Ignoring the Obvious in the Navalny Poisoning
Whereas Alexei Navalny is depicted as Putin’s major domestic political rival in the Western media, he is in fact a virtual laughingstock among the Russian public, garnering about 1% of their support. Which means that, whereas Putin would have no motivation whatever to murder him, his assassination – or faked attempted assassination – would work wonderfully well as a false flag with the Western public for further demonizing Putin and pushing the Russophobic NATO agenda.
The official story being relayed by our media is that Navalny was poisoned by a cup of tea. This was brought to him by his traveling companion from an airport bar. Moon of Alabama has made this astute observation:
Navalny's spokeswomen has insisted that the only substance Navalny ingested that morning was a tea from an airport bar. A CCTV video from the airport shows that the tea was brought from the bar by a person that then sits down with Navalny. They presumably traveled together. How would the airport barkeeper, if he supposedly poisoned Navalny, knew for whom the tea was?
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/08/the-back-and-forth-about-navalnys-...
The obvious implication is that, if Navalny was indeed poisoned by tea, the poisoner was the traveling companion that brought the tea from the bar.
And who is this traveling companion? Maria Pevchich, a Russian national who is said to be a 33-year-old businesswoman based in London, with ties to British elites and the oligarch Khodorkovski.
https://twitter.com/sbobkov/status/1301598752235384832
At the time she met Navalny 11 years before, she was an assistant to a British MP.
https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1301766488567631873
So if the tea narrative is correct (who knows?), the likely scenario is that Navalny was poisoned by Pevchich as a false flag on behalf of British intelligence. Then, even though Russian analysis of samples from Navalny could find no signs of a cholinesterase inhibitor like a Novichok, a German military lab announces with a flourish that they have found Novichok in Navalny. The duped Western public could then be expected to believe that the dastardly Putin was behind the poisoning – even though British and Western military labs have small stocks of this agent.
The follow through is that Merkel is now being pressured to halt construction of the Nord Stream pipeline that is to send Russian natural gas directly to Germany – a project which has Western Russophobes up in arms.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/merkel-pressured-halt-nord-stream-pip...
Very neat. And a transparent fraud. But, thanks to the utter corruption of our news media, transparent frauds tend to work well these days.
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Link: Market Friday: The Pipeline and the Poison
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
a poison that doesn't kill and a disappeared person alive
is more threatening than a disappeared person that is later be found dead. Killing someone is a failed method, disappearing someone is an art.
The whole thing is such a shit to read and understand that all there is left is disgust, fear, uncertainty and doubt of anything and anybody. Which of course makes people angry and silent. Until they have had it and start to riot, no matter where, no natter who, no matter against whom.
Americans want to sell their liquid gas to Germany (Europe?). Americans want that Germany builds and pays for new terminals where American ships with their liquid gas can dock on and process the distribution and sales of that gas inside Germany. Germany complied with those wishes. New market for LNG as Germany moves to add important terminals
Russia wants to sell gas and oil to Germany (and Europe?). So they want the Nordestream 2 pipeline be built and finished. Germany wants that as well, not only because they want Russian gas, but because lots of German business have invested their money so the pipeline could be built.
Americans have an interest to pressure Germany to stop the final construction of the pipeline. Merkel is stoic and indicated that she resisted Americans' attempted pressures.
So Americans had to find ways to make Merkel look bad for her modest resistance and punish her. One way to do that for the Americans was to cause troubles for all investors, who made avances towards building the pipeline.
So to arrange for the disappearance or non-deadly poisoning of regime critics in Russia or Belarus is helpful. It helps to push the Germans to request from Russia and Belarus to adhere to the human rights standards accepted worldwide, be transparent in their methods to deal with their internal regime critics like Navalny and leader Maria Kolesnikova and not to use 'terrorism' against their own interal regime critics. Now Americans have the Germans where they wanted them. A reborn Russia adversary. Add a little bit of Hitler, Nazi images and comparions now and then completes the stage for that kabuki theater.
All I know that I certainly haven't understood anything, am tired of not understanding it, and just have no interest in readinng anything further about it for a while. But helas, the addiction to try to understand is always stronger than simply turn your back and say "Who cares for that shit, we can't do anything anyhow'.
So, shit is what shit does. It stinks to heaven. And if the heaven stink, it stinks everywhere as we all live under the same sky.
I wanna a lullaby music video, azzazello, (no baby, dog or kitties pictures for added cuteness please)
https://www.euronews.com/live
When you want a Russian poison that doesn't kill...
Novichok is deadly. Instantly, when you are exposed to it. Novichok is being used as a brand name for the uninformed.
If the Russians wanted Navalny dead they could have done it much more discreetly and without the fanfare. If the Russians wanted him dead why did they land the plane midflight and put him in a hospital? If the Russians wanted him dead why let him get to the West?
By the way, the Russians did not shoot down MH17. The US and Ukrainian fascists did.
This seems to be a recurring theme.
for those who prefer non-Russian sources:
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
It's all false flags
The West has an ongoing project, it's destroy Russia and break her into small parts so that no major nation can rise in her place, ever. The is the wet dream of the neocons, and they have published this goal. The West wasted no time in making Russia (The USSR) the enemy after WWII. In fact the argument can be strongly made that dropping two nuclear bombs on civilians in cities in Japan was to send a message to the USSR. #1- We have the tech to destroy you, #2- we have no hesitation to use it on population centers. There was an enormous opportunity to build a peaceful world after WWII as The USSR was our ally. The key factor preventing this was that the Democrat party forced FDR to replace Wallace -a dove, with Truman- a soulless hawk. We are going through a very similar transition today with Biden and Harris, both soulless hawks, with a cast of neocons accompanying them. I really believe that we would be safer with Trump, although still at risk of a global nuclear holocaust. Trump is pugnaciously aggressive but seems to sense a limit when he pushes too hard. Biden-Harris will have no limits, and whatever the project is they will push it to completion. We will pull out of no nations in the Middle east and will start at least 2 wars in the next 4 years under Biden. We will face-off against Russian troops in Syria, and Russia will not back down.
The US uses marketing to attack Russia. Endless false flags. It works in the US, because the media is run by their CIA minders and the public are a bunch of sheep. To the average person in the US, President Putin is a thug. In Russia he is admired for saving Russia, respected and enjoys an amazing approval rating, sometimes as high as 85% .
And this is in a pandemic environment.
The US is waging war against Russia in the arena of public opinion and in the economic sphere through sanctions. The list of false accusations against the president are endless.
- He kills reporters
- He's the richest man in the world all through corruption
- He ordered the poisoning of the Scripals
- He poisoned Litvinenko with polonium
- He invaded and annexed Crimea (They asked though the ballot to return to Russia)
- He is waging war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. (The US prevents Kiev from implementing Minsk2)
- He ordered the poisoning of his major political rival, Navalny. (Two falsehoods)
- Russia supports the butcher Assad in Syria. (Assad has been trying to save Syria from US supported, recruited, trained, equipped and paid terrorists.)
The list goes on and on. But by now you should understand where this is coming from and how CIA minders force the MSM to report these lies as is. The US major weapon is marketing and they will waste no time in bragging about that to "adversaries".
Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.
Russia also obviously
has massive energy reserves, so breaking it up into powerless little pieces would make the theft of those much, much easier I would imagine. But hey, it's not really stealing if the USA does it, right?
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
If Putin could do half he's accused of it'd be wise
to try to establish friendly relations.
If you're running for the Presidency why spend multiple billions of dollars to win when you could hire that small private business in Russia that supposedly flipped an election for only $100,000 in Facebook ads ?
I mean here is a guy, Vladimir Putin, responsible for a government covering eleven time zones, yet can still find time to get involved with major and minor elections across the United States?
With Russian intelligence agencies so sophisticated they can hack US servers, yet with a URL that might as well say 'from Russia with love'.
I could go on but this one is hard to top.
Mainstream media is also informing us...
DHS: Russia Will Interfere With U.S. Elections By Promoting Alleged Russian Interference With U.S. Elections
The Hill writes (emphasis added):
Russian media and other groups are intentionally “amplifying” concerns around mail-in voting in order to undermine the 2020 U.S. elections, a report compiled by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made public Thursday found.
...
“Russian state media, proxies, and Russian-controlled social media trolls are likely to promote allegations of corruption, system failure, and foreign malign interference to sow distrust in democratic institutions and election outcomes,” the Office of Intelligence and Analysis wrote....
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/dhs-russia-will-interfere-with-us-...
Forgot who posted these
Schroedinger’s Russian: simultaneously a brilliant expert at deception and conspiracy but too stupid to avoid being caught for using rubles to buy Facebook ads.
Russophrenia - "a condition where the sufferer believes Russia is both about to collapse, and take over the world."
Don't remember where I first saw these.
Do the false flag and see what can stick.
I wasn't sure who or what did the poisoning as Merkel made noise about keeping Nord Stream 2 regardless of the political outcome of the poisoning. But given the carping of major German politicians they are pushing for the termination of the pipeline maybe the false assassination attempt was mostly aimed at Nord Stream 2. If Germany shifts to LNG, Russia can export it and at a lower price than US companies. But then Germany could ban LNG imports and go with hyper expense versions of American LNG. Looks like the false flag poisoning is serving many agendas.
In my mind, there's a difference
between perpetrating a false flag and falsely exploiting an event.
While I would never discount the callousness of any government or faction within a government to achieve an objective via a false flag, controlling all the elements of the event and the propaganda required to point in the wrong direction and totally hide the real perpetrators is quite difficult.
It's far easier to exploit an event for which the exploiters had zero participation in. A classic example is "Remember the Maine" An accident turned into an attack; although it appears that yellow journalists were in the forefront of claiming an attack.
To me, the Putin-Russia poison claims have been rolled out in a much too ragged form to suggest false flags or Russian culpability. From Litivenko through Navalny, the alleged targets are too minor to meaningless for any state assassination, the 'poison' is always something that can be made to seem to be unique to Russia, the point of contact for the victim to be poisoned is always in a public space*, and the 'poison' is always so highly toxic that 1) there should be more than one victim and 2) the 'poison' is too dangerous to consider using for an assassination. *The Skripal doorknob claim is completely ludicrous, but not to the MET/MI-5/6, BBC, the Guardian, etc. IOW, the science is crap, but the propaganda is 'good enough' even though it took them weeks to concoct it.
The first one, Litivenko, didn't hit any direct pay dirt except for westerners already predisposed to hate Russia. The second one did a bit better, but again only with westerners; more government sanctions on Russia and slightly reduced interest in FIFA (but football fanatics were too tough of a nut). Didn't impact the Russian election that came two weeks after the alleged poisoning in the least. The curiosity in the Navalny affair is Germany's participation.
The alleged Navalny poisoning as pressure for the covert coup in Belarus is far too loose a connection to be an organized PR operation. (USG, UK, EU, NATO, etc. are resolute in their overthrow efforts in eastern Europe and the planning and funding goes on for decades.) It more armchair speculation that western governments see no need to comment on.
Not surprising that NordStream 2 opponents would seize on this at this time. The US/Pompeo has been working hard on its opposition and made no secret of this. This gives a boost to opponents in Germany. As a supporter of the pipeline, Merkel's participation in the ruse is the oddity. What was she paid for it? And does she expect to wiggle out of the box at a later date with the pipeline a done deal?
What I suspect is that for Merkel this is about preserving the CDU and her associates. Get the Wireccard scandal off the front pages. This is a big deal in Germany because Wirecard was its major player in the fintech sector, and this one goes right up the line to Merkel who pitched Wirecard in China last fall. Other than the #2 at Wirecard, the others have been arrested. However, #2, Jan Marsalek, is being characterized as fraudster in chief, and MI-6 through Bellingcrap has claimed that Marsalek skedaddled to Belarus on his way to Russia. There's no evidence that Russia had anything to do with Wirecard; so, harboring this fugitive would not be in its interests. Another huge wrinkle in this mess is the 2019 Softbank billion dollar investment in Wirecard. There's some suspicion that Softbank is a CIA (or western intell) cutout money laundering operation. (Did this have anything to do with Shinzo Abe's 28 Aug resignation?)
