Here's one idea. Let's call for them to release Biden's call with Zelensky and see what Zelensky really thinks about all this. Also, check out the confrontation between Ned Price, State Department spox, and Mike Lee, AP reporter. I have hope.
We don't need to talk to Zelensky we can read his scripts. Zelensky is President because of the scripts he wrote for the President of Ukraine. I wonder if there was an episode where he spoke to president Biden.
Nobody knows Putin Moscow, Kiev, Toronto, New York Washington, London, Berlin, Beijing and Canada like our Finance Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and former foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her 2013 lecture at Aspen Ideas Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else gives total sense to February fifth 2022.
....in Peking they know of Xi's "sister Potato", Vladimir Vladimirovich is by far the junior partner, his economy is not even top 10 (could be top 5 if him and his kleptocrats wheren't stealing 25% of GDP...yeah 25%)....can't wait for the end of the winter olympics, does anyone remember the end of Peking 2008 ?
I am obsessed with the Irish genocide. I think Johnathan Swift's Modest Proposal is the greatest satirical essay ever written. In 1712 the potato was largely unknown in Ireland. In 1850 one million people would die from starvation and one million more would be exported because the potato crop failed. I grew up on potatoes and beets I am a peasant.
I am an old man. I love my beets and potatoes, I love my rice and I love my pasta. I am a lucky peasant I can eat them with all the protein I want and serve them with the spices of Beijing, Rome, Bengal, France, Africa and South America. I do not understand America, I do not understand Russia and I do not understand China and I do not understand Empire. Who gives up everything for nothing?
It is weird speaking to someone in Ukraine who tells me my perceptions are their reality. Seeing America through an American lens makes one question one's sanity. My grandchildren grew up inside the Washington DC beltway and suddenly grandma and grandpa ain't so crazy.
The world has no need for Putin, Xi, Biden, Macron, Bezos, Johnson, Modi.
We need truth tellers like Zelensky Thunberg and Chomsky.
An outstanding 4-part (so far) Fox-Nation video – “Who is Hunter Biden”
It details the corruption and monstrosity of US president and his family. Obama organized coup in Ukraine and Biden as his VP was a de facto governor of that beautiful country, selecting and removing its government members, judges and heads of the industry.
US has three main exports – coups, corruption and weapons – in democratic Ukraine it exported, at enormous profits for many US politicians and their children (Pelosi, Kerry, etc.), -- it exported ALL three – introducing enormous corruption while -- “fighting corruption”. Note, key roles of Adam Schiff, colonel Windman, Jake Sullivan, former Hillary and now Biden’s national security advisor, and rabid Cold War Russia-hater Fiona Hill in Russia-gate hoax concocted by St. Obama, Hillary and Biden.
Same lying team is promoting an “instant” attack on now oh soo “democratic” Ukraine with Nazi-army units whose snipers killed more than 70 people in 2014 Kiev’s Maidan square protests and burned nearly 100 people seeking safety in an Odessa building..
The documentary failed to show Biden infamous speech in Senate celebrating his new Draconian law for drug use “which no judge will be able to overturn or soften” – while his son, “the smartest businessman he ever knew”, was consuming for a decade hard drugs at rate of $40K/month or higher. Hunter’s teeth were so corroded from drugs that his dental work (crowns and implants) totaled $70K+.
It is certainly true that the incompetent clown Trump and anti-China GOP lunatics are bad. But Joe Biden’s corruption and war-mongering are comparable to Clinton’s family and even more dangerous.
Is it possible to stop with the “traumatic injury to penis” stuff? I like to listen to the podcast in the gym and i really enjoy Matt, katie, and Aaron’s personalities as well as their opinions. But when I start to hear traumatic penis injury stuff I actually have to stop and skip thru because it’s like nails on a chalkboard. Also, can the extended interviews start where the regular interviews end? This way we can start the main show, and then we can just hit “play next” on the extended interview and it becomes like one long show without having to touch your phone!
I wish I had the ability to convey the meaning of River. My life has been lived by many rivers. The nearby river divides the USA and Canada. I was born by the St Lawrence. There were many rivers in between.
Come on up. We have rivers you can skate on. You can skate into New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont. It has been a cold lonely winter. Nobody wants to visit old people and kill them. We're boosted and our immune system still function even as our minds turn to mush. We still listen to Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot. Sometimes squeezed between the Baroque and Romantic we sometimes play some Stompin Tom. Jesse Winchester was well known in these parts.
We've looked at clouds from both sides now but sometimes clouds get in the way.
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Tsar Putin is a great guy! He lies about Ukraine and that's ok! He says Ukraine was not a country until Lenin created it for the USSR. Complete and utter BS.
Ukrainian freedom crushed by the Russian Empire, USSR & now modern day useful idiots that go to bat for "poor Russia victim of NATO"....I lost my home in the DNR and it's Ukrainian territory and I want it back.
Also google "Holodomor" to see why we don't want Russia anymore....ok?
You know what will NOT make life for the Ukrainians better? If the US gets involved militarily. Just ask the Afghans, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Nigerians, Somalians, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Mexicans, Chileans, Bolivians, Venezuelans, Congolese, Zimbabwaans, Yemenese, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians - to name a few - how the US getting involved militarily in their country has turned out for them.
