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.
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“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.
WHO’s Coming Pandemic Police State Will Not Need A Vote
I blogged recently on the fact that the Gates Foundation-funded vaccine cartel GAVI had articles on its site mulling the current bioterrorism potential of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever [one of the diseases studied and tested in the US- run Ukrainian biolabs], as well as assessing the future pandemic potential of CCHF, along with nine other similarly lethal pathogens whose human-to-human transmissibility is currently regarded by scientists as low…..
At least, that is the public position of scientists. However, it is entirely possible that biowar researchers have already weaponized these pathogens into pandemic-capable organisms, in some secret lab somewhere.
GAVI’s musings are related to the currently unfolding plans for a supranational medical police state run by WHO, which fronts for GAVI, in concert with the globalist cabal of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.
Some hardworking researchers have pulled up Schwab’s Nazi and Jewish roots and relationship to the myriad overlapping secret societies that work incessantly for global government.
From the Council of the European Union:
The Council adopted on 20 May 2021 a decision to support the launch of negotiations for an international agreement on the fight against pandemics within the framework of WHO.
The Council adopted on 3 March 2022, a decision to authorise the opening of negotiations for an international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response……
The intergovernmental negotiating body will hold its next meeting by 1 August 2022, to discuss progress on a working draft. It will then deliver a progress report to the 76th World Health Assembly in 2023, with the aim to adopt the instrument by 2024.
Some ideas being discussed include banning wildlife markets, offering incentives for detecting viruses, and imposing sanctions on countries that conceal pandemic information. This last suggestion comes from the former terrorist and long- time shill for the Clinton and Gates Foundations, WHO’s non-medical chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Until now, sanctions have always been a non-starter for the WHO.
The Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response [WGPR] spelled out some further tools being considered:
The document speaks to the following recommendations: surveillance systems that would link into each country’s national health system; the implementation of universal digital vaccination certificates and guidelines on how each member country would be paying fees to the World Health Organization, in addition to the annual membership fees each member country is already paying.
An honorary professor at the Russian Academy of Medical Science and a former WHO employee turned whistleblower Astrid Stuckelberger is concerned that very few groups have had any access to the closed-door deliberations unless they are NGO’s officially working with the WHO.
Members of WHO will also not have any say in deciding whether they want to adopt the new treaty or not.
This delegation [put together to draft the Pandemic Treaty] has been embedded in the Constitution of WHO, and is immediately approved by 194 member states, regardless of whether they adopt its principles. This delegation is legally binding according to the International Health Regulations,”
This would let the coming police state automatically override the national constitutions of the member nations.
This Pandemic police state will be a centralized, digitalized, and technocratic reset of the world order using human AND ANIMAL health and the environment as a pretext.
Consider who will represent these competing interests, how the balance between them will be determined, and who will come out the loser.
Succinctly, the pandemic police state can and will use the protection of wildlife of all kinds as an excuse to enforce regulations that will run against human welfare, especially against those human beings regarded as lesser in its worldview: the elderly; the seriously or chronically ill; the mentally handicapped; the disabled; preborn or newly born infants; the genetically defective, or even merely suboptimal.
Along with these will be grouped political foes and dissidents, domestic and foreign; tribes and ethnicities that are not allies or considered regressive, primitive or inferior in any way; so-called terrorists and subversives engaged in wrong-think; businesses small and large that get in the way of the cartels favored by WHO; conservatives and traditionalists of many religious and non -religious backgrounds whose values clash with the counter-civilizational projects of the nascent world order.
Gates Outfit Saw Hemorrhagic Fever As Potential Bioterror Weapon In E. Europe
Since 2018 WHO, as well as its partner organization GAVI [The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations], a Gates Foundation- funded and partnered vaccine group, have been warning of a pandemic far more deadly than Covid-19 in the offing.
A piece on the GAVI website, dated May 4, 2021, by Linda Geddes, is entitled, “The Next Pandemic: Crimean- Congo Haemorrhagic Fever?”
It answers the question in the negative:
The virus is recognised as a possible bioterrorism agent, and was studied as a potential biological weapon in Iraq. However, human-to-human transmission is currently limited, so although there is a high risk of local outbreaks, the risk of a global CCHF pandemic is relatively low.
The operative word is “currently limited”; gain-of- function research would be able to reverse that low transmissibility, as it did with bat viruses.
Bat viruses, including corona viruses, were also being studied in the Ukrainian biolabs:
In a press briefing on Thursday, Russia derided the United States for creating bioagents in Kyiv that would be used to target ethnic groups. It said Washington conducted an R-781 project that involved bats as carriers of potential biological weapons. Other researches included bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses.”
And so was CCHF, which, as it is at present, could never have threatened a pandemic. But because of its great lethality it is an ideal bioterror or biowar agent.
