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sudden and sharp · « **Respuesta #1530 en:** **Ayer** a las 18:23:37 »

Cita de: conejo en Ayer a las 17:42:20

¿Está capitulando ya el anglo en Ucrania?

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No pongo enlaces porque son capturas de capturas. Si alguien puede buscar las noticias originales sería lo mejor.

No sería lo mejor, es lo imprescindible.

Aquí NO se borran mensajes. (Pero éste se las trae.)

sudden and sharp · « **Respuesta #1531 en:** **Ayer** a las 18:40:25 »

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sudden and sharp · « **Respuesta #1532 en:** **Ayer** a las 18:45:41 »

Cita de: conejo en Ayer a las 17:42:20

¿Está capitulando ya el anglo en Ucrania?

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El artículo parece correcto.

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PETER HITCHENS: You've been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace....
Peter Hitchens
6-8 minutos

In my trade I have long grown used to the way governments lie and get others to lie for them. It is what they do. But I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we face now.

Hardly anyone in this country knows the truth about Ukraine. There has been nothing like it since we were all lied to about the Iraq invasion, with bilge about fictional ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’. The liars were caught out. And they learned from it. They learned to lie more skilfully.

Meanwhile, many of those in our society who knew how to challenge such lies died off or retired and were not replaced.

We have never had a debate about the Ukraine crisis which started from the beginning. Did anyone in power ever tell you truthfully how, when or why this war began? No. Did anyone in power explain why Britain, crime-blighted, decrepit, rubbish-strewn, rat-infested, broke Britain, had to get involved in it? Never.

You have just been fed propaganda rubbish about ‘democracy’, freedom and an invented Russian menace. Here are some of the lies you have repeatedly been told.

The war, they say, was not provoked. Seldom in history has a war been more provoked.

'You have just been fed propaganda rubbish about ‘democracy’, freedom and an invented Russian menace,' writes Peter Hitchens. Pictured: Russian president Vladimir Putin

Russians, nice ones like the liberal, democratic politician Yegor Gaidar, and nasty ones like the bloody despot Vladimir Putin, begged the West to stop trundling its military alliance, Nato, eastwards towards Russia.

All Russians, including the great anti-Communist author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, had been shocked and angered when Nato in 1999 abruptly gave up its defensive posture and launched attacks on Yugoslavia – which had not attacked a Nato member.

These protests reached their peak in February 2007, when Putin made a dramatic speech in Munich. He said Nato expansion was ‘a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?’

Look, if someone as gaunt as Putin spoke to you like that in a pub late in the evening, you’d take it as a warning that he was seriously riled. And unless you wanted a fight, you’d back off. But we didn’t back off.

US President George W. Bush, the genius who invaded Iraq, deliberately raised the temperature the following year. Can it be that Bush likes wars?

In April 2008, Bush said that Ukraine should be placed on the path towards joining Nato. Even the Guardian, the Liberal Warmonger’s Gazette, conceded that this was ‘likely to infuriate the Kremlin’. And so it did. I suspect we were on the path to war from that moment.

'Protests reached their peak in February 2007, when Putin made a dramatic speech in Munich' (pictured)

I am always accused, when I say that, of making excuses for Putin. I am not. I think he was stupid as well as wrong to be provoked. Wise men ignore provocations. But to claim he was not provoked is just to lie.

Another lie we are repeatedly told is that Russia attacked Georgia later in 2008. But anyone can find, on the web, a 2009 Reuters news agency story headlined ‘Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report’.

The dispatch summarises an inquiry by the respected Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini. She had been asked by Brussels to look into that war. That is what she said. But, somehow or other, a lot of Western media outlets failed to find space for it. I still meet supposedly informed people who have never heard of Ms Tagliavini or her report.

And then there is the claim that this is about democracy and freedom. It isn’t. The more the West claims to care for these things, the less it does to help them.

Some examples: Ukraine’s elected president was lawlessly overthrown by a mob in 2014. Britain and the USA condoned this shameful event because they preferred the illegal rebels to the elected government. You just can’t do that and pretend to be the guardian of democracy. But then, we aren’t anyway.

You will search in vain for protests against the treatment of Romania’s presidential candidate, in a country that is in the EU and Nato.

Calin Georgescu’s election was annulled by judges in December when he looked like winning the first round. And he has been banned from standing in the second round – all because he has the wrong kind of politics. And if that’s not enough, look at the West’s deep, shaming silence over the frightening, thuggish behaviour of Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan.

A few weeks ago, this Turkish Putin arrested and jailed Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who looked likely to beat him at the polls.

Mr Imamoglu joined the many journalists and democrats who already rot in Turkish prisons.

Erdogan has crushed free media, free speech and the freedom to protest. But his country is still allowed to stay in Nato, and Western states have made less noise than an angry vole guarding its nest. They’re scared of Erdogan.

I won’t even try to explain how Germany recently recalled its old, dead parliament to push through laws the newly elected parliament would not pass. This was done to allow the spending of extra billions on the Ukraine war. But I hope you get my drift.

