The MoA Week In Review – OT 2022-40

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April 3, 2022

Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:

Mar 28 – Ukraine – Smoke And Mirrors Around Poisonous Peace Talks
Mar 29 – Ukraine SitRep – Part II Of Russia's Military Operation Unfolds
Mar 23 – More Sanctions On Russia Will Destroy Europe
Mar 25 – Propaganda Does Not Change The War – The Ukraine Is Still Losing – Updated
Related:
– Donbass still remains key battleground – Indian Punchline
– This month will decide world politics for next 30+ years – Dreizin Report
– We Seriously Underestimated Russia; Our Own Propaganda is Killing Us – Reading Junkie

Propaganda:

Gonzalo Lira proves without doubt that four different Ukrainian propaganda clips with different actors were all filmed at the exact same location, a 'battlefield' with several long destroyed Ukrainian tanks –> Propaganda BTFO (video)
Yesterday evening a Ukrainian station showed a video of Ukrainian troops driving through Bucha, north of Kiev, with several 'dead' people lying in the street allegedly 'killed by Russians'. There are two difficulties with these claims:
– One of the dead appears to move his arm: video
– Bucha was declared 'completely liberated' of Russian troops by its mayor on Thursday, March 31. Are we to believe it would take three days for such an 'incriminating' video to come out? Or that those 'dead' were lying there for three days with no one bothering?

Mar 31 – Then I Woke Up And Saw This. WTF?
Related:
– The two inch of snow in my backyard are gone.
– Biden's job approval falls to lowest level of his presidency amid war and inflation fears – NBC News
– Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company – Washington Post
– Scoop: FEC fines DNC and Clinton for Trump dossier hoax – Washington Examiner
– Joe Biden flying too close to the son – NY Post
– “Jettison the Animals!” – Kunstler

Mar 31 – Twitter Fun With Dan Rivers
Apr 1 – Europe Must Learn To Cheat On Its Sanctions (Just Like The U.S. Is Doing It)
Related:
– US carves out mechanism for insulating Russian fertilizer exports from sanctions – India Times
– Source: Germany withdrew some Russian metals from sanctions – MKRU (in Russian)

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Other issues:

U.S. regime change drive in Pakistan:

On the eve of crucial no-trust vote, PM Imran urges youth to stage 'peaceful protests' – Dawn
Why did the PTI fail? – Dawn
Shehbaz Sharif’s Comparison Of Pakistan To Defeated Germany & Japan Exposes His Agenda – Zububrothers
Imran Khan Takes On America – The Cradle
NA speaker dismisses no-trust move against PM Imran, terms it contradictory to Article 5 – Dawn
3 April Will Go Down In History As The Day That Pakistani Democracy Was Saved – Zububrothers

Afghanistan:

Biden Breaks Off Talks with Afghan Government Despite Raging Hunger Crisis – Libertarian Institute

I had written that, according to witnesses, most of the casualties of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport had come from U.S. soldiers shooting at civilians after the bomb exploded. The U.S. military had denied that. The Pro Publica report below finally proves it:

Hell at Abbey Gate: Chaos, Confusion and Death in the Final Days of the War in Afghanistan – Pro Publica

> “It sounded like a shooting range,” said one Marine who was knocked momentarily unconscious by the blast. “An overwhelming amount of gunfire, everywhere.” He hid behind the ditch wall until the tear gas gave him some cover, then sprinted into the airport.
…
One Marine thought he saw another gunman in a watchtower by the roof. He raised his rifle to take him out, when, suddenly, another Marine practically tackled him.

“It’s a fucking British guy!” someone else yelled, racing down the line to warn others. “Don’t shoot him!”

A Marine later told investigators that she began firing in the same direction as other troops. “I went in and saw a lot of Marines shooting” by a barrier, she said.

“There was a lot of smoke,” she said. “I couldn’t see where they were firing. They grabbed me, and I started firing my weapon as well. I don’t know what I was firing at.” <

Use as open thread …

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Comments

@ Petri Krohn | Apr 3 2022 19:24 utc | 82
thanks petri.. much appreciated.. please keep us up to date on this nightmare..

Posted by: james | Apr 3 2022 21:00 utc | 101

I wonder when USA would start weaponized hyperinflation, killing off EU and if lucky China too…
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1087775
https://aftershock.news/?q=node/1088309

Posted by: Arioch | Apr 3 2022 21:03 utc | 102

Wow! Pakistan is a spinning roulette wheel.

Posted by: too scents | Apr 3 2022 21:04 utc | 103

Seer @91–
Interesting question. The Outlaw US and Anglo Empires along with their WEF allies didn’t aim at governing as such but aimed at expropriating and exploiting the world’s nations and humanity to ensure their exceptional positions were kept. The United Nations was never designed to become a world government despite what rightwing idiots have said since its inception. Rather, it was to be a democratic collective of all governments to attack problems confronting humanity, with the exception of the Security Council, which is clearly undemocratic thanks to the veto allowed by the Founding Five. In their 4 February Joint Declaration, Russia and China admit to this error and promise to rectify it through an intense reform of the UN’s institutions, many of which are corrupted by the twin Outlaw Empires. So, contrary to Imperial propaganda, neither China or Russia seek global hegemony; rather, their aim is to further democratize the UN–an overdue aim agreed to by all but NATO.
IMO, once the corrupting influence is completely purged and reforms made, the UN can become the forum it was designed to be. And with digital information systems, it can help the world’s nations better manage the fate of humanity. One of the key threads permeating the Declaration is the need to help nations attain the goals announced in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, that provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Yes, the Outlaw Empires voted for it because to oppose it was political folly, but they’ve worked very hard to hinder such development since it goes against their aim of plunder and exploitation. But this isn’t the Global South’s first rodeo as such aims were pursued via IMF and World Bank, so the moves by Russia and China are very favored and supported, which are hastened by the Empire’s recently numerous own goals.
So, the last faction of the attempt at Neoliberal Globalism is NATO and its two principles, the Outlaw US and UK Empires. The extreme irony of Biden’s Democracy Summit is that the demise of the Empires will usher in a much greater amount of democracy at the expense of Imperial Autocracy and Corruption.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 21:04 utc | 104

New York [US], April 4 (ANI): Russian First Deputy Envoy to UN Dmitry Polyansky said on Sunday that Moscow has requested a UN Security Council meeting for Monday, claiming the “provocation of Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
“In light of the blatant provocation by Ukrainian radicals in Bucha, Russia has demanded a UN Security Council meeting be convened on Monday afternoon, April 4,” Polyansky was quoted as saying by Sputnik.
Moscow will expose “the Ukrainian instigators and their Western patrons,” he added.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272448447/russia-requests-un-security-council-meet-on-kyiv-provocation-in-bucha

Posted by: Emily Dickinson | Apr 3 2022 21:11 utc | 105

“…How many Germans born in 1946 had Soviet fathers?”
tucenz@79
Considerably fewer than the number of Soviet kids born between 1942 and 1945 whose fathers were from the Axis. Sadly the mortality rate of women and children in the German occupied areas was very high.
The slander that the Red Army raped its way across eastern Europe has been a standard part of the anti-communist/russophobic lexicon since Moscow did not fall. As to the British and US armies in Italy and Germany, it is a tribute to the deep religiosity of both nations, and an earnest of the welcome that feminism would receive in these enlightened cultures, that there is no popular recollection of any rapes having been blamed on GIs or Tommies.
Bidding in the Bargain of the Century!! (Bar None!!) bridge auction begins shortly.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 3 2022 21:11 utc | 106

@ bevin – thanks for that article from michael roberts.. i thought it was well worth reading..

Posted by: james | Apr 3 2022 21:13 utc | 107

The Bucha movie : be careful about pursuing the ‘moving dead’ theories. They’re of the gotcha/smoking gun type: hoping to score an easy win with a gamble on something secondary, but the gamble is easily wrong and where are you then. One plausible alternative that was posted is ‘it is a drop of rain’
It annoyed me with the hospital scene with the model in the dual role. There was no need for the same person in two roles, and there was no need for a person acting out a role. So investing in such a hypothesis is like a big gamble and it is better to invest in more solid claims.
You could see the reverse with the Protasevich arrest, except with the burden of proof: mainstream saw all kinds of smoking guns which were not essential for the central claim and which were easily contradicted: it would have been possible for Lukashenko to set up the whole arrest by merely sending the mail through protonmail.
The thing with Protasevich was of course that this burden of proof was not required and all the bad guesses about smoking guns were enough to get a new sanctions regime going. The same with Bucha. The superficial claims lead to new actions from Europe in the short term

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Apr 3 2022 21:17 utc | 108

Has anyone heard anything the situation with Finland and NATO? The western press makes it sound that it is a fait accompli. The government claims a referendum is not needed, given the Finns reaction to the invasion.
IMHO this is a disaster in progress. While the Finns may be fearful of Russia, (which isn’t new), a NATO membership would probably be another red line crossed with regard to Russia’s security concerns, and may trigger a response.
Given the US “Dark Eagle” is claimed to be operational within a year, this thing is getting very spooky. Flight times to Moscow would be very short. Not as short as from Ukraine, but still about 485 miles vs 300.
Given the West’s victory in the information war, it seems that everyone wants to go to into combat with Russia. The West totally understands how to control people by poking at their emotions. I now understand how WWI got started…tribalism & fear.

Posted by: Michael.j | Apr 3 2022 21:20 utc | 109

If you watch higher quality copies of the Bucha video it is easy to see the supposed arm movement is actually something on the windshield of the vehicle. Likewise the supposed moving corpse in the window is actually just warping from the mirror (view it frame by frame).
Honestly anyone continuing to repeat such an easily falsified claim looks like a stooge. There’s plenty of other explanations for Bucha, you don’t need to stoop to such level.

Posted by: Pietr | Apr 3 2022 21:22 utc | 110

Not directly related to Ukraine, but indirectly;
Shades of Monsanto
PepsiCo sues four Indian farmers for using its patented Lay’s potatoes
“Pepsi has sued the farmers for cultivating the FC5 potato variety, grown exclusively for its popular Lay’s potato chips. The FC5 variety has a lower moisture content required to make snacks such as potato chips.
The company is seeking more than 10 million rupees ($142,840) each for alleged patent infringement.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pepsi-farmers-idUSKCN1S21EL

Posted by: bubbles | Apr 3 2022 21:22 utc | 111

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 21:04 utc | 103
Thank you for that reply.
Some of my concern is that of “End Times” prophecies suggesting a one world government (or such) would be a sign leading up to the final stanza. (I’m rooting for humanity, but so many seem to want to ensure that we strive for global suicide.)

Posted by: Seer | Apr 3 2022 21:25 utc | 112

Re:105, Bevin,
The degree of rape that occurred while the Soviets advanced into Germany, may be exaggerated to some extent. But it did occur and many, many women were raped, I had several relatives who were raped by Soviet troops and one of my cousins was “fathered” that way. I may support Russia in this conflict, but I’m not going to ignore history because it is embarrassing to the current government (that is in no way responsible for events from 70 years ago)

Posted by: Kadath | Apr 3 2022 21:25 utc | 113

Michael.j @108–
The Finns are well aware of Russia’s security proposals that call for NATO to be rolled back to its 1997 status and as such would be extremely foolish to join at the point. But as Poland and Lithuania display, they harbor some very foolish Russophobic politicos. Do see my note on the previous page about Poland.
Oh, I wouldn’t characterize the information war as being won by the West since most of the planet is Pro-Russian.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 21:27 utc | 114

Questions (in Greek) for a Poll that is being done at this very moment, courtesy of a friend. https://imgur.com/a/uCe9Bh2
Asks if Greece is being threated by Russia, Turkey, China, Terrorism and strangely enough Georgia and Japan
Also how he feels about the use of Nukes, about the situation in Ukraine, if USA is keeping their word or are trustworthy, how he feels about the US army, if the US care for Greece etc.
The person who is responsible for the research gives a Turkish University email, but you can also find her at https://www.wilsoncenter.org/

Posted by: Oysten | Apr 3 2022 21:27 utc | 115

@Peter AU ,2, yes and I recall Scott Ritter saying about that that marines were very disciplined and would pick off there targets accurately, targets likely being their Afghan counterparts. He did not think of a scenario where the Americans could not see what they were shooting at.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Apr 3 2022 21:28 utc | 116

” The slander that the Red Army raped its way across eastern Europe has been a standard part of the anti-communist/russophobic lexicon since Moscow did not fall.
Posted by: bevin | Apr 3 2022 21:11 utc | 105 ”
Sure it was. Sure.
– THE SOVIET SECRET POLICE TORTURING, RAPING AND KILLING GENTILES: THE EVIDENCE –
https://ww2truth.com/2021/10/15/leather-jacketed-coke-snorting-jews-in-the-soviet-secret-police-torturing-raping-and-killing-gentiles-the-evidence/

Posted by: Deplorable Commissar | Apr 3 2022 21:31 utc | 117

Bucha Massacre already on Wiki.
Bucha massacre
It’s the 4th Title on Index.
The fog of war is now pea soup thick on the eve of Phase Two of Russian SMO. Great for morale…😕
Cui bono? — Who benefits?
Of course by now the scene has been totally compromised and contaminated for impartial independent investigation. Douma redux.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 3 2022 21:33 utc | 118

Imran.
It looks the Dominate is spiralling ever more out of control. The Zion kings have fired Khan!
They have called in their gangster favours. The Pakistan elites have cried yes sir ! They have their pads and connections in US and Britain to runaway to they believe.
Captain my captain, Imran! Has called on the young to take to the streets for their own futures.
Let’s see how it goes.
This is a direct attempt by the dead Empire to open a new front and this one is directed directly at poking the Dragon having successfully poked the Bear into action.
They really believe that delaying NS2 is the same as sabotaging the BRI!
They really believe they, their enterprises and palaces and families are as always ‘far from the wars’ they instigate!
They probably believe they are as immune as they have always been.
There is going to be hard rain that will fall far from the battlefield.
It is madness. Imran appears to have chosen the greater good over ‘blood’ ties.
Good luck captain.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 3 2022 21:34 utc | 119

The Bucha caper has been exposed… IMO, a distraction from the bio-weapons funded by the Uncle Sam going viral. In the age of videos….
The Emperor will try and try again..and he is tripping and tongue tied.
A combo of two articles from MSN and ZH. I have removed the two links as earlier today my post failed.
‘No offensive biologic weapons’ in Ukrainian biolabs US assisted, Pentagon says

There are no “offensive biologic weapons” in any of the dozens of biological labs in Ukraine that the United States has partnered with on safety precautions.
“The department remains very concerned about the ability to get accurate and transparent information out to the U.S. public, as well as certainly our allies and the rest of the world,” she said. “So one of the things that the department has been doing — and this is particularly related to the public health laboratories in Ukraine that is being tragically used by the Russians as a potential for a false flag operation — from the White House on down to the Defense Department, as well as Department of State, as well as all of the vehicles that we have to be able to communicate accurate information out about this and the work that has been underway.”
The Pentagon funds labs in Ukraine through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). According to a Pentagon fact sheet released last month, since 2005, the US has “invested” $200 million in “supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and diagnostic sites.”
[.]
For their part, the US maintains that the program in Ukraine and other former Soviet states is meant to reduce the threat of biological weapons left over from the Soviet Union. While downplaying the threat of the labs, Pentagon officials have also warned that they could still contain Soviet-era bioweapons.
Robert Pope, the director of the DTRA’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in February that the labs might contain Soviet bioweapons and warned that the fighting in Ukraine could lead to the release of a dangerous pathogen. [.]

Except the OPCW declared all Soviet chemical weapons destroyed.
And why was cookie Nuland so nervous during her testimony to Congress..stating her concern the contents would fall into Russian hands? It was for health, medical research eh?
ZH has more

The Biden administration has tried to portray any concerns about the labs as “Russian propaganda.” When the issue gained more media attention, Biden officials started accusing Moscow of plotting to use chemical or biological weapons, but the US hasn’t presented any evidence to back up its claims.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 3 2022 21:35 utc | 120

Testing. Post failed.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 3 2022 21:36 utc | 121

DunGroanin | Apr 3 2022 21:34 utc | 118
https://twitter.com/PresOfPakistan/status/1510709135205036035

Mr. Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi, shall continue as Prime Minister till the appointment of caretaker Prime Minister under Article 224 A (4) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
10:01 PM · Apr 3, 2022·Twitter for Android

Posted by: too scents | Apr 3 2022 21:40 utc | 122

Lucci @95–
I suggest bevin’s comment @97. Kaczynski said he would resign from his DPM position at the beginning of 2022, but now it’s April and he’s still in the government. Apparently, he’s quite unpopular and his Wiki casts him very unfavorably.
bevin @97–
The EU appears to have a very large stable of such donkeys who are used as pack animals to carry out the Empire’s chores. Their citizens need to open the corral’s gate, stampede them out and make them fend for themselves with the monies they’ve stolen.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 21:40 utc | 123

@james | Apr 3 2022 20:58 utc | 99
You are right, james. All kinds of schemes may be afoot. I don’t presume anything about the Twitter account or the exact explanation for what is shown. Nevertheless, as the time stamp of the (daylight) video purporting to show dead bodies in Bucha confirms below, it was posted at 20:07 GMT on April 1, 2020. Any timeline of events needs to take this into account.
https://oduwsdl.github.io/tweetedat/#1509985789404459011

