Russian State Site Warns Against Fake Sites & Notices

United Russia [official site] warned on April 16 of fake notices with significant social impact being published on a site spoofing it.

Today, compromising information was posted on a fake site that positions itself as the official resource of the Duma faction.
You need to be prepared for a huge amount of false information. And an example of this is the false statement spread on behalf of the faction of Russia’s largest political party. This was stated by the first deputy head of the United Russia faction Dmitry Vyatkin .
“You need to understand that this alleged “appeal to the President” is only aimed at dividing our society, compromising the Armed Forces, introducing doubts into the minds of people, and also causing damage and undermining confidence in our party. We are closely monitoring the situation, promptly responding to such sabotage and will definitely achieve punishment for those responsible – for this, United Russia has worked long and hard to improve legislation and increase the information security of our citizens,” he said.
The deputy head of the faction , Yevhen Revenko , added that this was pure provocation.
“Someone (I guess who: 10 minutes after the appearance of the fake, the reposts went through the well-known provocateur and liar Anton Gerashchenko in Telegram and 15 minutes later on the Ukrainian UNIAN resource) staged a provocation: he created a false website of our faction and began to post all sorts of nonsense, fakes on socially important topics. Some online publications were quick to pick up. Colleagues please be careful. For our part, we turned to Roskomnadzor with a request to block and remove the fake from everywhere. Well, I’ll add that just as there was no trust in the Kiev mouthpieces of the national propagandist, it still isn’t. Another confirmation,” he said.

 

Vladimir Putin: Monster, Madman, or Mastermind?

Moscow-based analyst Andrew Korybko debunks the false portrait of Putin promoted in the Western media:

Everyone is trying to figure out who exactly President Putin is and what he’s trying to achieve. Many of his opponents and even quite a lot of his foreign supporters alike have regularly misportrayed him as a strongman who’s obsessed with fighting against the West, each propagating this narrative in pursuit of their diametrically different ideological agenda. This storyline, for as compelling as it may be, is grossly inaccurate and deserves clarification.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most talked-about man this century thus far after commencing his country’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine in late February. That dramatic move was intended to uphold the integrity of Russia’s national security red lines in Ukraine in particular and in the region more broadly. It followed the US-led West refusing to respect his security guarantee requests from December, which in turn prompted President Putin to kinetically defend Russia’s existential interests. The unprecedented and preplanned response by the US-led West accelerated preexisting multipolar trends connected to the ongoing global systemic transition and led to what many nowadays consider to be the worst crisis since World War II.
Amidst all of this, everyone is trying to figure out who exactly President Putin is and what he’s trying to achieve. Many of his opponents and even quite a lot of his foreign supporters alike have regularly misportrayed him as a strongman who’s obsessed with fighting against the West, each propagating this narrative in pursuit of their diametrically different ideological agenda.
According to this common interpretation of his motives, he simply can’t get over how the USSR’s dissolution in 1991 led to the erasure of Russia’s former superpower status. In their minds, he’s plotted for decades to make the move that he fatefully did in February, though each side differs over their assessment of how successful it’s been since. This storyline, for as compelling as it may be, is grossly inaccurate and deserves clarification.
Beginning with the viewpoint of his opponents, President Putin is either a monster or a madman. The first implies that he’s a bloodthirsty dictator who couldn’t give a damn for any notion of democracy and human rights, whether the objective understanding thereof or subjective interpretations of them that vary based on society. All that he wants, they claim, is to kill as many people as possible. This leads to the second viewpoint of him possibly being a madman, as in, someone who’s literally gone crazy and surrendered to whatever pathology it may be that supposedly controls everything that he does. Those who ascribe to this interpretation insist that he isn’t a rational actor and therefore mustn’t be negotiated with. Whether a monster or madman, his opponents claim that this man must be contained.
The polar opposite camp employed a proto-QAnon model to explain everything that he does by introducing the idea that he’s a mastermind who plays “5D chess”, “is always winning”, and that everyone who sympathizes with even a single element of his policies should just “trust the plan” exactly as former US President Donald Trump’s most passionate supporters suggested about that American leader.
According to them, President Putin deeply despises everything associated with the West, especially its close partners like Israel and Turkey. Anytime he pragmatically interacts with them and is caught on camera smiling alongside their leaders, they claim, he’s just “playing chess” and “tricking his enemies” in order to supposedly “gather intel” to help defeat them at a later undisclosed time.
Suffice to say, all three interpretations are flat-out ridiculous and have no resemblance to reality. President Putin isn’t a monster, madman, or a mastermind, he’s simply a man who history placed in a very unique position that ultimately compelled him to muscularly defend his Great Power’s existential national security red lines in the most dramatic way possible.

