Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalAmazingly unaware of himself, his words and his actions.
Not even worth a dime. Made entirely from pennies and nickels.
The Face of Money (2017)
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/after-vladimir-putin-in-bullets-exiled-ukrainian-artists-coin-donald-trump-1807887
Syrian artist imagined them as refugees....
The artist’s reimagined world leaders as vulnerable refugees and the results are quite startling. (Source: Abdalla Al Omari, The Vulnerability Series/ Facebook)
https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/from-donald-trump-to-assad-syrian-artist-reimagines-world-leaders-as-vulnerable-refugees-4695033/
You don't see Putin leading the tank in front.
He’s in back someplace, thinking about goin’ on a boat.
Wonder if he’s called Dimdonnie to tip him off about the Swiss banks’ pickle?
“The problem is not that Putin is smart, which of course he is smart, but the real problem is that our leaders are dumb.”
Naaaah.
Here's how to checkmate Putin - (Garry Kasparov)
Guy should know…
Here's how to checkmate Putin - chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov
1. Support Ukraine militarily,
2. Bankrupt Putin's war machine,
3. Freeze & seize Russia's finances,
4. Kick Russia out of every financial institution.
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
The Jerusalem Post, Published: FEBRUARY 24, 2022 22:25 , Updated: FEBRUARY 24, 2022 23:41
Excerpt…
"Support Ukraine militarily, immediately, everything but boots on the ground. All weapons, intel, cyber. Bankrupt Putin's war machine. Freeze & seize Russia's finances & those of him and his gang. Kick Russia out of every intl & financial institution. PACE, Interpol, etc.," he continued.
He added that the international community should “Recall all ambassadors from Russia. There is no point in talking. The new unified message is ‘stop or be isolated completely.’ -Ban all elements of Putin's global propaganda machine. Turn them off, shut them down, send them home. Stop helping the dictator spread lies & hate.”
Kasparov wrote further that there is a need to “Expose and act against Putin's lackeys in the free world. If [Gerhard] Schröder and his ilk continue to work for Putin, bring charges. Ask the owners & advertisers of networks platforming Putin propagandists like [Tucker] Carlson why they allow it.”
Lastly, he wrote that the global community must “Russian oil & gas. Pressure OPEC, increase production, reopen Keystone. You can't save the planet if you don't save the people on it. -Acknowledge there will be costs, sacrifices. We waited too long, the price is high, but it will only get higher. It's time to fight.”
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https://www.jpost.com/international/article-698594
"You have to understand, George. Ukraine is not even a country."
The words of Pooty Poot, whispered to the guy who had gazed into his soul, pretzeldent George w Bush.
What the West doesn't understand about Russia or Ukraine
Alexander Nazaryan·Senior White House Correspondent
Yahoo, Wed, February 23, 2022
“You have to understand, George. Ukraine is not even a country.”
Those were the jarring — and, it would turn out, prescient — words uttered by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in 2008, during a meeting with then-President George W. Bush. It was an unambiguous assertion of ownership over a sovereign nation, an assertion that has particular resonance 14 years later, as Putin has just recognized the independence of two Ukrainian regions and sent troops to bolster Russian-backed separatists.
The West is outraged by Putin’s current aggression, as well as by the logic for his seemingly inevitable full-scale invasion. “Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbors?” wondered President Biden in remarks delivered from the White House on Tuesday.
Such outrage, however, ignores a complex and uncomfortable truth: Many Russians recognize Putin’s sentiments about Ukraine as largely in keeping with established beliefs about the relationship between the nuclear superpower and its much smaller neighbor, which has a similar language and culture. That may explain why many Russians support military action against Ukraine, which they see as a necessary response to Western meddling.
“America badly wants to start this war,” an elderly Muscovite told the New York Times, citing — as Putin has — the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe as a prime reason for the current conflict. Ukraine isn’t currently eligible for membership, but Russians have watched carefully as the Western alliance has crept ever closer throughout the last two decades.
Having grown up in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, I can safely say that most Russians view Ukraine as part of Russia. It is impossible to speak for a nation of 144 million people, especially long after leaving. However, the Russian view of geopolitics and history has, paradoxically, become more assertively nationalistic than it was during the Soviet era, when it tellingly embraced Joseph Stalin as a model leader.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/what-the-west-doesnt-understand-about-russia-or-ukraine-215609030.html
Absolutely correct. Trump IS a traitor.
Trump sides with Putin as Biden tries to stop a warStephen Collinson Profile
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Excerpt…
"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, 'This is genius.' Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine, of Ukraine, Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful," Trump said in an interview on "The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show."
The ex-President added: "So Putin is now saying, 'It's independent,' a large section of Ukraine. I said, 'How smart is that?' And he's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force," Trump said. "We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. ... Here's a guy who's very savvy. ... I know him very well. Very, very well."
Trump was referring to Putin's declaration on Monday that he would regard two rebel regions of eastern Ukraine, where he has been fostering separatism, as independent and his order for Russian troops, which Putin misleadingly called "peacekeeping" forces, to reinforce the enclaves. The move was a flagrant violation of international law, was resonant of the tyrannical territorial aggrandizement of the 1930s that led to World War II and was, as Biden said on Tuesday, tantamount to "the beginning of a Russian invasion."