Posted by: Emily Dickinson | Apr 3 2022 21:40 utc | 124

Americans should budget an extra $5,200 this year to cover rising prices, Bloomberg economists estimate
“Americans haven’t had to worry too much about factoring inflation into their budget for the past four decades. That’s changing in 2022.
The red-hot inflation expected to last throughout the year will leave the average US household spending $5,200 more compared to the year prior, Bloomberg economists Andrew Husby and Anna Wong said in a Tuesday article. That boils down to an extra $433 per month on the same goods and services as last year.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-cost-americans-5200-extra-food-gas-energy-prices-bloomberg-2022-3?op=1
Wonder if that includes the soaring cost of a place to live in Wonderland America now that the Hedge Fund Vultures and the likes of Jared Kushner are all in buying up residential property and jacking up rents 2 and 3 times what they were? Said disease is now spreading across North America. Thank you great sages, oh how wise you are.
Not sure food stamps, or EBT cards as it has been rebranded will come close to covering the losses for the financially stressed American. Those hardest hit by this convergence of greed and quest for domination, are people who live in countries that don’t have seemingly unlimited fiat creating capacity. Seemingly.. the Jury is out on that at this time.
Gasoline went up in my hood by another 8 cents per litre in the last 3 days. I’m not impressed. Mexico had to stop subsidizing gas prices in it’s northern states because the Yankees were coming down and buying it up in such volumes, supply for locals was endangered.
But our betters are sure standing with Nazi’s is a winning formula. Anything to beat Crazy Ivan and Win!! No matter the cost to the tired, the poor and the huddled masses.

Posted by: bubbles | Apr 3 2022 21:52 utc | 125

@Kadath #112:

But it did occur and many, many women were raped, I had several relatives who were raped by Soviet troops and one of my cousins was “fathered” that way.

How many of your relatives were raped by Soviet troops? What cities were they from? Did they attempt to file a complaint with Soviet military authorities? If yes, what was the result?

Posted by: S | Apr 3 2022 21:56 utc | 126

Were there bodies with tied hands and feet on the streets in Mariupol?
So there were bodies strewn everywhere in Bucha, but then, the perpetrators stopped to dig and cover a mass grave with parts sticking out so they could be easily located?
At the beginning of this Military Operation I wrote here that the Russians should have a videographer wherever they go.
Now in every single unsecured location the Russians were in, wadayuno, mass graves will suddenly mysteriously pop up.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 3 2022 21:58 utc | 127

I think if there has been a process of nazification in Ukraine one has to ask to what extent the rest of the NATO borderstates are undergoing the same process. A general anti-Russia indoctrination in the whole of Europe with a more militant version near the border.

Posted by: Tuyzentfloot | Apr 3 2022 21:58 utc | 128

Likklemore #68
Thank you. That is a sad tale of treachery at the highest level. One can only trust that the Russian political elite can keep the ship on course. The implications of this report of Helmer’s and the role/statements of Abramovitch and Medinsky (Putin’s culture and history tour guide) do not bode well.
To have betrayed all of those villagers by immediate withdrawal is gross disgrace for the Russian forces. All at the whim of an Oligarch that resides in Israel and Portugal!!
There is much more to this story to be told.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Apr 3 2022 22:11 utc | 129

apparently Orban is looking comfortably reelected in Hungary. He’s kindof a sh#t himself IMO, but his government’s extensive energy deal with Gazprom and Rosatom (unclear if EU wol kill the nuclear) is looking pretty smart in the current market.
If not for the sanctions fallout, the opposition bloc would’ve had probably their best chance to unseat him, after the bad Covid experience. First of many political consequences.

Posted by: ptb | Apr 3 2022 22:16 utc | 130

Posted by: Emily Dickinson | Apr 3 2022 20:17 utc | 92
The Russians claim that:
“Moreover, on March 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, confirmed in his video message that there were no Russian soldiers in the city, but did not even mention any local residents shot on the streets with their hands tied.”
So if that’s true, it still seems as if the killing rampage happened after the Russians had left town.

Posted by: D J G | Apr 3 2022 22:17 utc | 131

Emily Dickinson | Apr 3 2022 21:40 utc | 123
I had seen that video when it first appeared. Plenty of evidence of some sort of artillery strike in the area but zero evidence of military equipment. Apparently the side of Bucha closest to Kiev underwent a lot of random shelling. Also I could not see any white armbands or tape in that video. My thought is that is an area hit by a sudden multiple launch rocket strike or similar, quite likely after Russian forces had left the town.
Several days ago it also became illegal for Ukrainian citizens to post video of battle damage ect so now the only video that will be coming out of Ukraine now is official propaganda.
Also the twitter account looks be what is called an influencer. Official propaganda posing as private individual, something along the line of NED funded so called NGO’s, Bellingcrap ect.
Earlier on in this war I read a few articles in the MSM about these so called social media influencers being set up everywhere.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 3 2022 22:21 utc | 132

bubbles @124–
Many of us knew this Great Inflation was coming thanks to the massive Repo crisis in 2019 and continuation through 2020 and 2021 that reacted in tandem with Trump’s Trade War on China that disrupted global supply chains which remain dysfunctional and continues with Biden’s War on Russia. The only way to ease impact is to purchase basic commodities you know you’ll use over the next 2-3 years while cutting back on discretionary spending–travel, dining out and entertainment–and reducing as much as possible any variable rate debt indexed to the rate of inflation. Good luck on riding it out!

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 22:28 utc | 133

uncle tungsten | Apr 3 2022 22:11 utc | 128
It’s worth remembering what Putin said about traitors a few weeks back. The actual talks are a wast of time and going by the very low level Russia negotiators sent, the Russian leadership knows it a waste of time dealing with US minions. I think Erdogan views Crimea as part of the greater Turkey and has consistently worked against Russia when it comes to Ukraine.
I think Helmer has once again retreated into tinfoil hat land on this one.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 3 2022 22:35 utc | 134

Posted by: rico rose | Apr 3 2022 15:32 utc | 26
Thanks for your post from Berlin. I have reposted the pro Russian demonstration video:
https://t.me/intelslava/24288
Now the letter Z is criminalised too.
“Two German states have outlawed public displays of the letter “Z,” which has become synonymous with support for Russia’s war in Ukraine….”
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089229499/german-states-outlaw-z
Here are some more forbidden perspectives not permitted in the “free” world nor in the MSM:
“The 2022 Russo-Ukraine is also a proxy war between Russia and the Western world. We should be prepared for a decisive transfer of the balance of power from West to East…The bulk of the fighting is in the Donbas where there are few or no Western journalists….”
https://johnmenadue.com/cameron-leckie-a-decisive-transfer-of-the-balance-power-from-west-to-east/
“It’s About Restoring US Imperial Hegemony Over Europe, Breaking Russia As A Global Challenger To The US, And A Dress Rehearsal For Then Going After China…”
https://popularresistance.org/us-imperialisms-proxy-war-with-russia-in-ukraine/
The public are not sufficiently trusted to be able to make up their own minds based on the balance of available evidence.

Posted by: Paul | Apr 3 2022 22:36 utc | 135

From The Saker’s Nightvision:
“I decided to do an unscheduled update because we’re in the midst of a falseflag, which many have predicted. It’s already being called the new ‘Sbrenica Massacre’ in the western media with all the usual fully coordinated text-book Media-Intelligence-Military-Corporate-Industrial-Complex scripted execution where every attendant arm is firing on all cylinders to project the new narrative in order to predictably call for large-scale escalation. The official wiki entry has already been penned of course with the usual unresearched speculation and propaganda presented as fact.” [My Emphasis]
Dead giveaway, that Wiki entry. Time to crush the Donbass cauldron. Based on what I’ve seen of their performance, I’d employ hypersonics on those fortifications.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 22:38 utc | 136

karlof1 #93

Clearly, the man is a bigger fool than his boss. One of the stated reasons for Russia’s military operation was to ensure Ukraine didn’t gain nukes. Does this idiot really think Poland having nukes would aid deterrence?!? The best thing Poland can do for its security is to abandon NATO, which Russia will force it to do if it doesn’t.

Perhaps the Poles have a lead problem? I guess they may still use solder in their fruit and vegetable canning process. At this rate they will end up with at least something in common with Flint.
I do agree though the current Polish political crop are especially ignorant. Too much cool aid? Look what that did for Ursula von der Leyen.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Apr 3 2022 22:45 utc | 137

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 22:38 utc | 135
Hypersonics are preferably for NATO.
Need of around 12,000 Russian hypersonics for credible first strike conventional ability upon NATO military targets.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 3 2022 22:45 utc | 138

Hypothetical timeline:
March 30: Russian troops leave.
March 31: Bucha Mayor posts a video saying Russian troops left.
April 1: A “special group” (could be Ukrainian Nationalists, Georgian Nationalists, CIA, MI6, etc.*) enters Bucha, kills men wearing white armbands, and leaves.
April 2: Ukrainian troops enter Bucha, discover the carnage, call in journalists.
April 3: The “Russians did it” narrative is launched into overdrive.
* Recall the organizers and perpetrators of the Maidan massacre. There was one U.S. military officer (most likely working for CIA, but could also be an MI6 agent posing as an American), Georgian mercenaries hired by Georgian Nationalists, and Ukrainian Nationalists (sometimes Lithuanian Nationalists are also mentioned).