West Provoking Putin For The Sake Of Ukrainians Oligarchs

An article in Forbes in 2014 presciently advises the US to stop humiliating and provoking Putin:

. Despite what you read in the Western press, he [Putin] didn’t protest about NATO expansion, he gave up on a number of important Russian military bases, and acted aggressively only when he felt that Russia’s back yard was threatened. Annexation of Crimea, while responding to very strong popular demands both in Russia and Crimea, was a limited operation that enabled Putin to save his face after “losing” Ukraine. Since then he has given plenty of indications that he is ready to call it a day. His limited goals are acknowledged in the writings and interviews of such people as former ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock, or former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But what needs to be stressed is that the next Russian leader might not be that accommodating, especially in light of continuous and needless bullying on the part of the US. Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s NATO representative and a serious political figure on the right, has already declared that next time he’ll fly into Ukraine and Moldova on military bomber after these countries didn’t allow his plane to use their airspace. What gave rise to Hitler was Germany’s continuous humiliation after World War I. The policy of public humiliation of Putin, the talk of “punishing” him or Russia for bad behavior, is insulting to the Russian leader and his countrymen. In contrast to Germany in 1939, Russia still has plenty of nuclear arms. Had Russia intended to enslave the US or its allies with its threat of nuclear bombs, I would be more than happy to repeat after New Hampshire: “Live Free or Die.” But is it worth it to taunt and threaten an already angry and frustrated nuclear power for the sake of handing Ukraine to the likes of Mr. Kolomoisky and his motley crew of oligarchs, nationalists, and subservient politicians? Those Western politicians and journalists, who confuse the issue of defending freedom with the power games that the current Ukrainian elite is playing, should be aware that they are not serving, but rather betraying, cherished American principles.

DeepFake AI: Was Moschun Mapped Onto Bucha?

UPDATE

Bucha was the headquarters of General Nikolai Vatutin, who was the leader of the Red Army forces that liberated Kiev from the Nazis. Vatutin was fought by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army [UPA] organized by Stepan Bandera, the popular but controversial figure, who associated with the Nazis. Vatutin died from wounds received in battle with the UPA and there is an ongoing dispute between Ukraine and Russia about the memorial to him in Kiev and where his ashes are buried.

UPDATE

Today, I read that a car caught fire and the driver died after crashing into the gate of the Russian embassy in the Romanian capital……which would be BUCHAREST….

An odd coincidence…or not.

ORIGINAL POST

Think about the language.
MOSCHUN….visually similar to MOSCOW…..
where the deepfake video might have been made when the Ukrainians took it back from the Russians around March 24.

Then, they picked BUCHA, close by, and with a resonant name, similar visually to Buchenwald, and similar aurally to Butchery, Butcher and Bucha [Ukrainians for outcry].

Interestingly, the Ukrainians then called in a Holocaust expert to proclaim that Bucha was a genocide…reinforcing the Buchenwald association again.

The expert is a Ukrainian-born Israeli citizen Eugene Finkel. This will ensure that influential Jewish lobbies everywhere will pressure their governments to intervene. Use- the-Jews is the cynical name of the game and the Ukies are using it to deflect attention from the non-fake fact that Jews [Zelenksy, Kolomoisky, Soros etc.] and Nazis [Azov et al.] are actually collaborating here in the Ukraine and in NATO and the US.

The same logic applies to the international press given a Holocaust survivor allegedly killed during Russian shelling of Kharkhiv. I suppose I should tack on alleged to practically everything in this war of lies.

All these associations are calculated to hit emotionally at global audiences. This is psychological warfare, not at the Russians, who can see through it, but at the domestic population.

