Exposing The West

Nice discussion exposing Canada as a real example of a gas station posing as a country.

1) In spite of pumping more oil (by 80%) per capita than Russia, Canada has a serious trade deficit.

2) This deficit manifested itself after 2008.

3) Canada has a smaller (in percentage terms) manufacturing sector than Russia.

4) Canada is a resource appendage to the USA

So while Russia gets lectured all the time about insufficient "structural" reforms and over-dependence
on resource extraction and exports, Canada fits these issues much better than Russia ever will.
Canada is a sort of developed banana republic where import dependence is substantial and results
in a trade deficit and accumulation of national debt.

Good "radio lecture" on the history of slavery. Narrated by a black man and which destroys PC revisionist BS.

There was one good thing that came out of western imperialism, specifically British, and that was the rooting out of
slavery which existed round the world and was considered normal.

The racism-slavery link is a pathology of US politics. Brazil was authoritarian and no faction had to propagandize
why slavery was "justified".

IMO Muslims slave trade receives far less attention than it deserves given that it was practices for both longer and on a larger scale than European one. Many Arab countries abolished slavery only in 1950s and 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom

Pay attention that the western countries which had slavery only had it in colonies not in metropoly (although Central and Eastern Europe had serfdom until 19th century which was in many aspects close to slavery)

Gaddafi's money, Pakistani submarines and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy

As reported by the newspapers and Kommersant in the material of Alexei Tarkhanov, “Nicolas Sarkozy did not accept“ Gaddafi's money ”into his account. The main witness for the prosecution has denied his own testimony " , in the case of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was suspected of being financed by the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, there was a decisive turn. The main prosecution witness, Ziad Takieddin, retracted his words and complained about the investigators seeking testimony from him against the ex-president. Alexey Tarkhanov, Kommersant's correspondent in France, gives details. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (c) Emin Jafarov / Kommersant


In early October, Nicolas Sarkozy was charged with involvement in a "criminal community" in connection with the possible financing by Libya of his 2007 election campaign. But now the main witness for the prosecution, a businessman with Lebanese and French citizenship, Ziad Takieddin, came out with a refutation of his own words. Earlier, he claimed that in 2006-2007 he brought Nicolas Sarkozy and the head of his campaign headquarters, Claude Guéhanu, three suitcases with cash worth € 5 million. Now, in an interview with BFM and Paris Match, he stated that “he never gave 5 million for the campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy ”.

Such a dramatic change in the position of Ziad Takieddin is easily explained. The French investigation no longer has power over him.

He was detained at customs in the spring of 2011 while trying to smuggle € 1.5 million into France, and was subsequently charged in the so-called "Karachi case" of brokering bribes and illegal rewards in the 1994 sale of French submarines to Pakistan. In June 2020, he was sentenced to five years in prison for this, but managed to escape and is now in Lebanon. Feeling safe, he attacked one of the investigating judges, Sarkozy's stubborn pursuer Serge Turner. He tried to "force me to assert things that completely contradicted my words ... There was no funding for Sarkozy's presidential campaign," says Ziad Takieddin.

“The truth is finally revealed. For seven and a half years, the investigation has not found the slightest evidence of any illegal funding, ”Nicolas Sarkozy responded to his Facebook interview.

To whom were the suitcases of Libyan money intended, if they existed in reality? The witness has an answer to this: All I did was give € 5 million in cash to Claude Guéhan in accordance with the terms of the contract between France and Libya. According to him, the contract was secret, because "it concerned computer security and involved training Libyan computer scientists in France."

Claude Guéhan, head of Sarkozy's campaign headquarters, then secretary general of the Elysee Palace and minister of the interior, has been suspected of many frauds in recent years. For example, he became accused in a case of illegal bonus payments in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was sentenced on appeal in 2019 to two years in prison (of which a year was suspended). It seems that they are not going to defend him in this case. But the investigation is unable to establish a direct connection between Mr. Gaean and his leader Sarkozy in the saga with "Gaddafi's suitcases."

