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Kyiv Independent news is anything but independent. It’s a mouthpiece for NATO-USA-Azov-nazi propaganda and unverified atrocity stories
Yesterday President Biden annbounced another $800 million ‘for Ukraine’, a ghoulish investment aimed at fanning the flames of ear, promoting the PR Narrative (admittedly often outright lies)- By now TV news is nationalize by the ruling party, all 11 opposition parties banned and most media outlets closed down.
Throughout this war, one of the most prolific voices has been the Kyiv Independent. Through both its website and its Twitter account, it has been posting a nearly endless stream of unconfirmed and often fantastical pro-Ukrainian propaganda along with unverified, and often unattributed tales of the latest Russian atrocities.
Despite never offering even a scrap of evidence, however, it exploded from a few thousand followers before the war to several million now, with millions more following its individual reporters. It is routinely promoted by some of the biggest names in media, such as CNN and Fox News.
Let’s take a look at one tweet in particular, as an example of this. On March 30, the Kyiv Independent tweeted this:
We can see here a blending between truth and lies. While strikes would hit the warehouse, and the Red Cross would confirm that (and also, that it had been abandoned for more than two weeks by that time and all aid was distributed), no evidence was given that the strikes were Russian and the Red Cross did not comment on it.
The only source for the claim that the attacks were Russian is the Azov Battalion, putting the credibility of the statement into serious doubt. Kyiv Independent does not tell you this.
Despite this being posted with no evidence in the first place, the tweet was re-tweeted 12,000 times. How many people could this piece of literal Nazi propaganda have reached?
This outfit is well-funded and well-run. They can and do produce large amounts of good-quality English-language content very quickly. The market for this content, obviously, is not Ukrainians, but the West.
It is important to understand just how a propaganda network like this works. This blending of truth and lie is very common. The terrible realities of war mean that there is always plenty of information to report. Attacks and counterattacks. Bombs falling here. Shells there. Deaths and fires.
It is important to understand just how a propaganda network like this works. This blending of truth and lie is very common. The terrible realities of war mean that there is always plenty of information to report. Attacks and counterattacks. Bombs falling here. Shells there. Deaths and fires.
Much of this is probably accurate information. The sheer volume of it, combined with all the promotion, paid or otherwise, means that soon you will see Kyiv Independent reports on every screen, every day.
However, you only get one side of the issue. It is illegal to report on Ukrainian military casualties. This means that all you will see is dead Russians, burning Russian tanks and the wreckage of Russian aircraft. This creates an image of an invincible Ukrainian Army, killing Russians by the thousands with no losses of their own…………..
Meanwhile, every shell and bomb that hits a Ukrainian city is relentlessly covered. This means that the Russians are simultaneously portrayed as an omnipresent bogeyman, but also as incompetent cowards. Umberto Eco’s words about shifting rhetorical focus are relevant here.
Peppered in the endless streams of more mundane reporting, however, are the increasingly unhinged calls for escalation. Worse yet, at some points the mask comes off entirely, such as in this bizarre article which seems to both downplay nuclear war, and cast it as an acceptable price to pay for Ukrainian victory, all while accusing Putin of being the nuclear threat.
It is clear that the editorial position of this paper is that the war should escalate, more people should die and, if necessary, Russia, and therefore the Russian people, should be annihilated with nuclear weapons. More than that, their position seems to be that we cannot afford NOT to do so.
No one would win World War III. Not even the reporters at Kyiv Independent. No one except the arms dealers. This outfit has greatly outsized reach with which to spread these ideas…….
The paper was founded in 2021 after the staff of the Kyiv Post walked out en masse after the paper came under new ownership. While it is presented as a valiant attempt to retain editorial control, the seed funding the Post received from the Canadian Government and European Endowment for Democracy (the EU equivalent of the NED) tells another tale.
Indeed, if you look more closely at the staff, a pattern of collaboration with NATO regime-change operations becomes very clear.
Meet the team:………………………………………………………………….
In later articles, I will elaborate on this, but the network is quite extensive. As you can see from their documents, they are in up to their heads in NATO regime-change cash.…………………….
(Article also shows links of the journalists to USA militaristic think tanks, and to uKraine’s AZOV brigade and NAZI groups…..
In a new low even for him, journalist Illia Pomonarenko, on March 27, 2022, in response to widely circulated videos of Ukrainian fascists torturing and kneecapping Russian prisoners, Illia not only made no apologies for their crimes, but called for further atrocities……………………………………… https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/13/ned-finances-key-ukrainian-propaganda-organ-the-kyiv-independent/#comment-4881
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The flagship of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, the cruiser Moskva, was hit on April 14 by two missiles. After evacuating more than 500 crew members, the Moskva sank as she was being towed to Sevastopol. we don’t know yet about casualties, except that Ukraine claims the captain was killed.
The Ukrainian government claimed responsibility for the attack, while the Russians initially claimed a fire spread, causing ammunition to explode.
A US drone had circled above the cruiser on Thursday, monitoring its…
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The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia like illness spreading across Wuhan, China.