Yeah, Putin is a bad dude. Ukraine is neither pro-EU nor pro-Russia. What won't make the situation better is more weapons and more CIA funded and trained neo-Nazi Ukrainian fighters. But that is what the US has been doing, is doing and wants to do more of.
Ukraine was doing better without our "help." It would do better without us (US) again.
The Ukrainians don't want to do business with the USA or Russia they want to do business with Canada, Finland, New Zealand, and South Africa. The world is sick of Empires. If the Ukraine can be unaligned can Canada be allowed to do the same?
Also South America Moe, lotta trade there too. Before 2014 the majority here would have been for non-aligned. But now, with Russia's belligerence & incursions of territory, majority now would agree Ukraine needs protection from Russia. Poland 1939, Baltics in 1940 (Half of FInalnd too), Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Georgia 2008 etc.
Lots here used to think Putin was ok as a balance to the west before 2014, even we did, now we don't like him much.. He's blown any capital he had in this regard. He's doing the opposite of what he should do for the outcomes he wants. He's forced Ukraine into a position where there is no other option but to seek closer western ties. LIke all politicians he f**k's up every now and then big time.
When NATO & EU kills 9 million Ukrainians in a famine, suppresses the culture and language and consitution of 1710, we'll go back to Russia, ok?
If things continue the way they are, the US will start a war in Ukraine that will kill millions and displace more just so that Putin can't have a political win in not having Ukraine join NATO after his successful reintegration of Crimea into Russia.
Yea the neocon war mongers are a worry, but this war is uup to one man and we all know who that is...look, mostly here we think/hope it's a bluff and they're trying to scare us into hasty agreements.
If Russia just went away and left us alone, all would be ok, Its not that hard. It's border won't be violated and things could go back to normal with trade, etc
You have to remember, Russia has been meddling here big time since the end of the USSR. It's not just the USA. Any "meddling" in America is miniscule by comparison. Ukraine wants to be part of Europe, not part of Russia anymore.
I refer you back to the constiution of 1710 in that earlier post I made. I am sure none of these charlatans who call themselves "Russia experts" on RT or w/e even know about.
Fifty years ago the quiet revolution began in Quebec. We rejected the American way and fortunately we were ignored because we spoke a language that wasn't English. We are a land of strong unions, powerful co-operatives, high wages, and perennial worker shortages and small businesses that that are verging on extinction in the USA proliferate on a daily basis. Fifty years ago Quebec was considering leaving Canada today some in Canada wish we would leave because Canada and Quebec are inseparable and more and more of us want to leave America and want to follow our own path.
We are to America what the Ukraine is to Russia. Our American speakers are becoming more and more Canadian. Our political divide is within our Conservative party where they speak both Canadian and American. As we become a land of big box stores we are developing a society of local consumers. We are a land of balance not Empire.
Justin Trudeau is our public face but Chrystia Freeland is our voice of reason.
It is most definitely not up to one man - if you mean Putin. Prior to the US-backed coup in 2013-14 Russia's meddling (from what I see in central Europe) was limited. The US getting involved militarily is what is causing the crisis.
Parts of the Ukraine want to be part of Europe. Parts don't. Which is why I agreed with you that Ukraine should be neutral.
Or else is should break up - non-violently. In any case, the US should get the fuck out.
Ok to explain that requires understanding the demogrphics here, since 2014. Usually media says (oversimplifying but partly correct - it's one factor) East = for-Russia, West= for-Ukraine. Well there's more to it. I live in Donetsk Oblast 60km from the front lines - we all speak Russian and it's not banned (even in the stores, where you are supposed to speak Ukrainian, everyone mostly speaks Russian still).
Younger gen who don't remember the USSR, they don't want Russia. It's a silly idea even though lots have family in Russia maybe. The older generation, the elderly, they lament the USSR. Most of the people witha bad attitude to Ukraine are in those bandit republics. Anyone who is not so belligerent has mostly left there. So those for Russia are in the minority here and also in the rest of Ukraine more or less, so they just go with the flow.
Russian language is not banned here, that's complete hogwash, If you work in the government you have to use Ukrainian for the paperwork. and as aforementioned, also in the stores but mostly it's Russian spoken still. Theres a lot of liars on RT saying otherwise and they don't even live here, that really bothers me.
Here in Quebec there are few young separatists. Things are good just the wat they are. Yesterday's separatists got everything they wanted and they are not ready to accept victory. I do not understand war at all.
Empirically not true. Ukraine's biggest trading partner is Russia at 9.46% of total exports for the entire country. From your list only Finland makes the top 25 at a miniscule 0.15%(!). The others on your list are so small they aren't even listed.
Ukraines exports are grains and metals (particularly iron ore). You think Canada needs grain from Ukraine?
yes Russia is next door and due to old-Soviet industrial setup - most trade. Moe seemed to be talking about prospective future markets.Aerospace & Rocketry needs to be concentrated on more here, not many countries have this kind of ability, not even say Canada or Australia or the UK even.
I do not know why Americans insist on talking about today and yesterday. I am totality empirical but empirical is always past or present tense. Does Albrecht know something we don't know?
