American taxpayers are footing the bill for Ukrainian NGOs focused on smearing proponents of a diplomatic solution as “Russian disinformation” agents.
U.S. Funds Ukraine Groups Censoring Critics, Smearing Pro-Peace Voices
Related:
U.S. Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run a Fog Machine of War + Supporting Front Orgs
Pro-Russian “disinformation” network
Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
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Who Funds the ‘Fact-Checkers‘:
President Joe Biden’s administration approved a $5 million grant for a university program that would help journalists who have been subject to “misinformation-driven harassment campaigns.”
Millions to Go to Journalists Targeted in ‘Harassment Campaigns’
Related:
[2022] Poynter seeks newsrooms to participate in pilot project fighting online harassment
Instagram posts: The government pays out “$2,125/month in refugee benefits to refugees resettled in the United States,” while Social Security recipients “who have paid into the system their whole lives receive $1,400/month on average.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly False
Fact-check: Do refugees receive more monthly benefits than Social Security recipients?
If I have the energy, I might do more research into this later.
Google Translate:
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, with the participation of specialists of the Security Service of Ukraine, organized the destruction of the personal belongings of servicemen, collaborators and staff of the Public Health Center from 24 March 2022. Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, DU “Ukrainian nuclear research anti-plague institute” I.I. Menkikova of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, Zhytomyr regional and at the transport centers of the laboratory centers of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine”, which jointly planned
Member of Metabiota Inc., Battelle.
TVO of the head of the party
S.V. Daynet
Another ‘fact-check’:
Fact Check: Did Zelensky Order Destruction of Docs Linked to Hunter Biden?
As such, the link between Metabiota, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine here is tenuous. While the firm associated with Rosemont Seneca invested and raised money for Metabiota, there is no link here between the president’s son, Zelensky, and the destruction of documents.
Related:
The truth about Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian ‘bio labs’
Newsweek, claiming that the translation is dubious, goes on to cite The Insider, an ‘independent’ website that conducts “joint investigations” with Bellingcat. Last year, they were declared “undesirable” by Russia.
CN Editor Joe Lauria was one of 644 Twitter accounts that secretly formed part of Hamilton 68’s fake “dashboard” that wrongly influenced major media about alleged “Russian influence.”
CN Editor Named on Secret ‘Disinfo’ List
The Twitter files continue to confirm our long held suspicion of nefarious anti-Russian influence in mainstream media.
MoA – Twitter Files Debunk Hamilton 68 Dashboard – (We Did The Same Five Years Ago)
Trump Calls Out ‘Fake News’ Over Reports He Did Nothing for Ukraine
“The fake news media refuses to report that I was the one who, very early and strongly, gave the anti-tank busters (Javelins) to Ukraine, while Obama/Biden was giving blankets, to great and open complaints,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday.
“Then [President Joe] Biden came in, and canceled the remaining military equipment that was packed, loaded, and ready to be shipped. Now the fake news media is trying to say that Trump gave Ukraine nothing, and it was Biden who is their great friend and gave them weaponry. The dishonesty is so unbelievable. All I can do is report it!”
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“When Trump was elected, the first thing they did was send in the Javelin,” U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Jim Townsend said at the time. “It wasn’t exactly high-end, but we were very happy, and they built on a very firm foundation.”
Related:
Trump Says Russia-Ukraine Tensions ‘Would Never Have Happened’ Under His Presidency:
The Russian Embassy in Washington said if the U.S. was “truly committed to diplomatic efforts to resolve the internal Ukrainian conflict” it would “abandon plans to supply new batches of weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
On the claim that Obama didn’t send military weapons to Ukraine (supposedly he just didn’t send Javelins)
U.S. officials were concerned that providing the Javelins to Ukraine would escalate their conflict with Russia. Key allies, including Germany, were not keen on sending weapons into the conflict zone, said Michael Kofman, an expert on Russia and senior research scientist at the CNA Corporation.
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The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, which became law in November 2015, called for “lethal assistance such as anti-armor weapon systems, mortars, crew-served weapons and ammunition, grenade launchers and ammunition, and small arms and ammunition.”
By Tim Graham
The New York Times is signaling that they’re not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, they announced his statements are routinely un-factual. He’s a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now?
The online headline of their October 11 story was: “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel: President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.”
The New York Times Discovers Biden’s A Liar
H/T: Calculus of Decay
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