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'Her Majesty's Russia Unit': British spies have launched a full-scale propaganda war to demonize Russia


RT
Fri, 06 May 2022 20:55 UTC
PricewaterhouseCoopers
© Mikhail Fomichev/TASSPricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the private companies assisting in the UK's propaganda war against Russia
Britain's international information war strategy was developed years ago

The growing political feud between Russia and the West has spurred the activation of specialized propaganda and intelligence units. With regards to the Ukraine crisis, experts say one of the most active parties has been the United Kingdom, which in recent years has stepped up its efforts to demonise Russia by waging a full-scale propaganda war.

As an RT analysis has shown, Britain's "HMG Russia Unit," an interdepartmental government organization created several years ago, has acted as a front for soft influence operations against Moscow with the assistance of international consulting organizations.

Up until now, the activities of the operation had not been publicly visible. However, last month publications containing its employees' personal information appeared in a number of Russian Telegram channels. It is alleged that the email addresses included in these posts belong to employees of the HMG Russia Unit who are also connected to various other UK government departments, including the Cabinet Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, military intelligence, MI5, and the Ministry of Defence, as well as American curators attached to the group.
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Is Poland prepping to take a bite out of Ukraine? Ukraine's neighbor sees 'future without border'


RT
Sat, 07 May 2022 20:36 UTC
polish ukraine border crossing
© ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock PhotoA polish-Ukraine border crossing at Medyka, Subcarpathia, Poland. 3rd Mar, 2022.
Polish President Andrzej Duda hopes the two nations will "live together on this land" and build "common happiness"

Polish President Andrzej Duda has expressed hope that there will be no border between Poland and Ukraine in the future, calling the two nations "fraternal."

Speaking in Warsaw on May 3, the day Poland celebrated its Constitution Day, Duda said he envisaged a time in which the two nations would live "together on this land, building and rebuilding our common happiness and common strength that will allow us to resist every danger."

In his address, the Polish president apparently echoed a remark made by his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, in early March, when he said "effectively we no longer have a border with Poland, with a friendly Poland." The Ukrainian head of state highlighted how welcoming Warsaw had been to Ukrainian refugees, "not asking them about their nationality, religion or how much money they have."

Comment: Independent journalist Gonzalo Lira thinks so, and that it may happen with Russia's blessing:



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US is sending Ukraine billions of dollars of weaponry it can't use properly

Scott Ritter
RT
Fri, 06 May 2022 14:49 UTC
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© Alex Wong/Getty Images/WSJ/KJNUS Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi • US-made Javelin anti-tank weapons for Ukraine
After hounding the US and other NATO members for weeks about his need for heavy weapons to defend against Russia's ongoing "special military operation", Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, appears to have been granted his wish. The US Congress, on April 28, passed legislation that breathed life into a World War II-era law that would allow the US to quickly supply weapons to Ukraine on loan.

By a vote of 417 to 10, the House of Representatives sent the revised 80-year-old law to the desk of President Joe Biden, where he is expected to sign it (the US Senate had earlier passed the legislation unanimously.) Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland who has been at the forefront of anti-Russian legislation over the years, said:
"Passage of that act enabled Great Britain and Winston Churchill to keep fighting and to survive the fascist Nazi bombardment until the United States could enter the war. President Zelensky has said that Ukraine needs weapons to sustain themselves, and President Biden has answered that call."
The Congressional action comes on the heels of President Biden approving an additional $33 billion in military aid on top of the nearly $3 billion already provided to Ukraine since the start of the conflict with Russia. While much of the earlier weapons shipments focused on light weaponry such as anti-tank missiles and man-portable air defense systems, the new support package places an emphasis on heavy weaponry, such as howitzers and armored fighting vehicles, which Ukraine needs to replace equipment destroyed or damaged in battle.

Comment: Ukraine is the thrift store destination for 'military discards of limited shelf life'...including Pelosi.

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Justice Clarence Thomas: Government institutions can't be 'bullied'

Shawna Chen
Axios
Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00 UTC
Thomas
© Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that government institutions can't be "bullied" into giving people the outcome they want, multiple news outlets report.

Why it matters: Thomas didn't directly address the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, but he acknowledged that recent events at the Supreme Court might be one symptom of a judiciary which he views as threatened by people who are unwilling to "live with outcomes we don't agree with," per the Washington Post.

His comments come amid widespread abortion rights protests across the country. What he's saying:
"We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that."
At the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, per Reuters:
  • Thomas added that he is worried about a "different attitude of the young," which he said fails to show a respect for the law that was sustained by previous generations, the Post writes.
  • "Recent events have shown this major change," the court's longest-serving justice said.
  • Eroding respect for institutions and the rule of law "bodes ill for a free society," he added.
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Biden says US will send more aid to Ukraine

Morgan Chalfant
The Hill
Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02 UTC
Biden
© EPAUS President Joe Biden
President Biden on Friday announced another security assistance package for Ukraine totaling $150 million he said would include artillery munitions, radars and other equipment.
"Today, the United States is continuing our strong support for the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their country against Russia's ongoing aggression."
Biden warned the latest round of assistance would nearly exhaust the military assistance that Congress has approved for the administration to deliver to Ukraine. Congress in March authorized $13.6 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. The White House had previously said that the administration had about $250 million in military assistance left.

