Re: #71 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[noone]

Военный обозреватель, [04.04.21 00:19]

Ukrainian Nazis staged a provocation near the Russian consulate in Odessa. Threats are coming in to the diplomats.
The police are inactive.

[noone]

post above failed.

What I was saying is that Odessa is a Russian founded city by Catherine the Great, never "Ukrainian" is such a term even exists.

War with Russia or its forced collapse which is the main pursuit of TPTB was imminent before Trump and one of the main reasons people voted for him.
Despite posturing, obviously Trump was against such a conflict.
Now he is gone and the TPTB are back in full force on that track. MSM propaganda proves it. Official statements and military movements prove it.
We are waiting for the spark now. I still wonder if Zelensky will go ahead and knowingly destroy his country. So far he seemed to be more realistic and not a gambler but I suppose the pressure if very high.

[noone]

Is anybody stopping Russia from delivering oil and gas to Syria?

[KneelB4Zod!]

spriters
@neccamc1
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A military transport plane from the USA arrived in Lviv - media




spriters
@neccamc1
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Ukraine continues to redeploy combat units to the eastern region. Another group of military equipment was seen in the west of the country in the city of Khmelnitsky.

[KneelB4Zod!]

post above failed.

What I was saying is that Odessa is a Russian founded city by Catherine the Great, never "Ukrainian" is such a term even exists.

War with Russia or its forced collapse which is the main pursuit of TPTB was imminent before Trump and one of the main reasons people voted for him.
Despite posturing, obviously Trump was against such a conflict.
Now he is gone and the TPTB are back in full force on that track. MSM propaganda proves it. Official statements and military movements prove it.
We are waiting for the spark now. I still wonder if Zelensky will go ahead and knowingly destroy his country. So far he seemed to be more realistic and not a gambler but I suppose the pressure if very high.

"Trump was against such a conflic". And why then he sent thousands of troops to Europe and Baltics or why he scrapped INF? Trump did exactly what TPTB needed.

Russia cought TPTB unprepared twice. First time when swiftly took measures to protect Crime. 2nd time when launched military campaign in Syria. They needed time to prepare for confrontation, they tried to wear of Russian resources with ridiculous sanctions and Trump was there only to buy them more time and to discredite all the voices speaking against the globalist agenda.
That's why he was one term president. His disastrous job is done and TPTB has no more time left...

[KneelB4Zod!]

Yes, because animals are dying in vast numbers...oh wait...no they're not because this is all BULL-FUCKING-SHIT. https://t.co/nwL6c8NDy4

— Vincent Black (@VincentBlack69) April 4, 2021

[Mr Badger]

I note the desert paint-job. Redeployment from Iraq?

[Mr Badger]

RAGEX-WAR
@theragex
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A military transport plane from the USA arrived in Lviv Ukraine

https://twitter.com/theragex/status/1378658229471838208

[KneelB4Zod!]

Hunter Biden Really doesn’t know-
“For Reals!” pic.twitter.com/qQPQCk4Jz9

— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) April 4, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

I note the desert paint-job. Redeployment from Iraq?

Could be. But I think they use this desert camo as basic and re-peint them when they arrive to their destination.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
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Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative Control

"Pay attention to the way imperial narrative managers try to use smears and pejoratives to file away anti-imperialists into a 'don't listen to the things this person says' box"



https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/tankie-conspiracy-theorist-and-other


Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative Control

Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that I've been meaning to write about ever since.

It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties them to the sudden spike in anti-Asian hate crimes we've been seeing. Smith shared his screenshot with the caption, "I hold by my prediction that the American Left is going to split into A) social democrats, and B) foreign-policy-obsessed pseudo-tankies."

"How do we stop the B group from driving the narrative?" one of Smith's followers asked him.

"Well, first we teach everyone the word 'tankie'!" Smith replied, with a Substack article he authored explaining that any leftist who opposes western imperialist agendas against China should be branded with that label and dismissed.

Well, first we teach everyone the word "tankie"!https://t.co/zzMSygnasw

— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 29, 2021

Which is just so refreshing in its honesty, really. It's been obvious for ages that such pejoratives are being used by imperialists to control the narrative in a way that benefits ruling power structures, but it's not often you'll have a mainstream narrative manager come right out and say that this is exactly what they are trying to do.

Smith's admission that he is training his audience to bleat the word "tankie" at any leftist who is "obsessed" with a tiny trivial matter like US foreign policy in order to control the dominant foreign policy narrative is born out by the rest of his Twitter activity, which sees him repeating that word constantly and weaponizing it against anyone who expresses skepticism of the empire's official foreign policy narratives.

"Tankie" used to be a term which referred specifically to British communists who supported the Soviet Union, but under the facilitation of narrative managers like Smith it's enjoying a mainstream resurrection in which it is commonly weaponized against anyone to the left of Bernie Sanders who opposes US imperialist agendas. I wrote against anti-imperialism for years without anyone ever applying that pejorative to me, but now it comes up on a near-daily basis. I haven't changed the basics of my beliefs or my approach to anti-imperialism, but the widespread use of "tankie" as a pejorative against people like me most certainly has changed.

It joins the ranks of famous weaponized pejoratives like "Russian bot", "CCP propagandist", "Assadist", and the one size fits all perennial favorite "conspiracy theorist" in labels which can be applied to ensure the dismissal of anyone who voices skepticism of narratives that are being promoted by known liars to facilitate the agendas of murderous psychopaths. Another new crowd favorite is "genocide denier", a label that gets applied to anyone who points out the glaring plot holes in the imperial Uyghur narrative which narrative managers are overjoyed about being able to use because it lets them equate skepticism of a geostrategically significant US narrative with Nazism.

What these pejoratives accomplish, as Noah Smith is well aware, is the ability to inoculate the mainstream herd from the wrongthink of anyone to whom that label has been applied. That way they never have to engage the argument or the evidence that gets laid out contradicting the official imperial line; as long as they can convince enough people to accept their pejorative as legitimate, they have a magical phrase they can utter to dispel any anti-imperialist argument which appears anywhere in the information ecosystem.

ASPI, Australian think tank funded by weapons makers & states including the US, just put out a hilarious report attacking @TheGrayzoneNews' Xinjiang coverage.

ASPI doesn't challenge a single fact. It instead tallies Chinese diplomats retweeting us. 🧐(https://t.co/DBCsS4N9BJ)

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 3, 2021

This is a major part of an imperial narrative manager's job these days: smearing anti-imperialists and critical thinkers as untrustworthy. The debate is never to be engaged and counter-arguments are never to be made; why engage in a debate you will probably lose when you can simply explain to everyone why nobody should listen to the other side?

A perfect example of this would be the recent smear piece the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) put out on The Grayzone with the title "Strange bedfellows on Xinjiang: The CCP, fringe media and US social media platforms".

As explained in a thread by Grayzone's Aaron Maté, the government-funded and arms industry-funded think tank ASPI makes no effort in its report to dispute or debunk any of the reporting that The Grayzone has been putting out on China or on anything else. Rather, they simply work to associate the outlet with the Chinese government by citing incidents in which Chinese officials shared Grayzone articles on social media. By fallaciously associating The Grayzone with the Chinese government, narrative managers now have a weapon which enables them to dismiss the outlet as "CCP propaganda".

As anyone who has been active in anti-imperialist online discourse knows, this is an extremely common tactic which narrative managers and their indoctrinated herd use to dismiss questions, criticisms and evidence which is inconvenient to the US-centralized imperial war machine. Try countering their claims with a well-sourced article full of robust argumentation and solid evidence, and they'll dismiss you with a "Ha ha, THAT outlet? That outlet is propaganda!" Because it came from an anti-imperialist outlet like The Grayzone or Consortium News instead of an outlet which never fails to support US military agendas like The New York Times.

Attacking the Source: Establishment Loyalists’ Favorite Online Tactic https://t.co/d9spksuuFA

— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) December 19, 2019

But it's a completely ridiculous tactic if you think about it. All they're really saying is "You can't use that anti-imperialist outlet to substantiate your anti-imperialist position! You can only use the pro-US outlets which have helped deceive westerners into backing every US war!" It's also logically fallacious; attacking the source instead of the argument is what people do when they can't attack the argument.

Citing an empire-targeted government sharing an anti-imperialist article as evidence that that government is tied to that outlet in some way is an equally absurd argument; obviously governments are going to cite evidence and arguments which favor them, and the imperialist western media isn't going to be publishing such evidence or arguments. The fact that western anti-imperialists and nations like Russia and China both oppose western imperialism doesn't mean western anti-imperialists work for Russ or China, it means those groups all oppose western imperialism for their own reasons. Since western imperialism is the most murderous and oppressive force on this planet, it's to be expected that multiple different groups will oppose it.

