A regiment in Ukraine's military was founded by white supremacists. Now it's battling Russia on the front lines. USA Today---The first MSCM source to get it----Not even close, actually.
USA Today, to my knowledge, seems to be the first MSCM to let the cat out of the bag. Then they strangle the poor cat. It's a perfect example of both mis and disinformation.
{The front-line Azov Regiment was founded eight years ago by extremist right-wing militants, including avowed neo-Nazis. It has long served as an inspiration for US-based right-wing extremists and white supremacists, some of whom traveled to Ukraine for training and combat experience.}
This is a misleading statement that erases part of the history of the 2014 coup. Any critical thinking person who actually knows that history would understand this, including USAT. SO the only obvious agenda is to control the narrative disingenuously. If this Nazi element, along with others in 2014, were essential during the organized coup lead by the US then there obviously was a presence before 8 years ago. The fact is, is that there has been a fascist presence in Ukraine for many decades. The fascist elements in Ukraine were an essential part of securing the success of the coup Victoria Nuland welcomed silently, and have played an essential part with pressure on how the government operates in Ukraine. The current president is stuck between them the US and seemingly the EU now as a puppet even if he wanted to do what he claimed he would when elected.
{Twitter quickly placed a warning label on the tweet saying it violated rules about hateful conduct, but that Twitter had “determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”}
Of course they did. They'll bend or drop the rules for any politician, group, or news agency that has an agenda that matches the agenda of the established controlled narrative. I mean seriously, if these social medias actually fulfilled their obligation of fighting hate and factual information post they'd have to become the largest employer on the planet to keep up. Right now that agenda must be to diminish a growing recognition of facts people like myself are exposing to our circles.
Here it comes people, that word. As history will again repeat itself, the main new sources filling the citizenry with mis/disinformation will at some point be forced to backtrack to some degree of their fake news. This is a start. But as history also shows us, those who fell further down their rabbit hole will merely shrug if off again with the continuing ending result of our societies moving further into the fascistic nature slowly engulfing us they can't seem to recognize.
They already managed to sway a vast majority of liberals and progressives into supporting it after all the past week. Why? Because none of them have a fucking clue about the facts and history they've been expressing themselves on. They just simply believed what they were told.
Perfect example people like me know we're dealing with someone totally compliant to what they're being told. Is when we attempt to lead them to more facts which they instantly snub their noses at and repeat controlled social media responses . Currently our attempts to use our independent news sources and RT on this Ukraine issue. While being falsely accused of being a Putin apologist because of this, they're actually ignorantly admitting they haven't took the time to observe the other side of the story to even genuinely produce a legitimate reason to place that accusation on me, or legitimately deny the facts provided in the information based on self discovery. Those from within the group have been people who either haven't been here long enough to know my history of comments on Putin, which is a tell in itself in regards to social media controlled response, or have a short memory and simply geared to attack, another social media controlled response. All symptoms of perception management and social media response control. Where I develop all my post from the MSCM news I'm forced to see or hear that's on a 24/7 cycle, in which I decipher and apply my opinion based on discovery of past history, independent sources, which also often provides comparisons of their work with both MSCM and history. So anyone who resembles this scenario isn't fooling me, but only themselves. If you allow them to keep you uninformed, you're part of the problem taking our societies down with you. And this Ukraine issue has been a major blow to our societies in regards of group think.
It brought pause to me the other day as I was thinking about this group think travesty, tank groups. It goes quite well with think tank. This would be people caught in the tank of think tank groups who are a primary element along with public relation firms and NGOs who design a reported 80% of the information they pass down to MSCM for the ruling class to create the perception management they're all trapped in. Yea, lets talk about who's actually brainwashed. Who's the puppet. Who's the apologist.
With that said. I apologize--- It's been a long week for me as it was my first week back to work after my health issue. And as some of you know I spend my time listening to NPR as I'm driving up, down, across my area, and I spent a lot of time between talking to my windshield and wanting to cry as I listened to the vast amount of bullshit and rewritten history taking place over the week. I had so many aspects being thrown at me to develop a post on it became overwhelming to keep up with it. Sometimes I get lucky and shit falls into place for me though. But that's part of how they do it. Overwhelm with mis/disinformation producing only what they want you to know and think to a point you can't possibly keep up while attempting to manage in the chaotic society that been created for us. This article kicks this moment off for me. Back at it. Basically, this article goes on to hypocritically soften the real nature of the Azov Battalion [en.wikipedia.org] and fascist history in Ukraine.
