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Do we need to reactivate the word “defenestration”?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: The last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, passed away at the same hospital where the chairman of Russia’s second largest oil producer, who had called for a speedy end to the war in Ukraine, fell … Continue reading
Posted in Komprosplat, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life
Tagged defenestration, Jan Masaryk, Lukoil executive, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow Center, Putin, Russian bloggers
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A few more good things
♥ Katie Porter posted this on Twitter just now: “We’ve been charging oil and gas companies the same royalty rate to drill on public lands for 100+ years—until yesterday. The Biden Administration has raised the rate to the amount I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Good Things Happening, Joe Biden and his people, Komprosplat, Law, suits and order, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Brian Karem, DOJ, GOP pedophiles, January 6 investigation, Katie Porter, National Environmental Policy Act, oil and gas leases, Starbucks, Steven Greenhouse
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What kind of people support authoritarian leaders?
This kind: “It is a less-educated, older part of the population, mainly living in rural areas or in small and medium-sized cities, where the population is poorer and more dependent on power,” he said, referring to those who rely on … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Komprosplat, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights, War on Ukraine
Tagged Fox network, Lev Gudkov, New York Times, Putin, Russian population, Sabrina Tavernise
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