Speech of President Vladimir Putin on March 16, 2022

 

President of Russia Vladimir Putin:

Colleagues, good afternoon.

Our meeting is attended by government leaders, presidential plenipotentiary representatives in the federal districts, and heads of Russian regions.

We are meeting at a difficult time, when our Armed Forces are conducting a special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas. Let me remind you that at the very beginning of it, in the early morning of February 24, I publicly and openly named the reasons and the main goal of Russia's actions. This is assistance to our people in the Donbas, who for almost eight years were subjected to real genocide by the most barbaric methods – blockade, large-scale punitive actions, terrorist attacks and constant artillery shelling. And for what? Only for the fact that they sought basic human rights – to live according to the laws and traditions of their ancestors, to speak their native language, to raise their children the way they want.

At the same time, the Kiev authorities not only ignored and sabotaged the implementation of the Minsk Package of Measures for the Peaceful Settlement of the Crisis throughout all these years, but at the end of last year they publicly refused to implement it altogether.

They have also begun to put into practice plans to join NATO. Moreover, there were also statements by the Kiev authorities about their intention to create their own nuclear weapons and their means of delivery. It was a real threat. Already in the foreseeable future, with foreign technical assistance, the pro-Nazi regime in Kiev could get its hands on weapons of mass destruction, and the target for it, of course, would be Russia.

MANLIO DINUCCI -- THE BATTLE OF INFORMATION -- GRANDANGOLO ON NATIONAL TV CHANNEL 262 BYOBLU

 

FRIDAY 18 MARCH AT 20:30 (Italian Time) 

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GRANDANGOLO

 

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THE BATTLE OF INFORMATION 

It is significant that - while anyone who provides news about Ukraine that does not correspond to that of the Ministry of Truth is censured - the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom denies Julian Assange permission to appeal against extradition to the U.S., since the WikiLeaks founder's request "did not raise an arguable point of law." So the journalist who brought to light the hidden truths about the wars that prepared and provoked the one in Ukraine risks to be sentenced to 175 years in prison (after being imprisoned for ten years).

On the other hand, all those who, on the mainstream, conduct the hammering psychological warfare to represent Russia as a fierce enemy that threatens us all have a free field. A strategic advisor of the Italian Ministry of Defense, on a mainstream channel, described as "Putin's beasts who rape and play soccer with children's heads" those Syrian soldiers who, after fighting ISIS with Russian help, went to help the Russians in Ukraine.

Even the news provided by the Secretary General of NATO himself, revealing the strategy of war, are ignored, such as the one that "for many years NATO allies have trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and supplied them with huge amounts of weapons" and that there are "in Europe one hundred thousand U.S. soldiers" deployed in recent years for the escalation against Russia. Ignored by the mainstream also the analysis of experts like Gianandrea Gaiani, director of Analisi Difesa, who warns that, by supplying weapons to Ukrainian forces, Italy has become indirectly belligerent against Russia, and that not even the Parliament knows exactly which weapons are supplied and even less in which hands they go. They "could be used to carry out criminal actions or end up on the illegal market that feeds organized crime and terrorist groups". 

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Eric Zuesse -- Ukrainian Army holding Mariupol brings residents into secretly bomb-set drama-theater there, blows them up, announces Russia bombed it.

 

Ukrainian Army holding Mariupol brings residents into secretly bomb-set drama-theater there, blows them up, announces Russia bombed it.

 

Eric Zuesse, March 17, 2022

 

On Wednesday, March 16th, Russia’s Tass news agency headlined “Azov battalion militants blow up Mariupol theater building — Defense Ministry”, and reported:

 

Militants of the Azov nationalist battalion blew up the Mariupol theater building, which they rigged with explosives earlier, Russian Defense Ministry announced Wednesday.

The Defense Ministry debunked Kiev’s accusations of an airstrike on the theater building, where civilians could have been held hostage.

"During daylight on March 16, Russian aviation carried out no missions involving strikes on ground targets within Mariupol limits. According to the verified information, militants of the Azov nationalist battalion carried out another bloody provocation by blowing up the rigged theater building," the Ministry of Defense said.

 

The next day, CNN bannered “Survivors emerge from rubble of Mariupol theater bombed by Russia” and reported:

 

People sheltering in a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are emerging from the building after it was bombed, the former head of the Donetsk region said Thursday.

Hundreds of people were thought to have taken shelter in the theater amid the ongoing Russian siege of Mariupol.

