@tom_andraszek

I find it fascinating that, when I’ve dared to post critiques of the motives of the #US #Imperium, #NATO & the arms manufacturers’ “permanent war complex” in respect of the #Ukraine invasion by #Russia (which I fundamentally do NOT support btw), I get responses very similar to yours.

They all seem to parrot western/ NATO propaganda lines that (crudely): deny the US/ NATO have in *any* way provoked those invasions & put *all* the blame on #Putin for his decision to invade (both in 2014 & 2022)!

I’ve been called all sorts of names (not by you obviously) for my troubles - both on Masto & previously on Musk’s platform.

Seems to me we’re stuck back in the old Cold War mentality of: US/ NATO/ “free world” always good, never wrong vs Russia always bad, always wrong!

I’m not by any means an expert in geopolitics nor am I a historian but I know & trust the work of someone who has a deep understanding of both when it comes to US imperial behaviour - Chris #Hedges.

I therefore respectfully invite you to read Hedges’ article in #Counterpunch entitled: “Waltzing Torwards Armageddon With The Merchants of Death”

Talk later perhaps?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/15/waltzing-toward-armageddon-with-the-merchants-of-death/

De retour sur Masto. Avec #Dune #Imperium acheté cet après-midi au #Warp à #Rouen. Ce jeu me faisait de l'oeil depuis trop longtemps... #jeudesociété #jds Un mélange de placement d'ouvriers et de deckbuilding très riche. Premier test ce week-end normalement.

A while ago I went to my GF's house and decided to bring a mini and some paints with me. Last Saturday I finally finished said mini: an Assault Intercessor from the #ultramarines chapter.

In my totally honest opinion, not influenced at all by the fact I'm a #wordbearers fan, I've always found Ultramarines to be a really boring chapter, but I did have fun painting this mini from the #imperium series.

Next one in the list is a Cataphractii Sergeant from the #HorusHeresy game I assembled last Saturday as well, thus returning to my Word Bearers Army.

#warhammer40k #40k #miniaturepainting #warhammer

Why did the #US #Imperium go after Julian #Assange? What did he do?

As Chris #Hedges writes on #Substack in a sermon he gave on August 20 in Oslo entitied “The Crucifixion of Julian Assange”: they came after him because he told the truth - again and again!

[Full disclosure: I’m an atheist but I am also a great admirer of Hedges’ writings & his passionate opposition to the criminal, warmongering ruling classes!]

“They came after Julian because he exposed the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of #Iraqi civilians;

because he exposed the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 and 89, at #Guantánamo;

because he exposed that Hillary #Clinton in 2009 ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other U.N. representatives from China, France, Russia, and the U.K., spying that included obtaining DNA, iris scans, fingerprints, and personal passwords (part of the long pattern of illegal surveillance that included the eavesdropping on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003);

because he exposed that Barack #Obama, Hillary Clinton and the #CIA backed the June 2009 military coup in #Honduras that overthrew the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya, replacing him with a murderous and corrupt military regime;

because he exposed that George W. #Bush, Barack Obama and General David #Petraeus prosecuted a war in Iraq that under post-Nuremberg laws is defined as a criminal war of aggression, a war crime;

that they authorized hundreds of targeted assassinations, including those of U.S. citizens in #Yemen, and that they secretly launched missile, bomb, and drone attacks on Yemen, killing scores of civilians;

because Julian exposed the contents of the speeches Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs for which she was paid $675,000, a sum so large it can only be considered a bribe, and that she privately assured corporate leaders she would do their bidding while promising the public financial regulation and reform;

because he exposed how the hacking tools used by the CIA and the National Security Agency [#NSA] permit the wholesale government surveillance of our televisions, computers, smart phones and anti-virus software, allowing the government to record and store our conversations, images and private text messages, even from encrypted apps.

Julian exposed the truth. He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling class And for these truths they came after Julian, as they have come after all who dared rip back the veil on power.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-crucifixion-of-julian-assange?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Working on a commission. Choppy gold fella! #WarhammerCommunity #warhammer40k #warhammer #PaintingWarhammer #paintingminiatures #adeptuscustodes #spacemarines #imperium

De rush van Cicero naar het consulaat door de ogen zijn secretaris. Je wordt meegenomen naar het Rome ten tijde van Cicero, Caesar, Pompeius, Crassus en Catalina in een verhaal vol politieke intriges. 5⭐️ #boekentoot #cicero #RobertHarris #Imperium #HistorischeFictie

I often read texts that suggest that there is a concept of #Empire that everyone is relating to, but so far no one has bothered to explain to me what this is supposed to be. Apparently, it is more than just a dynastic or multi- or supranational state. Sometimes it is suggested that the concept is related to the Holy Roman Empire and its relation to the #Catholic Church. And that a genuine empire has a claim to the world.

Anyone care to explicate?

