Putting Words in Her Mouth

Ebba Busch is the leader of the Christian Democrats in Sweden. The following report describes the way Ms. Busch’s words were deliberately mistranslated by Radio Sweden, the state broadcasting service, in its Arabic, Somali, and Kurdish channels.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Nya Dagbladet:

SR accused of deliberate mistranslating of Busch

Disinformation in the media

Isac Boman
May 6, 2022

In Radio Sweden’s Somali, Arab, and Kurdish channels, Ebba Busch’s statement after the Koran riots was translated in a seriously erroneous manner.

Critics believe that the incorrect translations are deliberate, and the Christian Democrats (KD) are demanding a meeting with the leaders of the tax-financed channel.

As Nya Dagbladet was earlier able to report, Ebba Busch, in an interview with Radio Sweden, asked why we didn’t see injured Islamists instead of the 100 (actually at least 180) police who were injured during the riots.

“So we have at least 100 injured police, and the big question that should be asked is: “Why don’t we have at least 100 injured Islamists, criminals, and rioters?”

When Radio Sweden reported on the statements on its channels, the term “Islamists” was suddenly changed to “Muslims” in both the Arab and Somali broadcasts.

The Bonnier* newspaper Dagens Nyheter first reported that Radio Sweden’s Arab-language editorial staff incorrectly reported that Busch asked, “Why have we not seen 100 injured Muslims?”— a mistranslation that was noticed by an Arab-speaking man who also reported the post to the media ombudsman.

Editor-in-Chief Gabi Kratz claimed in defense that it was all a “mistake” that came up in the reading of the same news — in spite of the fact that the incorrect translation was also found in text form on the editor’s official Facebook page.

The site Doku has also revealed that Radio Sweden’s Somali editorial staff incorrectly translated Busch’s statement and used the word, “Muslims” instead of “Islamists”. In addition, a caption in the feature claimed that “KD’s party leader, Ebba, was complaining that police didn’t kill many Muslims.”

The Christian Democrats maintain that there are indications that the incorrect translations are “sitting out there in the system” and demand that Radio Sweden officials explain themselves.

“We are very upset that they are spreading pure lies, and they are doing it on channels where it is the hardest to detect”.

“We demand an explanation and a meeting with the management of Radio Sweden. They must now explain how they run their publishing business. It is four months to the election, and we do not accept disinformation from anyone,” he continues.

Johan Ingerö tweet, May 3 (1)

In addition, who takes responsibility now for their mistranslations? When and where will the Arabic-language denials come?

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The Evacuation of the Last Civilians From Azovstal

I posted a translation a couple of days ago alleging that the Azov Battalion was demanding a set price for allowing civilians to be evacuated from the Azovstal plant in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol. According to the following report, the last of the civilians have finally been permitted to leave. Der Spiegel and Anti-Spiegel have very published different versions of what happened.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Anti-Spiegel:

The last civilians were evacuated from the steelworks and how “creative” Der Spiegel reports about it

Azov militants have finally let the last civilians out of the Mariupol Steel Plant.

The fighters of the neo-Nazi Azov battalion have finally withdrawn the last civilians from the Mariupol steelworks. The report was also confirmed by the Ukrainian government, which does not prevent Der Spiegel from presenting it differently. I’ll first translate the Russian news agency’s report on the subject, then we’ll see what Der Spiegel makes of it.

Start of translation of TASS bulletin:

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister confirms that civilians have been evacuated from Azovstal

According to Iryna Vereshchuk, “this part of the humanitarian operation is over.”

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed on Saturday that civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

“All children, women and old people have been evacuated from Azovstal,” she wrote on her Telegram channel. According to the deputy prime minister, “this part of the humanitarian operation is complete.”

Earlier, the DNR’s territorial defense staff reported that a group of 50 people were evacuated from the facility on Saturday. Thus, the total number of civilians evacuated from the facility reached 176 people.

A day earlier, 25 people, including women and children, had been evacuated from the site area.

Fighting for Mariupol began on February 25 and the city was completely blocked. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian nationalist groups have been expelled from the residential areas and the Azovstal plant has been blocked. According to the Interdepartmental Coordination Center for Humanitarian Aid of the Russian Federation, on May 5, 6 and 7 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the Russian Armed Forces opened a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the plant premises, their presence in the underground structures of the plant reported by the Kiev government. Russian and DNR forces have been systematically opening humanitarian corridors since late March.

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Der Spiegel‘s lies were discussed in the UN Security Council

Der Spiegel lies so blatantly that one of its articles was even discussed at the UN Security Council meeting on May 6th. Der Spiegel had shown a video in which a woman who had escaped from the steel mill reported on her experiences. Der Spiegel had presented it as if the woman had accused the Russian armed forces of not letting the civilians out of the plant.

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The Anti-Narrative on Ukraine

It’s all but impossible for Americans to acquire information about the war in Ukraine that does not consist of propaganda and/or disinformation. Almost everything we encounter is derived from Western governments or the mainstream media, which act uniformly to promote the globalist party line. Nothing is allowed through that does not support the Narrative on Ukraine.

