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I did not realize that Mastercard and Visa cut off Wikileaks, back in the day.

Cherie Deville is a porn star, but her comments on the rules for billing for mastercard / visa and insightful.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-cherie-deville

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Mar 9, 2022·edited Mar 10, 2022

I’ve hardly been alone here in saying repeatedly that manufactured events are all the puppet masters (define them how you will) have and so we can count on seeing these events regularly until their creators no longer have the ability to pull them off. Once the dividends of the manufactured virus event, for example, went clearly negative - boom, we got the next event, Ukraine (again!).

One thing I’ve meant to throw in the mix but haven’t before is this: the people playing this game are playing to win, in the most serious application of that phrase. Not a big revelation there, I know, but I think it’s important to keep it very much in mind. They have no intention of being taken down and there is no event they’ll hesitate to manufacture if they feel it’s necessary for their survival, both literal and figurative.

Remember the cyborg dude in Terminator 2? Remember how it looked like for sure they had taken him out and then he just came back together, deadly as ever? That’s what we’re up against. So it’s manufactured chaos and crisis as far as the eye can see, all the way through the midterms and beyond.

Sigh.

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One more point: they can’t stay in power if they can’t censor like crazy and they can’t censor like crazy if the nation isn’t officially in crisis mode.

And no one knows this better than they.

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Mar 9, 2022·edited Mar 9, 2022

Dr. Malone’s Substack article “All Along The Watchtower" has a lot to say about “just who is the bad guy” (paraphrased) in the Russia-Ukraine debacle. He includes a number of links to articles relating to bioweapons facilities in Ukraine, at least one developed years ago by then Senators Obama and Lugar “with Ukrainian officials”.

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/all-along-the-watchtower?

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Ian Miles Cheong

@stillgray

· Mar 8

U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says Washington is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research facilities from falling into Russian hands. She just confirmed every conspiracy theory about the existence of those labs.

(video)

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1501337624627265538?

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Russia is fighting a war of credibility / trust with US / West.

And the us has no idea it’s fighting this type of war. The us is busy fighting a financial war, while the us thinks Russia is fighting a conventional war.

Data Points:

- Russia bringing up Trump election coup at un.

- bio weapon labs in Ukraine

- Poland aircraft snafu

- Russians being ostracized across the West

- censorship of Russia by western internet giants

- China being threatened with sanctions

- color revolutions

- Biden comments in Saudi Arabia being made a pariah

- Afghan withdrawal

- seizing big Russian property and bank stuff by West

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Ray, i disagree that US has no idea. Recall that odd press conference a week or two back by Apu Whatzisname from DoS. He explicitly said the US would be fighting a war of narratives and social media and world opinion, smugly assured that Russia would be a global pariah after the mighty forces of global media were loosed.

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Good point! Thought provoking.

It’s the choice of battlefields on narratives.

Biden/West is focused on Russia’s physical war actions in Ukraine, and the Financial sanctions impact on Russia.

Russia is focused Western hypocrisy, how they can’t be trusted, and you could be next.

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You know it saddens me to think that Putin recently called the US an empire of lies, but the facts seem to confirm that characterization.

A clown show, a dumpster fire and a sh*t show all for the same money.

Stoop shouldered and smh.

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Perhaps illegal for us bio warfare research was being laundered through Ukraine labs?

Shades of how Fauci laundered illegal in us Covid gain of function research through Wuhan.

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If I was Putin , I would condition any diplomatic solution on a joint agreement with the hero Zelensky that details full disclosure of the purpose and activity of the biolabs. And a press conference to announce. Utter humiliation for us.

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.... Jo'Bama doesn't seem to need any help humiliating America. ;)

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I did not see the biological labs in the Ukraine. And Obama was involved? He was not involved out of the goodness of his heart, somehow pay to play. Seems Ukrainian Lobbying had a lot of reach. Or local Ukrainian voting community in Chicago somehow helped him?

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It explains what Obama did.

Not the Why.

May be I’m being too cynical and Obama did it as a feel good way to burnish his reputation.

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Dr. Malone’s link on the web page that was subsequently deleted leads to this link for the archived copy of that deleted page. It described the Lugar-Obama collaboration with the Ukrainian officials re the biolab and their stated reason(s) for it. An excerpt::

"U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, this week, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists.

The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded authority of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will be used to study anthrax, tularemia and Q fever as well as other dangerous pathogens.

“The continuing cooperation of Nunn-Lugar partners has improved safety for all people against weapons of mass destruction and potential terrorist use, in addition to advancements in the prevention of pandemics and public health consequences,” Lugar said.

Lugar said plans for the facility began in 2005 when he and then Senator Barack Obama entered a partnership with Ukrainian officials. Lugar and Obama also helped coordinate efforts between the U.S and Ukrainian researchers that year in an effort to study and help prevent avian flu.

The Nunn-Lugar Act, which established the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, was established in 1991. Since that time it has provided funding and assistance to help the former Soviet Union dismantle and safeguard large stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The program has also been responsible for destroying chemical weapons in Albania, Lugar said.”

The entire webpage is here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110522081423/http://www.bioprepwatch.com/news/213421-biolab-opens-in-ukraine

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Mar 9, 2022·edited Mar 9, 2022

Just my 2 cents, but I believe the 'why' is nothing more than Obama doing it as part of the overall 'squeeze' of Russia as was the macro-template...primarily the hubris and arrogance that is* Obama (+NATO + EU ), and it's part in leading us to where we are now. I think this is a coherent analysis; doesn't specifically call out the bioweapons labs, but when put in context of all the other countries wrecked by Obama & the West, seems to me to make sense.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/ukraine-and-the-global-american-empire?s=r

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More clown stuff:

Putin snickers: Guess who owns a big chunk of Venezuela's oil?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/putin_snickers_guess_who_owns_a_big_chunk_of_venezuelas_oil.html

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@mark. This is what competent leadership looks like. Russia anticipates the sanctions (which were all too predictable) and anticipates where the US would turn for alternative sources.

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When I first heard that Biden was exploring options with Venezuela, I thought the exact same thing.

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Mar 9, 2022·edited Mar 9, 2022

It pains me to realize it, but the US is apparently now the actual "evil empire."

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That is a terrific article. It includes a number of links to articles on bioweapon facilities in Ukraine, including the one negotiated by Senators Richard Lugar and Barack Obama with “Ukrainian officials”. Not having seen your comment, Rascal Nick, I doubled up.

BTW, more than a few are wondering if the shelling of the “maternity hospital” might have been due to a belief that it was sheltering a bioweapon facility.

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Hint. Gangsters are always the bad guys in real life (vs Hollywood reality). The USG is nothing but gangsters.

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Thanks for the link. A lotta people having similar thoughts these days.

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