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Censorship Prohibits Spreading Truths, And Demands Spreading Lies

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Censorship Prohibits Spreading Truths, And Demands Spreading Lies

Back in or around 2014, 43 international-news media were publishing my articles, and some of them were mainstream liberal media, some were mainstream conservative, and others were libertarian, but the vast majority were non-mainstream. When Barack Obama in February 2014 perpetrated a coup in Ukraine that installed a rabidly anti-Russian government there on Russia’s border and that was instead ‘reported’ as-if it had been a ‘democratic revolution’, which coup-imposed regime perpetrated a massacre against its pro-Russian protestors inside the Trade Unions Building in Odessa on 2 May 2014 (see especially the charred bodies of its victims at 1:50:00- in that video), I started writing about Ukraine; and, then, those 43 international-news sites gradually whittled themselves down to only 7; and, yet, none of them ever alleged that anything in any of my articles was false and asked me to prove it true, but they were instead getting pressure from Google, and from the FBI, and from other Establishment U.S. entities, and were afraid of being forced out of business (which many of them ultimately were) by them. The personal narrative that will now be provided here is about the latest of these cases, which threatens the site Modern Diplomacy, which had been an excellent international-affairs news site and included writers from all across the international-affairs news spectrum, for and against every Government’s policies, and from practically every angle. I had long been expecting MD (because of its impartiality) to receive a warning from the U.S. regime, and this finally happened late in December 2022, when the site’s founder, D., sent me this notice:

Related:

Eric Zuesse’s Now-Deleted Profile at Modern Diplomacy

Jeffrey Sachs Discusses The War in Ukraine, ‘Shock Therapy,’ and More

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Jeffrey Sachs Discusses The War in Ukraine, ‘Shock Therapy,’ and More

Perhaps the most stunning bit of information in the interview comes from Sachs’s disclosure of the reason for the failure of “Shock therapy” in Russia. “Shock therapy” is the name given to the abrupt transition from the Soviet-style command economy to a market-oriented economy. It was a success in Poland, but a failure in Russia where it led to a depression deeper and more costly than our own Great Depression. Why? Sachs was an advisor to Poland and then Russia for the “therapy.” So he had witnessed a “controlled experiment,” as he put it elsewhere. At a certain point it the process, financial help from the outside was needed to revive the economy on a new basis. It was provided to Poland; but when Sachs called for the same help in Russia, it was refused by the West, specifically by the White House. This happened despite Sachs’s direct pleas to the White House. The depression that followed was neither accidental nor a surprise. Far from it. This was the first time that the US attempted to “weaken” post-Cold War Russia, an attempt that was eventually reversed under Putin.

Related:

Russian aid controversy:

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded a project by the HIID to help rebuild the Russian economy on the basis of western concepts of ethics, democracy and free markets. Jeffrey Sachs was said to have “packaged HIID as an AID consultant”. USAID were glad to accept help from Harvard, since they lacked expertise for such a project. The HIID oversaw and guided disbursement of $300 million of US aid to Russia with little oversight by USAID. HIID advisers worked closely with representatives from Russia, notably Anatoly Chubais and his associates. Once USAID accepted help from the HIID, HIID was in a position to recommend U.S. aid policies while being a recipient of that aid. It also put the HIID in a position of power overseeing some of their competitors. The project, which ran from 1992 to 1997, was headed by economist Andrei Shleifer and lawyer Jonathan Hay. HIID received $40.4 million in return for its activities in Russia, awarded without the normal competitive bidding approach.

