Puppet MastersS


Sherlock

Pentagon and American firms involved in Ukrainian military biolabs - Russia's top investigator

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© Russian Defense Ministry / SputnikA slide from the Russian Defense Ministry’s presentation on Ukrainian biological facilities, Moscow, Russia, 2022.
Alexander Bastrykin told RT about case launched over the alleged development of biological weapons.
The head of Russia's Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has told RT that his team is making progress in a criminal probe into Ukraine's alleged Pentagon-funded bioweapons program.

"The analysis of the obtained documents allowed us to clearly identify the people involved in the military biological activities in Ukraine, including representatives of the US Department of Defense and American companies with ties to it," Bastrykin said.

He added that the US had spent more than $224 million on biological programs in Ukraine since 2005. The investigator added that foreign aid was used to equip and upgrade around 30 research centers governed by Ukraine's defense, health and agricultural ministries.

Comment: It's particularly concerning for Russia because because back in 2017 Putin sounded the alarm that 'someone' was collecting genetic data and tissue samples on Russians for 'research purposes', and to which the US Air Force later admitted it was doing just that.

See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Pentagon Biological Warfare And Arms Trafficking to Terrorists


Quenelle

Tit-for-tat: Russia issues decree to hit 'unfriendly' nations with export blocks in potential blow to global economy

Putin
© Associated PressRussian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with top officials via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, March 31, 2022.
Putin could kill existing trade deals and further hinder global supply chains

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a retaliatory decree Tuesday to hit "unfriendly" states with export blocks in a move that could further hinder the global market.

The move would look to terminate existing deals and restrict the export of "raw materials and products" from Russia that serve in the interest of certain foreign entities.

The steps are in retaliations for the severe international sanctions that Russia has been hit with following its illegal invasion into Ukraine nearly 70 days ago.

Comment: Did anyone seriously think Russia would sit still year after year enduring the kind of nonsense the West has put it through? But Putin bided his time, strengthening Russia in every way possible, so at the right moment, it could declare its independence from the West. That moment has arrived.


Bizarro Earth

The deteriorating Israeli-Russian relations are a cautionary message for the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey

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Sergei Lavrov
Israel's rapidly deteriorating relations with Russia contain a message for other Middle Eastern powers: attempting to remain on the sidelines of the conflict in Ukraine risks falling in between the cracks.

Like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, Israel has sought to maintain good relations with the United States and Russia despite Washington and Moscow's principle of 'you are either with us or against us.'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has good reason to apply the same principle even if Israel and Turkey have sought to use their good offices to mediate between the Ukrainian leader and President Vladimir Putin. They used their mediation to justify their failure to join US and European sanctions against Russia.

Bullseye

Post-COVID 'lustration': Lessons from Eastern Europe's 'decommunization' process

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© Jessica-Art/Deviant Art
History is cyclical, and thus full of pertinent lessons.

At some point - unless the corporate state successfully drags us into the long night of full-on martial-law/lockdown totalitarianism — we're going to emerge from the COVID fog of war into a Nuremberg-like scenario.

The political revolution will call for moral judgment: what should we do with the Fauci/ NIH/ big pharma/ biomedical state collaborators - from the highest ranks to the lowliest clerks?

Let's survey historical lessons we might glean from post-Soviet "lustration."

Arrow Up

When the government plays god: The slippery slope from abortions to executions

Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. — Ron Paul
Executioner
© A Government of Wolves.com
The government wants to play god.

It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.

Delve beneath the rhetoric and spin that have turned abortion into a politicized, polarized and propagandized frontline in the culture wars, and you will find a greater menace at work.

Abortion may be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide — the government or the individual — when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, sexual freedom, the rights of the unborn, and property interests in one's body, but there's so much more going on here.

The Left would suggest that unborn babies do not have constitutional rights and the only right that matters is a woman's right to privacy in choosing whether or not to abort a pregnancy. The Right, while fixated on saving the lives of unborn babies, seems less concerned about what happens to those lives from birth to death.

What few seem willing to address is that in the 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, the government has come to believe that it not only has the power to determine who is deserving of constitutional rights in the eyes of the law but it also has the authority to deny those rights to an American citizen.

