3 May, 2023 11:20

US elites have plan to split Russia – security chief

The efforts are part of Washington’s desperate attempts to retain hegemony, Nikolay Patrushev has claimed

The US and its allies are seeking topreserve their power by dismantling Russia, with Western think tanksbusy formulating the necessary plans, the secretary of Moscow’s Security Council has claimed.

In an interview published by the Izvestia newspaper on Wednesday, Nikolay Patrushev said the West was attempting to influence the global order through “the destruction of Russia or its weakening to the level of a third-rate country under foreign management.”

He cited a book published last year and titled ‘Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture’ as an example of academic work which suggests ways of achieving that goal for the elites in Washington.

The purported plan is to “support instability in nations neighboring Russia” and to conduct information warfare to “fan internal separatism,” Patrushev added.

The book was written by Janusz Bugajski, a senior fellow at conservative Washington-based think tankThe Jamestown Foundation. The author made the case for the dissolution of Russia, claiming it had failed to become “a nation state, a civic state or a stable imperial state.”

Bugajski cited a range of factors that supposedly work against Russia, including a lack of economic growth, inequality, distrust in government institutions, the alienation of the population from the ruling elites, and “disbelief in official propaganda.”

The academic is a veteran critic of Moscow who has consulted the Pentagon and the US Agency for International Development, and according to his bio taught a course at the Foreign Service Institute at the State Department.

Patrushev claimed that the West is seeking toweaken Russian sovereignty to gain access to and exploit its vast natural resources. However, Moscow’s adversaries underestimate “the strength of our nation and the will of the Russian people to be independent,” the security official insisted.

He further alleged that Russia’s opponents are aiming to undermine the foundations of its national identity by promoting harmful ideas such as gender diversity and by attempting to revise history.

Patrushev argued that this policy actually alienates those in the West who value tradition and are not susceptible to anti-Russian propaganda. He suggested that these people are welcome to move to Russia and become citizens, as long as they respect local laws and culture.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575699-patrushev-western-elites-plan/

3 May, 2023 12:06

Almost half of British Commonwealth wants to ditch monarchy – poll

A survey has indicated that Canada and Australia would vote to become republics if referendums were held

Almost half of the overseas countries in which King Charles III is head of state would vote to become republics if given the opportunity, a new poll has found.

The survey conducted by former Conservative Party deputy chairman Michael Ashcroft suggests thatsix of the 14 overseas countries within Britain’s Commonwealth realm– including Canada and Australia – would prefer to ditch the monarchy.

Among Australian respondents, 42% were in favor of becoming a republic, with 35% opposing the idea. Canada saw a greater disparity, according to Ashcroft’s data, with 47% pushing to be a republic and just 23% objecting.

The Bahamas, Jamaica, the Solomon Islands, and Antigua and Barbuda would alsovote to remove King Charles as head of state, the poll suggests.

The reasoning for the results appears varied. Some respondents in Caribbean countries cited past colonialism as the motivation for their answers, while elsewhere people said that they believed becoming a republic would bring tangible benefits. Canada was among four countries in which polling supported the view that the monarchy is a “racist and colonialist institution and we should have nothing to do with it.”

An Australian respondent told the survey: “Britain is just like a distant memory. If anything, we’re just following in the footsteps of whatever the US is doing.” A Canadian citizen argued that the monarchy is “no longer real to the modern day.”

A separate poll conducted by Ashcroft ahead of Saturday’s coronation of King Charles found that support for the monarchy in Britain remains high, but this appears to be in stark contrast to the sentiment beyond the UK’s borders.

Of the other countries within the king’s realm, almost all of them had only marginal support for the monarchy. These include New Zealand, Belize, and Papua New Guinea. Only two of the 14 countries surveyed – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu – said that they would overwhelmingly vote to remain British crown subjects.

(That’s why the ministers requested a vow of fealty to the King, which has not happened in recent history if at all. It’s habbening!)

https://www.rt.com/news/575705-uk-britain-charles-monarchy/

>>18790930

Wow!!!

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3 May, 2023 07:13

Fire at Crimean Bridge oil depot – governor

The blaze came just days after Ukrainian forces used drones to strike a fuel terminal in Sevastopol

A fire broke out overnight at an oil storage facility in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, the local governor Veniamin Kondratyev announced on Wednesday morning.