Posted by: S | Apr 3 2022 22:48 utc | 139

On Phase 2 by John Helmer
For the good news by Yevgeny Krutikov, Daria Volkova, and Alyona Zadorozhnaya. Moscow – translated by John Helmer, Moscow, see this:
“Large units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass will be cut into pieces, and then destroyed.”
This is a good read with excellent supporting maps.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Apr 3 2022 22:54 utc | 140

Stuck in MoA traffic.
So, we see reports that the US holds over 8,000 tons of gold, and Russia has 2200 tons of gold, but do we know, really? Who does know?
Long gone those purported 8,000 tonnes at Fort Knox. In the 1990s western countries were selling and/or leasing their gold reserves. UK’s Gordon Brown, Canada, etc. When Germany tried to repatriate its gold from NY, the reply was we can do so over 7 years….8,000 tonnes but not enough to deliver 370 tonnes. !!?
Russia and China are the world’s largest gold producers No: 1 and 2 in that order. They have been stockpiling for decades. Mirroring the U.S. BLS‘ figures, one should not rely on countries’ declared gold reserves. Some 5 years ago traders at the highest echelon where it is offered China holds north of 20,000 tonnes and Russia at over 12,000 tonnes.
= = = = =
The B in the BRICS news release. [BRICS = Brazil Russia India China anchors the new financial order.] Note the date!
Brazil central bank quadruples exposure to Chinese yuan
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-central-bank-quadruples-exposure-chinese-yuan-2022-03-31/?s=0
+ + +
Found elsewhere –
“We will develop relations with our strategic partners among BRICS countries in the domains of commerce, scientific and technical cooperation, diplomacy, creation of the Development Bank and implementation of the treaty on currency reserve pool”
JAIR BOLSONARO
President of Brazil
Good to read Jair’s on board with BRICS. US has been pressuring.
= = = = =
@ Tom_12 74
@ ptb 77
@ uncle tungsten 128
It’s convoluted. Oligarchs are doing what’s best for their wallets. Shed no tears for Abramovich. There are 20 bidders for his Chelsea Football – a tidy sum of $3.5 billion.
It is posited the West did Putin a big favour. Recall how Russia and Ukraine was looted in the 1990s. Where is Jeffry Sacks?
= = = = = = =
@ pessimist 98
You are very welcome. There are a few more videos to post. Such a tragedy. There is a special place reserved for those who choose to ignore.
And the Biden family. Oh my. How long will he remain the WH tenant?
The Grand Jury sittings probing son Hunter…the laptop from Hell……emails and the money trail.
Imho, there is a Spiro Agnew moment due. History not only rhymes.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 3 2022 22:55 utc | 141

Re: 125 , “S”
“How many of your relatives were raped by Soviet troops? – my great Aunt and her two daughters on my paternal grandmother’s side (Her husband was also beaten),
“What cities were they from?” – My parents still have the family diary, it list the city they were fleeing from there. They were ethnic Germans in Eastern Germany (current day Poland), they were among the last people to leave the village before the Soviet advance, the Soviets caught up with them on the road where the rape and robbery occurred.
Did they attempt to file a complaint with Soviet military authorities? If yes, what was the result?” – No, they didn’t file a report, also the Soviet troops didn’t leave a receipt for the horse, buggy and luggage they stole (oh I mean “requisitioned”) after they raped the women.

Posted by: Kadath | Apr 3 2022 23:11 utc | 142

Cont’d from #138
Russian journalist and Deputy Speaker of Moscow City Duma Andrey Medvedev thinks Bucha (pronounced BOO-cha) was chosen as the site of the false flag because it is homophonous with “butcher”. In his view, such sophistication suggests that the false flag was planned by CIA/MI6, not Ukrainian Nationalists.
Another, simpler theoretical timeline is Ukrainian troops entering Bucha on April 2, killing men wearing white armbands, then immediately calling in journalists. (The photo taken on April 1 could be showing a victim of shelling, unrelated to the false flag.) This simpler version is supported by the presence of white armbands, showing a lack of careful planning and suggesting that the false flag was improvised by Ukrainian Nationalists.

Posted by: S | Apr 3 2022 23:13 utc | 143

uncle tungsten @136–
There’s likely some of that, but it all seems to be concentrated in the elites. Perhaps there’s something at the schools they attend that causes such debilitation.
Greg Galloway @137–I’d use them to create a breech in the fortifications similar to what heavy artillery would try to do, but these are being referred to as extremely formidable thus the need for a more powerful weapon.
Likklemore @140–
Bolsonaro is proving to be more of a nationalist, plus he’s going to face Lula for reelection, which is actually his card against the Empire since it doesn’t want Lula. Brazil has lots of deep water oil and other resources to back its currency. If Mercosur cold be reformed and expanded, Brazil’s currency could become the regional trading vehicle instead of the dollar.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 23:25 utc | 144

Not seeing much about Yemen.
Seems a big deal.
I sense Russia is causing a ripple in the globalist fabric that holds the world captive in violence and servitude.
Was Brexit preparation for war with Russia and China?
Seems the west has a long standing nazi problem.

Posted by: jared | Apr 3 2022 23:32 utc | 145

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 3 2022 22:55 utc | 140
“..And the Biden family. Oh my. How long will he remain the WH tenant? The Grand Jury sittings probing son Hunter…the laptop from Hell……emails and the money trail. …”
Forget criminalizing his son and brother….for the crimes committed in Ukraine, in China or anywhere…. Still remember our Democrat Bill Clinton pardon the Swiss fugitive financier Marc Rich and his half brother… Roger in Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal. Let’s not kid ourselves the Biden administration will turn out to be most corrupted and evils since the founding of the republic,….

Posted by: JC | Apr 3 2022 23:37 utc | 146

This is a very interesting read, “NATO´s internal gold war”, which is about EU nations’s gold “stored” at the Bank of England. A small nugget:
“Very recently Germany had to wait 5 long years to forcefully and painfully repatriate only a portion of its gold from the BoE and never got back any of the gold bars originally deposited, which clearly explains the delay.” [My Emphasis]
Since we know the Anglos and Americans are Outlaws, I’ll bet the BoE has very little EU gold as it’s likely been squirrelled away by the Fascist Queen and used to bribe others.

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 23:39 utc | 147

ASB Military News, [03/04/2022 14:20]
German food retailers announced they will raise prices by minimum 20 to maximum of 50 percent on Monday — German Retail Association
https://t.me/asbmil/969

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 3 2022 23:41 utc | 148

The western press, following the presentations by Ukraine officials, has today really cranked up the alleged Russian atrocity angle – from widespread targeted rapes to buses filled with children serving as human shields:
‘They were all shot’: Russia accused of war crimes as Bucha reveals horror of invasion
Ukrainian forces liberating the town near Kyiv find streets littered with corpses of civilians and burned-out Russian tanks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/they-were-all-shot-russia-accused-of-war-crimes-as-bucha-reveals-horror-of-invasion
Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges
Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/all-wars-are-like-this-used-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine
Obviously it is highly irresponsible to run such emotionally-charged and inflammatory news stories which lack verification and follow on a pattern of wartime propaganda and false presentations by Ukraine over past month. This represents a brutal new low for the western legacy media, and constitutes a sort of bludgeoning manipulation of their readership which requires condemnation.