To find anything different, we have to examine sources that derive their information from pro-Russian propaganda and/or disinformation. Those are our only two choices. For all intents and purposes, truly independent and objective reporting on the ground in Ukraine simply doesn’t exist.

Since most of the material available to us is drawn from pro-Zelensky propaganda, I like to post reports drawn from the propaganda for the other side, in an effort to achieve a sort of balance.

Hellequin GB has translated three articles from Anti-Spiegel, a German-language site that presents the Russian viewpoint, and uses translations from Russian media. Call it the “Anti-Narrative”.

Concerning the first article, the translator says:

Since none of us really knows what is going on over there, I leave it to everyone to make up their own mind about this article from Thomas Röper. But still, it should give people some food for thought about why the “Azov Battalion” and the Ukrainian state, which were not so long ago branded by the mainstream media and Western governments as “neo-Nazi” and the most corrupt place on Earth, became almost overnight the West’s darling.

The translated article:

Mariupol

Azov demands: “15 civilians for a ton of food and medicine”

The Azov Battalion’s latest “proposal” for the “evacuation” of civilians is that they are willing to exchange 15 civilians for a ton of food and medicine.

Since the Azov battalion let the first (and so far only) group of about a hundred civilians out of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on Sunday, further offers from the Russian side to let civilians out of the steelworks via humanitarian corridors have gone unheeded. Civilians who escaped from the steel mill on Sunday have confirmed to the international press that they were being held there against their will by Azov militants. Der Spiegel, for example (Beim Lügen erwischt: Welt und Spiegel verändern (heimlich) ihre Artikel — Anti-Spiegel), brazenly lied about it and, against its better knowledge, completely misrepresented the statements by the witnesses.

Since the civilians who escaped also said that there were several hundred other civilians in the catacombs under the steelworks who were not being let out, it is clear that the Russians were right in their accusations against the Azov fighters: they were holding the civilians hostage and as human shields. That became more than clear afterwards, because since the first civilians came out a few days ago, the Russian army has opened humanitarian corridors every day, but no one has come out.

Now the Azov fighters have finally dropped their masks and made a new “proposal” to the Russian army: they are ready to let the civilians go, but only in exchange for food and medicine. They even named a “price” for the people: 15 civilians in exchange for a ton of food and medicine.

This is not Russian propaganda, by the way, because no denial came from Kyiv or from Azov after the Russian army reported it. Why deny? In Kyiv, one can rely on the Western media not to mention this.

Russia has not yet rejected the “proposal” and has not agreed to it either. The comments in Russia speak instead of “methods used by terrorists” and of “hostage-taking” and “human trafficking”.

Unlike Western media, Russian TV reported this news on the evening news in a report I translated on the current situation in Mariupol.

Start of translation:

The Russian military reopened a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol today. It will remain open both tomorrow and Saturday to allow civilians to leave the Azovstal plant and nationalists to lay down their arms and surrender. But the militants responded with a new, this time particularly cynical, offer: the exchange of civilians for food. They even made a price offer: 15 people for a ton of food and medicine. The Kremlin has already pointed out that such demands are usually made by terrorists. A report from Mariupol.

The captain on the bridge stares out to sea through the glass pane shattered by Ukrainian shrapnel. His Tsarevna, as the dry cargo ship is called, has not been able to leave the berth for three months. The port of Mariupol does not let the sailors go.

“On February 21 they came into the port and on February 24 at 10 a.m. the port was closed. The other ships were evacuated because one burned down and the other, the Lady Augusta, has technical problems. We are waiting for the blue corridor to open and we can set sail,” says Pavel Pavlov, captain of the ship Tsarevna.

But now it is simply impossible to sail — the Ukrainian nationalists, who have made what was once the largest port on the Sea of Azov their fortress, have hidden behind the crews as if behind human shields. (Russian translator’s note: During one of my trips to the conflict zone, I met crew members of one of the ships, since after their liberation they stayed in the same hotel as us journalists, during which time I spoke with them at length.)

When the nationalists withdrew from their positions in the port of Mariupol, they blocked the fairway with a sunken ship. Leaving the port is now impossible. In addition, the militants of the Kiev regime laid nine sea mines in the port, which are now chaotically moving somewhere in the area waters.

Specialists from the DNR [Donetsk People’s Republic] Ministry of Emergency Situations are working on clearing the port and have already been able to defuse several anti-ship mines. The reconstruction of the port infrastructure has also begun. According to the authorities of the republic, the first cargo ship is expected to leave Mariupol at the end of May.

Today the artillery cannonade over the city’s industrial area has subsided. After the coalition forces of Russia and the Donetsk People’s Republic unilaterally ceased fire, they again opened a humanitarian corridor for the civilians staying at the Azovstal complex. It will remain open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. until May 7 inclusive. The Azov nationalists, who continue to hold civilians there without giving them any information about the possibility of leaving the plant, are now safely blocked in the remains of the steel mill.

“We were intimidated: ‘You’re not going out here. Then you will be shot.’ They put it this way: Nobody is holding you, but there is no guarantee that you will get out,” people said.

Thanks to the efforts of the Russian military, more than a hundred people were able to leave Azovstal on April 30 and May 1. However, immediately after this, the Azov fighters again went into firing position and tried to break through in small groups. This was followed by massive artillery attacks on the positions of the nationalists.

And now the Russian side is again declaring a ceasefire. Today, however, the humanitarian corridors are empty. At the same time, the Azov militants have stated that they do not intend to release more civilians and have set conditions: Hostages in exchange for food and medicine. They even set their own exchange rate: 15 people for a ton of food and medicine. This is how terrorists usually negotiate, like they did for example in Syria. However, the similarity between the methods of the Middle Eastern radicals and the neo-Nazis in Ukraine does not end there. The fighters of the Kiev regime also prefer to fight the civilian population than the Russian armed forces and continue to shell civilian targets in the cities of Donbass on a daily basis.

“The kids don’t go out because they’re scared. You don’t know what could come from above at any moment. They sleep in the basement or under the bed,” says this woman.

Since the end of February, attacks by Ukrainian armed forces and nationalists have already killed a hundred civilians in the DNR and wounded five times as many.

end of translation

The second article talks about the deceitful games being played concerning the flow of Russian natural gas to Central Europe:

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Conspiracy Fact

MC provides a useful overview of the “pandemic” and the “vaccination” that fixed everything.

Conspiracy Fact

by MC

If one takes the time to think that most of our leaders have taken an oath of office, and then look at the reality of those oaths, sworn upon a ‘holy’ book (but discarded a few seconds later), one cannot help but contemplate their blasphemy.

There are, however, some notable exceptions, and these fruitful stalks among the tares will keep the whole mess functioning until Messiah comes.

Yahovah regards ‘the journey’ (the Way) as important whereas the destination is unimportant because it is always the same (the gates of the Father’s abode), but the spirit of Antichrist always assumes that the ends justify the means; for the pathway to tyranny is paved with good intentions.

I sincerely believe that Hitler and his goons truly believed that they were doing the world a favour by wiping out Untermenschen: Jews, Russians (Slavs), Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Evangelical Christians amongst others.

Many deny these atrocities, but they are well documented and archaeological digs at Sobibor and Treblinka have borne out witness testimony.

As a society, we are rapidly unlearning the lessons of the Holocaust, that men (and women) ‘on a mission’ have a tendency to forget the journey, and concentrate only on the destination.

Too many ‘conspiracy theories’ have turned into conspiracy facts in the last two to three years, and the use of the ‘conspiracy theory’ epithet has become a tool in the arsenal of propaganda weaponry to be wheeled out to distract public opinion from landing at the airport of truth.

When Edward Bernays, at the behest of Big Tobacco, manipulated public opinion such that women could smoke in public, it was a trivial but profitable exercise in mass manipulation, but it was also the treacherous footing at the head of a slippery slope.

Most readers of this site were aware by the middle of 2020 that something was very, very wrong and sinister about the Covid19 panic ‘pandemic’; and that the very definition of pandemic had to be changed was a clear indication that this was a large-scale manipulation. People were dying, yes, but were they dying with covid or from covid or later, from the vaccine?

The propaganda became very leaky when RTA victims were shown to have been included in official covid stats, and when the inventor of the covid (PCR) ‘test’ indicated that it was being misused. Hitherto the word ‘cases’ had only been used when symptoms were present, suddenly, anyone who tested positive was a ‘case’, ill or not, and all based upon a misused test that had a 97% rate of false positives.

I had read (and lived through) the sad history of the ‘AIDS’ panic in the 1980s and I was aware of the shortcomings of PCR testing in the AIDS context, and that the HIV = AIDS theory remained unproven.

The information was available almost from day one when Peter Duesberg stated that AIDS was a product of drug abuse and AZT, the very medicine that was supposed to treat it.

But he was in a long and lonely battle with Big Pharma and the NIH/FDA/CDC medical racket.

And here we were in 2020 with the same cast of gangsters actors with the same “we’re all gonna die” mantra that we had heard from AIDS and from those mad cows…

We did not ‘all’ die, in fact relatively few of us died (from covid, that is)…

A few got in their hurricanes and started to spit fire; they were the ‘conspiracy theorists’. They pointed out that the (doodle) bugs were easy to kill if you got the preparations right. Even the President caught on and recommended hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic (to howls of rage from ignorant and inflamed Democrats and RINOs).

Warp Speed was supposed to bring us a new, safe and effective vaccine, it was warped and it was fast, but it was fast because it was already on the starting grid waiting for the green light. All that had to be set up was the delivery and payment systems…

All for a virus that supposedly appeared in bats sold in a wet market that did not sell bats.

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Dispatches from the Killing Fields

Hellequin GB has translated three German-language articles that illustrate various aspects of the increasingly lethal dystopia we are all now forced to inhabit.

