RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 09.10.2023
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
Please note: We will be in Italy for the next nine days. Updates will be sporadic and periodically absent during this time. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
*** ONLY MATTER OF TIME BEFORE KIEV’S ROGUE ARMY COLLAPSES ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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VIRTUALLY UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2nd JUNE 2014
A lot has been said about atrocities in the western media claimed to have been perpetrated by the Russians, for example at Bucha and Mariupol among others. These assertions are conveyed on the say so of the Ukrainian authorities. How willing though are western news broadcasters to convey atrocities attributed to the Ukrainians? The following will I think provide the answer.
If anyone wonders if they are receiving accurate coverage of the conflict in Ukraine I would suggest watching the video below of an event which occurred on the 2nd of June 2014 and ask themselves if they recall hearing about it on any mainstream media news channel at the time.
The video is harrowing to watch. The bodies (five women and three men) are real. Yet across western media there was only one single news report that occurred a day later. This was from CNN and occurred only because a CNN team happened to be nearby at the time of the atrocity and so the network could hardly ignore it as all others so obviously did.
The video below shows the unvarnished truth that was not considered newsworthy in western mainstream news.
THE SINGLE WESTERN MSM REPORT ON THE LUGANSK ATROCITY, 3rd JUNE 2014
The video at the CNN link below is the crime scene sanitised by CNN, though played straight with honest reporting on the scene not playing things to Kiev’s tune.
(There was a time early in the war in the Donbass when CNN were not afraid to contradict the Ukrainian regime in Kiev.) Watch because it's the first and last time you will see this.
5 women and 3 men died, all civilians.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
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Lead feature:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of the DURAN
Israel Seeks Capture Gaza, Neocons Demand Iran Attack, UK Blames Putin; Ukr War: Rus Has Initiative.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of the DURAN
EU/UK swap out Ukraine flag. Haaretz blames Bibi. Iran denies involvement. Neocons want war. U/1
THE DURAN
Biden, Netanyahu foreign policy blinders. Neocons push Iran escalation.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
How Long In Gaza?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
NATO, Ukraine, and Israel.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Can the US Support Two Wars?
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Major Setback for Ukraine, Comparable to Mariupol Defeat.
KATIE HALPER
Marianne Williamson Admits The West PROVOKED Russia.
RANDY CREDICO
Ray McGovern & Arnaud Develay.
GODFREY BLOOM - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Russia Ukraine War UPDATE: Russian Victory & The End Game - With Colonel Douglas Macgregor.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Attacks on Dr. Cornel West & Peace in Ukraine Event.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Col Douglas Macgregor: Talks Russia Ukraine SMO Update & More.
PROFESSOR RICHARD E WOLFF
Russia & China Sanctions: EU's Desperate Measures.
RUSSIAN NEWS
The prosperity of Europe was based on cheap energy from Russia! Putin at Valdai 2023.
MATTHEW HOH
An extension of the Russiagate.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukraine update, Palestinian-Israeli conflict - Palestine under the risk of the "Karabakh Scenario"...
CGTN EUROPE
Russia's Lavrov meets Arab League head in Moscow for talks. (Starts at -32:35.)
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia Slams Biden; Hints At Revoking Nuclear-Ban-Test Treaty Amid Ukraine War | Details:
DANNY HAIPHONG
ALI ABUNIMAH JOINS ON PALESTINE SHOCKS ISRAEL | SCOTT RITTER ON THE EU'S DEMISE + MORE.
THE GRAYZONE
Operation Gaza Truth Flood - The Grayzone live.
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter: Talks Why Israel And Hammas At War.
EMIL COSMAN
Will US drop support for Ukraine and focus on Israel instead? The answer is sooo obvious.
Israel ignored REPEATED warnings Hamas was planning “something big.” Egypt intel says.
"Hamas using weapons given to Ukraine. Expect missiles, tanks, planes from Kiev..." Medvedev says.
Self-Defense doesn't allow Genocide. Israel "fighting human animals." Says Defense Minister Gallant.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Abdel Bari Atwan: Why They Thought No One Would Fight Israel! | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 280.
VANESSA BEELEY
Palestine breaking the Zionist chains.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
India, U.S.-led West With Israel & Russia, China, Pak With Gaza | Palestine War Divides World.
RADIO INTERNATIONAL BELARUS - Международное радио "Беларусь".
How Polish media zombify society and destroy competitors of ruling party.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Hamas Attack on Israel, Israel Set to Invade Gaza, Biden Mulls $100 Billion for Ukraine, and More.
EMIL COSMAN
Video-Watch Polish MEP smack European WEASELS, puts them in their PLACE. Meet Dominik Tarczynski.
Iran says Palestinians acted in "self-defense" attacking Israel.
DUE DISSIDENCE
WAR in Israel, Cornel EXPLAINS Green Departure, Hillary Wants Deplorables "Deprogrammed".
GEORGE GALLOWAY
MENU: This New War in Gaza Could Scarcely Get More Serious | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 280.
THE PRINT
Israelis killed over 260 people in Palestine & West Bank this year : Palestinian Ambassador to India.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Hamas: The moving of American aircraft carrier to Israel does not scare us.
