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Youtube Bans All Russian State- Owned Media World-Wide
Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events, and we remove content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy,” spokesman Farshad Shadloo said. “In line with that, effective immediately, we are also blocking YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media, globally.”
Such are the hypocrites, cowards, and liars that rule us.
It is perfectly alright for them to adopt as their military policy such a thing as TOTAL INFORMATIONAL WAR and consider the entirety of civilian life here and abroad part of the battlefield, but if some nation shuts down a propaganda station from a foreign agent on its soil, the global policeman is on the scene to lecture it on its assault on FREE EXPRESSION AND THE FREE PRESS.
Andrei Martyanov: Ukie War Crimes, West’s Ignorant Punditry, and FASHbook Lies
Andrei Martyanov on war crimes in Donetsk; Facebook and Meta facing reprisals in Russia; and the bloviating frauds from the Ivy League/Oxbridge circuit…or do I mean circus?….who dominate the Western media.
The war crime by 404 against civilians in Donetsk will not stay unsolved, by now it is known who and how gave an order to use Tochka U against civilians in Donetsk. This is the only type of the warfare combined West is capable of conducting: propaganda BS and killing civilians. I don’t know, can anyone explain to this boy what is the real war?
Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor to US President Joe Biden, has warned Russia that NATO would go “full force” if any strike is recorded on NATO territory – intentional or not – after Moscow attacked a Ukrainian military base near the Polish border. In an appearance on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, Sullivan was asked by host Margaret Brennan whether the current US policy was “that any strike into Polish territory or airspace, intentional or unintentional” would be considered an attack on NATO. “The president has been clear repeatedly that the United States will work with our allies to defend every inch of NATO territory, and that means every inch,” Sullivan responded, explaining that “if there is a military attack on NATO territory, it would cause the invocation of Article Five, and we would bring the full force of the NATO alliance to bear in responding to it.”
Can somebody also explain to this ignoramus that NATO’s “full force” militarily in terms of conventional response is primarily virtual because… well, again, he should have attended a serious military institution to get a real education, not studying the BS of political “science” and “international relations” in Yale and Oxford–stalwarts of the West’s production of ignoramuses for top political jobs in Anglo-American world. We can see results of such an “education” all over the place, including “destruction” of Vasily Bykov by ukie MLRS. Do not expect integrity and honor from those people. Same goes for tangible evidence of destruction of the ship. Don’t hold your breath–these are Western media, they lie for a living.
This, however, I think is too late for Meta.
Facebook’s parent company Meta has changed its policy guidance on tolerance to hate speech to prohibit “condoning violence” against “Russians in general” and to ban calls for the death of heads of state, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a memo posted on the company’s internal platform. The Sunday post, published by Meta’s global affairs president, Nick Clegg, and seen by Reuters, suggests that Facebook is “narrowing the focus” of its content moderation policy to make it “explicitly clear” that a previous decisions made last week should not be interpreted as “condoning violence against Russians in general.”
Too late, creeps. The policy was already in place and, as with the murder, you cannot roll it back and say that things are cool now. Doesn’t work like this. Obviously they should worry.
Russia’s Prosecutor General filed a legal complaint with the nation’s courts demanding all Meta platforms be outlawed and the company itself be designated an extremist organization in Russia over allowing hate speech against the country’s nationals. Facebook was banned in Russia even before these developments over discrimination towards state-owned and state-affiliated Russian media outlets.
Gonzalo Lira: NATO False Flag Coming Soon
Gonzalo Lira, on the ground in Kharkov, explains why he thinks a NATO false-flag is in the making. Well, in Victoria Nuland’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, she tacitly admitted the existence of germ warfare labs run by the US in the Ukraine, so the US and its Ukrainian puppet are going to have to answer questions about genocide in the Donbas. Putin is a lawyer, and he knows exactly what constitutes a genocide under international law, so this is no exaggeration. It is the palpable fear of being held accountable for this and other war crimes that drives US/NATO’s more and more hysterical moves, according to Andrei Martyanov. It was thus that we had the Mariupol hospital bombing allegation, on which I blogged, a relatively quick counter-attack on the psychological front. That was soon deconstructed, but it has bought time for NATO to come up with a more effective and dangerous false-flag employing chemical weapons, that will provide the pretext for NATO/US to intervene directly.
General Bakshi: Cheer Leading Ukraine is Futile and Dangerous
Major General G. D. Bakshi gives an Indian perspective on the escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine and explains how futile and dangerous Western cheer-leading is for Ukraine.
Project Veritas Catches NY Times Reporter Admitting Left Lied About Jan 6
A NY Times investigative reporter is caught on video admitting he knew the January 6 protest was not such a big deal, which means his reports about it were deliberately misleading.
“American Journo” Brent Renaud Killed By Ukrainians, Not Russians
Another day, another media lie.
Fortunately, an intrepid alternative journalist caught out the liars.
“Our most important eyewitness is Juan Arrendondo, Renaud’s colleague, who was physically in the vehicle with him at the time they came under fire. Arrendondo was interviewed earlier in the day from a Ukrainian hospital, where he discussed what happened at the scene of the chaotic incident.
I’ve highlighted the significant portions of the brief interview, but feel free to watch it yourself below.
“We crossed the checkpoint and they started shooting at us,” Arrendondo started. “So the driver turned around, and they kept shooting at us … I saw him being shot in the neck, and we got split, and I got pulled into the … ambulance, I don’t know.”
This is a critical piece of information because it rules out the possibility that Renaud died from possible Russian shelling or a Russian sniper of some sort. Arrendondo, who is by far our most reliable source for this incident, makes it clear that the shooting came from the direction of the checkpoint. And The New York Times, backed by other sources, have established the area as a Ukrainian checkpoint. And in addition to that, the most recent maps of troop positions show the scene of the crime as an area that remains controlled by Ukrainian forces.
In all likelihood, Brent Renaud was killed by Ukrainian forces. And instead of taking responsibility for the tragic shooting, the Ukrainians used Renaud’s death as an instrument to advance a propaganda campaign against their enemy.
Rest In Peace, Brent Renaud.”
Lila: And apparently Brent Renaud was not working as a journalist when he went there. It seems he was there to gather intelligence.
Russia: It’s No Longer Just About Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, after discussions in Antalya with the Turkish and Ukrainian foreign ministers, March 10, 2022:
We have realised that the point at issue is not Ukraine at all. It is an aggression against all things Russian – interests, religion, culture, language, security, etc. The West’s furious reaction to our actions demonstrates that this is a life and death struggle, a struggle for Russia’s right to be on the political map of the world with full respect for its legitimate interests.
Biden’s Sanctions: Russian Oligarchs escape to Israel; Russian People Suffer
Joe Biden might pander to the public with thundering denunciations and sanctions of “Russian” oligarchs, but he knows, though he fails to say so, that they are largely Russia’s Jewish oligarchs who have a second citizenship in Israel.
This is an important distinction erased by the speech codes that rule the free people of the free West, who are so eager to impose their freedom on the untermenschen – Slavic Russians and Serbs; sub-Saharan Africans; American crackers, Confederates, deplorables and bitter-clingers; Iraqis, Palestinians, and Syrians; non-Brahmin non-Sikh subcontinental Indians; the Irish; tribals and aboriginals; and a myriad other groups.
It is important, because corporate Judaism, like corporate Christianity or Islam, but with much more ethnic cohesion, is an organic nation within the nations. And one must understand the interests and actions of this invisible nation as a separate state, protecting its own above all. Otherwise, we libel the nations and their people, blaming them for what the financial elites of this nation-within-the-nations does and attributing to national interest what is actually in the interests of this cabal.
Biden’s sanctions illustrate the point. Ostensibly aimed at Russia’s rich elites, they actually only harm the ordinary citizen with no exit. The oligarchs, with a second citizenship in Israel, emigrate there and enjoy the benefit of the Israeli law that gives them a 10 -year respite from any examination of the sources of their income.
That’s why I have to wonder if the USG prosecution of Igor Kolomoisky is really going to go anywhere. Think back to the Madoff scam. Or the Goldman insider trading case. Despite appearances and laudatory reviews by the major media, those who followed closely realize that with Judge Rakoff, the fix was in, as I blogged here. Similarly, freezing Kolomoisky’s assets in the US could only be window-dressing. Or actually a way to keep his assets out of the hands of the Ukrainians he cheated. Then when the furor dies down and Kolomoisky makes aliyah, his assets might be released and fall under a different jurisdiction, while the media attention focuses elsewhere.
