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.

 

 

US Labs Studied Only Birds Flying INTO Russia, Not Out, Why?

Xinhua.net carries commentary by Scott Ritter, a former chief UN weapons inspector and former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer on the US-run Ukrainian biological labs in the Ukraine, uncovered by Russia:

Ritter drew special attention to 26 of these labs, which he said “is something the United States probably needs to answer for.”

“I also don’t understand how programs as have been alleged by the Russians could be allowed to exist,” he said, citing Russian claims that one such program focuses on the development of the weaponization of bird flu H1N1 that can be vectored or delivered by migratory birds flying from Ukraine into Russia.

According to Ritter, it is legitimate to investigate the “potential natural vectors” for security concerns, but bioresearch targeting specifically the migratory birds flying into Russia and not the other way around is very disturbing.

It is just so “problematic about this program that suggests that it isn’t done for benevolent purposes, that there is malfeasance attached, which makes it not a defensive program but an offensive program and this is a great concern,” he said.”

The Philosopher Of Woke: Immanuel Kant

It all goes back to Prussia:

Kant argued that we can never perceive reality directly or know what things are “in themselves.” All we can perceive is things as they appear to us, through our eyes, ears and other senses—but those appearances, he asserted, are shaped and distorted by the nature of our senses. He posited that there are basic abstract “categories” built into our minds that impose themselves on our perception, that make things appear to us in a certain way, regardless of what things really are, independent of us. All our perceptions are shaped by “a priori concepts,” concepts formed not from observation and experience but implanted in our very nature, “to which all objects of experience must therefore necessarily conform, and with which they must agree.”

The advantage of this theory is that it allows us to confidently assert that our perceptions will always match our abstract assumptions, because they cannot do otherwise. The price, however, is that this theory cuts us off from reality, trapping us inside a delusion of our own making. There is no absolute truth, only our “perception” of the truth as shaped by who we are.

It’s a winding road from here to wokeness, but I think you can begin to see where it starts: with the idea that perception is more powerful than reality and that it all depends on your own identity.

In the 20th century, Ayn Rand summed up the contradiction in Kant’s philosophy: the idea that “man is limited to a consciousness of a specific nature, which perceives by specific means and no others, therefore, his consciousness is not valid; man is blind, because he has eyes—deaf, because he has ears—deluded, because he has a mind—and the things he perceives do not exist, because he perceives them.”

 

Pakistan PM Khan On Way Out: Blames Foreign-Funded Conspiracy

Pakistan PM and former cricketing super-star, Imran Khan, is set to leave office after losing key support needed to survive a no-confidence vote, only the third Pak leader to face such a challenge. The military and ISI are set to take over. There is now the dire prospect of instability in the nuclear-armed state.

A few days ago, at a huge rally he revealed that a foreign-funded conspiracy of which he later gave proof was demanding his ouster, because it did not want Pakistan to pursue an independent foreign policy.

Three weeks ago, Khan raged against the EU for telling him to vote condemning Russia, and asked, “Are we your slaves?”

Now the opposition has the votes needed to oust him.

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.

 

 

Russia Become Most Sanctioned Country In World, With 5532

Economic Times, India, cites the sanctions watchlist site, Castellum.AI [New York] on the most- sanctioned country in the world, Russia:

The site said that 2,754 sanctions were already in place against Russia before February 22 and 2,778 additional were imposed in the days following the assault, bringing the total to 5,532……

Russia’s number now outranks Iran’s 3,616 sanctions, displacing Tehran from the top position, reports the BBC citing Castellum.AI as saying.

According to the site, the countries and regions targeting Russia with sanctions are Switzerland (568), the European Union (518), Canada (454), Australia (413), the US (243), the UK (35) and Japan (35).”