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Russian Missile/Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Power Grid – Ukraine’s Top Brass Admits Resource Shortage

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Update on Russian military operations in and around Ukraine for December 17, 2022:

– Russian missiles and drones deliver massive damage to Ukrainian electrical infrastructure;

– The extensive damage reported by Russian strikes contradicts Kiev’s claims of intercepting “most” Russian missiles and drones;

– Pentagon plans training program for 500 Ukrainian forces per month falling far short of necessary numbers just to replace lost Ukrainian manpower;

– Ukrainian General Zaluzhny admits a growing logistical crisis and shortcomings regarding Western systems transferred to Ukrainian forces;

– Zaluzhny complains about HIMARS’ limited range;

– Zaluzhny demands arms deliveries on a scale the US and NATO are incapable of;

References:

An interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine’s armed forces

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Russian Missile/Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Power Grid – Ukraine’s Top Brass Admits Resource Shortage (Odysee) via The New Atlas

Evidence That U.S. Intends Blitz-Nuclear Strike At The Kremlin

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Alexander Mercouris headlined on October 29th, “Biden quietly moves world closer towards armageddon. Finland ready to host nukes”, and discussed the U.S. plan to trap Russia by positioning its nuclear missiles about 500 miles or 7 minutes of missile-flying distance from The Kremlin, a “checkmate” (a beheading of Russia’s central command so that Russia won’t have enough time to launch its retaliatory missiles) and demand Russia’s surrender (since there is no way that Russia’s central command would be able to assess the situation within only 7 minutes and get its missiles launched). There is a history to this plan, and the U.S. Government decision to do this seems to have been made in or around 2006, when America’s two most prestigious national security academic journals, Foreign Affairs and National Security, both recommended (though ever so tactfully) replacing the idea (actually meta-strategy) of “Mutually Assured Destruction” or “M.A.D.” (that nuclear weapons exist only in order to prevent a WW III), by the new U.S. meta-strategy, of “Nuclear Primacy” — that America will use them so as to win a nuclear war, WW III, against Russia. Positioning those missiles in Ukraine was supposed to be the way to do this, but, since that is looking increasingly unlikely now, it is to be Finland (the second-nearest nation to The Kremlin) which is taking on this function (if Turkiye’s President Tayyip Erdogan will allow it into NATO, which will be his most fateful decision ever).

Evidence That U.S. Intends Blitz-Nuclear Strike At The Kremlin

Joe Biden Is An EXTREMIST – According To White House Spokesperson

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Sep 3, 2022 – During a recent press conference, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre explicitly declared that anyone who disagrees with the majority of Americans is, by definition, an extremist. She intended for her remarks to be about Trump’s MAGA supporters, but could have just as easily meant her own boss, Joe Biden, who adopts a decidedly minority position on a number of issues, including opposition to Medicare for All and marijuana legalization as well as refusing to push for a $15 federal minimum wage. Guess Biden’s the extremist, after all!

Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger are joined by The Duran hosts Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou to discuss the myriad ways Joe Biden is out of touch with the American public.

Joe Biden Is An EXTREMIST – According To White House Spokesperson via Jimmy Dore and The Duran

Gonzalo Lira Is Alive and So Is His Bucha Video

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Gonzalo Lira Is Alive and So Is His Bucha Video

Transcript of his interview:

Chilean Gonzalo Lira was taken by SBU, says he’s “OK”

I don’t have my computer and I don’t have my phone and and so anything that was published or posted on the Gonzalo Lira YouTube channel, the Coach Red Pill YouTube channel, the @realGonzaloLira Twitter feed and (telegram feed) after April 15th just discount it because it was not me. I did not have access to those accounts and I still don’t for that matter. And I don’t have my cell phone or access to my email accounts. I created a new one and that’s how I got in touch with Alex and I’ve been in touch with of course, I reached out to my family members, the people close to me and I’m telling them that I’m okay. In some cases I’m waiting for their reply because it’s three in the morning, four in the morning over there.

🤔💭 Maybe he reveals more, here, in his talk with The Duran?!

Power outages and a UN report citing “medieval sieges” against Venezuela (Video)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how the mainstream media has turned a blind eye to a UN Report on Venezuela, all the while relentlessly pushing out the false narrative of collapse at the hands of an evil dictator.

Meanwhile the siege warfare against Venezuela continues, with large scale power outages reported in the nation’s capital, for which President Maduro claims were orchestrated by US/Deep State cyber hackers.
— Read on theduran.com/power-outages-and-a-un-report-citing-medieval-sieges-against-venezuela-video/