Quote:Russia successfully tested the Burevestnik intercontinental missile (Russian link)

Putin: the last successful test of the Burevestnik cruise missile was carried out

MOSCOW, October 5 – RIA Novosti. Russia has successfully tested the nuclear-powered intercontinental cruise missile Burevestnik, Vladimir Putin said at a plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

“The last successful test of the Burevestnik, a global-range cruise missile with a nuclear installation and a nuclear propulsion system, was carried out,” the president noted.

"Burevestnik" is one of the newest weapons systems. According to the Ministry of Defense, we are talking about an intercontinental cruise missile of practically unlimited range with a nuclear power plant. It is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The Russian military noted that the low-flying, stealth cruise missile is invulnerable to all existing and future systems of both missile defense and air defense.

“We have actually completed work on the Sarmat, a super-heavy missile. The question is that we need to complete some procedures in a purely administrative and bureaucratic manner,” Putin clarified.

"Sarmat" is a strategic missile system with a liquid-propelled heavy-class intercontinental ballistic missile. The weight of one such rocket exceeds 200 tons. The complex is intended to replace the Voyevoda missiles currently in service in the Strategic Missile Forces.

Quote:Ukraine receives money from Russia for gas transit, we are called aggressors, but money, apparently, does not smell, Putin said.

The President of Ukraine stood and applauded a Nazi in Canada—isn’t this a sign of the Nazification of Ukraine? This is precisely why it is necessary to denazify Ukraine,” Putin said.

This only confirms our thesis that it is necessary to achieve denazification of Ukraine. It looks disgusting that this Nazi was applauded by the entire parliament, especially the President of Ukraine, Putin said.

Canada was disgraced by a Nazi speaking in their parliament. What do you think about it?

“The Nuremberg trials declared the division in which a Nazi served as criminal. And the speaker of the Canadian Parliament said that he was proud that a Nazi fought for the freedom of Ukraine against Russia. If he talks about this, then he cannot but understand that this is a Nazi, he fought on the side of the Nazis. If he doesn’t know this, then he’s an idiot,” Putin said.

We must behave in a mirror manner towards the United States; theoretically, it is possible to revoke the ratification of the nuclear test ban, Putin said.

The United States previously signed the Nuclear Weapons Test Ban Act, but did not ratify it. We conducted a successful test of the nuclear-powered Burevestnik, the president said.

Is Russia's nuclear doctrine outdated?

“In Russian military doctrine, there are two reasons for the use of nuclear weapons: the first is a response in the event of missiles being launched on our territory. Today, the aggressor will have no chance of survival if we respond. And the second is if the existence of the state is threatened, even with the use of conventional missiles. I don’t see the need to change this. No person in his right mind would think of using nuclear weapons against Russia,” Putin replied.

Key points from Putin's speech at the Valdai Forum (Russian link)

Quote:"There is no doubt that Russia’s civilisational code is based on Christianity, and so is Europe’s. We certainly have this in common.

But we are not going to impose ourselves on Europe if Europe does not want us. We are not rejecting them, nor are we slamming [this window] shut. You asked if we regret this. Why would we?

It is not us who are slamming the door on communication; it is Europe fencing itself off and creating a new Iron Curtain. We are not the ones creating it, but the Europeans are creating it at the cost of their own losses and to their own detriment."

Quote:The Germans got us, and they got us right smart. They just stopped us dead in our tracks. Their machine guns were up there on the heights overlooking us and well hidden, and we couldn’t tell for certain where the terrible heavy fire was coming from … And I’m telling you they were shooting straight. Our boys just went down like the long grass before the mowing machine at home. Our attack just faded out … And there we were, lying down, about halfway across…”

In the story of every hero, there is a moment where he needs to make the difficult decision to accept the challenge before him. This is how Alvin York described that pivotal moment:

    And those machine guns were spitting fire and cutting down the undergrowth all around me something awful. And the Germans were yelling orders. You never heard such a racket in all of your life. I didn’t have time to dodge behind a tree or dive into the brush … As soon as the machine guns opened fire on me, I began to exchange shots with them. There were over thirty of them in continuous action, and all I could do was touch the Germans off just as fast as I could. I was sharp shooting … All the time I kept yelling at them to come down. I didn’t want to kill any more than I had to. But it was they or I. And I was giving them the best I had.”

