RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 01.12.2022
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.
* Who is telling the truth about Ukraine? MSM or Independents? *
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (183k subscribers):
Kiev Rushes Reinforcements as Troops Face Bakhmut Encirclement, Russia Preparing Missile Strike.
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‘Russell Brand’ channel (w. Aaron Maté). (6.06m subscribers):
We Are Using Ukraine To Do WHAT?!
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‘Chavez News’ channel. (133 subscribers):
How the Kyiv regime has been killing Donbass (Timeline and collection of factual evidence).
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ channel. (66.8k subscribers):
Scott Ritter - Ukraine Russia War Update 11-30-22.
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‘Syriana Analysis’ channel. (41.5k subscribers):
Ursula von der Leyen Drops a BOMBSHELL Revelation on Ukraine.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours (149k subscribers):
Ursula, 100K was 'estimation.' NYT event hosts FTX Bankman-Fried and Elensky. EU threatens Musk. U/1
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Hindustan Times. (4.98m subscribers):
Viral: EU Chief ‘admits’ Putin’s win; Says 100,000 Ukrainians killed in war, then edits speech.
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Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’ discuss geopolitical events of the day with a special guests. (312k subscribers):
Winter offensive w/Patrick Lancaster & Alex at Reporterfy (Live).
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Great duel between great powers w/Dr. Wilmer Leon (Live).
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'FINANCE MAIL' channel. (12.7k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Russia Had Destroyed Ukrainian Military Base !!! Ukraine Is Going To Surrender.
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Latest video from the BORZZIKMAN channel (116k subscribers):
Norway has Driven the Final Nail into Europe's Coffin┃The EU has Lost its Last Hope for Survival.
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'Straight calls with Scott Ritter' channel. (2.85k subscribers):
Scott Ritter talks about his early life.
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‘The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda’ channel. (11.8k subscribers):
Lights Out for the Kiev Regime: Russia Dismembers Ukrainian Electrical Infrastructure.
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‘The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda’ channel. (11.8k subscribers):
Western Wonder Weapons Too Fragile for Ukrainian Battlefield.
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‘Redacted’ channel. (1.45m subscribers):
Oh SH*T, She is busted lying about Ukraine, not good | Redacted w Clayton Morris.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’. (196k subscribers):
Kiev Faces MAJOR DEFEAT, Rushes Reinforcements To BAKHMUT w/ @InfraredShow.
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The FALL Of Bakhmut.
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Ursula f*cked up...
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uh oh.
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RUSSIAN Victory in BAKHMUT IMMINENT, 100K Ukrainians KIA.
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‘iEarlGrey’ channel. (103k subscribers):
Biden's Secret Service Vehicles "BURST INTO FLAMES". U.K. To Be RAVAGED By Strikes and Unrest.
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Spanish PM Targeted By Bomb Attempt. Heavy Losses For Ukraine. FREE CHRISTMAS TREES IN LENINGRAD!
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Biden's Secret Service Vehicles "BURST INTO FLAMES". U.K. To Be RAVAGED By Strikes and Unrest.
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Missiles BOMBARD Ukraine. Peskov condemns EU Tribunals. No EC Apology For Reporting 100k UA KIA.
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Thursday 1st December 2022 - LIVE.
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Delivering Gifts To ONE THOUSAND KIDS In Donbass?!
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‘The University of Chicago’ channel from 10 years ago. (226k subscribers):
Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics with John Mearsheimer.
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‘Audiopedia’ channel from 6 years ago. (274k subscribers):
Operation Mockingbird.
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‘Al Jazeera English’ channel from 5 years ago. (9/7m subscribers)
Covert operations: How the CIA works with Hollywood - Listening Post (Feature).
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‘Novara Media’ channel from 1 year ago. (266k subscribers):
BBC Bias EXPOSED Live On Air By Jeffrey Sachs.
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‘Russell Brand’ channel from 8 months ago. (6.06m subscribers):
You’ve Been LIED To About Why Ukraine War Began.
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‘Daniel Dumbrill’ channel from 7 months ago. (169k subscribers):
Patrick Lancaster - War In Ukraine - Stories From The Front Line.
