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[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

39 years ago I opened a personal bank account with Bank of Scotland in Byres Rd Glasgow. Yesterday without explanation or notice they closed my accounts. My parliamentary and old age pensions are paid into these accounts. The mortgage on our family home is paid out of them. The mortgage is with them. They haven’t heard the last of this. @LloydsBank @KRWLaw

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

The EU was sold to Europeans as an economic union that would facilitate trade and prevent another European war.

It has transformed itself into an enormous political bureaucracy regulating energy, agriculture, automobiles, immigration, environmental policy, trade, and increasingly defense and foreign affairs.

[Richard @ricwe123]

In this video, German political scientist Ralf Niemeyer discusses the case of the drones in Leipzig:

"Mr. Merz is following the same path as Hitler"

He directly compares the allegations against Russia with the Gleiwitz provocation of 1939, a false-flag operation used by the Nazi regime to justify the invasion of Poland.

According to Niemeyer, the current scenario could also point to manipulation:

-Germans and Europeans are being led to believe that Russia is behind the incident.
-The idea of a Russian attack is being promoted.
-Public opinion in Germany is being prepared for an escalation of the confrontation with Moscow.

His central argument is that Berlin is still waiting provide additional information… yet since then, "not a single piece of evidence has been publicly presented"

When a government takes serious diplomatic measures by publicly attributing an operation to a foreign state, what exactly is that attribution based on?

[Ian Proud @proud_diplomat]

We are de facto in a state of war with Russia.

We have poured billions of pounds/dollars/Euros into a proxy war in Ukraine that has never looked winnable, encouraging @ZelenskyyUa to take ever more reckless steps to grab the media headlines.

Ukrainian and Russian service personnel get blown to pieces each day for little obvious benefit.

Meanwhile, the situation in Ukraine moves from disastrous to catastrophic.

The country is bankrupt and living day to day on the equivalent of payday loans provided by an already heavily indebted Europe.

Free speech is suppressed.

Fighting age men are dragged off the streets like dogs to go to the meat grinder.

Kids get pepper sprayed and beaten by the slovenly masked slobs that act as Ukraine's recruitment officers.

Ukraine is possibly now the most corrupt country in the world. Even before the war started, the European Court of Auditors in 2021 found that the country suffered from Grand Corruption under Zelensky's rule.

The only thing that has changed since that time is the amount of western taxpayers money that has been tipped into the cesspool of corruption in Bankova.

The war should have been ended within weeks of its starting.

That it didn't, is down to irresponsible figures like Johnson and Nuland.

Morons like @radeksikorski say that we should not make concessions, even while Ukraine is losing ground, Europe is losing money, and Poles increasingly turn their noses up at the rise of neo-nazi glorification in their troubled neighbour.

Kaja Kallas is so idiotic that she blames any event on Russia even when, inevitably, it turns out not to have been Russia.

Nordstream II was blamed on Russia.

A blown up Polish railway line was blamed on Russia.

Ursula von der Leyen's suddenly aircraft landing was blamed on Russia.

Now this bizarre and unbelievably low grade incident in Leipzig from ONE MONTH AGO is blamed on Russia.

The prior three incidents manifestly had nothing to do with Russia, but it's conceivable, I suppose, that Russian involvement in Leipzig can't be completely ruled out.

Truth it we will never get to the bottom of it.

But the point is, what did we expect?

We have been flag waving the use of western munitions firing deeper and deeper into Russian territory, sniggering at the sneakiness of our intelligence agencies in providing all sorts of nudge nudge, wink wink, support to Ukraine, helping them plan military counter offensives, giving them all the kit in our rapidly depleting arsenal to kills more Russians, hell, even giving them the intellectual property to our weapon systems, insisting that only a complete military defeat of Russia will be sufficient to start diplomatic negotiations.

This is manifestly idiotic and leading us inexorably towards World War III.

Frankly, the Leipzig incident smells of Ukrainian involvement, but who knows. If the Russians did it, I'm only surprised that they did something so small and inconsequential.

Right now, there are hardline voices in Russia demanding direct military strikes into NATO nations supplying arms to Ukraine using weapon systems that we have no defence against.

A couple of Asda-bought drones in Leipzig should be the last of our worries.

It's time to end the war through a diplomacy that has been absent - as part of a UK initiative - since 2014.

Otherwise the likes of Sikorski, Merz, Kallas and the whole stinking lot of them will lead us all to our deaths.

[Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe @IRANinZIMBABWE]

There is nothing further to add at this time.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

The NY Times exposed how the Ukrainian Nazis were exterminating Jews. Here they photographed shooting a Jewish family in Miropol, Ukraine, in 1941.

They did not shoot the small children. That would be a waste of a bullet. They threw the children into the pits and buried them alive with their dead mother.

These are the people the EU, NATO, Neocons, and Zelensky, who now claims he is Jewish, are defending. We have chosen the wrong side and are now supporting the very acts of Adolf Hitler.

[Brian Geertshuis 🇳🇱 @BrianGee997]

This morning I spoke with Vladimir Putin to discuss the hybrid attack at Leipzig airport. I assured him that the Netherlands stands in full solidarity with Russia in the face of this poorly orchestrated false flag attack by Ukraine.

[Sarah Knafo @knafo_sarah]

J’explique le casse des retraites. ⤵️

Un salarié à 2 000 € nets verse 876 euros par mois pour sa retraite, pendant 42 ans.

Cela fait près de 450 000 euros confiés à l’État.

Placés au taux le plus prudent, sans la moindre prise de risque, il disposerait aujourd’hui de plus de 1,5 million d’euros.

