Pepe Escobar

Le Petit Roi is the new Crash Test Dummy. All Dressed Up in Vuitton as a 'Canard Boiteux' ('Lame Duck') with nowhere to go.

A photo of Kaya Kallas’ family, “suffering from the Soviet dictatorship,” is going viral online. Kaya’s father, Siim Kallas, worked in the Ministry of Finance of the ESSR, then was the head of the state-owned Sberbank in the republic, and later served as deputy editor-in-chief of the publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia. It is known that the myth of the “Soviet occupation” is cultivated in Estonia, according to which the Estonian SSR’s stay within the Soviet Union was decades of darkness and horror. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, whose candidacy was approved by EU leaders the day before for the post of chief diplomat, also periodically talks about how she suffered under the USSR, for example, that she had to eat sour cream with sugar instead of sweets. Inna's note: I would date this picture between 1993 and 1996 more likely, yet I guess this family did not suffer too much due to Kaja's father status. @Slavyangrad

The Art Of Being Eternally Shocked: How The Press And Pundits Are Again Mystified By The Obvious | ZeroHedge https://www.zerohedge.com/political/art-being-eternally-shocked-how-press-and-pundits-are-again-mystified-obvious

CADAVER IN THE WHITE HOUSE UPDATE It’s a kabuki for the ages: the US plutocracy finally decided to throw the cadaver in the White House under - the nursing home - bus. Prior to that, they threw everything - and countless kitchen sinks - to make the cadaver look and sound presentable. Yet everyone with the remnants of a brain in the US could track the zombie’s cognitive disaster in real time: the ghastly “debate” was just the clincher. Now, finally - miracle from Heaven! - Exceptionalist fanatics discovered that the cadaver is, well, a cadaver. Enter, like clockwork, the MSM, duly obeying the plutocratic marching orders: supported by “polls”, it is telling voters they now will have to “choose” among other hopefuls to face the Trump juggernaut. NYT, WaPo, CNN - everyone is marching in lockstep. What a riot. Of course, with a minimal exercise in investigative journalism, the MSM could have told voters in 2020 that the Biden crime family had too many corruption skeletons in the - exceedingly large - closet to run for the Presidency. But no: all the scandals were canceled; and the cadaver was propelled to the White House. Now, in panic, the plutocracy needs a Fall (Cadaver) Guy. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.