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US Changes Tune On Ukrainian BioWar Labs

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The Russians have frequently alleged the existence of Ukrainian bioweapons labs. Now on March 7, Lt. Gen. Kirillov has stated publicly that they hold exhaustive documentary proof that the stock of pathogens in them was destroyed urgently on the eve of the Russian special operation/invasion.

Until now the Russian claim has been drowned in a tsunami of denials, counter narratives, and counter allegations by the US.

A google search for “Ukraine biolabs” would turn up dozens of sites, from Snopes [a left liberal propaganda site masquerading as a propaganda buster] to Euvsdisinfo.eu, the European version of the same] all denying that there were US biowar labs in Ukraine and all claiming that the facilities there were only fighting disease or monitoring the population’s health and were run by the Ukrainians themselves.

But it looks like the documentary evidence laid out by the Russian army yesterday was too convincing for simple denial.  Then there is the pending investigation of Igor Kolomoisky, President Zelenksy’s sugar daddy, a mafiosi Ukrainian billionaire who financed the ethnic cleansing  of Donbas Russians. Viruses specifically targeting ethnic Russians [Slavs], as the RF army chiefs have claimed, would be of immense help thee. With the Fed’s investigation tightening, Kolomoisky has moved closer to the Russians and may perhaps be in a position to confirm the biolab revelations.

Indeed, today, the US narrative has shifted. 

Now, US officials admit that there were indeed bioweapons research labs….

The new spin is that the biolabs need to be seized by the US before the Russians get to them, the same Russians whom they accused until today of being liars and propagandists for identifying innocent sanitation outposts as biowarfare facilities.

To wit.,

On Tuesday, the US government’s Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testified before a Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearing on Ukraine in Washington, DC, and said that the United States was working with Ukraine to prevent invading Russian forces from seizing biological research material. The State Department also stated that it was concerned that Russian forces are trying to gain control of biological research facilities within Ukraine. The committee was set to examine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the worldwide response.

At the hearing, State Department official Victoria Nuland was asked whether Ukraine has bioweapons. “Ukraine has biological research facilities, which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to gain control of”, she stated to the US lawmakers on March 8.

Ukraine War: List Of Useful Sites

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There is a huge dearth of decent commentary on the war, or, when there is good commentary, it is scattered between blog posts and video, making it hard for busy people to get the gist of what is happening without an enormous expenditure of time.

For the self absorbed among us, for whom a war is just another excuse to update Facebook this hardly matters, but the rest of us need to know what we are supporting before we open our mouths…or the blood is on our hands too.

Sanctioning Russia implies the collective guilt of its citizens for not overturning Putin.

Well, what about the collective guilt of Americans in allowing into the White House a man in serious mental decline, incapable of handling international crises?

Shouldn’t ordinary Americans be punished for that too?

Or for Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and endless other interventions which had less justification than Putin’s?

But who will sanction the sanctioners?

With that, here is a list of sites that could help  understanding the war in Ukraine.

NOTE: I DO NOT ENDORSE ANY OF THEM.

I have serious problems with about 3/4 of what is on them, and likely most, if not all, have some intelligence ties, or toe the intelligence line, or they would not flourish. You can take that as you wish. I know nothing about the owners, funders etc., although in some cases I can take a good guess.

But from bitter experience I will keep those guesses mostly to myself.

I am not part of any organized resistance, communist, anti-communist, Russian, Prussian,  or anything else. The only resistance I am whole-heartedly part of is resistance to my own unwanted habits, weaknesses and failings. The only line I toe is, whether something is true and helpful or not. There are true things that are not useful.. such as the personal crimes or sins of some of our oligarch enemies and friends. Interesting, but not necessarily relevant.

However, where relevant and useful,  there is also another consideration. If I put this information up, will the blowback be worth it, for someone who has only her wits and a couple of hours of free time, to aid her?

Will I go under too, like a thousand other small blogs and sites in the great purge that began in 2015-2016 and has accelerated ever since?

So I hold my tongue, which is now black and blue from the effort.

WEBSITES/BLOGS

Michel Chossudovsky’s website, Center for Research on Globalization [Long-standing researchers on geopolitics from a parapolitics angle. Criticizes as pushing Chinese and Russian propaganda.]

GreatGameIndia: Shelly Kasli’s wonderful investigative site that hasn’t been given sufficient credit for the ground breaking work it did on Covid, and before that, on demonetization and the cash ban. Possibly vetted by Indian intelligence, but not certain.

Zero Hedge: Lots of good stories mixed in with some disinfo, as I am almost certain this site is a group effort.