Pay attention to the way imperial narrative managers try to use smears and pejoratives to file away anti-imperialists into a "don't listen to the things this person says" box, and help others pay attention to it too. This is no more legitimate an argument than the Wizard of Oz yelling "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," and it should be treated with no more respect than that.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Korenchkin
@Obvious1389
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1h
Serbian Gov to give Pensioners free Zinc, Vitamin C and D supplements

Backwards Serbs taking sensible measures to save their elderly instead of letting them wither on the vine

[Zambeezi]

This is exactly why #US and vassals are actively pushing #Ukraine to launch an offensive against #Donbass since many months in the hope #Russia will react so Nord Stream 2 can be blocked. https://t.co/bZdWrQ57OF

— Enrico Kremlin-affiliated (@Russ_Warrior) April 4, 2021

dear munich security conference:

Спокойной ночи. pic.twitter.com/Tq9BL8MFyP

— Почти СовФед (@fedsovetov) February 27, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Sukhoi Su-57 Felon
@I30mki
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#Propagandists #Alert

The #British garbage dump "The Sun" writes that there are 4 weeks left before the start of the Third World War.

#Russian soldiers in the amount of 40,000 bayonets are waiting for #Putin's order to give zvizdyuly a sharovar and go to the #EU.



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14540392/russian-troops-tanks-ukraine-war-2-2/

[ShockJock]

Sukhoi Su-57 Felon
@I30mki
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2m
#Propagandists #Alert

The #British garbage dump "The Sun" writes that there are 4 weeks left before the start of the Third World War.

#Russian soldiers in the amount of 40,000 bayonets are waiting for #Putin's order to give zvizdyuly a sharovar and go to the #EU.



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14540392/russian-troops-tanks-ukraine-war-2-2/

Interesting that the unofficial "mouth" of the British Government would have a headline like this.   On my radio show this past Thursday (or Friday) a caller asked what my "take" was on when a conflict would actually begin.  I answered "On or before May 2" and based my answer on the mud season (Rasputitsa) being the only thing preventing it right now.   I even speculated that the reason Russia was pre-positioning pontoon bridges was not to cross rivers, but to cross mud, which would allow a war to start anytime the Russians wanted, and bulldoze Ukraine within a day or two.

Reading the article in "The Sun" is interesting; they completely IGNORE who it was that started the violent protests & riots which overthrew Victor Yanukovich: The EU and the USA.  How quickly people forget the intercepted and publicly released telephone conversation of former US State Department official Gloria Nuland, wherein she said "Fuck the Europeans" because the USA has already spent about $5 billion fomenting shit in Ukraine.

We in the West did this shit.  We in the West caused the upheaval.  We in the west started it all over again after my illegitimate president, Joe Biden, stole the November 3 election and picked-up where Obama left off.  IF war comes, it is the fault of MY COUNTRY!   This aggravates the shit out of me.

None of this has to be.  But the psychopaths in my government, and in the governments of the EU, are doing precisely what is necessary to CAUSE a war, and when they get their asses nuked, it will be right and proper.

I just don't know how folks like me (5km outside midtown New York City) are going to fare once the missiles start flying.

At my location, I can survive a 100kt detonation in Midtown Manhattan.   But I cannot survive anything higher than that.  Even a 300kt would put the thermal radiation over the top of my house, killing me and my family, never mind the typical 800kt which makes up much of the Russian arsenal.

I have a bugout house that I can evacuate to in eastern Pennsylvania, which would be nowhere near any nuke targets, but when this shit pops-off, I don't know I would have enough advance warning to do an emergency evac pack-out of food and supplies, then actually GET OUT before the bombs hit.

Anyway, with "The Sun" now saying four weeks, it reinforces my take on the situation and scares the fuck out of me.   None of this had to be.

Hal

[noone]

post above failed.

What I was saying is that Odessa is a Russian founded city by Catherine the Great, never "Ukrainian" is such a term even exists.

War with Russia or its forced collapse which is the main pursuit of TPTB was imminent before Trump and one of the main reasons people voted for him.
Despite posturing, obviously Trump was against such a conflict.
Now he is gone and the TPTB are back in full force on that track. MSM propaganda proves it. Official statements and military movements prove it.
We are waiting for the spark now. I still wonder if Zelensky will go ahead and knowingly destroy his country. So far he seemed to be more realistic and not a gambler but I suppose the pressure if very high.

"Trump was against such a conflic". And why then he sent thousands of troops to Europe and Baltics or why he scrapped INF? Trump did exactly what TPTB needed.

Russia cought TPTB unprepared twice. First time when swiftly took measures to protect Crime. 2nd time when launched military campaign in Syria. They needed time to prepare for confrontation, they tried to wear of Russian resources with ridiculous sanctions and Trump was there only to buy them more time and to discredite all the voices speaking against the globalist agenda.
That's why he was one term president. His disastrous job is done and TPTB has no more time left...

You sound like Trump sent all the US troops in Europe and they were not there since WW2:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Europe_and_Africa
It is well known that Trump tried withdrawing US forces from many places - Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Europe as well and he faced strong opposition including deception from military already publicly admitted.
I know your opinion is that Trump was just a clown playing the TPTB game all along but the evidence is against it.
You think Trump had all the support and trustful people he needed to do the job while in reality he was in a continuous fight to stay afloat and do whatever little he could, having to compromise to get at least partial support from the House and Senate, always surrounded by spies and traitors.
Virtually all politicians, including republicans and all institutions in US are controlled by TPTB for decades now.
I'm not saying Trump was some genius or world savior - by the contrary, imho he was just a tad above idiocy but he clearly was the one to put some breaks in the madness we were in and open the eyes to hundreds of millions around the world, empowering them to fight against the world establishment.
Two main things I hold against him - the execution of Soleimani and not pardoning Assange. While the first could be justified by his stupidity, lack of knowledge, information and manipulation proneness I have no excuse for the second.

[The Original Mind]

I kinda hope Russia steamrolls through Ukraine then builds a wall...

[noone]

Spain Passes Law Mandating Face Masks Even While Swimming In The Sea:
zerohedge.com/covid-19/spain-passes-law-mandating-face-masks-even-while-swimming-sea

[KneelB4Zod!]

Sukhoi Su-57 Felon
@I30mki
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2m
#Propagandists #Alert

The #British garbage dump "The Sun" writes that there are 4 weeks left before the start of the Third World War.

#Russian soldiers in the amount of 40,000 bayonets are waiting for #Putin's order to give zvizdyuly a sharovar and go to the #EU.



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14540392/russian-troops-tanks-ukraine-war-2-2/

Interesting that the unofficial "mouth" of the British Government would have a headline like this.   On my radio show this past Thursday (or Friday) a caller asked what my "take" was on when a conflict would actually begin.  I answered "On or before May 2" and based my answer on the mud season (Rasputitsa) being the only thing preventing it right now.   I even speculated that the reason Russia was pre-positioning pontoon bridges was not to cross rivers, but to cross mud, which would allow a war to start anytime the Russians wanted, and bulldoze Ukraine within a day or two.

Reading the article in "The Sun" is interesting; they completely IGNORE who it was that started the violent protests & riots which overthrew Victor Yanukovich: The EU and the USA.  How quickly people forget the intercepted and publicly released telephone conversation of former US State Department official Gloria Nuland, wherein she said "Fuck the Europeans" because the USA has already spent about $5 billion fomenting shit in Ukraine.

We in the West did this shit.  We in the West caused the upheaval.  We in the west started it all over again after my illegitimate president, Joe Biden, stole the November 3 election and picked-up where Obama left off.  IF war comes, it is the fault of MY COUNTRY!   This aggravates the shit out of me.

None of this has to be.  But the psychopaths in my government, and in the governments of the EU, are doing precisely what is necessary to CAUSE a war, and when they get their asses nuked, it will be right and proper.

I just don't know how folks like me (5km outside midtown New York City) are going to fare once the missiles start flying.

At my location, I can survive a 100kt detonation in Midtown Manhattan.   But I cannot survive anything higher than that.  Even a 300kt would put the thermal radiation over the top of my house, killing me and my family, never mind the typical 800kt which makes up much of the Russian arsenal.

I have a bugout house that I can evacuate to in eastern Pennsylvania, which would be nowhere near any nuke targets, but when this shit pops-off, I don't know I would have enough advance warning to do an emergency evac pack-out of food and supplies, then actually GET OUT before the bombs hit.

Anyway, with "The Sun" now saying four weeks, it reinforces my take on the situation and scares the fuck out of me.   None of this had to be.

Hal

I concur with the most you wrote. I don't want to address Trump/Biden topic as I wrote my opinion in last few days several times already.