Demand proper debate. Demand the truth. Don’t be dragged into more stupidity, or we will end up with bomb craters as well as potholes.
No drugs? Try telling that to those who worship marijuana

I am grateful to my eagle-eyed colleague Andrew Preston for spotting this lonely notice, below, displayed last weekend in London’s Hyde Park.

For you, last Sunday was Easter, but for worshippers of the cruel god Marijuana, it was their annual feast day, when they invade Hyde Park (and many other places) in significant numbers to defy the law.

Note the feeble wording, saying drug criminals ‘can’ be arrested, not that they will be.

Scotland Yard explained its policy: ‘Using cannabis… is illegal. Officers intervened and used enforcement options where proportionate and necessary.’ What did that mean in practice? Four people were arrested.

Officers also issued 45 ‘community resolutions’, seized five sound systems, issued 27 ‘dispersal notices’ and six ‘penalty notices’.

Day by day, evidence pours in linking marijuana use with incurable mental illness, and also with violent, crazy crime.

The maximum penalty for marijuana possession is still five years inside and an unlimited fine.

When did Parliament tell the police that they do not have to enforce the law?

El anglo... no sé; pero este psudoperiodista, sí.

Cadavre Exquis · « **Respuesta #1533 en:** **Ayer** a las 18:52:31 »

https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-24/sanchez-anuncia-una-inversion-de-1300-millones-de-euros-para-el-nuevo-perte-de-vivienda.html

https://elpais.com/economia/2025-04-24/la-reforma-de-las-pensiones-de-escriva-subira-la-pension-media-un-25.html

Saludos.

Derby · « **Respuesta #1534 en:** **Ayer** a las 18:54:00 »

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-27/shein-hikes-us-prices-as-much-as-377-ahead-of-tariff-increases

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Shein Hikes US Prices as Much as 377% Ahead of Tariff Increases

A Shein distribution center in Whitestown, Indiana. Photographer: AJ Fast/Bloomberg

Fast-fashion giant Shein Group Ltd. raised US prices of its products from dresses to kitchenware ahead of imminent tariffs on small parcels, in an early sign of the potential effect of the trade war on American consumers.

Most of the hikes in US prices came on Friday, with markups significantly higher in some categories than others, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News. The average price for the top 100 products in the beauty and health category increased by 51% from Thursday, with several of the items more than doubling in price. For home and kitchen products and toys, the average jump was more than 30%, led by a massive 377% increase in the price of a 10-piece set of kitchen towels. For women’s clothing the rise was 8%.

Biggest Price Jumps Observed Among Most Popular Items
% price change for some Shein listings on April 25 in the US

Source: Bloomberg
Note: The biggest jumps observed among most popular items in beauty & health, home & kitchen, toys & games and women's clothing categories.

E-commerce shopping platforms like Shein and Temu face a 120% tariff on many of their products due to the US government’s decision to end the “de minimis” exemption for small packages from mainland China and Hong Kong. Exporters in recent years had capitalized on the exemption, which allowed goods valued at under $800 to enter the US without tariffs or customs duties. Washington will also increase the per-postal-item fee on goods entering after May 2 to $100 and even higher after June 1.

As recently as April 21, Trump said in a social media post that “there is virtually no inflation” because of falling energy and grocery prices. But Shein’s price hike reflects the latest efforts by Chinese online retailers to pass at least some of the extra imports costs onto US consumers.

Shein Raised Prices Across Categories on April 25
Average price of the top 100 products in each category in the US

Source: Bloomberg
Note: Data as of April 26.

Back in February, in order to seek cover from Trump’s tariff policy, Shein offered incentives to some of its Chinese suppliers to set up production capacity in Vietnam. Temu wanted Chinese factories to ship their own wares in bulk directly to American warehouses, adopting what it called a “half-custody” framework.

Temu and Shein saw sales rebound in March and early April as American shoppers stockpiled everything from makeup brushes to home appliances before tariff-led price increases set in, Bloomberg data shows. Both companies announced earlier this month that they would raise prices in the US.

In general, prices rose by about 10% for Shein in the US from April 24 to 26 based on a sample shopping cart filled by Bloomberg News with 50 items from a range of categories. During the period, 7 out of 50 sampled items were delisted in the US. In contrast, Shein’s prices in the UK stayed mostly unchanged and no items were delisted.

Shein Prices Jump in the US and Stay Stable in the UK
Total price for sample shopping carts with top items across categories

Source: Bloomberg
Note: Data as of April 26. The initial sample size was 50 items for the UK and US markets respectively. Seven items in the US have since become unavailable. Delisted items are removed from calculation.

Of the 43 items still available in the US cart, 30 had a price hike of more than 10% in the two days.

While broader price adjustments came on Friday, some goods had already become more expensive. The prices for dozens of top products in the Women’s Clothing category on Shein increased on April 22, pushing the average price for the top 100 products in the category to $9.06, from $8.68, an increase of more than 4%.

Shein Hiked Product Prices in the US as Tariff Deadline Nears
Percent change since April 15 for top items in women's clothing

Source: Bloomberg
Note: Data as of April 26.