A subliminal association of MOSCOW with BUTCHERY and the HOLOCAUST is set up.  Ordinary Jews get triggered and Jewish lobbies campaign furiously to intervene.

We’ve been here before how many times?

Deepfake AI can be used to manipulate satellite imagery and map one location onto another so the falsification is practically invisible to a layman.

Bucha Video Recorded At Moschun; Corpses Not Recent

Telesur reports that the bodies in the video footage, when examined by a human rights veteran from Donbas, show evidence of being older than claimed. The condition of the blood and the skin show that the victims died earlier, when Ukrainians troops occupied the area. This report supports the Russian claim that the Bucha videos were made by the Ukrainians themselves at a town called Moschun.

The defense spokesman, Major General Igor Konashénkov, said that “on the afternoon of April 4, the troops of the 72 information and psychological operations center carried out in the town of Moschun, 23 kilometers northwest of kyiv, another staging filming civilians allegedly killed by Russian forces and then broadcast the video in Western media.

Konashenkov added that the Ukrainian security services are making similar setups these days in Sumi, Konotop and other cities.

The village of Moschún, with less than a thousand inhabitants, is located in the same district as Bucha, the scene of the alleged massacre of hundreds of civilians that the Russian Defense Ministry describes as a “staged montage” to discredit Russia.

Moschun was one of the towns that Ukraine was supposed to have taken back from the Russians around March 24.

 

 

Bucha Genocide Likely False-Flag By Ukrainian Nazis

Update: Pentagon unable to confirm or deny Bucha and Biden unwilling to call it a genocide.

Update:

Just saw this on twitter:

Anton Troianovski
@antontroian
NYT analysis of satellite imagery shows at least 11 of the bodies seen on a street in Bucha in an April 2 video had been on the street since March 11 — when Russian forces occupied the town

 

Veterans Today:

Denying the spurious and unsubstantiated allegations of purported war crimes and genocide by Russian troops, Russia’s chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee, ordered a probe be opened on the basis that Ukraine had insidiously spread “deliberately false information” in order to malign Russia’s month-long military campaign in Ukraine.

In addition, Russia has requested a United Nations Security Council meeting on April 4 over purported war crimes by Russian forces in Ukraine’s Bucha, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Sunday.

“In light of the Ukrainian radicals’ provocation in Bucha, Russia has requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday, April 4,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “We will unmask Ukrainian provocateurs and their Western patrons.”

The Russian defense ministry said earlier on Sunday that all Russian troops had left the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region as far back as March 30, while the “evidence of crimes” surfaced four days later, when Ukrainian security forces and allied ultra-nationalist militias arrived in the city.

As Larry Johnson points out, there were white arm-bands on the dead bodies, indicating that the corpses were Ukrainians not antagonistic to the Russian army. Now why would the Russians kill them? It stands to reason that people who might do that would be the Nazi ultra-nationalists, the Azov and the rest.

Biden says, “butcher, butcher,” “war criminal, war criminal,” like a tom-tom…it’s been in the headlines for days, getting people geared up.

Next thing you know, there are open graves, bodies with nooses. Nooses would evoke the racial hangings and lynchings of the past, which would be something people in the US would react to.

The town is called Bucha…a word evocative on so many levels, as I mentioned in the previous post. Butcher, Buchenwald, Bucha.

It didn’t happen coincidentally. It’s been concocted that way.

Think. Why would Russia do something like this now? And why wouldn’t Ukraine?

Also read Indian Punchline.com.

 

Pepe Escobar: Bucha Is False-Flag

Pepe forgot Buchenwald…..
which would be a major bell-ringer for the thoroughly brainwashed, historically illiterate, public-school indoctrinated professional class in the West…but, hopefully, the masses who read the internet have figured this out already.
Also, Bucha means “loud noise” or “outcry” in Ukrainian....
So, yes, with all those resonances, I would say this fits the mold for propaganda.

Pepe Escobar
@RealPepeEscobar
So the inevitable, major false flag turns out to be “The New Srebenica” in Bucha. Bucha-Butcher-Butchery-Boucher-Boucherie. Works on 2 top Western languages. Peddled by a Murdoch rag. Will be in synch on ALL Western front pages tomorrow.

