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Moscow terror attack planned and paid for by Kiev - MEP


RT
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 16:18 UTC
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© Sputnik/Kirill KallinikovWomen stand near a makeshift memorial near the Crocus City Hall in memory of the victims of a terrorist attack on the concert venue near Moscow, Russia.
Ukraine was involved in the Crocus City Hall massacre, Marcel de Graaff has said.

The terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall venue last week, which claimed the lives of more than 140 people, was planned and paid for by Ukraine, Marcel de Graaff, a member of the European Parliament from the Dutch right-wing Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, has claimed.

According to the politician, it is due to Kiev's involvement that the "legend of propaganda paid for by Russia" has emerged again.

Comment: He's basically saying what we all already knew. And if Ukraine is involved, so are their masters.

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Foreign fighter in Ukraine confirms mercenary deaths


RT
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:51 UTC
Piotr Mitkiewicz, Polish mercenary
© YouTube/RMF FMPiotr Mitkiewicz, March 29. 2024
At least 20 Polish nationals fighting for Kiev have been killed in battle, according to one soldier of Ukraine's foreign legion, who spoke to Polish radio on Friday.

Piotr Mitkiewicz joined the 'International Territorial Defense Legion of Ukraine' in May 2022 and has frequently spoken to Polish media about his experiences. His latest testimonial was on Krakow-based RMF radio's Morning Talk.

"There are not many," he said when asked how many Poles were fighting for Ukraine. "I have been there the longest and I know most of those who are there. But I will say this: Up to 20 of us have died."

Mitkiewicz's estimate is far lower than official Russian accounts, however. Earlier this month, the Russian Defense Ministry put the number of Polish mercenaries killed since the start of the conflict at 1,497 - more than half of the 2,960 that have enlisted for Ukraine's cause.

The Polish mercenary also gave a harrowing account of what it's like to be on the battlefield.
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Ukrainian army gripped by gambling addiction - MP


RT
Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:18 UTC
slot machine, gambling, casino
© Getty Images / audioundwerbungFILE PHOTO.
The Ukrainian army has a huge gambling problem, Aleksey Goncharenko, a senior Ukrainian MP, wrote on his Telegram channel on Thursday. The lawmaker said 90% of soldiers are wasting money in online casinos and on sports betting platforms, instead of saving it for the future.

"This is not just a problem. It's crazy. 9 out of 10 soldiers on the front lines have a casino or gambling problem. Money is lost. Then they take loans. And so it goes in a circle," he complained.

According to Goncharenko, the problem is severe not only because it is "destroying the military morale" on the frontlines, but because soldiers who lose their earnings will become "perfect targets" for the criminal world once they return home penniless.

"Right now, we are simply laundering money out of our country's budget. But we are also creating a problem for the future," he warned.

The lawmaker suggested that the situation should be dealt with by the government. He proposed monitoring online gambling platforms and banning military personnel from accessing them. He also offered to reform the local eOselya program, a government initiative that provides affordable housing loans for soldiers, to make it more appealing for them as an investment.
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Share of 'patriotic' Russians reaches all-time high


RT
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:14 UTC
RUSSIAN FLAG KREMLIN
© Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP
Some 94% of Russians describe themselves as patriots, more than at any point since surveys first began, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM) said on Friday.

The increase was driven mainly by a ten percentage point surge in "unconditional" patriotism since last year, which now stands at 62%, VTSIOM revealed. Back in 2005, when the survey first started, it was just 47%.

"Today, the feeling of patriotism is shared approximately equally by men and women (93% and 95%, respectively), the young and the old (87% in the 18-24 category and 94% among those 60+), and residents of cities and the countryside (94% and 95% respectively)," said the pollster.

The recent surge in unconditional patriotism is higher than the eight-point increase in 2022, after the military operation in Ukraine began.

The percentage of Russians who described themselves as "not very" patriotic was the highest in March 2014, prior to the reunification with Crimea. It stood at 13% at the time but has shrunk to just 2% today. Only 1% of Russians have openly declared they don't feel patriotic at all.

Comment: The plan to split Russia apart from within is proceeding as planned ... right?

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Ruled by criminals: When dissidents become enemies of the state

John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:47 UTC
Julian Assange arrest Ecuadorian Embassy
Wikileaks publisher, Julian Assange, being dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in April 2019.
"In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth." — Martin Luther King Jr.
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.

In the current governmental climate, obeying one's conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can easily render you an "enemy of the state."

The government's list of so-called "enemies of the state" is growing by the day.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is merely one of the most visible victims of the police state's war on dissidents and whistleblowers.

Five years ago, on April 11, 2019, police arrested Assange for daring to access and disclose military documents that portray the U.S. government and its endless wars abroad as reckless, irresponsible, immoral and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.

Comment: While not all adhere to the historicity of Jesus as presented in the New Testament, and instead propose a composite figure, the qualities ascribed to that figure are certainly admirable and worthy of imitation. For further reading, be sure check out From Paul to Mark on Red Pill Press or Amazon.

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New documents show Facebook secretly wiretapped competitors

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:27 UTC
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© New York Post/Associated PressMark Zuckerberg told executives to “figure out” how to access encrypted Snapchat traffic.
Facebook violated federal law with its secret program, according to some lawyers.

Facebook secretly obtained proprietary data from competitors, including Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents.

At the request of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook officials developed a program called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) that they deployed in 2016, and the program was in use through mid-2019, according to the documents, which include internal emails.

The program used cyberattacks to intercept information from Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon. The program then decrypted the information.
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Israeli military suffers dozens of casualties in 'unusual incident' in Gaza, raising total to 3,757


Al Mayadeen
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:12 UTC
Israeli settlers and soldiers
© APIsraeli settlers and soldiers attend a funeral in Shlomi, near Palestinian-Lebanon border, March 3, 2024
The Israeli military admits to a new batch of injuries, 28 of whom fell in unspecified locations.

Israeli media outlets have circulated footage of several military helicopters transporting casualties from the Gaza Strip to hospitals in occupied Palestine, in what has been described as an "unusual" incident on Friday morning.


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Comment: Whilst Israel's official figures should be treated with skepticism, it seems that it has not only lost troops to injury and death, but analysts say significant numbers of them aren't up to the job, and so one wonders how many of them are out of action because they're 'recovering':

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Evil Rays

1,600+ planes hit by mysterious GPS jamming across Europe

Perkin Amalaraj
Daily Mail
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:27 UTC
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While most of them appear to be taking place in Polish airspace, OSINT blogs have reported that planes flying in German, Danish, Swedish, Latvian and Lithuanian airspace have suffered interference problems
More than 1,600 planes have been hit by a mysterious interference that many fear Russia is behind.

Planes flying over and around the Baltic Sea in northern Europe have been suffering technical problems caused by jamming since Sunday, with 1614 planes, mostly civilian, reporting problems since then.

While most of them appear to be taking place in Polish airspace, OSINT blogs have reported that planes flying in German, Danish, Swedish, Latvian and Lithuanian airspace have suffered interference problems.

Notably, little to no interference appears to be taking place in Belarus, a staunch Russian ally, or Kaliningrad, the Russian province separated from the mainland by sea and land.

Comment: Indeed, Russia does appear to be at the forefront of electronic warfare technologies, and it may be that this is a reasonable warning from Russia to the West of what it's capable of; what with the West escalating belligerence on its border with NATO wargames; inside Ukraine with thousands of foreign mercenaries; and even in Russia proper with the 100+ sabotage incidents, and the Crocus terrorist attack.

However it's quite unlike Russia to target civilians in such a way, which are allegedly the primary focus of these jam-attacks. Covert psywarfare against civilians is much more the realm of the Western establishment.

Other than the largely biased speculation above, there's no hard evidence that Russia is indeed doing this. There's also no reason to believe that Russia would resort to this when it has other ways to send warnings to the West. So, for now, it seems that more data is required.

However, it probably would be less worrisome if Russia was responsible because it doesn't have a track record of false flag terror attacks on civilians like other nations. It's possible that other state actors are responsible, and that this GPS jamming is a warning, similar to the US & UK embassy warnings that occurred prior to the terrorist attacks in Moscow; attacks that, it's becoming clear, the US and UK were likely responsible for organising.

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Bad Guys

We must fight this chilling plot by the WHO to seize power over nation states in future pandemics

Matt Ridley
The Daily Mail
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:12 UTC
world health organisation
The World Health Organisation is gearing up to persuade the world's governments to sign a new pandemic treaty in May.

Though called an 'accord' so as not to frighten democrats who still like that old-fashioned thing called accountability, it is a significant power grab by an unelected body that seems determined now to set down rules for how countries should react to future pandemics. Never waste a good crisis, as the saying goes.

Yet the WHO has a terrible track record in managing epidemics, not least in its response to Covid-19, where it made a series of bad mistakes and did China's bidding. The Pandemic Accord would be a reward for failure.

Comment: While the author makes the salient point that control should not be handed over to the World Health Organization, he misses the mark when he infers that our primary concern should be with China. The gain-of-function research undertaken at Wuhan Institute of Virology was funded by the USA. See also: What might the US owe the world for Covid-19?
The evidence of a possible laboratory creation revolves around a multi-year US-led research program that involved US and Chinese scientists. The research was designed by US scientists, funded mainly by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense, and administered by a US organization, the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), with much of the work taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).


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Senior US journalist attacks leading scientists for 'misleading' him over Covid lab-leak theory

Susie Coen
The Telegraph
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:38 UTC
The office of the New York Times in New York City, 2019.
© Alexandra Schuler / Picture Alliance / Getty Images
A former New York Times journalist has attacked a group of leading scientists for "clearly" misleading him over the Covid lab-leak theory in the early days of the pandemic.

Donald McNeil Jr said he became sceptical of the hypothesis the virus was engineered in a Wuhan lab after several top epidemiological virologists insisted it wasn't possible.

Mr McNeil Jr said their efforts to throw him "off track" influenced the newspaper's coverage of the theory and likely contributed to the topic being "dropped" for a year.

However, the experts initially thought the lab leak theory was plausible but didn't want to disclose so for political reasons, according to a raft of messages between them accidentally released by a US congressional committee last year.

In his book The Wisdom of Plagues, which looks back at 25 years covering pandemics, Mr McNeil Jr said the scientists "clearly misled me early on" and he was a "victim of deception".

He said he was "disappointed, both in them and in myself, that I was so easily taken in".

Comment: It was branded conspiracy theory at the time to suggest that the lab leak was a possibility. Now that this possibility has proven to be more than merely theoretically plausible, perhaps this former New York Times journalist should look into more conspiracy theories to see just what else is being officially denied but remains within the realm of the possible.

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