BlackRock's incursion into BitCoin is just the first phase of co-opting it. There is nothing we can do about this: it is inevitable. The real decentralised currencies are silver & gold. BlackRock will control BitCoin if it doesn't already.

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Craig Murray: Mea Culpa on Ukraine
The same powers who fund and arm Ukraine fund and arm genocide by a racial supremacist Israel. My belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.
"In particular, I was complacent in my dismissive attitude to the argument that the Western powers would back ethnic cleansing and massacre in the Donbass by forces including some motivated by Nazi ideology.

The same powers who are funding and arming Ukraine are funding and arming a genocide by racial supremacist Israeli forces in Gaza. It is beyond argument that my belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.

I apologise...

The causes of the Russian invasion of Ukraine are plain. Alarm at NATO expansionism and forward positioning of aggressive military assets encircling Russia. The Ukrainian coup of 2014. Exasperation at Ukrainian bad faith and the ignoring of the Minsk accords. The continuing death toll from shelling of Russian speakers in the Donbass.

The suppression of the Russian language, of Russian Orthodox religion and of the main pro-Russian opposition political party in Ukraine are simple facts.

These I have always acknowledged: until I saw the positive enthusiasm of leaders of the Western states for massacre in Gaza, I was not convinced they could not have been addressed by diplomacy and negotiation.

I now have to reassess that view in the light of new information, and I now think Putin was justified in the invasion.

It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before I did not believe that the West would sponsor mass ethnic cleansing and genocidal attack on the Donbass by extreme Ukrainian nationalist-led, Western-armed forces.

I thought the “West” was more civilised than that. I now have to face the fact that I was wrong about the character of the NATO powers.

The alternative to Putin’s action probably was indeed massacre and ethnic cleansing.

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Putin’s historical disquisition to Tucker Carlson opened some Western eyes to another national perspective, and gave rise to widespread claims by Western media that Putin was factually wrong. In fact almost all of his facts were correct.

In fact their arguments were largely consistent with Putin. The BBC quote Prof. Ronald Suny:

“Mr Suny points out that the inhabitants of these lands when they were conquered by Russia were neither Russian nor Ukrainian, but Ottoman, Tatar or Cossacks – Slavic peasants who had fled to the frontiers.”

Which is absolutely true: 18th century Russia did not conquer a territory called “Ukraine.” Much of the land of Ukraine was under Muslim rule when conquered by Catherine the Great, and nobody called themselves “Ukrainian.”

The fusing back then of Ukrainian nationalism with Nazism, and the atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists in WW2 against not just Jews but also Poles and other minorities, were also perfectly true.

It is a simple and stark truth there never was a Ukrainian state before 1991. There just was not. Lands currently comprising Ukraine were at various times under the rule of Muslim Khans, of the Ottomans, of Cossack Hetmans (possibly the closest thing to proto-Ukrainians), the Polish-Lithuanian confederation and Russian Tsars.

The Russian diplomat Jan Witkiewicz was described repeatedly by British officers as “Polish”, for example. “Cossack” and “Tartar” were frequently used. I cannot recall any of these British sources ever using the description “Ukrainian.”

Nor did British officers who actually passed through Ukraine, like Fred Burnaby and Arthur Connolly, describe it as such in their memoirs. Now I am not claiming that if British imperialists did not notice something, it did not exist.

But if there were a centuries-old recognition by the rival Empire of the existence of a Ukrainian national identity, that would definitely mean something. There does not appear to be such.

There is now a Ukrainian national identity, and those who subscribe to it have the right to their state.

That they have a right to the former boundaries of Soviet Ukraine is a different proposition. Given the reality that it is plain that a significant minority of the population do not subscribe to Ukrainian national identity, that civil war broke out, and that this relates to historic geographic fracture lines, it seems that division of territory is now not only inevitable, but desirable.

All people of good will should therefore wish to see an end to fighting and a peace settlement, of which the territorial elements are somewhere close to the current lines between the forces, with Russia giving back some territory in return for recognition of its gains.

The alternative is more death, human misery and economic malaise."

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/24/craig-murray-mea-culpa-on-ukraine/

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In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide
Israel has long plotted the downfall of UNRWA, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people

"Equally a boon to Israel is the fact that leading western states have so quickly pinned their colours to the mast. The funding freeze cements their fates to Israel’s. It sends a message that they will stand with Israel against the World Court, whatever it decides. Their war on UNRWA is intended as an act of collective intimidation directed towards the court. It is a sign that the West refuses to accept that international law applies to it, or its client state. It is a reminder that western states refuse any restraint on their freedom of action – and that it is Israel and its sponsors who are the true rogue states."

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-01-30/war-un-refugee-israel-genocide/

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BREAKING: more than 4,000 artists are calling for genocidal Israel to be excluded from the Venice Biennale, one of the world's biggest and most prestigious arts exhibitions.

https://anga.live

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Former secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen:

“We already decided in 2008 that Ukraine will join NATO.”

But please continue to believe this war wasn’t wanted by our overlords.

@EvaVlaardingerbroek

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Resistance - Why (1971)
Directed by Christian Ghazi.

In this once lost film, Ghassan Kanafani, Sadiq Jalal El-Azm, Nabil Shaath and others share their vision of the Palestinian revolution, tracing its history back to the early 20th century.

Ghassan Kanafani: “Zionism as a reactionary ideology fitted exactly the ambitions of British colonialism in that period and later with American imperialism”

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Just Jacob Rothschild discussing the "incredible opportunism" of his family's lobbying efforts to create the state of Israel

Walter Rothschild teamed up with Chaim Weizmann successfully lobbied PM Arthur Balfour

RIP Berlinale Film Festival 1951-2024 #BoycottBerlinale

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The Zone of Interest Reminds Us How Easy It Is to Ignore a Genocide on Your Doorstep

Hear no evil, see no evil.

"In the age of the internet, we are all the Höss family: the genocide in Gaza is being broadcast in real-time, its continuation dependent on our preparedness to ignore it, as The Zone of Interest producer James Wilson pointed out when the film recently won a Bafta. It seems hard to imagine the type of people who will move into settlements in the conquered Gaza Strip if Israel gets its way, but it’s all too easy to believe that people will move there and build their own haunted paradises. The Zone of Interest reminds us that it is only by breaking out of solipsism and risking ourselves that we can stop such atrocities from happening again and again." Juliet Jacques

https://novaramedia.com/2024/02/26/the-zone-of-interest-reminds-us-how-easy-it-is-to-ignore-a-genocide-on-your-doorstep/

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👀 something is in the works.

They'll come up with anything to distract us from the oligarchy murdering & plundering for profit.

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Re-live some of the amazing memories from Jam For Freedom Festival 2023 with our highlights video🥳
https://youtu.be/6-NHdVszRTg

Tickets are flying out for this years new and improved festival! Have you seen our full line up of over 100+ artists, panels, comedians and workshops? Join us here 👉 www.jamforfreedom.com/festival
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Houthis hit submarine communications cables
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-houthis-hit-underwater-communications-cables-1001472165

"Globes" has learned that four submarine communication cables have been damaged in the Red Sea between Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in East Africa.

According to the reports, these are cables from the companies AAE-1, Seacom, EIG and TGN.

This is causing serious disruption of Internet communications between Europe and Asia, with the main damage being felt in the Gulf countries and India.

Estimates are that the damage to communications activities is significant but not critical because other cables pass through the same region linking Asia, Africa and Europe that have not been hit.

The repair of such a large number of underwater cables may take at least eight weeks...

Senior executives at international communications and underwater cable companies have posted reports about the damage on LinkedIn and X.