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‘Hindustan Times’ channel from 4 months ago. (4.97 subscribers):
Zelensky Govt lie caught: How Ukraine wrongly blamed Putin after placing civilians in kill zone.
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‘Times Radio’ channel from 3 months ago. (216k subscribers):
‘Russia is not going to lose this war’, former British Army chief says.
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‘Daniel Dumbrill’ channel from 3 months ago. (169k subscribers):
Military Supplier's Think Tank & Supporting Media Network Caught w/Pants Down.
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‘Daniel Dumbrill’ channel from 1 month ago. (169k subscribers):
Democracies vs China & Russia: Jeffrey Sachs on reframing the conversation.
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‘Fox Business’ channel from 14 days ago. (2.04m subscribers):
Gen. Kellogg: This Russian tactical move may win the Ukraine war.
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’The Hill’ channel from 13 days ago. (1.53m subscribers):
Zelensky LIES About Ukrainian Missile That Hit Poland, Billions In Funding MUST STOP: Brie & Robby.
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‘Firstpost’ channel from 12 days ago. (163k subscribers):
Top US General Tells Ukraine it Cannot Win War Against Russia Militarily | Russia Ukraine War.
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‘Firstpost’ channel from 8 days ago. (163k subscribers):
Ukraine Caught in Tough Spot in Kherson After Russia Withdrawal | Russia Ukraine War.
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‘FINANCIAL MAIL’ from 4 days ago. (12.7k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor: UKRAINE NEVER WON THE WAR !!! | 540,000 Russian Troops Stationed Around Ukraine.
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‘The New Atlas’ channel from 3 days ago. (192k subscribers):
Russia Ops in Ukraine (Update): Western Propaganda Implodes as War of Attrition Grinds On.
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ channel from yesterday. (18.1k subscribers):
Scenes from the Evolution Ep. 13.
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‘Douglas Macgregor’ channel from yesterday. (45.7k subscribers):
November 29th - This major offensive is obliterating Ukraine.
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‘ShanghaiEye魔都眼’ channel from yesterday. (110k subscribers):
Scholz willing to send Patriots to Poland but not Ukraine, for fear of dragging NATO into conflict.
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‘iEarlGrey’ channel from yesterday. (133k subscribers):
Ukrainian Embassy BOMBED in Madrid. MORE Russian Advances in Donbass. Poles OUTRAGED By Zelenska.
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‘Firstpost’ channel. (163k subscribers):
Russia’s 'Gas Union' Plan Could be a Game-changer | Putin's Masterstroke in Asia |
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Russia Wants More Nuclear Weapons, Dumps Talks with US | Putin | Biden | Russia Ukraine War.
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France to Face Mobile Service Blackout, Telcos Warn | Emmanuel Macron | Europe Energy Crisis.
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Equal to Poland's GDP: Energy Crisis Costs Europe a Whopping €700 billion | Europe Energy Crisis.
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‘Deepin Moments’ channel. (45.2k subscribers):
6 interest rate hikes can't save America! Ghana announces gold instead of the dollar!
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‘Through the eyes of’ channel from Poland. (63.7k subscribers):
POLAND PREPARING FOR ANOTHER WAVE OF REFUGEES FROM UKRAINE; F-16 TO GUARD SKIES OVER BALTIC SEA.
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‘Hindustan Times’ channel. (4.98m subscribers):
Poland to grab Ukraine areas? No end to Zelensky's worries as Russia makes a stunning claim.
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'Do not drag India into...': Russia's direct warning to NATO military alliance | Watch:
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Russia's 'no mercy' approach for Ukraine; Putin won't halt bombing, raises military expenditures.
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Russia won't hold arms control talks with U.S unless... | Cold War rivals cross swords.
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Putin’s men bomb U.S-made Howitzers, no Russian oil for price cap backers; Zelensky rebukes Musk.
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‘ShanghaiEye魔都眼’ channel. (111K subscribers):
No electricity. Car battery powered football in Ukraine.
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‘Tech Revolution’ channel. (51.7k subscribers):
DOOMED! Europe Is Going Bankrupt As Bank Crisis Get HEATED | HUGE THREAT To European Union.
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Article from UK ‘Guardian’ - 17th March 2011:
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media.
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda.
Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer.
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.
The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as "sock puppets" – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same.