 

CNN had not asked Russia’s Ministry of Defense to show them the evidence they had backing up the claim that “During daylight on March 16, Russian aviation carried out no missions involving strikes on ground targets within Mariupol limits.” Apparently, CNN was interested ONLY in information that was being supplied by Ukraine’s government. Of course, ‘reporting’ in that way is only propaganda — not journalism.

 

See the detailed and fully documented account of this matter, here, which persuades me that Tass got it right, and that CNN got it wrong. I have checked out all of its linked-to sources and found them to be not only extremely credible but some of them are thoroughly mainstream, such as Deutsche Welle (the German public broadcaster), Newsweek, The Nation, Stanford University, and Amnesty International.

 

Eric Zuesse -- CNN unintentionally confirms major Russian accusation against Zelensky

 

 

 

CNN unintentionally confirms major Russian accusation against Zelensky

 

Eric Zuesse, March 16, 2022

 

One of the Russian Government’s main accusations against the Government of Ukraine’s President Volodmyr Zelensky is that Zelensky’s forces are using Ukraine’s civilians as “human shields” in order to prevent Russian forces from bombing Ukrainian Government forces: in other words, Russia says that a major reason for civilian casualties in this war is the Ukrainian Government’s using its own citizenry as hostages to the conflict, so as to rely upon the non-brutality of Russia’s forces in order to protect Ukraine’s own forces.

 

On Tuesday, March 15th, CNN headlined “Mariupol deputy mayor says Russian troops are destroying his city” and reported that “Sergei Orlov, deputy mayor of Mariupol, said Russian forces are ‘destroying’ the besieged Ukrainian city and that patients in a hospital were used as captives.”

 

CNN wasn’t intentionally confirming a Russian-Government accusation, but merely reported what their source, Orlov, had said. No context was provided for his statement which would call attention to the fact that Orlov was actually confirming what Russia’s Government has been saying about this war. The CNN report didn’t even so much as just mention that Mr. Orlov is an official of the existing Ukrainian government in Mariupol, and that the Russian forces are trying to take over the city from that government — the government of which he is an official.

Eric Zuesse -- Who actually CAUSED this war in Ukraine?

 

Who actually CAUSED this war in Ukraine?

 

Eric Zuesse, March 14, 2022

 

On 24 February 1990, U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush secretly informed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at Camp David, that though Bush and all of his agents such as Secretary of State James Baker had verbally promised the Soviet Union’s leader Mikhail Gorbachev that (as Baker put it) NATO would not expand “one inch to the east” (toward Russia’s border) if communism and the Soviets’ NATO-mirror military alliance Warsaw Pact would end, and the Soviet Union break up, this had been only in order to deceive Gorbachev, and, that actually, the Cold War on the U.S.-and-allied side would secretly continue until Russia itself would ultimately become part of the U.S.-controlled empire. Later, Bush similarly informed other U.S.-allied heads-of-state. A colleague recently told me that he considers this okay because there was no signed agreement by Gorbachev and Bush on this matter; so, those promises should just have been ignored by Gorbachev. (In other words: Bush’s intention for America and its allies to conquer Russia was okay.) I responded to him as follows: 

 

Because of your underlying assumption that ONLY WRITTEN agreements count, I just now did some research on whether America’s now having unilaterally cancelled Russia’s membership in the WTO (World Trade Organization) so as to be able to tariff at sky-high rates Russian imports into the U.S. is legal. America is a signed member of WTO, and so is Russia.

 

The WTO Treaty (called “GATT” for “General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade”) opens with Article 1, Paragraph 1, which prohibits any member from providing “any advantage, favour, privilege or immunity granted by any contracting party to any product originating in or destined for any other country” unless the same treatment is being provided to all other member countries. That’s the core of the GATT: non-discriminatory international trade

 

PT -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Bloqueios de Informação – Como e Porquê? -- March 04, 2022

 

Bloqueios de Informação – Como e Porquê?

 

Por Larry Romanoff, Março 4, 2022

 

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Estamos todos conscientes da capacidade que a Cabala Anglo-Zionista Internacional de Gangsters (ICG) tem para propagar a sua linha preferida da reportagem para cada ocasião, como acontece hoje com o conflito Rússia/Ucrânia. Geralmente, empregam o poder dos meios de comunicação social ocidental para sobrecarregar o público mundial com a versão aceite dos acontecimentos. Mas como é que os EUA e Israel e a ICG, conseguem evitar de maneira tão bem sucedida, a publicidade negativa das suas próprias aventuras em matéria de política externa? A maioria acreditaria, instintivamente, ter uma resposta fácil para esta pergunta, visto que parece depender simplesmente da censura dos meios de comunicação social, mas podemos estar enganados. Existem mais razões para um bloqueio de informação bem sucedido, do que aquilo que é óbvio à primeira vista.

