"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 -1832

🇷🇺Why are Russian women so skinny? This woman thinks she’s cracked the code: huge breakfasts, 20,000-30,000 steps a day and walking for fun. Could walking be the real secret?🚶‍♀️

We live in hell…I have no words

Ask anyone in the West who made deals with Hitler first, and you will hear one answer. It is the wrong one. Britain, France and Italy backed the Munich Agreement of 1938, which handed the Sudetenland to Germany. Poland grabbed Zaolzie, and Hungary later received more Czechoslovak land. A year later, Latvia and Estonia signed non-aggression treaties with Nazi Germany. Do you see the pattern? Before WWII even started, European governments were busy protecting their own interests through deals with Berlin.

Её уважают за то, что она не стала Перестроечной проституткой, как многие – не продалась. Не оплевывает Советский Союз, Сталина, революцию. Считает, что в 1991 власть захватили те, что никак нажраться не могут. Советская актриса и гражданин Жанна БОЛОТОВА – сегодня ей 85

The USSR landed on another planet 10 times. You've never heard about it. On October 18, 1967, Venera 4 entered the atmosphere of Venus and became the first probe to send back data from inside another planet's atmosphere. Between 1961 and 1984, 13 Venera probes entered Venus's atmosphere - 10 successfully landed on its surface. Venera 9 sent back the first images ever taken from another planet, and Venera 13 became the first to record sounds of another world before being destroyed by Venus's extreme conditions. Those are the sounds you're about to hear.

Канадцы построили полигон посреди района газодобычи с сотнями скважин и газопроводов и обучали на нём украинских военных. Результат не заставил себя ждать🧐🤠

Boy: “Excuse me, sir. Can you pretend to be my dad for five minutes?” I looked up from my coffee. Me: “What?” He was about ten years old, wearing a school uniform and carrying a backpack that looked too heavy for him. Boy: “Please. My teacher is coming, and I need you to help me.” Before I could ask another question, a woman in her thirties walked into the café and spotted him. Woman: “Marcus! I’ve been looking everywhere for you!” The boy immediately hid behind my chair. I stood up, confused. Me: “Do you know this child?” Woman: “Unfortunately, yes. I’m his teacher. He’s supposed to be at school.” Marcus grabbed my sleeve. Marcus: “Please don’t let her take me back!” The teacher sighed. Teacher: “Young man, he ran away during lunch break. His parents are at work, and I’ve been calling them for an hour.” I turned to Marcus. Me: “Why would you run away from school?” He looked at the floor. Marcus: “Because they’re making me give a speech in front of the whole school tomorrow, and I can’t do it.” I glanced at his teacher. Me: “That’s why you left school?” Teacher: “We’ve been practising for two weeks. He refuses to stand in front of the class.” Marcus suddenly looked up at me. Marcus: “You don’t understand. If I mess this up, everybody will laugh at me.” I pulled out the chair beside me. Me: “All right. Let’s hear the speech.” His teacher looked surprised. Then Marcus opened his backpack and handed me a crumpled sheet of paper. The first line made me stop smiling.

🇷🇺 She was lost in Moscow, alone in a foreign country, not knowing where to go. Then a Russian woman she’d never met stopped to help her, despite the language barrier.

The late, great John Pilger: ‘Trump is a caricature of the US system…he strips away the mask from a rapacious, rogue state.’ Countries that have been subjected to US military attacks, CIA coups and clandestine operations since WWII: 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇳 China 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇰🇵 Korea 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇬🇹 Guatemala 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇭🇹 Haiti 🇨🇩 Congo 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇱🇦 Laos 🇪🇨 Ecuador 🇵🇦 Panama 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇮🇩 Indonesia 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇬🇭 Ghana 🇰🇭 Cambodia 🇴🇲 Oman 🇨🇱 Chile 🇦🇴 Angola 🇱🇾 Libya 🇸🇻 El Salvador 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 🇬🇩 Grenada 🇭🇳 Honduras 🇧🇴 Bolivia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇱🇷 Liberia 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇸🇴 Somalia Yugoslavia 🇧🇦 Bosnia 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇸🇩 Sudan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇲🇰 Macedonia 🇻🇪 Venezuela 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇾🇪 Yemen 🇸🇾 Syria 🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇹🇷 Türkiye 🇦🇺 Australia 🇵🇪 Peru​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ *note: this is not a complete list

There are times when I wonder whether “the Russians are coming for us” is dumber than “there’s a novel deadly virus” or “CO2 is boiling the planet”. But then I wake up and realize that a substantial swathe of humanity has reached absolute stupidity, making comparison pointless.