Former WSJ Publisher Censors News Websites With Nutrition Labels

From Politico.com:

Labeling through extensive disclosure is more practical on the internet than in print or through broadcasts, where space is limited. Disclosures online can be detailed enough to give readers all the information they need to decide how trustworthy to consider a source. My analyst colleagues at NewsGuard often write “Nutrition Labels” for news sites in the thousands of words, with numerous citations, to explain why sites like RT and Sputnik News fail basic criteria of journalistic practice and differ fundamentally from government news sources with effective independent charters such as the BBC. Microsoft makes NewsGuard’s detailed ratings and reviews of news websites available to its users, but the other large platforms don’t yet provide this kind of transparency to their users. And labels work: Gallup research found that when given access to apolitical source ratings, a majority of readers became less likely to believe or share news from websites rated untrustworthy and more likely to believe and share news from websites rated trustworthy.”

Yet another example of the pervasive censorship and distortion that plagues the so-called free press.

Lower ratings will automatically be slapped on unpopular political positions, even those voiced by completely marginal internet blogs and websites, the last remaining strong-holds of pure truth-telling. The lower ratings will translate into lower rankings by the search engines and that will lead to a precipitous drop in readership. Wrong-think will not simply be devalued. It will be silenced.

Hate-Russia Is Part Of The Internet Counter-Reformation

The Internet Reformation [h/t to Anthony Wile of The Daily Bell ] is the notion that the widespread use of the internet was the equivalent of the  widespread use of the printed word, following on Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press.

It was an unveiling of things that had been hidden until then, from the teachings of the Bible to the workings of nature. It was an apocalypse, if you will, of the same magnitude as what is taking place today, with the adoption of the Internet.

Something similar was supposed to have happened with the Internet. The monopoly of the large media houses was supposed to have been shattered and replaced by the voices of citizens. And it was. But this Reformation was barely underway in 2007, when the Internet Counter-Reformation mounted its assault, using dozens of large anonymous or pseudonymous “citizen media” outlets, which, on careful examination, proved to have been astro-turfed.

That is, they led straight back to the mainstream media [MSM] and to the mainstream alternative media, to use an oxymoron.

I have explained who these mainstream alternatives are elsewhere.

They include outlets like Democracy Now, Alternet, Breitbart, Daily Caller and dozens of others.

These are just a few I’ve picked that are widely read on all sides of the political spectrum.  There are scores of other sites that are just as influential that I have not named. They too belong here. As do hundreds of smaller ones, for whom the words below are equally relevant.

The mainstream alternatives constitute what the now-disappeared Zahir Ebrahim

[who seems to have resurfaced through a mirror blog of some kind]

has dubbed the dissentstream

a body of dissent, which, on closer examination, reinforces in subtle ways the assumptions and conclusions of the mainstream media, both establishment and alternative.

This body of dissent mixed with disinformation is allowed to exist because of the variety of uses it has for the state:

It acts a  release-valve for citizen frustration and hostility

It provides maximum cognitive diversity in the information environment

Is provides maximum cover for information operations and black operations conducted by the intelligence services

It allows war- gaming of various planned or mulled future scenarios

It traces and surveils social networks of potential and real dissidents

It disciplines bloggers/citizens to self-censor, through high-profile highly visible pundit take-downs and cancellations

It tests the public mood and readiness for various covert and public projects

It employs predictive programming, aka “revelation of the method,” as described by Michael Hoffman

[The notion of predictive programming is regarded as a conspiracy theory by the media-academic-think-tank complex, which is now sending anyone who looks for it on a Google search to the term, predictive coding. Previously, you could find predictive programming on the first page of a Google search for the term.]

It generates and develops memes that mold public consciousness and markets

It taps potential markets and creates new one

It takes without credit, ideas, research, innovations, and leads and uses them to reward and enrich preferred individuals and companies  and to suppress and impoverish other voices

That is not an exhaustive list, by any means.

Bottom line:

The media is not about informing the public. It is about misleading it and milking it.

The media is not about revealing the truth. It is about paralyzing the will and diverting/exhausting attention and resources.

