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Putin’s Successor if he is killed soon!

Posted on 30.08.202430.08.2024 by Jeff Schubert

Putin’s Successor if he is killed soon!!

If for some reason Putin unexpectedly dies – for example, he is killed in an aircraft accident (like the president of Iran) – it is worth considering who be the most likely successors.

The Moscow based Minchenko Consulting pyramid list might give us some clues. At the top are three businessmen — Arkady Rotenberg, Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk – who are probably too far removed from the broader Kremlin power structures to be contenders. Sergei Chemezov is a possibility, but would he want the direct responsibilities of president, or would he prefer to be in the background? Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin would undoubtedly want the job but the “teacher’s pet” might not be seen as tough enough by the security forces. Even the experienced and highly intelligent Georgi Malenkov eventually fell to the more hardline Nikita Khrushchev!

The next row down in the Minchenko list contains Igor Sechin, Sergei Kiriyenko, Dmitry Medvedev, and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Could Sechin attempt to be a successor to Putin – as Bormann did with Hitler? Sechin is seven years younger than Putin (although photos would suggest he is nowhere near as fit) and it would not be surprising if he wanted the top job if the opportunity arose. If we accept suggestions – by Mark Galeotti and others – that Putin is seeking to nurture a “new generation” of “Putinists” it would be surprising if Putin was to designate Sechin his successor. Moreover, after the May 2024 reshuffle, according to Galeotti, Sechin has become “simply a hydro-carbon baron” and not a clan leader. Kiriyenko and Medvedev would clearly jump at the chance to succeed Putin and Kiriyenko’s position inside the Kremlin would be an advantage – but he would probably be seen a too much of a dilettante. It is hard to conceive of Medvedev being acceptable no matter hard he tries to be a tough guy. Sobyanin presently has a great job and may not want to make a move unless assured that he – and not the siloviki power structures – would be running the country.

The third row in the Minchenko list consisted of Sergei Shoigu and Nikolai Patrushev. Shoigu’s power depends completely on his personal relationship with Putin, and he would not last long as a successor no matter how he got there. Patrushev has much wider connections in the upper echelons of power, is close to Putin, and now has a son – Nikolai Patrushev – who is a Deputy Prime Minister. If there was ever to be a struggle for power in the event of say, the unexpected death of Putin in the near future, Nikolai Patrushev – along with Sechin – would probably be a player. Whether or not this would be a Hua Guofeng / Deng Xiaoping or a Malenkov / Krushchev type struggle would depend on the circumstances.

So, in the event of Putin eventually deciding to nominate a successor, Dyumin would seem to be the most likely choice. In the event that Putin does not get to choose because of his sudden death, Mishustin would emerge at the top for at least an interim period.

Brittany Higgins false rape earned her $2m

Posted on 17.08.202417.08.2024 by Jeff Schubert

Brittany Higgins false rape earned her $2m.

Nary always had this uncanny sense of seeing me if I went near my favorite café next to the river in Phnom Penh and would come up to me with a broad happy smile. About a month ago I saw Nary walking on the road in the opposite direction to me, but she did not seem to recognize me until she was only a couple of meters away. Her face was blank and she showed little of the enthusiasm that I had become used to. I recognized that something was different but I had no idea what. I could not just leave her standing there so I invited her to come to the café with me. When the waitress asked Nary what she wanted, Nary could only mumble a response.

Nary had always told me that she worked as a cook and rented a room not far from the café, while her mother lived on the very outskirts of Phnom Penh about an hour away by “tuktuk” taxi. I felt that Nary was in no condition to be left alone, so I invited her back to my apartment. She went straight to the bathroom, had a shower, and then wrapped herself in a large towel and lay on the bed.

Sometime later I went to the bathroom and was shocked to see that her thick panties were lying in the washbasin with a huge amount of blood. I went into the bedroom to ask Nary about this but she just rolled over and I then saw that there was now a lot of blood seeping through the towel wrapped around her lower body. If I had any doubts that she had been sexually assaulted they were removed that night. While I tried totally unsuccessfully to sleep on the living room couch Nary spent the whole night sitting on the bed with the lights on and talking to some imaginary persons or God. The “conversation” was intense and continuous. At about 3 am I heard uncontrollable crying which lasted for well over an hour despite my efforts calm her down.

Neither of us had slept and when dawn broke I told Nary that she could stay in my apartment for a long as she wanted. Nevertheless, Nary insisted that she wanted to go “home”. I gave her $100 and said she could come back in the future. I had put Nari’s underwear in the washing machine and the blood had washed out – but Nary decided to throw these in the bin and left my apartment without any panties.

Contrast this with Brittany Higgins who willingly went back to Parliament House with Bruce Lehrmann, took her white dress off and put it on the floor next to a couch and lay on the couch waiting for him. For some reason Lehrmann was slow to move and by the time he got to her she was half asleep.

Nary has always refused to tell me what had happened. In contrast, Higgins happily lied and tricked her way to getting over $2m in compensation — while all the time partying in her white dress while falsely telling police it was in a bag under her bed because of its association with “rape”!

Justice Michael Lee, who justifiably did not like or trust Lehrmann, probably thinks the word “rape” applies equally to Nary and Higgins when the reality of the world suggests that they are very different things.

Lies of Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO

Posted on 11.08.202411.08.2024 by Jeff Schubert

Lies of Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO

Mike Burgess, the Director General of ASIO, has been reported as telling the ABC Insider program that there was “far more anti-Semitism than Islamophobia in Australia” before the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. (“ASIO boss urges restraint in political rhetoric”, The Australian, 11 August 2024).

However, he presents no evidence for this assertion. I suspect that he has no evidence and is lying because he thinks that this view lines up with that of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Or if Burgess really believes what he says, I suspect that his claim is based almost entirely on what very vocal – and PR savvy – Australian Jewish groups claim. These people appear to have much greater loyalty to Israel than Australia and are prepared to sow discord in Australia in order to advance the interests of Israel.

Burgess also, no doubt, reads The Australian newspaper which has team of journalists and commentators who stand out for their lack of work experience in the non-English speaking part of the world and adherence to almost any American idea of being superior humans. Almost to a person they exhibit Islamophobia in the fashion of the clear views of one of Australia’s High Court Judges.

Contrary to what Burgess argues, the willingness of Australians – and the Government — to see Palestinians slaughtered en-masse by Israel suggest that Islamophobia is far greater than anti-Semitism in Australia.

I lived and worked in Russia for many years until October 2022 — that is eight months after the February invasion of Ukraine — and Burgess reminds me of the internal propaganda of Russian security agencies.

Don’t be a coward Mike! Tell us about the evidence that you have about the relative strengths of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia!