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To the devil with the Monarchy and to Hell with the Orange Order! – Irish/English -‘You can’t be both a curd and a whey – a republican should not show any respect for the monarchy’.

from BLOSC by Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh- June 4, 2022 rough translation via thefreeonline

We had an interesting weekend. Sinn Féin Politician Michelle O’Neill sent a letter to the Queen to celebrate her jubilee then it came to light that Orangemen (far right ‘loyalist’ protestants in British part of Ireland) were singing racist chants about the death of Michaela Harte/McAreavey as they celebrated the centenary of “their own little country”.

Someone told me today that a republican is a significant contrast in showing leadership and political maturity on the one hand and loyalists in showing the worst of sectarianism on the other.

Sinn Féin, (radicalrepublicans now sharing power in British run 6 counties) think they are as clever as a fox and have done a great triangulation to get the upper hand over the DUP once again. I told my friend that it was definitely a ploy but that I would say their victory was as slippery as an eel, because instead of ability Sinn Féin showed the same stupidity that has lain behind their “strategy” for the last thirty years.

You can’t run with the fox and hunt with the hounds – a republican should not show any respect for the monarchy. Michelle O’Neill didn’t add to the reconciliation I think, on the contrary, she took a rod that will beat herself later on.

Reconciliation cannot be based on lies and ingenuity and you cannot call yourself a republican and practice it like this [read Rousseau or Wolfe Tone or Mac Reachtáin or Tómas Ó Cléirigh etc. if you do not agree with me].

But the final Party in the Orange Hall showed us something else- it’s a waste of time trying to compromise . They hate everyone else who is not a conservative racist.

The Orange Order was founded in 1795 to consolidate Protestant supremacy – it is a reactionary sectarian organisation [sectarian and racist in the Irish colonial context] that has stood up for injustice for over 200 years.

Covida Commedia: tea and ginger biscuits to hand – Olivia and I turned to Covid – “It’s got to be aliens” – off Guardian

by John Griffin at off-guardian via thefreeonline

The following represents over two years of careful research and close logical reasoning, brought to fruition in one middle-of-the-night conversation when, sleepless through worry over the future of civilization – tea and ginger biscuits to hand –

Olivia and I turned to the only subject that never quite goes away: Covid.

“It’s got to be aliens.”

She looks at me. “What on earth are you on about?”

“That’s just it: not on Earth – out there!”

When it comes to the Covid narrative, and the absurdities it has propagated, the alien explanation is merely elementary deduction. By discounting everything it can’t be – à la Sherlock Holmes – what you’re left with, no matter how unlikely it seems, must be true.

First, the faulty premises.

Stupidità

Stupidity is the most charitable explanation for what has transpired. And it will probably be the last resort of the accused at the International Covid Tribunal.

Any single policy decision might be explained by bumbling. Visualize the many foolish decisions of this ‘comedy of errors’, however, and you will also begin to hear the Benny Hill outro tune playing in the background.

Doltishly, the WHO, in 2009, defines ‘pandemic’ as merely the global spread of a new virus to which most people are not immune, and unsurprisingly identifies one in March 2020.

Clownishly, we take notice of people pratfalling in the street in China. Neil Ferguson is clumsily chosen as an authority on SARS-CoV-2 propagation after yet another back-of-a-dogeared-envelope calculation.

Christian Drosten foolishly decides upon a test for coronavirus that isn’t remotely diagnostic (the PCR method is like finding the few atoms of Shakespeare in your tea – it impresses only until you remember you can do this sort of thing because the universe is wondrously interdependent and interrelated. Viruses are not alien invaders, but one facet of the glittering jewel that is Terran life).

Naively, we believe the bog-standard cold virus has suddenly disappeared and been replaced with an ultra-exotic one. Muddleheadedly, we forget all about the efficacy of tried-and-true remedies like hydroxychloroquine.

Obtusely, we believe in asymptomatic spread, and become thoroughly mixed up about the meaning of ‘dying with’ and ‘dying of’ something.

Docilely, we adopt Fauci and Whitty’s ineffective policies to mitigate the impact of Covid, which unintentionally cause the destruction of livelihoods, health services and education.

We watch, insensate, as the frail elderly are bundled into nursing homes and accidentally killed, thuggish police are brought onto the streets to prevent sociable behaviour, and frustration, despair, illness and suicide proliferate.

Vacantly, we overlook vaccine companies’ criminal pasts and opt for a novel therapy that doesn’t produce immunity.