There's reason why The Sun doesn't mention who was behind armed coup in Ukraine. It's because this fact was completely ignored by lying msm since begining. They never took responsibility for situation they created. Just imagine Zhirinovsky speaking to the protesters during the White House "siege". That was the exact situation in Kiev when McCain spoke to the crowd of crazed banderites.
Back in 2013 US Navy already had money for "renovations" of schools and hospitals in Crimea. They were forced to cancell the projects one year later...

https://beta.sam.gov/opp/9e74aea04e874d90ab24393428912a07/view?keywords=N33191-13-R-1240&sort=-relevance&index=&is_active=false&page=1

https://beta.sam.gov/opp/bc2e3e7ed8244dcebac1ab7de9122e51/view?keywords=N33191-14-R-0601&sort=-relevance&index=&is_active=false&page=1

[KneelB4Zod!]

Spain Passes Law Mandating Face Masks Even While Swimming In The Sea:
zerohedge.com/covid-19/spain-passes-law-mandating-face-masks-even-while-swimming-sea

[KneelB4Zod!]

Wow...

Russian Railways, 04/04/2021

here is the Pantseer S1 in the frame pic.twitter.com/FO3sr36VVQ

— spriters (@neccamc1) April 4, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

"Blogger Alexander Tarasenko accidentally filmed a column of military equipment, the date of the removal is not known in advance end of March beginning of April #
Crimea"

Блогер Александр Тарасенко случайно заснял колону военной техники, дата съемники не известно предварительно конец марта начало апреля#
Крым pic.twitter.com/VLvV6nKabW

— Донецкий Чебуратор (@donchebyrator) April 4, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

spriters
@neccamc1
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3m
Prince Hamzah held contacts with 'foreign agencies' to undermine national security, Jordan's FM says

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202104041082537873-Jordans-FM-Prince-Hamzah-Was-in-Contact-With-Foreign-Agencies-to-Undermine-National-Security/

[KneelB4Zod!]

zerohedge
@zerohedge
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2m
Russia's Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russias-lavrov-warns-surging-anti-white-racism-us

[KneelB4Zod!]

President of Ukraine Zelensky is on a state visit in Qatar pic.twitter.com/Uf8v0BPSqR

— Ali Özkök (@Ozkok_A) April 4, 2021

[KneelB4Zod!]

Newly released Resistance video:

#سنعبر

(1/2) pic.twitter.com/hmBp9yP4Tz

— Ali (@allushiii_new) August 14, 2020

#سنعبر

(2/2) pic.twitter.com/PWFTSHVjXK

— Ali (@allushiii_new) August 14, 2020

Full:

https://t.me/resistance_channel/37

[Mr Badger]

Spain Passes Law Mandating Face Masks Even While Swimming In The Sea:
zerohedge.com/covid-19/spain-passes-law-mandating-face-masks-even-while-swimming-sea

It'll be recanted just as soon as the idiots that follow this ridiculous mandate begin drowning.

[boris]

Spain Passes Law Mandating Face Masks Even While Swimming In The Sea:
zerohedge.com/covid-19/spain-passes-law-mandating-face-masks-even-while-swimming-sea

It'll be recanted just as soon as the idiots that follow this ridiculous mandate begin drowning.

wonder what the rules around CPR will be. can only do it with a mask on? from 1.5m away?

[Mr Badger]

ASB News / MILITARYPart alternation mark
@ASBMilitary
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8m
After extensive nights of research, it’s clear that something is indeed going on with Russian military movement. It is not exercises. ‘Zapad-2021’ is still far away. Russia is sending soldiers/equipment from central mil districts towards Ukrainian borders 1/4

Sod it I'm still unable to comprehend the embedding thing.
Click on the 3 dots and scroll down to "embed" - check
Copy the link that opens up - check.,
It's the pasting bit where I'm going wrong.

[Matjaz]

ASB News / MILITARYPart alternation mark
@ASBMilitary
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8m
After extensive nights of research, it’s clear that something is indeed going on with Russian military movement. It is not exercises. ‘Zapad-2021’ is still far away. Russia is sending soldiers/equipment from central mil districts towards Ukrainian borders 1/4

Sod it I'm still unable to comprehend the embedding thing.
Click on the 3 dots and scroll down to "embed" - check
Copy the link that opens up - check.,
It's the pasting bit where I'm going wrong.

You just copy/paste after copy the link button push.