However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organisation officially named the novel coronavirus disease as Covid-19.
So with this being the official truth, why does United States Government data show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a contract on the 12th November 2019 to Labyrinth Global Health INC. for ‘COVID-19 Research’, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19?
US Department of Defense granted at “COVID-19 Research” https://jamesfetzer.org ›Thecontract was awarded 20th September 2012, and concluded on 13th October 2020. Whilst the details are vague, the US Government site also reveals that $21.7 million of the $116.6 million contact was spent on a ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.
The shocking findings however, do not end there. The contract awarded in November 2019 for ‘COVID-19 Research’ was not only instructed to take place in Ukraine, it was in fact part of a much larger contract for a ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.
Perhaps explaining why Labyrinth Global Health has been collaborating with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, and Ernest Wolfe’s Metabiota since its formation in 2017.
https://survivalmagazine.org › The contract details found on the ‘USA Spending’ site actually reveal that the specific DODdepartment that awarded the contact was the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The contract was awarded 20th September 2012, and concluded on 13th October 2020.
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The flagship of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, the cruiser Moskva, was hit on April 14 by two missiles. After evacuating more than 500 crew members, the Moskva sank as she was being towed to Sevastopol. we don’t know yet about casualties, except that Ukraine claims the captain was killed.
The Ukrainian government claimed responsibility for the attack, while the Russians initially claimed a fire spread, causing ammunition to explode.
A US drone had circled above the cruiser on Thursday, monitoring its progress towards Sevastopol.
The destruction of the Moskva is the work of NATO and, more specifically, of the British. Only NATO is capable of determining the exact position of the ship in real time. Only NATO can relay that information to the coastal defense in Odessa, which is also run by NATO specialists.
Hence the similarities with the sinking of the ship General Belgrano in 1982, during the Falklands War, torpedoed by a British submarine. Since the end of the Second World War there are not many more precedents for amphibious attacks against cruisers of the size of the Moskva.
NATO launched the missiles from more than 260 kilometers away. These are RS-360 Neptune subsonic anti-ship missiles, which entered service last year and are designed to destroy surface ships of more than 5,000 tons. Its characteristics are secret, although it is based on the Soviet Kh-35 anti-ship missile.
The attack was carried out at a long distance because the Russian fleet does not approach the Black Sea coast, due to NATO’s coastal defense systems and naval mines.
The Moskva cruiser entered service in 1983 in the Soviet Navy. She was built in Nikolayev, Ukraine, between 1976 and 1979. She participated in the Georgian War in 2008 and in the Syrian one from 2015.
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The operation was conducted in full cooperation between the Navy and NATO forces. According to air monitoring data of April 12, a British reconnaissance aircraft RC-135 was actively working in the Black Sea area and UAV RQ-4 Global Hawk flights were recorded at different times.
On that day, Alliance reconnaissance confirmed the presence of the Moskva, checked signatures and received comprehensive data on the location of other Russian Black Sea Fleet ships.
Movement of a British reconnaissance plane through Romanian territory. It is likely that the transponders were turned off before flying into the Black Sea.
The flight of American reconnaissance aircraft in the Black Sea.
The flight data of the U.S. RC-135 and RQ-4 planes became unavailable. The reason was that the aerial reconnaissance aircraft flew with their transponders turned off, and civilian airspace monitoring equipment could not detect them, which is more than a clear sign of a military reconnaissance mission.
The missile strike on the cruiser was carried out using the Neptune missile system, a modern missile system made with military microelectronics manufactured in Western Europe.
Thus, it was able to receive external target designation from NATO reconnaissance aircraft. According to a number of reports, the attack on the cruiser also involved Bayraktar UAVs, which served for distraction of the Russian Navy.
1. The naval blockade of Ukrainian ports is threatened. The Black Sea Fleet, due to its small number, cannot continue to lose surface ships. Russia has to look for other means to keep the coast and Ukrainian ports under control.
2. The attacks on the Russian Black Sea Fleet may continue, including with the NSM SCARs, the range of which is up to 300 km and allows the UAF to destroy Russian warships almost in the whole water area of the Black Sea, including the coast of Crimea. The Black Sea Fleet will be gradually pushed out of the waters of the Black Sea to the coast of the peninsula. Russia may be provoked into using its clear world lead in hypersonic missiles which NATO has currently no defense against, and sink a NATO ship encroaching on its marine territory.
3. The main direction of the AFU offensive becomes the South of Ukraine, the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Britain has repeatedly made it clear that Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, primarily Odessa, are of strategic importance.
The Donbass is also being reinforced in order to exhaust Russian and allied forces, but Russia is only using a small percentage of its military. The embedded AFU grouping, which has been strengthening for seven years and shelling Donbass with 13,000 victims, is far from being depleted. It consists of up to 35,000 military including the now leading Azov nazi forces with the mission of destroying the Donbass republics.
4. The Dnepropetrovsk region, as the political center in Southern Ukraine, which links all the surrounding regions, turns into another military coordination center.