The future, I see if we have one, will be in a world of nonalignment.
I wish Ukraine well but my main concern is Canada which is aligned with a crumbling Empire unsuitable for tomorrows realities.
It been to wonderful years of solitude to reflect on the state of our civilization. We are deciding whether to go out with a bang or with a whimper. We should be deciding whether we really want to go out.
Thank you I was going to write a nasty comment so now I can say if the oligarchies in Russia, China, Europe and the USA continue only the dead know what tomorrow will bring.
I watch the border walking distance from my home close to 24/7 daily traffic and know I will no long do monthly shops in the USA. The food sucks, the people are still great but senility even at puberty is a serious problem and I would rather "serve in Heaven than rule in Hell." John Milton
Yesterday's America is no longer fogging the mirror.
I think albrecht means well - but it is sadly a regular thing now to be lectured about the country I live in, by people who don't live here and think they know better.
I don't get why lots of the fans of this podcast hate US empire, but are ok with Russia's empire - by stating Ukraine cannot go it's own way and must bow to Russia''s demands....total hypocrisy.
I lost my home in the DNR, it's easy for them to dictate when they never lost their home in a war zone because of Russia....
May peace be with us all without domination by the bullies of Empire,
Ukraine has near the lowest support for far-right in all of Europe, but ofc you parrot the anti-Ukrainian Kremlin trope of "neo-Nazi Ukrainian fighters". (with a Jewish President ? How absurd, lol)
The Ukrainian Azov Battalion is openly Nazi (note the Nazi flag openly displayed i a foto they posted in the linked article below). The Azov Battalion is militarily supported by the US:
I actually do know what I'm talking about. The article linked above is written by an American Jew, not just by the way. Being Jewish doesn't mean you won't help Nazis.
Blumenthal is a straight up anti-Ukrainian racist who over blows this whole thing with Nazi's - he echoes Putin's favourite propaganda lie constantly. (the fascist Junta in Kyiv).
All the western European countries have groups like this in far larger numbers. He never mentions those. Just hysteria about "Nazis in Ukraine".
Support for far-right is <2% here. He never ever gives that context.He purposely wants the un-knowing to think we are all nazis here. We're just not, ok ?
Also he uses the terms "fascist" and "nazi" inter-changeably, a red flag indicting he has no clue what either really are. Musollini wasn't a nazi and Jitler wasn't a fascist, there are intrinsic differences - the ideology of both is national socialism though. All his reporting on Ukraine is negative.....that's propaganda not journalism
I could do a story on Atomwaffen and then make out "NAZIS IN AMERICA". It's just dumb and childish.
Blumenthal absolutely doesn't think all Ukrainians are Nazis. Did you even read the article?
Blumenthal's point is that the US is arming Nazis to destabilize Ukraine. Just like the US armed Al Qaeda in Syria to overthrow Assad. And armed Hussein to gas Iran, before later invading Iraq to overthrow Hussein. Blumenthal's critique is of US policy, not Ukrainians in general.
Yes, all western and central European countries have them (we have them here in Austria). The difference is that the far right in Austria are not getting weapons and training from the US to turn Austria into a failed state or US vassal, and that IS what is happening in Ukraine.
Your claim of "racism" against Blumenthat without evidence makes your entire post look weak.
Hitler was a Nazi, there is a big difference. Blumenthal's cartoonish hysteria about eveything being a CIA plot is absurd. (cos the KGB and FSB, SVU etc never meddle right ?)
Russia has been meddling in Ukraine far more than US ever has. He's a hateful bigoted hypocrite who hates Ukraine. He accuses the MSM of "CIA/state dept talking points" but parrots Kremlin talking points- bad mouthing Ukraine - verbatim...i.e the archetypal "useful idiot".
Why does Ukraine need to pick sides? Personally I don't care for the USA, Russia or China they are not my kind of town. I spent over a decade in Chicago and still don't understand segregation.
To put it simply - given past history - 1000 years under the Russian jackboot - Russia scares Ukraine more than America does.
Katrina & Aaron are wrong about NATO, it exists because it has to defend Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Baltics from Russia. If NATO was gone tomorrow, guaranteed 100%, Russia would not be respecting those borders at all...
There is no evidence except in your head for that position. The USSR was an authoritarian empire and I'm not sad it is gone, but they didn't go into Western Europe until after Western Europe invaded Russia - again (France and the US to name two before Hitler did).
I'm not a fan of what the USSR did after WWII, but I can at least understand it. Russia wanted buffer countries between them and Western Europe to protect against ANOTHER invasion.
So what has happened since the USSR fell apart? NATO, which exisited ONLY to counter Soviet military might (and thus should have been dissolved after 1991), has slowly expanded to the buffer states that were protecting Russia from invasion.
Putin may be a brutal dictator, but he's not stupid. And Russia does have security interests, whether the US wants to recognize them or not. Russia is not going to wait until the US - I mean "NATO" - has completely surrounde them before pushing back.
This is the essense of what is happening in Ukraine. And Khazahstan. And Moldova.
This is all VERY similar to what is happending with China regarding Taiwan, their belt and road initiaive, and Xinjiang.