 

Claro que a primeira parte, é o controlo quase universal de todos os meios de comunicação ocidentais por um punhado relativamente pequeno de indivíduos, todos eles judeus. O que inclui primeiro, os serviços noticiosos como a AP e a Reuters, depois os jornais e a maioria das revistas, estações e redes da rádio e de televisão mais conhecidas, praticamente toda a indústria editorial de livros, todos os meios de comunicação social e plataformas da Internet relacionadas, como a Wikipedia e a Google, “fact-checkers” como o desprezível Instituto Poynter, bem como 90% de Hollywood que inclui tanto filmes como programas de televisão. O controlo que efectuam sobre a informação, é quase total.

 

Mas esse controlo vai muito além da propriedade. Como exemplo, The Globe & Mail é (foi) um jornal respeitável há muito reconhecido como o jornal nacional do Canadá. Há alguns anos, o Globe publicou um artigo referindo em pormenor as atrocidades então cometidas contra os árabes pelos judeus da Palestina. O artigo não era inflamatório ou ideológico, mas simplesmente uma crónica precisa dos acontecimentos que os editores acreditavam que deveria ser levada ao conhecimento do mundo. Logo na manhã seguinte, toda a metade superior da primeira página do Globo trazia uma enorme fotografia de um soldado judeu a dar doces a uma criança supostamente palestiniana, com um texto a condizer. Não é necessário ter muita imaginação para saber o que aconteceu algures, atrás de uma porta fechada. A data era 1983 e, nos 39 anos a partir de então, o Globo não publicou um único artigo que depreciasse, quer judeus, quer Israel. Isto é controlo. Relatei esta parte e ainda mais, num artigo sobre Propaganda e os Meios de Comunicação - Estabelecer e Controlar a Narrativa. Talvez queira lê-lo. (1)

 

ROB SLANE -- When Fanatical Ideology Bumps up Against Stone Cold Reality

 When Fanatical Ideology Bumps up Against Stone Cold Reality 

 

 March 13, 2022  Rob Slane 

 

 

I have avoided writing anything on recent events in Ukraine thus far, partly because I wanted to see how events were panning out, partly because I still don’t quite understand how this all fits in with the two year Globalist PsyOp that ended abruptly on 24^th February – the same day as the Russian military operation started, as coincidence would have it – but mainly because the experience of trying to write rational analysis in the midst of propaganda that would have made the editors of Pravda blush is no easy task.

As a brief defence against those who will inevitably smear my attempts to analyse the context behind all this as somehow pro-Russian, let me ask them not to bother. I really don’t even understand the frame of reference, since I don’t view the world in the absurd black hat/white hat terms that lead to such jibes. And in any case, I am pro-God and pro-Truth, as well as being a patriotic Englishman who writes on such topics because he believes this once green and pleasant land is now run by terminally foolish clowns and Globalist ideologues who do not govern for the people but in the interests of others. I would also point out that I was writing about atrocities committed against Ukrainians years before it became fashionable to do so. However, unfortunately it seems I was supporting the wrong Ukrainians — the ones nobody cares about — in the Donbass, who have been killed, terrorised and forced to leave the country by their own brutal Government for eight years, with some even deliberately burned alive by the neo-Nazis formations that apparently don’t exist. Those caveats aside, let’s press on.

For most Westerners, it appears that the current conflict suddenly dropped from the sky one morning in February 2022. They woke up to hear about a Russian invasion, and without any prior knowledge or context, having been denied this for years by their so-called free press, simply accepted the narrative thrown at them that this invasion was utterly unprovoked — the brainchild of a madman who wishes to recreate Hammer and Sickle Land again.

None of this is remotely true. Whatever the actual reasons for invading at this particular time — and I don’t believe for one moment that we have the full picture yet — this conflict most certainly did not drop out of the sky or from the ravings of a lunatic on 24^th February 2022. No, it is part of a sequence of events that was set off years ago, particularly in 2014, which were clearly destined to reshape the world. As I wrote back in September 2014:

“I believe this crisis to be the defining crisis of the 21st Century so far. … It is also something that may well define the shape of the planet for the rest of the century — whether we are left with a unipolar world … or whether we see a new multipolar world emerging … It is in a very real sense the key battle between globalisation and national sovereignty.”