Autrement dit, ce salarié médian serait millionnaire.

Que va-t-il toucher dans ce système par répartition ? Environ 1 500 euros par mois. Soit 500 euros de plus que le minimum vieillesse, versé à un étranger qui n’a jamais cotisé un centime de sa vie.

42 ans de travail, pour 500 euros d’écart. Les politiciens appellent cela un acquis social. J’appelle cela un vol.

[Perplexed @ZiPerplexed]

@engineers_feed Temporary solutions last forever!

[The Other Side Media @TheOtherSideRu]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine becomes the first country to fine kids for speaking their native language

On September 1, the language ombudsman warned parents that schoolkids will be fined for speaking Russian — even though it's the mother tongue for most Ukrainians

First offense: up to $115. Next: up to $268. For context, the average monthly salary in Ukraine is around $570

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

"I hope every Russian understands that our president does not have a mandate from the Finnish people to engage in such provocations against Russia. I believe [Stubb] is very close to being an accomplice to treason," said Professor Tuomas Malinen of the University of Helsinki.

He made this comment in response to statements by Stubb, who supported the Ukrainian armed forces' attacks on Wildberries facilities.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed by Israel in real time while the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights remain silent.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

Hero.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

NINE civilian BUS passengers murdered. NO journalist or political leader in the West has a single damn thing to say about it. Who gave them the murder weapon? That will be the next question…

[Kongar @ultrarrow]

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin:

ABD geçmişte en ağır askerî müdahalelerini, kendi topraklarından binlerce kilometre uzakta ve Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi'nden herhangi bir yetki almadan gerçekleştirdi. Yugoslavya'yı hangi gerekçeyle bombaladılar? Yugoslavya nerede, ABD nerede? Bir Avrupa başkentini vurma hakkını onlara kim verdi? Kendileri karar verdiler, müttefikleri de peşlerinden gitti. Uluslararası hukuk anlayışları bundan ibaretti.

Irak'ı işgal etme gerekçeleri neydi? Kitle imha silahları. Ülkeye girdiler, Irak'ı yıkıma sürüklediler, uluslararası terörizmin yayılması için uygun bir ortam yarattılar ve ardından, “İstihbaratımız bizi yanılttı.” dediler. Bir ülkeyi yerle bir ettikten sonra bunun bir hata olduğunu söylediğinizi düşünün: Ortada kitle imha silahı yokmuş.

Peki Suriye'ye nasıl girdiler? Birleşmiş Milletler Güvenlik Konseyi bunların herhangi birine yetki verdi mi? İstediklerini yaptılar. Ancak Ukrayna'da yaşananlar bizim için binlerce kilometre uzakta değil; doğrudan kapımızın dibinde. Şunu anlamaları gerekiyor: Bizim artık geri çekilebileceğimiz başka bir yer yok.

[Aleksander 🇵🇱🇷🇺 @dhulqarnayn786]

Yes... This is the President of Ukraine 🇺🇦 before he became a politician...

[Jörg Friedrich @friedlkc]

Wie bewusst oder unbewusst die Geschichte umgeschrieben wird!

Viele Schweizer Politiker geben sich gerne als Kenner der Geopolitik und zeigen dann, dass sie keine Ahnung haben. Als bestes Beispiel dient die Geschichte der Krim, die angeblich von Russland annektiert wurde.

Tatsache ist, das es die Ukraine war und nicht Russland, welche sich die Krim angeeignet hatte – gegen den Willen der dortigen Bevölkerung.

Darüber wird nicht gerne informiert. Auch jetzt nicht, 35 Jahre, nachdem das Parlament der Ukraine am 24. September 1991 das Land – einschliesslich der Krim – für unabhängig von der Sowjetunion erklärte. Die Halbinsel Krim, die als autonomes Gebiet der Sowjetunion bereits ein eigenes Parlament hatte, protestierte lautstark.

Das Austrittsgesetz der UdSSR gab den Sowjetrepubliken (wie der Ukraine) und den autonomen Regionen (wie der Krim) das Recht, sich entweder von der UdSSR zu trennen oder sich einer neuen, lockeren sowjetischen Union anzuschliessen. Auf der Krim hatten 93 Prozent der Abstimmenden bereits Anfang 1991 für die «Wiederherstellung der Autonomen Sozialistischen Sowjetrepublik Krim als Subjekt der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken und als Vertragspartei des Unionsvertrags» ausgesprochen.1 Der Ja-Anteil entsprach 75 Prozent aller 1,8 Millionen Stimmberechtigten.

Die Krim wollte also im Falle einer Auflösung der Sowjetunion eine autonome Einheit der neuen sowjetischen Union werden – unabhängig von der Ukraine.

Doch die Ukraine hat der Krim am 1. Dezember 1991 dieses Recht gegen den Willen der Krim-Bevölkerung verweigert. Die Krim verfügte über kein eigenes Militär und konnte sich nicht wehren.

Damit hat sich die Ukraine die Halbinsel rechtswidrig angeeignet.

Seither haben die Bewohner der Krim mehrmals demokratisch mit überwältigenden Mehrheiten russlandfreundliche Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten gewählt – und nicht anti-russische, einseitig pro-westliche oder ukrainisch-nationale.

Urs P. Gasche / 25.08.2026 (Infosperber)

[Alina Lipp @Alina_Lipp_X]

Kiew am 22. August. Die Ukraine befindet sich im Krieg und benötigt dringend mehr von Ihren Hilfsgeldern!

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇦 Ukraine: “We can’t hold elections during war, it’s too dangerous”

🇺🇦 Also Ukraine …

[Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev]

Germany Awakens on September 6th.