Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Дмитрий Медведев) | I am looking at what the Western political panopticon has become. It's sad, funny in some places, but sinister. Serial clowns, who have never worked a day in the civil service, direct the actions of troops and control the lives of millions of unfortunate people, sending them to certain death. ● The parliamentary circus of freaks from the country of defeated fascism, once again sitting in the Reichstag, demands that long-range missiles be sent to their neo-Nazi offspring, at the risk of getting even longer-range missiles on their heads. ● The grandfathers, weakening from day to day, with an uncertain gait in a state of persistent dementia, hardly understanding who or what they are talking about, are hugging cheerful whores who are in the guise of widows of deceased Russian extremists. ● Western leaders make theatrical visits to Kyiv on the date of the beginning of the Special Military Operation in order to distract their own electorate from the accumulated problems and once again lick the dirty boot of the American master in a state of acute choleric exaltation. ● The petty and tragic heir of Bonaparte, trying on the golden epaulets that were torn off two hundred years ago, is eager for revenge with Napoleonic magnitude and are spouting fierce and extremely dangerous nonsense about the landing of troops of certain NATO countries in Kyiv, as well as about new weapons for strikes against Russia. ● Examples of cadaverous decomposition of the brains of Western politicians appear every day. And that means that the horse is pale, and the rider is getting closer...Dixi et animam levavi… (DeepL + LanguageTool)

■ West wants to destroy Russia – Putin (RT.com)
■ West flirting with nuclear war – Putin (RT.com)
■ Putin warns of nuclear war if NATO states send militaries to Ukraine (aNews)
■ Russian diplomat says UK helps Ukraine carry out attacks in Black Sea (TASS)
■ British and French Troops ON THE GROUND in Ukraine; Operating Cruise Missiles to attack Russian Troops (HT)
■ British soldiers helping fire Ukrainian missiles, Olaf Scholz reveals (The Telegraph)(link)
■ Kremlin spokesman slams Macron’s statements about sending troops to Ukraine as dangerous (TASS)
■ Germany presented a four-stage plan for war with Russia (02/29/24)

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Twenty-five Palestinians, the majority of whom were children and women, were killed in an Israeli bombardment on the al-Nuseirat and al-Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip. | The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed Thursday that the number of Palestinians martyred in the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip has surpassed 30,000. ● Twenty-five Palestinians, the majority of whom were children and women, were killed in an Israeli bombardment on the al-Nuseirat and al-Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip. The bodies of the martyrs were transported to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah after being pulled from under the rubble of targeted inhabited houses.

■ ‘Cold-blooded massacre’:150 killed as Israeli forces attack Gazans waiting for aid (PressTV)
■ Live blog: Israeli attack on Rafah would violate ICJ orders — UN (TRT World)
■ Fatalities as Israeli forces shell crowd waiting for aid in Gaza (Anadolu)
■ Violent Israeli raids on Gaza and the death toll exceeds 30 thousand (Teller Report/Al Jazeera)
■ Strike On Palestinians Waiting For Aid Takes War's Toll Past 30,000 (HuffPost)

Germany presented a four-stage plan for war with Russia | The German government presented a 13-page document called “Risk Analysis for Civil Defense,” which is essentially a theoretical plan describing the development of events in the event of a Russian attack. This was reported by the German tabloid Bild. According to the publication, the document states that such an attack would provoke a fundamental change in the security situation for the whole of Europe. The authors of the report believe that a possible war with the Russian Federation will consist of four stages.

■ Germany has prepared Russia-NATO conflict scenario – Bild (RT.com)
■ Europe is desperate to find ammunition for further transfer to Kyiv (News Front)

John Miles | NATO has always allowed the United States to control Europe’s military policy. Now it’s dictating its energy policy, too. | [...] Investigative journalist Dan Lazare joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program on Wednesday to comment on the US ally’s report.

💬 “It's just absolutely farcical,” said the iconoclastic author. “I don't know how much longer this can go on. I mean, Denmark investigated, came up with a conclusion, and everybody knows it was obviously sabotage – that was obvious from the very start. And [Denmark] refrains from pointing a finger at a likely culprit.” ● “And the reason, of course, is the likeliest culprit – in fact, I'm 100% convinced that it is the culprit – is the United States,” he claimed. “But, Denmark, Sweden, everybody is afraid to say it. It's extraordinary.”

Sweden, likewise a US ally, ended its own investigation into the Nord Stream disaster earlier this month, also without commenting on the culprit of the sabotage. Lazare said the United States’ guilt is obvious, but frequently ignored in order to safeguard relations between the US and Europe. That dynamic is playing to the benefit of far-right parties across the continent who are the only ones willing to openly acknowledge the US role in the act, according to Lazare.

