RichardPearce comments

Posted in: Putin basks in electoral victory that was never in doubt even as Russians quietly protest See in context

You're going to find a LOT more dissatisfied Americans after the upcoming Presidential election (and there were a lot more after the previous ones going back to when Russia actually wasn't a democracy) than were found in Russia today. The difference is that the folks who are screaming that these dissatisfied Russians prove that Russia's democracy is broken will be screaming that the dissatisfied Americans prove America's democracy is working fine.

Of course, these are the folks who come up with the answer they want, then manage to lose any evidence that contradicts the answer and shape what's left into 'conclusive proof' of what they wanted to find, from the illegality/legality of changing the Honduran constitution (the first when the changes would have increased the power of the average voters, the second when it allowed the American backed right wingers to hold on to power) to the existence of WMDs minutes from launch so take what they are screaming at you with a grain or two of salt.

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Posted in: Fatal Ukrainian strikes rock Russia as vote cements Putin's grip See in context

So, once again the people who INSIST that Putin is an unpopular dictator have been told fuddle duddle by the population of Russia (they'll ignore it because their status as superior humans means they possess the power to read people's minds infallibly, so why listen to what people say) and the Ukrainian regime burn through several million dollars worth of foreign supplied weapons to achieve...well, enough that the millions of dollars of propaganda those foreigners will put out will convince those who WANT to believe that it was something of significance.

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Posted in: Israeli strikes kill at least 29 Gazans awaiting aid, say Palestinian officials See in context

Why describe October 7th as the initiating incident, rather than all the Israeli regime's kidnappings and murders of Palestinians since May 22, 2021?

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Posted in: Israeli strikes kill at least 29 Gazans awaiting aid, say Palestinian officials See in context

Given the number of times that 'Palestinian authorities' have been proven to be accurate, and the Israeli regime everything but, isn't time to reflect THAT in the tone of the coverage of incidents like these.

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Posted in: Ramadan in Gaza begins with hunger worsening and no end to war in sight See in context

Let's call it what it is, the JSIP war on Palestine. That it has even Israelists like Biden disturbed at the ruthlessness of the JSIP bloodshed requires a little honesty.

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Posted in: False GPS signal surge makes life hard for pilots See in context

So, it turns out that using the system developed by the most aggressive military in existence as a basis for a civilian safety system was a bad idea, because in area's where that military is doing its thing (aggressive actions against populations wishing for autonomy and independence) people take countermeasures against the weapons designed to use that military system.

PS, you don't need to be a part of a military or self defense militia to be capable of spoofing a standard GPS system, just a 'chip head'. The standard GPS system automatically uses the strongest signals in the right format on the correct frequencies, and proximity plays an huge role in signal strength. A chip configured to produce such signals that is housed in what otherwise looks and acts like a 'thumb drive' is not that hard to produce or obtain, and being on board the plane would make it the strongest signal the plane's GPS antenna receives.

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Posted in: Another top donor says it will resume funding U.N. agency for Palestinians as Gaza hunger grows See in context

I get the feeling that the ICJ is preparing another set of 'provisional measures' against the Gazacide and/or the 'advisory opinion' on the legitimacy of, well, technically just the occupation of what hasn't been rebranded as Israel, but truly the Israeli regime's occupation of any part of historic Palestine.

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Posted in: Violence in Mideast, rising threats from Islamic State group in Afghanistan pressure US, allies See in context

Love how the Israeli regime's acceleration of its bloody 'solution' to Palestine having had a population that wasn't Jewish, which started with the Nakba and now includes the Gazacide, and the rest of the oppressed, suppressed brown population of the ME revolting are being laid at Iran's doorstep, rather than being acknowledged to be the inevitable result of the White Bloc's policies and practices.

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Posted in: Masked shooters kill 4 people and injure 3 at outdoor party in California See in context

Not likely a drug/gang related incident, the masks and them getting out of the car to take up shooting stances is a completely different dynamic.

The dynamic it does fit is altright violence against non Whites. I can't say for sure, but I believe that the area's demographics skews significantly in the direction of people who the altright hates

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Posted in: Netanyahu rival’s visit to U.S. highlights cracks within Israel’s wartime leadership See in context

Did the 'cracks' within the Short Austrian's wartime leadership save the regime? Did it save any of the wartime leaders from being prosecuted by the international courts?

Reminder, it was 14 days after the end of public hearings on the Genocide charges that the ICJ issued the provisional measures. It is now 6 days after the end of public hearings on the legitimacy of the JSIP occupation of Palestine.

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Posted in: Veteran British left-wing disruptor George Galloway wins a special election dominated by war in Gaza See in context

The disconnection between the public and the leadership of the political parties on this issue is stark pretty much across the entirety of the White Bloc, and has been building for decades.

On the other hand, in the democracies outside the White Bloc, there are parties that have either been leaders on this issue for a long time, or have picked up the issue, and are winning elections handily with large public support.

And as the power of the minority White Bloc over countries outside the White Bloc continues to dwindle at an accelerating pace, while the power of the minority White Bloc over the institutions and policies of the 'rules based order' remains overwhelming, things are headed in the direction of a sharp 'revolutionary change' rather than a gradual 'evolution'.