The story of illegal campaign finance was reported by Ziad Takieddin in March 2012 by journalists from the French agency Mediapart, known for its investigations. It occupies positions on the left flank of the French press, and no doubt acted both out of a commitment to independent journalism and to successfully torpedo Nicolas Sarkozy's new election campaign. In the elections on May 6, 2012, he lost the presidential election to socialist François Hollande.

Now it is obvious that the investigation has no irrefutable evidence of the former president's guilt. French journalists are in no hurry, however, to remove suspicions from him based only on an interview with a French-Lebanese schemer, who, according to observers, usually “lies as he breathes”.

But by questioning his current claims, investigators inevitably create distrust of his 2012 first revelations. He repeated them both in 2016 and in 2018, and now he also publicly refuses them. “The chief prosecutor admits his lie. The investigation, based only on the statements of Ziad Takieddin, is now at a complete dead end, "Nicolas Sarkozy congratulates himself.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4187989.html

The totalitarian creep in the west is insane. So now a politician chimp wants to put people in jail for
violating the ludicrous copyright laws. As posted elsewhere, if you have audio from a passing
car playing some radio station music in your video, you are considered to have stolen this music
content. Such cheesy, kangaroo court laws are getting progressively worse.

And Pussy Riot engaged in brazen trespass and vandalism and getting some proper justice is
"evidence" of Russian "tyranny". GTFO you retarded hypocrites.

The Canadian state run propaganda outfit the CBC practically spooges on camera when some ancient Khruschevka collapses
in Russia (as if it has anything to do with modern Russia).   Well here is some payback.   We had a 3rd world collapse in a
new condo/apartment building construction.   I have seen with my own eyes the shitty construction standards in the
precious west (USA and Canada).   The USSR would not tolerate such paper housing.   Russia does not either.  The walls
are actually thick concrete slabs as are the floors.    Not the moronic two panels of crappy drywall through which you can
hear your neighbour breathe and the rubbish floors that are thin enough (even if they are concrete) to amplify the
footsteps of your upstairs neighbours into a 24/7 nuisance.

Americans still pay premium rents in glorified wood frame "apartments" that are nothing more than oversized regular
houses built of 2x4 and drywall.   These toilets are a nightmare.   The only way to get decent accommodations in
Canada and the USA is to own your own house.   That way you can tolerate the transparency to sound.

Too bad the retarded fucks who run Rutube stopped video posting for popular media. They should have ignored NATzO
and its BS copyright laws. Seriously any law that punishes you for theft if you record a third party playing a radio song
in a passing car is insane. What are people going to do? Rip and burn this precious sample and make mint off it?

Western video services are subject to legal control via copyright. And I think people are going to be burned by all of
these "better than YouTube" options. It is a con like when new computer shops give great prices and start gouging
later once their rep is established.

Worthy of a post on the same subject. The adulation of Musk from CNN is grotesque and all his fanbois are simply ignoramuses.
That is why snake oil and radium cures were so popular in the past until some regulations showed up. But the saps and the
parasites that use them never went away.

Former CIA officer John Stockwell explains how a CIA task force wrote misleading news releases all over the world which were picked up by international media organizations.

The hyper-atomisation of the individual by the West and the consequent loss of tradition in favour of liberal cosmopolitanism has created hordes of confused people, idly drifting about in search of an identity and a concept of the Self.

It is ironic that for all the bleating in the west about "individualism", the masses behave more like sheep compared to countries
which supposedly lack all of this "individualism". This observation is based on my family experience of migrating from the USSR to
the west decades ago (well before 1990). There was a culture shock. It was common in the USSR for people to discuss politics
and other "dangerous" subjects in social contexts. Ragging on the system was normal. But in "freedom country" Canada it was
not the thing to do. Political correctness is a pathology of the "free world". It is a conformism syndrome and not any sort
of value system. You can see this with all the woke lynch mobs on social media who are cancelling people in the name of
tolerance and diversity.