It still amazes me that the general public/mainstream media just forgot about Nord Stream like nothing happened or it never even existed.
This is like undeniable proof of the invented reality of the western public consciousness.
No real investigation by journalists (apart from Hersh), western state agencies said they'll drop the case, walk away, nothing happened.
I bet that at least half of liberals never even heard the official cover story and they still think it was Putler.
Mindblowing.
Hopefully they have also realized that spending 1 out of 7 paragraphs in the obit on the "Uyghur question" is not necessary.
The final episode is John Oliver and Xi pushing the button together 
In some countries it is also much easier to cheat taxes on rent than on dividends.
And people instinctually know that real estate has use value as well, while stocks only have exchange value.
Anyway, if you inherit some money stock/bonds are slightly better, because being a landlord is the worst. But that's just ethics, not business.
At the moment that seems up to russia. The war can end tomorrow if they fuck off back to their shithole of a country.
They said no.
What's your next move, Mr. Strategic Mastermind? Another failed counteroffensive?
More working class Ukrainians dead? For what? Fight more so the people in Avdeevka might have 1% chance of paying taxes to Poroshenko instead of Putin? That's it?
Western libs always say that the war must go on because "that's what the Ukrainian people want."
But how do they even know this? There's no elections and people clearly don't want to be conscripted. (The response rate for conscription letters is very low.)
Even by liberal standards this is bullshit, isn't it?
Recruiters have confiscated passports, taken people from their jobs and, in at least one case, tried to send a mentally disabled person to military training, according to lawyers, activists and Ukrainian men who have been subject to coercive tactics. Videos of soldiers shoving people into cars and holding men against their will in recruiting centers are surfacing with increasing frequency on social media and in local news reports. (NYT)
"communism is when no food"
True anecdote from the Khrushchev years: they had so much cornbread, that people fed fresh cornbread to the pigs, they didn't know what to do with it. It actually tasted good, it was just too much. 
What USSR did not have was a plethora of consumer goods: like a 100 different brands of headphones, or 500 different types of soft drinks.
Obviously China nowadays doesn't have this problem, as they have consumer goods by the shitload, unlike anything seen in history before.
it's a gas station pretending to be a country
they sent an email to everyone:
Dear Sir/Madam,
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly has issued a statement demanding that Western weapons be allowed to be deployed on Russian territory as well. Hungary believes this is dangerous and could lead to the outbreak of a world war!
EU member states are sending ammunition, tanks, aircraft, and missile systems to Ukraine. Several European leaders want to send European soldiers to Ukraine. In several member states, there are plans to reintroduce or expand conscription!
They are demanding that Hungary do the same. Our country is being threatened to send weapons and soldiers to Ukraine!
However, the government's position remains unchanged and clear: we do not want to send weapons, and we do not want Hungarian youths to participate in this war. This war only has losers; no one can win this war.
Hungary wants to stay out of this war! Instead of continuing the war, the Government of Hungary advocates for an immediate ceasefire and the commencement of peace negotiations at every international forum!
Respectfully,
Government Information Center
wow, bizarre article, thanks for sharing
Even if I adopt the lib worldview (Russia = evil, USA=good) — if I build a beach house, but my friends tell me it's a bad idea to build a beach house, then my friends put military grade explosives in the beach house and blow it up, and they'll say "see, I told you it was a bad idea" — how is this normal and good?
crazy
puh-leeeeez, how often do they talk about Iraq and Abu Ghraib when they make business deals with USA?! Do they always write a side report on the Khashoggi murder when they buy oil from the Saudis? How can this be written by a serious journalist?
It's telling how many times "Washington" appears in the article
The envoys of the Germanic satrapy went to visit the hegemon in Washington to ask permission. They didn't have the Empire's permission, therefore the project was sabotaged.
Even in articles like this one you can read the truth, you just have to read it critically