Strategic-Culture Foundation [reportedly part of the pro-Russian ecosystem, allegedly linked to the Russian state, just as all other media is linked to the ecosystem of the US, UK, EU, and their allies]

Oriental Review  Ditto

Covert Shores: Good analysis of Moskva sinking, open source intel from a naval guy. Western viewpoint.

War Zone The Drive 

Very good analysis of  war and armaments. Western

Intel Slava Z on Telegram

Unz.com [Counterpunch writers and some others who’ve migrated to a site run by Ron Unz, a tech entrepreneur and smart Jewish dissident; likely to be some disinformation, intended to co-opt so-called anti-Semitic criticism]

Voltairenet [Theirry Meyssan is excellent]

Dissident Voice [left centered dissident opinion on a variety of topics]

Counter-currents [ed. Binu Matthews] Socialist, people oriented, pro-global warming.

Indian Punch-line [M. Bhadrakumar, a retired Indian diplomat]

Life-site News [pro-life Catholic site]

The Saker.is – Orthodox Russian resident in the US, economically left, culturally right. Very pro Russian.

A Son of the American Revolution [American military analyst]

Andrei Martyanov’s blog [Russian military analyst. Very pro Russian]

The Gateway Pundit [pro-Trump right, conspiratorial]

National File [investigative, non mainstream right]

The Last Refuge [pro Trump Christian right]

Moon of Alabama

Lew Rockwell [Libertarian pro-market, antiwar site] Paleolibertarian and Christian libertarian

Revisionist Review, from Michael Hoffman, a so-called holocaust denial site, but I can vouch that it is entirely free of Nazi sympathy of any kind. Deep analysis of staged events, masonic conspiracy, and Talmudic influence.

Sputnik News  

and TASS

[Russian state outlets]

Srb.info [Serbia news] Pro Russian Serbian news site.

Gonzalo Lira [Chilean businessman on site in Kharkiv, has now gone missing]:  First-hand account of events in Kharkhiv, ear-to-the-ground reports of other areas.

Patrick Lancaster: Ex-US Navy, on the ground at battle fronts, with Russian army.

The Duran

[Have not watched this much, will add, when I find time to.]

That’s all for now. I don’t necessarily agree with the positions of these sites on other issues, or even with everything they say about the war, but they carry useful information to counter the incessant propaganda about Ukraine and Russia.

The best weapon against the media war is

Accurate information about the background and progress of the war

Clear understanding of the motivations and justifications of the different actors

Healthy skepticism toward the moral grandstanding of third parties with no skin in the game.

 

 

A Leftist Defends Trump As America’s Champion

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Emmanuel Pastreich a leftist with intellectual integrity has written a defense of Donald Trump’s real achievements that  puts the backstabbing buffoons of the Republican party to greater shame than that which they heaped on themselves during their sniveling wimp-out on January 6.

Pastreich credits Trump with

opposing foreign wars;

opposing trade agreements that destroy the working class;

opposing immigration used as a tool against the country;

bringing the Federal Reserve more under the control of the Treasury;

opening up public discussion of the vast conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and declassifying documents that relate to it and other crimes;

questioning the official story about 9/11 and many other conspiracies;

undermining the major media and promoting alternative media;

doing his best to defend us against the pandemic police state;

promoting the use of HCQ despite universal mockery;

supporting the hunt for pedophile blackmail rings;

and unveiling and publicizing the criminal corruption of the swamp.

It was for this last, says Pastereich, that he paid the price. He suddenly came down with Covid and shortly after was targeted by a vast election cyberhack involving multiple nations, all profiteering from the vaccine regime of the pandemic police state.

The finale of this world historical sabotage is the minor fracas now entered into official history as the Capitol Insurrection of January 6, for which Trump, painted as Miami’s answer to Osama Bin Laden, is being held solely responsible. This, argues Pastreich, is a prelude to making any dissent from the vaccine regime or the official election narrative a form of domestic terrorism subject to the full weight of the totalitarian state apparatus,

The only failing in this otherwise admirable essay is the needless pearl-clutching about Trump’s garish tastes in decor, multiple marriages, and ties to casinos and mobsters. Pastreich says he has “grudging respect” for Trump’s fundamental decency as a human being, considers him a much better president than Obama, Bush, or Clinton, but wouldn’t buy a used car from him.

Ah well. Thus ever the chattering classes. Even the very best among them would be useless on a battlefield.