Posted by: jayc | Apr 3 2022 23:45 utc | 149

3 in 10 food companies in Belgium reducing or stopping production

Posted by: c1ue | Apr 3 2022 23:55 utc | 150

I’m in a bit of a rush today so I haven’t had time to check everywhere to see if anyone else has posted about the details of the amerikan conspiracy against him which Imran Khan released a few hours ago.
None of the reports of this out of Pakistan come from sympathetic media as Imran’s work in protecting Pakistanis from the depredations gangsters have previously imposed play well with the corporate media.
Imran has provided details of a letter from amerikan Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia (or somesuch) Donald Lu bailed up the outgoing Pakistan Ambassador to Washington with. According to G Galloway a similar letter was sent to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari leader of the Pakistan People’s Party and Shehbaz Sharif leader of the Pakistan Muslim League. Bhutto & Sharif may sound familiar to readers as they are the family names of the alternating gangs of thieves who ran Pakistan from partition up until the people who had enough of corruption voted for Imran Khan. Apart from a couple of military coups instigated by amerika to keep the crooks concentrating. Both of these family gangs also kept themselves at amerika’s beck & call or else. A bit like Australian politicians have behaved since the coup against the Whitlam government.
Even Dawn articles disclose some details of the amerikan conspiracy against Imran. For those who don’t know Dawn is the unofficial organ of Bhutto’s PPP mob. The Sharif mob normally communicate in Urdu rather than english so I don’t know what their propaganda is about yet.
Donald Lu told his satraps that until Pakistan rids itself of Imran amerika will not look upon Pakistan as an ally.
This means kickbacks and payoffs to Pakistani pols are under threat as well as the billions in bribes amerika hands out to Pakistan’s military officers.
Still I’m hopeful thst Imran will prevail in the election as it may have caught amerika off guard. Otherwise a prepared amerikan intelligence will be throwing kazillions at opposition parties, cranking up social media & doing their usual victory by assassination.
This will be the PRC’s big opportunity to kick amerika out of one of its neighbours. We shall see.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Apr 3 2022 23:55 utc | 151

Just heard that Orban’s party crushed the opposition in Hungary. Interesting times…

Posted by: the pessimist | Apr 3 2022 23:58 utc | 152

@Kadath #141
Thank you for telling this very traumatic story. I am Russian, and I am sorry that this happened to your relatives. Is there a project gathering these testimonies in one place? There should be, and it should be translated into Russian, because many Russians either entirely dismiss or minimize the allegations of mass rape.

Posted by: S | Apr 3 2022 23:59 utc | 153

Russia is responding to actions of war, not diplomacy. Maybe you should start thinking about what is happening in those terms and relieve your mind of the delusion that Germany is somehow going to sue Russia to start providing gas.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 3 2022 17:22 utc | 56
Don’t be so sure what Germany might – or might not – do.
At the beginning of the year Germany complained that Gazprom-operated gas storage facilities were quite empty, and Gazprom stated that it would not deliver and store gas that wasn’t ordered. It had actually delivered more gas last year than it had been contractually obliged to.
Then Germany passed a law requiring the owners of gas storage facilities to fill their storage to 90% by start of the heating period in October. This was directed at Gazprom specifically, as storage facilities not operated by Gazprom were full at the start of the heating period. It seems that the buyers of the cheap Russian gas had decided to sell their gas on the spot markets, hence the Gazprom storage was depleted…
Maybe just an attempt to ensure that enough gas is available. Maybe not.
I can see why Gazprom decided to quit – but that doesn’t mean Germany won’t find a pretext to sue.

Posted by: Martina | Apr 4 2022 0:13 utc | 154

Bucha:
I saw comments elsewhere that Russia abandoned pro Russian civilians to be murdered by the Ukranazis at Bucha.
There’s really no evidence that the murdered people – assuming more than a few were killed, for which there is no evidence- were actually pro Russia or anything except being the victims of the same mindset which is making the Ukranazis murder people in Kiev and elsewhere. It isn’t hard to put a white armband on a corpse and anyone not brain dead would have taken it off 3 days after the Russian withdrawal.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayast | Apr 4 2022 0:15 utc | 155

Martina | Apr 4 2022 0:13 utc | 153
I think the way things are set up now, the only place Germany could sue Gazprom is in a Russian court. Anything else is meaningless. Germany pays for gas in rubles or destroys its economy and go cold and hungry next winter.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 0:24 utc | 156

@ Martina | Apr 4 2022 0:13 utc | 153 with the follow on about Gazprom in Germany
The point I keep trying to make about lawsuits is they are a form of diplomacy and the interaction between Russia and empire has gone past diplomacy….some potential lawsuits may be resolved in an “end-of-the-war-settlement”.
The world/Russia is not going to stop and wait while some lawsuit winds its way through an as yet to be identified judicial body that could adjudicate and enforce decisions made…….

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 4 2022 0:24 utc | 157

bubbles @ 124 said;”But our betters are sure standing with Nazi’s is a winning formula. Anything to beat Crazy Ivan and Win!! No matter the cost to the tired, the poor and the huddled masses.”
Absolutely..

Posted by: vetinLA | Apr 4 2022 0:30 utc | 158

Article from Grey Zone;
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/01/war-us-weaponized-ukraine-russia/
“Since the US-engineered 2013-14 coup in Ukraine, American forces have taught Ukrainians, including neo-Nazi units, how to fight in urban and other civilian areas. Weaponizing Ukraine is part of Washington’s quest for what the Pentagon calls “full spectrum dominance.”

Posted by: vetinLA | Apr 4 2022 0:36 utc | 159

@ Emily Dickinson | Apr 3 2022 21:40 utc | 123
thanks emily… looks like they are trying to run a false flag up the pole… i will wait and see how it shakes out, but that is my first impression..
ditto @ : Peter AU1 | Apr 3 2022 22:21 utc | 131 and @ S | Apr 3 2022 22:48 utc | 138 – thanks peter and s….
headline : Zelensky can offer Russia sanctions relief for peace, US says
isn’t that nice of the usa to put those words in zelenskys mouth…it’s so generous of them! problem is they are all full of shite!

Posted by: james | Apr 4 2022 0:42 utc | 160

Such news as posted by Clue and others reaffirms that at least in Europe time runs out this summer.
In response the US & their lackeys will continue to do stupid things and will be annihilated in some form or another thus freeing Europe to realign and/or cut ties according to popular demand or revolt.
The alternative is for the US to stand down and back out so as to not continue to lose or to avoid disappearing entirely, but there’s no indication of that so far, not even the slightest.
Fait accompli then?

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Apr 4 2022 0:47 utc | 161

I give my very highest recommendation to Galzyev’s long article/interview that might have been previously linked but for which there’s zero discussion. It covers a lot of ground and does give a good description of what the new international currency will look like and be backed by. There’s also a long historical revue interwoven with the narrative some will be shocked to read, while others sat Right On!

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 4 2022 0:50 utc | 162

Anyone who wouldn’t question whether “dead” bodies would be lined up purely for cameras is someone who likes being lied to. They take comfort in the TV giving them balm for their feelings run amok.
Whether it was a setup? I don’t know. I do know there is a misinformation campaign going on at it is in high gear. The outlets showing this have been caught lying again and again and agin for years. So If you are one to see a video then say ‘yea, see!’ you are part of the problem.

Posted by: Corsair66 | Apr 4 2022 0:53 utc | 163

JC | Apr 3 2022 23:37 utc | 145
-Let’s not kid ourselves the Biden administration will turn out to be most corrupted and evils since the founding of the republic,….
Joe is the lucky one- he is heading the way of my mother-in-law. Returning into infancy. He’ll escape judgement at the moment – I wonder if he will be presented as a babbling idiot or a cunning crook at the final judgement.

Posted by: Anne B | Apr 4 2022 0:59 utc | 164

It’s convoluted. Oligarchs are doing what’s best for their wallets.
END GAME
Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 3 2022 22:55 utc | 140

Convoluted??? Are you effing kidding me?! You post an article alleging that Abramovich, that Zionist shill, was immediately representing Putin at the recent negotiations in Turkey, and that he was key to the Kiev retreat, and that Putin capitulated via Abramovich and you coin it simply c o n v o l u t e d?
Convoluted, my ass! What’s really going on here? This is War; people are dying. Sons, brothers, husbands, fathers are dying. Russia has been hit with a tsunami of economic hurt, and Abramovich is now Putin’s representative, responsible for critical, sensitive negotiations? I don’t give a damn if it’s a sideshow or not. Of course now with Abramovich in the thick of it, supposedly with Putin’s blessing, it really is a carnival sideshow!
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Russian retreat from Kiev, planned or not. I was actually going to write a comment on that before you posted that article. Now, instead I’m writing this!
I was also going to post on the Kiev retreat, because I was surprised that Richard Steven Hack decided to quit the whole Ukraine SMO issue and cease commenting. I think I’m no longer surprised.
After reading that article, all I want to do is take a shower and cleanse my mind!
Now, my whole thought process regarding the retreat from Kiev is in the dustbin, because this shit about Abramovich reporting directly from Putin is blowing my mind.
Here’s what I would like to see: b, Saker and Martynov address the retreat from Kiev in the context of Abramovich’s presence at the negotiating table as appointed by Putin. Abramovich associated with the Kiev retreat, or with any concession whatsoever DIRTIES everything. What on earth was Putin thinking?
This discussion is definitely not over.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 1:05 utc | 165

The Bucha false flag is now being used by Ukrainian politicians to call for mass killing of Russians. Boris Filatov, the Mayor of Dnipro, has posted the following on his Facebook (h/t Rodion Miroshnik):

…
Now we have the full moral right to calmly, with an absolutely clear mind, kill these inhumans across the entire world, for an unlimited period of time, in unlimited quantities.
…

At the time the screenshot was made, the post was liked by more than 20,000 people.