This is only cynical speculation on my part. But with some justification, because in half-a -dozen or so schemes of the same kind that were supposedly prosecuted, this is how things panned out. Despite much tom-tomming of the prosecutors and judges in the NY media, ethnic solidarity between the criminals, the judges and lawyers, and the owners of the major media means that financial crimes at the highest level are usually dumped on a bag-holder/ lesser offender [as with Rajat Gupta], while the major offender gets off.
Indian Missile Accident: Cui Bono?
I wonder if the Indian missile accident involved sabotage.
Who would want to provoke dissension and possibly war between India and Pakistan?
And why now?
The act could tie into the current unhappiness in the US with the Indian response to the Ukraine war; India, along with China, abstained from condemning the Russian action in the UN and has joined China, Brazil and others in calling for an inquiry into American bioweapons labs in the Ukraine.
Or it could tie into American unhappiness with India for continuing to buy Russian military technology.
Or it could be both.
New US sanctions on Russian banks will make it harder for countries to buy major defence equipment from Moscow, a US diplomat said, though no decision had been reached on Washington granting a waiver to New Delhi to take delivery of Russian surface-to-air missiles under an earlier contract.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, the assistant secretary (of the US State Department) for South and Central Asia, Donald Lu hinted that the US may reconsider its position on waiving sanctions against India.
“The Biden administration will consider CAATSA [Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act],” Lu said on Tuesday, March 2.
From the description of the missile by Pakistan [if that was accurate and not deliberately misleading, as I suspect], it was a BrahMos, one of the fastest anti ship supersonic cruise missiles in the world, a joint Russian and Indian venture. BrahMos is a portmanteau of the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra in India and the Moskva in Russia.
……. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar briefed the media about the incident, calling for an explanation from Delhi.
“On March 9, at 6:43pm, a high-speed flying object was picked up inside the Indian territory by Air Defence Operations Centre of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF),” he told media persons in Islamabad, adding the object suddenly manoeuvred towards Pakistani territory from its initial course and violated Pakistan’s air space, ultimately falling near Mian Channu at 6:50pm.
“It was a supersonic flying object, most probably a missile, but it was certainly unarmed,” he said at the time.
“It is important to highlight that the flight path of this object endangered many international and domestic passenger flights — both in Indian and Pakistani air space — as well as human life and property on ground,” he added.
“Whatever caused this incident to happen, it is for the Indians to explain. It, nevertheless, shows their disregard for aviation safety and reflects very poorly on their technological prowess and procedural efficiency,” he further stated. [Dawn, March 11, 2022]
A report in Reuters gives more details, including the height of 40,000 ft, the speed [3 x speed of sound] and the distance into Pakistani territory, 77 miles. But the source is anonymous, a common technique by which the Mockingbird media seeds their reports with narratives crafted in the intelligence community. Thus, “One senior Pakistani security official told Reuters, on the condition of anonymity….”]
The allegation that this is a BrahMos missile is actually speculative. Consider perhaps that a certain narrative needs this to be a BrahMos because the BrahMos has a range between 300 and 500 kms, which allows the Pakistani official to claim that Indian missiles are actually trained directly on Islamabad. It also damages the reputation of the Russian and Indian technology and sows suspicion of Russian bona fides.
The Pakistanis relied on a Chinese air defense system that was very accurate in spotting the missile.
Oddly, last year, there were reports of problems plaguing Pakistan’s Chinese made air defenses in the east.
But the system that tracked the wayward Indian missile was most likely the cutting-edge HQ 9/P HIMADS (High to Medium Air Defence System) procured from China in mid-October, 2021.
Pakistani media has speculated that this was no accident but a probe to test the new system, which performed as desired.
Another speculative report is that it was sabotage from within India and the saboteur wanted to discredit the BrahMos missile on behalf of those wanting to continue importing from other foreign manufacturers.
Last year, India was stunned by the crash of one of its safest helicopters and the deaths of General Rawat and more than half a dozen senior military personnel. Rawat was known to have been staunchly against the defense import lobby which profits from gargantuan kickbacks as middlemen.
He was a major proponent of self sufficiency in defense.
Rawat died in a suspicious accident over the Nilgiris in the south of India last year.
Now comes this mysterious BrahMos accident [if it was BrahMos], a PR disaster for Indian missile prowess, as the Pakistanis have been quick to point out.
On the other hand, it is a PR coup for Pakistan’s Chinese air defense system. Again, what message is sent? By whom?