#1 Believe or burn

From Freischwebende Intelligenz:

In the clutches of the forced confessional community

Would you like a round of Russian hatred? A society that knows no more shades of gray is bound to be totalitarian.

by Milosz Matuschek

At the beginning of the pandemic, you were already amazed at how quickly it went. Did you notice it, too? Suddenly Islamist terror was gone. And not just a little bit gone, but completely gone. Probably killed by Corona. Or did ISIS take a short break out of pandemic piety? Well, the media kaleidoscope has just turned again. In the window “safe to hate” appears, like on the turntable of a juke box, after the man with the beard and turban and the Querdenker, now the enemy from the mothball box: “The RUSSIAN”.

Yesterday a doctor’s coat, today a camouflage patch

With the new image of the enemy, the solidarity industry immediately shifts. The cloak of virtue has changed colour, from a white doctor’s coat to camouflage with yellow and blue merchandising. It’s a bit like Carola Rackete, the sea rescue captain, who quickly retrained in green world rescue. Ukraine cheerleading has already started on Facebook and elsewhere. Nothing against real sympathy and help for war refugees, of course. But the suspicion creeps in that the new Ukraine fans are pretty much the same people who clapped frantically for the nurses on balconies two years ago before kicking them in the back with a mandatory vaccination. Instead of incidence numbers that nobody understands, there are now Ukrainian city names that nobody knows. While a real war rages elsewhere.

After the Corona cancel culture, whose most prominent final victim is the head of a German health insurance company, who warned of the greatly increased side effects of vaccination and then lost his job, it is now the turn of the Russian cancel culture. At the University of Milan, a lecture on Dostoyevsky was recently canceled. In Munich, the conductor Valery Gergiev was fired; Anna Netrebko’s performances are currently being canceled worldwide. Those who don’t distance themselves from Putin quickly enough are defenestrated. The German SPD dutifully removed the Gerhard Schröder coffee mug from their shop. The ex-chancellor has been lobbying for Gazprom for decades.

Does expulsion from the party come next?

The coffee mug with the likeness of Karl Marx, “Have a coffee with Karl”, is, by the way, still available. Yes, there is always something more ridiculous.

Shades of gray no longer fit into the picture

The first casualty of war, some say, is truth. It is neutrality. Anyone who draws the stereotype of war over society only accepts the distinction between friend and foe. Democracy, which always thrives on nuances, shades of gray and alternatives, is being transformed into a forced confessional community in the media. Anyone who has a Facebook profile, please contact their responsible propaganda unit immediately. In such a situation we would need more competence in complexity instead of boastful declarations of certainty. Incidentally, neutrality does not mean indifference or total non-partisanship. Above all, neutrality is the sovereign right to freedom from compulsory confession. Just as it is part of freedom of opinion not to have an opinion or to have to express a specific one.

Stratagem number 6 of the Chinese theory of lists reads: “Make a noise in the east, attack in the west”. The winner for the last two years has clearly been China. No matter what happens: lockdowns, compulsory testing and vaccination, expansion of surveillance methods or now the war in Ukraine. All of this helps China to quietly scale the summit as the new world superpower. While everyone is watching the bloodshed in Ukraine, the West is bleeding itself dry. Inflation is skyrocketing, the middle class is going to the dogs, their own identity is blurring, Western values only count in the right camp.

The war has long been in people’s minds and hearts; it’s raging among us, globally and under the guise of fighting the pandemic. It is a war against the citizens of the West which officially must not exist. How convenient that there is now a real, visible war that distracts from exactly that.

All that’s really missing now is an extremely contagious Russian mutant variant, which is born as a result of a cyber-attack and is spread around the world through Russian gas and Russian vodka.

#2: Where has the harshness of the law been for the past seven years?

From the news portal T-Online:

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A Hall of Mirrors

I’ve always considered Russia to be a hall of mirrors, at least for a non-Slav who doesn’t speak Russian. Which means that figuring out what is really going on in Russia is all but impossible for me.

Russia has a long tradition of purveying disinformation for foreign consumption. Its techniques were perfected by the KGB and have continued under the post-Soviet political order. Russian propaganda artists are intelligent and skilled in what they do. The operatives who craft combinations of the classical KGB practices — including dezinformatsiya, provokatsiya, fabrikatsiya, and diversiya — are playing a long game. Shrewdly designed disinformation does not always serve an immediate goal, but is planted discreetly to achieve a long-term effect. It doesn’t have to make Russia look good (although it often does), but is intended to serve the larger interests of the Russian state.

Concerning the current war in Ukraine, there is almost no information available to me that is not ultimately derived from propaganda and disinformation, whether Russian or Western. If I were to exclude all stories that I consider to be propaganda, I would post nothing about the situation in Ukraine.

I’ve rejected out of hand almost all propaganda from the Western MSM. Unlike its Russian counterpart, it is generally shallow and obvious, and not at all interesting from my point of view. And since Vlad and I have no Ukrainian translators, this means that most of what appears here is ultimately derived from Russian propaganda.

This is not what I would prefer. No material on Ukraine is without an agenda, and I would prefer that all the different agendas were represented at Gates of Vienna. Readers could then sift through the information and make their own decisions about what appears to be plausible.

