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Mad American Science: Russian Military Continues Exposure of US Military Biolabs in Ukraine And Globally

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov
Russian Ministry of Defence
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:39 UTC
Igor Kirillov
© Russian MoD
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov

Comment: Russian military personnel have acquired over 20,000 documents detailing U.S. biological programs in Ukraine. The documents confirm that the Pentagon aimed at creating elements of a biological weapon, and testing it on the population of Ukraine...


The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has repeatedly noted the signs of the implementation of 'dual-purpose programmes' by the USA and its allies outside their national territories, including within the operation of the biolaboratories funded by the Pentagon or its contractors.

The fact that the United States blocked the initiative to establish a monitoring mechanism of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) at the Ninth Review Conference once again confirms that Washington has something to hide, while the transparency of the biological research contradicts the interests of the USA.

We have previously informed about the works on enhancing the pathogenic characteristics of COVID-19 causative agent, carried out at Boston University with funds of the U.S. state budget, as well as the possible involvement of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in the emergence of the new coronavirus.

The key role in the implementation of the abovementioned projects belongs to EcoHealth Alliance intermediary organisation. The available documents of the U.S. Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) confirm that, since 2015, professionals of the abovementioned company have been studying the diversity in the population of bats, searching for new coronavirus strains, and mechanisms of its transmission from animals to humans. Over 2.5 thousand specimen have been researched.

Comment: Above slides from the Russian Ministry of Defence's presentation originally published on its Telegram channel, beginning here. See here for viewing/downloading supporting documents published by the Russian MoD.

Video of the above presentation made by Kirillov (Chief of the Russian Army's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops) - audio in Russian only:

See also the research of independent journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, which dates back 5 years ago:

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Arrow Up

Rex Murphy: Goodness, gracious, Ottawa survived Jordan Peterson

Rex Murphy
National Post
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:17 UTC
Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson speaks to a full house at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa, on Monday, January 30 2023. PHOTO BY BRYAN PASSIFIUME/NATIONAL POST
It's a pleasure and a cheer to be able to start a piece with some good news. As of Tuesday morning having duly scanned the various news services I may report that Ottawa is still standing. The nation's capital is still the unscarred and tranquil repository of all that is good and sweet that it always has been despite Dr. Jordan Peterson's having been allowed within its precincts, despite too, being allowed to speak to thousands of Canadians who wanted to hear him.

A curious note, though a whole basket of NGOs and other highly-sensitive special interest groups, some even funded by the Government of Canada, spent much time and energy warning that Ottawa would become a hell-pit of bigotry and hate (maybe evening requiring its own Special Representative to combat Petersonia — take note, Omar Alghabra) none showed up to protest the event.

Comment: Rex:
-Special Representative to inquire into Chrystia Freeland's position on the Board of the World Economic Forum while acting as Canada's Finance Minister.

On December 15th, 2022, note how this question is asked, answered and then completely avoided that involves giving Freeland $2 billion of taxpayers money for a nonexistent company:




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Piggy Bank

Where all conspiracies begin and end: The reality of the banking system and its creation of money out of thin air

Naked Emperor
TruthTalk
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00 UTC
The City of London

The City of London
Today, the IMF downgraded the UK's 2023 growth forecast by more than any other G7 nation. Many MSM headlines state that the UK will suffer more than sanction-hit Russia. Shock!

UK Economy
Why is this? Lockdowns, borrowing and policies are major factors but so is the UK's over-reliance on the financial sector.

Most people gush over how great the City of London is and how much wealth it brings to the country but the reality is very different.

Comment: Listen to this much more recent interview with world class economist Prof. Richard Warner and hear what he has to say about the Weimar Republic, central bank digital currencies, credit creation, the war on cash, crypto, gold, the date of the next crash and personal sovereignty:



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Bad Guys

NATO members consider sending fighter jets to Ukraine


RT
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:30 UTC
emmanuel macron
© Getty Images / Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto
France won't rule out jets for Ukraine Western countries are increasingly discussing the prospect of sending warplanes to Kiev
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that the idea of sending fighter jets to Ukraine had not been "excluded," as Kiev ramps up its campaign to pressure the West into donating combat aircraft to its military.

Asked about the possibility of transferring jets to Kiev's military, Macron told reporters that "nothing is excluded in principle," according to France's AFP news agency. The president added that Kiev would be forbidden from using French jets to attack Russian soil.


Comment: And the Nazi military in Kiev would obey Macron's commands?


Macron was speaking after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who told reporters that his government saw "no taboo" around sending US-made F-16 fighters to Ukraine, but admitted it would be a "big step."

Comment: The Telegraph reports:
Russia has attacked "absurd" comments from Emmanuel Macron after he refused to rule out delivering fighter jets to Ukraine, while also warning against the risk of escalation.

Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, said: "Forgive me, but this is absurd.

"Is the president of France really certain that if arms, heavy weapons and aircraft are supplied to the Kyiv regime to conduct combat operations, this will not lead to an escalation of the situation?"

Referring to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, Ms Zakharova added: "Such statements only increase the already irrepressible appetite of the Zelensky regime."

[...]

Ukraine is expecting to receive up to 140 modern tanks from its Western allies, and Mr Zelensky is now urging the West to send fighter jets and long-range missiles.

On Monday, Joe Biden appeared to draw the line on supplying American fighter jets to Kyiv.

"No," the US president said when asked by reporters at the White House if he was in favour. However, the next day, he said he would talk to Mr Zelensky about his latest requests for advanced weaponry.

In the early months of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv's partners were reluctant to provide too much military aid, eager to avoid a more direct confrontation between the West and Russia.

However, as the war grinds on, they have repeatedly given in to Ukraine's appeals for more substantial weapons.

Last December, Washington finally agreed to send its high-performing Patriot air defence missiles. Last month, it announced it would also be sending Abrams battle tanks.

After pressure from allies, Germany approved sending Leopard tanks to Kyiv and said that it would agree to requests from other European countries who wanted to send their own German-made Leopards.
And now we have the UK's former defense minister saying that NATO 'may' need to (officially) send ground troops to Ukraine.

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Snakes in Suits

Former UK defense minister says NATO may need to send ground forces to Ukraine

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:45 UTC
Gerald Howarth

Former UK Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth
The "domino theory" was once used to great effect in order to manipulate the American public into supporting the Vietnam War, but will the same narrative work to get the west to support World War III with Russia?

Former UK Defense Minister Sir Gerald Howarth seems to think so as he uses this exact claim to justify NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine.

It should be noted that a large percentage of the American populace and most of Europe have no interest whatsoever in engaging with Russia and possibly its allies in all out war, but the establishment appears intent on forcing the issue anyway. The delivery of NATO tanks and the possibility of longer range missiles will no doubt trigger a wider response from Russia, which will then be used by NATO as a reason to escalate further.

Comment: When deliberating over sending funds or weapons, the West ultimate gives in to the US and follows through; will this also be the case with ground forces? Or at least additional forces that are likely to bring the West into direct - but more importantly, overt - confrontation with Russia?

By this point it's undeniable that Ukraine is losing the proxy war and both they, and their masters in the West, are becoming increasingly desperate: Zelensky's purge continues with raids on oligarch & politician Kolomoisky and ex-interior minister



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Bad Guys

Zelensky's purge continues with raids on oligarch & politician Kolomoisky and ex-interior minister


Associated Press
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:27 UTC
Igor Kolomoisky

Ukrainian-Israeli-Cypriot businessman and politician Igor Kolomoyskyi
Ukraine expanded a clampdown on corruption on Wednesday, launching coordinated searches of residences linked to a divisive oligarch and former interior minister as well as tax offices in the capital.

The searches came ahead of a key summit with the EU and appeared to be part of a push by Kyiv to reassure military and financial donors in European capitals and Washington that Ukraine is tackling systemic graft.


Comment: Do they plan to seize their assets?


"We are carrying out the task set by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and simultaneously delivering a global blow to the internal enemy," announced Vasyl Maliuk, the head of Ukraine's security service, the SBU.

Comment: Other than the psychopaths eating their own, for more insight into just what might be going on, see: The Kiev Purge: What has spurred a wave of resignations among senior Ukrainian officials?
For one, the resignation of the government amid corruption scandals creates risks of a political split in the Verkhovna Rada. Furthermore, if the government were to resign, Western countries could set strict conditions on coordinating candidates for the new government. This happened in 2014, when US citizen Natalia Yaresko was appointed Finance Minister to Arseniy Yatsenyuk's government, and Lithuanian Aivaras Abromavicius was made Minister of Economic Development and Trade.

All this can shake up the system of power and lead to the President's administration having much less influence over political processes. The current political system is clearly biased towards a single structure: the Office of the President of Ukraine. Following the early parliamentary elections in 2019 and the formation of a majority in the Verkhovna Rada, the entire vertical alignment of power was structured around Zelensky and Yermak,the influence of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine was eliminated, and the information space cleared.

The combat operations in Ukraine merely accelerated these processes. In fact, only three powers can now speak out against the Zelensky-Yermak team — Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko and his cabinet, the army led by Valery Zaluzhny, and US-controlled structures such as NABU and media affiliated with them. At the same time, decisions regarding resignations are made exclusively by Zelensky and Yermak, who by all means wish to hush up the scandals.




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Info

Canada's Bill C-26: Yet another government power grab

Mark E. Jeftovic
easy DNS
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00 UTC
Technocracy – a 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay.

Technocracy – a 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay.
Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process

Another doozy from the Canadian government.

Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom...
  • Bill C-11 regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized content moderation, the requirement for licenses to publish online, and regulation of user generated content (in Senate)
  • Bill C-36 the Online Harms Bill sought to designate political dissent as "hate speech" and invoked penalties for criticizing politicians (not sure where this one is at the moment).
  • Bill C-18 throws a funding lifeline to Canada's flailing agitprop industry (a.k.a the mainsteam media), in that it will require tech platforms to pay licensing fees for content the media outlets post there (passed third reading in November). This bill will reward big media conglomerates like Bell, while freezing out small and independent organizations.
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Putin

This Time It Is Different

Douglas Macgregor
The American Conservative
Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:01 UTC
Neither we nor our allies are prepared to fight all-out war with Russia, regionally or globally
Putin Biden
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Until it decided to confront Moscow with an existential military threat in Ukraine, Washington confined the use of American military power to conflicts that Americans could afford to lose, wars with weak opponents in the developing world from Saigon to Baghdad that did not present an existential threat to U.S. forces or American territory. This time — a proxy war with Russia — is different.

Contrary to early Beltway hopes and expectations, Russia neither collapsed internally nor capitulated to the collective West's demands for regime change in Moscow. Washington underestimated Russia's societal cohesion, its latent military potential, and its relative immunity to Western economic sanctions.

As a result, Washington's proxy war against Russia is failing. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was unusually candid about the situation in Ukraine when he told the allies in Germany at Ramstein Air Base on January 20:
"We have a window of opportunity here, between now and the spring. That's not a long time."
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Attention

James W. Carden: Ukraine and the lost lessons of Vietnam

James W. Carden
ACURA
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00 UTC
Marines
© Eddie Adams/AP
Sniper fire as US marines storm a village near Da Nang • 1965
Today, January 27th, marks 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords which effectively ended American participation in the Vietnam war. One of the consequences, according to Georgetown University international affairs scholar Charles Kupchan, was that an "isolationist impulse" made a "significant comeback in response to the Vietnam War, which severely strained the liberal internationalist consensus."

As the Cold War historian John Lamberton Harper points out, President Jimmy Carter's hawkish Polish-born national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, scorned his intra-administration rival, the cautious, gentlemanly secretary of state Cyrus Vance as "a nice man but burned by Vietnam." Indeed, Vance and a number of his generation carried with them a profound disillusionment in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. And for a short time, the 'Vietnam Syndrome,' (shorthand for a wariness and suspicion of unnecessary and unsupportable foreign interventions) occasionally informed American policy at the highest levels and manifested itself in the promulgations of the Wienberger and Powell Doctrines which, in theory anyway, represented a kind of resistance on the part of the Pentagon to unnecessary military adventures.

But such resistance didn't last long.
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MIB

Is the FBI secretly running dark web terrorist recruitment?

Felix Livshitz
RT
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:08 UTC
fbi agennt laptop terrorist entrapment
© Nes / Getty Images
US law enforcement is known for entrapment tactics, and the secrecy around a recent terrorism case is suspicious

A high-level conspiracy of silence surrounding a US terrorism prosecution raises serious questions over whether the FBI possesses technological means to bypass dark web user anonymity, or alternatively manages extremist group recruitment sites in secret, in order to entrap unsuspecting visitors.

US citizen Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari was charged in May 2020 with attempting to provide material support to ISIS. He came to the attention of the FBI due to a series of visits he made to a dark web site, which hosts "unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS" in May 2019.

The Bureau pinpointed specific pages of the site Al-Azhari perused including sections on making donations, ISIS media assets, photos and videos, and stories of military operations allegedly conducted by ISIS fighters in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria. These actions were linked to him directly by uncovering his IP address, and therefore his identity and location.

Comment: Technology in the right hands can accomplish good things, such as shutting down child porn sites. But it seems too tempting for an organization to burnish its credentials (and up its budget) by creating the very situations it is supposed to be eradicating.

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