■ Sweden ends Nord Stream sabotage probe, hands evidence to Germany (aNews)[February 07,2024]
■ Seymour Hersh: A YEAR OF LYING ABOUT NORD STREAM (09/27/23)
■ Nord Stream Blast: Why the West Still Can't Name the Culprit (09/26/23)

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‘Bushnell said US involved in Gaza war before setting himself on fire’ | Bushnell, 25, died on Sunday after setting himself ablaze in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington in an “extreme act of protest” against the Israeli regime and the US government. ● One of his friends told the New York Post on Tuesday that Bushnell had told him he had...

💬...“top-secret clearance’’ for military intelligence data indicating that US troops were operating in tunnels under Gaza. “He told me on Saturday that we have troops in those tunnels, that it’s US soldiers participating in the killings,’’ friend told the Post “His actual job involves the processing of intelligence data. Some of what he was processing had to do with the Israeli Gaza conflict.”.

Bushnell said, according to his friend, that the intelligence that came into his possession showed “the US military was involved in the genocides going on in Palestine". "He told me that we had troops on the ground, you know, that were there and were killing large numbers of Palestinians," the friend stressed.

Aya Youssef | The United States' defeaning silence on its own citizens who were affected by its own policies speaks volumes. | Rachel Corrie and Aaron Bushnell bravely sacrificed their lives in support of the Palestinian cause, denouncing their country's role in the 75-year Israeli occupation. Yet, the striking question remains: How many more activists must tragically die before the United States truly listens to its citizens?

■ Aaron Bushnell: The US air man who shouted 'Free Palestine' before lighting himself on fire (MEE)

Nuland accidentally reveals the true aim of the West in Ukraine | US State Department fixture and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, aka “Regime Change Karen,” apparently woke up one day recently, took the safety off her nuclear-grade mouth, and inadvertently blew up the West’s Ukraine narrative. ● Until now, Americans have been told that all the US taxpayer cash being earmarked for Ukrainian aid is to help actual Ukrainians. Anyone notice that the $75 billion American contribution isn’t getting the job done on the battlefield? Victory in military conflict isn’t supposed to look like defeat. Winning also isn’t defined as, “Well, on a long enough time axis, like infinity, our chance of defeat will eventually approach zero.” And the $178 billion in total from all allies combined doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, either. Short of starting a global war with weapons capable of extending the conflict beyond a regional one, it’s not like they’ve been holding back. The West is breaking the bank. All for some vague, future Ukrainian “victory” that they don’t seem to want to clearly define. We keep hearing that the support will last “as long as it takes.” For what exactly? By not clearly defining it, they can keep moving the goal posts. But now here comes Regime Change Karen, dropping some truth bombs on CNN about Ukrainian aid.

■ Victoria Nuland and the Truth About Ukraine That CNN Will NEVER Show You (whatfinger.com)

The country is the second U.S. ally in the past month to end an investigation into the pipeline explosions. | Denmark became the latest country to close its investigation into the underwater explosions that caused leaks in two pipelines that were built to carry gas from Russia to Germany, with authorities saying they had found that "there was deliberate sabotage" of the infrastructure but would not go further in their probe to confirm who was behind the blasts. [...] Since the gas leaks were discovered in September 2022, seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine, various observers have accused the two countries as well as the United States of being at fault. ● The leaks—which experts said led to the single largest release of methane gas due to human activity—were discovered beneath the Baltic Sea, off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm. Seismic institutes found that two explosions had occurred underwater just before the leaks were recorded.

■ Sweden ends Nord Stream sabotage probe, hands evidence to Germany (aNews)[February 07,2024]
■ Seymour Hersh: A YEAR OF LYING ABOUT NORD STREAM (09/27/23)
■ Nord Stream Blast: Why the West Still Can't Name the Culprit (09/26/23)

Alan Macleod | Round-the-Clock Coverage vs Radio Silence | A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter. The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, Fox News and CNN collectively ran 731 segments on Navalny between February 16 and February 22, compared to just one on Lira since his death on January 12, perhaps because one was a Western-backed figure who died at the hands of an official enemy state, while the other was a pro-Russian voice who met their end at the hands of the Ukrainian government. ● The study compared the coverage of Navalny and Lira’s death in five leading outlets: the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, Fox News, and CNN. These outlets were chosen for their reach and influence and, together, could be said to reasonably represent the corporate media spectrum as a whole. The data was compiled using the Dow Jones Factiva news database and searches on the websites of the news organizations. This study takes no position on the matter of Navalny, Lira, or the Russia-Ukraine war.

■ Ukraine Military Intelligence Chief Says Navalny Died of a Blood Clot (antiwar.com)