Comment: This is the first time the Russian govt has hinted at the protests in Belarus being part of a 'Maidan-like' operation. Thus far, they have, like their western counterparts, actually been critical of the Lukashenko govt. Time will tell how far their assessments of what's going on there diverge.

Comment: See also:

• US has 'lost its mind, morals and credibility' - China's foreign minister tells Russia's Lavrov, and he agrees
• Trump reaps the whirlwind with China/Iran mega deal
• EU dictatorship: ECB given ultimatum over €2 trillion stimulus scheme by Germany's top court UPDATE
• Fracking 'powerhouse' Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy protection, $9 billion in debt

Comment:

• The British roots of the Deep State: How the Round Table infiltrated America
• The era of Chatham House and the British roots of NATO
• WikiLeaks: Council on Foreign Relations controls most mainstream media
• The Origins of the Deep State in North America
• The Origins of the Deep State in North America Part III

Comment: "Our measures are working because they give people freedoms," she says... as she TAKES AWAY ALL THOSE FREEDOMS.

Don't you just love how Ardern and her collaborators present their policy decisions as if those were the only 'obvious', 'scientific' options?

Sweden, hello!?!

This New Zealand govt is - like its Aussie and British counterparts - stark raving mad.

Who would have thought 'the Nazis' this time around would be, first and foremost, British liberals and their descendants, all joyfully goosestepping us towards the New World Order...

UPDATE: No surprise, the lockdown will be extended from 3 to 12 days. Because the "cluster" is now 30 people. Never mind that that's what viruses do, and there's no evidence the lockdowns had ANY positive effect - as noted above, the only evidence we have suggests they are responsible for a lot of unnecessary deaths.

Comment: Well done to those few outlets courageous enough to publish his work, and of course to Denis Rancourt, whose efforts to speak out about the actual science of mask-wearing we first noticed in May, when we published his first review of the scientific literature on the efficacy of facemasks:

The Science is Conclusive: Masks and Respirators do NOT Prevent Transmission of Viruses

Facemasks aren't just 'another fracture point in the culture war' - they constitute a public health crisis in itself, and the longer they're mandated, the more likely they will statistically become more deadly to human health than Covid-19.

Also by Dr Rancourt:

Study of All-cause Mortality During Covid-19: No Plague, But Likely Mass Homicide by Government Response

Comment: Has it indeed?!

The Russians are no doubt 'up to something', given that a vaccine against 'a' specific coronavirus is a technological impossibility, but their 'scheme' is also not 'dangerous' as the West is portraying it. At least, no more dangerous than 'just another flu jab'...

Putin claims his own daughter was one of the first to be vaccinated with 'Sputnik V', and that Russia will not be mandating that citizens take it:

"As far as I know, a vaccine against the coronavirus infection has been registered this morning (in Russia) for the first time in the world," the President told members of the government. "I thank everyone who worked on the vaccine - it's a very important moment for the whole world."

Putin insisted that vaccination in Russia should only be carried out on a voluntary basis, with nobody forced to accept immunization. He also revealed that one of his daughters has already been vaccinated.

"I know that it works rather effectively, forms a stable immunity, and, I repeat, it passed all the necessary inspections," the president added. [...]

Putin asked Health Minister Mikhail Murashko to provide more detailed information about the plans for immunization. He said it is hoped that the Russian vaccine will go into general circulation by January, but in the meantime medical workers and teachers will be given priority.

"We will begin the stage-by-stage civilian use of the vaccine. First and foremost, we would like to offer vaccination to those who come into contact with infected persons at work. These are medical workers. And also those who are responsible for children's health - teachers," the minister said.

Last week, the health minister stated that initial clinical trials of the vaccine developed by the Gamelei Research Center in Moscow had been completed.

However, Vadim Tarasov, a top scientist at Moscow's Sechenov University, where the trials took place said [...] [t]he technology behind the Russian vaccine is based upon adenovirus, the common cold. [T]he vaccine proteins replicate those of Covid-19 and trigger "an immune response similar to that caused by the coronavirus itself," Tarasov revealed. [...]

Putin said that his daughter had a slight temperature after taking part in trials, but that it quickly went away. "One of my daughters got the vaccine. In this sense, she took part in the experiment. After the first vaccination, she had a temperature of 38, the next day, 37 and that was all."

British and American corporates are spitting mad that Russia has claimed 'first position'!

Top US health officials insist they're holding out for a "safe and effective" Covid-19 vaccine, hinting that Russia's shot is anything but - or even that it's a plot to 'goad the US into forcing early action on our vaccines.' [...]

The irony of US health officials criticizing the speed of Russia's vaccine development appeared lost on the pair. The Trump administration's own vaccine development program, called Operation Warp Speed, has been criticized even by the country's most fervent vaccine boosters for its "unsafe" timeline, which has contracted from an ambitious 18-month projected schedule to "maybe before the election."

The US and UK have both ordered millions of doses of a barely-tested, unproven vaccine developed by Oxford University in partnership with AstraZeneca, with HHS officials stating they hope to receive the first doses as early as October. While the shot has so far proven incapable of protecting monkeys from the virus, hope springs eternal. Another vaccine candidate, from newcomer Moderna, has triggered serious side effects in a large portion of test subjects but has nevertheless been hyped as a potential savior. The FDA hopes to approve a vaccine by December.

The Russians have countered by pointing out that it is in fact the Anglo-Americans who are rushing out dangerous new vaccines:

Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine against Covid-19, has already become subject to coordinated information attacks from nations that have political differences with Moscow.

