After reading the article and looking into this Dr. Busby I feel like caution is necessary.

While I wouldn’t put it past the imperialists to use nuclear weapons, the author has taken some questionable positions in the past. The again said positions are merely not in line with the narrative the imperialist project presents, so maybe there’s nothing to be concerned about here.

The UN for example stated in 2006 that his claims of DU munitions being used In Kosovo and Iraq (part two) are empirically false, but since then the US and NATO have admitted to it.

He has a very strange theory of radiation effects on humans, one which doesn’t at all match with long established evidence, the mainstream theory, nor more modern theories.

He also claimed the Fukushima disaster (and Chernobyl) was much worse than it’s generally agreed to be, and was selling some sort of anti-radiation pill of questionable effectiveness to Japanese people in the area.

The people who already mentioned cold fusion in this thread have made good points as well. I can’t find much on this Del Guidice character but there’s a bit in the German Wikipedia entry noting that his and his collaborator Giuliano Preparata’s ideas on cold fusion and the “memory of water” were not well accepted amongst peers.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described neutron bombs as a “capitalist bomb”, because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.

Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.

The citation here seems to be a bit of a game of “telephone,” and a really careless one at that.

The linked page cites a Xinhua article from January 30th quoting the Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina, who said “that 159 foreign participants from 20 countries have already joined the Russian system (SFRS).”

As per a Junge Welt article on the same arrest warrant, the German prosecution called the accused and informed them of the impending arrest warrant. Not even the bumbling infamous Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame would make such an asinine error, which leads one to conclude that German prosecutors have no intention of actually prosecuting this case. Since the call and the issue of the warrant, Polish authorities have not been able to locate the suspect (shocking /s).

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/481606.nord-stream-untergetaucht.html

Ghost of Delaware

Beau

They can’t listen to what the Russians or saying, for that would destroy their entire premise.

…Mr. Putin’s original plan to take over Kyiv and destroy Ukraine as a nation.

This was never the plan. Putin, Lavrov, and Medvedev have been singing the same song since 2008 if not longer. They view NATO expansion and weapons placements encroaching on their border as an existential threat, and have said as much repeatedly. Imperial realists have said the same since 1991.

The idea that Putin himself wants to take over Ukraine and bring back the USSR is a strawman to beat all strawmen.

But imperialist capital forbid that they listen to the words of their opposition, let alone take them at face value. The expansion of empire must continue unabated.

$916B is even an undercount, it’s more like $1.5T. There’s a bunch of related spending that gets distributed to other departments.

Greatest/largest/costliest military in the world everyone.

The missteps referred to are probably the chain of events that led to public knowledge of the propaganda effort.

What then, is the border policy of the EU if not “political violence.” What then, is the policy of the EU vis a vis pro-Palestinian voices if not “political violence.” What then, is the belligerent escalation of violence of the EU via a vis Russia if not “political violence”?

And what position does an unelected supranational executive official have anything to do with democracy?

It is truly astonishing to consider how anyone could believe that Russians would rise up over frivolous matters like this.

It is on a logical level, but it’s also so much like typical feel-good story which Germans tell themselves about the end of the DDR and reunification. The story goes that life sucked in the DDR because people didn’t have frivolous material goods, so the people rebelled and were rewarded by reunifying with the west.

My employer has an average employee age of 45, and it feels like the people there are old as fuck.

This more than anything else shows that it’s a pathological obsession rather than an evidence and merit based approach. A perfect microcosm of liberalism if you will.

Thanks for your professional input, I really appreciate it.

Your last paragraph is especially important. I overlooked that part, although it’s obvious in retrospect.

There’s an argument to be made there. In terms of the lived reality in the Baltics that’s entirely likely. In terms of the second point though, the portrayal of westernized, there just isn’t as much media or political attention on the Baltic countries in the US. In Europe there is some, given Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are EU members, but that’s more on a dry international relations level.

This may just be my subjective take on it all though.

I had also bought the standard line that it’s about imbalanced or incorrect brain chemistry, but I’m not sure anymore if that theory holds any water.

There are a lot of criticisms leveled against it, but I found the book Lost Connections by Johann Hari to be incredibly thought provoking. This was even before I had gone full tankie and read a bit into the links between mental health and capitalism. The tl;dr thesis of Lost Connections is that anti-depressants are cover up the symptoms for a time, but the root of the issue is a broken social structure, for which capitalism is responsible.

That’s fair. I also didn’t mean to imply that anti-depressants aren’t currently without value. Even just speaking from personal experience, my family would look a lot different without them.

I always wonder if anti-depressants would even be necessary in a people’s state on its way to communism.