must give themselves an out before the regimes final collapse because their greed and corruption will not be forgiven by a defeated nation.

The US has threatened to cut off the supply of weapons and intelligence to Kyiv unless it agrees to sign the US-Russia brokered deal to end the war. Russia's demands are harsh but not unreasonable when we remember it was the neo Nazi regime in Kiev that started the conflict back in 2014 when they embarked on ethnic cleansing of the Russian speaking eastern provinces

Donald Trump on Friday told Fox News that Ukraine had until Thursday to accept the terms of the deal, which he said was an “appropriate” timeline.

Kyiv’s European allies, led by the UK, Germany and France, are scrambling to help Kyiv put forward its own counter-proposal after opposing key parts of Mr Trump’s plan, including ceding control of the entire eastern Donbas region. But the Ukrainian regime does not want peace.

Vladimir Putin last Friday (21 November)  said the proposal formed the “basis for a final peace settlement”, confirming for the first time that he had officially received it.

Russia’s President indicated he has somewhat accepted the plan when he said that it could “serve as a foundation for a final peace settlement”. He complained however that no U.S. contact was willing to discuss the details with Russia:

The reason, in my opinion, is the same: the US administration has so far been unable to secure consent from the Ukrainian side, as Ukraine is opposed to it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies continue to entertain the illusion that they can inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. I believe this position is not so much the result of insufficient competence – I will not go into that now – but rather stems from an absence of objective information about the actual situation on the ground.
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Either Kiev’s leadership lacks objective reporting about the developments on the front, or, even if they receive such information, they are unable to assess it objectively. If Kiev refuses to discuss President Trump’s proposals and declines to engage in dialogue, then both they and their European instigators must understand that what happened in Kupyansk will inevitably occur in other key areas of the front. Perhaps not as quickly as we would prefer, but inevitably.

And overall, this development suits us, as it leads to achieving the goals of the special military operation by force, through armed confrontation. However, as I have repeatedly stated, we remain ready for peace negotiations and for resolving issues through peaceful means. However, this, of course, requires substantive and meaningful discussion of all aspects of the proposed plan. We are prepared for this.

The Europeans issued their own plan which is just a repeat of their old demand of a ceasefire without conceding any of Russia’s demands. They are obviously trying to prevent an agreement and yet are reporting that the deal will fail because Russian does not want peace.

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‘We’re Not At War With Russia,’ Germany's Chancellor Scholz tells Warmongering French Ouanqeur Macron
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Total Defeat Of Ukraine By Russia Is Only A Matter Of Time
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Is The West About To Abandon Ukraine?
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The War In Ukraine Is Entering A Significant Phase - SitRep
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Game Over For Zelensky - NATO andEU Officials Urge Ukraine To Seek Peace
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Ukraine's Military Commander Admits Counter - offensive Has Failed And The Battlefield Position Is Stalemate
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Ukraine Too Corrupt To Join The EU Says Former EU Leader Juncker
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There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War
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Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
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Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
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Jingoistic Western Triumphalism Will Not End The War In Ukraine Or Cripple Putin, But It Is Crippling Western Nations

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Russia. Is. At. War.

In an avalanche of words, western support for Ukraine has escalated (rhetorically at least,) this week, with some European leaders, notably the increasingly ridiculous wannabe Napoleon, French President Emmanuel Macron who has twice called for NATO ground forces to be deployed against the Russian military in Ukraine. With the idiot Biden also talking about sending long range weapons to the trigger - happy Ukie cowboys so that they can strike cities and strategic targets deep inside Russia, the gloves are off and President Putin has told Russians they are in a full fledged war. This is not going to be a good result for Ukraine, as today's reports of missile strikes on Kiev and a targeted attack on Ukraine's electricity infrastructure confirm

Last week's 'election' in Russia saw a record turnout. As predicted by everybody Putin won by a very large margin. However the fact that there were no major protests against the lack of credible opposition candidates does expose the lie of western propagandists that Russians are sickened by the war and the nation ids on the brink of revolution. Putinism is a geopolitical reality, as was confirmed when The Kremlin admitted for the first time that Russia is at war.

NATO expansion into the Baltic States and eastern Europe was always about the perpetuation of US hegemony but for a decade now, the de-dollarisation campaign led by China, Russia and Iran has been about the burial of the western financial system based on the status of the US$ as the leading reserve currency that underpins that US geopolitical hegemony. Putin is playing a pivotal role in that historical process and if he remains in power till 2030 and fulfills even one half of the ambitious blueprint of social and economic programme for Russia that he outlined in his landmark speech at the Federal Assembly of the parliament, the global strategic balance will have shifted irrevocably and cemented a multipolar world order as the foundation of 21st century politics.

