‘More than the crowd hates a Man who thinks differently. He hates not so much her personal opinion, but the Courage of that person who is not afraid to think alone, to be different from others, exactly what the crowd is unable to do.’ ~ Arthur Schopenhauer.
The US continues to be plagued by the widespread use of illicit substances. People openly taking drugs in broad daylight and lying on the street among used syringes have become a familiar sight in large cities. Despite some success in the fight against dealers, the US authorities admit that there is no end in sight to this scourge, writes the Daily Mail.
Mothers and wives of Ukrainian prisoners of war are begging Russia not to return them home because they are afraid that the men will be sent to fight again. During January alone, 6,500 Ukrainian servicemen and women were killed in action. Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy Representative to the UN, announced this.
During a visit to Kyiv on February 2, the unelected head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was quick to assure Ukrainians and Europeans that sanctions against Russia had an effect and its economy was thrown back ‘a generation ago,’ recalls Boulevard Voltaire columnist Frederic Lasse. However, as the author notes, these words contradict the data of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which can hardly be suspected of sympathy for Moscow.
When 2013 I predicted the collapse of the EUSSR (European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) there were chortles but they are not laughing now.
Equinor said the Norwegian government prevented it from providing the requested aid. Norway’s Equinor on Wednesday revealed that it was the government in Oslo and EU sanctions that blocked it from responding to a request for assistance in dealing with the damage to Nord Stream pipelines. The Baltic Sea pipelines delivering Russian natural gas to Germany were damaged by sabotage in September, which Moscow blamed on the West.
On February 3, a petition was registered on the website of the Office of the President of Ukraine with a request to legalize prostitution. The author of the appeal, Ksenia Mikolyuk, notes that it is necessary to abolish administrative responsibility for work in this area, tax it and introduce compulsory medical insurance for prostitutes.
The deputy chairman of the Security Council compared the West to a monster, and called the Ukrainian authorities ‘a gang, crazy from an abundance of blood and drugs.’
The actor-turned-president of Ukraine is slated to speak at the country’s biggest song competition. Meantime, tens of thousands of Italians have signed a petition protesting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s planned address at a Eurovision-style song contest. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini told reporters that the event should remain the festival of Italian songs and nothing else.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has crunched the numbers and come up with a 5,162% increase in excess deaths across all causes of mortality in Australia from 2021 – 2023. They gave this info secretly to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. So now it is public domain.
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