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The merchants of death and masters of war, celebrate the possibility of war.
On a January 25 earnings call, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said, “we just have to look to last week where we saw the drone attack in the UAE, which have attacked some of their other facilities. And of course, the tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from it.”
The same day, Jim Taiclet, CEO of Lockheed Martin, also advised investors that the likelihood of further American involvement in Eastern Europe would be good for business. “If you look at the evolving threat level and the approach that some countries are taking, including North Korea, Iran and through some of its proxies in Yemen and elsewhere, and especially Russia today, and China, there’s renewed great power competition that does include national defense and threats to it,” he said.
Brian West, CFO of aerospace and weapons contractor Boeing, did not reference Ukraine and Russia directly, but acknowledged that strong bipartisan support for military spending in Washington has ensured that the company sees “stable demand.”
We shouldn’t let Ukraine take our eye off the other military crisis.
China’s ambassador to the US has said the two countries could face a “military conflict” over the future of Taiwan.
“The Taiwan issue is the biggest tinderbox between China and the United States,” Qin Gang told the US public broadcaster National Public Radio , on Friday. “If the Taiwanese authorities, emboldened by the United States, keep going down the road for independence, it most likely will involve China and the United States, the two big countries, in the military conflict.”
Our SOYMB blog observation on the crisis
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-word-from-wise.html
Was Fox TV, the right media to present the case to abolish work?
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/moderator-fired-anti-subreddit-disastrous-170149113.html
Claims that the true number of deaths in England and Wales caused by Covid could be 17,000 have been debunked as “spurious” and factually incorrect by the Office for National Statistics.
The figure 17,371 represented the death toll in people with no other underlying causes.
It was common for Covid victims to have had a pre-existing health condition, but that did not mean they were at “imminent risk of dying from that condition, or even considered to have reduced life expectancy”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ons-debunks-spurious-covid-deaths-132200462.html
Putin has told Macron that the West has ignored Russia’s security concerns.
Putin told Macron the stand-off had not been resolved.
“US and Nato responses did not take account of such key Russian concerns as preventing Nato expansion, non-deployment of strike weapons systems near Russian borders, or returning the alliance’s military potential and infrastructure in Europe to positions existing in 1997,” a Kremlin readout of the call said.
Here's a time-lapse of all of the United Kingdom to #Ukraine weapons airlift flights from the morning of the 17th of January to this very minute on the 19th of January 2022. The UK has no intention of letting Ukraine fall. pic.twitter.com/p4DcNv25mt
— George Allison (@geoallison) January 19, 2022
Russia has not yet decided whether to attack Ukraine but is prepared to do so, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has said.
“I believe that the decision to attack has not yet been made,” Bruno Kahl told Reuters.
The Ukrainian defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, said on Friday that the total number of Russian troops near the border was about 130,000, a number comparable to Moscow’s military buildup in spring 2021, when it eventually pulled its forces back after massive military exercises.
“We haven’t observed any events or actions of military character that significantly differ from what was going on last spring,” with the exception of the deployment to Belarus, Reznikov said.
Forced labour in the USA
How the 13th Amendment’s Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Convict Slavery
Another expose of NED, this time its anti-Cuba activities
US Money Pays for Converting Bad News for Cubans into Good News Elsewhere
42 groups; the total amount dispensed was $5,077,788. The short list appearing below is of groups receiving $146,360 or more along with the amount of money each one received, its home base, and the supposed shortcoming in Cuba needing to be fixed.
The top recipients of NED funds were:
+ Cubalex – $150,000 – Memphis, TN (human rights)
+ National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) – $500,000 – Washington DC (gender rights)
+ Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos – $150,000 – Madrid (human rights)
+ Asociacion Diario de Cuba – $215,000 – Madrid (access to information)
+ Instituto Cubano por la Libertad de Expresion y Prensa – $146,360 – Hialeah, FL (access to information)
+ Cuban Democratic Directorate – $650,000 – Miami (access to information)
+ Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) – $309,766 – Washington DC (private sector needing support)
+ Clovek v tisni, o.p.s. (People in Need) – $150,882 – Prague (access to information)
+ Grupo Internacional para la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Cuba – $230,000 – Miami (labor rights)
Biden warned Ukraine’s president that there is a “distinct possibility” Russia could take military action against Ukraine in February.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-crisis-live-updates-1b213930aeced003b990adb474ef722b
Regards my earlier question about Nord Stream 2
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60151839
The US has threatened to halt the opening of a key pipeline that would send Russian gas to Western Europe, if Russia invades Ukraine.
“I want to be very clear: if Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward,” US state department spokesman Ned Price told NPR. He added that he was “not going to get into the specifics” of how it would be stopped, and questions remain over whether the US would have the power to cancel the project. “We will work with Germany to ensure it does not move forward.”
While the US insisted that it would stop the opening of the pipeline completely, Germany only said it would not rule out imposing sanctions on the project.
Could thus widen to a EU-US trade conflict?
Steven Pinker considers Ukraine an exception.
https://www.vox.com/2015/6/4/8725775/pinker-capitalism
ZB: Russia under Vladimir Putin seems to be a clear exception to this pattern — clearly, Putin thinks waging war in Ukraine is worth the cost in international sanctions and opprobrium, not to mention lives lost. Why do you think that is?
SP: I think there’s been backsliding. Gorbachev clearly felt it: that’s why he didn’t call out the tanks when the Berlin Wall fell. He clearly wanted to avoid military confrontations that would result in hundreds and thousands of deaths.
Putin is definitely backsliding, and he’s quite explicit about it. He places a high value on recapturing Russian national grandeur. That’s a value that obviously can be at odds with preservation of lives.
, I came to the conclusion after I read several books that he was the real conspiracy.
Likewise, I have read much on the assassination and I reach a conclusion that LHO did so alone without the assistance or guidance or urging of any other accomplice.
In modern times, I view the WMD claims for the justification of the invasion of Iraq to be a conspiracy rather than mere propaganda that were eventually found out.
Whether the lab leak claims or food market jump from animal to human for the Covid virus is definitively disproved or not, I am not confident of. Bur regardless, the claims it was an engineered bi-weapon has been scientifically rejected but it has not stopped the theory from circulating.
