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“Disillusionment, confusion, shock, panic — this is how one must describe the West’s reaction to the first days of the long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive…”Pundit Vladimir Kornilov goes on to point out that the Ukrainians did exactly what they were told to do, and performed exactly as they were trained: A blitzkrieg consisting of a de-miner followed by Western tanks. With this technology, they were assured that they could punch their way to Crimea within a week.

Weeks before the “blitzkrieg”, this was exactly how media talking heads such as David Petraeus described the upcoming victory. “Everything will be decided in the course of 72-96 hours,” Petraeus assured those American philistines who still watch TV. But then, when the blitzkrieg failed miserably and left literally billions of dollars of Western technology burning on the plains of Zaporozhie, Western pundits made a swift turn and blamed the clueless Ukrainians: “Why…

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American corporate propaganda and schools teach that Richard Nixon was a corrupt, horrible President. This is because he was popular with the American people and took actions to benefit them, at the expense of the Deep State. During his five years in the White House Americans saw a reduction of involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union, deep cuts in military spending and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In 1969, Nixon upset the Pentagon by ordering bio-weapon labs closed and all stockpiles destroyed. Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973 and the military draft that same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations.

Nixon engaged in intense negotiations with Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev that led to agreements for increased trade and two landmark arms control treaties: SALT I, the first…

By Tony Seed

A statement on the incident from US Indo-Pacific Command says the Chinese ship “executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner” in the presence of US and Canadian warships during a “routine south to north Taiwan Strait transit” by the naval forces of those nations, coming as close as 150 yards from the American vessel.

The reader may well ask: what is a Chinese navy vessel doing in the Taiwan Strait, right where US and Canadian warships are peacefully conducting routine navigation exercises? Exercises they cannot conduct off the coast of British Columbia or the state of Washington?

It seems that China has somehow brilliantly managed to place its country immediately adjacent to the Taiwan Strait, and is now only 100 miles from Taiwan itself. This narrow channel of water was the only space the US and Canadian navies were given practice and to travel through, placing them dangerously…

June 09, 2023 6:36 PM

• Vitalio Angula
• https://www.voanews.com/a/namibian-government-approves-culling-86-000-seals-/7130954.html

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WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA —

This year’s Cape fur seal culling along Namibia’s coastline is set to begin July 1 – a harvest that’s done onshore for population control.

The seal population, according to the country’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, stands at 1.6 million and is made up of 26 colonies. The ministry has issued a quota for the harvesting of 80,000 pups and 6,000 bulls this year.

The annual harvest is usually met with controversy because of the methods used in the culling of seals. Pups are clubbed over the head, while the bigger…