This is how the abortion debate — a politicized tug-of-war over when an unborn child is considered a human being with rights — plays into the police state's hands by laying the groundwork for discussions about who else may or may not be deserving of rights.

Even if (as a leaked draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization suggests) the Supreme Court overturns its earlier rulings recognizing abortion as a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment, that will not resolve the larger problem that plagues us today: namely, that all along the spectrum of life — from the unborn child to the aged — the government continues to play fast and loose with the lives of the citizenry.

Take a good, hard look at the many ways in which Americans are being denied their rights under the Constitution.

Brick Wall

Details of proposed EU Russian oil ban revealed

Russian oil tanker
A Russian oil tanker
The European Union is seeking to go beyond an import ban on Russian crude as part of its new sanctions package, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. It said that Brussels plans to target insurers to undermine Moscow's ability to ship oil anywhere in the world.

According to officials and a draft document seen by the outlet, the bloc is proposing banning European vessels and companies from providing services, including insurance, linked to the transportation of Russian oil and products globally.

Comment: Russia doesn't lack for tanker capacity, and the insurance problem can be covered by the Russian government, but there is still the problem of being refused entry to ports around the world. There is a time limit to how long this can go on. Oil is the lifeblood of every developed country, especially in Europe.

Crude could surge to $185/barrel if EU bans Russian crude - JP Morgan

From OilPrice News:
Several Russia-owned tankers have been idle at sea for more than a week along European and North American coasts as countries have either banned imports of Russian oil or Russian vessels docking at their ports, all this while many traders and buyers refuse to deal with Russian crude.

As many as nine mid-sized vessels, Aframaxes, owned by Russian state tanker fleet operator Sovcomflot have been idle around North America and Europe for over a week, while a typical idle time for a tanker is a day or two, Bloomberg reported on Friday, quoting ship-tracking data it has compiled.

Many Western countries and companies are not risking touching Russia-linked crude shipped by Sovcomflot, which is majority held by the Russian government.

Sovcomflot, with a total fleet of 110 tankers, owns 52 Aframaxes, which makes it the world's largest owner of those type of vessels, according to data from Clarksons Research Services cited by Bloomberg.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several countries banned Russian ships from their ports and waters. Canada and the UK were the first. On March 1, Canada prohibited Russian ships and fishing vessels from entering Canadian ports and internal waters. The UK banned on the same day from it ports any vessels "owned or operated by anyone connected to Russia" and said that authorities would also gain new powers to detain Russian vessels.

Two days after the Canadian ban, two Sovcomflot-owned oil tankers rerouted from their destinations in Canada.

In the UK, port workers at a terminal on the River Mersey, from where oil is pumped to Stanlow Oil Refinery, refused last week to unload Russian oil from a Germany-flagged ship.

While Sovcomflot's tankers in the Pacific do not appear to be idling like the ones near Europe or North America, the problem for the Russian tanker owner could become much worse from now on, considering that a growing number of traders and buyers in Europe will likely be shunning Russia-related crude due to "self-sanctioning" and reputational risks.
Still:


Bizarro Earth

Klaus Schwab's daughter wants governments to use COVID policies for climate change

Nicole Schwab
Nicole Schwab, the daughter of World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab and current WEF Co-Director of the Platform to Accelerate Nature-Based Solutions, wants governments to take advantage of COVID infrastructure and policies to fight climate change.

"Clearly, the system... is not sustainable," began Nicole Schwab, speaking at an InTent roundtable. "So, I see it as a tremendous opportunity to really have this Great Reset and to use these huge flows of money, to use the increased levers that policymakers have today in a way that was not possible before to create a change that is not incremental, but that we can look back and we can say, 'This is the moment where we really started to position nature at the core of the economy.'"

Schwab continues, saying that politicians and businesses have the opportunity to redesign the economies of the world with nature and "regenerative agriculture" in mind before pivoting into a discussion about "engaging youth" with climate change propaganda to create a "restoration generation" (i.e., indoctrinating an entire generation).

"And one of the key reflection points here is also around engaging youth," Schwab continues. "And, for me, again, I come back to this shift in mindset of the restoration generation. Can we conceive of ourselves as humans — I mean, you talked about a new humanity... Can we conceive of ourselves as a restoration generation?"