Everyone has an axe to grind, and I’d be glad to see them all ground here, provided that the grinders obey the rules of civil discourse.

I’m sure there is a wealth of useful video material in Ukrainian that presents propaganda for the Ukrainian cause. Anyone who speaks Ukrainian is invited to recommend clips and provide translations that Vlad and I can turn into subtitles. There must also be important stories from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova — all those countries that have every reason to be nervous about what is currently happening just across their borders in Ukraine or Belarus or Russia.

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The video below is from some sort of press conference given recently by Russian President Vladimir Putin. I’m not certain what the exact occasion was; something to do with Aeroflot. The owner of the channel that uploaded it is credited as the translator.

Given its draconian blackout on information from a Russian point of view, I’m surprised that YouTube has allowed it to stay up [activate “CC” to see the English subtitles]:

Video transcript:

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“As Though He Killed All Mankind…”

A reminder from Michael Copeland about the role that Sacred Lying plays in Islam.

“As Though He Killed All Mankind…”

by Michael Copeland

Supplying false information to Western public figures to read out is a favoured device of Islamic deceivers. Islam, as we know, authorises deception, taqiyya, of non-Muslims, kafirs, in the cause of Islam. The deceived leaders thus usefully and unwittingly misinform their listeners: simple. President Bush obligingly read out to camera the untrue line, “Islam is Peace,” which had been fed to him. The serial liar Tariq Ramadan, an advisor to successive British leaders, relayed the same to them. The result was, and remains, very influential more than twenty years later.

After the jihad killing in May of 2013 of the soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, Muslim community leaders were concerned to steer attention away from Islam. They craftily approached Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg [now president for global affairs at Facebook], and requested of him this load of clichés:

”to work with them to bring together people from all faiths and backgrounds to demonstrate that London stands united against all forms of extremism”.

They supplied text for him to use. He obliged. The Islam-compromised BBC made a propaganda broadcast of it, disguised as news, and filmed him at a “specially-organised gathering of faith and community leaders.” Their article does not say who it was who “specially-organised” the gathering. Perhaps it was the BBC. Clegg addressed his Muslim petitioners:

Thank you for speaking out as clearly as you have done, for a great salvation religion, for your faith, and for the community in which you live, and in which you… er… lead.

The BBC triumphantly announced, “Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has quoted the Koran to condemn the killing of a soldier in Woolwich, south-east London.” This is what he said:

And in that spirit I would like to simply conclude by repeating a verse from the holy Koran, verse 32, chapter 5:

‘If anyone kills a human being it shall be as though he killed all mankind whereas if anyone saves a life it shall be as though he saved the whole of mankind.’

Doesn’t that sound wonderful and inspiring? There is a problem, however. Clegg, acting in good faith, had been misled. This particular kind of deception has its own name, kitman, deception by telling only part of the story. There is more to Koran 5:32 than was supplied to him. Here it is in full:

On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person — unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our messengers with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.

For one thing, as can be seen, this instruction is, in fact, addressed not to Muslims, or to all mankind, but to the Jews, the “Children of Israel”. As it happens, this passage of the Koran is recycled, that is, plagiarised, Jewish scripture, from the Talmud. The Koran, though, adds that very significant exception:

unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land.

That is the part that is missing from Clegg’s quotation. Now a British soldier, an infidel, fighting the Taliban in a Muslim land such as Afghanistan is “spreading mischief in the land”. To kill him, therefore, is NOT as if it were slaying “all mankind”. The murder of a soldier, such as Lee Rigby, is permitted: it fits within the exception.

What happens to those who have been “spreading mischief in the land”? This is another part that was left out. It is the very next verse, 5:33, which expresses what has been “ordained”. Omitting this verse is a further act of kitman:

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A Tar Baby for Political Commentators

Since I posted yesterday about the propaganda and disinformation that infest the reportage on events in Ukraine, the amount of mendacity and fake news surrounding the war has, if anything, increased. The number of what I called “shallow fakes” in the visual reporting has grown enormously, to the point where there’s no reason to trust anything you see.

Images or videos from China in 2015, from Iraq in 2003, from Ukraine in 2014, are being repurposed as current news about the invasion of Ukraine. Just think about it — every one of those images and videos was deliberately inserted into social media or MSM news feeds with a fake identifier. That is, someone fully intended to hoax their audience with bogus information.

Who’s doing all that? How many agents of disinformation are out there feeding this malarkey into the common matrix of popular awareness? Who are they working for? Who’s paying them?

To my mind, anyone who forms an opinion based on what appears in the MSM, including Fox News, is being foolhardy, to put it mildly.

And it’s not just the pro-Ukraine people who are being fooled by fake news. Last night a little snip of video was being passed around on various sites that are (to put it mildly) skeptical about the NWO narrative on Ukraine. It was drawn from someone’s Twitter feed, and showed what was said to be a Russian armored personnel carrier being taken out by Ukrainian partisans throwing Molotov cocktails. It was soon discovered that the footage was in fact taken during a riot in 2014. So right-wing extremists are being gulled by fake news just as much as the news outlets that post that famous photo of Volodymyr Zelensky in his camouflaged body armor.