The Japanese government, unless it changes long held positions, could once again find itself on the wrong side of things, at significant costs to the Japanese population.

I, like most of the foreigners who frequent this website are powerless to change what the Japanese government does, but Japanese citizens are, and need to find a way to pretty soon.

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Posted in: Sunak says UK descending into mob rule See in context

The last time that the UK faced a 'descent into mob rule' like this, Maggie Thatcher was PM. And the Iron Lady bent under the pressure, allowing the White State in South Africa to be 'wiped from the map' by the Russian backed, genocidal terrorists of the ANC.

PS, in another example of the 'threat to democracy' the human rights activists pose, George Galloway was elected. This is the first time the Workers Party succeeded in winning a seat in Parliament.

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Posted in: Democracy's appeal slipping as nations across much of the world hold elections, poll finds See in context

It is hilarious that there are people who believe that the Russian Presidential election is barred to every candidate but Putin, but somehow see the highly restricted American Presidential elections as open to all.

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Posted in: Democracy's appeal slipping as nations across much of the world hold elections, poll finds See in context

With the definition of democracy used by Pew being unclear (the American definition deems several actual democracies as other things, and several not democracies as democracies) and the level of American sponsored propaganda those surveyed also being unclear, AND the recent experience of some of those surveyed with democracy suppression resulting in American supported 'strong leaders' taking control and destroying progress causing a desire for an independent 'strong leader' reversing the destruction and punishing those who enabled it, this is a case where the FULL methodology (all questions that were asked, in which order, of people selected how) and careful examination is needed to be able to judge whether this is as 'accurate' as a 'push poll' (used to create specific opinions), a 'PR poll' (used to result in certain results that can then be aggressively publicized to convince people of certain things), an 'open poll' (open to organized manipulation by a different company than the one commissioned to conduct the poll), a 'snapshot poll' (one timed to follow an aggressive PR campaign that created a short termed unthinking response to questions on a subject), or a true 'reflection poll' (one that uses a series of questions to get to people's CONSIDERED opinions that will 'regress to the mean' over time/circumstance)

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Posted in: Thousands told to flee homes in Australia amid heat spike, bushfire threat See in context

First off, those still denying the reality of climate change are the equivalent of the Covid19 patients struggling for enough breath to deny they have Covid to the hospital staff preparing to intubate them.

Secondly, the entire time I lived in Slave Lake, Alberta, every spring our fire department spent days overseeing the crews that went around the entire perimeter of the community burning off vegetation that had grown the previous year.

Third, the 'Legacy Center', built when much of the community was destroyed by a wildfire, played host most years to those evacuated from further north communities that had to be evacuated because of wildfires, including the year Slave Lake itself was under a 24 hour evacuation alert (meaning at any moment the siren and text message system could sound the alarm and we'd have 24 hours to evacuate) so no, 'bad forest practices' that were changed from 'put every fire out, every time' to 'it needs to burn, just control it so it doesn't kill people' a decade earlier may play a small roll in one or two of the hundreds of fires, but climate change plays a roll in them ALL.

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Posted in: Delays in promised Western military aid to Ukraine costing lives, defense minister says See in context

The lives are being lost because of the violent attempts to force people to accept the regime that replaced the last democratically elected government of a united peaceful Ukraine is legitimate despite its refusal to allow them to vote.

Not accepting that, after a decade, the regime is never going to gain legitimacy in the east, and without a steady stream of propaganda wouldn't have ever had it in the west, is classic self deception.

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Posted in: Israel signals progress in Gaza truce talks; Palestinians see little movement See in context

For the Israeli regime, getting the AMERICAN government to agree it can take more of Palestine, institutionalize more oppression and violence against Palestinians is 'progress', and that seems probable as a trade off for Biden's performative virtue signaling.

But remember that this week sees a newly elected legislature and Assembly seated in Iran, the much delayed process of the ICJ ruling on the legitimacy of not just these gunpoint talks, but the entirety of the Israeli regime's control over Palestine hits the point where the judges can speak.

Add in Ramadan (where sacrifices made for the weak, the hungry, the powerless, the oppressed are considered especially important for Muslims) and the future is looking bad for the Israeli regime.

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Posted in: Brazil's president accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, doubling down after earlier uproar See in context

Screaming about it being unfair doesn't make what Lula said untrue. Just ask the ICJ.

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Posted in: Zelenskyy hosts Western leaders in Kyiv as Ukraine marks 2 years since Russia's invasion See in context

Lots of spin and propaganda, but the simple fact that the Obama approved overthrow of the last democratically elected government a united peaceful Ukraine had remains a losing proposition. And throwing even more money (and weapons) at a losing proposition that, after a decade, remains a growing drain isn't a guarantee that next year it will become a winning one, indeed, it is almost a guarantee that it won't.

Especially when another long-term project is melting down so spectacularly as the ME one is.