Lets compare it to Alex Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal's article.
How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia
While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters.
{In a face-to-face confrontation with militants from the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who had launched a campaign to sabotage the peace initiative called “No to Capitulation,” Zelensky encountered a wall of obstinacy.
With appeals for disengagement from the frontlines firmly rejected, Zelensky melted down on camera. “I’m the president of this country. I’m 41 years old. I’m not a loser. I came to you and told you: remove the weapons,” Zelensky implored the fighters.}
As I stated above, Zelensky may be out of his league, stuck in a cave with a mile downfall into the abyss. I'm expecting the abyss is going to win. When I see him on TV it seems the life has been sucked from him. Only able to follow an agenda prepared well before he came into the picture. This isn't an act like he came from where his acting and comedian career can produce a fairy tail ending of joy. He's stuck in a bloody fucking nightmare.
{By this point, Azov had been formally incorporated into the Ukrainian military and its street vigilante wing, known as the National Corps, was deployed across the country under the watch of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, and alongside the National Police. In December 2021, Zelensky would be seen delivering a “Hero of Ukraine” award to a leader of the fascistic Right Sector in a ceremony in Ukraine’s parliament.}
If you can't beat them, join them?
{This February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukrainian territory on a stated mission to “demilitarize and denazify” the country, US media embarked on a mission of its own: to deny the power of neo-Nazi paramilitaries over the country’s military and political sphere. As the US government-funded National Public Radio insisted, “Putin’s language [about denazification] is offensive and factually wrong.”}
In other words. The MSCM and NPR, got their talking points from the ruling classes various aspects of public relation firms on how to address the public to suppress factual accounts of how the 2014 coup played out and the existence of an 8 year long genocide campaign in the east. All emphasis has been to keep the world citizenry from knowing virtually anything about this history. With my dreaded return to work this week, into their delusional reality, no one I've spoken to has a clue about 2014 when certain aspects related to the issue as a whole came up.
{Hours before President Putin’s February 24 speech declaring denazification as the goal of Russian operations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “asked how a people who lost eight million of its citizens fighting Nazis could support Nazism,” according to the BBC.
Raised in a non-religious Jewish family in the Soviet Union during the 1980’s, Zelensky has downplayed his heritage in the past. “The fact that I am Jewish barely makes 20 in my long list of faults,” he joked during a 2019 interview in which he declined to go into further detail about his religious background.
Today, as Russian troops bear down on cities like Mariupol, which is effectively under the control of the Azov Battalion, Zelensky is no longer ashamed to broadcast his Jewishness. “How could I be a Nazi?” he wondered aloud during a public address. For a US media engaged in an all-out information war against Russia, the president’s Jewish background has become an essential public relations tool.}
Here I am asking myself, it's almost like it's working on cue. You do you hypocritical speech and I'll come out and announce my narrative. Although Putin's narrative is obviously correct, is it genuine, or a part in the global theatrical arena?
{Behind the corporate media spin lies the complex and increasingly close relationship Zelensky’s administration has enjoyed with the neo-Nazi forces invested with key military and political posts by the Ukrainian state, and the power these open fascists have enjoyed since Washington installed a Western-aligned regime through a coup in 2014.
In fact, Zelensky’s top financial backer, the Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, has been a key benefactor of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and other extremists militias.}
{Backed by Zelensky’s top financier, neo-Nazi militants unleash a wave of intimidation
Incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard, the Azov Battalion is considered the most ideologically zealous and militarily motivated unit fighting pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbass region.
With Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel insignia on the uniforms of its fighters, who have been photographed with Nazi SS symbols on their helmets, Azov “is known for its association with neo-Nazi ideology…[and] is believed to have participated in training and radicalizing US-based white supremacy organizations,” according to an FBI indictment of several US white nationalists that traveled to Kiev to train with Azov.
Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian energy baron of Jewish heritage, has been a top funder of Azov since it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled private militias like the Dnipro and Aidar Battalions, and has deployed them as a personal thug squad to protect his financial interests.
In 2019, Kolomoisky emerged as the top backer of Zelensky’s presidential bid. Though Zelensky made anti-corruption the signature issue of his campaign, the Pandora Papers exposed him and members of his inner circle stashing large payments from Kolomoisky in a shadowy web of offshore accounts.}
Take notice to the picture, the flag with the insignia on it. [en.wikipedia.org]
They draw quite the crowd. Now, would you consider the downplay by USAT to be a measure of dis/misinformation? Looks to me they're pretty much an essential aspect to their society, huh?
FBI, you might ask what Blumenthal is referring to. [consortiumnews.com] {“With its military experience and weapons, Azov has the ability to blackmail the government and defend themselves politically against any opposition. They openly say that if the government will not advance an ideology similar to theirs, they will overthrow it,” Ivan Katchanovski, a professor of political science at the University of Ottawa and leading expert on Ukraine’s far-right, commented to me. He continued, explaining: "Currently the organizations that are fascist are stronger in Ukraine than in any other country in the world. But this fact is not reported by Western media because they see these organizations as supportive of the geopolitical agenda against Russia. So condemnations are limited to violence or human rights abuses.”}
Not so subtle now is it?
{Zelensky’s administration escalated the attack on Medvedchuk, shuttering several media outlets he controlled in February 2021 with the open approval of the US State Department, and jailing the opposition leader for treason three months later. Zelensky justified his actions on the grounds that he needed to “fight against the danger of Russian aggression in the information arena.”}
In other words. Opposition speak, no matter how factual it may be, will not be tolerated. The first manor to fool a society/world is to control the information and the narrative of the information made public. When you can manipulate the public into believing your illusion you win. As history repeatedly show us, even when the truth finally comes out, that same public will fall right back into the same group think tank when the next round is needed to create another false reality. The Victory of ‘Perception Management’ [consortiumnews.com] {To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war.} As a society we have seemingly been vastly, successfully, indoctrinated into compliance of their manufactured reality. Nothing brings the established parties together quicker than war. And this Ukraine issue brought the supporters of those parties into compliance just as quick. It's a profoundly disturbing era we're moving into. Parry's article above though written in 2014 correctly predicted exactly what we're again observing today! A journalist our society surely misses within the integrity he applied to unbiased political news.
{A few seats away from the Jewish president was Yehven Karas, the leader of the neo-Nazi C14 gang.
During the Maidan “Revolution of Dignity” that ousted Ukraine’s elected president in 2014, C14 activists took over Kiev’s city hall and plastered its walls with neo-Nazi insignia before taking shelter in the Canadian embassy.
As the former youth wing of the ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party, C14 appears to draw its name from the infamous 14 words of US neo-Nazi leader David Lane: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
By offering to carry out acts of spectacular violence on behalf of anyone willing to pay, the hooligans have fostered a cozy relationship with various governing bodies and powerful elites across Ukraine.}
As you read on it explains a wide relationship of fascist ideology and the power it has in the social and political structure.
{According to one Greek resident in Mariupol recently interviewed by a Greek news station, “When you try to leave you run the risk of running into a patrol of the Ukrainian fascists, the Azov Battalion,” he said, adding “they would kill me and are responsible for everything.”}
Have no doubt, many of you that might have made it this far would most likely find yourselves viewed as an enemy in Ukraine today. Quite possibly detained tortured and killed out of the sight of public. Liberal, progressive, especially any sense of socialist or communist or LBGT. The current RT segment of the war in the east is exposing mass graves and schools that have been used as brutal torture chambers by these fascist from over the past 8 years.
{Other video filmed at checkpoints around Mariupol showed Azov fighters shooting and killing civilians attempting to flee.
