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[Fulham Broadway 16,838]

Prigozhin has now ordered the tanks to stop going on to Moscow ''to avoid bloodshed''.

If you employ mercenaries, by their very nature they have no loyalty.

[cosmicway 1,323]

19 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Prigozhin has now ordered the tanks to stop going on to Moscow ''to avoid bloodshed''.

If you employ mercenaries, by their very nature they have no loyalty.

It was about money.
Was happening in ancient allied armies too, irrespective of the outcome of the wars:
Petsenevegs and Patsilinaks.
Attila the Hun's armies.
Magyars and Bulgarians notably, when they were supposed to be fighting against the expansion of the Ottoman empire.

[cosmicway 1,323]

Mitsotakis appears to be winning in Greece wiith some 42% of the vote and overall majority in parliament.
It's a huge record in a parliament with 8-9 parties.
In old parliaments with three parties the percentages were higher but with many parties as is happening in recent years it is a super-record.
Tsipras and the left were of course destroyed but the anticlimax is that the neonazis reappeared with some 4% and they are expected to reenter parliament.
There are two more right wing parties not so wild as the neonazis and they too have increased their share of the vote and elect mps.
So now everybody wonders what happened.
But the answer is simple: They sell their old stories about bad immigrants, coloured peeople etc plus the anti-vax, anti-masks mythology of the covid years.

This whole thing started sometime in April 2020 with a crazy woman journalist in Salonika who refused to stay at home and attacked the policemen.
We thought it was just an isolated weirdo but then the ultra-rightists occupied a church and wanted to hold a mass - evading the quarantine.
It escalated, then in 2021 the vaccine arrived and we entered the antivax phase:

There was yet one more antivax party led by crazy journalist Tragas.
But he ... died from covid in December 2021.
The man was a diabetic and his doctor, a leading diabetologist, advised him in the strongest possible words to get vaccinated but he did n't listen.
When he died he left in his will tens of luxury houses in Athens - Paris - London - Beverly Hills - other places and all these was found out was from 
black money and the tax authority had to consfiscate them !
But these things do not deter our golden dawnie friends ...

 

 

Edited June 26, 2023 by cosmicway

[cosmicway 1,323]

A more careful analysis of the Greek result shows now that the neonazis mayhave benefited from the low turnout.
Their final 4.75% percentage would have been 4.00% with normal turnout.
But from the numbers it looks very much the case that the left wing SYRIZA party were the ones who gave them a significant bonus.
They always do that. 
They don't own up but they believe the presence of a strong neonazi party will destroy society and create civil war conditions.

Edited June 26, 2023 by cosmicway

[Fulham Broadway 16,838]

Court has ruled it unlawful to send refugees from UK to Rwanda

Apart from the 500m to Macron and 200 million to Rwanda it is also costing us taxpayers 9m a day for the hotels.

Three large Conservative run firms have contracts to run the hotels. Serco, Mears, and Calder. All are tory donors and have seen their profits trebled with their CEOs pay increase from 250 000 to 2.5 million each. Just another way the tories steal public money. No wonder they have no incentive to solve the 'crisis'. 

[cosmicway 1,323]

Ode to the resignation of Alexis Tsipras (Alexis Tsipras s'en va t'en guerre)

 

Edited June 29, 2023 by cosmicway

[Fulham Broadway 16,838]

Well the 350m a week going to the NHS Johnson promised is now just over 112 billion. Maybe its going to towards the 40 new hospitals.....and not tory donors, but somehow I doubt it

[cosmicway 1,323]

7 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Well the 350m a week going to the NHS Johnson promised is now just over 112 billion. Maybe its going to towards the 40 new hospitals.....and not tory donors, but somehow I doubt it

When god wanted to give brains to the Tories the angels were on strike.

Edited June 29, 2023 by cosmicway

[Fulham Broadway 16,838]

GoFund me set up by far right politician, for police officer who shot Nahel raises more than €700,000

That will ensure more rioting tonight then.....

[cosmicway 1,323]

The fuzz are nutcases.
Twenty years ago this thing happened:
I was in the car of a friend architect who wanted to collect some plans from a drawing office.
The place was next to a small circular park and as there was no parking space my friend calls the man of the drawing office by cell phone and asks him to just drop outside and pass the plans.
He was going round and round the park and the other one said "ok - in five minutes I 'm coming outside".
Suddenly a horn blasts and we find ourselves surounded by fuzz pointing guns at us.
So I keep calm and step outside and say to them "what the fcuk are you doing ? you are not even positioned correctly - you will shoot one another".
Then one of them replies "sorry but an old lady phoned us saying your car is suspicious ..." !

[Vesper 28,796]

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[Fernando 6,456]

Nato summit: Allies refuse to give Ukraine timeframe on joining

• Nato states have said Ukraine can join the military alliance "when allies agree and conditions are met" after President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised the "absurd" delay to accession.

   

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66167616

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[Vesper 28,796]

this is terrifying

and it is only going to get worse as the tech rapidly advances

 

[Vesper 28,796]

Poorest Region of America - What It Really Looks Like 🇺🇸

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[manpe 10,861]

On 16/07/2023 at 20:42, Vesper said:

this is terrifying

and it is only going to get worse as the tech rapidly advances

 

Parents who post public pictures or videos of their children on the internet are retards, long before AI was even a thing. I feel sorry for the upcoming generations.

[Vesper 28,796]

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery https://archive.li/XGOg8 https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/07/19/do-not-for-the-love-of-god-tell-kids-that-slavery-was-beneficial/ Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting. The description of slavery as beneficial is not the only grievance parents, teachers, education advocates and politicians had with the new standards. People speaking at the Wednesday meeting generally called out the diluting and omissions of history. For example, instruction at the elementary school level is largely limited to identifying famous Black people, and high school teachers will talk about the “acts of violence perpetrated by African Americans” at the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, in which a white mob killed at least 30 Black people. “Please table this rule and revise it to make sure that my history our history is being told factually and completely, and please do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial because I guarantee you it most certainly was not,” said Kevin Parker, a community member. Though the public testimony period lasted over an hour, most of the people objected to the adoption of the standard, with supporters of it waving from their seats. Paul Burns, the chancellor of K-12 public schools, defended the standards, denying that they referred to slavery as beneficial. “Our standards are factual, objective standards that really teach the good, the bad and the ugly,” he said. Board member Kelly Garcia upheld the standards and said that none of the backlash she read about them before the meeting pointed to specific concerns. A coalition of Black leaders and community groups — Florida Education Association, FL’s NAACP and The Black History Project, Inc. and Equal Ground — sent a letter to the board on Monday in opposition to the standards.