The war in the Ukraine continues but the propaganda hysteria around it seems to have calmed down a bit as reality is setting in.
This gives room from more sane voices to be heard by the public. I will start with the Russian ones.
The Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, was interviewed by Newsweek. He explained Russia’s political and judicial reasoning behind the war:
“The special operation in Ukraine is the result of the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians by fulfilling its obligations under the international commitments,” Antonov told Newsweek. “The desire of the NATO member states to use the territory of a neighboring state to establish a foothold in the struggle against Russia is also obvious.”
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Month: April 2022
“Very interesting—but maybe very wrong: The London Times alleges 150 FSB officers have been fired—and some arrested—over failures in Ukraine”
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Very interesting—but maybe very wrong: The London Times alleges 150 FSB officers have been fired—and some arrested—over failures in Ukraine.
The problem is the source of the story: @bellingcat, a known CIA front and purveyor of disinformation.
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Let’s keep an open mind.
The Times: “All of those ousted were employees of the Fifth Service, a division set up in 1998 when Putin was director of the FSB to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union with the aim of keeping them within Russia’s orbit.”
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More: “The service’s former chief, Sergei Beseda, 68, has been sent to Lefortovo prison in Moscow.”
Beseda is the same age as Putin—they were probably friends or at least friendly for +25 years. So to send such a colleague to prison is an incredibly powerful message.
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I would speculate that of these 150 FSB who were fired, most would have have been incompetent—but of the arrested, some might have been ~compromised by Ukrainian intelligence~. And now with the invasion, the FSB might have found evidence of this treason.
Just a thought.
Originally tweeted by Gonzalo Lira (@realGonzaloLira) on April 12, 2022.
Shanghai 2022 looks very much like a repeat of Wuhan 2020. Both China and USA are using covid to justify authoritarianism and election interference
Once again, I am impressed with Carlson who seems to really be speaking the truth. In the past there was always something missing in his deliveries—a gravitas of thought and insight—but not recently in the videos I have seen, including this one. ABN
“The thing that I am talking about is [vaccines are] generating a virus that is highly infectious and highly virulent and RESISTANT to ANY KIND of covid-19 vaccine… that is the end-stage where this virus is going… People think Omicron is a sign that the pandemic is waning and is disappearing. That is NOT TRUE AT ALL…We need to intervene with MASS ANTIVIRAL PROPHYLAXIS”: Geert Vanden Bossche
Since the covid vaccines generate NON-STERILIZING antibodies, continued use of them INCREASES evolutionary pressure on the virus; that is the vaccines are SELECTING FOR viral variants that can evade the vaccines and even use the vaccine-induced NON-STERILIZING antibodies to become MORE VIRULENT, MORE DEADLY. If we don’t stop mass boosters, Vanden Bossche warns, many vaccinees will DIE. ABN
Proof that blue states DID fail their people during pandemic: Harsh lockdowns caused huge deaths rates, ruined kids’ education and destroyed business, bombshell research FINALLY shows – with NY, NJ, CA and IL all receiving an F-grade
…Steve Moore told Fox: ‘Shutting down their economies and schools was by far the biggest mistake governors and state officials made during Covid, particularly in blue states.
‘We hope the results of this study will persuade governors not to close schools and businesses the next time we have a new virus variant.’
New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were joined in the bottom ten for overall performance by New Mexico, Maryland, Nevada, Connecticut and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
New Jersey, District of Columbia, New York, New Mexico, California, and Illinois were all branded with an F grade for their responses to the pandemic – with New Jersey slapped with a score of zero out of a possible 100.
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Banning early treatment while requiring hospital maltreatment also contributed massively to the death toll. ABN
The circle “what people actually understand” should be much larger and mostly outside the other circles
All you smart people, do FIML. ABN
President Trump: “One of the first things that we will do with our new Republican majorities, is to end every last COVID mandate…We will pass a bill making it illegal for any employer to interfere in personal health decisions or to fire employees for not having the vaccine.”
True The Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips Claim US Intelligence Began Tracking Americans After 2020 Election…Geo Tracking Fence Was Set Up Around Capitol Before Jan 6 To Catch People Likely To Attend Trump Rally
Yesterday, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips spoke with Charlie Kirk on the Charlie Kirk Show to discuss the upcoming Dinesh D’Souza movie “2000 Mules,” which is based on the incredible work they did to find evidence of massive, widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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Scott Ritter and The Battle of the Donbas: “Allowing the Ukrainian conflict to become a conflict is 100% the fault of the United States, 100%. We allowed this to happen”: Scott Ritter
“Residents in Shanghai screaming from high rise apartments after 7 straight days of the city lockdown”
Residents in #Shanghai screaming from high rise apartments after 7 straight days of the city lockdown. The narrator worries that there will be major problems. (in Shanghainese dialect—he predicts people can’t hold out much longer—he implies tragedy).
https://t.co/jsQt6IdQNh
2) “yao ming le” & “yao si” — both expressions meaning “life and death” but they also more literally means “asking for death”. Narrator eventually implies shit is gonna hit the fan soon if this continues.
[The lockdowns are real, the cries are real. But overall, I suspect this is CCP “performance art” similar to what we saw coming from Wuhan in early 2020. It is a kind of “naturally occurring” propaganda designed to frighten and influence the West in the way the Wuhan videos of violent lockdowns and people collapsing in the street did two years ago. China surely knows that zero covid is not possible, Even if the whole world locked down for two months, covid would not be eradicated. Other reasons for them to be doing this are it affords China a plausible excuse to further disrupt Western supply lines while also providing a kind of lurid “proof” that the CCP did not deliberately release the original Wuhan variant that poisoned the world. Moreover, it never hurts to discipline your own people and send a message to the Shanghai faction of the CCP. ABN]
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Dr Peter McCullough’s voice of reason
As the casualties continue to mount I want to be clear with the press—we had all our concerns out in the open at the Jan 24 2022 US Senate Hearings. @SenRonJohnson @OANN
Originally tweeted by Peter McCullough, MD MPH (@P_McCulloughMD) on April 11, 2022.
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
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Important background information which frames the war today. ABN
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