 

 

Poisoning Of Ukrainians/Roman Abramovich: False-Flag?

NY Post:

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and several Ukrainian officials were apparently poisoned while negotiating an end to Moscow’s invasion at a meeting where they were only served water and chocolate, according to reports Monday.

Abramovich, who accepted a Ukrainian request to help deescalate the warfare, and at least two senior members involved in negotiations suffered from peeling skin on their faces and hands, constant and painful tearing, and red eyes following a meeting in Kyiv earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The billionaire owner of the British soccer club Chelsea FC‘s eyesight also “completely disappeared” for several hours, while a member of the Ukrainian delegation, the parliamentarian Rustem Umerov, became partially blind, two sources told the Financial Times.

We are supposed to believe from this that Vladimir Putin poisoned Abramovich and did it so incompetently that not only did Abramovich and the other Ukrainian negotiators survive, but they figured out they were poisoned and they know from where the poison came, because there were only two items at the meal.

Does anyone think that a colonel of the KGB, who came up from a humble background in the dangerous, tough world of post-Soviet Russian politics to become one of the most powerful men in the world is that stupid?

Besides, what is not mentioned in the piece is telling. We are told that Zelensky invited Abramovich to participate in the negotiations, which reports as early as the end of February confirm,   but we are not told that Putin is also close to Abramovich. He certainly approved of his mediation.

And Putin would seem to have everything to gain from Abramovich’s help and nothing to gain from poisoning him. Indeed, he has everything to lose by a false step,  which accounts for  his restraint in the face of ever-more deranged denunciations emanating from the US President.

Putin has already accomplished most of his goals, from liberating the Donbas and taking Mariupol from Azov, to destroying most of Ukraine’s military infrastructure, turning water on for the Crimea, and securing evidence of war-plans and biological weapons manufacture that vindicate his decision to go in.

For an operation lasting more than a month, there are relatively few civilian casualties, and most of them are a direct result of the Ukrainian military/government/Nazi battalions giving weapons to civilians, firing on them, placing them intentionally in harm’s ways, refusing to allow them to use the humanitarian corridors, and using them as hostages/military cover. Russia has lost more soldiers than they need have in trying to minimize the damage to the Ukrainians. Had they gone in with full force, there would have been a far greater number of casualties.

Widening the war at this point would endanger all Putin’s gains and would be reckless. So far all the signs point to Putin being a  prudent, competent leader.

Not so Zelensky, who foolishly gambled on NATO troops on the ground in a reckless, double-talking game that he has lost.

Zelensky must know it too because he has already started talking about accepting neutrality for Ukraine and has given up on NATO membership.

That means two of the most important strategic goals of Putin are in the process of being wrapped up. Why would he jeopardize things at this stage?

An outright war with NATO would have no winners except the global elites. With Russians suffering enormously from the sanctions, as well as Russian partners like China and India, poisoning negotiators risks alienating allies and widening the war.

On the other hand, the wider the war, the better for Zelensky, who has every reason to manufacture a provocation to get what he now sees slipping from him, NATO admission and NATO intervention.

So Zelenksy does have a motive to create a false-flag.

And his behavior so far supports this theory. Zelensky has been warning almost daily of possible chemical strikes by Russia.  He recently repeated claims that strikes on chemical factories and the use of phosphorus bombs by Russia constitute a use of chemical weapons that warrants NATO intervention. But in truth neither constitutes chemical weapons usage. Phosphorus bombs are not even categorized as chemical weapons. They’re widely used by militaries all over the world, although they should never be used against civilians because of the hideous injuries they inflict. They were used indiscriminately by the US in Fallujah in Iraq, which did constitute a war crime, but Fallujah was a horror show that is very, very far from what is happening in Ukraine now, despite what the mainstream media psyops tells you.

Still, Zelensky keeps claiming such attacks, which means he thinks that a provocation has its uses.

And if he cannot find one, he has every reason to manufacture one. A poisoning is after all a “chemical attack.” If the poison used is a radioactive substance, then that is a “nuclear attack.” And haven’t we been warned by Zelensky that the Russians will commit chemical and nuclear attacks? Voila, here we have it.

