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Stoltenberg: Battlefield Botchup “dreadfully difficult” for Ukraine

from thefreeonline on 18 Jan 2024 Sputnik Mundo

“The Russian Fed are now putting pressure on many fronts,” the NATO secretary general confessed in a flood of tears.

The situation on the fronts is “extremely difficult” for Ukrainians, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted this Tuesday during his speech from a hot Sauna Bath at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Asked whether Ukraine “is winning or losing” the conflict with Russia, Stoltenberg repeated: “The situation on the battlefield is extraordinarily difficult.”

“The Russians are now pushing on many fronts,” he noted. “The great offensive that the Ukrainians launched last summer did not give the results we all honestly expected”.

“And we see how Russia is now strengthening itself, how it is acquiring drones from Iran; In fact, it is building its own drone factory to produce its own drones,” he lamented bitterly.

Furthermore, the supremo of the Atlantic Alliance stressed that the Russian Army has shown “great tolerance for casualties.” Unfortunately 650,000 men have illegally fled Ukraine while 400,000 Ukrainian conscripts have inexplicably died.

“In general, Russia is pushing hard” he groaned.

“And this is very serious and we should never underestimate Russia,” he remarked seriously.

Regarding the relations of the European Union and NATO with Kyiv, Stoltenberg said: “We have to support them. And I’m also pretty sure that NATO allies will continue to provide support, because support for Ukraine is not charity”. US pride, world hegemony and its Military Industry depend on it, we added.

“Support for Ukraine is an investment in our own security.” he ludicrously mumbled

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In this context, he defended that the way to achieve “a peaceful and just end” to the conflict “is with MORE WEAPONS for Ukraine.” he idiotically added.

Daily Mail readers called Stoltenberg an idiot

On the other hand, despite feeling a certain “optimism” about Kyiv’s awfully difficult position, Stoltenberg wanted to be “very careful” when predicting how the conflict will develop.

“We just have to do what we can to increase the price tag for Russia,” he concluded. Asked whether Ukraine “is winning or losing” the conflict with Russia, Stoltenberg responded from the hot Sauna: “The situation on the battlefield is unbelievably and devilishly difficult.”

Tolkien The Anarchist – Middle Earth, Chomsky, and the Search for the Everyday Shire-Eng/Esp

from thefreeonline on 18 Jan 2024 by Joel Cornell

Middle-earth is arguably the most primordial, intricate, and influential fantasy world in the canon of Western literary culture. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s most complete narrative works, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, have sold millions of copies in dozens of languages, have come to life in a series of Academy Award-winning films, and have inspired generations of artists, writers, misfits, trogs, freaks, and all sorts of awkward adolescents alike.

It is a complete and utterly expansive world of harmonious wizards, ethereal elves, and hardy hobbits, brought to ruin by greedy sorcerers, corrupted orcs, evil monsters, and disruptive technologies—a fantastic and exhaustive escape from the trials and tribulations of the everyday.

Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth is ruined by greed and malice, and saved by heroes of varying yet unimportant stature. Small farmers from idyllic lands and humble kings from ancient lineages play equally important roles throughout Tolkien’s comprehensive, fictional history.

But in exploring his writing, the foundational reasoning and philosophy that built the world’s first legendarium come to light, and it leaves us wondering what other parallels there might be between the narratives of Middle-earth and our own unfolding narratives here on this planet.

In this moment of crisis we find ourselves in, people across the country and across the world are questioning all kinds of status qui, no longer willing to just accept the way things are as inevitable.

Just as Tolkien himself was drawing complicated maps of his imaginary worlds and inventing new and complete languages and cultures, he did all of that conjuring in the war-torn world of the early 20^th century, when populations all around him were forced to reorganize and survive the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, the ravages of the first Gilded Age, and the crushing of what he saw as naturally harmonious ways of life.

He saw a corrupting influence on the desperately poor and working classes. Not only did it destroy the environment and bastardize traditional labor expectations, it engendered a materialistic lust for power as even the most power-deprived individuals could still seek the smallest degree of power over other men by one day becoming their boss.

The simpler world he had idealized as a child was expressed by his Shire, and the evil ravages of wars and dehumanizing machines and the few ‘industrialists’ who controlled once intimately connected communities were embodied in all of the seductive power and destructiveness of his infamous Ring.

Today, we too find ourselves in a tidal wave of globalization, misunderstood systems of digital technological oppression, and a discordance overall in our communities and society as a whole.

We find ourselves in the second Gilded Age, and ominously enough, the age of surveillance technology. Perhaps this explains why the core tenet behind Tolkien’s ultimate fantasy realm was his embrace of anarchy.

And though it might seem counterintuitive to use concepts of anarchy—a frequently dismissed ideology— to somehow restore our more perfect union, if we step back and think about what anarchy really means, in all of its complexity, we may understand more about what is really in the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of Middle-america.

STEALING THE PLANET» $3.300,000,000,000 richer than in 2020!»- Billionaires, ‘Stakeholders’ Banks, Global Parasites

from thefreeonline on 17th January 2024

How much value does the Davos depraved parasite meeting actually DEPRIVE from the global community.

Check out World Economic Forum, WEF and you’ll be delighted that these ultra rich guys are promoting all sorts of wonderful green and friendly NGOs and gender freedom. But look a bit more and you’ll see all that’s just a cynical mask, hijacking our movements for profit and power.

The WEF is really about ‘Stakeholders’ (the majority billionaires and top nazi corporations) trying to take financial control of entire nation States, the WHO and the United Nations….

Its about abolishing cash to control us, monetizing and marketing our water, the air, the plants.. privatizing the whole Biosphere with them as owners….

The WEF is just a tool to help seize financial control from the equally criminal nation States, no matter if it’s BRICS+ or the West, in favour of unelected mega billionaires and followers, soon to be trillionaires.

Five richest men doubled fortunes after 2020, Oxfam says as Davos opens

from thefreeonline by Thomas O Falk from Al Jazeera

Economy|Poverty and Development

Charity says billionaires $3.3 trillion richer than in 2020 as annual gathering of business elites take place.

The World Economic Forum was launched by the German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab in the early 1970s to champion ‘stakeholder capitalism’

The world’s richest five men have more than doubled their fortunes since 2020, the charity Oxfam has said, sounding the alarm about unchecked corporate power as business elites hold their high-profile annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Klaus Schwab set up the WEF to promote “stakeholder capitalism”, sidelining citizens and voters in favour of mega corporations.

The five men are worth a combined $869bn after growing their fortunes at a rate of $14m per hour during the past four years, Oxfam said in its report “Inequality Inc.”, released on Monday.

Despite the growth in the fortunes of the five – LVMH chief Bernard Arnault, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffet, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Tesla CEO Elon Musk – 5 billion people have gotten poorer over the same period, Oxfam said.

Billionaires are today $3.3 trillion richer than they were in 2020, while a billionaire leads 7 out of 10 of the world’s biggest companies, the London-based charity said.

If current trends continue, the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty will not be eradicated for another 229 years, according to the anti-poverty group.

Oxfam International interim Executive Director Amitabh Behar said that nobody should have a billion dollars.

“We’re witnessing the beginnings of a decade of division, with billions of people shouldering the economic shockwaves of pandemic, inflation and war, while billionaires’ fortunes boom.