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ACG criticises Freedom
“For Freedom to now be actively promoting nationalism, xenophobia and hatred of a nationality because of the actions of their government is unbelievable, unacceptable and hopefully a passing aberration…”
I think we can share in some of that criticism of Freedom’s ahistorical analysis that declines to place the invasion into a wider context.
From George Galloway’s website, with him in an interview that explains the Chinese aspect and how its economy will benefit from the sanctions.
Has the Western financial institutions shot itself in the foot?
Discrimination against the Roma in Eastern Europe is well documented. And it continues in this war.
Once they found shelter, she and other Roma were chased out of their tents by the Ukrainian border authorities.Moldova’s authorities decided to separate Roma refugees from ethnic Ukrainians, in an attempt to prevent tensions between the two ethnicities.
The US beef industry has escaped “relatively unscathed” from Joe Biden’s attempts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to leaders at the industry’s recent CattleCon convention.
Biden’s November pledge to reduce methane included new rules for the oil, gas and coal industries, it proposed only voluntary actions for an agricultural sector the Environmental Protection Agency says contributes more than one-third of the country’s emissions.
“A good example is, during Cop26, the president led a global methane pledge, and that could have gone really badly for livestock production in the United States, could have gone badly for the cattle industry,” Hart told her audience. “But this administration seems to have recognized the positive value we bring. We were really excited to get out of that relatively unscathed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/07/us-beef-industry-cop26-methane-gas
Cathy Day, the climate policy coordinator for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Voluntary actions and incentives will not be enough to slow climate change, she said.
“There’s zero action by the federal government to crack down on methane emissions in the cattle industry,” Day said. “There isn’t a lot of interest in anything that would restrict the way they do business.”
Ukrainian intransigence?
Russia was opening six humanitarian corridors:
From Kyiv to Gomel, southeastern Belarus
From Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine
From Mariupol to Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia
From Kharkiv to Belgorod, southern Russia
From Sumy to Belgorod
From Sumy to Poltava, central UkraineUkraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said a Russian proposal to evacuate civilians out of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Sumy is not an acceptable option as the humanitarian corridors mostly lead to Russian cities. Three of them exited to Russian cities, one to Belarus and two to central and southeastern Ukraine.
Vereshchuk called on Russia to agree to a cease-fire from Monday morning to allow Ukrainians to evacuate toward the western Ukrainian city of Lviv instead.
In recent days, there has been an avalanche of sportspeople publicly announcing their support for Ukraine as they performed.
Yet one young gymnast who chose to express her patriotism mistaken as it is for her country is now the object to vilification and faces being disciplined by sporting officials
Another example of double standards and hypocrisy
(I don’t forget how the Green Brigade of Celtic showed support for the Palestinians and how the club was then fined by the football authorities)
I freely admit a sense of schadenfreude when I read of the freezing of Russian oligarchs’ finances (why not outright confiscate?) and the commandeering of their luxury yachts and private jets. Oh, how I sympathise with the tragedy that they no longer can buy Prada and Cartier designer brand luxury goods.
But, sadly, I know of how much some holiday resorts around the world rely on the Russian tourist trade and these ordinary shopkeepers, bars and restaurants, having already suffered in the Covid lockdowns, are going to struggle to recover with the expected collapse of visitors from Russia.
A bit of historical background by the late Peter Newell on the Ukrainian ‘Socialist’ Party front that once existed.
https://marxthecoldwarandthespooks.blogspot.com/2012/03/ukrainian-socialist-party.html
As mentioned previously by ALB, the “brutal cruel killers” of the Russian army are tolerating protests in the occupied territory.
“At least several hundred people gathered in the center of Kherson on Saturday to protest the Russian occupation of the Black Sea port…The protesters chanted “Ukrainia,” and the largest cheer went up when a young man waving Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag scrambled onto a Russian troop carrier…The protests in Kherson this weekend were the largest and latest in a growing tide of confrontations in the few Ukrainian towns and cities of any size that Russian forces have taken.”
A very pro-Russian video setting out some hometruths but very clearly from a skewed bias angle
Electorally, the Banderites showed little success but when it comes to political influence, they punched well above their weight.
Two articles describing some of the history of the Ukrainian right-wing that is being ignored by the media
I note nothing is happening in the rest of the world.
The Yemen war, The Sahel conflicts The Myanmar dictators, the DRC, the Tigray, Afghanistan chaos
Refugees in cages in Libya and Greece
The immigration bottleneck at the US-Mexico border
The Covid pandemic
And of course climate changeAll disappeared as far as the media is concerned.
And the effect of Ukraine on the world economy, global inflation, the cost of humanitarian aid…footnotes. The priority is to speculate on what city falls next to Russia and get the best news footage of the latest atrocity.
We have had the horseman of pestilence, the horseman of famine, the horseman of war…now the world awaits the fourth rider of the Apocalypse…the horseman of death, itself.
Not sure of the accuracy but this mention in passing of an Italian protest differs from the others.
In the centre of Rome, unions and organisations rallied in a large “procession of peace”, demonstrating against Putin but also NATO.
“No base, no soldier, Italy out of NATO,” chanted pacifists preceded by a large flag in the colours of the rainbow.
“This is perhaps one of the first real demonstrations for peace,” Italian cartoonist, actor and writer Vauro Senesi told AFP.
“Here no one believes we make peace with arms, that we make it by sending arms to one of the parties (Ukraine).”https://uk.news.yahoo.com/protests-ring-europe-demanding-end-203634313.html
When it comes to war, we all become armchair generals, YMS, despite no special qualifications or insider information of what is happening on the ground.
The Ukrainian claim of 10,000 dead Russians simply appears ridiculous.
Nellist received support from the Breakthrough Party, the Northern Independence Party and Left Unity, who joined the TUSC on 20 January 2022 in the PAL – People’s Alliance of the Left.
All new to me
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Party
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Independence_Party