Is there anything else that supports this argument? Yes.

Just recently it was Zelenksy who lobbied the West to exclude Abramovich from the economic sanctions that have hit Russians, ostensibly because he was helping the negotiations.

UK and EU officials are skeptical about the claim, which is from unnamed sources in the US government, but reports are that Biden and Zelensky have been on the phone. Remember Maidan and Biden’s instructions to the Ukraine government to get rid of the prosecutor before he investigated Hunter Biden and Burisma’s corruption?

Today we know Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca was directly funding US biolabs in Ukraine in violation of international conventions. We know there is evidence supporting ethnic cleansing/genocide directed against Russian-speaking Slavs that goes back directly to the Pentagon, to Metabiota, to Hunter Biden, among many others. All these are international crimes. Does Joe Biden’s increasingly hysterical pronouncements have anything to do with revelations about the Biden crime family’s dealing in the Ukraine? Does he stand to gain from a widening of the war which could distract and cover up his crimes? Did he and Zelensky work out a quid pro quo that might provoke such a widening?

Abramovich got his exemption. It must have been in return for something.

I suggest that it was for Abramovich agreeing to go along with this false-flag.

There is some further circumstantial evidence.

The alleged poisoning follows on J. K. Rowling’s recent high-profile attack on Putin, who had just defended her in a speech denouncing cancel culture in the West.

In her rejoinder to Putin, Rowling explicitly referred to Putin “poisoning” his opponents, charges that have been circulating in the West for a long time but have never been proved. [see below, for details.]

A further point is that Rowling’s allegations of poisoning were made in a speech blaming Putin alone for civilian deaths in the Ukraine, indicating that she is fully behind the mainstream narrative on the war.

Given the extraordinary media coverage given to this children’s writer and the manner in which that has been spun off into manufacturing her as a voice for establishment liberal  positions in the culture war, isn’t there a good chance that Rowling herself is an intelligence plant or at least coopted to play her part in intelligence operations?

Consider this: In 2016 the Russian orthodox church along with the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Military cast Harry Potter and NATO as the Satanically -inspired foreign powers threatening Russia in a cartoon called Kids Against the Sorcerers. They are defeated by Russian military school cadets in a story that according to the narrator  “takes place in the present, past and future”.

Not only is the story about “belief in God” against the occult, but also against the Western pursuit of wealth, propagated by an unnamed “enemy” army “seeking a rematch for its defeat during WWII” and about uniting “different people such as the Greeks and the Serbs by common faith and tradition.”

Apparently,  Mr. Putin was trolling J. K. Rowling. She fell into the role cast for her in the film perfectly.

Addendum:. 

The most notorious poisoning case was that involving Putin critic and ex-KGB spy turned British agent,  Alexander Litvinenko, who died in the UK  from radioactive polonium-210 poisoning.

A British court found two Russians, one a member of the Russian parliament, guilty, but the court used conjectural language in suggesting the crime had the Russian state and Putin directly behind it.

The two Russians, both of whom apparently didn’t know the nature of the poison they were carrying,  said Litvinenko did it to himself.

The poisoning was rather suspicious, to my mind.

In the first place, a state like Russia has ample resources to come up with an untraceable poison. If that were not possible, the Russians would have staged the poisoning so as to make it look like an illness or an accident, so that investigation would be delayed until the poison was no longer detectable. And even if they could not disguise the poisoning, the Russians would have disguised the source, perhaps by making sure the poisoning took place at a public event where there was so much food from so many sources and so many people became ill that no one could be sure where or when the poison had been administered, let alone by whom.

If Putin were the ruthless gangster the West says he is, it would have been nothing to kill innocent people to disguise an assassination. It’s done all the time in the West. Or if he wished to send a message, he could at least have disguised the proximate cause of the assassination.

The Litvinenko case instead has all the hallmarks of being cooked-up to attack Putin. Radioactive plutonium may have been a bad choice for a Russian poisoning, as it would point back to Russia instantly. But it was the perfect choice for a false-flag poisoning to blame the Russian government. Litvinenko’s handlers in the West or elsewhere could have set him up to get rid of him and at the same time blame  Putin.