I can verify that this photo going around of Schwab with a statue of Lenin on his bookshelf is genuine. He really does have that in his office. This is based upon first-hand knowledge, not speculation or rumour.
Anti-state tyranny demonstrators have ignored a warning from the authorities to leave voluntarily. Hundreds of protesters defied a police ultimatum to leave the area around Wellington’s parliament on Wednesday, with the crowd continuing to swell. The authorities have described the ongoing demonstration as ‘orderly.’
The village of Cloughmills in County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, has a small model replica of their village displayed in their village hall. But unlike many miniature models, theirs is made of wool.
A French flag in the hands of a Frenchman on the Champs-Élysées is now regarded as objet ostentatoire (defiant object). The fine is €135 euros. On Saturday, hundreds of people were fined, including a 70-year-old grandmother who had her flag snatched, crumpled up and thrown away, while her documents were demanded. All this without mentioning the introduction of armoured personnel carriers, the beating of citizens and the heavy use of tear gas.
REWIND: 1939: Assured of French and English support Poland is goaded into repeatedly provoking war with Hitler’s Germany, which is seen as a trade rival to Britain and France. Outcome: 50 million dead and hundreds of cities incinerated.
Russia’s ambassador in Sweden has called NATO’s expansion ‘the biggest threat’ to Moscow. Russia’s ambassador to Sweden did not mince his words when he delivered a strong rebuke to the West’s coercive measures on Sunday. ‘Excuse my language, but we don’t give a s**t about sanctions,’ Viktor Tatarintsev told Stockholm daily […]
Throughout the Western World, fresh and home-produce markets are fast disappearing. People’s markets are not being ousted by progress but by having to compete unfairly with corporate supermarkets. In the past communities open-air fresh produce markets proliferated. Most villages and all towns boasted their multi-stall markets at which local farmers, workshops and even smallholdings could sell their home-produced produce. Here one would find a third-generation barber or shoe smith too. There were butchers whose locally produced fresh meats sustained the local economy.
Americans may know little about Ukraine and even less about its leadership but one thing is certain: they strongly oppose sending US soldiers to fight Russians in defence of Kiev’s managed democracy, a new poll has revealed.
As the world laments the Carnage of Dresden (February 13/14 1945) one hears the mantra: ‘well they started it’ and ‘they did the same to us.’ In fairness, both refrains result from the truth of the Allied bombing of civilians being withheld or denied (Holocaust denial) spun to favour the Allied perpetrators.
During the late 19th century smallpox ravaged the Western world. Uncannily, events unfolded in exactly the same way as they are today as society responds to the much less lethal COVID-19.
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