© USA TodayAnother 'fact check' fail
For weeks, the so-called "Fact-checkers" have been smearing and discrediting websites and individuals that speculated about biolabs in Ukraine that are funded by the US government.
From
USA Today:
The claim: There are biolabs in Ukraine funded by the US government
In the early hours Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, inciting a wave of international backlash and sanctions against Russia.
"Putin is the aggressor. Putin chose this war. And now he and his country will bear the consequences," President Joe Biden said.
Some on social media claimed the United States may have more at stake than it lets on.
A post shared to Facebook on Thursday shows a map of Ukraine pinpointing what the poster asserts are "exclusive U.S. biolabs in Ukraine" that are funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Comment: The Last Refuge
adds:
Don't get so caught up with the nervous admission by Under Secretary Nuland, that you miss the purposeful intent of Rubio in getting out in front of a story that could be more troublesome for the Fourth Branch (intelligence apparatus). Rubio would not make this public remark, if he wasn't ¹intending to dilute a bigger issue.
48 hours ago, this was a conspiracy theory.
Funny how that happens.
¹Marco Rubio was previously the Senator who defended Mark Warner against damning text messages during the SSCI Spygate effort.
We are running out of 'conspiracy theories':
Those who have been paying attention will know of the yeoman work that has been done by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who has been investigating this menace for nearly a decade:
"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force." ― George Orwell"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." ― George OrwellThe smell of tyranny is in the air. The level of propaganda, disinformation, and mistruth has reached astounding heights, as the ruling oligarchy/Deep State/globalist cabal are thrashing about violently
because their frauds are being exposed on a daily basis. This shift to the tyranny of force has massive implications for everyone on the planet. When every quote from Orwell's 1984 applies every day to everything swirling around us, you begin to realize we are in the midst of a dystopian nightmare which gets more ghoulish by the day.
The last two years have been a fraud of epic proportions, conducted by a cadre of evil money titans, their financial, media, and medical apparatchiks, with the objective of tearing down our existing social and economic structure and "resetting" the world where they own everything and you own nothing, eat bugs, and provide the slave labor needed to keep society functioning. Of course, this will be after they dispose of tens of millions of useless eaters through their Covid/Vaxx scheme, global war, and mass starvation.
© Atle StaalesenMinister Jan Christian Vestre (left) visits Greger Mannsverk (center) and his Kimek yard in Kirkenes.
Temperatures had dropped significantly ahead of Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre's visit to the border town of Kirkenes. As he met with journalists in front of the local ship repair yard, the minister shivered with cold.
Vestre has reason to feel the chill. Only few kilometres east of Kirkenes is a Russia at war. And Norway feels a rapidly growing concern about developments.
The two countries share vast waters in the Barents Sea and have jointly managed the rich cod stocks for more than 50 years. A big number of Russian ships are regularly making port calls in Norwegian towns either to land catch or do ship repair.
Andrew Korybko
CGTNTue, 08 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba meet at the Ukrainian-Polish border crossing on March 5, 2022. /vcg
Ukrainian negotiator David Arkhamia announced over the weekend that his country is open to a "non-NATO model" to ensure its security, while ensuring it will never compromise on its territorial integrity.
He suggested that "there could be direct guarantees by various countries, such as the US, China, Britain, perhaps Germany and France, for example. We are open to discussing such things not only in bilateral discussions with Russia but in a wider circle." There are other fellows."
While observers may welcome the idea that Ukraine would never join a US-led anti-Russian military bloc at Russia's request as a positive step toward a settlement, all may not be exactly the same. As it seems at first glance. Arkhamia's mention of NATO members could upset Russia
as it could be interpreted as countries following the de facto expansion into Ukraine of Article 5 of the bloc, which refers to the organization's collective security commitments.
Comment: As it is, with the West
shipping into Ukraine their terrorist proxy-army from the Middle East, along with a deluge of 'lethal aid', as well as the Great Reset driven destruction they're wreaking at home, it's looking like the establishment have no intention of allowing any modicum of peace to reign anytime soon:
Also check out SOTT radio's:
NewsReal: Crossing the Rubicon
Al Mayadeen Net
AgenciesTue, 08 Mar 2022 08:14 UTC
© US Embassy in KievJanuary's shipment of US "lethal aid" to Ukraine
According to US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, although the West has been successfully sending arms to Ukraine, this may become a more difficult task in the coming days.
Sherman said, "I think it has been extraordinary the amount of arms supplies that are getting in to Ukraine even under the most difficult of circumstances," she told a media briefing in Madrid.
"The international community has been tremendously responsive and has found ways to get the material in. That may become harder in the coming days and we will have to find other ways to manage this," she said, giving away little detail.