Essentially, we created this situation when our only concern at the dissolution of the Soviet Union was economics issues, such as getting them to privatize state owned industries and open their markets to American businessmen. We could have engaged them in positive ways, but just didn't have a clue and couldn't have cared less. Such is American "diplomacy".
Katie: Please help us with this. You say, “if you want to hear the whole interview, become a subscriber". I am a subscriber and I cant find any extended interview.
Katie: You comment towards the end, "That if you want to hear the whole interview, become a subscriber". Is that statement correct? I am a subscriber and I don' see any other posting with the rest of the interview. What's up?
Heh, guys, you missed the tens of thousands of Zionists, who are mobilized at the instant the Israeli's and their apologists sense the slightest departure from the AIPAC/ADL line that any criticism of Israeli's project of ethnically cleansing Palestine of Palestinians is anti-semitic.
The elders I grew up around in the local Jewish community of my youth, working class folks, farmers, factory workers and so forth: They were clear--'Never Again' meant, Not to anyone, Anywhere, Not 'its our turn'. These simple statements of sentiment were reflected in the way these people treated and accepted me. That in part, informs why I am so incensed at the crimes of Zionism. The Zionist's use the real suffering and deaths of millions in the European context (and to a lesser extent, here, in the failure of their forefather's to push back against the Roosevelt Admin's viewing of Jews as expendable and the Othering of Jews, until they fully became honorary White People after WW2).
That is horrifying: The Allies had recon photos etc. of Auschwitz. One can see the photos at the Holocaust Museum, today. The Allies never bombed the rail road tracks leading into the death camps. They did bomb and burn German cities, like Dresden, to the ground. The larger Auschwitz death camp was gigantic, equivalent to a good sized city, for those of us who did grow up in NYC, etc.
"What about influence in dollar terms?
Pro-Israel interest groups donate millions to US federal political candidates. During the 2020 campaign, pro-Israel groups donated $30.95m, with 63 percent going to Democrats, 36 percent to Republicans. That is about twice as much as they donated during the 2016 campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org."
BTW: Aaron has penned articles for Aljazeera. No problem that for me. Unfortunately, Al Jazeera has been muzzled since the time of its dawn on the int'l news scene. (Oh, crap!)
Just in case you thought the NSA was the only one listening in...or just Merkel's phone got hacked by the Obama Admin:
"Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide."
Sometimes, alternative's the MSM seemed like the voices unheard. Obviously, some people are listening in, all the time.
Just in case anyone had any doubts about how tightly the Israeli gov controls are US Zionists, the Israeli gov has a dep't and gov minister to look after that. Foreign influence, ya think?
Really enjoyed your discussion with Katrina and I have renewed faith in her knowledge and so glad she is staying above the decrepitude among the media hacks. Gotta say I’m worried about these insane efforts at censorship and Psaki and that goon from the intelligence agency accusing anybody who questions their stories on Russia/ Ukraine as parroting Russian propaganda
Just wow! What the hell? These people are seriously dangerous
Please keep up the good work, this country needs you, the world needs you and all the true journalists with integrity
This is quite the discussion and what I would like to know what is meant by the expression flawed democracy. The World Freedom Index lists America as a flawed democracy. I thought democracy was binary. I remember the last referendum and whether one vote would constitute a majority of a nation of 8 million people.
According to the liars on RT, the Ukrainian economy is a basket case....yea we lost 50-25% of GDP since 2014 (it improved over time, with new markets etc)...but this below = LMAO - esp the shills with their "purchase price parity" trickery....
Here's one idea. Let's call for them to release Biden's call with Zelensky and see what Zelensky really thinks about all this. Also, check out the confrontation between Ned Price, State Department spox, and Mike Lee, AP reporter. I have hope.
We don't need to talk to Zelensky we can read his scripts. Zelensky is President because of the scripts he wrote for the President of Ukraine. I wonder if there was an episode where he spoke to president Biden.
tak! hahahaha
Nobody knows Putin Moscow, Kiev, Toronto, New York Washington, London, Berlin, Beijing and Canada like our Finance Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and former foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her 2013 lecture at Aspen Ideas Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else gives total sense to February fifth 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LIVa3WVPo&t=1181s
....in Peking they know of Xi's "sister Potato", Vladimir Vladimirovich is by far the junior partner, his economy is not even top 10 (could be top 5 if him and his kleptocrats wheren't stealing 25% of GDP...yeah 25%)....can't wait for the end of the winter olympics, does anyone remember the end of Peking 2008 ?
https://youtu.be/9KAhzxl_QnI?t=78
the way to peace is more potatoes!
I am obsessed with the Irish genocide. I think Johnathan Swift's Modest Proposal is the greatest satirical essay ever written. In 1712 the potato was largely unknown in Ireland. In 1850 one million people would die from starvation and one million more would be exported because the potato crop failed. I grew up on potatoes and beets I am a peasant.
I am an old man. I love my beets and potatoes, I love my rice and I love my pasta. I am a lucky peasant I can eat them with all the protein I want and serve them with the spices of Beijing, Rome, Bengal, France, Africa and South America. I do not understand America, I do not understand Russia and I do not understand China and I do not understand Empire. Who gives up everything for nothing?
