Monday, March 25, 2024

Seeking Perpetrators

 Gathering Evidence,


  Pepe Escobar: It's War, The Real Meat Grinder Starts Now  (​Or not. Putin​-mind-readers have fared poorly ​in recent years.)
 
 Friday, March 22, 2024. It’s War. The Kremlin, via Peskov, finally admits it, on the record.    The money quote:
  “Russia cannot allow the existence on its borders of a state that has a documented intention to use any methods to take Crimea away from it, not to mention the territory of new regions.”
  Translation: the Hegemon-constructed Kiev mongrel is doomed, one way or another. The Kremlin signal: “We haven’t even started” starts now...
..Regular troops from France, Germany and Poland have arrived, by rail and air, to Cherkassy, south of Kiev. A substantial force. No numbers leaked. They are being housed in schools. For all practical purposes, this is a NATO force.
  That signals, “Let the games begin”. From a Russian point of view, Mr. Khinzal’s business cards are set to be in great demand...
..Yemen has just clinched a strategic deal in Oman with Russia-China for no-hassle navigation in the Red Sea, and is among the top candidates for BRICS+ expansion at the summit in Kazan next October.
  Not only the Houthis are spectacularly defeating thalassocracy, they have the Russia-China strategic partnership on their side. Assuring China and Russia that their ships can sail through the Bab-al-Mandeb, Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with no problems is exchanged with total political support from Beijing and Moscow...
..It’s more like an all-American psy op. ISIS are cartoonish mercenaries/goons. Not real Muslims. And everyone knows who finances and weaponizes them.
  That leads to the most possible scenario, before the FSB weighs in: ISIS goons imported from the Syria battleground – as it stands, probably Tajiks – trained by CIA and MI6, working on behalf of the Ukrainian SBU. Several witnesses at Crocus referred to “Wahhabis” – as in the commando killers did not look like Slavs.
  It was up to Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic to cut to the chase. He directly connected the “warnings” in early March from American and British embassies directed at their citizens not to visit public places in Moscow with CIA/MI6 intel having inside info about possible terrorism, and not disclosing it to Moscow...
..ISIS spin-off or banderistas – the sponsors remain the same. The clownish secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, was dumb enough to virtually, indirectly confirm they did it, saying on Ukrainian TV, “we will give them [Russians] this kind of fun more often.”
  But it was up to Sergei Goncharov, a veteran of the elite Russia Alpha anti-terrorism unit, to get closer to unwrapping the enigma: he told Sputnik the most feasible mastermind is Kyrylo Budanov – the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence at the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
  The “spy chief” who happens to be the top CIA asset in Kiev.

  Gilbert Doctorow, Interview on consequences of the Crocus City Hall massacre
  All of this argumentation has a fatal flaw, namely the assumption that there is an either/or here:  either the Ukrainians did it, or the Isis-K did it.
  However, upon inspection it is fairly obvious that both sets of actors, Isis-K and the Ukrainian military intelligence operatives, worked cooperatively.  Only in this way could a group of Tajik gunmen with poor knowledge of Russian, as we now know from the tapes of their initial interrogation posted on Russian television, and with still less knowledge of the target site have pulled off the attack and made their way out of Moscow by car, nearly reaching the Ukrainian border in the Russian province of Bryansk to the west.
  Clearly it was Ukrainian intelligence operatives who were the enablers. They speak native Russian. The Russian-Ukrainian border is porous and these operatives have established themselves within Russia in considerable numbers. They would have had ample opportunity to prepare the cache of automatic rifles and incendiary devices, to inspect the venue for attack, to learn where the security staff had their office, to find escape routes and to do all of the other preparatory and support work necessary for success.
  So much for the benefit to the Isis-K from working hand in hand with the Ukrainians. But what were the benefits to Kiev from this cooperation?  The answer is that this arrangement could deflect blame entirely away from Kiev and onto a credible international terrorist organization, as the US tells us, so that gullible readers of the FT and of other major Western media carrying the story will believe that Putin is lying.
  I will not mince words: this cynical and duplicitous plot has on it the fingerprints of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who made his name in infamy in the Nord Stream II bombings, per Sy Hersh, or by the CIA, acting in consort with Sullivan.


  Scott Ritter: Terrorist Attack in Moscow Does Not Look Like ISIS' Handiwork
  Washington’s attempts to pin the blame for the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow on ISIS* appears suspect due to the perpetrators’ behavior, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.
  Pointing out the fact that the terrorists were apprehended while fleeing towards Ukraine, Ritter remarked how “people of violence” have a tendency to “navigate towards their ‘true north’” at the end of the day.
  “What I mean by that is, let's take a special forces team operating behind enemy lines: if they're compromised, they try to go home, they try to escape and evade towards the friendly lines,” he explained. “ISIS has loyalty to their perverted version of religion, God. Their ‘true north’ is to become martyrs, to navigate home to heaven.” “But that's not what these terrorists did,” he continued. “Their true north was Ukraine, and they were navigating toward Ukraine. And that's all we need to know about this. This was an attack that was linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Who was behind this attack? Who are the masterminds? The Russian security services will find out. But whoever they are, they reside in Ukraine.”

  GENERAL FLYNN SHARES CLIP OF BIDEN/OBAMA UKRAINIAN POLICY MAKER VICTORIA NULAND IN FEBRUARY WARNING OF SOME UPCOMING “NASTY SURPRISES”
  A post of Nuland’s from one month ago where she warned of “nasty surprises” coming in the war with Russia and Ukraine.
  Victoria Nuland: “With this money, Ukraine will be able to accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective on the battlefield. As I said in Kiev three weeks ago, this supplemental funding will ensure Putin faces some nasty surprises on the battlefield this year.”


  Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis:  The Crocus Disaster [i]  The terrorist attack and its consequences
  These people most likely had some combat experience before. Maybe with ISIS somewhere around the world. Maybe in Afghanistan or Iraq/Syria. But this was not enough to execute a plan where they would eventually try to escape.
  So, the action in Crocus would have needed to be practiced with the whole team on a training ground with conditions similar to those in a big concert hall. They could practice moving together and shooting, all of this under the heavy influence of, most likely, Captagon. The point is, when the real action is taking place, everything needs to run on muscle memory. There would be no thinking, no improvisation, just automatic mode.
  The question is, where was this training ground? I think this is the most important question and information that the FSB is now “toasting” out of these terrorists to find this training ground. Most likely, it is one of the Central Asian “Stans,” which will get some special attention from Russia when it finishes off Ukraine, parts of Moldova, and some other “eager” candidates.
  These guys have been prepared by a foreign service, using most likely ISIS assets to train and prepare them in the aforementioned “stans.” So, there is no chance the FSB can extract who their handlers have been. Every service would be able to act through intermediaries exactly for this purpose. However, the FSB will find out where the training grounds are, and with all the logistics, communications, etc., it will be able to track down the ISIS assets further. And with them, they will know which foreign service handled these ISIS assets. And then it will get ugly.


  Moscow concert hall terror attack suspects brought before court
  A Moscow court convened late on Sunday to hear prosecutors' demands on pre-trial detention for a group of men detained in the aftermath of Friday’s Crocus City Hall attack, which claimed lives of over 130 people.
  The suspects, all of whom are nationals of Tajikistan, appeared individually. Thus far, terrorism charges have been leveled against 32-year-old Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, who faces a life sentence if found guilty. Prosecutors told Judge Timur Vakhrameev that the suspect had admitted his guilt.
  The court has opted to rule behind closed doors.

  A teenager who led over 100 people to safety during Friday’s terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall, has been hailed as a hero. 15-year-old Islam Khalilov, who worked part-time in one of the cloakrooms at Crocus City, recounted the events of the tragic evening to the Ruptly video agency.
  The concert venue situated just outside of Moscow was packed ahead of a performance by the Russian rock band Picnic, when a group of terrorists armed with assault rifles forced their way into the building. They fired indiscriminately at fleeing people and then set the concert hall on fire.
  According to the latest estimates, the attack has claimed the lives of at least 137 people, with about 180 injured.
  Khalilov told the video agency that “it was when people started running from the escalator, from the stairway” that he realized that an emergency was occurring. The teenager said that he was acting on “instincts” at the time and used his thorough knowledge of the premises to quickly arrange visitors’ evacuation toward another building within the Crocus City complex.
  “I started shouting all across the foyer, all across Crocus City Hall - ‘Folks, there’s a shooting! All run to the expo!’ – and I was showing where they had to go and was helping everyone,” he explained.
  According to the cloakroom attendant, “there was a stampede, and everyone was in shock at first. No one knew what to do and where to go.”
Khalilov added that he himself was running behind the entire group to make sure he had not left anyone behind.
  The teenager admitted to being “really scared” all along, but still managed to make the right use the instructions he’d previously been given on how to evacuate patrons in case of an emergency.
  He told Ruptly that, at one point, he had caught a glimpse of one of the terrorists.
“I saw one, [he was] bearded and in green fatigues, he was walking around with an assault rifle,” the teenager recounted.
  He also recalled seeing a man getting fatally shot by one of the assailants, adding that he “can’t stop thinking about it....
..Explaining what helped him overcome fear, Khalilov reasoned that “It’s better to sacrifice yourself than to let a hundred people die.”

​  Russian Hypersonic Missiles Pummel Kiev After Ukraine Drone Damages Rosneft Refinery
​  Kyiv Post’s sources within the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have confirmed that two ballistic missiles were launched from Russian-occupied Crimea toward Kyiv on Monday and were aimed at the SBU offices.​ 
​  Today, March 25, Ukraine is observing the Day of the Security Service of Ukraine. According to sources from the Kyiv Post, the missiles were aimed at the premises where high-ranking SBU officials are located.

  Full-Spectrum Psyop: US Whips Up Fear of Russian Bugaboo to ‘Subjugate Europe’
  “For the United States, the war in Ukraine has failed as a means of weakening Russia so that they can proceed with preparations to fight China. But it has succeeded spectacularly as a means of subjugating Europe. Washington now firmly has its knees on the neck of Europe,” veteran international relations and Russian affairs expert Dr. Gilbert Doctorow told Sputnik...
..“What remains of free speech and other freedoms can be snuffed out in war hysteria. Moreover, the war fever is being used by [European Commission President Ursula] von der Leyen and the EU Commission in a bid to draw more power into Brussels at the expense of the national governments,” Doctorow warned.
  “Some countries are resisting, for example Prime Minister [Mark] Rutte of the Netherlands and even the mealy-mouthed German Chancellor [Olaf Scholz, ed.] are publicly opposed to the proposal of a European debt issuance to finance subsidies to the military production companies, all in spite of van der Leyen. Meanwhile, Macron is on the other side, pushing for greater European centralization for which is the proposed common investment in defense is a nice instrument,” the observer added...
..Ultimately, Dr. Doctorow emphasized, Western governments are following an old playbook.
  “An aggressive foreign policy stand is almost always a convenient way of distracting attention away from domestic failures. And thanks to the boomerang of Western sanctions, European economies are doing very poorly as we go into the June elections” to the European Parliament
, the observer summed up.

  Ukraine Talks Haven't Started Because of US Threats to Zelensky, Seymour Hersh Says
  Negotiations on resolving the conflict in Ukraine could have started months ago, but US authorities threatened Vladimir Zelensky with withdrawal of non-military funding, US journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh said in an article on Substack.
  "We were on the verge of a reasonable negotiation several months ago before Putin's re-election and Zelensky's military degradation. The US leaders got wind of the possibility and gave Zelensky the ultimatum-'No negotiations or settlement or we won't support your government with the $45 billion in non-military funds [that Ukraine is now receiving annually],'" the source told the journalist.
According to Hersh's information, US intelligence community recognises that "Ukraine has little chance of winning..."

  Israeli occupation executes Palestinian doctor inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza [Dr. Al-Nono upheld his honor, and died with his patients.]
  Israeli occupation forces executed Dr. Muhammad Zaher Al-Nono, who works at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip.
This came after Dr. Al-Nono refused to leave the hospital and insisted on continuing to treat the wounded.

​  'Israel' kills Palestinians waiting for aid in another Flour Massacre
​  The Ministry of Health in Gaza said Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in north Gaza once again, killing 19 people and injuring 23 others.
​  The Government Media Office in Gaza reported that thousands of starved Palestinians had been waiting for flour and aid trucks when the Israeli occupation forces and military tanks opened fire and shot them down.
​  A Palestinian man carrying the body of his son, who was martyred when "Israel" opened fire on people waiting for aid.


​  The Israeli government has designated nearly 2,000 acres in the West Bank as state-owned land, in a move described by rights groups as the biggest land grab on occupied Palestinian territories in decades.
​  The expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is illegal under international law. In 2016, the UN Security Council described them as “a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security.”
​  Nevertheless, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich argued that the declaration of state-owned land in the Jordan Valley on Friday was “an important and strategic issue.”
​  “While there are those in Israel and the world who seek to undermine our right to Judea and Samaria and the country in general, we promote the settlement movement with hard work and in a strategic manner across the country,” Smotrich said in a statement, as quoted by the Times of Israel.

  This resolution calls on Hamas to give up all remaining Israeli military and police POWs/"hostages" immediately. Netanyahu has assured that any ceasefire will be temporary.
​  The United Nations Security Council today voted in favour of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during (the month of) Ramadan 'leading to a permanent sustainable ceasefire', after the US abstained.

​  The US had repeatedly blocked Security Council resolutions that put pressure on Israel but has increasingly shown frustration with its ally as civilian casualties mount and the UN warns of impending famine in Gaza.
​  Speaking after the vote, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield blamed Hamas for the delay in passing a ceasefire resolution.
“We did not agree with everything with the resolution,” which she said was the reason why the US abstained.
“Certain key edits were ignored, including our request to add a condemnation of Hamas.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/25/un-security-council-adopts-resolution-calling-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire#:~:text=The%20United%20Nations%20Security%20Council,for%20the%20resolution%20on%20Monday.

​  Candace Owens Out at Daily Wire After Criticizing Israel
"My crime, is that I do not believe that American taxpayers should have to pay for Israel's wars or the wars of any other country."

​  3 more journalists killed in Israel's attacks on Gaza
Another three Palestinian journalists were killed in fresh Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 136 since 7 October 2023, Anadolu Agency reports.
​  A statement by the media office identified the slain journalists as Muhammad Al-Rifi, Abdul Rahman Saima, and Mahmoud Imad Issa.
​  In an earlier statement, the office said “Israel deliberately killed journalists in Gaza in order to silence the voice of Palestinians, to hide the facts, and to prevent information from reaching the regional and international public.”
​  
Relatives, loved ones and colleagues of Al-Aqsa TV anchor and journalist Mohammed Salamah, who was killed in an Israeli army attack on a house, attend his funeral ceremony held in front of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah of Gaza


RFK Jr. says that despite Israel’s genocidal bombing of 30,000-plus Gaza civilians, Israel is still a “moral” nation

​  War on Gaza: More young Americans favour Palestinians than Israelis, new poll says​  [Main 3 POTUS candidates: Same Genocide, different excuses.]
Pew poll finds that half of Americans don't know the Palestinian or Israeli death toll in Gaza war

​  Majority of Biden Voters Now Want Michelle Obama to Run
​  According to a Redfield and Wilton Strategies poll, “46 percent of eligible voters would support the attorney and wife of former President Barack Obama if she decided to run for the White House.”​  The survey found that three-quarters of Biden voters support Michelle Obama.

​  US funding cut harms Palestinian refugees: UN agency
​  “In Gaza, the humanitarian community is racing against the clock to avert famine,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on X.
​  “As the backbone of the humanitarian response, any gap in funding to UNRWA will compromise access to food, shelter, primary health care & education at a time of deep trauma.”
​  The US is the largest donor to UNRWA, providing the refugee agency with $300-$400 million annually.
​  In January, Washington and several Western countries “temporarily paused” funding to the agency following Israeli allegations that some of UNRWA employees were involved in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.​  
[Later clarified as confessions-under-Israeli-torture]
​  On Saturday, the US Congress approved legislation banning UNRWA funding until March 2025.

​  The Language Of Force: How The Police State Muzzles Our Right To Speak Truth To Power​   (Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power.​)
​  “If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us from the tyrannies of the past or the malignant fiefdoms of our own age. The freedom to speak without risking arrest is ‘one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation.’”
​  - Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissenting, Nieves v. Bartlett (2019)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/language-force-how-police-state-muzzles-our-right-speak-truth-power

​  ‘LGBT movement’ added to Russia’s terrorist list
Banks are now obliged to freeze funds and suspend services to persons and groups associated with the grouping, which critics say is hard to define
​  
​  According to Interfax sources, the law “does not affect the right of citizens to privacy and will not entail any negative legal consequences.” The restrictions are related to the need to comply with the ban on LGBT propaganda, advertising, generating interest, and involvement in the LGBT movement, the outlet said.​..
..The move follows a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court last November that upheld the Ministry of Justice’s recognition of the “international LGBT movement” as extremist
​  Judges also recognized its structural divisions as fitting the same description and banned them; a move that representatives of the gay community said they feared would lead to a clampdown.
​  Earlier this week, a court ordered the arrest of an administrator and the art director of a gay bar in the city of Orenburg, after they were charged with violating a ban on LGBTQ ‘propaganda’.
​  According to the law, banks are required to freeze the funds of persons included on the list and suspend services to them. However, critics have argued that there is no specific international LGBT moment and that for that reason the wording is difficult to interpret...
..In 2022, Russia expanded an existing ban on ‘LGBT propaganda’ to minors by outlawing it altogether.

  ​Meryl Nass MD has gotten to be really clear and succinct, explaining WHO global governance coup through Pandemic Treaty and International Health Regulation Amendments:
My talk to the National Health Federation​ A 16 minute quickie on the WHO and global agenda

​  Doctors For COVID Ethics present autopsy study findings, August 19 2022 , Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality
​  This article summarizes evidence from experimental studies and from autopsies of patients deceased after vaccination. The collective findings demonstrate that
mRNA vaccines don’t stay at the injection site by instead travel throughout the body and accumulate in various organs,
mRNA-based COVID vaccines induce long-lasting expression of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in many organs,
​Vaccine-induced expression of the spike protein induces autoimmune-like inflammation,
​Vaccine-induced inflammation can cause grave organ damage, especially in vessels, sometimes with deadly outcome.

​  Epidemiology of Acute Myocarditis/Pericarditis in Hong Kong Adolescents Following Comirnaty Vaccination
Conclusions​:
​  There is a significant increase in the risk of acute myocarditis/pericarditis following Comirnaty vaccination among Chinese male adolescents, especially after the second dose.

​  Endocrine Disruptors Galore: How Plastic Food Packaging May Be Wreaking Havoc on Your Health
Norwegian researchers reported that chemicals leaching from plastic food packaging may cause more concerning and widespread harm to health than previously realized, including developmental problems and hormone-related cancers.​..
​..[Researchers used the term “chemical features” 37 times in their paper, they did not define the term, nor is it standard organic chemistry jargon. The term is assumed to include the presence of a chemical, its concentration, plus its breakdown products, its concentrations and the presence or absence of other chemicals or features.]
​  On that basis, the researchers detected 2,146 unique chemicals and 25,511 features — 16,846 in the seven PUR and PVC samples, and 8,665 in the 29 PE, PET, PP and PS samples.
​  The number of features differed among plastic food packaging products, however, with as few as 37 features in an HDPE container and as many as 9,936 in cling wrap.
​  Unsurprisingly, plastics that required the addition of more chemicals during their manufacture had more identifiable chemical components and more chemical features. Among the plastics studied, HDPE ​(high density polyethylene) had the fewest features (616) followed by PET​ (polyethylene terephthalate)
 (1,320), PS ​(Styrofoam/polystyrene) (2,284), PP​ (polypropylene) (2,711), LDPE ​(low density polyethylene) (5,495), PVC ​(polyvinylchloride) (12,683) and PUR ​(polyurethane) (13,004).​..
​..Extractions from 33 of the 36 plastic objects sampled interfered with at least one receptor.
​  The leading receptor target was PXR, which was affected by 33 extracts and solely by eight. This was not surprising given the large number of roles this receptor plays in cellular detoxification and its ability to associate with a wide range of biomolecules.
​  PXR also is involved in maintaining the body’s energy balance and inflammation. Since pharmaceuticals interfering with PXR have been associated with hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol and heart disease), it’s reasonable to assume plastics can do the same.
​  PXR effects also rose as the number of chemical features grew, leading the researchers to conclude that screening for PXR activity “provides a good initial representation of the general toxicity as well as the chemical complexity of mixtures of plastic chemicals.”
​  Twenty-three extracts affected PPARγ, the second-leading target, with the strongest activation from LDPE and PVC extracts. PPARγ is the master regulator of adipogenesis — the formation and accumulation of fat cells — and its activation has been implicated in obesity and metabolic disorders.
​  Eighteen extracts activated the estrogen receptor, with the strongest effects coming from PS (polystyrene​/Styrofoam) samples and containers of frozen blueberries and yogurt.

​  Tennessee Senate passes bill to ban chemtrail spraying while corporate media pretends geoengineering doesn’t exist
A new clean air bill passed by the Tennessee Senate contains language that prohibits geoengineering, also known as chemtrails, across the Volunteer State.
​  In order to create cleaner skies in Tennessee, the state senate included language in the bill that prohibits the "intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any mean, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances or apparatus within the border of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of sunlight."

  ​I like Willie Soon Ph.D. who shows the long geological timescale correlation between solar energy incident on our planet, correlated with oceanic temperatures. It's tight.
Climate the Movie​ , Excellent new documentary about the absurdity behind climate alarmism

Oil Surges As US Production Unexpectedly Tumbles After Shale Merger Wave Fizzles; Russia Orders Companies To Cut Production

​  Why Is The National Guard Being Deployed During The Great American Eclipse On April 8th?
​  On April 8th, millions of Americans will be traveling to locations where they will be in the path of the total solar eclipse.  Oklahoma is being touted as one of the best states for that, and it is being reported that the Oklahoma National Guard “will provide first responders as well as units with hazmat response capabilities”…
​..At least four states within the path of totality have urged residents to stock up on groceries before the eclipse. Some officials have already issued disaster declarations ahead of the event, and some schools have decided to close, citing student safety.
​  Texas officials have issued a slew of warnings, including that people living within the path of totality should stock up on groceries and gas and run any errands—such as filling prescriptions—in the days before the eclipse. One official also urged pet owners to stock up on supplies for their animals.

​Mostly Avoiding Toxins (pictured smiling at a baby apple)


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