On Friday, Biden pressed Congress to quickly approve more assistance for Ukraine. The White House has asked for $33 billion in additional security, economic and humanitarian assistance to help Ukraine fight the Russian war and address the impacts of the conflict. The administration believes that amount of assistance is needed to sustain Ukraine over the next five months.
"With today's announcement, my Administration has nearly exhausted funding that can be used to send security assistance through drawdown authorities for Ukraine. For Ukraine to succeed in this next phase of war its international partners, including the U.S., must continue to demonstrate our unity and our resolve to keep the weapons and ammunition flowing to Ukraine, without interruption. Congress should quickly provide the requested funding to strengthen Ukraine on the battlefield and at the negotiating table."
Congress is currently drafting legislation to meet the administration's request.

Comment: Well now, more US taxpayer funding to Ukraine...but don't stop there!!!
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has confirmed that President Joe Biden will sign the Lend-Lease Act of 2022 on Monday. The legislation will make it easier for Washington to ship more types of weapons to Ukraine.

The authorisation will take place on May 9, or "Victory Day" - when the defeat of Nazi Germany is celebrated annually in Russia. The symbolism will almost certainly raise eyebrows in Moscow.

The "Lend-Lease Act," which was previously used to help the allies during WWII, was revived and backed by the US Congress last week and will allow the US to export unlimited weapons to Kiev.

While the bill was approved by Congress last week, it was put together back in January - more than a month before Moscow recognized the Donbass republics as independent and sent troops into Ukraine.

Moscow has repeatedly condemned the US and its NATO allies for delivering arms to Ukraine, insisting that the inflow of supplies will only prolong the conflict. The Kremlin has also said Western weapons are considered a legitimate target once they enter Ukrainian territory.
If Ukraine can't sustain itself, it has no business conducting a war. It had every chance and blew it.

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Poll reveals Austrians' stance on joining NATO


RT
Fri, 06 May 2022 18:03 UTC
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© Getty Images/iStockphotoNeutral European Countries
The vast majority of Austrians are against becoming part of NATO, a poll has revealed. In a survey conducted earlier this month by Vienna's Institute for Opinion Polls and Data Analysis and commissioned by the Austria Press Agency, 75% of respondents replied in the negative when asked if they thought their country should join NATO, with another 14% in favor of such a scenario.

Of the 1,000 Austrians surveyed, 52% said they believe Vienna's neutrality provides sufficient protection against external threats, while 40% did not share that view. As many as 83% of respondents spoke in favor of closer coordination on security and defense policy among EU member states.

When asked whether they believed Ukraine should be let into the European Union, 46% said they opposed Kiev's accession, with another 38% indicating that they would support it.

Back in 1955, following the pullout of the allied forces from Austria, the Alpine nation proclaimed itself permanently neutral. While sharing borders with several NATO member states, Austria abstained from joining the military alliance all through the Cold War and the years that followed.

Comment: Ukraine's NATO membership 'ten years' from now...OR...PTB power play on investment coupled with location, location, location - could mean 'tomorrow'. Factoring in Ukraine's problems with the EU...perhaps 'not so quickly'!
Ukraine's accession to the European Union will not happen "in the next five to ten years," Austrian EU Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler has predicted. Austria's foreign minister has expressed a similar view, despite European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's insistence that Ukraine will be swiftly ushered into the bloc.

EU accession for Ukraine would be "a long process to adjust to, which certainly cannot be achieved in the next five to ten years," Edtstadler told Austria's APA news agency on Wednesday. The minister added that as some Balkan states have been waiting "for decades" to join the union, there could be no fast track for Ukraine.

Prior to Edtstadler's comments, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg angered Kiev by suggesting that Ukraine instead pursue an association agreement with the EU, or integration into the European Economic Area. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko called this advice "strategically short-sighted and not in the interests of a united Europe."

Edtstadler told APA:
"What the foreign minister...wanted to address with this is that you might also have to be creative in how you introduce Ukraine to Western values. What Ukraine obviously heard was a no to EU membership, which is not what was meant and is not Austria's position."
Austria is not the only EU member urging caution on fast-tracking Ukraine's membership bid. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned in March that "joining the EU is not something that can be done in a few months," while Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has cautioned that expediting Ukraine's membership could be seen as unfair by long-term candidates such as Turkey and Montenegro.

In assessing a country's bid for membership, the European Commission evaluates everything from its economic performance to its legal system, along with environmental regulations and agricultural practices. This process can take decades, with Turkey, for example, remaining a candidate country since 1999.

Nevertheless, Ukraine has completed the first part of a questionnaire for prospective members, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month that it "will not, as usual, be a matter of years to form this opinion but I think a matter of weeks."