 The West knows it, the Russian people know it, the vast majority of nations realise it. That said, it must be understood as well that this is not only Putin’s victory personally but also a consolidation of Russian society around him. The consequences of such moves are inevitable of course, but we have been trying for ten years to sound the alarm about the direction globalists were leading us in.

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‘We’re Not At War With Russia,’ Germany's Chancellor Scholz tells Warmongering French Ouanqeur Macron
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Moscow Claims U S Defense Secretary's ‘Freudian slip’ Exposes Washington's intention To Go To War With Russia
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And The War In Ukraine Grinds On
Due to the absence in this blog of reporting on the war in Ukraine readers may have come to the conclusion that we Boggart Bloggers no longer considered it important. That is not quite true, though we are still aware of the importance of Ukraine to the future of the liberal democracies in western Europe, we are only three old guys (with occasional contributions from friends in the alt_news community,) and have simply been overwhelmed by events closer to home.

Total Defeat Of Ukraine By Russia Is Only A Matter Of Time
Financial Times columnist and founder member of the Vobblyvoddymyr Zelensky piano playing penis fan club, Gideon Rachman has a talent for stating the obvious which he displays in a recent article on the state of play in the Ukrainian conflict 'Ukraine and its backers need a credible path to victory - archived. As the Financial Times is behind a paywall with no monthly allocation of free articles, below is a sommary of the most importyant section:

Is The West About To Abandon Ukraine?
n a fresh interview with Germany's national television service ARD on Saturday (2 December,) NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned viewers to prepare for for more "bad news" from Ukraine. Asked for his opinion on whether the situation will worsen for Ukrainian as winter sets in, after the much hyped summer counteroffensive turned into a catastrophic failure he responded, "Wars develop in phases.

The War In Ukraine Is Entering A Significant Phase - SitRep
With all the other troubles in the world its easy to overlook the news from Ukraine which suggests that conflict is entering a a crucial phase as the western allies find it inceasingly difficult to keep up with Kiev's demands for cash, weapons and ammo. Big Serge has a rather long situation report on Substack and it will not make happy reading for the Zelensky fan club in the west:

Game Over For Zelensky - NATO andEU Officials Urge Ukraine To Seek Peace
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Ukraine's Military Commander Admits Counter - offensive Has Failed And The Battlefield Position Is Stalemate
Since Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, back in February 2022, those of us who questioed the Russia bad, Ukraine goood narrative have been targeted by torrents of abuse hurled by pseudo - patriots and armchair soldiers, and called a 'Kremlin stooges', Russian agents', 'Putin supporters', and enemies of freedom. When anybody suggested that Russia's aim was not to conquer the whole of Ukraine and from there wage war on the rest on continental Europe ...

Ukraine Too Corrupt To Join The EU Says Former EU Leader Juncker
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If You're Afraid Of Nuclear War You're Not Supporting Ukraine Enough Is Zelensky's Latest Message
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There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War
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Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
So whodunnit? Sabotage of undersea gas pipe will escalate tension and move the world closer to nuclear war, but who is behind it, Russia in a bid to put more presure on Europe, Ukraine in an attempt to drag NATO into direct action, or the USA using a CIA false flag event to advance its own agenda.

Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
Continue reading >>>

Do We Have A Winter Of Civil Disobedience Ahead?
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Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port?
As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world's commodity markets through the back door.

Are US Supplied Long Range Missiles Really Winning The War For Ukraine?
Since very soon after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine western powers, USA, UK, EU and NATO have been doing everything possible to prolong and escalate the war. The latest move is to provide the Ukrainian military with long range HIMARS missile. Mainstream media are claiming this has tilted the balance in Ukraine's favour. But for what? To prolong the slaughter? ...

Jingoistic Western Triumphalism Will Not End The War In Ukraine Or Cripple Putin, But It Is Crippling Western Nations

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European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses
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Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict
Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...

We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
Mainstream media reporting of the conflict in Ukraine has disappointed. Perhaps I was naive to suppose that lessons might have been learned from the hits their print sales and online traffic rates took as a result of their handling the COVID pandemic But instead of focusing on the most obviously newsworthy aspect of the build up to and escalation of the war, Russia’s view of NATO expansion into Ukraine and even further to Georgia and Kazakhstan, news reports have simply demonised Russia and portrayed Ukraine as the good guys.

Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis
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Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get?
Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

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The War In Ukraine Is About Freedom In Europe - NOT

 

The Colonel Blimps and Corporal Blimps, the types of war - loving jingoists who read The Daily Telegraph and Daily Express are still greedily lapping up 'news' stories parroting the official line that Ukraine is winning America's proxy war with Russia who for the past year and a half has been fought on its territory. That is the long way from the truth: while the Armed Forces of Ukraine appear to be holding the line at the borders of Russian speaking provinces in eastern Ukraine nobody in mainstream media is talking about the price Ukraine has paid, economically, socially and in human lives for resisting reality this long.

But with the Ukraine is winning' narrative looking increasingly unsustainable, the official line seems to be changing. We are now being told the west must continue to support Ukraine's war effort because our freedom is at stake. This is bollocks of course.

A story in The Daily Express informs us the conflict, now 18 months old, 'is the burning edge of freedom. It is an existential struggle for democratic values and the principles of a free society: that sovereign democratic states have inviolable borders, under the rule of international law and the common principles of dignity and humanity. Thus the struggle is much closer to home than we think: a few hours away by air from London.'

The UK may be the leading European nation in supporting the war, having giving more than £ 9 billion in humanitarian and military assistance so far, but for what? Not only is a Ukrainian victory impossible without direct, boots on the ground, intervention by US / NATO forces (and by no means certain even if that happened.)

But this war should be nothing to do with us, prior to the 2014 coup, engineered by the CIA, The Pentagon and NATO Ukraine was run by a corrupt but democratically elected government in collaboration with the oligarchs who controlled the organised crime networks and largely sympathetic to Moscow. We didn't want to know Ukraine before this, nor did we after the colour revolution had installed as the government in Kiev a corrupt, undemocratically imposed, neo - Nazi government which rules in collaboration with the organised crime oligarchs, the in fact we insulted the place, calling it a failed state and a third world nation.

But we did a U turn when the puppeteers who control Joe Biden, after eight years trying, successfully provoked Russia into action in defence of Russian speaking minorities against which the Kiev regime was waging a campaign of genocide.

The UK needs to find the to say no more., we're done.

We have run our country down for Ukraine, people in UK and western Europe are going to freeze this winter for Ukraine, Germany's economy has collapsed because of its support for Ukraine, the EU is being ripped apart for Ukraine (which is no bad thing,) yet still the 'Ukraine is winning but needs more support' narrative is being pushed by mainstream media in the west.

The logic behind such thinking is: 'if Ukraine hasn't tet lost, it must be winning.'

But if our leaders in the west do not back off that line, the war will have to go on forever, because like a compulsive gambler, the US / NATO alliance seems to believe that as long as they can stay in the game the next throw of the dice might the the one that tips the balance.

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Status Report On That War Thing In Ukraine: Nordstream to Bakhmut, electricity and water - December 2022

In the wake of attacks on the on the Stream pipelines, that effectively halted the flow of natural gas which German industry, commerce, agriculture and society relies on, and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a “tremendous opportunity” to weaken Moscow [...] And shortly after news of the Nord Stream sabotage broke on mainstream media, gas supply companies in the USA were offering to supply Europe with shipments of Liquid Natural Gas carried by supertanker to be sold to European nations at vastly inflated prices.

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Swedish Media Outlet Publishes Leaked U.S. Document On How to CRUSH Europe Economy via Ukraine War Effort
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Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
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Another Setback For UK's Net Zero Green Dreams As Cost Rise Faster Than China's CO2 Emissions

Picture:Norfolk Boreas windfarm - Vattenfall group

 The UK ruling elite's dreams of leading the world to a net zero future suffered another setback today when Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced work on the Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm is to be suspended indefinitely. The reasons given are spiralling costs, uncertainty in supply lines and the economic reality that despite all the propaganda about 'wind power is free' over the past few years, offshore wind farms are hideously expensive to operate as well as being enormously damaging to the marine environment.

As this blog has always said, if you pick a fight with nature, nature will always win. Thus it should be no surprise that one of  the UK’s largest offshore wind farm projects to date has has run aground, ironically partly due to lack of wind because 2023 has so far been notable for a high number of windless or low wind days, but also due to the rocketing costs of raw materials needed to make wind turbines costs. The fact that China and Russia control most sources of these vital raw materials should also be no surprise.

Swedish energy group, Vattenfall, has been forced to halt construction and planning work on its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas site off England's east coast, following a 40% increase in budgeted costs. Clearly, “going green” isn’t the path to instant riches and ongoing prosperity the government's propagandists would have you believe.