5. Crimea becomes a priority target for the AFU and NATO operations. This confirms the Pentagon’s statement that the U.S. will provide Kiev with intelligence information on targets in Crimea and Donbass.
6. Not only the Black Sea Fleet, but also facilities and forces of the Crimean ground grouping may come under attack. The AFU hope to paralyze the logistics and resupply of the “southern” grouping of the Russian Armed Forces operating from Kherson.
7. The US will further step up its sanctions (extortion war), using illegal threats to force countries and corporations to sanction and boycott Russia and not pay in Rubles.
8. If Europe is forced to boycott Russian energy the EU economy will be shattered. The US on the other hand is presently self sufficient in fracked gas and close to it in oil, with its arms industry booming.
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Health officials are reinstating and extending mask mandates, citing a surge in the Omicron BA.2 variant, but data don’t appear to support those decisions.
Philadelphia on Monday became the first major city to reinstate its mask mandate, citing the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron BA.2 variant.
Columbia University, Georgetown, Barnard College and Johns Hopkins University this week reinstated mask mandates for their campuses.
And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the mask mandate for public transportation, which was supposed to expire April 18, until May 3.
Are these decisions supported by science?
That was the question political commentator Kim Iversen asked viewers on Thursday’s segment of The Hill’s “Rising.”
Iversen reviewed case and mortality data from the cities of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
She also examined nationwide data from the CDC, looking for evidence that would justify the return to masks.
Starting with Philadelphia, Iversen pointed to The New York Times coronavirus tracker for Philadelphia County for April 13.
“The cases are extremely low,” she said. “They’re currently looking at a seven-day average of 176 cases per day, and that’s in a city of 1.5 million.”
“Now compare this to even the little baby wave the city had in September, which had them seeing about 450 cases per day,” Iversen said.
Iversen then compared Philadelphia’s current numbers to the city’s Omicron surge in January, when officials recorded about 5,000 to 6,000 cases per day on average.
Deaths currently are averaging two per day, she noted, which is down 22% during the last two weeks.
“We also don’t know if these people died of COVID or with it, as a lot of places will list a person as a COVID death if they just test positive, despite them dying of other obvious ailments like cancer or injuries,” Iversen said.
The chart was similarly flat for Washington, D.C. — home of Georgetown University — which recorded just a “slight uptick” in cases and “zero deaths.”
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Turning to the question of the efficacy of masking in preventing transmission, Iversen cited a tweet from Justin Hart at Rational Ground.
Hart summarized nationwide data from the CDC that compared the average number of cases for 100,000-plus population counties with and without mask mandates.
The blue line represents counties that had mask mandates and the orange line represents the counties that didn’t:
Finally, Iversen reviewed data from two Asian countries with mask mandates and high compliance — Japan and South Korea.
She said:
“So, let’s look at Japan. Now you can see that huge spike and then a little dip, and they’re now going back up again. Their seven-day average is currently at 50,000 cases per day. At the height of their big wave, they were seeing 100,000 cases per day, and they all wear masks all the time.
“In South Korea, they’re currently at 150,000 cases per day, and at the recent peak, they were seeing a whopping 400,000 cases per day on average. And again, they wear masks all the time with solid compliance.”
Iversen concluded:
“So we have everything we need for you to choose to stay as safe as possible from a negative COVID outcome. You can decide to socially distance, get the vaccine multiple times, take an early treatment drug and, yes, if you want, you can even mask up.
“But as the world is finding out, preventing transmission seems to be very difficult, and every mandate we’ve tried — besides extreme social distancing and total border lockdowns before a virus gets into the country — has been unsuccessful at accomplishing it.”
Iversen also pointed out that the argument cited by public officials, such as Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole — that we are masking up to prevent a new surge that doesn’t yet exist — creates a scenario in which we would “be masked forever,” since no one now expects us to ever reach “zero COVID.”
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If you’ve been following the news about Ukraine but still don’t understand that it’s the single most aggressively narrative managed and psyop-intensive war in human history, there is a 100 percent chance you believe false things about what’s happening there.
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It’s not a question of if the US played a role in Imran Khan’s removal but how and to what extent.
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We’re about to see a judge sign off on Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States for exposing the empire’s war crimes while that same empire blasts us all in the face with an unprecedented war propaganda campaign about rescuing Ukraine’s freedom and democracy.
Just the fact that the US and UK are imprisoning a journalist for exposing the war crimes of a war criminal president—just that one fact by itself—completely invalidates all criticisms of Russia from Washington and its allies.
Fun little factoid: if you subtract all the narratives being used to justify it, the Assange case looks exactly the same as the world’s most powerful government imprisoning a journalist for telling the truth.
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“Opinion” segments and articles in mainstream news media exist not to give you an idea of what opinions are out there but to define what opinions are permissible. The front page teaches you what to think, the opinion section teaches you how to think.
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Once you figure out that corporations are part of the government it becomes clear what corporate media propaganda and corporate internet censorship really are.
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