In effect, the ex-President is trying to undermine US foreign policy as the current President tries to stop a war that could kill thousands of people and threaten the post-Cold War peace.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-joe-biden/index.html
If he crashes the stock market, Putin's a dead man.
The planet’s kleptocrats and oligarchs are invested.
How long before someone’s yacht turns up missing?
Oops. Too late.
Putin's superyacht is spotted 'fleeing' from German shipyard to avoid being impounded' by sanctions if Moscow invades Ukraine
Putin's superyacht, called ‘Graceful’, set sail from the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg on Monday
It appears to have arrived in the Russian enclave Kaliningrad by midday today
German media accused the vessel of 'fleeing' Germany after NATO threatened Russia with tough sanctions if they invaded Ukraine
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10494251/Putins-superyacht-spotted-sailing-Russia-fleeing-German-shipyard.html
More: https://www.dmarge.com/2022/02/putin-superyacht-russia-ukraine-invasion.html
If by "Woke" you mean "On to Your Criminality," yes.
Just like when they mock good people as “Social Justice Warriors,” Dimdonnie and his moron army of propagandists denigrate liberals, progressives, Democrats and other forward-looking and caring people with the term, “Woke.”
Fascist scum prefer the American people remain “Asleep” to their perversions, prejudices, crimes and treasons.
Our problem isn’t getting called a name. It comes from trying to awaken poisoned minds.
The Pika
Makes me sad to know that the interests of so many who care are thwarted by the very few who gain wealth by the destruction of our natural world.
There is no Planet B. Time to get busy de-salinating, re-foresting, de-polluting and re-naturalizing this little blue sphere of ours.
Flush Limpnut money.
An investment in lurching America ever rightward…
ABC and the rise of Rush Limbaugh
The following brief history of ABC offers a perfect snapshot of everything that has gone wrong with the media. This remarkable story includes ABC's takeover by a conservative parent corporation, the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, the rightward shift of the evening news, the rise of conservative talk radio, and the cozy relationship between a state and a press that are supposed to be separate.
In 1985, ABC was taken over by Capital Cities, a conservative, Roman Catholic media organization with extensive ties to the CIA.
(If you think we're making this up, you should know that the Capital Cities takeover of ABC is one of the most analyzed in history, and the subject of many books by Wall Street experts and scholars. Especially recommended is Networks of Power, by Emmy Award-winner Dennis Mazzocco.) (1)
Capital Cities was born in 1954, and rapidly prospered. Many of its founders had previously worked in the U.S. intelligence community and had a great amount of wealth, social contacts and influence in government. Yet they opted to keep the company's actions out of the public eye -- they did not flaunt their wealth with private planes and lavish offices the way so many successful companies do. Just exactly how well-connected Capital Cities was to the CIA is unknown, but it is clear that the CIA concerned itself with the company at various times. The fact that the CIA has often used private businessmen, journalists and even entire companies as fronts for covert operations is not only well-known by historians, but legendary. (Recall Howard Hughes and Trans-World Airlines...)
One of Capital City's early founders was William Casey, who would later become Ronald Reagan's Director of the CIA. At the time of Casey's nomination, the press expressed surprise that Reagan would hire a businessman whose last-known intelligence experience was limited to OSS operations in World War II. The fact is, however, that Casey had never left intelligence. Throughout the Cold War he kept a foot in both worlds, in private business as well as the CIA. A history of Casey's business dealings reveals that he was an aggressive player who saw nothing wrong with bending the law to further his own conservative agenda. When he became implicated as a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, many Washington insiders considered it a predictable continuation of a very shady career.
Another Capital Cities founder, Lowell Thomas, was a close friend and business contact with Allen Dulles, Eisenhower's CIA Director, and John Dulles, the Secretary of State. Thomas always denied being a spy, but he was frequently seen at events involving intelligence operations. Another founder was Thomas Dewey, whom the CIA had given millions to create other front companies for covert operations.
Capital Cities prospered from the start; its specialty was to buy media organizations that were in trouble. Upon acquisition, it would improve management and eliminate waste until the company started turning a profit. This no-nonsense, no-frills approach, as well as its refusal to become side-tracked with other ventures, made it one of the most successful media conglomerates of the 60s and 70s. Of course, the journalistic slant of its companies was decidedly conservative and anticommunist. To anyone who believes that the government should not control the press, the possibility that the CIA created a media company to dispense conservative and Cold War propaganda should be alarming. Rush Limbaugh himself calls freedom of the press "the sweetest -- and most American -- words you will ever find." (2) Apparently, he is unaware of the history of his own employers.
By the 1980s, Capital Cities had grown powerful enough that it was now poised to hunt truly big game: a major television network. A vulnerable target appeared in the form of ABC, whose poor management in the early 80s was driving both its profits and stocks into oblivion. Back then, ABC's journalistic slant was indeed liberal; its criticism of the Reagan Administration had drawn the wrath of conservatives everywhere, from Wall Street to Washington. This was in marked contrast to the rest of the White House press corps, which was, in Bagdikian's words, "stunningly uncritical" of Reagan. Behind the scenes, Reagan was deregulating the FCC and eliminating anti-monopoly laws for the media, a fact the media appreciated and rewarded. The only exception was ABC. Sam Donaldson's penetrating questions during press conferences were so embarrassing to Reagan that his handlers scheduled the fewest Presidential press conferences in modern history.
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http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-libmedia.htm
Things really have lurched rightward since 1985, ja.
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