Anna Borg, Vattenfall’s CEO wrote in a statement released today:

“What we see today, it simply doesn’t make sense to continue this project.”

https://www.ft.com/content/f9d0f4f9-6d95-44a9-924b-d88627fd6485

 This news blows a huge hole in the UK government's the commitment to increasing its offshore wind capacity 300 per cent by 2030 in order to push forward the total decarbonisation of the electricity system. It also hihlights the truth of another claim by independent commentators that has been dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory' by mainstream media and academics, that the cost efficiency and reliability of these 'renewable energy' projects remain questionable.

For over 20 years the UK government has been promoting the wonders of wind power projects to meet its unrealistic net-zero targets, apparently oblivious to the reality that we cannot control the wind and when there is insufficient movement of air (i.e. below 12 mph) a wind turbine is not going to generate a single watt of electricity. However nature is biting back, and with costs spiraling out of control, the flight from fossil fuels looks as if it is struggling against into a headwinds.

This latest fiasco forged by the government's scientific advisers stands as a testament to the impracticality of impulsively jumping on the renewable energy bandwagon while shouting "We're following the science," without first thoroughly investigating the practical limitations of technologies that look great on paper, in mathematical models, or under controlled conditions in the laboratory.

The now defunct, if we are honest, Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm was intended to be the flagship of the country’s major offshore wind projects. Its aim was to provide low cost electricity to 1.5 million homes with up to 140 turbines. Now the developers have acknowledged that projects with low locked-in electricity prices have turned uneconomical due to these escalating costs and disruptions.

In February this year our Daily Stirrer publication reported that Vattenfall, along with Denmark’s Ørsted and other wind farm developers, were seeking tax breaks or subsidies as a remedy to their fiscal woes which had been created by governments pandering to extremist pressure groups and prematurely closing gas, coal and nuclear power plants, capping wells and abandoning mines on the strength of assurances from mathematical modellers that wind power could supply all the energy needs of the world's fifth largest economy. Perhaps now the twin mirage of “cheap” renewable energy and the infallibility of science are revealed to have been nothing but a smoke and mirrors stunt, perhaps vote seeking politicians and rent - seeking science journalists may have to acknowledge the economic reality that has been hidden behind the curtain.

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Reality Strikes Back

 

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

The status quo response would be amusing if the consequences weren't so dire.

Rather than stare at empty shelves, you have two options for distraction: you can don a virtual-reality headset and cavort with dolphins in the metaverse, or you can trade various forms of phantom wealth that always go up (happy happy!) because the Fed.

Neither distraction actually solves any real-world problems, a reality we can call the Revenge of the Real World We've entered a peculiar phase in American history in which illusions of wealth and control are the favored distractions from the unraveling of the real world economy and social order.

Printing trillions of currency units can't restore the global supply chain or social cohesion, Rather, jacking phantom wealth to the moon is only accelerating the collapse of the social order and the economy even as it accomplishes absolutely nothing in terms of solving real-world problems.

Let's start with the core economic realities of the 21st century:

1. The number of high-consumption ("middle class") people doubled from 1 billion to 2 billion. The human populace has expanded to 7.9 billion individuals, but poor people who don't have enough money to consume large quantities of energy, goods and services delivered by the global supply chain don't have much of an impact on global consumption of energy and resources. It's the number of people jetting around the world playing their part in the landfill economy (toss the old one, buy a new one) who drive "growth" (i.e. waste is growth).

Strangely enough, there are actual physical limits to resources being transformed into junk being dumped in the landfills. Humanity's rapacious appetite for stuff has extracted all the cheap-to-extract resources and now all that's left are the increasingly expensive-to-extract resources.

2. Corporate America offshored most of the production of essentials to exploit the low labor and energy costs, minimal environmental standards and currency arbitrage of overseas production. The net result has been an astounding increase in corporate profits. ... Continue reading >>>

 

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Greens Will Not Become UKIP of the Left By Talking Bollocks

Let's face it, if people want to vote for politicians who talk bollocks they have three well established parties to choose from, Labour, The Conservatives and The Lib Dems.

A lot of people who are sick of politics as usual and aren't bright enough to see that UKIP are the only party with any chance of upsetting the politics as usual bandwagon in 2015 are hoping The Greens are poised to become the UKIP of the left. Well they're not if they carry on like this:

via Guido:
Speaking to the Economist, Green leader Natalie Bennett argued that being on benefits in the UK is worse than being one of India's 179 million people living below the poverty line:

"The world is sodden with stuff, it cannot have more stuff,” said Ms Bennett. Yet [the Greens] do not appear to have considered what her ideological purity would mean for milllions of the world's poorest people, almost none of whom live in Britain. When Bagehot suggested to her that there was a problem with this, Ms Bennett said <del>India? Who gives a fuck about ...</del> he was worrying too much: to be poor in India wasn't so bad as to be on benefits in Britain, she suggested, "because at least everyone else there is poor too”.