Sergeant York

Quote:The siege of the Tel el-Zataar refugee camp began in January of 1976 with an attack by Christian Lebanese militias led by the Lebanese Front as part of a wider campaign to expel Palestinians, especially those affiliated with the opposing Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from northern Beirut. After five months, the siege turned into a full-scale military assault in June and ended with the massacre in August 1976 which resulted in the death of over 2,000 civilians.

The green figure in the current work is both noble and ghoulish, representing the mixture of dignity and sorrow which characterises the Palestinian plight for freedom and making use of red and green colour palettes which Palestinians at the time were banned from using by Israeli authorities. She stands against a backdrop of typically Palestinian brick dwellings and possibly ancient ruins, Indicating the rich tapestry of civilisations that Palestine historically harboured. As a female the figure also pays tribute to the increasing role of women in Palestinian activism during the period and also highlights the particular tragedy of the massacre which saw women as the principal survivors.

Sliman Mansour

Quote:Vrak (Wreck) - direct from SS Nicomedia

On October 11, 1915, the British submarine HMS E19 sank the German cargo ship SS Nicomedia off the southern tip of Öland. In the summer of 1999, some of the crew's beer was salvaged by a group of divers who contacted us. In the bottles there was beer with a fascinating taste and not least some live yeast. A panel of experienced beer tasters was set to investigate what was in the bottles and concluded that it was a wheat beer that had been aged with pleasure. The storage conditions were close to optimal, dark and cold as it is at the bottom of the sea. The yeast found has been cultivated and has been the basis for the development of Vrak. This means that Slottskällans Bryggeri not only produces Sweden's only wheat beer, but we now produce two different ones.

Contents: Three types of malt: Wheat, pilsner and light caramel malt.
Two types of hops: Nordbrauer and Steiermark.
Yeast: "1915"
Technical data: Stem wort strength: 13.8°Plato, Original Gravity 1.056
Apparent extract content in the beer: 3.3°Plato, Final Gravity 1.013
Alcohol content: 5.4% (volume), 4.4% (weight).

Quote:Flashback: Babies on Bayonets (Corbett video)

Once again, just as they did in Britain, the cabal was going to have to leverage its control of the press and key governmental positions to begin to shape public perception and instill pro-war sentiment. And once again, the full resources of these motivated co-conspirators were brought to bear on the task.

One of the first shells in this barrage of propaganda to penetrate the American consciousness was the "Rape of Belgium," a catalogue of scarcely believable atrocities allegedly committed by the German forces in their invasion and occupation of Belgium at the start of the war. In a manner that was to become the norm in 20th century propaganda, the stories had a kernel of truth; there is no doubt that there were atrocities committed and civilians murdered by German forces in Belgium. But the propaganda that was spun from those kernels of truth was so over-the-top in its attempts to portray the Germans as inhuman brutes that it serves as a perfect example of war propaganda.

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A photograph of Jewish children in the Theresienstadt ghetto taken during an inspection by the International Red Cross. Prior to this visit, the ghetto was "beautified" in order to deceive the visitors. Czechoslovakia, June 23, 1944.

Fifteen thousand children passed through Theresienstadt. Although forbidden to do so, they attended school. They painted pictures, wrote poetry, and otherwise tried to maintain a vestige of normalcy. Approximately 90 percent of these children perished in killing centers.

Theresienstadt: Red Cross Visit

Quote:In Switzerland, sodium pentobarbital is administered to the patient intravenously. Once administered, sleep is induced within 30 seconds, and the heart stops beating within 3 minutes. Oral administration is also used. A Swiss pharmacist reported in 2022 that the dose for assisted suicide had been raised to 15 grams because with lower doses death was preceded by a coma of up to 10 hours in some cases.