Russia states that the declassified documents revbs,eal another project code-named ‘UP-8’, which was aimed at studying the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine. These documents “clearly refute the US public statement that only Ukrainian scientists work in the Pentagon Biolabs in Ukraine without the intervention of American biologists,” said Russia’s defence ministry
Elsewhere, the GAVI site suggests CCHF as one of the top 10 candidates to trigger the next pandemic: Ebola, Marburg Virus Disease, Lassa Fever, MERS CoV, SARS, Nipah Virus, Zika Virus, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Rift Valley Fever, Monkey Pox.
All ten candidates have mortality rates above 50%.
All do not have vaccines or other medicines that can cure them.
All will be exacerbated, it is claimed, by climate change, urbanization, air travel, and habitat encroachment.
Lila:
You will note that those four elements of the modern world are the very ones that the globalist cabal around Klaus Schwab cite in their efforts to force a great reset of the world economy.
Ostensibly this is to create a more “sustainable” world, by which they mean one in which the common man is forced to reduce his energy consumption to the minimum, while, various green technologies favored by the oligarchs are given state sanction and tax payer funds in a patronage system based on social credit that will control all finance and employment.
The Covid lockdowns and restrictions have been the dry run for this.
Disease X, from one of the lethal ten, after they have been weaponized, will bring in the fully tweaked and debugged version of the medical police state.
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?
Russian Presentation To UN Security Council on Biolabs [excerpt]
https://media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k16nsx50dm
[via Saker.is] excerpted from transcript of the above.
We called this meeting because during the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, some shocking facts came to light: the Kiev regime is urgently concealing traces of a military biological program that Kiev implemented with support of the US Department of Defense.
[Lila: There is no mention of WHO being informed of these labs or having any input. So when WHO told Reuters that it had asked Ukraine to destroy the pathogens in case a hit during war accidentally releases them into the population, WHO could not have been the reason the Ukrainians themselves destroyed the stocks on Feb 24. It could only have been a decision taken by the US and their Ukrainian subordinates. The WHO statement simply bolsters the US case, by suggesting that fear of accidental release, rather than fear of discovery, was the reason for the destruction of the pathogens.]
Defense Ministry of Russia got hold of documents confirming that Ukraine developed a network of at least 30 biological laboratories that host extremely dangerous biological experiments, aimed at enhancing the pathogen properties of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other lethal diseases with the help of synthetic biology.
[Lila: This number is also supported by a Chinese statement to the media earlier, which I posted. 30 is twice the number indicated by other sources. Correction: In the report I quoted, the Chinese claim 27 biolabs in Ukraine, not 30]
This work is funded and directly supervised by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the United States, i.a. in the interests of Pentagon’s National Center for Medical Intelligence.
The key role in these programs was played by a BSL-3 central reference laboratory at the Mechnikov Scientific-Research Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa, Ukraine. Research centers in other cities also played a role – Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov, Dnipro, Kherson, Ternopol, Uzhgorod, Vinnytsia. Research results were sent to US military biological centers, i.a. to U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infections Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, US Naval Medical Research, and US Army Biological Warfare Labs in Fort Detrick that used to be the key hubs of the American biological weapons program.
[Lila: If these are health stations, why are the results being sent to US military programs?]
All the materials are available at the website of Russian Ministry of Defense and are presented at daily briefings. Let me cite the most telling examples.
Russian military learned the details of UP-4 project which was implemented at laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa. It studied possibilities of spreading particularly dangerous infections through migratory birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza (lethal to humans in 50 % of cases) and Newcastle disease. As part of another project, bats were considered as carriers of potential BW agents. Among the priorities identified are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses. Project documents clearly indicate that the United States actively financed bioprojects in Ukraine.
Besides, there were experiments to study spreading of dangerous infectious diseases by ectoparasites – fleas and lice. It is clear even to non-experts that such experiments are most reckless, as they give no opportunity to control how the situation is going to evolve. Similar research (using fleas and lice as BW agents) was carried out in the 1940s on the development of biological weapons components by the Japanese infamous unit 731, whose members later fled to the US to escape prosecution for war crimes.
Ukraine has a unique geographical location, where transcontinental migration routes of potential carriers of dangerous diseases intersect. Many of those routes pass through the territories of Russia and Eastern Europe. The research that I mentioned was done in the very midst of Eastern Europe and in close vicinity to the Russian borders. According to the data received, the birds that were ringed and released during biological research from the Kherson nature reserve, were caught in Ivanovo and Voronezh regions of Russia.
The analysis of the obtained materials confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats from a biolab in Kharkov abroad. We do not know anything about the fate of those dangerous biomaterials and the consequences that may occur once they “dissipate” (possibly in Europe) in the absence of any international control. In any case, risks are high that they may be stolen for terrorist purposes or to be sold at the black market.