 

USAID Officer Confirmed Ukraine’s Nazi Problem 4 Years Ago

Josh Cohen, a former USAID project officer, who managed economic reform programs in Russia, wrote about Ukraine’s Nazi problem for the Atlantic Council in 2018 [h/t Saker.is]:

Since the beginning of 2018, C14 and other far-right groups such as the Azov-affiliated National Militia, Right Sector, Karpatska Sich, and others have attacked Roma groups several times, as well as anti-fascist demonstrations, city council meetings, an event hosted by Amnesty International, art exhibitions, LGBT events, and environmental activists. On March 8, violent groups launched attacks against International Women’s Day marchers in cities across Ukraine. In only a few of these cases did police do anything to prevent the attacks, and in some they evenarrested peaceful demonstrators rather than the actual perpetrators.

International human rights groups have sounded the alarm. After the March 8 attacks, Amnesty International warned that “Ukraine is sinking into a chaos of uncontrolled violence posed by radical groups and their total impunity. Practically no one in the country can feel safe under these conditions.”….

….To be clear, far-right parties like Svoboda perform poorly in Ukraine’s polls and elections, and Ukrainians evince no desire to be ruled by them. But this argument is a bit of “red herring.” It’s not extremists’ electoral prospects that should concern Ukraine’s friends, but rather the state’s unwillingness or inability to confront violent groups and end their impunity. ……..

……Luckily, the authorities still have time to nip things in the bud if they act now. President Petro Poroshenko could start by enacting a “zero-tolerance” policy on unsanctioned vigilantism and direct authorities to cleanse law enforcement agencies of far-right sympathizers such as Sergei Korotkykh, who heads the National Police’s head of security for sites of strategic importance.

Government agencies at all levels should also stop cooperating with far-right groups. In addition to the Youth Ministry’s problematic funding, C14 and a Kyiv city district recently signed an agreement allowing C14 to establish a “municipal guard” to patrol the streets; three such militia-run guard forces are already registered in Kyiv, and twenty-one operate in other cities as well. And C14’s dangerous leader Yevhen Karas even boasts openly about cooperating with the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU). All this needs to end and state officials found to be cooperating with extremists must be removed.”

To be clear, Cohen’s article is written from the point of view of a Euromaidan supporter, who fears the neo-Nazi issue will be used pretextually by Russia to claim that Ukraine is a fascist state, for its own purposes. But that fact only lends more weight to Cohen’s observations.

Armstrong Economics: Cash Flows Indicate War Is Coming

Martin Armstrong vi LRC:

Our model has ALWAYS picked up the shifts in capital flows that precede war. This time we are witnessing outflows not just from China, but also from ALL emerging markets on a scale that is simply unprecedented. The timing of outflows is clearly linked to Biden’s unprecedented sanctions against the Russian people – not just Russia itself as a political state. This has NEVER taken place in history before with the single exception of the US sanctions imposed on Japan and the freezing of all their assets in the United States which preceded Pearl Harbor.

It pains me to have to even write this today. But clearly, those who understand where this is going is to World War III and make no mistake about it – this is INTENTIONAL! Even the official data has revealed that foreign investors have sold a net $5.5 billion of Chinese government bonds in the last few weeks. Biden stupidly threatened China that if they support Russia, they will suffer the same sanctions. This is just insane and it is DELIBERATELY trying to destroy the entire world economy.

Ukraine Genocide: Russia Compiles Time-Line Of BioWar Labs

From Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, via Saker.is, a chronology of what she calls BioBiden:

I will just add in new material/links to the text below, as I find time.

Obviously, this is from the Russian government and there will be things shaded their way, but there is nothing here that hasn’t appeared on different websites in the US press, both main and dissentstream, as my now-disappeared fellow internet warrior, Zahir Ebrahim, used to say.

1991– the US launches the Nunn-Lugar programme for the former Soviet countries to control/eliminate Soviet weapons of mass destruction including bioweapons. The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) was named as the programme’s main executor.

1993 – the Ukraine-US Agreement on the Prevention of Proliferation of WMD is signed.

2005 – an additional protocol is signed to the agreement between the Ukrainian Health Ministry and the DTRA on the prevention of the proliferation of technologies, pathogens and know-how that can be used to develop bioweapons. This is the start of the transfer of the Ukrainian military biological potential into US specialists’ hands.