Comment: The elite are redirecting the globalist narrative - no matter how many of them fail:


Bad Guys

Bill Gates is pushing for a new global task force to watch out for future pandemics, claiming the World Health Organization is understaffed

Bill Gates
© AP / Michael ProbstBill Gates attends a discussion during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 18, 2022.
Bill Gates has outlined proposals for a new global pandemic surveillance unit, claiming the World Health Organization currently has "less than 10 full-time people" on the lookout for deadly new viruses.

The Microsoft cofounder was pushing countries to take the threat of a global pandemic more seriously long before COVID-19 arrived, warning viewers of a 2015 TED Talk the world was "not ready" for a deadly outbreak.

Speaking to the FT ahead of the release of his upcoming book, "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic", Gates said his proposed "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" initiative should fall under the WHO's management.

Comment: See also:




Propaganda

71 years of RFE/RL: How the CIA-founded American state run media outlet survived the Soviet collapse to fight Cold War 2.0

rfe/rl radio free europe radio liberty logo headquarters
© Sputnik / Alexey Vitvitskiy
The first of May marks the 51st anniversary of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (hereinafter "RFE/RL", although this didn't become the official name until 1976) - radio stations which broadcast into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, respectively. As detailed in an internal CIA document from 1951 titled "Radio Aims and Objectives," RFE/RL was to be operated by refugees or exiles from the various Socialist Bloc countries to broadcast information intended to encourage "hatred against the regime(s)" and to increase the "will to resist the regime(s)." In other words, this project had an explicit function to remove governments unfavorable to Washington.

Undoubtedly, May 1 was chosen as the launch of this project as it coincided with International Workers' Day, one of the most important holidays in the Socialist Bloc.

From its inception until 1972, it was the CIA which funded RFE/RL, though it did so covertly without congressional knowledge or authorization. And it was CIA Director Allen Dulles - the mastermind behind the overthrow of democratic governments in countries such as Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) - who greenlit the secret financing of RFE/RL in the hope that it would contribute to the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Rocket

Fighting resumes at Azovstal plant, Mariupol

Azovstal plant in Mariupol
© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevGeneral view on Azovstal plant in Mariupol
Fighting has resumed at the Azovstal plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, several media outlets reported on Tuesday, with footage circulating on social media featuring plumes of smoke billowing from the steelworks. The escalation appears to put an end to the evacuation ceasefire declared earlier by Russian forces.

The Donetsk People's Republic accused the Ukrainian military and members of the neo-Nazi Azov regiment holed up at the industrial facility of taking advantage of the evacuation ceasefire and using the lull in the fighting to change positions. The pro-Kiev media, meanwhile, dismissed the accusations as false, claiming the area had been pounded by heavy artillery and bombs overnight, with Russian troops trying to force their way into the facility.

A correspondent for the Sputnik news agency reported the sound of artillery shelling and plumes of smoke billowing from the plant on Tuesday. Video captured by RT crew on the ground corroborates these reports.


Comment: The Azov militants in Azovstal are thought to be low on food, water, and ammunition.
A commander with the neo-Nazi Azov regiment told CNN, "Since the morning, the enemy has been trying to assault the Azovstal plant with significant forces using armored vehicles. Our soldiers bravely repel all attacks" - and confirmed that Azovstal "is now being assaulted."
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Despite what appears to be increasing desperation on the part of the Ukrainian fighters stuck inside and surrounded, the standoff could still last days, or even weeks more, depending on how much in the way of supplies they have, including ammo.

The desperation was captured in the following fresh CNN interview:
Fighters inside the besieged plant are "sharing water and food" with civilians - but time is running out, the deputy commander of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment, Svyatoslav Palamar, told CNN on Monday evening.

"We are extremely short on supplies in terms of water and food. I cannot tell you for sure how much is left... but I can assure you that we are saving, very fearful without water and food, and especially ammunition," Palamar, who is inside the plant, said.
He added: "If (worse) comes to worst and we run out of food, we'll be catching birds and we'll be doing everything just to stand firm."
According to the Kremlin, this is not a resumption of the assault on the plant, but merely a response to Azov attempting to take up firing positions, which are responded to immediately. "There is no assault. We see that flare-ups occur when militants get out to assume gun emplacements. These attempts are being suppressed quite promptly," Dmitry Peskov said.