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Alexander Vučić and NATO's Bombing of RTS

Apropos the "New York Times" screed against Serbian President Alexander Vučić, here's a little nugget from 1999. NATO bombed the RTS station, claiming that it was spreading horrible Milošević propaganda. NATO then changed its story, realizing that deliberately targeting a media outlet--and hence a civilian entity--was a war crime. The new NATO claim was that RTS was a vital part of Milošević's military-communications infrastructure, and hence a legitimate military target. Of course, that raised the obvious question: If RTS was so vital, why didn't NATO try hitting it again? After all, it was up-and-running within hours of the attack?

Be that as it may, the one intriguing question that has remained unanswered and indeed unexplored was whether CNN was in on the NATO hit. Even more fascinating was the follow-up question: Was CNN trying to get NATO to murder Alexander Vučić, then Yugoslavia's information minister?

Veteran reporter Robert Fisk certainly thought so, as can be read here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-taken-in-by-the-nato-line-1103162.html?r=27015

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TG 1979: Europe Longs To Launch World War III

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss the Copenhagen Summit, and what it revealed about the thirst of Europe's leaders to get World War III against Russia off the ground at last.

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TG 1978: E.U.'s Plan To Override Hungary's Objections In Order To Get Ukraine In

George Szamuely discusses the latest European Union ruse to ignore its own rules, not to mention the strong objections of Hungary, in order to get Ukraine in as a member.

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Monday Night At The Movies: "The Wicker Man" (1973)

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Monday Night At The Movies

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The theme is "memory, time and discontinuity."

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One key to winning a war is a strong economy.

Business activity in Russia reached three years, middle class at death

https://finobzor.ru/138079-delovaja-aktivnost-v-rossii-dostigla-trehletnego-dna-srednij-klass-pri-smerti.html

Economy: Putin's Main Paradox

Another article explaining exactly why the monetary policies of Putin/Nabiullina are wrong.

There is also this interesting paragraph, about why Putin keeps repeating a simplistic mantra, which is clearly incorrect in the current circumstances.

As some wise men say, "the end is already contained in the beginning." Just look at his high school diploma: he got Cs in math; he couldn't count and didn't like it. But he got good and excellent grades in the humanities. He knows how to work with people. However, G. Zyuganov disagrees, declaring his personnel policy "absolutely failed."

https://en.topwar.ru/271701-jekonomika-glavnyj-paradoks-putina.html

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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