Lauren Southern: Why The Media LIE About Ukraine

Agree ... but, it still doesn't justify the full-scale invasion by Vladimir Putin's forces (not the Russian people), or the scorched earth policy being pursued by Vladimir Putin's forces. Levelling a country's cities and displacing millions is just weaponising refugees to overwhelm western Europe's capacity to provide for them all, and is by dint of that action; using refugees as proxies to weaken western Europe financially and socially, because sure as god made green grass, eventually Ukrainian refugees on-mass in other European countries will be seen in the same light as, Kosovans, Ethiopians, Sudanese, Croats, Somalis, Rwandans, Syrians, Afghans, take your pick from three or four decades of conflicts. 

It's all cool when it's fresh but as soon as they start to require the resources of the nation that takes them in, then the people at the and in the places where they are resettled will start to push back exclaiming "what about my benefits, my housing needs, my children's schooling, my doctor's surgery?" and from there, people transition from being people to being a race and we all know what happens next.

Agreed eventually after a couple of generations things settle, but a couple of generations is a long time for elements of and within a society to be abrading each other, wilfully agitated by the elements on the far-left and the far-right that Lauren Southern speaks of.

The Drive to Kilve.

Something on a lighter note, no BMW drivers feeling were hurt in the making of this video, they don't do feelings they just do shit driving and being arseholes behind the wheel.

Antzy antagonistic memes.

A selection from the pandemic ear ... past tense it seems in the Northern hemisphere, its other people's problem now, we're having a war ... or at least watching a war, and hoping Mr Putin doesn't go all in and nuke his way to immortality in a historical sense, a grand claim for a terrible reason. Think that's a bit of an exaggeration. just think about all the fuckers that have gone postal over the years, killing and dying to make their name, their mark on society and history and doing it with nihilism, and now we have one in charge of the largest nuclear arsenal on Earth ... what could possibly go wrong?

For those who ask: “Why does Ukraine matter? “

For veracity, I checked Snopes before reposting this meme in full.

Snopes.com fact-check why-does-ukraine-matter

Snopes summary: 

Conclusion

Much of the data included in the viral “why Ukraine matters” posts were true. Some of the items on the list had become outdated, but more recent numbers still showed that the country had a strong standing in various categories of reserves, production, and exports. However, we were unable to find figures to confirm a few of the claims, and a small number of them were flat-out false. For all of these reasons, the social media posts were neither definitively true, false, outdated, nor unproven, but rather a mixture of all four. That’s why we chose the rating of “Mixture.”

So on balance, we can say Ukraine is still pretty important and we should be mindful of how badly Ukraine's fall would be if Vladimir Putin succeeds.

This is why Ukraine matters.

It is the second largest country by area in Europe by area and has a population

of over 40 million - more than Poland.

Ukraine ranks:

1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;

2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;

2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);

2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);

2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;

3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)

4 fact checked false

7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

Ukraine is an important agricultural country:

1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;

3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume);

1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;

2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;

3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;

4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;

5th largest rye producer in the world;

5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);

8th place in the world in wheat exports;

9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;

16th place fact checked false

Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

Ukraine is an important industrialised country:

Fact checked false 1st in Europe in ammonia production;

Europe's 2nd’s and the world’s 4th largest natural gas pipeline system;

3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;

3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);

3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;

3rd largest iron exporter in the world

4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;

4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;

4th place in the world in clay exports

4th place in the world in titanium exports

8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;

9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;

10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

Ukraine matters. That is why its independence is important to the rest of the world.

Brent Knoll Thigh Burner

An early morning walk up Brent Knoll to take in the views, and deposit some of my dad's ashes on the western face of the Knoll so he can bask in afternoon sunshine until the hill has eroded away, or the land sinks beneath a future sea or is subsumed by glaciers in some distant epoch ... I myself will be long since gone whatever. I've walked this walk a dozen times or more over the years, in all seasons and at all times of the day. It's a liberating walk, hard enough to get the blood pumping and the bellows blowing but not so hard that you can't do anything else for the rest of the day.

Wikipedia Brent Knoll

Wikipedia Brent Knoll Camp

Wikipedia Bellows (Colloquial ... lungs).