EU sources told Bloomberg last month that a preliminary decision on Ukraine's candidacy could come as early as June. However, full membership would still be contingent on an investigation by the European Commission and the unanimous consent of every EU member state.
Ukraine has yet to prove to anyone it is ready for EU or NATO memberships.

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Revelation of the Method

Dustin Broadbery
Off-Guardian
Sat, 07 May 2022 18:58 UTC
Programmed Robots
© Off-Guardian
CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan 'We'll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public believes is false.'

Fast forward thirty years, and there's no piece of fiction the masses will not swallow.

From Woke to COVID to the war in Ukraine, people no longer make their own ideological pilgrimages to the truth - the truth is served oven-ready by their political betters.

Nowadays, there's little distinction between the two hemispheres: reality and illusion. It's not so much that people have been robbed of their ability to decipher between these two, it's that facts have been reoriented into fiction and fiction into facts. It's a degradation of epistemology so momentous, that people don't even know that they don't know that they don't know what's happening. To quote one former anarchist.

In the grand scheme of things, humanity has perjured themselves and life as we know it has morphed into a sort of science-fiction, soap-opera with few common ancestors to reality. Even right-thinking folks require the equivalent of a cerebral chainsaw to hollow out the slew of implausible narratives into something remotely resembling reality. It goes beyond fiction to predictive programming. They're not just deceiving you; they're showing you that they're deceiving you.

What is neither here nor there to the deceived is the track record of their deceivers. Before the ink dried on the newsprint proclaiming the crisis in-waiting, the falsifications of COVID were buried under the falsehoods of war, Zelensky's standing ovation at Westminster knocked Pfizer data's release off the rostrum and those formerly joined at the hip to COVID got hitched to their Ukrainian brides.

This entire fiasco holds water because what people think they know for sure, that just ain't so, is a consensus. A preponderance of fabrications, falsehoods and false prophets governs the spiritual milieu. People worship the prosaic and glorify artifice. Our moral choices are guided by platitude and not virtue, anecdote and not evidence.

To complicate matters, what was formerly held sacred has become profane and what was formerly profane has become sacred, to quote Robert Sepehr.
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'EU is escalating the proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine' - MEP Clare Daly slams West in EU parliament

Senan Molony
Independent.ie
Fri, 06 May 2022 05:15 UTC
Clare Daly
© Damien EagersClare Daly.
THERE is a narrative in the West of goodies and baddies in the Ukraine war, "and if you do not talk in that narrative, then you are a baddie," controversial MEP Clare Daly said today.

A section of the Irish establishment who never wanted neutrality now see the Ukraine invasion as an opportunity to end it completely, she warned.

Meanwhile, EU militarism and NATO are two sides of the same coin, and the arms industry is profiting hugely from the current conflict.

This was not to absolve Russia, which is "100 per cent responsible" for invading Ukraine, Ms Daly told the Casement summer school in Dun Laoghaire today.


Comment: Well, Russia is responsible in the sense that it is responsible for its actions, however in terms of international norms, experts from across the globe have been warning for decades that Russia would be forced to respond to the threat NATO posed to its security.


Comment: The subservience to the agenda in Ukraine is destroying what's left of Europe's economy and its democracy:


Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Context And Near-Future Outcomes




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Kremlin releases transcript showing Israel lied claiming Putin apologized over Lavrov's comment that Hitler had 'Jewish blood'


The Cradle
Fri, 06 May 2022 12:00 UTC
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© Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
Moscow did not explicitly confirm or deny a claim made by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on 5 May, in which he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to him for the controversial comments made by the Kremlin's top diplomat earlier this week.

Bennett claimed that during a phone conversation with Putin, the Russian leader had offered an apology over Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's claim that Adolf Hitler possibly had "Jewish blood."

Hours later, the Kremlin issued a statement that included the full content of the conversation, making no mention of an apology.

Comment: Indeed, relations between the rogue state of Israel and Russia do appear to be deteriorating rather significantly. Although this is part of growing global division between those nations pushing the West's nefarious agenda to isolate Russia and those unwilling to be subservient to it: See also: Zelensky is Not in Charge of Ukraine, Nazis Are - And They Believe They Are on a Mission From God to 'Derussify Ukraine in Holy War'

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Context And Near-Future Outcomes



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Clinton campaign 'just made stuff up' about Trump/Russia, former FBI intel chief says

Tim Pearce
The Daily Wire
Sat, 07 May 2022 00:01 UTC
Kevin brock FBI
© Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKevin Brock, former assistant FBI director for intelligence
A former head of FBI intelligence says that the Clinton campaign "just made stuff up" about former President Donald Trump in 2016 to paint him as a Russian asset.

Retired Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock is a vocal critic of the FBI's handling of allegations that Trump colluded with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election. In a Wednesday appearance on "Just the News, Not Noise," Brock said that evidence discovered in special counsel John Durham's investigation shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign, not Trump's, used "contrived disinformation" to mislead voters.

"This is more than just political dirty tricks," Brock said. "Political dirty tricks usually have some foundation in truth. But they just made stuff up."

Comment: See also:

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