BORZZIKMAN
'HAMAS Is Incapable Of That': ISRAEL Blames Russia and Begs The U.S. For HELP.
FIRSTPOST
LIVE: As Hamas Attacks Israel, China Calls For Ceasefire | Chinese Foreign Ministry Press Briefing.
TECH REVOLUTION
Sanctions Against Russia Are Backfiring On The US, Countries Shifting Away | US In SHOCK.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
MARKET SHAKEUP. US Bonds Face Surrender-Style SELL-OFF. China's Gold-backed Strategy.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Palestinians Tell of Lucky Escape after Israeli Airstrikes Reduce Tower to Rubble.
CMG to Air Documentary on China's Efforts in "Belt and Road" Initiative.
CGTN
The Belt and Road at 10: Vision, achievements, challenges.
Live: Horgos – Passage of Trust.
Argentina: China-led BRI can be engine for Latin American integration.
PAN AFRICAN TELEVISION
Good Morning Africa with Kwame Owusu Danso 09-1023.
COOL BUZZ TV
Ibrahim Traoré Exposes Western Mafias For African’s Natural Resources Exploitation.
ACTIVISM MUNICH
Bill Kristol's Propaganda offenbart wahres Ziel in der Ukraine.
Hängt der Ukraine-Krieg zusammen mit den Wahlen in Hessen, Bayern und den USA?
LIU SIVAYA
RUSIA ATACA: las fuerzas rusas pasan al ataque en varios frentes principales a la vez | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
ISRAEL ATTACKS: Netanyahu orders to start the ground operation against the Gaza Strip | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON
NATO is Done.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 8th October 2023:
Americans get poorer as Washington throws cash at Ukraine and migrants.
US families are undergoing a third-straight year of falling income, but politicians think taxpayer money is better spent elsewhere.
As Uncle Sam continues to pump billions of dollars into Kiev’s flagging fight against Russia and provide tempting handouts to illegal migrants, why is the average American worker forced to live paycheck to paycheck?
Here’s a question that most people have considered at least once in their lives, and probably a lot recently: How much annual income would you need to feel financially secure? For the average American, the magic number comes out to be $233,000 a year, according to a survey by Bankrate.
To bring the ’99 percent’ back down to Earth, the US Census Bureau released some sobering data that dashed those elusive six-digit dreams. Inflation-adjusted median household income fell to $74,580 in 2022 – a 2.3% decline from the 2021 average of $76,330. This marks the third-straight annual decrease since the Covid-19 pandemic began in 2020, taking a wrecking ball to the heart of the economy.
The bad news doesn’t end there for US consumers, who are now struggling with the consequences of a foreign conflict in a distant land and a wide-open border. Those factors have prompted the cost of living to surge higher than it has in over four decades amid runaway inflation. In June 2022, the year-over-year inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, hit a jaw-dropping 9.1%, the highest it’s been since the administration of former President Ronald Reagan.
A significant reason for the increase in inflation happened on March 3, 2022, when President Joe Biden signed an executive order to ban the import of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal to the US. This decision has had disastrous results for the local economy. Since Biden’s inauguration, the cost of gasoline alone had jumped at one point by 100% (as of September 27, the average price of regular gas was $3.832 per gallon, according to the AAA, while gas prices were an average of $2.3 per gallon when Biden entered office), forcing just about everything else to skyrocket, including the number of poor people.
The poverty rate in the US exploded last year, the first increase in 13 years, according to the Census Bureau. In 2022, the rate was 12.4%, up 4.6 percentage points from 2021, according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), a method for tallying government welfare programs and tax credits designed to assist low-income families.
Meanwhile, the Expectations Index, determined by consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions, sunk to 73.7 in September. That follows a drop to 83.3 in August. The worrisome part is that an Expectations Index below 80 generally indicates an impending recession.
An economic tragedy is already quietly happening for millions of American consumers who are now living paycheck to paycheck precariously and who have been forced to use the payment method of last resort to make ends meet: the almighty credit card, with its exorbitant interest fees. On this score, the US economy has broken yet another record, although not in a way that could be considered something to cheer about.
“US credit card debt rose by $45 billion to $1.03 trillion in the second quarter from the first quarter, a 4.6% quarterly increase,” The Street reported. “It’s the first time in US history that household credit card balances topped the $1 trillion mark as the number of credit card accounts expanded by 5.48 million to 578.35 million in the quarter.” When consumer debt suddenly equals the amount the US spends on its military-industrial complex, you know there’s a problem.
Clearly, the US has some serious domestic issues that need to be resolved, but instead, it would rather fund a totally senseless proxy war against a nuclear power halfway around the world.
Washington has given Ukraine close to $100 billion in aid, with more in the pipeline, since Moscow launched its military operation in February 2022. The cash, however, has not only been used to fund Ukraine’s military. Billions of dollars have subsidized participants of the Ukrainian economy, like farmers and small business owners, market players whose counterparts in the US desperately need help, too. A recent study conducted by the Council on Foreign Relations shows that more than $30 billion – around 40% of total US aid to Ukraine as of July 31 – has been financial or humanitarian assistance that is not directly connected to military support. Military funding comes out to around $50 billion.
