About 2,000 encircled militants, at Azovstal steel plant, are last Ukrainian hold-outs, Putin is told.

Russian forces have fully captured the key Donbass Black Sea port-city of Mariupol, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. However, more than 2,000 militants, loyal to Kiev, still remain entrenched at the Azovstal steel plant in the city, he added. President Vladimir Putin has called Shoigu’s plan of storming the area “inadvisable” and instead ordered him to “safely block” the area while extending to those inside another offer to lay down their arms. The last hold outs are cut off from supplies. When Mariupol was encircled in early March, some 8,100 Ukrainian soldiers, foreign mercenaries, and nationalist militants – including members of the notorious Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion – remained inside, according to the minister’s estimates. More than 1,400 militants have laid down their arms, Shoigu said, adding that over 142,000 civilians have also been evacuated from the city. It has been under siege for weeks.

Putin hails liberation of Mariupol, calls off operation to storm steel plant (TASS)
Mariupol is Liberated, Some Ukrainian Radicals Remain Besieged in Azovstal Plant, Shoigu Tells Putin (Sputnik News)

So far, the initiative has been openly supported only by one permanent member of the UNSC – the United States. The UN General Assembly is considering introducing a provision that would require permanent members of the Security Council to justify their use of veto powers. Currently, the five permanent members – China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US – can veto any resolutions put forth by the body. The council's other 10 rotating members do not have such powers. The provision was tabled by Liechtenstein last week and presented at a closed-door discussion panel on Tuesday. The discussion turned out to be quite “positive” and the initiative received additional co-sponsors, the mission of the microstate to the UN said after the meeting.

Ukrainian media showed a video of Ukrainian soldiers dragging the corpses of dead civilians. It is reported that the video was filmed in the famous city of Bucha, where the AFU staged a massacre, blaming Russian troops for war crimes. While Kiev’s Western partners refused to launch an independent international investigation at Moscow’s request, numerous arguments were presented proving that the mass murder was staged. [THIS] video is another one. You can see how the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are laying out corpses on the streets. According to the Kiev legend, Russian soldiers deliberately killed civilians, and the corpses lay for several days and weeks, so that the locals could not even bury them.

#WhereIsGonzaloLira
Still no confirmation that Gonzalo Lira has been killed (21st Century Wire)
Foreign blogger critical of Kiev goes missing, feared abducted (RT.com)
Could well be him, but of course it is best to wait for confirmation (Vanessa Beeley)
Gonzalo Lira Gone Missing (04/18/22)

As evidence of a potential bioweapons cover-up begins to emerge, a company called Metabiota, whose founder is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader graduate, is gaining prominence. The links between Metabiota and several key players in the COVID pandemic and/or the Ukraine labs story are manifold, so there’s no really simple way to unravel it in a logical sequence. That said, let’s start with what Metabiota does and the connections of its founder, and expand from there.

After having shown that the war in Ukraine was prepared by the Straussians and triggered on February 17 by Kiev’s attack on the Donbass, Thierry Meyssan returns to the secret history that links the Anglo-Saxons to the Banderites since the fall of the Third Reich. He sounds the alarm: we have not been able to see the resurgence of Nazi racialism in Ukraine and in the Baltic States for thirty years, nor do we see that many of the Ukrainian civilians we welcome are steeped in Banderites’ ideology. We are waiting for Nazi attacks to begin in Western Europe before we wake up.

The NATO-Russia conflict played out in Ukraine and the Obvious Complicity of the US/NATO (A Stephen F. Cohen Interview from 2006)(The Transnational)

Emergency statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 19, 2022)

According to the available reliable information, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is preparing another provocation to accuse the servicemen of the Russian Federation of so-called war crimes with the mass destruction of civilians in the Odessa region. To this end, in the near future it is planned to dress one of the SSU units in the uniform of Russian servicemen and make a demonstrative shooting of local residents. Photo and video footage of this action with alleged “Russian atrocities” will be published by Ukrainian and Western news agencies to immediately promote fakes. (LINK)

We Overcame the Most Sophisticated Forms of Manipulation. This post is the first in my future series, on how governments and shady non-governmental players psychologically manipulated us during the Covid-19 crisis. In this series, I will highlight various dirty tricks and explain why most people fell for them, one per post. [...] My future posts will go through various psychological manipulation concepts and how they were applied, by shady actors and co-opted governments, and how they affected each of us.

Regarding mRNA “Covid vaccines”: anyone who would think for a minute, would realize that there was not a way to know for sure that vaccines were safe and effective, simply because not enough time has passed. Similarly, anyone could see that the masterminds behind the lockdowns and vaccinations, the billionaires behind the scenes, and the corrupt governments, all ensured that any dissent would be silenced. Thus, the purported consensus did not, in fact, exist at all. The minority of people saw through that, decided accordingly, and refused vaccination. Who was that? You, my readers. What made you decide this? I am sure that there were just as many reasons as people here. The main factor is that you all took a few minutes to think about it critically. You were independently minded and decided to think for yourselves.