Posted by: S | Apr 4 2022 1:08 utc | 166

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 3 2022 16:10 utc | 38
Thanks very much, Peter!

Posted by: juliania | Apr 4 2022 1:09 utc | 167

@Kadath #141
Very sorry for your family and fellow citizens hurt by these atrocities. 🙁
Hope this healed somehow with time being the greatest doctor in these cases …
Peace to you and them.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 4 2022 1:11 utc | 168

S@152 and kadath.
Perhaps you misunderstood my point? Rape, unhappily, is endemic in wartime. There is no doubt that there were rapists in the Red Army, but this was equally true of the British and US forces . I believe that Naples was very bad, for example.
But the Red Army, like the PLA, was significantly less likely to condone rapists than armies in which the doctrine was to intimidate and terrorise the population, desiring their fear rather than their goodwill. This was notoriously the case with the Wehrmacht in the war which was indoctrinated with ‘master race’ theories.
As to which the Vietnamese like those in the former British colonies could tell tales.
I was referring specifically to anti-communist propaganda against the Red Army, having heard it all my life and having heard it again recently from a Dane and a Canadian with Ukrainian nationalist roots.
Atrocity stories are intended not to sensitise us to the feelings of victims but to motivate us to condone the commission of crimes by ‘our’ forces.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 4 2022 1:11 utc | 169

Forget criminalizing his son and brother….for the crimes committed in Ukraine, in China or anywhere…. Still remember our Democrat Bill Clinton pardon the Swiss fugitive financier Marc Rich and his half brother… Roger in Whitewater business partner Susan McDougal. Let’s not kid ourselves.
Posted by: JC | Apr 3 2022 23:37 utc | 145
Yes, a president may pardon citizens. Will Joe pardon himself?
Spiro Agnew was VP. 1969-1973

Agnew’s downfall began in the summer of 1973, when he was investigated in connection with accusations of extortion, bribery, and income-tax violations relating chiefly to his tenure as governor of Maryland.
[.]Agnew resigned the vice presidency on October 10, 1973, and appeared in United States District Court in Baltimore on the same day to plead nolo contendere to a single federal count of failing to report on his income-tax return $29,500 in income that he had received in 1967, while governor of Maryland. Acknowledging that the plea amounted to a felony conviction, Agnew declared that he had resigned in the national interest. [.]

Should the grand jury probe end in indictments of Hunter and the emails reveal and or confirm facts, the population’s support will be decimated. It will be a hard stretch to believe Dad remained unaware when he was VP and or after he left office. Hunter’s two business partners have flipped, testified before the grand jury.
ZH citing CBS News:

[ ] According to records reviewed by CBS along with congressional documents, the feds are looking at “multiple financial transactions involving an energy company called CEFC.
Republicans accuse the business of being an arm of the Chinese government. In 2017, the year Joe Biden left the Vice Presidency, a $1 million retainer was signed with a Chinese energy company for Hunter Biden’s services as a lawyer.
His client, a CEFC official, Patrick Ho, was later convicted on international bribery and money laundering charges on unrelated work in Africa.”[.]
For those who’ve been keeping up with our reporting since October when the Hunter Biden laptop story broke (and was immediately suppressed by the media), CEFC was the company that the Bidens allegedly accepted a $5 million interest-free loan that enraged their business partner, Tony Bobulinski – who flipped on the Bidens following a Senate report which revealed the $5 million ‘loan.’
According to the former Biden insider, he was introduced to Joe Biden by Hunter, and they had an hour-long meeting where they discussed the Biden’s business plans with the Chinese, with which he says Joe was “plainly familiar at least at a high level.”
Text messages from Bobulinski also reveal an effort to conceal Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter’s business dealings, while Tony has also confirmed that the “Big guy” described in a leaked email is none other than Joe Biden himself.
[.] original emphasis.
Source: ZH . March 31, 2022 09:46 AM –“Two Hunter Biden Associates Testified Before Grand Jury PLA-Linked Chinese Company”

A Chinese Company. Add Burisma Gas, Ukraine….what will be found there by the Russians?
71% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. Senator Rand Paul stated Biden is a national security risk and clearly the man mis-speaks. Imagine a president being considered a national security risk.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 4 2022 1:13 utc | 170

I can see why Gazprom decided to quit – but that doesn’t mean Germany won’t find a pretext to sue.
Posted by: Martina | Apr 4 2022 0:13 utc | 153
Easy: they just have to go to Canossa (see that word in Wiki), be very polite, spend 3 days kneeling in the courtyard then be admitted to pay gas in Rubles, then say thank you, then goodbye on your way back home.
Alternatively they might choose the highway to hell.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Apr 4 2022 1:19 utc | 171

According to the latest news both of the Presidents accused by their opponents and NATO politicians of being “soft” on Russia and ready to compromise for peace, one in Serbia, the other on the Ukrainian border in Hungary, have won easy re-election.
The most likely result of which will be to embolden them further in their defiance of NSTO diktats.
And, even more important, the attempt to replace Imran Khan with one of the corrupt pro-American politicians and the Army, appears to have suffered a setback.
Those who persist in the belief that the NATO/Imperialists have won the ‘information war’ are ignoring the reality that, most of the world have heard it all before. Ad nauseam.

Posted by: bevin | Apr 4 2022 1:25 utc | 172

S@125 (about soviet soldiers raping german women)
“Did they attempt to file a complaint with Soviet military authorities?”
For real, are you frikin kiddin me?

Posted by: Ricky | Apr 4 2022 1:32 utc | 173

In Syria the white helmets would have people they had killed plus actors to play the part of survivors. Bucha appears to have a combination of genuine dead people plus actors.
Just watched the video full screen that Russian mod and MFA had on their telegram account. Played at full speed and full screen the complete arm can be seen lifting from the road and the laying across the actors body. Playing it very slow or frame by frame only the blur of the had can be seen. Could also be someone injured and just left to die.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 1:46 utc | 174

Re: S, @152
Thank you, as my grandmother would say those years (1920 to 1947) were a cataclysm, our family had been scattered all over Eastern Europe (we are a mix of French/German/Polish/Ukrainian/Russian, my grandmother could speak 5 languages and 2 dialects) before the start of the war from all of the crises after WW1, and by the end of WW2, our family tree wasn’t even a bush, my grandmother had 8 siblings before the war and only 2 sisters after it!
The current crop of politicians in Europe don’t remember or even care how terrible that war really was, so they act so arrogantly and recklessly towards the Russians, as if their concerns are foolish. Looking at how the Americans/NATO and their lackeys have treated the Iraqis, the Afghanis, the Libyans and the people of the Donetsk and Lugansk, the Russians have every reason to be concerned. The way the Western Ukrainians are treating the Eastern Ukrainians (who I’m certain will never accept being part of Ukraine ever again) really makes my blood boil as it reminds me of how terrible the war was in our family history. My grandfather told me of walking past isolated villages in Russia where dozens of people had been shot by the road by the 5th Army and their bodies were still there as late as 1947 because things were so bad they couldn’t organize burial details.
Wars are bad enough as is, but supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine to restart ethnic conflict in hopes of weakening Russia, is utter madness and it will blow back on these fools in ways they can not control, even though they are completely obvious and should be expected. For example, allowing Neo-Nazis to fester in Ukraine will “bleed” into Poland and from there into Germany; there were many post-WW2 injustices inflicted on Germany by the allies, that Brussels and current German establishment refuse to address, because it would require skillful political leadership (i.e. not the EU strong point) to do so without upsetting the US, France & other EU members. A strengthening of the Neo-Nazis movement within Germany, would revitalize rightist political thought enough to force these issues to the fore which could then blow the EU project apart (note: I don’t mean that Neo-Nazis will necessary seize control of Germany, only that Germany will be forced to address previously untouchable subjects and the EU doesn’t have the skill to deal with this).
We can already see that Poland is eyeing Lviv (this territory was forcibly taken from Poland in 1939 and given to Ukraine – and many Poles still want it back, heck my Aunt still remembers the invasion and being forced to leave our village). How will the EU or NATO deal with the crisis if Poland tries to seize Lviv back with troops and Russia tries to stop them. This is utter madness

Posted by: Kadath | Apr 4 2022 1:50 utc | 175

Bolsonaro is proving to be more of a nationalist, plus he’s going to face Lula for reelection, which is actually his card against the Empire since it doesn’t want Lula.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 23:25 utc | 143
We have clients in Brazil. Bolsonaro is up for re-election. (October 2, 2022). loved by the elites. He is in poor health, twice hospitalized in January and 6 days ago.
Country already in campaign mode. Lula holds a big lead Feb. 21 polls has Lula 42% Bolsonaro 28% and Moro the third candidate just withdrew.
Lula was president from 2003-2010. The Supreme Court found he was framed, [Carwash scandal] and his conviction overturned.
Lula is a strong supporter of BRICS and he was one of the authors of BRICS leading a multipolar world order. Considering the new financial landscape, watch Mercosur.

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 4 2022 1:51 utc | 176

@ karlof1 | Apr 4 2022 0:50 utc | 161 with the link to the long Galzyev interview
Below is a quote from it I found most descriptive

How do you see the world after the disappearance of the dollar monopoly?
– We are currently working on a project for an international treaty on the introduction of a new world settlement currency pegged to the national currencies of the participating countries and to exchange commodities that determine real values. We won’t need American and European banks. A new payment system based on modern digital technologies with blockchain is developing in the world, where banks lose their importance. Classical capitalism based on private banks is fading away. International law is being restored. All key international relations, including the issuance of world currency circulation, begin to form on the basis of agreements. At the same time, the significance of national sovereignty is being restored, because sovereign countries are coming to an agreement. The basis of global economic cooperation is joint investment in order to improve the well-being of peoples. Trade liberalization ceases to be some kind of priority, national priorities are respected, each state builds such a system for protecting the internal market and its economic space that it considers necessary. That is, the era of liberal globalization is over. Before our eyes, a new world economic structure is being formed – an integral one, in which some states and private banks lose their private monopoly on the issue of money, on the use of military force, and so on.

I also liked that he laid out the sickness of the Trans Pacific Partnership that would have given corporations power over nations….may it stay dead/dying
What he didn’t say and is the nut that backed the UK out of the EU is about financial transparency and accounting commonalities.
I liked to read

All countries that participate in the creation of a new accounting currency should be entitled to the presence of their national currency in this basket. And the common currency is formed as an index, as a weighted average component of these national currencies. Well, to this we must add, from my point of view, commodities: not only gold, but also oil, and metal, and grain, and water. A sort of commodity harness, which, according to our estimates, should include about 20 goods. They, in fact, form world price proportions and therefore must participate in the basket for the formation of a new accounting currency. And an international treaty is needed, which will determine the rules for the circulation of this currency and create an organization like the International Monetary Fund.

This supports what I believe could be a financial system/monetary base that is flexible but hard to manipulate by the shit show of our world

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 4 2022 1:55 utc | 177

On ‘Jews’.
The Aussies should appoint this guy PM and kick out that ASPI ‘think tank’, the bywork for ‘foreign influence‘ LOL
If Zelensky had this advisor, Ukraine wouldnt be in such mess.
Ditto for the EUROs, especially the Germans.

A mutually beneficial relationship with China could offer [ ] necessary maneuverability to finally break free from the control of the United States.

[1]
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On China’s natural enemy…
That FUKUS led blue blood ‘aristocratic’ class , since the days of ENA…

https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*wL23i4eSM9rEzU9y.png
[2]
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oN TAM…
Meet Gene Sharp.
The pioneer of ‘Swarming adolescence‘ ,
aka bloodless coup d’etat. [3]
[1]
https://visionmag.org/israel-must-resist-us-pressure-china/
[2]
https://medium.com/@bobbyarlan/a-reddit-ama-claiming-to-be-a-uiyghur-quickly-exposes-a-cia-asset-slandering-china-1d667c098b77
[3]
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/richard-poe/how-the-british-invented-color-revolutions/

Posted by: denk | Apr 4 2022 1:55 utc | 178

Circe | Apr 4 2022 1:05 utc | 164 “Now, my whole thought process regarding the retreat from Kiev is in the dustbin, because this shit about Abramovich reporting directly from Putin is blowing my mind.”
So Putin puts his trust in an oligarch that keeps his money offshore?
Erdogan’s Turkey has recently welcomed Russian oligarchs. This is far more likely to be Erdo playing games.
Helmer is very erratic. Sometimes he has solidly linked and documented pieces, other times its like something he has seen in a narcotic induced dream.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 2:02 utc | 179

Finished watching last night a Czech film entitled “Coach to Vienna / Kocár do Vídne (1966)” which gives a fictional document of the atrocities committed by all sides . According to personal accounts in this film, yes, the Russian soldiers too were not saints when it came to the realities of actual war. Actual war is a condition of barbarity, and drags its participants down into the miasma.

Posted by: Geoff | Apr 4 2022 2:06 utc | 180

karlof1 | Apr 4 2022 0:50 utc | 161
I read that some days back. I guess I more just try and keep an overview of the way international economy, trade and other relations are headed re the multipolar world. That looks to be taking shape led by Russia China and India and behind them the smaller but not unimportant economic players, Brazil, Iran, Turkey ect.
In that, there is Turkey playing both sides to create its Turkic and Sunni Muslim sphere and India playing five-eyes against China.
Military power is what will allow the new multipolar world to take shape and grow, the new trade and economic system to take shape and grow and at the moment it is Russia doing all the heavy lifting in that regard.
I take this as WWIII though as yet a hybrid war (and hopefully it will be limited to that), very much about anglo dominance with Europe being the loyal house nigger/slave.
From what I can see, poor countries that rely on food imports will suffer major collateral damage. Once again as a major food exporter, Russia is doing the heavy lifting and giving major discounts on food to these countries.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 2:39 utc | 181

denk | Apr 4 2022 1:55 utc | 177 “That FUKUS led blue blood ‘aristocratic’ class , since the days of ENA…”
The blue bloods… arises from eating from a silver spoon and drinking from a silver cup. Silver accumulates in the system and turns the skin blue. Literally. No doubt the blue blood class have moved to gold these days for their eating utensils though the Americans seem to like their grow light suntans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 2:49 utc | 182

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 1:05 utc | 164
I read that Abramovich was necessary as a trusted go between,for the powerful Jewish contingent in Lviv.

Posted by: Kim | Apr 4 2022 2:53 utc | 183

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 3 2022 21:04 utc | 103
My most sincere hope is that the Russia, China and the global south can save the UN and establish it in its rightful place. Agreed that it’s not a “world government”, that’s US internal propaganda to discredit the institution for the purpose of manipulating the institution.
I’ve been having a kooky fantasy of relocating UN headquarters to Afghanistan. An ancient crossroads of Eurasia, and perhaps a multiplier for developing Afghanistan rapidly in that the UN location would replace the corrupt US aid economy fairly seamlessly. I also wonder if it might help return the nation’s religious expression to the moderate forms it was known for prior to the US/Saudi/ISI project of the 70’s and 80’s.
How would you propose to reform the UNSC? I’d like to think that a veto process is unnecessary but fear a check of some sort is needed. Can the UNSC work with no permanent members? Or maybe it needs more permanent members and a requirement for consensus rather than the negation by veto process. I’d favor a reform that positions the UNSC less as a decision making body and more as one that undertakes the security aspects of general assembly decisions with the UNSC decisions being A. consensus and B. approved by the general assembly prior to implementation.

Posted by: Lex | Apr 4 2022 2:57 utc | 184

Peter Hitchens continues the amazing feat of practicing journalism in a mainstream publication.
This is not a war between Ukraine and Russia. It is a war between the USA and Russia, in which both sides are cynically using Ukraine as a battering ram.
The people of Ukraine will gain nothing and lose much from being treated in this way. They fight and die or lose their homes and flee. We pour in more weapons and shout encouragement from a safe distance. Russia wrecks the joint.
What Ukraine actually needs is action to cure its festering, universal corruption. It would also benefit from the pushing to the margins of the ultra-nationalist fanatics who have far too much influence in its government and armed forces. The war will make these problems worse, not better.
As I once again find myself on the despised, hated and reviled side of the argument, I might as well do this properly. These are very cynical events indeed. I am sorry to say that there are people in the USA who will not be sad if this war drags on.
A ‘senior diplomat’ was quoted on Friday, by a commentator with ready access to the great and the good, as saying: ‘If you look at all the options, our strategic interest is probably best served in a long war, a quagmire that drains Putin militarily and economically so he cannot do this again.’…

Posted by: farm ecologist | Apr 4 2022 2:59 utc | 185

I’ve been having a kooky fantasy of relocating UN headquarters to Afghanistan. [snip}
Posted by: Lex | Apr 4 2022 2:57 utc | 183

An excellent suggestion! For family reasons I’d prefer somewhere in Laos, but I think all people of good will would agree that NYC is a terrible and disastrous place for UN HQ.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 4 2022 3:06 utc | 186

Helmer is very erratic. Sometimes he has solidly linked and documented pieces, other times its like something he has seen in a narcotic induced dream.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 2:02 utc | 178

Is this solid enough for you?:
Statement from Sergei Obukhov
Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation:

“An extremely significant role, as can be seen from the TV footage and media publications,” Obukhov retorted, “was played by the oligarch R[oman] Abramovich in the ‘negotiations’. As a result, experts have even started talking about the ‘Medinsky-Abramovich conspiracy’, and the negotiations themselves have been called the ‘operation to save Abramovich’.
Text of Obukhov’s March 30 letter to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; source: https://t.me/boris_rozhin/38170
“Taking into account yesterday’s information storm,” Obukhov noted “the reaction of Russian society to capitulation. We must not forget about the possibility of betrayal by the elites in the event of surrender. And about splitting tendencies in this case. One way or another, the Kremlin has now got the opportunity to assess the consequences of the implementation of the collective Abramovich ‘wish’ in a relatively soft version of this reaction… the ‘peace process’ in the Medinsky-Abramovich version looks like a complete and unconditional surrender of Russia… In this regard, the question arises as to who authorized this Medinsky to make statements which have brought obvious and significant damage to the national and state interests of Russia? Well, we are waiting for the public reaction of the President, which, quite possibly, will follow today.”
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, responded that Abramovich was an unofficial participant in the Istanbul talks who had been authorized in advance by both Putin and Zelensky, and who had been active in this role for some time. “Roman Abramovich is involved in ensuring certain contacts between the Russian and Ukrainian sides, and he is not an official member of the delegation. You know that our delegation is headed by Presidential Assistant [Vladimir] Medinsky; nevertheless, from our side, he [Abramovich] is present at the negotiating table,” Peskov explained.

