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UK COVID-19 expert claims he was told to 'correct his views' after criticising 'implausible graph' shown during official briefing

Andy Hayes
Sky News
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:20 UTC
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© Channel4Epidemiologist Prof Mark Woolhouse speaks with Channel4, July 31, 2020
Professor Mark Woolhouse, who has been advising the government about infectious diseases for 25 years, says "plain common sense" was a "casualty of the crisis".

A senior epidemiologist who advised the government during the coronavirus pandemic claims he was told to "correct" his views after he criticised what he thought was an "implausible" graph shown at an official briefing.

Professor Mark Woolhouse has also apologised to his daughter, whose generation "has been so badly served by mine", and believes that closing schools was "morally wrong".

The Edinburgh University academic is deeply critical of the use of lockdown measures and says "plain common sense" was a "casualty of the crisis".

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Common sense from Macron: 'Always respect Russia'


RT
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:09 UTC
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© Global Look Press/Mark VorwerkRussian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron
French president has pledged to continue talking to Putin despite a "historic mistake" by the Russian leader

French President Emmanuel Macron has said that dialogue with Russia should always be based on respect for it "as a country".

Speaking on Monday during his first engagement as a presidential candidate, Macron dedicated a part of his speech to the Russian attack on Ukraine, which he called a "historic mistake."

"To combat a brotherly people and to wish to destroy and to humiliate it with the worst means, this is a historic mistake," Macron said.

Comment: Russia has been making its terms for peace clear for months and they haven't changed.

Even Reuters, that bastion of Western propaganda, is forced to report:
Russia has told Ukraine it is ready to halt military operations "in a moment" if Kyiv meets a list of conditions, the Kremlin spokesman said on Monday.

Dmitry Peskov said Moscow was demanding that Ukraine cease military action, change its constitution to enshrine neutrality, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states.

[...]

[T]he Kremlin spokesman insisted Russia was not seeking to make any further territorial claims on Ukraine and said it was "not true" that it was demanding Kyiv be handed over.

"We really are finishing the demilitarisation of Ukraine. We will finish it. But the main thing is that Ukraine ceases its military action. They should stop their military action and then no one will shoot," he said.

On the issue of neutrality, Peskov said: "They should make amendments to the constitution according to which Ukraine would reject any aims to enter any bloc."

He added: "We have also spoken about how they should recognise that Crimea is Russian territory and that they need to recognise that Donetsk and Lugansk are independent states. And that's it. It will stop in a moment."

"This is not us seizing Lugansk and Donetsk from Ukraine. Donetsk and Lugansk don't want to be part of Ukraine. But it doesn't mean they should be destroyed as a result," Peskov said.

"For the rest. Ukraine is an independent state that will live as it wants, but under conditions of neutrality."
Simple.

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Reporter leaves iPolitics after outlet 'corrects' her story about Trudeau's deputy PM posing with banner linked to neo-Nazis

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:09 UTC
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© Rachel Emmanual/TwitterChrystia Freeland demonstrating with the OUN(B) Banderites against Russian aggression in Ukraine. The small banner is in the black and red colors of the Banderites. It bears the slogan is of the Banderites "Glory to Ukraine!".
An iPolitics reporter walked off the job after the outlet corrected her story regarding Trudeau's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and photos that were taken of her holding a red and black banner associated with a far-right Ukrainian Nationalist movement linked to neo-Nazis.


Comment: Ukraine's neo-nazi lobby in Canada swung into action to defend their most powerful covert member, Chrystia Freeland. Not quite AIPAC-level efficiency, but impressive anyway.

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Quenelle - Golden

Russia's ruling party suggests nationalization of foreign businesses


RT
Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:22 UTC
United Russia
United Russia wants to nationalize the production of enterprises leaving the Russian market over Ukraine
Russia's ruling party has come up with the idea of nationalizing the production of companies announcing their departure from the Russian market during the military offensive in Ukraine.

Since the launch of the military operation, dozens of international enterprises have revealed their intention to cease operations in Russia, and the list is constantly growing. The secretary of United Russia's general council, Andrey Turchak, called these actions "stabs in the back," and warned of "tough retaliatory measures."