The fuel depot is located in the village of Volna, 10 km north of the port city of Taman and close to the east end of the strategic Crimean Bridge.

No injuries have been reported, and local residents are not in danger, the official stated, adding that firefighters were focusing their efforts on preventing the spread of the fire.

Last Saturday a Ukrainian drone strike set an oil terminal on fire in Sevastopol, in the Crimean Peninsula. The Ukrainian military the operation was meant to disrupt the logistics of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which is based in the city, ahead of a promised Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Russia’s TASS news agency cited a source in the Krasnodar emergency services as saying the facility in Volna was also hit by a drone.

Taman serves as a major ferry connection with Crimea and is the closest large settlement to the eastern part of the Crimean Bridge, which links the peninsula and the Krasnodar Region. Senior Ukrainian officials have pledged to destroy the strategically important structure.

Last year, a powerful bomb carried by a truck damaged the car portion of the bridge and killed three civilians, including the driver. Moscow accused Ukrainian military intelligence of masterminding what it called a terrorist attack.

(McFaul said this yesterday: Speaking to Bloomberg’s ‘Balance of Power’ show, McCaul ventured a guess as to where the fighting might happen.“My prediction is they will try to go down and hit the land bridge in Crimea and have a very dramatic bold strategythat then would push back Russian aggression,” he said, adding that afterward Kiev could possibly “call for a ceasefire, after which we can then maybe have negotiations, to finally resolve this.” I’m sure the Russians are taking this into consideration)

https://www.rt.com/russia/575684-taman-oil-reservoir-fire/

3 May, 2023 10:39

Key US ally reduces role of dollar in trade

South Korea and Indonesia are planning to switch to national currencies

The central banks of South Korea and Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote bilateral trade in national currencies, moving away from the US dollar as an intermediary.

The step is expected to help South Korean and Indonesian corporations to lower transaction costs and exposure to exchange rate risks, the central banks of the two nations said in a joint statement.

The Bank of Indonesia and the Bank of Korea highlighted that they would continue to strengthen collaboration through information-sharing and regular discussions, as the two nations seek to boost financial ties.

The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 26th ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting that kicked off in the South Korean city of Incheon on May 2.

The ASEAN+3 group consists of the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which are joined by China, Japan, and South Korea.

Attempts to shift away from the greenback in international trade have been gaining momentum among major economic blocs such as ASEAN and the BRICS group, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

The step comes against the backdrop of sweeping sanctions introduced by Western nations against Russia, a major global energy producer and exporter.

The head of the Indonesian central bank, Perry Warjiyo, said last month that his nation was implementing a shift away from the dollar with countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, China, and Japan. In March, Brazil and China signed an agreement to trade in their own currencies, dropping the greenback as an intermediary.

(Time for the return of PDJT)

https://www.rt.com/business/575693-south-korea-indonesia-dollar-trade/

3 May, 2023 16:45

Top Russian MP calls for use of weapons ‘capable of destroying Kiev regime’

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has branded Ukraine a terrorist state after a failed drone attack on the Kremlin

Senior Russian lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin has called on Moscow touse any weapons necessary to remove the “Nazi regime” in Kiev. The comments followed a failed Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin that allegedly targeted President Vladimir Putin in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“The terrorist act against the president is an attack on Russia,” Volodin, who serves as State Duma chairman, said in a Telegram post.

“[Vladimir] Zelensky, who gave orders to carry out terrorist attacks, now stands on a par with other international terrorists,” he added, referring to the Ukrainian president. Volodin claimed that the government in Kiev is as dangerous as groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).

He further alleged that Ukraine’s “criminal methods” have become evident to the entire world, accusing it oftactics including nuclear blackmail, the assassination of public and political figures, the sabotage of civilian infrastructure, and attempts on Putin’s life.

“The Kiev terrorist regime, having seized an entire state, threatens the security of Russia, Europe, and the whole world,” the Duma official added. He insisted thatWestern nationswhich are pumping Zelensky’s government with weaponsare now “direct accomplices” to terrorist activities.

Volodin proclaimed that there “can beno negotiations with the Zelensky regime”following the attempted attack on the Kremlin, and vowed that Russian lawmakers will “demand the use of weapons capable of stopping and destroying the Kiev terrorist regime.”