We don’t have “grudging respect” for Trump. We  unequivocally like the guy. If the best you can bring to the endless inquisition about not so much Trump’s character as his style is status-signaling about your superior taste in clothes and houses, then you have established yourself only as a snob without a sense of proportion.

If his multiple wives…all of whom seen to stay friends with him… are the worst of his sins, then in the vicious dens of DC he is an innocent indeed.

 

Trump Supports Q-Loving Georgia Rep

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Josh Marshall from the influential left-liberal blog Talking Points Memo thinks that this tweet makes Greene the most important Republican representative and practically untouchable, despite her espousal of what the media mocks as “conspiracy theories,” among them, those spread by “Q”.

Mike Flynn’s Brother To Command US Army Pacific Forces

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Charles Flynn, brother of former National Security Advisor, General Mike Flynn, recently made a 4 star general, was appointed to lead US Pacific forces.

Despite initial denials, DOD has confirmed that Charles Flynn WAS in the room when the DC police chief called in to request the assistance of the National Guard during the Capitol protest on January 6 and when one or more of those officers present discussed the optics of such a move.

The fact that Flynn’s brother had earlier called for a limited military redo of the fraudulent election and was known to be a supporter of the enigmatic insider called Q or, incorrectly, QAnon, whose cryptic “drops” called for a second American revolution, concerned some DOD officials, it’s reported.
While Mike Flynn and another brother Joseph, as well as sister, Barbara Redgate, are Q sympathizers, it’s not clear where Charles’ sympathies lie. Still, the fact that he was appointed to a top post indicates that while Q may be a ‘terrorist’ to some and  FBI cointelpro to the likes of Reuters, his sympathizers are in favor in the military.

More about Trump’s retweeting of Q and Q’s more speculative and controversial claims about pedophile rings and the elites here. More on Weiner’s laptop here.

CovidCon: Vaccine Kills 36 In 1 Week In Gibralter?

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https://markcrispinmiller.com/2021/01/could-the-new-vaccines-be-causing-all-those-covid-deaths-the-case-of-gibraltar/

“The UK now allegedly has the highest daily “Covid death” rate ever. Even higher than the “First Wave,” in spite of the substantial degree of herd immunity that has inevitably accrued since the beginning. This atypical “Second Wave” coincides with the vaccine roll-out. Are the two connected?

Gibraltar, normally called simply “Gib,” provides a very clear picture. This tiny British Colony, barely three miles long, appended to the South coast of Spain, has only 32,000 residents. It had suffered relatively little from the epidemic before the 9th January this year, with only seventeen deaths for the whole period. The death rate was well down the Deaths per Million League Table. This was not due to isolation, since Spanish workers have continued to pour into Gib every morning, and back out every evening.

Since the 9th January “Covid deaths” per million have rocketed to Third Place on the Worldometer site. Thirty-six more deaths in little over a week. What changed on the Ninth? The RAF flew in nearly 6,000 Pfizer vaccines, cooled to -70C by dry ice. They were put to use quickly to avoid the risk of degradation. Tiny Gibraltar is like a petri dish; in no other place has there been such a brutally clear relationship between vaccine roll-out and increased “Covid deaths.” Local media and Government have not even referred to the obvious connection. “

Presstitutes 101: Deny Something While Admitting It

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CNN gives the hapless citizens of this country an object lesson in an essential skill of all aspiring Presstitutes: the ability to deny something while admitting it in the same breath:

Does the Dominion Voting Systems organization have ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, George Soros and the Clinton Foundation?

CLAIM

Attorney Sidney Powell claimed that widely used voting machines from the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems featured software created “at the direction” of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to swing his own election results, and that the company has ties to the Clinton Foundation and Soros.

This is false
EVIDENCE

None of this is true. Dominion has no corporate ties with Venezuela, the Clinton Foundation or Soros.

Powell and other Trump allies have tried to tie Dominion, which sells election technology that was used in more than two dozen states, to another voting company called Smartmatic. During the 2020 election, Smartmatic’s technology was used only in Los Angeles County, and not in any swing states, a spokesperson for the company told CNN.

Smartmatic was founded in Florida by two Venezuelans, and did provide election technology to the Venezuelan government. Powell has posted on social media a purported affidavit from an unnamed Venezuelan official claiming Smartmatic software was used to change votes in the country. But those claims have no evidence, and there’s no reason to believe the company’s software was created to make sure Chavez “never lost an election,” as Powell claimed. The company actually spoke out to accuse the Venezuelan government of voter fraud in 2017.

The bigger issue with this claim is that there is no evidence that Dominion machines used Smartmatic software, as Powell suggested — and thus zero connection between Venezuela and the company whose voting machines were actually used in the swing states Trump is focusing on. Both Dominion and Smartmatic have said that they are competitors with no corporate links.

The origin of the claim linking the companies seems to be a convoluted corporate transfer: In 2005, Smartmatic acquired a company called Sequoia Voting Systems, but sold it in 2007 after questions from members of Congress over the acquisition by a company linked to Venezuela. Three years later, Dominion, which was founded as a Canadian company but is now majority owned by Americans, acquired Sequoia. In addition, Smartmatic licensed Dominion machines for use in the Philippines in 2009, but the contract ended in a lawsuit, Dominion said in its statement.

Neither Dominion nor Smartmatic have corporate ties to the Clintons or Soros, a major Democratic donor. While Dominion did agree to donate its technology to “emerging democracies” as part of a program run by the Clinton Foundation in 2014, according to the foundation’s website, Dominion said in its statement that it has “no company ownership relationships” with the foundation. And while the chairman of the board of Smartmatic’s parent company is also on the board of a foundation run by Soros, Open Society Foundations, Soros himself is not involved in either company.

Fake News Reporter Preps Hit Piece On Powell, Byrne

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Update [3.41 pm, Jan 27 IST]:
I added another tidbit to my comments at DC on Jo Becker’s forthcoming hit piece on Byrne and Powell for exposing Dominion Voting Systems’ fraud:

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/new-york-times-begs-court-to-dismiss-project-veritas-defamation-lawsuit/

The link goes to an article demonstrating the abysmal incompetence and bad faith of major reporters today. The NYT was hit by a defamation lawsuit after it claimed that its video was unsourced, when there were multiple witnesses that the Times just couldn’t be bothered to track down. Then, the Times admitted that its own take on Project Veritas was based on what it read on Wikipedia….

ORIGINAL POST

Over at  Deep Capture, Patrick Byrne, former Overstock CEO and crusader against Wall Street and election fraud, has published an email from Jo Becker, a NY Times reporter asking for Byrne’s comment on a piece she is writing about his funding of Sidney Powell to the tune of $500,000 to research Dominion Voting Systems for fraud during the 2020 presidential election, a story she has heard from some unnamed source, she says:

“I have been told and am preparing to report that you gave the lawyer Sidney Powell $500,000 to investigate Dominion and the role it’s voting machines may have played, allowing her to continue to pursue this line of inquiry.”

As I blogged earlier, one of the most important things that digital warriors can do is to provide the  background of the pressitutes and hacks that pass for the 4th estate these days.

Jo Becker, with three Pulitzer Prizes under her belt, is clearly a mouth-piece for elite narrative-shaping, because, these days prestigious prizes are awarded mainly to those inclined to play that role.

My comments at Deep Capture summarize what a little research into her history found:

Patrick,

She couldn’t be bothered to research this story so she went with an obviously incorrect tip, if there really was a tip. She couldn’t be bothered to check her grammar, so she added an apostrophe incorrectly to a possessive pronoun.

Any NYT reporter who uses anonymous sources [“have been told”] to prepare media reports to help Dominion in its retaliatory lawsuit against Powell and Guiliani for over a billion dollars, is likely an asset of some kind and not playing fair.

That’s just an educated guess for now, but I would urge the digital warriors on this blog to check into it.
People have been asking what they can do. Well, here it is.

Delve into Jo Becker’s past reporting, any connections to the financial cabal, or even to Coomer himself, proof of Mockingbird status, ties to Dem financiers or hacks, affairs with Coomer’s lawyers, business irregularities, court filings, and the rest of her history. Give these propaganda outlets a taste of the medicine they dish out to others.

Particularly look for her stories covering Trump, RussiaCollusion, and any BFF status with Obama and Hillary associates.

This will extract a price from reporters…and the people behind them… for intimidating anyone who exposes cabal corruption.”

OK guys, got some background.
Becker is a 3x Pulitzer winning reporter, who left the WashPo for NYT.
WashPo is even more of a Mockingbird outlet than any other paper.
So that is strike one.
Strike two. She has an extensive background in negative reporting on Trump, including pushing Russian collusion stuff.
Strike three. Her husband Serge Kovaleski, also of WashPo, now at NYT, is the son of Fred K. who was a CIA spy. Kovaleski goes back decades in interaction with Trump. He is the guy with the disability who was allegedly mocked by Trump. I would say what I dug up in just one minute is already looking bad for her objectivity in writing about Dominion.

[I know I did not put hyphens in some places, but that is because my keyboard isn’t working right not because I cannot be bothered.]