The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries".
Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: "The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US."
He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology, and any English-language use of social media by Centcom was always clearly attributed. The languages in which the interventions are conducted include Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto.
Centcom said it was not targeting any US-based web sites, in English or any other language, and specifically said it was not targeting Facebook or Twitter.
Once developed, the software could allow US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command.
Centcom's contract requires for each controller the provision of one "virtual private server" located in the United States and others appearing to be outside the US to give the impression the fake personas are real people located in different parts of the world.
It also calls for "traffic mixing", blending the persona controllers' internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that must offer "excellent cover and powerful deniability".
The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a programme called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al-Qaida supporters and others ranged against coalition forces. Since then, OEV is reported to have expanded into a $200m programme and is thought to have been used against jihadists across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
OEV is seen by senior US commanders as a vital counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation programme. In evidence to the US Senate's armed services committee last year, General David Petraeus, then commander of Centcom, described the operation as an effort to "counter extremist ideology and propaganda and to ensure that credible voices in the region are heard". He said the US military's objective was to be "first with the truth".
This month Petraeus's successor, General James Mattis, told the same committee that OEV "supports all activities associated with degrading the enemy narrative, including web engagement and web-based product distribution capabilities".
Centcom confirmed that the $2.76m contract was awarded to Ntrepid, a newly formed corporation registered in Los Angeles. It would not disclose whether the multiple persona project is already in operation or discuss any related contracts.
Nobody was available for comment at Ntrepid.
In his evidence to the Senate committee, Gen Mattis said: "OEV seeks to disrupt recruitment and training of suicide bombers; deny safe havens for our adversaries; and counter extremist ideology and propaganda." He added that Centcom was working with "our coalition partners" to develop new techniques and tactics the US could use "to counter the adversary in the cyber domain".
According to a report by the inspector general of the US defence department in Iraq, OEV was managed by the multinational forces rather than Centcom.
Asked whether any UK military personnel had been involved in OEV, Britain's Ministry of Defence said it could find "no evidence". The MoD refused to say whether it had been involved in the development of persona management programmes, saying: "We don't comment on cyber capability."
OEV was discussed last year at a gathering of electronic warfare specialists in Washington DC, where a senior Centcom officer told delegates that its purpose was to "communicate critical messages and to counter the propaganda of our adversaries".
Persona management by the US military would face legal challenges if it were turned against citizens of the US, where a number of people engaged in sock puppetry have faced prosecution.
Last year a New York lawyer who impersonated a scholar was sentenced to jail after being convicted of "criminal impersonation" and identity theft.
It is unclear whether a persona management programme would contravene UK law. Legal experts say it could fall foul of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, which states that "a person is guilty of forgery if he makes a false instrument, with the intention that he or another shall use it to induce somebody to accept it as genuine, and by reason of so accepting it to do or not to do some act to his own or any other person's prejudice". However, this would apply only if a website or social network could be shown to have suffered "prejudice" as a result.
MAPPING CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (75.6k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 01.12.2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (49.8k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 280 (30/11): Russia attacking thru forest S of Dibrova, N of Serebrianka.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (14.4k subscribers):
Russia-Ukraine War: Bakhmut Is Being (Semi) Enircled, What's Next?
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.3k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ SITE VIA ‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
RYBAR Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on November 30, 2022.
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Detailed situation reports can be found on a daily basis concerning events in Ukraine over the past 24 hours at the ‘A SKEPTIC’ Substack account:
Link to 'A SKEPTIC' Substack channel.
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SUPPORTING SCOTT RITTER
I've been listening to Scott Ritter describe how things are for him and I suspect have been for him for quite some time now.
He has been doing a LOT of unpaid work with a great many interview requests coming in that he has been ready and willing to agree to. But the work where receives some pay for have suffered due to this, being left until the wee small hours of the night to complete work on.
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
I was moved by Scott's words to take an annual subscription to his Substack account that he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances with which to upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine, via a better microphone etc. and perhaps the creation of a recording studio in his basement to create a more professional and impressive look. To invest in these things he would like to be sure that this has a viable financial future.
Would you also like to help by subscribing at one of the various levels to Scott's Substack account? I hope so. If so the link is here:
Below you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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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.