As if that were not enough, the Biden administration continues to welcome illegal migrants at a price that is more than what is being spent fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Yes, you read that right; the annual cost of providing care for the millions of illegal migrants entering the US is $150.7 billion, according to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers (FAIR).
In August, US Border Patrol recorded 232,972 migrant encounters along the southwestern border, a jump from 183,494 in July. The number of crossings for September is predicted to be higher than the previous month.
So here we have two concurrent events – a disastrous military conflict in Ukraine and a leaky US border – that are sucking away precious funds from the American taxpayer. It’s important to note that the king’s ransom that is being handed over to support these deranged Democratic agendas will never be returned, not in our lifetime. Instead, it will just be added to the unsustainable US national debt load, which is currently at $33 trillion, according to the US Debt Clock. That is an astronomical sum of money that we or future generations will someday be forced to deal with, and probably sooner rather than later.
What American citizen could possibly believe that any of this government funding has been a good investment for the American people? Well, they’re representatives in Washington, DC, for one. In May, ‘conservative’ US Senator Lindsey Graham, during a meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev, pronounced joyfully that “the Russians are dying” and aid to Ukraine is “the best money we’ve ever spent.” Aside from discounting the chances that such an “investment” could have towards unleashing World War III, Graham never thought for a second that such funds could have gone far at rebuilding America’s crumbling infrastructure, like that non-existent wall on the US-Mexico border. It would have been a wonderful work program for the US economy.
In short, it’s just another day in the discombobulated American empire, which, much like its ancient Roman precursor, could learn the lesson of overexpansion and overspending in the most brutal way imaginable – with its total and complete dissolution.
By Robert Bridge, an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
Americans get poorer as Washington throws cash at Ukraine and migrants.
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VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
First posted as a series of tweets on 9th July 2015
UKRAINE : THE SMUGGIES of THE U.S. & E.U.
I’ve been observing the Ukraine crisis closely for around 14 months now. In that time I have become aware of a class of people I call ‘The Smuggies’.
These are the various bureaucrats, officials, diplomats and diverse staffers who, in their thousands, work for the various departments of the United States administration and the European Union.
It has been my experience that they find it stunningly easy to studiously avoid talk of the people in eastern Ukraine who have been dying for almost a year now except in reference to supposed “Russian Aggression”.
So, after all these months of observing these high-flying, well-heeled ‘Smuggies’ I decided to do my best to describe their world and mentality as I saw it.
This was the purpose in writing the nineteen tweets which follow. I can’t say I captured them, you would need a book to describe such insufferable smugness, but I tried my level best and here they are:
1 How to describe various bureaucrats who work in western embassies plus various servants of officialdom who preside over the Ukraine scene?
2 Firstly, they have the smug attitude that they are always in the right. A condescending smugness that can cover you like shit from the sky.
3 Secondly they are in a closed mental space of complete complacent conservatism. Demanding order & obedience. They see Ukraine as theirs.
4 Thirdly they cannot recognise the rightness of those who struggle for freedom outside of their ordered & obedient world. Ppl of E Ukraine.
5 These officials, diplomats & serried ranks of staffers live a life of 5-star opulence. They look down on the ragged proles on the street.
6 The bureaucratic life is one of meetings & minutes, of co-ordinated policies across the western world where nothing is seriously questioned
7 These stuffy, smug, complacent enforcers agree the suffocation of freedom for the sake of the American state narrative on Ukraine.
8 They arrive in limos, they dress designer, expensive, dine in top restaurants. They have left the life of struggle & want far behind them.
9 You have to look into their dead eyes in photographs or inspect them up close to see their soulless, lizard-like venom, the covertly vile.
10 They make connections, they conspire to manipulate your views on Ukraine, they meet w/ press & media & impress them, wine & dine them.
11 This is the suffocatingly oppressive class of diplomat/bureaucrat/official & their military/@StateDept seniors who casually deny freedom.
12 In this world of cynics & malign managers we have an un-elected dictatorship of the banal, of the oppressively ruthless non-entities.
13 People like @GeoffPyatt & @McFaul, toadies who became bastardisers of life, clean-shirted oppressors of the unruly who wish to be free.
14 We are run by these well-dressed despots & meeting-minded intellectual nobodies who pen push us all to utter slavery in east Ukraine.
15 These are the undead of officialdom, the mundane managers of the accepted norm, the prostitutes who help the state make slaves.
16 The bureaucratic suffocators of NovRos: A nexus of those who feel themselves to be an elite class, journos, officials, editors, diplomats.
17 Bureaucrats love order, neat, tidy meetings w/ agendas 2 work 2, papers shuffled, agreements made & enforced. Alien to true wild freedom.
18 The people of Donbass cried out for freedom. They did not compute to the suffocating bureaucrats of @EU & @StateDept This was DISORDER!
19 No agenda sent in advance? No meeting arranged? No bureaucrats to liaise with? What was this? Cry Freedom? The staffers cry "Kill them!"