Hopefully those countries which now file their applications for becoming a member of the NATO don't forget that membership doesn't only mean getting "safe from a Russian invasion", but also, whenever the United States are up in a war again with anyone, they're firmly part of the cleanup squad then after that skirmish.

Just a critical question: US gun control activists - where are you if it's about the countless US foreign military aid and the guns it sells to the rest of the world? On top, to partly dubious and shady places, organizations and groups ( Read more... )

Any party going through with either their plans or already having banned imports of Russian oil and gas and replacing it with liquefied petroleum gas from the US - offically call their agenda to "fight climate change" broke and dishonest (if it ever even officially existed at all).
Because transporting LPG with tankers over half of the globe, ( Read more... )

† Madeleine Albright

(insert "Straight to hell"-jingle of your own choice here)

Das Hamstern hat wieder angefangen... Diesmal (für den Anfang): Die üblichen Speiseöle. Insbesondere und ausschließlich Raps, Sonnenblume und Mischöle davon.

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A thesis: It would be easier to get a long with each other in the point of differing political viewpoints, if everyone who thinks they got an opinion on something wouldn’t seem in all other positions they hold on all kinds of topics like a cliché image of any clearly identifiable group.

Thinking deeper about it, there is a little aspect to point out which surely won’t be irrelevant to the protests against the Covid vaccinations and the conspiracy theories surrounding them all around the world - and in which, bizarrely, these have something in common with the “Fridays For Future” movement:

It’s that if a civilization reached such ( Read more... )

After a failed attempt to pull Russia into a war with Ukraine again for the millionth time (the so-called "invasion plans" from December) since the coup d'etat in 2014 and a failed attempt to overthrow the government in Belarus in 2020, the full-grown violence in Kazakhstan now is supposed to be an act of "accident" or honestly result from domestic ( Read more... )

Another year of bullshit,
another year of fight,
nothing of the usual business in sight,
everyone trapped in the moshpit.

You don’t wanna hear,
you don’t wanna be near,
you just wanna go to sleep for a couple of years,
coffined until peace and quiet reappears.