Once again, who deliberately retailed that disinformation? Who paid for it?

None of this is being done without a reason. The massive disinformation is part of a carefully crafted plan (or plans) on the part of one or more actors with a vested interest in the armed conflict in Ukraine.

As a result, I have decided to back off from any significant reporting on Ukraine. That includes translations of what I consider to be propaganda in various European languages. I hate to slight our translators that way, but I will not allow myself to be used as a conduit for what I judge to be disinformation.

I will make exceptions for items that debunk some of the fake news. Those deserve to be featured.

As for the rest of it, it can stay on CNN and Politico, where it belongs. In my opinion, anyone who takes the Ukraine reportage at face value is being played.

For a reality check, I recommend Sundance at Conservative Tree House, who is extremely skilled in the meta-analysis of current events.

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Before you conclude that you know what’s going on in Ukraine, I suggest that you read two essays by Takuan Seiyo, “Things Are Not What They Seem” and “Ukraine as Quantum Decoherence, Part 1”. I re-read both of them yesterday, and they reminded me of how little I know about the culture and history of that ill-fated region. The map at the top of this post serves as a reminder of the complexity of the situation.

A little humility is in order.

The Ukraine crisis seems to be escalating at an exponential rate. The neocon lunatics who are slavering over the idea of a war with Russia are now pushing for the enforcement by NATO (which means the USA) of a no-fly zone over Ukraine. That would constitute a direct act of war against a major power with an immense nuclear arsenal and hypersonic missiles.

This will not be like one of those little wars against Saddam Hussein, or the Taliban, or Ho Chi Minh. This is the real deal. It’s “On the Beach” territory.

The lunatics are running the asylum now, and there’s nothing that you and I can do about it. God help us all.

Shallow Fakes

One of the things I’ve noticed about the war in Ukraine has been the prevalence of fake photos and fake videos being used to advance the West’s propaganda. The images are generally from some previous conflict, and usually not taken in Ukraine. There are so many of them that it makes me wonder whether this war has produced more fakery than previous wars, or whether the earlier fakes went undetected because the search and detection capabilities of the Internet weren’t as advanced as they are now.

The following video from Germany busts some fake video footage put out by the tabloid Bild. The clips used are from 2014 and 2015, and have nothing to do with the current war. Someone peddled them deliberately as disinformation. Was it Bild itself? Or did Bild just get snookered by some other actor?

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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The Bad War

Until now I haven’t written about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, mainly because the topic is complex, and I’m not an expert on it. However, I’ve browsed enough data and edited enough material about it to have some idea of what’s going on.

First of all, from my perspective there are no good guys in this war. The anti-Russian invective being generated by Western media and politicians is vile, but anyone who takes the antipodal point of view and regards Vladimir Putin as a righteous defender of Russians and freedom is making a big mistake.

About 98% of what is written about the invasion is propaganda. Virtually anything that appears in the Western mainstream media is part of a carefully crafted narrative engineered by the Deep State (the State Department, the CIA, and analogous institutions on the other side of the Atlantic). However, there are also deep tranches of Russian disinformation out there. It’s more subtly executed than the heavy-handed dreck peddled by CNN and The New York Times, but it’s quite effective. Many people on what I consider my side of the fence have fallen for at least some of it. After all, when they do an about-face from the propaganda of the American MSM, they run head-on into material derived from dezinformatsiya planted in various Russian media outlets.

In other words, the atmosphere around the war in Ukraine is all but opaque with a thick cloud of metallic chaff released by every party that holds an interest in one side or the other in the conflict.

However, one thing that Vladimir Putin says is true: he has invaded Ukraine with the intention of de-nazifying it. The current government of Ukraine contains real Nazis — not the “nazis” decried by Justin Trudeau or the Southern Poverty Law Center, but organizations whose unbroken Nazi lineage may be traced back the SS and Stepan Bandera. You won’t read much about them in the media, but they are there — promoted, funded, and whitewashed by the globalist Left. Those Nazis were installed by George Soros’ NGOs and the State Department in 2014 during the Maidan coup.

For an in-depth analysis of what happened in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014, see these two essays by Takuan Seiyo, “Things Are Not What They Seem” and “Ukraine as Quantum Decoherence, Part 1”.

The war in Ukraine is primarily about two major issues: control of pipelines and the imposition of the globalists’ borderless New World Order. The NWO enthusiasts have been gung-ho about the Ukrainian border because they want to prevent the Russians from jamming a sabot into the gears of their plans, but except for that, borders have no role in their Brave New World.

On the other hand, any nation that was historically part of the Russian Empire and now shares a border with Russia, Ukraine, or Belarus — that includes Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Moldova — has every reason to be nervous. Russia justified its incursion into Ukraine by the presence of substantial Russian minorities in the eastern part of the country. That’s a time-hallowed technique that was systematically used and perfected by Stalin, who resettled various ethnicities within the USSR to suit his political needs. Many thousands of Russians were moved into Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to tip the scales in Moscow’s favor when the political necessity arose. There are still substantial numbers of Russians in the Baltic states. Who knows whether they might one day demand independence, or reunion with the Motherland? No wonder those three countries joined NATO as soon as they could.

Finland is in a somewhat different situation. It was never incorporated in the Soviet Union, but it was a province of the Russian Empire until 1917, and during the Cold War it was constrained to a strict neutrality. President Putin recently declared that if Finland (or Sweden) were to join NATO, Russia would impose severe consequences.

With all that in mind, consider the following video addressed to the Russian people (in Russian) by the Finnish MP Jussi Halla-aho. Long-time readers are familiar with Mr. Halla-aho, a dissident who was convicted and fined for his “hate speech” about immigrants (for more background, see the Jussi Halla-aho Archives).

A transcript is posted below the video, but I don’t know whom to credit for the translation:

Video transcript:

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The Doxxing of Canada

Vlad Tepes has published an important post with information and advice for people who are concerned about doxxing, specifically the doxxing that occurred as a result of the hacking of the GiveSendGo site. As a public service, I’m mirroring the entire post here.

A few items for anyone who is concerned about being DOXXED for perfectly legal contributions [UPDATED]

Recently, the government of Canada, Canadian enemy propaganda organizations such as CBC, CTV and Global News, and criminal hackers partnered up to create an extra-legal system to punish counter-revolutionaries.

For clarity’s sake, it is the view of this site and has been for years now, that rule of law is dead and has been replaced with a simple system, but which is nearly universally not seen for what it is.

The system is that anyone who acts in the interests of the communist revolution no matter how violent or illegal or damaging, will be allowed, rewarded, their actions amplified and rewarded and at worst forgiven. Take what Justin Trudeau said about left wing activists that burned down 57 Churches for example. Or the blocking of railways. Or more recently, the attack on a pipeline by violent eco-terrorists.

Coastal GasLink site in B.C. left with millions in damage after ‘violent attack’ by masked assailants wielding axes

‘In one of the most concerning acts, an attempt was made to set a vehicle on fire while workers were inside’

RCMP are investigating what is being described as a “organized violent attack” on pipeline workers, police and equipment at a Coastal GasLink drilling site near the Morice River in northern British Columbia.

Mounties were called for reports that 20 masked people, some of them wielding axes, had attacked security guards at the work site near Houston, B.C., shortly after midnight Thursday, smashing the windows of their vehicle.

(I guess it’s OK cause they were wearing masks)

The other end of the same continuum is that anyone who is a counter-revolutionary, or acts as an impediment to the revolution now nearly complete, will be punished by the law, if their actions can be interpreted as illegal by any stretch, or by new arcane laws which are created for this purpose, like hate-speech laws which only ever serve the revolution. But also by the use of retroactive illegalization of normal democratic things, and by partnering with criminals so that people who are supporting counter-revolutionary acts can be punished way beyond the law, but with approval or assistance by government and its weaponized Maoist mass line narrative manufacturers, the traditional media such as CBC, CTV, and Global.

The most recent example is the obtaining of names and addresses of people who contributed to a perfectly legal and peaceful protest against what are in fact, illegal and unconstitutional mandates that were created for two weeks and now are two years. This is called hacking and is very illegal. The next phase is Doxxing or publicly exposing the people who have been hacked so all may know who and how much was given. The media then went out to intimidate the givers MAFIA style, sending out emails like this:

Hi,

A hack of the website GiveSendGo has revealed the list of donors who contributed to the Freedom Convoy 2022 fundraising page, which is raising money to support anti-lockdown protesters in Ottawa.

The Canadian courts have frozen the funds as criminal property.

One of the donations was made under the following email address:

(EMAIL ADDRESS REDACTED)

Do you have any comment?

Thanks,

Stewart Bell
National Online Journalist, Investigative
Global News
81 Barber Greene Rd.
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA
M3C 2A2

So this is pretty much a partnership. The government takes over the banks. A criminal hacks the data base of fund raising sites, and government weaponized propaganda sites go out to humiliate and threaten donors, who made the donations when it was 100% legal and still is constitutionally speaking, and the government uses the stolen info to freeze bank accounts.

An IT friend of ours has suggested a few things you can do.

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The Whip Comes Down in Ottawa

I emailed Vlad the following questions last night. His reply came in late, after my internet went out. I’m sure the situation in Ottawa has evolved further since then.

Did you see any of the arrests or vehicles being towed on Parliament Hill?

Today [Friday] I was at home watching live streams and on phone and Skype with multiple people plugged in to the Hill area. I saw arrests on live feeds.

Did you have to pass through the police cordon?

I went, or rather tried to go to the area tonight. All the main roads are blocked by police going into the area…

And even some of the bridges were barricaded off with concrete barriers.

Nothing like this has ever happened before.

We had to work at finding a way for one of our number to walk to the hill where he is now doing a live stream.

Are the demonstrators and truckers leaving the area in order to avoid being arrested?