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Posted in: Brazil calls for U.N. overhaul at meeting of G20 ministers in Rio See in context

Saying something that close to the truth about Israel shouldn't be considered controversial. Saying something far from the truth about Russia or Iran should be, and yet isn't called out by JT as they endlessly repeat the lies about them not being democracies. That puts it in the same category as the media that considers saying things close to the truth about Trump controversial, and far from the truth about Biden not controversial.

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Posted in: Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles, sources say See in context

How many sources swore that Saddam Hussein had an active WMD program? When all the disparate sources are merely repeating the lies one source told them, well, it doesn't make it any truer.

And odds are good that Iran is not selling anything it might need if (well, likely when) the newly elected (next week) Majalais and Assembly decide that it would be unacceptable to let Netanyahu continue to slaughter Palestinian civilians whether the ICJ gives a formal mandate for it to intervene or not.

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Posted in: U.S. vetoes Arab-backed U.N. resolution demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza See in context

Today we get to see the interesting spectacle of the US government admitting that what the Israeli regime has been doing for decades in the parts of Palestine that haven't been rebranded as Israel isn't legal...but somehow isn't illegal (on the theory that inconvenient international law just doesn't exist when the US ignores it).

I haven't read all the submissions, but it seems that the only ones that try and claim what the Israeli regime was doing before October 7th was legal are the Israeli and Fiji ones. The other Israeli supporters are either asking the court to ignore the law, or not make a ruling on the theory that eventually the Israeli regime will decide to finally obey it after decades of flaunting it.

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Posted in: U.S. vetoes Arab-backed U.N. resolution demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza See in context

So now "Arab backed" is the code used when the appropriate GLOBALLY BACKED would be too uncomfortable for Washington and its minions to admit to, like "Iran backed" has become the code when the appropriate PRODEMOCRACY is too uncomfortable for them.

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Posted in: Israel says Brazil's president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust See in context

Oh, the ignomy of 'not being welcome' by a regime perpetrating Crimes Against Humanity.

A better example of the fundamental problem of the Israeli regime, a supremacist mindset and an arrogant attitude, can only be found in its statements to the ICJ, and reaction to its rulings.

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Posted in: Israel's defense chief says military 'thoroughly planning' offensive in crowded Gaza border town See in context

It is telling that the ICJ has reiterated that the Israeli regime needs to IMMEDIATELY and EFFECTIVELY implement the measures the ICJ ordered it to, and yet the folks who are talking so tough about the death of a neofascist con man with delusions of popular support are trying to pass that off as the ICJ not expressing concern.

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Posted in: Ukraine lands blows in Black Sea as frontline stagnates See in context

Last year at this time we were being assured that the combination of 'sanctions' against Russia, a massive resupply of Western armor, weapons, ammunition, training, and cash, and the Azov regime instituting a universal draft (with all the corruption successfully purged so it would actually be universal would result in a spring and summer of the frontline moving east, and an autumn of Putin begging to be allowed to surrender.

Now, it is a 'major victory' that the frontline is only slowly heading further west, that, as soon as we build it, some Western armor that was lost this year will be replaced, as soon as we make it, some Western ammunition will be shipped in to keep Zelensky's guns firing occasionally, we'll be training the survivors of the spring...oops summer offensive on how to retake ground under a new commander because Zelensky got worried the old one was going to replace him instead.

Next year will see the Azov regime expanding for sure. After all, the third time's the cgarm

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Posted in: Gaza cease-fire and hostage release talks appear to stall as Netanyahu and Hamas trade blame See in context

Perhaps if the people calling for the hostages to be released had started pressuring Netanyahu to do just that a year ago, or the year before that, or the decades before that, then there'd be only a few Palestinians being held hostage by the Israeli regime.

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Posted in: Gaza cease-fire and hostage release talks appear to stall as Netanyahu and Hamas trade blame See in context

So, Palestinians came up with a reasonable ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal, but Netanyahu was afraid that the domestic clock on his imprisonment would start if he took it, and the international clock on the end of his regime wouldn't stop ticking anyway, so more war crimes and mass slaughter is the name of his game.

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Posted in: X feeds monetization of wartime misinformation See in context

Oh, X, like practically every other white bloc social media and media company is DEFINITELY peddling misinformation about the wars going on at present.

The thing is that sometimes that misinformation doesn't serve the interests of Washington, but worse, sometimes X lets through some ACCURATE information that doesn't serve the interests of Washington.

Now, I'm old enough to remember when making fun of the Kremlin for its ridiculous (and futile) efforts to control the news that people saw and heard was the go-to of comedy acts. So, where's the comedy acts pointing their barbed witicism at Washington?

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Posted in: Israel frees two hostages; Palestinian TV says 74 killed in assault See in context

Given the Israeli regime's track record since the Hamas Rebellion, it almost certainly KILLED at least one of those taken prisoner on October 7th while using indiscriminate violence to get these two, who were in NO DANGER except from the Israeli regime's indiscriminate violence and blockade of food and medicine.

So the decision not to agree to the quite reasonable terms for freeing both sides hostages can only be considered a reckless gamble, by Netanyahu, with Israeli lives, for the most craven political reasons.

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