2000slarge US military-industrial companies are engaged in military biological activity in Ukraine.

2005-2014Black & Veatch Special Projects, a DTRA contractor, builds and upgrades 8 biolabs in Ukraine instead of eliminating military biological infrastructure, as was originally claimed. One of the facilities, a biolab in Odessa, has been financed since 2011 for the study of “pathogens that can be used in bioterrorism attacks.”

2007 – US DoD employee Nathan Wolfe founded Global Viral Forecasting Institute (subsequently – Global Viral), a biomedical company. The mission stated in the charter is non-commercial study of transborder infections, including in China.

2009Rosemont Seneca Partners is established by former US Secretary of State John Kerry’ stepson Christopher Heinz and incumbent US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

2014 – anti-constitutional coup d’etat in Ukraine.

2014Hunter Biden joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.

2014Metabiota, a private commercial organisation specialising in the study of pandemic risks is detached from Global Viral. Neil Callahan and John DeLoche, employees of Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca Partners are appointed to the board of Metabiota. Global Viral and Metabiota begin to get funding from the US Department of Defence.

2014 – Metabiota shows interest in Ukraine and invites Hunter Biden to “assert Ukraine’s cultural & economic independence from Russia”.

2014 – Metabiota and Burisma Holdings begin cooperation on an unnamed “science project in Ukraine”.

2014 – Metabiota, Global Viral and Black & Veatch Special Projects begin full-fledged cooperation within the US DoD programmes.

2014-2016 – Implementation of Metabiota and US DoD contracts, including a $300,000 project in Ukraine.

2016 – US citizen Ulana Nadia Suprun, a descendant of Ukrainian Nazis, is appointed Acting Health Minister of Ukraine. The US DoD and Ukraine’s Health Ministry cooperation programme is greatly expanded.

2016 – an outbreak of swine flu among Ukrainian Defence Ministry personnel guarding a biolab in Kharkov, Ukraine; 20 dead. The incident is hushed up.

2016 – former US Assistant Secretary for Defence Andrew Weber is appointed head of Metabiota’s global partnerships department.

2016 EcoHealth Alliance, a Global Viral founder Nathan Wolfe’s structure, is engaged in the study of bat-transmitted coronaviruses at the research centre in a Wuhan laboratory, China.

2016 – the DTRA and Ukraine’s Health Ministry extend the contract after getting approval from the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.

2019 – the COVID-19 mutated bat coronavirus pandemic begins with an outbreak in Wuhan.

February 24, 2022 – launch of the Russian Army’s special operation in Ukraine.

February 24-25, 2022 – rapid elimination of strains in biolabs in Ukraine.

March 8, 2022 – US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland openly acknowledges the existence of cooperation between the US and Ukraine in pathogens.

Racist Western Elites In Denial That Russia Has Military Superiority

Andrei Martyanov:

 It is really an old truism, when your sparring partners are 7-year old kids from the sand-box you are bound to lose qualifications and skills. When it is aggravated by the blind and illiterate geopolitical planning and doctrine-mongering–it becomes a recipe for the loss of situational awareness and a disaster. The United States may not have produced world-class strategists with the exception of Mahan, but operationally, come on–everyone uses Boyd’s OODA Loop, Net- Centric Warfare is a routine today in Russian Armed Forces, so why such a catastrophic failure to learn from themselves, forget about learning it from those who defeated time after time best fighting forces in history? 

The answer is clear as a day: Wehrmacht couldn’t conceive that Slavic subhumans can produce T-34 and excellent fighter-planes, not to speak of a superb artillery. They also miscalculated with the level of education and adaptability of the Red Army, and in terms of Soviet industry. The US repeats here Nazi Germany’s path–US “elites” are afflicted by the genocidal, racial hatred towards Russians and they cannot conceive, especially through the “labor” of Soviet and Russian dissidents who sold BS about USSR and Russia for decades, that the US simply doesn’t know or understand Russia. That what it “knows” about her and her people is a complete bunk conceived in the dark recesses of ideological imperatives of the Cold War 1.0. “