That's according to the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) which bankrolled the research. Kirill Dmitriev claims that, whether inspired by commercial concerns or just malice, the politicized approach of a number of Western countries ultimately jeopardizes the health and safety of their own citizens.

In the development and trials of the vaccine, Russia used a proven platform that had been tested on thousands of people over the past six years, the RDIF chief stressed, during an online conference on Tuesday.

"Coordinated and carefully prepared information attacks on the Russian vaccine are trying to discredit and hide the correctness of the Russian approach to drug development," Dmitriev said. "A politicized approach to the Russian vaccine on the part of a number of Western countries endangers the lives of their citizens."

"Meanwhile, a number of countries are trying to prove, in the case of 30,000 to 40,000 patients, the safety of fundamentally new approaches towards creation of vaccines, which, in fact, need to be tested for several years," Dmitriev explained on Tuesday. "The fact is that none of these vaccines created with the use of new solutions has been registered anywhere in the world."

"They have not studied the long-term effects on the human body, including fertility," he added. "Thinking that such approaches are safe in the long term without carefully studying them, in particular their long-term consequences, is a dangerous illusion." [...]

However, Vadim Tarasov, a top scientist at Moscow's Sechenov University, where the trials took place, said the country had a head start as it has spent the past 20 years developing skills in this field and trying to understand how viruses transmit.

We couldn't believe it when Russia went full Covid-1984 along with the West back in February/March. In hindsight, their position makes more sense. Many if not most people, Russians included, have a profound fear of death, and 'the virus' spooked them to no end. So the Russian govt read the situation correctly and 'played doctor'. Now they have a 'Covid-19 vaccine' to further placate their population. Hopefully it's effectively a placebo. Time will tell whether its medical effects support or further debilitate people's immune systems...

Comment: RT further quotes State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin from the pro-Putin United Russia party as saying:

Zatulin maintains that "insane with power" Lukashenko "obviously" didn't receive as many votes as he claims, and says that determining the true number of votes cast is an impossibility.

"The published results are not credible," he explained. "As someone already said, Lukashenko won the election but lost the country, and this is because of his extremely selfish policy, which prioritized preserving his regime of personal power."

Russia-based correspondent Bryan MacDonald is also highly skeptical about the election result:


The opposition leader, who officially got just 10% of the votes, has fled to Lithuania (though rumor has it she was explicitly sent there by Lukashenko). Far from calling on her countrymen to avenge her electoral defeat, she has called on them to "be reasonable and respect the law," so as to avoid "blood and violence. I am asking you not to oppose the police, not to go out on to the squares so as not to risk your lives. Take care of yourselves and your relatives."

The police in Belarus are certainly on edge. In a video widely shared on social media on Tuesday, two members of Belarus' OMON tactical police can be seen restraining a young man, possibly a protester. The officers manhandle the suspect, and as bystanders complain, one officer tugs on the pin of a grenade.


The detainee is eventually dragged away and bundled into an unmarked van, before being sped off to an uncertain fate. The Belarusian news portal TUT.BY, whose logo appears on the video, is currently unavailable amid reports of massive internet outages. Who cut off the internet is an open question though: Lukashenko claims it was done to the country from without, but that could be more of his mind-games, as Babich suggests above.

From the footage we've seen of the ongoing protests, they appear genuinely spontaneaous: the protesters are not armed to the teeth with siege and attack equipment, as if prepared months ago for weeks and weeks of rioting, as we have seen in the Hong Kong riots or the US riots. They just turned up to protest because they don't believe the election result and are sick of heavy-handed police brutality.





RFE/RL reports that Belarus is now under curfew.

Going into this election, we warned that Belarus president Lukashenko - even if he won another term fairly - was going to face a pressue cooker of dissent...

Political trouble is brewing for Lukashenko, however, so this stance of his on Covid-19 may turn out to be one last 'hurrah' for freedom from him.

We could see this coming not because of signs of foreign interference but because the country's leader so resolutely defied taking up Covid-19 measures, and in fact loudly criticized the whole pandemic as a geopolitical 'scam'.

He is basically correct in his assessment, but he appears to have made a mistake by not 'playing along' like most leaders. Every country on Earth - Belarus included - is made up of large numbers of people who are constitutionally authoritarian and liable to 'lose their shit' if they do not feel that 'Big Brother' is protecting them from external threats. And Covid-19 was the Mother of All External Threats. (It wasn't really, of course, but the authoritarians believed that it was, which is what counts.)

It may not be the only factor in play here, but we suspect that it's the major one. Lukashenko 'failed to protect us', and/or 'cannot be relied on any longer to protect us from future threats, so we have lost faith in him as our leader'...

Comment: Of course the UK gov doesn't want people to think about what these actual numbers mean. Because if they did the Brits would likely (or should be) absolutely up in arms for having their lives upended in they ways that they have and are.

Comment: The state of affairs in political medicine today has nothing to do with the well-being of humanity. Experts, such as Dr. Mikovits, have been/are being silenced, ostracized, suppressed. The good of the people continues to be sacrificed for the good of the few. What are we going to do about it?

See also:

• AIDS scientist Judy Mikovits exposes origins of coronavirus and Dr Fauci's vaccine scheme
• Dr. Judy Mikovits framed by Dr. Fauci: The truth about her arrest and the one issue media can't 'debunk'
• Plandemic Documentary, Part 1: Interview With Judy Mikovits
• YouTube deletes video 'Plandemic' with Dr. Mikovits accusing Dr. Fauci of corruption and suppression
• Hey, Google, your censorship of 'Plandemic' only turned its author's book into #1 bestseller. It's the Streisand effect, stupid!
• The well-known hazards of coronavirus vaccines
• Virus Is Found in Many With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome