[Breitbart] McCarthyism has gone back to the future, with the federal intelligence community accusing the website Zero Hedge of — wait for it, wait for it — collaborating with the Russians.
Naturally, the misinformation media, this time in the form of the far-left Associated Press, is playing stenographer. Get a load of this:
U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies.
The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence. The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia.
Hey, I’m no Capital “J” journalist or anything, but isn’t the correct response to this something along the lines of, Call me back when you do have some evidence? But instead, the AP took dictation. Such good dogs.
So the Deep State War Machine has no evidence of Zero Hedge collaborating with the Russians, did not even allege there were links between the two, and still, these fascists are smearing Zero Hedge, and the A.P. is happy to run wild with the following headline: “U.S. accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda.”
Anyway, this is what I think is happening…
The War Machine — you know, the War Machine that convinces Americans to spend trillions of dollars liberating foreign people when all we do is kill a bunch of them and then abandon the rest — that War Machine is furious Americans didn’t bite on this Ukraine narrative, furious that the ole gotta-liberate-the oppressed-peoples ploy flopped. You see, we’re just not buying their shit anymore, especially when the president of Ukraine is all: I don’t know what y’all are talking about. We’re fine.
From where I sit, the overall public reaction to the Ukraine war drums generated by the War Machine, the corporate media, and the Biden administration fell into two categories: indifference and disbelief. Come on, we all knew it was B.S. coming from a War Machine desperate for profits, a corrupt media desperate for ratings, and a president desperate to boost his approval numbers and distract from his radioactive pile of domestic failures.
This War Machine flail at Zero Hedge is especially hilarious when we know for a fact — a fact — that China “paid more than $1.6 million for advertising campaigns in Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, and Foreign Policy magazine, according to disclosures filed with the Justice Department.”
But nobody cares about China because that’s the “correct” foreign propaganda profiting the “correct” news outlets.
Courtesy of Mullah Richard:
Now We've Done It: We Pissed Off The CIA [ZH] - While the collapse of public trust in the mainstream media is nothing new, with Forbes recently reporting that "Fewer Americans than ever before trust the mainstream media", it is only a much more recent phenomenon that members of the media's highest echelons - such as the NYT's Matthew Rosenberg - have started asking themselves and their (few remaining) readers the much more difficult question of why is public trust of media so low.
Unfortunately, instead of following up with some much needed top-to-bottom cleansing and fundamental reassessment of how the MSM pursues, analyzes and reports news, the media has simply fallen back to its traditional tactic of spewing baseless hit pieces against outlets they would rather see silenced and/or censored. RTWT
BLUF We will give the final word to the AP hit piece itself, which quotes Bret Schafer, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy, who said:
"My guess is that most of the people who are loyal Zero Hedge followers naturally are inclined to mistrust the U.S. government anyway," he said, "and so this announcement is probably not going to undermine most of Zero Hedge's core support."
We agree. As for the CIA, no we are not going to date you. Ever.
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Just thrashing now. Total Incoherence stage.
Mommies are Domestic Terrorists
Canadian truckers are Whi' Supremaciss
The world's best immunologists and bio-staticians are "fringe" scientists
The Harry Potter author and a left-wing San Francisco 100% Woke business exec mom of biracial kids are Rayciss Transphobic Insurrectionary Deplorables
'Tyler Durden' the equity analyst is a Wascally Wusskie
#2
The fact that there is no proof of Russian involvement is the strongest evidence for it. They have *totally* covered up the evidence. That's how good they are!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Oleg Airapetov
The struggle against the Social Revolutionaries and White Czechs, attempts to organize a coup within the RSFSR, a sharp deterioration in relations with the Entente countries in the spring and summer of 1918 - these were not the only problems of the Soviet government.
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[Regnum] It is the decree of Emperor Paul I of February 14, 1800 that should be considered the date of the acceptance of the Talysh Khanate into Russian citizenship.
February 14, 2022 marks 222 years since the Talysh Khanate accepted the Russian protectorate. This event was of tremendous importance in the fate of the Talysh people, and therefore we consider it our duty to briefly describe the history of this historical process.
The Talysh Khanate, restored at the end of the 17th century and became independent after the death of the ruler of Iran, Nadir Shah, at the end of the 18th century faced a new threat in the face of the Qajars. The founder of the dynasty, Aga Mohammed Shah Qajar, immediately after the departure of the Russian troops of General V. A. Zubov from the Caspian Sea in the spring of 1797, invaded Transcaucasia through Karabakh.
The city-fortress of Shusha, the capital of the Karabakh khanate, was captured, but the further subjugation of the Transcaucasian khanates was prevented by the assassination of Agha Mohammed Shah in the same Shusha as a result of a conspiracy of the Iranian nobility.
The new Shahinshah Fath Ali Shah already in 1798 demanded obedience from the ruler of the Talysh Khanate, Mir Mustafa Khan. Anticipating such a development of events, Mir Mustafa Khan sent his ambassador Mirza Muhammad-bek to St. Petersburg in the autumn of 1797 with a request for military assistance and the acceptance of Talysh into Russian citizenship. In one of his letters he wrote:
"I swear before the almighty and holy God, the great prophet Magomed and the holy Koran that I want and will be with my descendants and the people subject to me in the exact possession of the faithful subject of the All-Russian Imperial Throne."
By decree of Emperor Paul I of February 14, 1800, the Russian government took the Talysh Khanate under its protection. By tsarist decree, Russia took over the protection of both land and sea borders of the Talysh state, in accordance with which military units were sent. In fact, this document is the first diplomatic and international act on the accession of Talysh to Russia, concluded directly with the Talysh ruler.
In 1801, Emperor Alexander I ascended the Russian throne. The Talysh Khan, together with the Baku and Derbent khans, sent an ambassador to St. Petersburg with gifts and congratulations to the new tsar. Emperor Alexander I, in order to organize an anti-Iranian military-political alliance, plans to create a federation of the Muslim khanates of Eastern Transcaucasia and Dagestan under the general control of the Russian tsar.
For this purpose, in December 1802, between the ambassadors of the Muslim khanates of Eastern Transcaucasia and Dagestan and the Russian government delegation, the Treaty of St. George was signed, which was clearly aimed at protecting the borders of the Talysh Khanate and others from any encroachment by the Qajar government of Iran. In all internal matters of the rulers, autonomy was implied.
Iran refused to recognize the transfer of the Talysh Khanate to Russian citizenship, and as a result of the ensuing First Russian-Persian War of 1804-1813, which ended with the Gulistan Peace Treaty, the territory of the Khanate was divided between the two empires. The division of the khanate was also due to the strong inclusion of its territory deep into Iran, which greatly worried not only the latter, but also Great Britain, which very painfully perceived any desire of Russia in a southerly direction.
The Turkmenchay Peace Treaty, which marked the end of the Second Russian-Persian War of 1826-1828, confirmed the provisions of the Gulistan Peace Treaty regarding the division of Talish.
It is the decree of Emperor Paul I of February 14, 1800 that should be considered the date of the acceptance of the Talysh Khanate into Russian citizenship. The internal autonomy of Talysh was preserved until the administrative reform of 1840.
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[TME] I am trying to share the optimism of some experts who interpret the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border with Ukraine (yes, it was not named in the press release of the Ministry of Defense, but was assumed between the lines) as a diplomatic victory. And I can't. Say, with our tough position, we achieved an equal dialogue and even “bent Zelensky”, who the day before promised Chancellor Scholz to present a draft constitutional reform, laws on the special status of Donbass and local elections.
Small victory. Firstly, I don’t doubt for a second that these projects will directly contradict the letter of the Minsk Agreements. On the other hand, the withdrawal of Russian troops can be perceived both in Ukraine and in the West as a whole as a weakness, a concession that Moscow made against the backdrop of unprecedented information pressure. So, there were very good reasons behind it.
Secondly, Moscow has not come a step closer to the main goal of its "ultimatum" - no one has yet given us security guarantees. Although talk about Ukraine's non-entry into NATO went more actively. The British Deputy Minister of Defense openly stated that London would not mind if Ukraine itself did not want to join the alliance. Scholz once again said in Kiev that the entry of the Independent into the bloc was not on the agenda. Zelenskiy complained that some countries were hinting to him that he should give up his dream of NATO membership.
Nevertheless, the return of units that served as a passive containment of hotheads in Kiev is fraught with an aggravation on the demarcation line in Donbass. Where all this militaristic hysteria was viewed on the one hand with apprehension, and on the other with hope. Maybe Russia will finally take us under protection? I would not like to deceive the expectation of our people, which has already dragged on for eight years.
The General Staff understands this very well even without me. And, I hope, they foresaw all the negative scenarios, leaving the possibility of prompt response. And she, this possibility, should be obvious to the enemy, who is not distinguished by constancy, firmness of speech and commitment.
Therefore, the withdrawal of troops is, of course, a step towards de-escalation. Now in Kiev they will call him a great victory. The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has already announced the victory of diplomacy. But still, they must feel the threat posed by Russia. For tone.
Aleksandr Kots is prior service Russian airborne and a writer for Komsomol Pravda
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] State Duma deputy and actor Dmitry Pevtsov spoke critically about modern Russians who want rights and freedoms and are not ready to die "for the tsar and Stalin." According to him, "our true Russian worldview" has been turned upside down.
"Our ancestors, let me remind you, did not die for rights and freedom, but for the tsar, Fatherland and faith,” a member of the New People faction recalled during the meeting. According to him, sometimes they did this “for the Motherland and Stalin.” The parliamentarian added that "for several decades they have been actively working with our children," who are being turned into Russophobes. He also noted that Ukraine has already raised "a whole generation of Russophobes." His speech was recorded on the parliamentary channel Duma TV. war of good and evil, Lord and devil.
Earlier, Pevtsov said that after the end of his term in the State Duma, he intends to return to the theater stage. He admitted that he had not been called to the cinema for a long time. Says Rozhin:
Given that Comrade Stalin died in 1953 (and is not going to get up yet), it would be strange to demand to die for him in 2022, especially considering that the system he created, for which they fought and died, was dismantled long ago.
They got rid of the tsar even earlier (we don’t take into account modern costumed clowns). Therefore, it remains as before to sigh about the absence of a meaningful ideology for which one could fight and die.
[Babylon Bee] Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly looked on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of Canadian protesters with surprise, describing it as "monstrous" and "heavy-handed."
"I'm shocked by Trudeau's horrific mistreatment of his own people," said President Xi Jinping while helping himself to a jar of honey. "He's being very heavy-handed with these protesters. It's shameful!"
Xi, who polices his own people for thought crimes, suggested that Trudeau try a more subtle approach. "I'm constantly throwing people in prison," he said. "But I do so discreetly while silencing anyone who speaks of it."
"Please understand," he continued. "I believe he should throw them all in camps to make shoes for the Americans. But he's openly criticizing them—giving their cause a voice."
"It's a rookie move."
Trudeau, who has referred to people sitting in their trucks as violent protesters sieging the city, has claimed that he only desires to crush his citizens under the jackboot of tyranny, revel in their cries of anguish, and scatter their wasted corpses to the wind.
"I don't see what's so heavy-handed about that," said Trudeau.
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[American Wire] As the bombshell Durham report that Donald Trump was spied on both as a candidate and a sitting president continues to resonate in the political world, even though much of the complicit media is doing it’s best to ignore what may prove to be the greatest national security scandal in modern history, there are signs that it may actually lead to some level of accountability — a rare occurrence in Washington, D.C.
Trump responded to the report from Special Counsel John Durham that Hillary Clinton’s campaign hiring someone to hack into his White House and Trump Tower servers to call it "a far bigger crime than Watergate," and Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense, was in agreement, appearing n Newsmax TV Monday night to call it the "biggest political scandal and criminal scandal in U.S. history."
"A private entity, on behalf of a political opponent, Hillary Clinton, paid for access to the entire White House compound to infiltrate the servers of not just the office of the president, the national security council, a national economic council, the trade council and the office of the vice president of the United States," Patel said.
Patel also believes that Durham is going "to deliver," dropping another bombshell of sorts in saying that a Durham grand jury has interviewed two dozen people already, "to include CIA case officers, FBI agents and directors, leadership in the Clinton campaign cycle."
Citing a source familiar with the Durham probe, Fox News reported Monday that the investigation has "accelerated," and that more people are "cooperating" and coming before the federal grand jury than has previously been reported.
Durham is running a "very professional" investigation with few leaks, the source said, a striking difference to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Russian collusion hoax.
"Durham does this right and keeps it a secret," the individual said, adding that there has been "much more activity" in Durham’s investigation "than has been visible to the public."
Newsmax host Greg Kelly noted that the mainstream media is pretty much ignoring the story, but Patel replied that the story will be "forced" on them due to its magnitude.
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/\ These various "foundations" have been money laundering conduits for clandestine activities for many years. Tax avoidance, regime changes, criminal activities, and payoffs to name just a few. The anonymity of donors is the key.
I suspect Epstein and Maxwell's activities on Little St James Island, his unexplained wealth, Clinton connection, memory holed foreign visitor rosters, along with his eventual demise
point to foundation arrangements.
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re #7: Or they commit suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head. Twice.
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This is far worse than anything I've seen in my lifetime. I hope Durham gets to the bottom of this phony, cooked-up Russia Gate and cleans out the rat's nest that caused this.
This doesn't address the rigged and stolen 2020 election.
As long as I'm wishing, I'd like to get to the bottom of the Seth Rich and Epstein murders.
#13
I expect him to deliver another backstabbing to real American citizens. None of these miscreants will see any real punishment. Let's be honest, a real investigation would put literally half of Washington, DC politicians behind bars along with 95% of the press. We all know how this story ends.
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El Salvador, as some would call a Banana Republic, had its last attempted government overthrow in 1992, and even prosecuted and convicted a former president for taking his 10%, and current policies have reduced street crime violence by over 60%, thus making it a more stable political model than US Democrats.
[OneIndia] India has once again hit out at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after it raised the hijab row in India. New Delhi accused the OIC of worming with a communal mindset. India also said that the organization has been hijacked by vested interests.
"We have noted yet another motivated and misleading statement from the general secretariat of the OIC on matters pertaining to India. Issues in India are considered and resolved in accordance with our constitutional framework and mechanisms, as well as democratic ethos and polity," Arindam Bagchi, spokesperson external affairs ministry said.
The OIC has been interfering in India's affairs for long now. India enhanced ties with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and the United Arab Emirates, following which Pakistain turned to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to drum up anti-India narratives.
Turkey according to an Intelligence Bureau report has adopted a three pronged approach against India.
They include employing Kashmiri journalists to put out a false narrative, dole out scholarships so that radicalisation can take place at educational institutes and fund NGOs to influence Indian Moslems on foreign policy which is detrimental to India's interests.
An OSINT report by the Disinfo Lab speaks in detail about how a boycott campaign was launched last year September by the Moslem Brüderbund (MB) nexus against India as well as targeting Saudi Arabia and UAE apart from La Belle France.
The campaign was supported by the troll factories of Turkey and Pakistain. It was the first open campaign by MB through the new emerging nexus of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -Turkey-Pakistain, dubbed as QTPi. While it had all the characteristics of propaganda, including the liberal use of fake pics and videos, it was not ordinary propaganda.
It appears as a strength test for Moslem Brüderbund, as it put several of the news media from its arsenal to use, including the jewel Al Jazeera, risking their credibility. The sheer resource MB-led QTPi deployed in this fake news-driven propaganda made it abundantly clear that not only Brotherhood has arrived in India, but it also intends to stay, the report said.
An Intelligence Bureau official tells Oneindia that earlier Pakistain used to rely on the UAE and Saudi Arabia to drum up an anti-India narrative. However India's foreign policy has shifted and New Delhi has close allies in Saudi and the UAE, which has made Pakistain shift focus to Turkey, the official also said.
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[Babylon Bee] JERUSALEM—Historians have discovered new evidence that when God provided miraculous bread to feed the Israelites in the wilderness after their exodus from Egypt, Israelite children refused to eat the manna until their moms had carefully removed the crust.
"After poring over a trove of newly found scrolls, it seems the ancient Israelite children were every bit as whiny as their parents," said Old Testament scholar Nikolai Popov. "These new documents show children frequently complained about leaving slavery in Egypt, saying 'at least in Egypt we had ham and cheese Lunchables!' They also demanded their moms cut the manna into fun shapes like ’Mount Horeb’ or ’Pillar of Fire’."
The children also were reportedly unimpressed with miraculous quail, instead begging every night for hot dogs and macaroni. Parents did eventually take their concerns to Moses, who looked up to the sky and said, "Just kill me now, O Lord." So, the hot dog matter was dropped.
As the Israelites approached the land of Caanan, parents began to entice their kids to eat dinner with the promise of a new land filled with dessert. However, the children were unmoved by mere honey, vowing to hold out for a land of "chocolate frosted sugar bombs."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Babylon Bee] Chinese President Xi Jinping has reportedly looked on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of Canadian protesters with surprise, describing it as "monstrous" and "heavy-handed."
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