Just in time: How a Soviet Triple Agent Recruited New Spies in the West The story now is that Marsalek is a GU agent ("GRU" according to western press that can't wrap it's mind around a name change from years ago.) This is being pushed by Financial Times that did credible reporting on Wirecard, but perhaps it wasn't so much reporting as being a mouthpiece for some corporate or government entity that wanted to take down this rogue fintech player and continues to do so.
True and good points.
There are those who opportunistically jump on the supposed poisoning vs. the agenda of those who did the poisoning. If there was a poisoning in fact. I remember reading about a theory that the Skipals were the victims of a type of clam based neurotoxin food poison--which they supposedly ate before they became unconscious.
The possibility of a seafood neurotoxin
was floated early by some who attempted to make sense of this event. Why this doesn't work for me is that the two were sick but ambulatory enough to make it to the park bench but made no effort to call 999 or out to anyone that might have been within hearing distance of them. If Freya Church is to be believed (and at least her first on-camera interview rings true for me), she walked passed them and neither called out for help.
Nice analysis and pattern-matching, with alternate data.
I want to think that there is a financial motive because there always is one. You outlined the possibilities.
But.... the goings-on are just too clumsy and meandering. Like that time Pompeo assassinated Qasem Soleimani because of reasons. No MBA's were involved in writing this script either, that's for sure. The global press has been in the loop from the beginninf. It's like a PR operation. The press reports the 'dumb' political assertions with a breathtaking lack of curiosity. Ejecting inconvenient facts as quickly as they pop up.
Hahaha... funny. As we know, Bellingcat is the Barnum and Bailey of geopolitical psy-ops. That's the giveaway right there.
I had two associated thoughts:
1) The Navalny poisoning had a strong 'Mr. Magoo' quality to it, which is so characteristic of State Department hits. The narrative was scripted with missing details and mis-steps, and the reader was given sinister clues and invited to speculate.
2) The use of Novichok — obviously at a 'safe for pets' dilution — has to be a message of some kind. Are they branding Putin with a 'soviet' so-called 'nerve agent' that is weak and never works the way it's supposed to — just to embarrass him?
There are myriad logic problems: For example, I seem to recall that Russia didn't produce Novichok. It had been produced long ago in a lab in one of the Stans (was it Belarus?) And the excess produced was held there. When the Soviet Union broke up in 1990, Belarus ended up with the Novichok stash, just like Ukraine ended up with all the BUK ground-to-air missile launchers. (I'm working from memory, here.) Then in 1997 or so, Russia (with US help) destroyed most of its chemical weapons and signed a Treaty with the US stipulating that both countries would curb their own development and stockpiling of chemical weapons.
But then I also remembered the same pattern of cooperation in Syria in 2013, when the Neocons were in a state of delusional hysteria over Assad's stores of chemical weapons — and Netanyohu was drawing Road Runner cartoons at the UN, insisting on a first strike against Syria. So, Russia stepped in to diffuse the situation and remove Syria's chemical weapons. They were loaded onto a Russian ship, and later transferred to a US Navy ship, at sea. Although the US reported they had been destroyed, the false flag chemical weapons attacks continued, staged by the White Helmet resistance. And the US bombed Syria in retaliation at a time when Syria had no such weapons.
Syria's lack of chemical was the number one reason that we knew they were false flag attacks.
The Native Americans would be the first to point out that treaties and agreements with the US cannot be trusted, and often end in deceit. Fast forward to 2020 and we see that beyond the thousand or so bio-labs inside the US involved in Pentagon-funded weapons research — the Pentagon has established scores of low-profile bio-weapons labs around the globe. Currently, the US operates a string of bio-weapons labs that are strategically located along Russia's border with Europe, where they are trying to develop a virus that kills ethnic Russians, exclusively. US bio-labs are on China's border, too. As part of their jobs, American diplomatic corp now act as 'mules'. transporting specimens around the world in their diplomatic pouches.
Poor Mr. Navalny. He's now the Juan Guaidó of Russia.