 

  1. More on ”reporter” Jo Becker and her direct ties to HILARY ROSEN AND KEN MEHLMAN, whose interests evidently guide her reporting.

    Becker’s Pulitzer Prize was not given because her gay marriage book was great: it’s been trashed even by the Guardian, from the left, as a kind of rewrite of the history of marriage equality to give credit only to “rich, white” guys….

    What the Guardian should have said is that CREDIT WAS ONLY GIVEN TO DEMOCRAT ACTIVISTS.
    In other words, those kinds of prizes go to those who promote the CABAL NARRATIVE.

    Becker’s book promoted Chad Griffen, who ended up heading HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN, a very important part of the Democrat power base.

    Becker’s promotion of Griffen and Human Rights Campaign ties directly to HRC’s HILARY ROSEN, one of the most powerful women in politics, Democrat political strategist, lobbyist, CNN analyst, Trump hater, and handler of Hillary, Feinstein, and other swamp critters on the left.

    ON HILARY ROSEN’S TDS
    https://dldnews.com/two-elephants-in-the-room/

    “Hilary Rosen thinks that media will bitterly regret the day they have started treating Trump as a “normal politician.”

    ON BECKER’S BOOK
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/the-new-book-about-the-marriage-equality-movement

    “But Becker’s reliance on the AFER (and, later, HRC) team — primarily lawyers Olson and Boies, staffers Griffin and Adam Umhoefer, and consultants [HILARY] ROSEN and KEN MEHLMAN]— is ultimately the book’s downfall. Almost any contextualizing of the case is done by people with a vested and open interest in advancing the narrative that Griffin, with Olson’s help, rescued a cause that Becker claims “had largely languished in obscurity.”

    Correction:

    Correction:

    I lumped Ken Mehlman in with Rosen as a DEM operative, but in fact he is a gay Republican…one time chair of the RNC, whose position at HRC misled me. A RINO most likely, as he seems to be very active in Green investments. He is chief of Environmental Social governance at KKR, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. We know that private equity is heavily invested in Dominion Voting systems…and I would guess Mehlman has a hand in investments at KKR…and they are likely invested in Dominion as well. Must find a concrete link for that.

Dinesh D’Souza: Trump Nice Guy, Should Start Network

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FBI: Oathkeepers Linked To Jan 6 Arrests, Sedition

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AP News, January 20, 2021:

CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal authorities presented new details on Tuesday about three self-described members of a paramilitary group who are the first to be charged with plotting the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The FBI said a Virginia man, Thomas Edward Caldwell, appeared to be a leader of the effort. Caldwell and a man and woman from Ohio were all charged with conspiracy and other federal counts, the first of more than 125 people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 assault to be charged with conspiracy.

The chilling details in the case included communications between the defendants and others.

“All members are in the tunnels under the capital,” the FBI quoted a message sent to Caldwell during the Capitol attack. “Seal them in turn on gas.”

Other messages referred to the legislators as “traitors” and called for “night hunting.”

The FBI collected social media messages, photos and video to identify them as part of the Oath Keepers, which believes in a “shadowy conspiracy” to strip Americans of their rights.

Messages included in FBI charging documents had quotes with the three suspects exulting over breaching the Capitol, and Caldwell telling an Oath Keepers leader he was ready to attack Ohio’s capital of Columbus.

“We need to do this at the local level,” he allegedly messaged. “Lets (sic) storm the capitol in Ohio. Tell me when!”

Details of the documents made public offer some insight to planning and coordination behind the extraordinary attack, which apparently took law enforcement by surprise despite various warnings online.

The Oath Keepers group often recruits current and former military, police or other first responders. Records show that Donovan Crowl, 50, served in the U.S. Marines. He was arrested along with Jessica Watkins, 38. Both are Champaign County, Ohio, residents. It wasn’t clear immediately whether either Caldwell or Watkins has military or law enforcement experience.

The FBI said some Oath Keepers members were wearing helmets, protective vests and items with the group’s name and motto: “Not On Our Watch.” The FBI also said that they seemed to “move in an organized and practiced fashion and force their way to the front of the crowd gathered around a door to the U.S. Capitol.”

An affidavit filed against Caldwell states that he was involved in the planning and coordinating of the Capitol breach with Watkins and Crowl. Watkins, who allegedly called herself the commanding officer, and Crowl allegedly belong to the Ohio State Regular Militia, dues-paying members of the Oath Keepers. In one social media post, the FBI said, Watkins pictured Crowl and called him “one of my guys.”