Idiotically, we acquiesce to our children being jabbed because it will help them adjust to the new conditions. Gormlessly, we watch young males begin to keel over…

“I could go on…”

“Don’t,” Olivia said. “I got the picture ages ago. The only stupidity was looking to the ‘experts’ instead of noticing the dearth of bodies in the streets. Let’s face it, most people voluntarily donned the dunce cap; the giveaway was that the average age of a Covid death was the average age of death. Of course the policies weren’t accidental. Look at the Nudge Unit’s machinations, the obsession with universal vaccinations, and the filthy lucre made by Big Pharma. How’s that for deliberation?”

Soldi

‘Follow the money’, the old saying goes. But a half-hearted quest won’t do. You must be prepared to follow it into hell.

As Plato recognized, the great shortcoming of democracies is their obsession with wealth. Which is why thoroughgoing materialists are not themselves disposed to notice, let alone curb, the excesses of the few; indeed, they seem like the lucky bastards.

But while most of us desire money, we usually apply a judicious approach, recognising that little things – such as the ultimate welfare of our fellow humans – trumps its acquisition ……

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continue reading HERE: https://off-guardian.org/2022/06/04/covida-commedia/

How The Great ‘Carbon Capture Scam’ continues Profiteering from Climate Sabotage

from Human Wrongs Watch By Rex Weyler* via thefreeonline

1 June 2022 (Greenpeace International)* — We know that oil companies hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum also schemed to turn the ecological crisis into a profit centre.

The industry devised a plan to swindle money from the public purse by pretending to address the climate issue while using subsidies to increase oil production. If one had no moral compass, one might say their scam was a stroke of genius.

Flare stack at oil refinery in Immingham, UK. © Les Gibbon / Greenpeace

Projection in Rome ahead of G20 Leaders' Summit 2021. "We need REAL climate action NOW. #RealZero" © Greenpeace / Lorenzo Moscia

A thick layer of smog hovers above the ground while smoke continues to pour out of the smoke stacks at the oil refinery. © Greenpeace / Colin O’Connor

Since the oil industry — Shell, Chevron, and others — were not prepared to actually slow oil production to halt global heating, and since they had no intention of aiming for zero carbon emissions, they invented “net zero.” The “net” requires that we subtract some carbon from total emissions to create the illusion of “zero” emissions.

Thus, the patriarchs of petroleum profiteering came up with “carbon capture,” a deception that has netted them billions of dollars and euros in public money.

Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has enabled the scam, since most IPCC climate models require carbon capture and storage (CCS) to balance the carbon books, always of course, at some time in the distant future.

How the scam works

Oil industry geologists knew in the 1950s that all oil fields would deplete over time, as pressure dropped in rock formations and the oil would no longer flow. They developed certain “enhanced oil recovery” technologies to extend the life of depleted oil fields, by fracking and by pumping carbon dioxide (CO₂) into old wells.

BREAKING FAKES: Staged Battles Of Ukrainian Army

from southfront.org via thefreeonline shared with thanks

On May 3, the Russian Ministry of Defence shared videos of the staged combat operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Cameras are seen on the videos, and the AFU servicemen follow the orders of the film director.

The roles of the LPR and DPR servicemen are also played by Ukrainian actors who have red armbands which are a tactical sign of the People’s Militias.

Video Player doesn’t work… see original HERE if not censored: breaking-staged-battles-

The Russian Ministry of Defence commented:

” Amid the Kiev’s political catastrophe in Mariupol and military failures in the Donbas, the Kiev regime, with the financial support of the United Kingdom, organized filming of “spirit-lifting” videos for Western and Ukrainian audiences.

Video Player doesn’t work… see original HERE if not censored.. breaking-staged-battles-

In particular, on May 28, staged video footage was filmed near the settlement of Meshkovka in the Mykolaiv region showing the alleged “high efficiency” of the use of Western weapons by Ukrainian nationalists.

To make the future picture more dramatic, at the insistence of the British curators, a “reconstruction” of the never-existing “battle” of the Ukrainian Nazis with the outnumbered “Russian servicemen” was created on the set.

The roles of the “opponents” of the Ukrainian Nazis in the staged short film were performed by members of the local territorial defense unit wearing red armbands. In the absence of captured Russian equipment, the “conditional enemy” appears in the frame on Ukrainian armored personnel carriers and armored vehicles.”

The videos confirm that main weapons of the Kiev regime are lies and fakes.

Kurdistan and solidarity without borders: Testimony of an internationalist volunteer

Thousands of men and women came to Rojava to join the fight led by the Kurdish people against the Islamic State. Kemal, a Spanish anarchist, was one of them and tells his story to La Tinta.

Kemal sends me photos. In some, he can be seen practicing shooting, resting, talking with the residents of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), where he was twice as an internationalist volunteer, between 2016 and 2018.

His story, where militancy, combats against the State Islamic (ISIS or Daesh), learning that will mark him forever and the ever-living memory of comrades who fell defending the territory, is similar to that of thousands of people from all over the world who decided to come to a Syria in the midst of war to join the resistance led by the Kurdish people.