The message comes after Ukraine allegedly launched two drone attacks intended to strike Putin’s Kremlin residence, as reported by the Russian president’s office on Wednesday. The aircraft were downed using electronic warfare measures and did not cause any casualties or damage. Putin was unharmed and was not present in the Kremlin at the time of the incident.

“We consider this a preplanned terrorist action and an attempt against the Russian president,”a message from the Kremlin read. It noted that the incident happened “ahead of Victory Day and the parade on May 9, when foreign guests plan to be present.”

Russia reserves the right to retaliate in a manner, place, and time of its choosing, the statement added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575727-volodin-kiev-terrorist-regime/

(Now I wonder if Russia set this up to force Ukraine to the negotiating table, since it came out in secret papers the IS had to talk Ukraine out of attacking Russia on one of their revered holidays)

3 May, 2023 15:17

Kiev claims ignorance of attempt on Putin’s life

Russia has warned it will retaliate for an apparent Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin

The Ukrainian government has denied Moscow’s accusations that it attempted to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“We don't attack Putin or Moscow, we fight on our territory, we're defending our villages and cities,” President Vladimir Zelensky said at a press conference in Helsinki, after meeting with the leaders of Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. "We don't have, you know, enough weapons for this."

“We have no information about theso-callednight attacks,” Zelensky's press secretary Sergey Nikiforov told BBC Russian. He claimed his country was focused on “liberating its own territory, not attacking other nations.”

Zelensky’s aide Mikhail Podolyak attributed the drone attack to “the guerilla activities of local resistance forces.” He likewise insisted that Ukraine was conducting “an exclusively defensive war and [did] not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

The night attack involved two drones, which were ultimately downed by electronic warfare measures over the grounds of the Kremlin, according to a statement released by the Russian presidential office on Wednesday. The UAVs were allegedly targeting Putin’s residence.

The Kremlin said it considered the attack a“pre-planned terrorist act” and an attempt on Putin’s life. It reserved the right to retaliate by any means it deems necessary at a time and place of its choosing.

Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the Russian president was not in the Kremlin at the time of the incursion. There were no casualties as a result of the incident, according to reports.

Russia has accused Kiev of orchestrating several high-profile crimes on its territory, including the assassination of journalist Darya Dugina last August. The Ukrainian government denies any involvement in these incidents. According toWestern media, even its backers in Washington believe Kiev was responsible for the Dugina murderand chastised the Zelenksy government for recklessness.

Since the start of the conflict in February 2022, several Russian regions bordering Ukraine, including Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk, have been repeatedly targeted by Kiev’s drone and missile attacks. The strikes have targeted energy infrastructure and residential areas, resulting in several civilian deaths and many injuries, as well as the destruction of property.

https://www.rt.com/russia/575714-kiev-denies-drones-kremlin/

Zelensky’s claim seem hollow and dishonest, because they have attacked Russian territory

3 May, 2023 16:40

Kennedy shares opinion on key US mistake with Russia

Washington has lied and ignored Moscow’s “red lines,” the presidential candidate has said

Instead of listening to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings about “red lines,” the US has repeatedly crossed them, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview published on Wednesday. The Democrat running for US president also said Washington should have either invited Moscow to NATO or dismantled the anti-Russian alliance after the Cold War.

“We should have listened to Putin over many years. We made a commitment to Russia, to Gorbachev, that we would not move NATO one inch to the east. Then we went in, and we lied,” Kennedy told the outlet UnHerd.

Instead of offering to integrate Russia into the West, as many diplomats urged in 1991, the US expanded NATO to its borders. “What is the purpose of NATO other than to oppose Russia? If you’re addressing Russia in a hostile way from the beginning, of course their reaction is going to be hostile back,” Kennedy said.

He described what happened in Kiev in 2014 as “essentially a coup d’etat” supported by the US, recalling the infamous phone call in which Victoria Nuland was “handpicking a new cabinet” hostile to Moscow.

“If Mexico did that and then started killing –they killed 14,000 Russians in Donbass, the Ukrainian government– if Mexico did that to expatriate Americans, we’d invade in a second,” Kennedy said, adding that Putin“repeatedly told us: these are red lines, you’re crossing.”

American leaders should be able to “put yourself in the other guy’s shoes,” just like his uncle John F. Kennedy did during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, stepping back from the brink of nuclear war, which all of his advisers were pushing for.

Kennedy condemned the “barbaric and illegal invasion” of Ukraine and called Putin a ‘gangster’, a ‘thug’ and a ‘bully’, but said the conflict needed to be settled quickly, because theUS had already “sacrificed 300,000”Ukrainians in battle. While the White House presented aiding Kiev as a humanitarian mission, “every step that we’ve taken has been to enlarge the conflict and to maximize bloodshed,” he said.

“Let’s be honest: It’s a US war against Russia, to essentially sacrifice the flower of Ukrainian youthin an abattoir of death and destruction for the geopolitical ambition of the neocons” to see regime change in Moscow, Kennedy said. He added that the people who created the problem weren’t capable of settling it.

Asked about his proposed solution, Kennedy said that something like the Minsk accords, agreeing tokeep Ukraine out of NATO, and removing nuclear missile launchers from Russia’s borders might work.

(I hope to God RFKjr has A LOT of security, he lays out all of the truth. Pray for him anons. Is this a Trump/Kennedy plan from long ago?)

https://www.rt.com/news/575721-rfk-russia-ukraine-conflict/

3 May, 2023 16:03

Iran seizes another oil tanker (VIDEO)

Tehran’s forces have taken hold of two such vessels since the US blocked a shipment of Iranian oil last week

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy used fast-attack boats to seize an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to the US Navy, which released a video of the incident. Tehran confirmed the seizure, the second such retaliatory incident since the US reportedly blocked a consignment of Iranian crude oil last week.

The Niovi, a Panama-flagged tanker managed by Greece-based Smart Tankers, was swarmed by a dozen IRGC attack boats as it transited the strait, the US Navy said in a statement. Video footage released by the Navy showed the boats escorting the tanker, apparently after ordering it to redirect.

The ship had left Dubai at midday on Tuesday and was due to arrive at the Emirati port of Fujairah by Wednesday afternoon, but was turned around and diverted to Iranian waters.

Officials in Tehran told the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency that the Niovi wasimpounded following an unspecified legal complaint by a plaintiff.

The incident came after the Advantage Sweet was stormed by Iranian commandos in the Gulf of Oman last Thursday. The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel is owned by a Chinese firm, but had been chartered to transport a cargo of oil to the US for American petroleum giant Chevron.

Dramatic video footage released by Tehran showed the commandos rappelling from helicopters onto the ship’s deck, before moving toward its bridge.

The US navy described both seizures as “contrary to international law and disruptive to regional security and stability.” However, American officials did not mention the fact that immediately prior to Thursday’s seizure, US authorities impounded a shipment of Iranian oil bound for China. Quoting anonymous officials, the Financial Times reported that the ship was redirected toward the US in an apparent sanctions enforcement operation.

The US and its allies often block the transport of Iranian oil at sea, and Tehran usually responds in kind. Iranian forces seized two Greek-flagged vessels in the Strait of Hormuz last year after Greece allowed the US to drain an Iranian tanker of oil in Greek waters. Back in 2019, Iran impounded two British-flagged tankers after the UK seized an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar.

https://www.rt.com/news/575722-iran-seizes-oil-tanker/

3 May, 2023 16:48

Tallest-ever hemp block building will be hotel – media

The 12-story edifice in South Africa would be the first skyscraper to incorporate cannabis-based materials

South Africa is opening a hotel soon that will be the world’s tallest building made out of industrial hemp. The 12-story structure in Cape Town, consisting of 54 rooms and named 84 Harrington Street, is expected to be completed next month.

The building’s walls are erected using “hempcrete” bricks made from the cannabis plant and supported by a concrete and cement structure. Afrimat Hemp, which produces the bricks, claims that they are eco-friendly, carbon negative, fire-resistant and also provide insulation.

Boshoff Muller, director of Afrimat Hemp, told AFP that “the plant absorbs the carbon, it gets put into a block and is then stored into a building for 50 years or longer.”

Though the business is a major processor of cannabis, the builders said they had to import industrial hemp from Britain for the project, as South Africa had prohibited local production until the government began issuing cultivation permits last year.

In February of this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to prioritize the development of the country’s fledgling cannabis industry, citing the potential for at least 130,000 jobs.

Afrimat Hemp intends to produce its first blocks from South African hemp soon and Wolf+Wolf, the architect of the Hemp Hotel, has said that using locally grown cannabis will increase the number of such structures as 84 Harrington Street in the region.

The firm behind the hemp blocks has addressed concerns over the cost of using hemp bricks but said that while they are 20% more expensive than traditional materials,their ability to lower carbon emissions presents “huge opportunities” in the fight against climate change.

“We can fund forests or we can fund someone to live in a hemp house. It’s the same principle,” Wihan Bekker, carbon consultant at Afrimat Hemp, explains in AFP’s report.

(The only downside to the hotel is people get sugar cravings when they stay there.)

https://www.rt.com/africa/575726-worlds-tallest-hemp-building/

>>18791104

That looks like a picture we saw a year or more ago

>>18791061

His take down will be epic but the Nazis forcing him to do will be more EPIC and America will finally realize they have been supporting Nazis from WWII that never went away. How much do the Bushs own in Ukraine?

>>18791015

Whoa, they were expecting it?

>>18790999

The more I look at this it doesn’t seem like killputin, trapukraine and force them to the negotiating table

>>18791002

Splain please, they knew this hundreds of years ago. The brilliance if they anticipated drastic weapons in the future

>>18791408

So Ron os bushite

>>18791407

Of course, silly me but were they walking up to it?

I don’t know but I think Russia set this up because they read in the secret papers Zelensky had to be talked down from attacking inside Russia on a revered holiday. If the US can lie about Nord Stream, Russia can lie about Ukraine. Ukraine are idiots and would do something like this, who would ever know?

>>18791003

The only reason Russia released this high gov meeting was to alert adversaries that Russia is tired of their games and propaganda. Zelensky should take notice but he says this “so called” attack. Which means he is not taking the threats that Russia is losing their patience seriously.

Ritter said at some point Russia will no longer be focused on the mission solely, and will eliminate Ukraine in one fell swoop. They are not at that point yet, and I hope to God, sane minds deter Ukraine leadership from their idiotic pomposity. but the ire of Russia will not only be aimed at Ukraine, this is a message to the US and EU because its not a hidden proxy war now. The western forces need to stop poking and lying to the bear

>>18791009

The IC community should pay attention, they are not one step in front, their arrogance is the problem.

I believe RT and other Russian outlets are specific communications to those listening, and they should be listening now imo.

Time for PDJT to come in and resolve this nonsense

>>18791002

Grand Tartary was in North America is an appropriate post, since it’s been a lot of talk about Tartary (Tartaria) lately, since this was an advanced civilization that was suppressed by the powers that be. Tartary on old maps is in Asia near Russia (see post images). What if America was Asia Major and Moscow, which is the capitol of Russia, was in North America by Fancisca (France)? This evidence could prove that America was the grand or the Superior Tartary.

TARTARY AND AMERICA WERE ONCE CONNECTED:

Let’s start first by proving that the Americas is the Orient (the East) and Asia Major: https://www.americaistheoldworld.com/ancient-china-the-land-of-the-orient/.

Now, where is Russia? Well, here is a 1562 map of America by Spanish cartographer, Diego Gutiérrez, from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3290.ct000342?r=0.163,0.175,0.732,0.315,0.

The 1562 Diego Gutierrez map shows Fancisca (France) and the mythical golden city of Norimberga that was allegedly built by Vikings. This said map also shows you Moscow, the capital of Russia (Russia/ Ross/ Russ-Asian: Clan Ros/ Rus or Andros/ Andrews), in North America.

Well, so much for Norimberga being a myth, because it had to be real for it to be on an authentic map from the library of congress. Yes, the original French were the Franks/Clan Ross (Rus/Andrews/Andros) and they were French Maurs (Blackamoors), aka, Berber Merovingian’s: https://jesseben.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/lady-andros-mother-of-man/.

This also explains why you have a French Quarters in Louisiana, and they also refer to themselves as Acadians (Akkadians). I have attached a YouTube video from a European, who has told the truth, entitled, “Breakdown: Steely Dan – The Royal Scam. Orphan Origins, True Acadians and Indigenous,” by Deciphering the Devil’s Details. This YouTube video demonstrates that the original French were Maurs/ Muurs (Blacks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-w4rbxsRI.

Russia was established by the mighty Andrews/ Andros/ Ros/ Rus clan from Scotland when they were Saracens (Old Arabs), which explains all the Black “Russian Icons” and the Islamic state flag of Russia (RUS-Asian) with its Cherry red background and Islamic crescent moon and star: https://www.facebook.com/Americaisthetrueoldworld/posts/2104814609582828. The fact that these Russians (Tartarians) were Saracens (old Arabs) explains all of the Moorish/ Tartarian Architecture throughout Russia.

We must also consider Russia Ohio, and a Moscow Ohio since the Russians were Tartarians or Maurs (Moors). The term Maur means high Priest of Anu, according to the Palermo stele from ancient Egypt. The owl and the serpent (dragon) are Hieroglyphic symbols of the Maur, according to the Palermo Stele from Egypt. The owl and the dragon are both flag symbols of Tartary, which makes the Maur a Tartarian. In this post is the flag of the Empire of Tartary. As you can see, Tartary was very Moorish, since it has two red Moorish flags on its grand flag.

Also, there is a tribe of American Indians called the Muscovee creek (Greek) Indians. Muscovee is etymologically (similar spelling) and phonetically (similar sounding) like Moscow, the capital of Russia. The Russians of Moscow were known as the Muscovites. In fact, Muscovite is the plural form of Muscovee. The Muscovee (Muscogee) Creek are the Greeks, and they were blood allies with the Seminole Indians: https://www.facebook.com/Americaisthetrueoldworld/posts/4475429415854657.

We have a city in Florida called Saint Petersburg, likewise, Russia has a Tatarian city called Saint Petersburg. The Old Tampa Bay Hotel looks like something that should be in Saint Petersburg, Russia, because the same Moorish revival architecture can be found all over Saint Petersburg Russia.

https://www.americaistheoldworld.com/grand-tartary-was-in-north-america/amp/

>>18791002. Kekkity

Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture

On YouTube videos and Reddit boards, adherents of a bizarre conspiracy theory argue that everything you know about the history of architecture is wrong.

Zach MorticeApril 27, 2021 at 12:41 PM EDT

Believers in the “Tartaria” conspiracy theory are convinced that the elaborate temporary fairgrounds built for events like the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 were really the ancient capital cities of a fictional empire.

 

Believers in the “Tartaria” conspiracy theory are convinced that the elaborate temporary fairgrounds built for events like the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 were really the ancient capital cities of a fictional empire.

Photographer: Schenectady Museum Association/Corbis Historical via Getty Images

In 1908, architect Ernest Flagg completed the Singer Building in Lower Manhattan, a Beaux-Arts showstopper made for the Singer sewing machine company. From a wide base, a slender 27-story tower rose, topped by a mansard roof and a delicate lantern spire.

Every inch dripped with sumptuous detail inside and out; vaulted roofs, marble columns with bronze trim, window mullions with spiral fluting. The lobby was said to have a “celestial radiance.” A book was written just about its construction. For a year, it was the tallest building in the world at 612 feet, and a celebrated landmark for decades after that.

But not for too much longer. Despite its great height, the pencil-thin tower lacked office space. In the 1960s the company sold its ornate headquarters; demolition proceeded in 1967. It’s the tallest building to ever be peacefully demolished.

Singer Building

The Singer Building in New York City, demolished in 1967, looms large in the imagination of Tartaria believers.

Photographer: The New York Historical Society/Archive Photos

By any account, it’s a fantastical tale: Once the tallest building in the world and a New York icon, knocked down in just a handful of decades.

For some, it’s too fantastical to believe … or perhaps not fantastical enough. A dedicated group of YouTubers and Reddit posters see the Singer Building and countless other discarded pre-modern beauties and extant Beaux-Arts landmarks as artifacts of a globe-spanning civilization called the Tartarian Empire, which was somehow erased from the history books. Adherents of this theory believe these buildings to be the keys to a hidden past, clandestinely obscured by malevolent actors.

Who? Why? To what possible end? As in many other, more high-profile conspiracy theories, this baroque fantasy doesn’t offer much in the way of practical considerations, logic or evidence. But it’s grounded in some real anxieties, pointing toward the changes wrought by the modern world in general and modern architecture specifically — and rejecting both…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory

When Bloomberg has to denounce it, there’s truth to it

>>18791574