"United Russia proposes to nationalize the production of those companies which announce their departure and the closure of production in Russia during a special operation in Ukraine. This is an extreme measure, but we will not tolerate stabs in the back, and we will protect our people," Turchak said in a statement.

Comment: Whatever aggressive actions the West takes, Russia, allied with its multipolar partners, will find a workaround. In many cases - such as the banking sector and even the internet - Russia already has an alternative ready to go, and, ultimately, it will be the West and its lackeys that will lose out. That's why, for now, the US is allowing 'exemptions' because neither it nor its partners are able to suffer the hit.

That said, the Pathocrats are determined, and its likely that, at some point soon enough, the West will be willing to crash its own economies in order to roll out their Great Reset: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Ukraine today: It was all written in the Rand Corporation plan

Manlio Dinucci
Global Research
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Rand corporation
The strategic plan of the United States against Russia was elaborated three years ago by the Rand Corporation (the manifesto, Rand Corp: how to bring down Russia, May 21, 2019). The Rand Corporation, headquartered in Washington, DC, is "a global research organization developing solutions to policy challenges": it has an army of 1,800 researchers and other specialists recruited from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages, spread across offices and other locations in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf. Rand's U.S. personnel live and work in more than 25 countries.

The Rand Corporation, which describes itself as a "nonprofit, nonpartisan organization," is officially funded by the Pentagon, the U.S. Army and Air Force, national security agencies (CIA and others), agencies in other countries, and powerful non-governmental organizations.

The Rand Corp. prides itself on having helped devise the strategy that enabled the United States to emerge victorious from the Cold War, forcing the Soviet Union to consume its resources in a grueling military confrontation. This model has inspired the new plan elaborated in 2019: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia", i.e. forcing the adversary to overextend itself in order to unbalance and knock it down.

These are the main lines of attack outlined in the Rand plan, on which the United States has actually moved in recent years.

Comment: What most in the West don't understand, and what they simply have no grasp of, is that there is a powerfully manipulative and malevolent force of individuals out there who not only seek the subjugation of the Russian people, but the subjugation of humanity itself. The above story, which focuses on how Rand Corporation has worked to corner Russia, is but just a slice.

See also:

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Ukraine REJECTS Moscow's proposal of humanitarian corridors to Belarus


The Moscow Times
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 09:18 UTC
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© Aleksandr Sinitsa / UNIANDamaged car after the shelling in Kyiv.
Ukraine on Monday rejected Moscow's offer of humanitarian corridors to Russia and Belarus, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.

"This is not an acceptable option," she said, after Russia proposed safe passage for civilians from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and Sumy.

The civilians "aren't going to go to Belarus and then take a plane to Russia."

The Russian army said earlier on Monday it was opening humanitarian corridors from the four Ukrainian cities.

Comment: RT provides more details in the following article - note that the West's attack on Russian media seems to have forced RT to protect their website behind a DDoS authorization checker and, for whatever reason, the imagery provided is not loading:
The Russian Defense Ministry said a temporary ceasefire will start at 10am local time on Monday, citing the "catastrophic" humanitarian situation on the ground.

A safe passage was opened from Kiev to Belarus, where refugees will be airlifted to Russia, the ministry said. Exit routes to Russia were set up from the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kharkov and Sumy, as well as Mariupol on the Azov Sea coast. Moscow warned Ukraine not to prevent civilians from leaving. It also said any attempts of the Ukrainian side to shift the blame for undermining humanitarian efforts would be "senseless," as Russia will monitor the evacuation by using drones.

The ministry said the step was taken after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron on Sunday. Macron said he demanded "a ceasefire and the protection of civilians."

The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which broke off from Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev, considers Mariupol part of its territory. However, for eight years, the city has been controlled by Ukraine. DPR forces backed by Russian troops effectively surrounded Mariupol last week.

Attempts to arrange safe passage from the city on Saturday and Sunday failed, with both sides blaming each other. The Mariupol City Council accused Russia of shelling, while Moscow claimed Ukrainian "nationalists" were using civilians as "a human shield." RT was unable to independently verify the situation on the ground.

More than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine to the West after Russia attacked the country on February 24, according to the UN.