Of course, Kemal has a first and a last name, but he prefers that I write about him with the nickname he chose in Rojava.

He knows that many other internationalists who returned to their countries -especially to Europe- were victims of judicial persecution.

Although European governments continue to publicly declare their rejection of Daesh, the citizens who went to fight the followers of the Caliphate were classified on more than one occasion as “terrorists” and were brought before the courts.

I speak several times with Kemal, an ocean separates us , but it is not inconvenient for me to tell the story. “About my personal data, I can only tell you that I am from Aragon, Spain,” he summarizes. And he apologizes to me if he prefers to leave his personal life at that point.

Kemal describes himself as “a normal guy” who had “normal jobs”, who “likes to play sports” and with an anarchist militancy that allowed him to develop a “political consciousness”.

His story within the Spanish libertarian movement intersected with the political and social process that emerged in 2012 in Rojava, when the population of northern Syria declared autonomy, and, driven by the Kurdish movement, decided that it was time to change their lives radical.

“I have to tell you that militancy, as we know it in the West, is completely different from what it means in Rojava and in the sphere of the Kurdish movement –says the Aragonese-. I just made the decision to fight for those who didn’t have so much.

I don’t know if I mentioned it to you the other time, but for me the gesture made by so many thousands of foreigners who came to Spain to fight against fascism in the International Brigades has great value. Doing the same for other people seemed like the best way to honor his memory.”

Hevales

With each photo he sent me, Kemal added a comment. In one he says: “Heval Chekdar. A great guy, full of good humor and a good person. He fell in the Raqqa operation”.

In another: “She was our commander in Manbij. Heval Eylan, possibly the best commander I’ve ever had. I could tell you a lot about her, but for another time. She fell just the day after we parted ways, at the hands of a Turkish attack when we were in the Al Bab operation.

Australia. Will new PM and Labor have the Guts to free Julian Assange?.. of course not..

from nuclear-news.net posted by Christina Macpherson via thefreeonline shared with thanks

I am astonished that in all the brouhaha of Labor kicking out the truly awful Morrison Liberal Coalition government, so far no media noise about the scandalous persecution of Australian citizen Julian Assange.

OK, kindly, I suggest that there’s a lot to digest, a lot to overturn and untangle, in the state of corruption left by the Morrison government.

But now, if ever, is the time for Australia to stop cringing, and stand up to our supposed friend, the USA.

War atrocities happen. Right now there’s a legal case on, all about atrocities committed by Australian soldiers. We have to face up to that. America should have the decency to face up to atrocities committed by its military, instead of viciously persecuting the journalist who revealed them.

Australia could stop its pathetic subservience to the USA and UK, and stand up for an Australian journalist.

We kowtowed 11 years ago, when Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett revealed the humanitarian horrors of Fukushima.

Now, with a decently oriented Labor government, Australia could do the right thing and demand Assange’s freedom. The USA and UK might even respect us for that.

Ethnic Greeks freed from racist repression by Defeat Of Azov nazis In Mariupol

Situation Improving For Ethnic Greeks Following Defeat Of Azov Battalion In Mariupol

from SouthFront by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst via thefreeonline shared with thanks

Fighters of Azov regiment in Ukraine

Greece’s anti-Russia policies could lead to permanent disconnect from Mariupol’s Greeks.

The surrender of the Azovstal Plant in Mariupol on May 20 was a major victory for Russian forces as they not only gained control of a major port city, but symbolically drove away the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion from their base.

Although consumers of Western mainstream media were bombarded with allegations of war crimes perpetrated by Russian soldiers, such as the Mariupol Drama Theatre (in which local residents warned of a Ukrainian false flag operation days earlier), they had completely ignored the crimes and persecutions faced by non-Ukrainian speakers, including ethnic Greeks.

Mariupol and its surrounding villages are home to 100,000-120,000 ethnic Greeks, who are native Russian-speakers.

Only a small number are currently proficient in either Crimean-Mariupolitan Greek or Modern Standard Greek. Mariupol is a city founded in 1778 by Crimean Greeks on the invitation of Catherine the Great to resettle lands that had been conquered from the Ottoman Turks and to escape persecution in the then Muslim-dominated Crimea.

A second wave of Greek migrants arrived in the Azov region from Pontos to escape the Ottoman Turkish perpetrated genocide in 1913-1923.

Pontic Greeks commemorate the 1914-1923 genocide by Ottoman Turkey

Yet, despite Greeks having first colonized Crimea in the 7th century BC, more than a millennium and a half before the Slavs arrived in the mid-10th century after the peninsula was conquered by Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev, Ukrainian authorities refuse to recognize the Greeks as an indigenous group to Ukraine.