Last month, Washington permitted sending $350 million worth of military aid to Ukraine, which is the largest package of aid in US history.
In parallel, the European Union has agreed to send
$500 million worth of aid to Kiev, and Ukraine nonetheless still urges the West to boost its military capabilities.
"It is critical that what we send in is what President Zelensky asks for, because he knows what his military needs most," Sherman said.
Comment: Despite the situation in Ukraine, the US is still pushing the idea of deploying its forces in Eastern Europe on the borders with Russia.
Will the European countries finally wake up and see that their economies can not even exist without Russia?
If things go as they are now, the European economy will crash like a tower of cards.
Will that be the last straw that will break the camel's back and will that cause huge suffering of the people so they can wake up and see the horror that they live in is caused by their psychopathic elites?
See also:
© The CradleWashington's 'replacement strategy' for sanctioned Russian oil and gas imports appears to be to cozy up to its oil-producing arch-enemies Iran and Venezuela.
The battlefield is drawn.
The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that 'international community' keeps shrinking.
The Global South should be aware that
no nations from West Asia, Latin America and Africa have joined Washington's sanctions bandwagon.
Moscow has not even announced its own package of counter-sanctions. Yet an official decree "On Temporary Order of Obligations to Certain Foreign Creditors," which
allows Russian companies to settle their debts in rubles, provides a hint of what's to come.
Russian accusations of a U.S.-funded and administered 'biowarfares' laboratory research program in Ukraine has led to rampant speculation about the nature of these Pentagon-funded laboratories. The Russians' insistence that it has evidence of such a bioweapons program has become a major hurdle at the diplomatic negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Belarus.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov charged at a press conference last week that "the Pentagon built two biowarfare labs and they have been developing pathogens there in Kyiv and in Odessa." Lavrov also compared the presence of the laboratories to the United States' Weapons of Mass Destruction program allegations that led it to invade Iraq in 2003 and topple dictator Saddam Hussein.
Leonid Slutsky, head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs and a member of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine,
argued that
the purported development of biological weapons components "confirm that the Russian Federation had good reasons for conducting a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine."
Samuel Benson and Zack Colman
PoliticoTue, 08 Mar 2022 22:30 UTC
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a ban on all Russian oil, gas and energy imports, the latest U.S.-led sanction aimed at punishing Russia for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is the world's leading exporter of natural gas and the second-largest exporter of oil."This is a move with strong bipartisan support in Congress and, I believe, in the country," Biden said during a speech at the White House. "Americans have rallied to support their Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin's war."
Biden
acknowledged the decision will lead to an increase of already record-high gas prices in the U.S. and pleaded with energy companies to refrain from using this crisis to gouge consumers.
"[Russia's war on Ukraine] is no excuse to exercise excessive price increases, pad profits or any kind of effort to exploit this situation or American consumers," Biden said. "Russia's aggression is costing us all, and it's no time for profiteering or price gouging."
A senior administration official, speaking to reporters Tuesday afternoon, echoed Biden's call for U.S. energy producers and Wall Street to "step up" to tame skyrocketing global prices and soften the blow from a U.S. ban on Russian oil imports.
Comment: Gas is already
over $4 a gallon. US stocks had their
worst day in over a year.
Rather than oil and gas, the EU will instead
sanction Russian ports, ships, and military tech. German Chancellor Scholz warns against sanctioning "essential" Russian oil and gas:
"At the moment, Europe's supply of energy for heat generation, mobility, power supply and industry cannot be secured in any other way," than by importing from Russia, read an official statement from Scholz' office. "It is therefore of essential importance for the provision of public services and the daily lives of our citizens."
As Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock
said today, "If we stopped these straight away, then tomorrow we would not be able to move in Germany anymore." Economist Daniel Stelter
warns it could lead to double-digit inflation and an economic crash.
Get a load of UK Foreign Secretary
Liz Truss, who, like Biden, acknowledges that the UK's sanctions will cause UK citizens a lot of "economic pain":
"Of course, there will be an economic cost for British people from these sanctions, in terms of their energy bills and their cost of living, but that cost is nothing compared to the cost to the people of Ukraine of this horrific barbarism they're facing," Truss told the UK parliament.
Despite the impact on Britain, Truss defended the UK's response, claiming that it was necessary as there is "no limit" to Russian President Vladimir Putin's "ambitions" if he does not fail in Ukraine.
It seems there's no limit to Truss et al.'s egotism and masochism. These people literally funded murderous nazis in Ukraine (and murderous jihadis in Syria and Libya), and now they have the gall to punish their own people because of Putin's "horrific barbarism", which they could have avoided by keeping their dirty paws out of Ukraine in the first place.