It is weird speaking to someone in Ukraine who tells me my perceptions are their reality. Seeing America through an American lens makes one question one's sanity. My grandchildren grew up inside the Washington DC beltway and suddenly grandma and grandpa ain't so crazy.
The world has no need for Putin, Xi, Biden, Macron, Bezos, Johnson, Modi.
We need truth tellers like Zelensky Thunberg and Chomsky.
An outstanding 4-part (so far) Fox-Nation video – “Who is Hunter Biden”
It details the corruption and monstrosity of US president and his family. Obama organized coup in Ukraine and Biden as his VP was a de facto governor of that beautiful country, selecting and removing its government members, judges and heads of the industry.
US has three main exports – coups, corruption and weapons – in democratic Ukraine it exported, at enormous profits for many US politicians and their children (Pelosi, Kerry, etc.), -- it exported ALL three – introducing enormous corruption while -- “fighting corruption”. Note, key roles of Adam Schiff, colonel Windman, Jake Sullivan, former Hillary and now Biden’s national security advisor, and rabid Cold War Russia-hater Fiona Hill in Russia-gate hoax concocted by St. Obama, Hillary and Biden.
Same lying team is promoting an “instant” attack on now oh soo “democratic” Ukraine with Nazi-army units whose snipers killed more than 70 people in 2014 Kiev’s Maidan square protests and burned nearly 100 people seeking safety in an Odessa building..
The documentary failed to show Biden infamous speech in Senate celebrating his new Draconian law for drug use “which no judge will be able to overturn or soften” – while his son, “the smartest businessman he ever knew”, was consuming for a decade hard drugs at rate of $40K/month or higher. Hunter’s teeth were so corroded from drugs that his dental work (crowns and implants) totaled $70K+.
It is certainly true that the incompetent clown Trump and anti-China GOP lunatics are bad. But Joe Biden’s corruption and war-mongering are comparable to Clinton’s family and even more dangerous.
Is it possible to stop with the “traumatic injury to penis” stuff? I like to listen to the podcast in the gym and i really enjoy Matt, katie, and Aaron’s personalities as well as their opinions. But when I start to hear traumatic penis injury stuff I actually have to stop and skip thru because it’s like nails on a chalkboard. Also, can the extended interviews start where the regular interviews end? This way we can start the main show, and then we can just hit “play next” on the extended interview and it becomes like one long show without having to touch your phone!
Sarah McLaughlin "River"
The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t9J4YBI_0
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RIVER
It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer, singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
But it don’t snow here, it stays pretty green
I’m going to make a lot of money
And then I’m gonna quit this crazy scene
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I made my baby cry
He tried hard to help me, you know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty, made me weak in the knees
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
Well, I’m so hard to handle, I’m selfish and I’m sad
Now I’ve gone and lost the best baby that I ever had
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
Oh, I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
Oh, I wish I had a river that I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye
It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer, singing songs of joy and peace
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I wish I had the ability to convey the meaning of River. My life has been lived by many rivers. The nearby river divides the USA and Canada. I was born by the St Lawrence. There were many rivers in between.
Why are you so angry?
you are a revolting, disgusting, brain damaged, psychotic asshole troll. FUCK OFF ASSHOLE
Come on up. We have rivers you can skate on. You can skate into New Hampshire, Maine or Vermont. It has been a cold lonely winter. Nobody wants to visit old people and kill them. We're boosted and our immune system still function even as our minds turn to mush. We still listen to Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot. Sometimes squeezed between the Baroque and Romantic we sometimes play some Stompin Tom. Jesse Winchester was well known in these parts.
We've looked at clouds from both sides now but sometimes clouds get in the way.
use all available canadian ice and snow to thoroughly pack your rectal cavity. after onset of adequate shrinkage, use appropriate power tools to extract cranium from rectal cavity.
Tsar Putin is a great guy! He lies about Ukraine and that's ok! He says Ukraine was not a country until Lenin created it for the USSR. Complete and utter BS.
https://my.ua/news/cluster/2021-12-23-vladimir-putin-zaiavil-chto-ukrainu-sozdal-lenin-v-protsesse-formirovaniia-sssr
...but the Constitution of Prylyp Orlyk 1710 proves he is WRONG!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
Ukrainian freedom crushed by the Russian Empire, USSR & now modern day useful idiots that go to bat for "poor Russia victim of NATO"....I lost my home in the DNR and it's Ukrainian territory and I want it back.
Also google "Holodomor" to see why we don't want Russia anymore....ok?
Slava Ukrainiy!
You know what will NOT make life for the Ukrainians better? If the US gets involved militarily. Just ask the Afghans, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Nigerians, Somalians, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Mexicans, Chileans, Bolivians, Venezuelans, Congolese, Zimbabwaans, Yemenese, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians - to name a few - how the US getting involved militarily in their country has turned out for them.
Yeah, Putin is a bad dude. Ukraine is neither pro-EU nor pro-Russia. What won't make the situation better is more weapons and more CIA funded and trained neo-Nazi Ukrainian fighters. But that is what the US has been doing, is doing and wants to do more of.
Ukraine was doing better without our "help." It would do better without us (US) again.