Additionally, 96,000 people fled to Russia in the week prior to the offensive, during the flare-up between Ukraine and the DPR, as well as the neighboring Lugansk People's Republic, another entity that seceded from Ukraine in 2014.
By opening multiple humanitarian corridors Russia is taking the risk of allowing the the neo-Nazi aligned military in Ukraine to regroup, as well as the possibility of them escaping, and so Ukraine's accusation that Russia has been firing on civilians doesn't make any sense, it also doesn't benefit their cause is any way whatsoever. However, there is a growing body of evidence showing that Ukraine has been using civilians as a human shield, by secreting their weaponry in residential areas, along with numerous reports of the death threats they've issued to civilians attempting to flee: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Crossing the Rubicon



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'Are we your slaves?' Imran Khan slams West's demands to condemn Russia over Ukraine incursion


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:45 UTC
Imran Khan
© REUTERS / SAIYNA BASHIRPakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan
On March 1, the heads of 22 foreign missions to Islamabad, including those of EU member nations, issued a joint letter requesting Pakistan to back a UN General Assembly resolution denouncing Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan slammed Western envoys visiting his country's capital Islamabad who called on Pakistan to denounce Russia's special military operation in Ukraine last week, asking if they thought Pakistan was their "slave," Reuters reported upon his response on Sunday.

"What do you think of us? Are we your slaves ... that whatever you say, we will do?" Khan remarked while speaking at a political event.

As the UNGA was voting to adopt a resolution condemning the Russian special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, Pakistan abstained from voting, and so did its political rival in the region, India.

"I want to ask the European Union ambassadors: Did you write such a letter to India?" Khan said, per the translation.

Comment: Russia's incursion into Ukraine and the response from the international community is revealing the shift in the power structure that has been building for a decade and more; clearly the West's corrupting and undue influence on the planet is waning. One can also infer that a significant number of countries see the action Russia is taking as means to end the conflict in Ukraine; which is actually a proxy-war being waged by the West against Russia. It's likely that many can see the writing on the wall and that their future does not lie in being subservient to the West: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Crossing the Rubicon



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Snakes in Suits

Zelensky: The Man Who Sold Ukraine

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Zelensky is the current President of Ukraine. He was elected in a landslide victory in 2019 on the promise of easing tensions with Russia and resolving the crisis in the breakaway republics in east Ukraine. He has made no attempt to keep his word on either issue. Instead, he has greatly exacerbated Ukraine's internal crisis while relentlessly provoking Russia. Zelensky has had numerous opportunities to smooth things over​ with Moscow and prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Instead, he has consistently made matters worse by blindly following Washington's directives.

Zelensky has been lionized in the west and praised for his personal bravery. But — as a practical matter — he has failed to restore national unity or implement the crucial peace accord that is the only path to reconciliation. The Ukrainian president doesn't like the so-called Minsk Protocol and has refused to meet its basic requirements. As a result, the ethnically-charged, fratricidal war that has engulfed Ukraine for the last 8 years, continues to this day with no end in sight. President Vladimir Putin referred to Zelensky's obstinance in a recent speech delivered at the Kremlin. He said:
"At yesterday's event... the Ukrainian leadership publicly declared that they were not going to abide by these agreements. Not going to abide by them. Well, what else can you say about that?" (Vladimir Putin)

Comment: Zelensky has ALSO been acting on orders from the nazi elements of Kiev's government and military.

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Revenge of the Putin-Nazis!

CJ Hopkins
Off-Guardian
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:27 UTC
Putins Eyes
© Off-Guardian
And they're back! It's like one of those 1960s Hammer Film Productions horror-movie series with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee ... Return of the Putin-Nazis!Revenge of the Putin-Nazis!Return of the Revenge of the Bride of the Putin-Nazis!

And this time they are not horsing around with stealing elections from Hillary Clinton with anti-masturbation Facebook ads. They are going straight for "Democracy's" jugular!

Yes, that's right, folks, Vladimir Putin, leader of the Putin-Nazis and official "Evil Dictator of the Day," has launched a Kamikaze attack on the United Forces of Goodness (and Freedom) to provoke us into losing our temper and waging a global thermonuclear war that will wipe out the entire human species and most other forms of life on earth!

I'm referring, of course, to Putin's inexplicable and totally unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a totally peaceful, Nazi-free country which was just sitting there minding its non-Nazi business, singing Kumbaya, and so on, and not in any way collaborating with or being cynically used by GloboCap to menace and eventually destabilize Russia so that the GloboCap boys can get back in there and resume the Caligulan orgy of "privatization" they enjoyed throughout the 1990s.

No, clearly, Putin has just lost his mind, and has no strategic objective whatsoever (other than the total extermination of humanity), and is just running around the Kremlin shouting "DROP THE BOMBS! EXTERMINATE THE BRUTES!" all crazy-eyed and with his face painted green like Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now ... because what other explanation is there?

Or ... OK, sure, there are other explanations, but they're all just "Russian disinformation" and "Putin-Nazi propaganda" disseminated by "Putin-apologizing, Trump-loving, discord-sowing racists," "transphobic, anti-vax conspiracy theorists," "Covid-denying domestic extremists," and other traitorous blasphemers and heretics, who are being paid by Putin to infect us with doubt, historical knowledge, and critical thinking, because they hate us for our freedom ... or whatever.

Let's take a quick look at some of that "Russian disinformation" and "propaganda," purely to inoculate ourselves against it. We need to be familiar with it, so we can switch off our minds and shout thought-terminating clichés and official platitudes at it whenever we encounter it on the Internet.
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Best of the Web: Internet backbone provider Cogent cuts Russia off: Enter RuNet

Elaine Burke
Silicon Republic
Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:32 UTC
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© harvepino/Stock.adobe.com
The exit of the major internet service provider will be a blow to Russia's online traffic but advocates warn that cutting the country off entirely would set a dangerous precedent.

US company Cogent Communications has terminated services for clients in Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine.

The global internet service provider emailed clients on Friday (4 March) warning that their services would be cut off at 5pm UTC. According to Reuters, some clients requested extensions that the company was working to accommodate.

Cogent is reportedly the second-largest internet carrier out of Russia and its clients include the state-owned Russian telco Rostelecom, national fibre broadband operator TransTelekom and two of Russia's three top mobile networks.

Comment: Russian foresight wins again. They were already preparing for this possibility in 2019. From the Daily Mail, December 20, 2019:
Russia will carry out tests on Monday on the reliability of its domestic internet infrastructure in the event that the country is disconnected from the worldwide web by an American cyber-attack.

The threat testing will take place in stages on 23 December and will not affect regular internet users, the communication ministry said on Thursday.

Russia enacted a law known as the 'sovereign internet' bill in November, aimed at tightening state control over the network, but which free speech activists say will strengthen government oversight of the country's cyberspace.

The law was developed in response to what Russia calls the 'aggressive nature' of the United States' national cyber security strategy, which accuses Moscow of carrying out hacking attacks, as a means to ensure the internet continues functioning in Russia.

The legislation aims to route Russian web traffic and data through points controlled by state authorities and to build a national Domain Name System, which would end the country's dependence on systems from abroad, which Russia fears could be shut down by a foreign government.

Monday's tests will be exploratory in nature, communications ministry spokesman Yevgeny Novikov told reporters, with participants aiming to work out the full range of potential external impacts on the internet and communications infrastructure in Russia.
From ZDNet:
The Russian government announced on Monday that it concluded a series of tests during which it successfully disconnected the country from the worldwide internet.

The tests were carried out over multiple days, starting last week, and involved Russian government agencies, local internet service providers, and local Russian internet companies.

The goal was to test if the country's national internet infrastructure -- known inside Russia as RuNet -- could function without access to the global DNS system and the external internet.

Internet traffic was re-routed internally, effectively making Russia's RuNet the world's largest intranet.

The government did not reveal any technical details about the tests and what exactly they consisted of. It only said that the government tested several disconnection scenarios, including a scenario that simulated a hostile cyber-attack from a foreign country.

The experiment was deemed a success, the government said in a press conference today.

"It turned out that, in general, that both authorities and telecom operators are ready to effectively respond to possible risks and threats and ensure the functioning of the Internet and the unified telecommunication network in Russia," said Alexei Sokolov, deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, as cited by multiple Russian news agencies
Not much more news since these reports, but to be sure, much progress will have been made in strengthening and hardening RuNet in the the last three years. There is always potential for privacy violations, and some have pointed out the system has many of the features of China's, but really, is it all that different in the West?

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