[Edit = Add links]
Best not to overthink.
Relating Novichok back to the USSR to embarrass Putin is an overthink IMO.
Recall that the Met/MI-5/6 concocted the narrative for the Salisbury incident and they had to work fast to exploit the event. They grabbed Novichok because it had featured in a TV drama a couple of months earlier. Sounded scary and Russian. (Just like Polonium 238 that they used for Litinvenko -- but in that event they had a much longer period of time to concoct the narrative.)
There are plenty of reasons why HMG/MI-5/6 seeks to smear Putin and Russia. It's actually the same for the Clinton team. Putin put a huge damper on the theft of Russian wealth they was making its way to London and the US. All those 'lovely' Russian 'oligarchs' propping up the money center's real estate. The western players in this 'get Russia/Putin' has significantly increased over the past decade and that makes it far more difficult to read between the lines of events and the associated propaganda.
So far, I've been concluding that Navalny was in on a ruse, but it may have been no larger than the trolling of Putin that he and Pussy Riot have been engaged in for many years. None of that has gone anywhere in Russia and isn't more than a minor blip in the west. I also suspect that there was a practice run on this stunt in 2018. Wouldn't discount the possibility that they sold this or were hired for this latest performance to someone. The possible list of someones with the ability to pay is much too long for me to bother speculating about.
Ukraine
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I believe the chemist that invented Novichok
...moved to the US many years ago.
And to complicate things even further, that chemist and others are now arguing that Novichok doesn't exactly exist....
What We Know about Novichok
And Putin says that the US holds the International Patent on Novichok.
Vil Mirzananov published the
chemical formula for a 'newcomer' in 2008. He didn't invent/synthesize it. My understanding is that he was a production engineer at the chemical weapons factory in Nukus.
Neglected to mention that Navalny
didn't have as far to fall as Guido (not that he was at any great height). But both have done well enough in collecting moolah from US centric coffers.
wrt to bioweapons labs -- sounds like the 'scientists' are grifters if they're actually claiming they can target this or that group.
I added some links to my comment, just for you.
They move the story into a different dimension.
Thanks --
but didn't we know that the USG/DOD outsourced and offshored bioweapons research?
The Lugar Research Center goes back to the beginning of the WOT and was just another thing for the powerless to oppose.
They've done some outrageous things.
Especially with biting insects. Ugh. Actually, I am enamored of the author, very young and very brave. Working alone in very scary situations. Her investigations are precise and shocking. They put these labs in rural neighborhoods. She talks to everyone who lives near them. Many have been sick or died, There have been a few bad lab spills but the host countries don't ask them to leave. People pass her documents from the labs. She's a whistleblower from Bulgaria, taking on the Empire.
Dollars and employment for their
scientists is why the US, EU, etc. aren't asked or told to leave.
It's cheaper and easier to keep hidden from the US public than the domestic labs once were. We'll only ever know about what they may really be up to if something very nasty gets released, either accidentally or on purpose. Not sure how CW research was outsourced to Porton Down or why Brits tolerate it (then again they fell for the ludicrous media propaganda about Corbin (and doubt they couldn't care less about anti-semitism) and apparently have swallowed the novichok on the door handle fiction). Wonder where else the USG is operating CW research labs.
Should this reporter ever obtain truly explosive information, she must take great care in how and where she releases it and how and where she can protect herself.
It should be further noted, and always mentioned that
Novichok isn't and never was a Russian poison. It's Ukrainian. The link is foisted off on the rubes by referring to it as a product of the USSR because it was developed by and in a Ukrainian lab and manufactured in a Ukrainian factory when Ukraine was the Ukraine SSR. Ukraine took it with them and Russia, post USSR, destroyed all their stocks of such agents under the watchful eye of outside observers including some from the US.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Red Army's Chemical Research Institute
was in Nukus, Uzbekistan. With state approval, the US DOD dismantled it in 2002. Craig Murray as UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan at the time was involved in the oversight of the dismantling.
US Patent application US20130340754A1
Seems more likely that Navalny's US patented Novichok gun accidentally went off in his underpants