The Ukrainians don't want to do business with the USA or Russia they want to do business with Canada, Finland, New Zealand, and South Africa. The world is sick of Empires. If the Ukraine can be unaligned can Canada be allowed to do the same?
Also South America Moe, lotta trade there too. Before 2014 the majority here would have been for non-aligned. But now, with Russia's belligerence & incursions of territory, majority now would agree Ukraine needs protection from Russia. Poland 1939, Baltics in 1940 (Half of FInalnd too), Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Georgia 2008 etc.
Lots here used to think Putin was ok as a balance to the west before 2014, even we did, now we don't like him much.. He's blown any capital he had in this regard. He's doing the opposite of what he should do for the outcomes he wants. He's forced Ukraine into a position where there is no other option but to seek closer western ties. LIke all politicians he f**k's up every now and then big time.
When NATO & EU kills 9 million Ukrainians in a famine, suppresses the culture and language and consitution of 1710, we'll go back to Russia, ok?
If things continue the way they are, the US will start a war in Ukraine that will kill millions and displace more just so that Putin can't have a political win in not having Ukraine join NATO after his successful reintegration of Crimea into Russia.
Yea the neocon war mongers are a worry, but this war is uup to one man and we all know who that is...look, mostly here we think/hope it's a bluff and they're trying to scare us into hasty agreements.
If Russia just went away and left us alone, all would be ok, Its not that hard. It's border won't be violated and things could go back to normal with trade, etc
You have to remember, Russia has been meddling here big time since the end of the USSR. It's not just the USA. Any "meddling" in America is miniscule by comparison. Ukraine wants to be part of Europe, not part of Russia anymore.
I refer you back to the constiution of 1710 in that earlier post I made. I am sure none of these charlatans who call themselves "Russia experts" on RT or w/e even know about.
Fifty years ago the quiet revolution began in Quebec. We rejected the American way and fortunately we were ignored because we spoke a language that wasn't English. We are a land of strong unions, powerful co-operatives, high wages, and perennial worker shortages and small businesses that that are verging on extinction in the USA proliferate on a daily basis. Fifty years ago Quebec was considering leaving Canada today some in Canada wish we would leave because Canada and Quebec are inseparable and more and more of us want to leave America and want to follow our own path.
We are to America what the Ukraine is to Russia. Our American speakers are becoming more and more Canadian. Our political divide is within our Conservative party where they speak both Canadian and American. As we become a land of big box stores we are developing a society of local consumers. We are a land of balance not Empire.
Justin Trudeau is our public face but Chrystia Freeland is our voice of reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LIVa3WVPo&t=1181s
It is most definitely not up to one man - if you mean Putin. Prior to the US-backed coup in 2013-14 Russia's meddling (from what I see in central Europe) was limited. The US getting involved militarily is what is causing the crisis.
Parts of the Ukraine want to be part of Europe. Parts don't. Which is why I agreed with you that Ukraine should be neutral.
Or else is should break up - non-violently. In any case, the US should get the fuck out.
How do the Russian people feel? Is it possible Zelensky is more popular in Moscow than Putin?
Ok to explain that requires understanding the demogrphics here, since 2014. Usually media says (oversimplifying but partly correct - it's one factor) East = for-Russia, West= for-Ukraine. Well there's more to it. I live in Donetsk Oblast 60km from the front lines - we all speak Russian and it's not banned (even in the stores, where you are supposed to speak Ukrainian, everyone mostly speaks Russian still).
Younger gen who don't remember the USSR, they don't want Russia. It's a silly idea even though lots have family in Russia maybe. The older generation, the elderly, they lament the USSR. Most of the people witha bad attitude to Ukraine are in those bandit republics. Anyone who is not so belligerent has mostly left there. So those for Russia are in the minority here and also in the rest of Ukraine more or less, so they just go with the flow.
Russian language is not banned here, that's complete hogwash, If you work in the government you have to use Ukrainian for the paperwork. and as aforementioned, also in the stores but mostly it's Russian spoken still. Theres a lot of liars on RT saying otherwise and they don't even live here, that really bothers me.
Here in Quebec there are few young separatists. Things are good just the wat they are. Yesterday's separatists got everything they wanted and they are not ready to accept victory. I do not understand war at all.
Empirically not true. Ukraine's biggest trading partner is Russia at 9.46% of total exports for the entire country. From your list only Finland makes the top 25 at a miniscule 0.15%(!). The others on your list are so small they aren't even listed.
Ukraines exports are grains and metals (particularly iron ore). You think Canada needs grain from Ukraine?
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/ukr
yes Russia is next door and due to old-Soviet industrial setup - most trade. Moe seemed to be talking about prospective future markets.Aerospace & Rocketry needs to be concentrated on more here, not many countries have this kind of ability, not even say Canada or Australia or the UK even.
Thank you Emir.
I do not know why Americans insist on talking about today and yesterday. I am totality empirical but empirical is always past or present tense. Does Albrecht know something we don't know?
The future, I see if we have one, will be in a world of nonalignment.
I wish Ukraine well but my main concern is Canada which is aligned with a crumbling Empire unsuitable for tomorrows realities.