Several thousands of samples of blood serum of COVID-19 patients (most of them of Slavic ethnicity) were transported from Ukraine to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United Stated – allegedly for trials of treatment and prevention of COVID-19.
Everyone knows how sensitive Western states are when it comes to transferring biological samples of their citizens abroad. And there is a good reason for that – theoretically, samples may be used to create bioagents capable of selectively targeting different ethnic populations.
The activity of biolabs in Ukraine that we track back to 2014, and US-implemented program of so-called reform of Ukrainian healthcare system triggered uncontrolled growing incidence of dangerous and economically relevant infections in Ukraine. There is an increase in the number of cases of rubella, diphtheria, tuberculosis. Occurrence of measles has increased more than 100-fold. The World Health Organization said Ukraine runs high risks of having a polio outbreak. There is evidence that in Kharkov, where one of the labs is located, 20 Ukrainian soldiers died of swine flu in January 2016, 200 more were hospitalized. By March 2016, the total of 364 people had died of swine flu in Ukraine. Besides, outbreaks of African swine fever occur regularly in Ukraine. In 2019, there was an outbreak of a disease that had symptoms similar to plague……..
The materials that our Defense Ministry got hold of prove that all serious high-risk research in Ukrainian biolabs was directly supervised by US experts who had diplomatic immunity. Our Defense Ministry reports that at this moment the Kiev regime, as demanded by the Western sponsors, hastily covers up all traces so that the Russian side could not get hold of direct evidence of the US and Ukraine violating Article 1 of the BTWC. They rush to shut down all biological programs. Ukraine’s Health Ministry ordered to eliminate biological agents deposited in biolabs starting from 24 February 2022. We infer from the instructions to lab personnel that the order of elimination of collections suggested that they should be destroyed irrevocably. Having analyzed the destruction certificates, we can say that the Lvov lab alone destroyed 232 containers with pathogens of leptospirosis, 30 – of tularemia, 10 – of brucellosis, 5 – of plague. The total of more than 320 containers was eliminated. Pathogens’ titles and excessive amounts give reason to think that this work was done as part of military biological programs.
Now let me make a separate address to our colleagues from Europe………
At the same time, the Department of State sticks to the point that allegedly there are no US-controlled biolabs in Ukraine. Hence a question to the American delegation. How does this reconcile with 2005 Agreement between the US Department of Defense and Ukrainian Ministry of Health Concerning Cooperation in the Area of Prevention of Proliferation of Technology, Pathogens, and Expertise that could be Used in the Development of Biological Weapons? This document is available on the Internet. According to Article 3 of this agreement, the US Department of Defense may provide assistance to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the area of “cooperative biological research, biological threat agent detection and response” with regard to “dangerous pathogens located at the facilities in Ukraine”.
We emphasize that biological threats defy all borders. No region of the world can feel totally safe today. The United States supervises several hundreds of biolabs in 30 countries, i.a. in the Middle East, Africa, South-East Asia, and along the perimeter of former USSR. Washington does not agree to subject them to international verification. Starting from 2001, it has been impeding elaboration of a binding protocol to the BTWC that should envisage a reliable verification mechanism to monitor states’ compliance with the Convention. This cannot but make us think that the United States has something to conceal. I call on the colleagues from those regions to think of what sort of activity Washington is carrying out on their territories and what consequences it may have for the population………
This risk seems rather real if we take into account considerable interest that Ukrainian radical and nationalist groups have in research of dangerous pathogens that was conducted in Ukraine in the interests of the US Department of Defense. We have information that Pentagon instructed its Ukrainian protégés that, should any incidents occur, they should instantly accuse Russian Armed Forces who allegedly launch strikes against research and medical facilities, or blame it all on “Russian subversive teams”….
Ukraine War: 16000 Middle Eastern Volunteers To Fight With Russia
At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East who were ready to come to fight alongside Russian-backed forces in the breakaway Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.
“If you see that there are these people who want of their own accord, not for money, to come to help the people living in Donbass, then we need to give them what they want and help them get to the conflict zone,” Putin said from the Kremlin.
Shoigu also proposed that Western-made Javelin and Stinger missiles that were captured by the Russian army in Ukraine should be handed over to Donbass forces, along other weaponry such as man-portable air-defense systems, known as MANPADS, and anti-tank rocket complexes.
Unarmed India Missile Violates Pakistani Air Space
The New Indian Express reports on what for now looks like the accidental veering of an unarmed supersonic missile into Pakistani air space, narrowly missing commercial flights in the region. India has apologized and ordered an inquiry.
The last thing anyone needs now is another cross-border fratricidal provocation on the Eurasian continent.