#imperium

Video Roundup: Onslaught / Cavalera / X-Empire / Balrogath / Imperium / Aftermath

Another in our irregular series of "you've got to see this" sextets. Get your eyes and ears around these new videos!
Onslaught
In celebration of their 40th anniversary last year, British thrash metal pioneers Onslaught

https://www.moshville.co.uk/video/2023/06/video-roundup-onslaught-cavalera-x-empire-balrogath-imperium-aftermath/

#Videos #Aftermath #Balrogath #Cavalera #Imperium #Onslaught #XEmpire

英國租車公司新服務 遙控駕駛將車輛送往指定地點
近日英國推出了一款嶄新的汽車租賃服務，有別於租車者需要前往指定店舖或地點取車，初創公司 Imperium Drive 的 Fetch 租車服務會將車輛送到客戶的指定地點，而服務最特別之處是車輛會由身處辦公室的員工，通過遙距駕駛的方式送到現場。
The post 英國租車公司新服務 遙控駕駛將車輛送往指定地點 appeared first on 香港 unwire.hk 玩生活．樂科技.
#車壇動向 #Fetch #Imperium Drive
https://unwire.hk/2023/06/15/fetch-driverless-car-rental-service-uk-imperium-drive/life-tech/auto/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fetch-driverless-car-rental-service-uk-imperium-drive

Space Drama - The Imperium Withdraws from the Tranquility Trading Consortium
#EVEOnline, #TweetFleet, #TTC, #Imperium

https://tagn.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/space-drama-the-imperium-withdraws-from-the-tranquility-trading-consortium/

Kommersialiseringa av teknologi har sørgja for tapt kontroll over gjerdingar, og med det spreiing av gjerdings inntrengjerar. Folkets medviten om inntrengjerar sørgje for ein frykt for små verktøy og samlar merksemd hjå dei store "trygge" imperialistane. Imperialistane brukar sin språkmakt til å svekke medvit om kontroll over gjerdingar og på denne måten hamstra meir makt.

Dette gjer at kontrollen svekkes endå meir. Altså lagar det ein sjølvstyrkande prosess.

#jord #imperium

Kommersialiseringa av teknologi har sørgja for tapt kontroll over gjerdingar, og med det spreiing av gjerdings inntrengjerar. Folkets medviten om inntrengjerar sørgje for ein frykt for små verktøy og samlar merksemd hjå dei store "trygge" imperialistane. Imperialistane brukar sin språkmakt til å svekke medvit om kontroll over gjerdingar og på denne måten hamstra meir makt.

Dette gjer at kontrollen svekkes endå meir. Altså lagar det ein sjølvstyrkande prosess.

#jord #imperium

The Initiative Leaves the Imperium Compact
#EVEOnline, #TweetFleet, #Imperium

https://tagn.wordpress.com/2023/06/05/the-initiative-leaves-the-imperium-compact/

BITTE WAS???

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Was mag geschehen, wenn ich das aktiviere?!? 😳😳🤔

#Ebike
#StarWars #imperium

Instalando una cosita para mi hijo después de nuestro viaje a Roma

A ver si funciona a día de hoy, esa es otra.

#Imperium #FxSoftware #ImperiumCivitasII #ImperiumCivitas

Twee aangeduide - niet door de bevolking die ze beweren te vertegenwoordigen verkozen - personen schuiven mee aan tafel namens de Europese Unie. #imperium

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/gannemans/status/1659529637846736897

@bolli3097
Den Artikel wollte ich schon seit Tagen mal verlinken... 😂

Kränkung. Es macht so vieles nachvollziehbar.

Lesenswert ist auch das Interview mit Grigori Judin:
https://www.dekoder.org/de/article/krieg-ukraine-judin-ziel-putin-analyse
Das müsste Pflichtlektüre sein für all die "Neutralen" und "Friedensbewegten".

#Ukrainekrieg #Putin #Russland #Imperium

"Man kann Putin aber sehr wohl besiegen – wenn man sich nicht mehr von ihm täuschen lässt. Und erkennt, was Russland zurzeit wirklich ist: ein brutales #Imperium, das auf #Expansion aus ist. Das zumindest sollte mittlerweile jeder begriffen haben."

10 Festivals That Black Metal Fans Need to Know About #2023_05_01 #metalsucks #bree_halmstad #the_black_pages #beyond_the_gates #caerimonia_nidrosiae #celebrare_noctem #imperium #inferno #metal_threat

>> https://www.metalsucks.net/2023/05/01/10-festivals-that-black-metal-fans-need-to-know-about/

Thinking about #Traveller merchant fleets. Galegia in my #Foreven sector is my #Venice in space. Twice a year a combined merchant fleet from the six merchant families depart for a long trading expedition with escorts. The first one goes trailing to the #Imperium, the second one goes spinward and coreward to the #Zhodani.

Must be jump 2 to join. How big do you think the fleet would be? How many escorts? All the merchants pay a flat fee (based on tonnage) for the escorts.

#TTRPG #TravellerRpg