It been to wonderful years of solitude to reflect on the state of our civilization. We are deciding whether to go out with a bang or with a whimper. We should be deciding whether we really want to go out.
Thank you I was going to write a nasty comment so now I can say if the oligarchies in Russia, China, Europe and the USA continue only the dead know what tomorrow will bring.
I watch the border walking distance from my home close to 24/7 daily traffic and know I will no long do monthly shops in the USA. The food sucks, the people are still great but senility even at puberty is a serious problem and I would rather "serve in Heaven than rule in Hell." John Milton
Yesterday's America is no longer fogging the mirror.
I think albrecht means well - but it is sadly a regular thing now to be lectured about the country I live in, by people who don't live here and think they know better.
I don't get why lots of the fans of this podcast hate US empire, but are ok with Russia's empire - by stating Ukraine cannot go it's own way and must bow to Russia''s demands....total hypocrisy.
I lost my home in the DNR, it's easy for them to dictate when they never lost their home in a war zone because of Russia....
May peace be with us all without domination by the bullies of Empire,
Freedom for Ukraine!
Freedom for Canada!
Ukraine has near the lowest support for far-right in all of Europe, but ofc you parrot the anti-Ukrainian Kremlin trope of "neo-Nazi Ukrainian fighters". (with a Jewish President ? How absurd, lol)
https://blazingcatfur.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Nationalist-Party-Support-By-Country-Europe-351x600.jpg
Huge article on Russian fascism in Britannica, no mention of Ukraine....
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Russia
Get a clue before you start giving advice with verbatim Kremlin lies about Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Azov Battalion is openly Nazi (note the Nazi flag openly displayed i a foto they posted in the linked article below). The Azov Battalion is militarily supported by the US:
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/11/17/blowback-us-funded-ukraine-neo-nazis-mentor-us-white-supremacists/
I actually do know what I'm talking about. The article linked above is written by an American Jew, not just by the way. Being Jewish doesn't mean you won't help Nazis.
Blumenthal is a straight up anti-Ukrainian racist who over blows this whole thing with Nazi's - he echoes Putin's favourite propaganda lie constantly. (the fascist Junta in Kyiv).
All the western European countries have groups like this in far larger numbers. He never mentions those. Just hysteria about "Nazis in Ukraine".
Support for far-right is <2% here. He never ever gives that context.He purposely wants the un-knowing to think we are all nazis here. We're just not, ok ?
Also he uses the terms "fascist" and "nazi" inter-changeably, a red flag indicting he has no clue what either really are. Musollini wasn't a nazi and Jitler wasn't a fascist, there are intrinsic differences - the ideology of both is national socialism though. All his reporting on Ukraine is negative.....that's propaganda not journalism
I could do a story on Atomwaffen and then make out "NAZIS IN AMERICA". It's just dumb and childish.
Blumenthal absolutely doesn't think all Ukrainians are Nazis. Did you even read the article?
Blumenthal's point is that the US is arming Nazis to destabilize Ukraine. Just like the US armed Al Qaeda in Syria to overthrow Assad. And armed Hussein to gas Iran, before later invading Iraq to overthrow Hussein. Blumenthal's critique is of US policy, not Ukrainians in general.
Yes, all western and central European countries have them (we have them here in Austria). The difference is that the far right in Austria are not getting weapons and training from the US to turn Austria into a failed state or US vassal, and that IS what is happening in Ukraine.
Your claim of "racism" against Blumenthat without evidence makes your entire post look weak.
Hitler was most definitely a fascist.
Hitler was a Nazi, there is a big difference. Blumenthal's cartoonish hysteria about eveything being a CIA plot is absurd. (cos the KGB and FSB, SVU etc never meddle right ?)
Russia has been meddling in Ukraine far more than US ever has. He's a hateful bigoted hypocrite who hates Ukraine. He accuses the MSM of "CIA/state dept talking points" but parrots Kremlin talking points- bad mouthing Ukraine - verbatim...i.e the archetypal "useful idiot".
Why aren't you actually fighting and dying for your "freedom"???
Why does Ukraine need to pick sides? Personally I don't care for the USA, Russia or China they are not my kind of town. I spent over a decade in Chicago and still don't understand segregation.
Exactly what I think. Let Ukraine be like Switzerland and NOT be either a US or a Russian vassal.
To put it simply - given past history - 1000 years under the Russian jackboot - Russia scares Ukraine more than America does.
Katrina & Aaron are wrong about NATO, it exists because it has to defend Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Baltics from Russia. If NATO was gone tomorrow, guaranteed 100%, Russia would not be respecting those borders at all...
Why aren't you actually fighting and dying for your "freedom"???
There is no evidence except in your head for that position. The USSR was an authoritarian empire and I'm not sad it is gone, but they didn't go into Western Europe until after Western Europe invaded Russia - again (France and the US to name two before Hitler did).
I'm not a fan of what the USSR did after WWII, but I can at least understand it. Russia wanted buffer countries between them and Western Europe to protect against ANOTHER invasion.
So what has happened since the USSR fell apart? NATO, which exisited ONLY to counter Soviet military might (and thus should have been dissolved after 1991), has slowly expanded to the buffer states that were protecting Russia from invasion.