Well yeah, The Greens have more fruitcakes than UKIP, Labour and The Conservatives put together but what was she actually suggesting? See, people in China and India and Bangladesh and Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Nigeria etc. earn their living making cheap shoddy shite for us to consume. And if we stop consuming it, businessmen in those countries (where there is a much more brutal attitude to hiring and firing) will not pay anyone to make stuff.

Who needs stuff when we could be helping a third world tyrant buy these? (Image Source)

And the poor people who depend on their £5 a day wages to feed a large family will starve. And The Greens and their supporters will be to blame. Simples, but then economic realities usually are simple when they are explained by a realist. But not by a leftie or a Green, apart from the fact these people are under the impression that 2+2=5 if some bloke with a PhD says so, they are quite happy for the poor to get poorer while the rich get richer, so long as the middle and working class are taxed to penury so that a left wing leader can give more 'development aid' to third world tyrants who will use it to buy obsolete planes, ships, tanks and long poles with nails through the end.

Scientists Launch Serious Debate On Robot's Rights

We’ve been telling you for ever that scientists are insane, devoid of ethics, totally detached from reality and hellbent on destroying humanity and the planet that supports us simply because we will not give them all the money in the world to buy new toys.

They are on about Robots being given human rights now, fecking eejits. Do they really think robots are going to be the cicddly, cute, squeaky voiced creatures of sci - fi films aimed at eight to eleven year old. When we consider that the people who will build robots are sociopathic nerds, then clearly robots will be bastards like the one pictured above.

Just before we get into the latest scientific madness, ask yourself what kind of people we are dealing with that would insist on making machines look vaguely humanoid in order to enable socially incompetent science heads to more easily form relationships with them. Why do robots have to look human? Why do they have to have little legs so they can walk like spazzas? Caterpillar Tracks would work much better?

I’ll tell you why; because the …
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Scientists debate Robots’ Rights

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Reality Rears Its Ugly Head

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Reality Rears Its Ugly Head

The new "reality" TV show launched this week with the rather desperate sounding title Celebrity Love Island does not disappoint. It plumbs new depths for trash TV. The idea is that twelve Z - list celebrities (6 male, 6 female) are put on a tropical island paradise, supplied with food, booze, a pool, a Jacuzzi and a million hidden cameras and microphones. They are then left to do what health young adults do when given the chance to shrug off responsibility and live a pampered life .

The fatal flaw in the plan lies in the fact that the people involved are not healthy young adults but minor celebrities. They are people who on account of once having briefly threatened to reveal signs of talent or in some cases having briefly shagged someone who threatened to reveal signs of talent. All of them however are now intent on building a career by being famous for being famous.

One of the females who actually has genuine claims to some sort of celebrity, being a credible current affairs presenter has already broken down in tears and begged for merciful release, presumably so that she can kill her agent. The poor girl has obviously been driven to the edge by having the phrase "professional suicide" bounce around her head like a really irritating tune.

Of the rest the appropriately named Abi Titmuss, famous for having been the girlfriend of a minor league TV presenter who became famous for allegedly raping a real celebrity is the most famous. The alleged offence took place before the real celebrity was a celebrity and the minor league presenter was acquitted, but not before some sneaky lowdown bastard (or somebody's agent) had leaked to the media a porno video featuring the lovely Abi in action with some of her alleged boyfriend's friends. A career was born.

Best of the rest are a man famous for being the son of a very famous drunk, a former Future Olympic Champion and a woman who sold the story of her (alleged - by her at least) adulterous affair with a very famous soccer player and spent the cash on breast enlargement so that she could go into competition with the lovely Abi. as the world's most famous nonentity.

I have not heard of any of the rest and bear in mind these are British celebrities and I am a British news junkie. So you get the picture.

Celebrity Love Island is not about love, it is about sex. It is solely about who will get em' off and get down to it first purely for the titillation of a voyeuristic audience and without any kind of emotional attachment. It is the very lowest level of commercial sex.

The most depressing thing about Celebrity Love Island other than the fact that the only love likely to be seen is narcissism, the love that dares scream its name from the rooftops; is that it reveals the depth of humiliation these so called celebs will expose themselves to in order to stretch their allotted fifteen minutes of fame.
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