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The context in which he made this diplomatic gaffe is interesting. He was at a factory that produced ethanol, to announce that he was allowing this to be added to petrol (“gas” in American) to reduce its price.
He told the workers and others:
“Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide half a world away.”
And blamed the rise in the cost of living on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling it “Putin’s price hike”. Actually, the cost of living was rising anyway and the further increase is due to the sanctions imposed by the politicians in charge of the West’s governments as a price they consider worth paying by workers as their contribution to NATO’s war effort. The workers will give their verdict in the November mid-term elections.
Here’s what the doddering old fool said:
President Joe Biden says Russia’s war in Ukraine amounts to “genocide,” accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to “wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian.”
Here’s a photo of the leader of the opposition in “democratic” Ukraine;
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/12/kyiv-says-captures-fugitive-ukrainian-putin-ally-a77331
Here’s the official result (scroll down):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_French_presidential_election
I see there was a second Trotskyist who finished second bottom.
There were also 543,638 blank votes which will represent a conscious decision not to vote for any of the candidates.
Although it wasn’t the main issue or the main reason why people will have voted the way hey did, some 55% voted for candidates who were opposed to NATO (the two right wing extremists, Mélenchon, the Communist Party and the two Trotskyists). That would mean that they wanted to put Butter before Guns, i.e were not prepared to pay the price in terms of an increased cost of living to support NATO’s proxy war against Russia.
It looks like a reference to this article:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/3/168
“For every 82 admitted patients whose time to inpatient bed transfer is delayed beyond 6 to 8 hours from time of arrival at the ED, there is one extra death.”
The figure of 5,800 seems to be a calculation made by the Sunday Times on the basis of this.
Article here on the Russian-speaking minority in Estonia, also about a quarter of the population:
Latvia has a Russian-speaking minority of nearly 25 percent, i.e. a quarter of the population. I wonder how long before they ban the parties that the Russian-speakers vote for like they have done in Ukraine.
Forgot to add that when we returned to Head Office we had a visitor from someone who said she was a member of a group called Red Fightback. We said we had never heard of it. She said it only had 5 members. We assumed it was another Trot group but in looking them up we saw it was Maoist.
Here’s their site for anyone interested:
Despite only being 5 they still seek to lead the working class. Even so, they still say they want the sane sort of society as us, even if in the dim and distant future:
“Red Fightback believes in, and ultimately struggles towards communism—a society in which the means of production are social property, and where each citizen works towards the communal goals of society according to their ability and receives resources from society according to their need.”
Abeniezer, why when you pass on a link don’t you comment on it? Are we to take it that you are endorsing what is said? Otherwise what’s the point?
Grim speculation by the head an assets management company seeking publicity and more clients !
It is true that stock markets are overvalued as prices there have been inflated by QE and that they will deflate when QE is wound down. The hope of the monetary authorities is that they will be able to manage this in an orderly way. Nobody knows whether or not they will be able to. So asset managers like Dent can exploit the anxieties of small investors.
In any event, a stock exchange crash is not the same as a slump in production. This could occur but the immediate cause is more likely to be the effect of the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia and the measures taken by Russia to counter them. Western politicians are taking a bit risk here which Western oligarchs might not thank them for.
Incidentally, the Daily Excess is even less to be trusted as a source of reliable and unbiased information than the Daily Wail. To be honest, the extent of the latter’s coverage is quite good but you need to check what they cover with other sources, not just pass them on without comment.
Five members of the branch were out yesterday to leaflet the Clapham East ward. We distributed some 1500 in a polling district with 37% of the electorate.
We ordered (and will only have to pay for) 4000, but the printer said he had sent more because of how they had to be printed. In fact he sent 5000, which is way too much for a ward with 7500 electors and under half that number of letter boxes. So we will have to distribute some outside the ward. That won’t be a problem to do and the QR code can still be used.
Of course we don’t care which state she pays or doesn’t pay taxes to. What’s more important is the source of her income. It’s dividends on the shares she owns.
“She owns £700m in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys, founded by her father, from which she received £11.6m in dividend income last year.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61045825
That’s £11.6 million for which she has to do absolutely nothing. It is what the UK tax authorities used to call (until they realised the implications of the term) “unearned income”. She doesn’t earn it but gets it simply because she owns part of a capitalist business. It’s a pure property income and as “ill-gotten” as the income of the Russian oligarchs since the only place it can come from is the work of other people — of the appropriately called working class — for which they are not paid in full.
She is a classic capitalist, a reminder that the idle rich still exist.
You are right that if the message in Russian meant that the bomb was intended to kill children then that would be the work of a very, very sick mind. There is a suggestion that it translates as “for our children” — which suggests that it might have come from the Russian separatists in revenge for Ukrainian bombs killing their children.
Found this since posting the original message:
“Debris from one of the rockets could be seen lying on the grass near the station. The message in Russian “Za detei”, meaning for or on behalf of the children, had been daubed on the missile in white.”
“Tracey German, a professor in conflict and security at King’s College London, said: “За Детей in Russian means ‘for children/for the children’ – exactly what is meant by this is unclear, but it does not mean ‘intended for the children’, rather ‘on behalf of/to avenge children’, I think.”
Is there a Russian-speaker in the house?