Putin may be a brutal dictator, but he's not stupid. And Russia does have security interests, whether the US wants to recognize them or not. Russia is not going to wait until the US - I mean "NATO" - has completely surrounde them before pushing back.
This is the essense of what is happening in Ukraine. And Khazahstan. And Moldova.
This is all VERY similar to what is happending with China regarding Taiwan, their belt and road initiaive, and Xinjiang.
Why aren't you actually fighting and dying for your "freedom"???
You are a brainwashed, brained damaged, psychotic, asshole troll and a LYING sack of greasy dog shit. FUCK OFF.
This problem is as easy to fix as considering Russia's legitimate security concerns with regards to us reneging on our gentlemen's agreement to not expand NATO "one inch eastward" (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early).
Essentially, we created this situation when our only concern at the dissolution of the Soviet Union was economics issues, such as getting them to privatize state owned industries and open their markets to American businessmen. We could have engaged them in positive ways, but just didn't have a clue and couldn't have cared less. Such is American "diplomacy".
Katie: Please help us with this. You say, “if you want to hear the whole interview, become a subscriber". I am a subscriber and I cant find any extended interview.
Can you help?
https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/full-interview-katrina-vanden-heuvel
Katie: You comment towards the end, "That if you want to hear the whole interview, become a subscriber". Is that statement correct? I am a subscriber and I don' see any other posting with the rest of the interview. What's up?
https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/full-interview-katrina-vanden-heuvel
Heh, guys, you missed the tens of thousands of Zionists, who are mobilized at the instant the Israeli's and their apologists sense the slightest departure from the AIPAC/ADL line that any criticism of Israeli's project of ethnically cleansing Palestine of Palestinians is anti-semitic.
The elders I grew up around in the local Jewish community of my youth, working class folks, farmers, factory workers and so forth: They were clear--'Never Again' meant, Not to anyone, Anywhere, Not 'its our turn'. These simple statements of sentiment were reflected in the way these people treated and accepted me. That in part, informs why I am so incensed at the crimes of Zionism. The Zionist's use the real suffering and deaths of millions in the European context (and to a lesser extent, here, in the failure of their forefather's to push back against the Roosevelt Admin's viewing of Jews as expendable and the Othering of Jews, until they fully became honorary White People after WW2).
That is horrifying: The Allies had recon photos etc. of Auschwitz. One can see the photos at the Holocaust Museum, today. The Allies never bombed the rail road tracks leading into the death camps. They did bomb and burn German cities, like Dresden, to the ground. The larger Auschwitz death camp was gigantic, equivalent to a good sized city, for those of us who did grow up in NYC, etc.
"What about influence in dollar terms?
Pro-Israel interest groups donate millions to US federal political candidates. During the 2020 campaign, pro-Israel groups donated $30.95m, with 63 percent going to Democrats, 36 percent to Republicans. That is about twice as much as they donated during the 2016 campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/18/short-answer-why-is-the-united-states-so-pro-israel
BTW: Aaron has penned articles for Aljazeera. No problem that for me. Unfortunately, Al Jazeera has been muzzled since the time of its dawn on the int'l news scene. (Oh, crap!)
Just in case you thought the NSA was the only one listening in...or just Merkel's phone got hacked by the Obama Admin:
"Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones
Sometimes, alternative's the MSM seemed like the voices unheard. Obviously, some people are listening in, all the time.
Just in case anyone had any doubts about how tightly the Israeli gov controls are US Zionists, the Israeli gov has a dep't and gov minister to look after that. Foreign influence, ya think?
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-we-re-outraged-liberal-u-s-jews-feel-betrayed-by-new-israeli-government-1.10589115
How do I hear the rest of this interview?
https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/full-interview-katrina-vanden-heuvel
Thank you Katie and Aaron, great show!
Really enjoyed your discussion with Katrina and I have renewed faith in her knowledge and so glad she is staying above the decrepitude among the media hacks. Gotta say I’m worried about these insane efforts at censorship and Psaki and that goon from the intelligence agency accusing anybody who questions their stories on Russia/ Ukraine as parroting Russian propaganda
Just wow! What the hell? These people are seriously dangerous
Please keep up the good work, this country needs you, the world needs you and all the true journalists with integrity
This is quite the discussion and what I would like to know what is meant by the expression flawed democracy. The World Freedom Index lists America as a flawed democracy. I thought democracy was binary. I remember the last referendum and whether one vote would constitute a majority of a nation of 8 million people.
You have severe brain damage and psychosis.
According to the liars on RT, the Ukrainian economy is a basket case....yea we lost 50-25% of GDP since 2014 (it improved over time, with new markets etc)...but this below = LMAO - esp the shills with their "purchase price parity" trickery....
https://www.google.com.ua/search?q=1+grivna+to+roubles
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/news/a34473/internet-troll-study-stanford-cornell/
How to Spot an Internet Troll in Just Five Comments
Scientists are on the case.
By Megan Friedman
Apr 20, 2015
Typical "progressive" delusion:
Robert Reich:
D-party propaganda is only "wrong" because it isn't "progressive" enough:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mainstream-media
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Love the closed captions for "Biden administration" are the "bite administration"