Total, complete dodge by Peskov!
This whole story surrounding Abramovich’s presence during negotiations on the Kiev retreat concession has legs. I hate it. It doesn’t smell right. It’s infuriating and it’s not over. Abramovich should stay permanently in Israel, Portugal, the Riviera or wherever else he wants to escape to for fair weather!
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Have you seen the Russian video response on the Bucha massacre?
Bucha
Not sure it will be enough for the West Court of Public Opinion that has already condemned, sentenced and put Russia on the gallows.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 3:07 utc | 187

By lucky chance, my mother in law ended was under the protection of Zhukov at the end of WW2. She speaks highly of HIS honour and his troops discipline. When she went to town, she had soldiers escort her with official letters indicating Zhukov‘s protection. Malicious soldiers were quickly moved on upon reviewing Zhukov’s letters of protection.
Rape was real. All parties to the war did it. Some less and some more than others.
That said, I believe Russia is justified in her actions not in Ukraine. We have to hope that hormones do not effect military personnel too much.

Posted by: Perun Neckarskaya | Apr 4 2022 3:11 utc | 188

Geoff | Apr 4 2022 2:06 utc | 179 and others posting on this subject
War is war. Perhaps there is some rules of war in some upper echelons, I know I read something about soviet orders to treat civilians humanely. For the average soviet soldier.. by the time they reached Germany, how many friends and family had they seen killed? How long did they expect to live. Germany went into the Soviet Union the Same way Britannia went into America Canada Australia New Zealand. To take the land, the inhabitants were nothing more than pests to be eradicated. German women getting shagged got of lightly compared to soviet women as the Germans retreated out of Soviet Union with their scorched earth and scorched human policy.
Germany, and I take it with anglo help ad shenanigans unleashed the dogs of war and along with other groups the nazi’s targeted there were no rules of war. Blow back is a bitch.
This waste of time argument over Soviet soldiers raping some German women after twenty seven million or so soviets had been killed… what those soldiers that had seen so many of their mates die, family die supposed to some sort white hatted american tv heroes. War’s war and Germany went all in and lost everything. Who cares about a few wild oats.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 3:12 utc | 189

Correction –
I believe Russia is justified in her actions in Ukraine.

Posted by: Perun Neckarskaya | Apr 4 2022 3:14 utc | 190

Kim @ 182
I read that Abramovich was necessary as a trusted go between,for the powerful Jewish contingent in Lviv.
Something along those lines makes more sense. He may be the representative of all the oligarchs in the area that have fingers in the pie. Error 521 on that story. Something is up.

Posted by: circumspect | Apr 4 2022 3:16 utc | 191

@ Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 3:12 utc | 188
I care about those “few wild oats” when they violate the bodily integrity or happiness of innocents.
But I care 27 million times more for those who died to protect innocent lives.
Everything in perspective.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 4 2022 3:18 utc | 192

@ Geoff 179
Actual war is a condition of barbarity, and drags its participants down into the miasma.
Yes, from Military Times…
Army suicides hit new post-9/11 peak in 2021

The active duty Army marked a grim milestone Friday as a Defense Suicide Prevention Office report revealed that the service suffered more suicides in 2021 than any other year since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The 176 confirmed or pending suicide deaths for the service’s active component present a worrying signal that the increase in suicides that began in 2020, which saw 174 suicides, has not abated.
The rate of suicide deaths among active duty troops also climbed to its highest level since the Great Depression — 36.18 per 100,000 soldiers.
…When calculated against the active duty Army’s end strength, 2021′s 36.18 suicide deaths per 100,000 soldiers is the highest rate of suicides since 1938, according to a 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association analysis of Army suicide rates over time. . .here

The US suicide rate is 13.42 per 100,000 individuals, 37% of the Army rate.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Apr 4 2022 3:18 utc | 193

Circe | Apr 4 2022 3:07 utc | 186
This paragraph, have a think about it. It simply says both sides authorized hs being there. Nothing about who asked him to be there. Who asked Abramovich to be present at the talks in Turkey?
“Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, responded that Abramovich was an unofficial participant in the Istanbul talks who had been authorized in advance by both Putin and Zelensky, and who had been active in this role for some time. “Roman Abramovich is involved in ensuring certain contacts between the Russian and Ukrainian sides, and he is not an official member of the delegation. You know that our delegation is headed by Presidential Assistant [Vladimir] Medinsky; nevertheless, from our side, he [Abramovich] is present at the negotiating table,” Peskov explained.”
The various talks are meaningless for Russia as they fighting the US/UK anglosphere. They send low level negotiators there and don’t give a shit as to what oligarchs Turkey want there.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 3:23 utc | 194

I read that Abramovich was necessary as a trusted go between,for the powerful Jewish contingent in Lviv.
Posted by: Kim | Apr 4 2022 2:53 utc | 182

Really? And how’s the retreat from Kiev working out so far?
Containing/surrounding Kiev could have been doable. Retreating created a hot mess of massive proportions.
Why does everything always come down to appeasing powerful Jews that can’t be trusted?

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 3:24 utc | 195

“Yesterday evening a Ukrainian station showed a video of Ukrainian troops driving through Bucha, north of Kiev, with several ‘dead’ people lying in the street allegedly ‘killed by Russians’. There are two difficulties with these claims:
– One of the dead appears to move his arm: video”
Further down that twitter thread, someone’s posted a higher-res clip and it appears to be a raindrop on the windscreen, not an arm.
In the rearview mirror, the “corpse” appears to move, but then again it’s a distorting mirror.
So no proof either way, but it seems pretty preposterous that the Russians would leave corpses lying about.

Posted by: Observer | Apr 4 2022 3:30 utc | 196

Lex | Apr 4 2022 2:57 utc | 183
UN needs to be on international territory so that no one state can refuse visas. I would like to see New York partitioned off US. As US have been the prime instigators of killing and bloodshed since WWII it is only fitting an international territory is partitioned out of their holdings.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 3:32 utc | 197

Observer | Apr 4 2022 3:30 utc | 195
bullshit.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 3:36 utc | 198

Posted by: Likklemore | Apr 3 2022 14:24 utc | 10
Thank you very much for the pointer to the Donbass documentary by Anne-Laure Bonnel from 2016 dealing with the civilian situation in Donetsk from 2015. Once I started watching it I couldn’t stop. It was terribly sad and rekindled my rage toward the Ukrainian government and our mendacious cowardly asshole leaders in the West.
2015. It was pre-meditated ethnic cleansing, land-grabbing deracination in 2015.
The salient quote is from the mother and father of an 18 year old killed in the fighting, toward the end of the film:

“The biggest mistake is to believe that it is the Russian army that is making war here…” she says, to which the father adds “If the Russian armies had a war here, in a week we would have had peace”.

That was in 2015. The Russians are here at last I guess, better late than never, but it should have been dealt with then. Those poor people in the Donbass. Those poor people as collateral damage in MH17 shot down by cynical Ukie pricks. I hope the Russians give all those Azov, Right Sector, OUN scum what’s coming to them for the ignominy witnessed in this documentary.

Posted by: Patroklos | Apr 4 2022 3:38 utc | 199

The various talks are meaningless for Russia as they fighting the US/UK anglosphere. They send low level negotiators there and don’t give a shit as to what oligarchs Turkey want there.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Apr 4 2022 3:23 utc | 193

Oh, my bad, so they send low level oligarchy negotiators to deliver important concessions like the withdrawal from Kiev of a kilometers-long column that took weeks to initiate containment. Okaaay–I also got a bridge to sell.

Posted by: Circe | Apr 4 2022 3:40 utc | 200

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