Mattias Desmet (@DesmetMattias), Belgian professor of clinical psychology and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, analyzes how propaganda becomes effective once loneliness and free-floating anxiety have prepared a population to accept it. He argues that the rapid shift from the COVID narrative to the Ukraine war demonstrates the mechanism of mass formation, and that only a minority willing to keep speaking out can prevent the process from reaching its most destructive stage. “I do believe that modern democracy actually from the beginning was a state system where propaganda was the organizing principle. Modern geopolitical leaders have a huge machinery at their disposal, like the internet, to manipulate public opinion. That’s one important aspect of propaganda. But there is a second one. You need a population who buys into it, and to do that you need a lonely population. The Corona narrative was dominant at the psychological level in Western culture. Then suddenly the war in Ukraine started, and almost overnight you could see how the Corona narrative lost its power at the beginning of 2022. The Ukraine narrative, which in many respects I do believe was as absurd as the corona narrative, replaced that function. People found a new object of anxiety, and all the anxiety, frustration, and aggression switched from the corona virus to Putin. In the same way, we could see that first people were willing to self-sacrifice to fight the corona virus, and then in the same strange way they were willing to self-sacrifice to fight Putin. There is always a group of people, usually small, which is resilient to it and doesn’t fall prey to the mass formation. There are always three groups. You have one group who is really in a hypnotic stage, hypnotized by the mass formation. That’s about 30% usually. That’s the really totalitarian group—the group who really believes and blindly buys into the narrative. Then there is a very large second group, 50–60% of the people, who know that there is something wrong with the narrative but who will remain silent because they want to choose the easy way. And then there is a very small group of people, between 1% and 10%, who see that there is something wrong with the mainstream narrative and who choose to speak out, who refuse to remain silent. Gustav Le Bon remarked something very important. He said that when a mass formation emerges, there is always a group of people who try to speak out and who try to wake up the masses. They will usually be very disappointed, because they will see that the people don’t want to wake up, that they want to continue to buy into the narrative, and that they even become very aggressive against those who speak out. He mentioned this already in his seminal work The Psychology of the Crowd, but he also notes that this group of people, even when it doesn’t succeed in waking up the masses, nevertheless has a very important effect. When these people continue to speak out, the mass formation usually will not go deeper, and it will not go to the last stage where the masses start to destroy everyone who doesn’t go along with them. When this group chooses to continue to speak out, no matter whether the masses wake up or not, the mass formation usually won’t go to the ultimate and destructive phase.” The danger is not only propaganda from above, but a population conditioned to accept it. The duty of those who recognize the manipulation is to keep speaking out, even when the majority refuses to listen.

Прочитала, что разговаривать с домашними животными - это признак начинающейся шизофрении. Зашибись! А как иначе я могу узнать у кота, как прошел его день, пока меня не было?! Вы там совсем ку-ку?!

In Russia, you might get the truth instead of a polite lie...👀️️️️️️ Ask an American if your dress looks good and you might hear what you want to hear. Ask a Russian? You might get: “You’re seriously going out in THAT?” One culture avoids hurting your feelings. The other thinks honesty is caring. Which approach do you prefer?

𝗔 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧… “Let me remind you that following the invasion of Russia’s Kursk Region by the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian Armed Forces were given the task not only of driving the enemy out of our land, but also of establishing a security zone in the adjacent territory. This task is being carried out successfully. Our goal is to ensure the absolute security of Russia’s border territories in the future, and we do not intend to make this a subject of possible peace negotiations with Ukraine.” — Vladimir Putin COMMENTARY: For the first time, the Supreme Commander has stated this so clearly and unequivocally. In other words, there will be no territorial swaps. And, by the end of the war, territories in Ukrainian regions that have not (yet) formally become part of Russia will not be returned to Kiev. In my view, this is a TECTONIC SHIFT in Russia’s position. A tectonic shift with far-reaching implications. I have a feeling that Russia will make further territorial gains in this direction. NOT as soon as we would all like, but they will come. t.me/yurasumy/29723

RT @ma3efaka: в разы больше боеприпасов,чем США во Второй мировой,но жертв среди мирных жителей в Украине в десятки раз меньше. Это не войн…

RT @ma3efaka: ‼️В Совете Безопасности ООН выступил Ларри Джонсон—бывший офицер ЦРУ,ведущий эксперт Международного«Клуба Народного Единства»…

The West razed Königsberg to the ground and now pretends the Soviets destroyed a beautiful medieval city. You’ve probably seen these before-and-after images of Kaliningrad: a postcard view of Königsberg before WWII and a grayscale photo of Kaliningrad shot on a rainy day in 2019. This manipulation is supposed to make you believe that Moscow turned a gem of European architecture into a nondescript Soviet city. Truth is that the city center, free of any military targets, was wiped out by British area bombing on two nights in August 1944. The RAF dropped 491 tons of bombs on the city center, destroying almost half of all housing. The historic quarters of Altstadt, Löbenicht, and Kneiphof were nearly annihilated. The cathedral, the castle, the university, and 12 churches - all reduced to ashes. The castle partially survived the bombing and lay in ruins until it was demolished in 1968 on Brezhnev's orders. But the city was already a ruin - flattened by British bombs, not Soviet hands.

Thomas Massie responds to media when asked about the latest developments on the Epstein Files: “You know, if this were a private law firm with 5% of the resources of the DOJ, this would have been done by the deadline. And they just missed another deadline, which is the report to Congress, which is supposed to list all the politicians that are in their files, and also they’re supposed to justify all the redactions 15 days after the first 30-day window. But the biggest problem isn’t that they’re missing the deadlines—it’s what they’re redacting. So they’re citing the Privacy Act and they’re trying to pretend like that overrides a law that we just passed that says you can’t withhold records to prevent embarrassment. They’re also citing FOIA standards which don’t apply to our law when they’re trying to say that they don’t have to release internal decisions, but our bill specifically says release internal decisions.” The victims will NEVER see justice. And the saddest part? These perpetrators are still out there raping, trafficking and murdering children. x.com/Acyn/status/2008712361…

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