Meanwhile, Russia-China trade turnover is up
almost 40% in two months, and Russia reportedly just announced a ban on all exports of Russian products and raw materials for the rest of the year.
But don't worry. Netlix, TikTok, and AmEx have
suspended services in Russia. That'll fix 'em.
RTTue, 08 Mar 2022 22:02 UTC
© Sergei Supinsky/Getty ImagesUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that
he is ready for talks on certain "compromises" regarding the breakaway republics in Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as Crimea. He made the statement during the second week of Russia's military campaign against his country.
David Muir asked Zelensky on ABC News on Monday if he was willing to concede to Moscow's demand of recognizing Crimea as part of Russia, and the two breakaway republics of the Donbass as independent states.
"I'm ready for dialogue.
We're not ready for a capitulation," Zelensky said.
The Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) seceded from Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. Crimea voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia the same year.
Zelensky called both states "pseudo-republics" and repeated Kiev's long-held position of referring to the DPR and LPR as 'temporarily occupied territories'.
"But we can discuss this and find a compromise on how these occupied territories and these republics can exist. What's important for me is how people who want to be a part of Ukraine will live," the president said.
Comment: He also had
this to say regarding NATO: "I've become less passionate about this issue after we understood that NATO isn't ready to accept Ukraine.
The alliance is afraid of controversial things and a confrontation with Russia," Zelensky said. "
I've never wanted Ukraine to be a country that is on its knees, begging for something. And we're not going to be that country." Sadly, this is what he and his country have been reduced to, begging for military aid, a no-fly zone, sanctions on Russia, foreign mercenaries...
Russia has reportedly sent their
final offer of demands to end the crisis, pausing military offensives to await Zelensky's decision.
"Russia has offered a "final" version of its offer to end the crisis, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to accept or decline... Putin ordered his forces to halt ... in order to wait for Zelensky's decision, the sources said." #Zelensky "will have to pay a heavy price, the sources said. Assumptions are that he will be forced to give up the contested Donbas region, officially recognize the pro-Russian dissidents in Ukraine, pledge that Ukraine will not join NATO, shrink his army and declare neutrality."
If #Zelenskyy declines #Russian demands: "outcome may be terrible: thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Ukrainians will die and there is a high probability that his country will completely lose its independence."#Russian demands to #Zelenskyy were "deemed "difficult" but not "impossible," the sources said. It is worse than what Zelensky would have gotten before the invasion but "the gaps between the sides are not great.""
Ivan Katchanovski, the academic who proved Right Sector responsibility in the Maidan shootings, offers his speculation on Russia's demands: abdication or a power-sharing agreement with Yanukovych or his ex-PM Azarov.
Meanwhile, the Russian military for the third time
proposed a new evacuation plan for civilians and foreigners in Kiev, Chernigov, Mariupol, Kharkov, and Sumy - providing entry into Belarus and Russia. The Ukrainians would be able to provide exits for those who prefer to exit to other parts of Ukraine. The Ukrainians
announced the evacuation route from Sumy was set up and ready to go, agreed upon with the Russians via the ICRC. In a typical piece of gaslighting, the deputy PM accused the Russians of "forcing" people to take an "unsafe" route and called on them to refrain from their "manipulations." Well, let's see how things played out: Sumy was the only city the Ukrainians agreed to evacuate. They provided 35 buses and evacuated ... 723 people, which included ... 0 Ukrainians.
The Ukrainians would not allow Russian humanitarian aid buses to approach the city, threatening to shoot and destroy them.
CIA director Burns is
predicting exactly what he and his colleagues want the most: an "ugly few weeks", with urban conflict leading to mass civilian casualties. The Ukrainians are doing everything possible to make that a reaility.
© Getty Images
European nations face a major energy crisis after Moscow said imposing sanctions on Russian oil would see them cutting off Russian gas to the continent in retaliation — a potential disaster for several EU states.
Europe's addiction to Russian energy has come back to bite the continent, with a number of nations now scrambling for alternatives as the Kremlin threatens to block gas exports over sanctions levied against the country.
A new wave of Russian aggression in Ukraine in recent weeks has seen the country hit with international sanctions, and some partners including the United States are now
pushing for stronger measures to be introduced, including an embargo on Russian oil imports.
Moscow hit back against the West taking on its energy industry, however, saying that it is willing to halt the export of gas to Europe should an oil ban be implemented.
Comment: The Last Refuge adds: We are running out of 'conspiracy theories':
Those who have been paying attention will know of the yeoman work that has been done by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who has been investigating this menace for nearly a decade: