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Israel lobby group ADL rehabilitates Hitler's accomplices in Ukraine

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Bandera honor
© Pavlo Bagnut/UkrinformPriest speaks during torchlight procession honoring Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera
Kiev, Ukraine • 1 January, 2022
Israel and its lobby depend on support from the United States. So when Washington goes to war, the lobby will often lend its propaganda services to the cause. The Anti-Defamation League, one of Israel's top US lobby groups, is doing so now by rehabilitating Ukrainian collaborators who helped Hitler exterminate Jews and Poles.

This Holocaust revisionism is motivated by the need to whitewash the present-day, far-right Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis who are supported by the United States. The reason the US, NATO and the European Union say they are sending weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine is to help a fellow democracy defend its independence and sovereignty against an illegal invasion by an expansionist, megalomaniacal madman.

It is therefore very awkward from a Western perspective that the Ukrainian regime is underpinned by hard-right fascists and neo-Nazis.

Acknowledging this fact, Western war propagandists undoubtedly fear, would legitimize President Vladimir Putin's claim that the Russian invasion - which has been overwhelmingly condemned by the UN General Assembly - is justified by a need to "de-Nazify" and demilitarize Ukraine.
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Fires rage in Canada as professor attacks the Myth of Holodomor

Matthew Ehret
matthewehret.substack.com
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Freeland
© Twitter/Sputnik News/Wyatt ReedFreeland’s ‘Nazi’ Banner Highlights Ukrainian Right Wing Party’s Role In Holocaust
University of Alberta Assistant Professor Dougal MacDonald raised hell on November 20, 2019 by writing in a personal Facebook post that the 1932-33 genocide of Ukrainians referred to as Holodomor was a "myth fabricated by Hitlerites".


Comment: Holodomor is a term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).


If such remarks were made in most nations today, it wouldn't be such a big deal (as only 16 nations have chosen to recognize this event as an act of genocide rather than the tragic act of nature which MacDonald and countless eminent scholars maintain.)

Canada is not however "most nations", but has rather had the misfortune of hosting some of the most virulent groups of rabid ultra-right wing Ukrainian fascists who were transplanted into the Prairies and west coast by Anglo-American intelligence networks in the wake of WWII.

Today, many of these 2nd and 3rd generation Banderites control powerful institutions like the Ukrainian Congress of Canada (UCC) and have bred such confused and dangerous ideologues as Canada's own Deputy Prime Minister (and leading Rhodes Scholar) Chrystia Freeland who sees no shame in her grandfather's leading role as a Nazi collaborator in WW2 or in holding up right wing flags associated with the fascist Organization for Ukrainian Nationalists at a recent rally in Toronto.

Comment: The fact is, the famine was real, and not limited to Ukraine - though in Ukraine, it was ethnic Ukrainian communists who played the lead role in collectivization and grain confiscations.

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Eye 1

How the West was won: Counterinsurgency, PSYOPS and the military origins of the Internet, Part 1


The Cogent
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Licklider
© HistoryofInformation.comJ.C.R. Licklider
Part 1: Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

As the digital revolution was underway in the mid-nineties, research departments at the CIA and NSA were developing programs to predict the usefulness of the world wide web as a tool for capturing what they dubbed "birds of a feather" formations. That's when flocks of sparrows make sudden movements together in rhythmical patterns.

They were particularly interested in how these principles would influence the way that people would eventually move together on the burgeoning internet: Would groups and communities move together in the same way as 'birds of a feather, so that they could be tracked in an organised way? And if their movements could be indexed and recorded, could they be identified later by their digital fingerprints?

To answer these questions, the CIA and NSA established a series of initiatives called Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) to directly fund tech entrepreneurs through an inter-university disbursement program. Naming their first unclassified briefing for computer scientists 'birds of a feather,' which took place in San Jose in the spring of 1995.
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How the West was won: Counterinsurgency, PSYOPS and the Military origins of the Internet, Part 2


The Cogent
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
DARPA
© Lifeboat Foundation
Continued from Part 1

Part 2: The War is Over, The Good Guys Lost

If insurgency is defined as an organised political struggle by a hostile minority, attempting to seize power through revolutionary means, then counterinsurgency is the military doctrine historically used against non-state actors, that sets out to infiltrate and eradicate those movements.

Unlike conventional soldiers, insurgents are considered dangerous, not because of their physical presence on the battlefield, but because of their ideology.

As David Galula, a French commander who was an expert in counterinsurgency warfare during the Algerian War, emphasised:
"In any situation, whatever the cause, there will be an active minority for the cause, a neutral majority, and an active minority against the cause. The technique of power consists in relying on the favourable minority in order to rally the neutral majority and to neutralise or eliminate the hostile minority."
Overtime, however, the intelligence state lost touch with reality, as the focus of its counterinsurgency programs shifted from foreign to domestic populations, from national security risks to ordinary citizens. Particularly in the wake of 9/11, when the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, began mapping out the Internet.
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Colosseum

'Largest sacred pool in the Mediterranean' discovered to be aligned with the stars


Heritage Daily
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:15 UTC
sacred pool sicily
© AntiquityArchaeologists conducting a study on the Phoenician Island city of Motya, located off the coast of Sicily have identified that an artificial lake was a sacred pool aligned with the stars.
Motya, known today as San Pantaleo Island was a Phoenician port founded during the first Millenium BC in the Stagnone Lagoon between Drepanum (modern Trapani) and Lilybaeum (modern Marsala).

Archaeologists excavating a 2,500-year-old artificial basin, once identified as a military harbour called a Kothon during the 1920s is actually one of the largest sacred pools in the Mediterranean. The pool was added around 550 BC when the city was rebuilt after an attack by Carthage as a centrepiece of a massive religious sanctuary aligned with the stars.

Professor Nigro from Sapienza Università di Roma said: "For a century it was thought Motya's 'Kothon' was a harbour, but new excavations have drastically changed its interpretation: It was a sacred pool at the centre of a huge religious compound."

Comment: See also:

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The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük reveal the burial practices of the 'oldest city in the world'

University of Bern
Science Direct
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:15 UTC
Çatalhöyük
© Marco MilellaSkeleton of a male individual aged between 35 and 50 years old with cinnabar painting on the cranium.
An international team with participation of the University of Bern provides new insights about how the inhabitants of the "oldest city in the world" in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) buried their dead. Their bones were partially painted, excavated several times and reburied. The findings provide insight into the burial rituals of a fascinating society that lived 9000 years ago.

Çatalhöyük (Central Anatolia, Turkey) is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Near East, with an occupation that dates back to 9000 years ago. This Neolithic settlement, known as the world's oldest city, covers an area of 13ha and features densely aggregated mudbrick buildings. The houses of Çatalhöyük present the archaeological traces of ritual activities including intramural burials with some skeletons bearing traces of colorants, and wall paintings.

Comment: Çatalhöyük was occupied for thousands of years and went through a number of incarnations and so it would be interesting to know whether these findings were consistent or whether it was limited to the period mentioned, and what inspired the shifts: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Meet Ghislaine: Heiress to an Espionage Empire

Whitney Webb
Unlimited Hangout
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:34 UTC
Ghislaine Maxwell 1
Despite being found guilty late last year for her role in sex crimes against minors, Ghislaine Maxwell, the "madam" and chief accomplice of the intelligence-linked pedophile and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, may soon walk free. A juror in the case, Scotty David, subsequently took credit for the jury's decision to find Ghislaine Maxwell guilty and "inadvertently" revealed that he had incorrectly answered a pre-trial questionnaire. As a result, the possibility of a mistrial, and Ghislaine walking free, now looms large.

David has some interesting connections, as he currently works for the Carlyle Group - the global investment firm whose ties to the bin Laden family during the early 2000s have come under scrutiny. Carlyle's executives often have ties to intelligence, with one example being its former chairman and then chairman emeritus, Frank Carlucci, who had been deputy director of the CIA and, later, Reagan's Secretary of Defense. Carlyle's current co-founder and co-chairman David Rubenstein, as noted in this article from Free Press Report, served on the board of the influential Trilateral Commission during the same time as Jeffrey Epstein, while his ex-wife Alice Rogoff (divorced in 2017) had a very close working relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, including with her now defunct "charity" the TerraMar Project. Given the fact that there are known ties between David's employer and Ghislaine Maxwell, why has this potential conflict of interest gone unmentioned by mainstream media?

Not only that, but - according to a family member of one of the women who testified against Maxwell during her trial - David was connected with the journalist who would publish the now infamous, post-verdict report via Vicky Ward. Ward has been denounced by Epstein victims and others close to the case for having had a past "chummy" relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell she declined to disclose for years and for subsequently telling Ghislaine that Epstein victim Maria Farmer had been the person who had first reported Maxwell and Epstein to the FBI back in 1996. Farmer later claims that Ward's lack of journalistic integrity, after promising to keep Farmer's identity secret, had put her life in danger and forced her into hiding.
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Books

How scholars once feared reading would be destroyed by the book index

Dennis Duncan
Literary Hub
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:11 UTC
book index restoration herbal
When I first began to teach English Literature at university, here is how a lesson would typically begin:
Me: Can everyone please turn to page 128 of Mrs Dalloway ?
Student A: What page is it in the Wordsworth edition?
Student B: What page is it in the Penguin edition?
Student C (holding up a book: ​­mid-​­century; hardback; no jacket ): I don't know what edition I've ​­got — it's my mum's. What chapter is it?
After a minute or so, homing in via chapters and paragraphs, we would all be ready to analyze the same passage, only to go through the same process a couple of times more each class. About seven years ago, however, I noticed that something different was beginning to happen. I would still ask everyone to look at a particular extract from the novel; I would still, more in hope than expectation, give the page reference from the prescribed edition; a sea of hands would still go up immediately. But this time the question would be different: "What does the passage start with?"

Many of the students now were reading on digital ​­devices — on Kindles, on iPads, sometimes on their ​­phones — devices which did not use page numbers, but which came equipped with a search function. Histor­ically, a special type of index, known as a concordance, would present an alphabetical list of every word in a given ​­text — the works of Shakespeare, say, or the ​­Bible — and all the places they appear. In my classroom I began to notice how the power of the concordance had been extended infinitely. Digitization had meant that the ability to search for a particular word or phrase was no longer tied to an individual work; now it was part of the eReader's software platform. Whatever you're reading, you can always hit Ctrl+F if you know what you're looking for: "One of the triumphs of civilization, Peter Walsh thought."
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UK and US jointly develop biological weapons

Vladimir Platov
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Lab guys
© UnknownBioWeapons lab personnel
Documentary evidence of Washington's aggressive plans for developing and manufacturing biological weapons in secret US biological laboratories in Ukraine, banned by international conventions, has been uncovered during the Russian special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, and it is frankly horrifying! Although suspicions of such US activities have already been repeatedly published by many media outlets and their verification and official confirmation of such criminal anti-human plans by Washington was one of the goals of Moscow's special operation to demilitarize Ukraine.

In this regard, the former weak position in bringing clarity to the exposure and suppression of such forthcoming US crimes is highly surprising. First of all, it should have been long ago that the international community and international institutions should have initiated an independent inspection of some 400 such secret Pentagon biological laboratories scattered around the world, whose location in specific countries is clearly linked to the theatres of future US military action against "adversaries".

The unconditional involvement of Britain, which has long collaborated with the US in the development of chemical and biological weapons, has also surprisingly been ignored in relation to such criminal plans.
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SBU the terrible Ukrainian political police, assassinations and torture

Laurent Brayard
Donbass Insider
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
SBU in office
© UnknownSBU
The security services of Ukraine... almost no French person has ever heard of them and our journalists in France are not ready to tell you what the SBU is. And yet! It is undoubtedly one of the worst, if not the worst criminal organisation in Europe and one of the most terrifying political police forces we have known for half a century. Its exploits could be on a par with the notorious STASI (GDR) or even the Securitate (Romania), which made so much noise. However, one day Europe and France will have to accept to see the face of death and blood that is the SBU. So much silence on the part of newspapers as famous as Le Monde, Libération or Le Figaro is in itself suspicious and even worse guilty, and I dare say: criminal.

There is no war in Donbass... only an anti-terrorist operation. Yes you read that right, it's a law of the Rada of Ukraine that was passed back in 2014, there is no war in Eastern Ukraine... but terrorists who were seeking to destroy the country. According to this rhetoric, the SBU, which deals with counter-espionage, was deployed and very quickly committed numerous abuses, assassinations and various crimes. According to various sources, the SBU had nearly 30,000 agents and employees, and very quickly attacked anything Russian, anti-Maidan and which could hinder the march of the Coloured Revolution financed and organised by the USA, in the winter of 2013-2014.

Comment: The SBU is defacto in lockstep with the Nazi factions, independent of the government and the law.

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