Doesn’t seem so. The mood is not quite as jubilant as it was. There is a solid tablespoon more defiance in the general zeitgeist in the area. But people still seem pretty ready to tough it out.

Do you personally know anyone whose bank account has been frozen?

What I know so far is at least two people who have been contacted by MSM, in one case, Global News and the other, CBC, both of which are enemy propaganda, and vanguards of the communist revolution taking place here. Both of them were asked for comment due to the leaked and doxxed information that they had contributed to the truckers’ protest.

Government, ANTIFA, and MSM are one machine on all this. To understand this, just ask yourself why Julian Assange is in prison eternally with no trial for being in possession of leaked documents which are counter-revolutionary in potential, vs. the media, which is rewarded for using stolen or hacked documents against law-abiding citizens for revolutionary purposes.

I know that the publisher of Druthers, a great little print newspaper that is given out free all over Canada, has had his account frozen, and the government is including Trump supporters now as a potential reason for taking your money.

Freeland, Trudeau’s deputy, and therefore the WEF deputy Viceroy, has now said the new banking rules are permanent. This means, as one branch manager told a friend of mine today, that “banks are now just an extension of government.”

What is the mood of the demonstrators who are still there and have not yet been arrested?

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We’re Onto You, Commissar Trudeau

In the following video Paul Weston discusses the latest moves by Canadian Prime Minister Justin “Baby Doc” Trudeau in his war against the truckers’ Freedom Convoy. Mr. Weston includes several clips of Baby Doc at his repulsive worst, plus other video material related to the resistance in Canada:

Hat tip: Steen.

The VVD is a Criminal Organization

Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan reports on the latest sordid political scandal from The Netherlands.

The VVD (Dutch Conservatives) is a criminal organization

by H. Numan

We have had a bit of a ruckus going on for a fortnight straight. Two weeks ago the new cabinet was grilled by Parliament. We have a three star Michelin chef specialized in grilling: Geert Wilders. He wasn’t too happy with the presence of Ms. Soumaya Sahla in the VVD, and in Parliament. Of course everybody was mortified by his words. How dare he? The tone was not right. We don’t talk about things like that here. Geert introduced three non-confidence votes. All — of course — failed.

Who is this rose of the desert, Ms. Soumaya Sahla? She is a convicted terrorist. She was member of the mohammedan Hofstadgroep or Residence gang. This gang murdered Theo van Gogh. They planned to execute Geert Wilders, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and many others. The gang was tracked down and cornered in an apartment. The police had to lay siege and use heavy weapons to arrest them. Sahla was arrested and convicted of terrorism. She appealed her sentence and was given more jail time on appeal. That is highly unusual. Especially since we’re talking about a woman and a muslima. Dutch courts are invariably very woman- and muslim-friendly, after all. The court stated that her regret was insincere. So insincere that the court decided to give her a little extra. In all, she served 3.5 years in a maximum security prison.

Now it gets interesting. After her release from jail she joined the VVD. Technically, that was not even possible. Why? Because if you want to actively join a political party you have to show a certificate of good behavior. Not just if you want to join a political party, but basically everywhere. You can’t get a job as a cleaner without one.

Sahla can’t get a verklaring omtrend het gedrag, as she is a convicted criminal. Yet she was able to join the VVD. Not only that, she had a meteoric career in it. Her mentor was Frits Bolkestein, the former leader of the party. How was that possible? Well, let’s discreetly say young women have something randy old goats greatly desire. And this randy old goat had something Sahla greatly desired. The power to wave away nasty bureaucratic rules that benefit no one.

It gets even better. Sahla was even able to blow herself into the security and terrorism committee of the VVD, because of her patron. The big bad wolf blew the houses of straw and sticks. But Sahla blows a lot better! Joining a parliamentary security committee requires — if your mouth isn’t as versatile as that of our lovely desert rose — clearance by the AIVD, our version of the FBI. That’s an automatic process. However, Frits Bolkestein was powerful enough to get her that clearance. All this went on for years without problems. Until the parliamentary debate.

Geert Wilders complained loudly about it. He had to sit next to a convicted terrorist who had actually planned to kill him. What did the prime minister plan to do about that? Why was his security detail not informed? And more. Much more. It was kind of impossible for the prime minister to pretend he didn’t know about it, as the affair had been going on for years. Right under his nose. So his defense, and that of his coalition as well as his opposition cronies, was to vilify Wilders for the tone of his questioning.

You think that was all? Nope. The media knew all about it. They simply kept it out of the news. The media knew at least six months ago this affair was going to blow up. Yet they kept it under a cast iron lid. Until they couldn’t anymore, which was when Wilders asked his questions.

First the VVD tried to look the other way. Nothing to see folks, move along! Next, they erased Soumaya Sahla from their intelligence web page, without actually removing her from the intelligence committee. Sahla refused to resign. A few days later her mug shot was back online, but not for long. Under much pressure the VVD had to cave in and regretfully accept the resignation of Sahla. Who had to be carried out of the building kicking and screaming. Of course it has nothing to do with Wilders. It was because of undue media attention and a massive public outcry, what else?

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