On March 1, Zelensky replaced the regional administrator of Odessa with Maksym Marchenko, a former commander of the extreme right Aidar Battalion, which has been accused of an array of war crimes in the Donbass region.}
Fair warning! A very graphic video embedded in this pasted piece of apparently murdered Greek civilians who were attempting to flee. A couple who came up to the incident were recording the evidence was come up on shortly after and attacked also with apparently the wife being killed.
{Meanwhile, as a massive convoy of Russian armored vehicles bore down on Kiev, Yehven Karas of the neo-Nazi C14 posted a video on YouTube from inside a vehicle presumably transporting fighters.
“If we get killed, it’s fucking great because it means we died fighting a holy war,” Karas exclaimed. ”If we survive, it’s going to be even fucking better! That’s why I don’t see a downside to this, only upside!”}
Unfortunately the video has no translation. If accurate, it's profoundly sickening. The 2 following short videos are parts of the documentary showing on RT this weekend of the other side of the story. Including aspects of the 8 years not being covered by western media.
Now they seem to be working? For some reason. hmmmm
Apparently Agnostic is blocking the videos links from operating. I'll just leave that there for you to think about. It provides another foundation to information control. To view you can go to the RT website or simply apply their free app to any device to you have. Go to the link for shows then find the Documentary shows link. If you have a smart TV you can get the current full documentary. Fair warning! Some coverage is very explicit on mass graves, dead bodies, and references to torture.
!!!unempire!!! !!!wake the hell up!!!
Russians and the Ukrainians have been mortal Enemies since time has been recorded!!!
The Red Army under Nikita Khrushchev killed a s starved over Four million Ukrainians between 1923 to 1930!!!
The Russians have been known for their overtly inhumane treatment of anyone or any country that is not in line with their leadership!!!
The murderous ways of Lenin and Stalin are very much alive, now in overt use by Putin!!!
Nazism is the marriage of the state and the corporations to which there is one individual who commands and controls the country under a dictatorship!
The Russian Federation is a dictatorship under Putin!!!
The Ukrainians no matter how corrupt is not a bastion of Nazism like the Russian Federation which is rule by a overt dictatorship!!!
My 96 yo Dutch, NZ, Australian acquaintance cheerfully told me of being in the streets of Harlem to watch the nazi Ukrainian troops march through to takeup occupation duties after the 3rd Reich invaded Holland. The Dutch showed their disapproval by turning their backs on them.
Many of Australian migrants post WWII were Ukrainian nazis.
Isn't it a fact that the nearest thing consistently emulating a fascist state since WWII has been Israel?
Thanks for the FYI on the RT links.
Good post thanks.
Hitler had the presence of history and many concessions towards developing his white ideology and the authoritarian colonization that comes with these campaigns. And yes, Israel, more pointedly, Zionism was a perfect example. Many may claim that Israel is following Hitler's past, but actually, Israel committed these types of crimes first. Theodor Herzl who began the movement of the Jewish to "return to their fatherland" did so with the intent to join the western civilization that has an longer history of such crimes. This plan was being developed before WWl. In which the British helped this cause around the onset of WWl I'll let Abby Martin explain the long story below.
Quite frankly, Hitler merely returned the atrocities to Europe in which they have spread around the globe for centuries, especially in regards to England. Quite frankly, Ukraine is currently experiencing pretty much the same crimes on it which nations placed on Germany. Germany was also used as a geopolitical strategy against Russia and manufactured warring for profit. Like Ukraine, its military was illegally funded by banks of the US and England, supplied by various corporations from the US and Europe, breaking a WWl agreement which prevented Germany from rebuilding their military. This should send a horrifying resemblance to anyone recognizing this.
Large nations have had their in battles for power and social structure. But when it comes to modern Anglo-Saxons of Europe with their on take of Christianity in the 7th century, added emphasis on the new land, America, look no further for the origins of authoritarian colonization. With the new ability to span the globe as fears of falling off the edge were conquered, conquering new found lands became the norm, how many stories exist of Germany being among them practicing crimes against humanity, until WWl and WWll. At the moment I can't think of any, without having to go back to the European continental mid evil days where they all engaged with each other within many power structure changes taking place in historic accounts. But within the past few hundred years we can't legitimately deny our countries haven't from within that white Christian ideology been perpetrators of a vast number of crimes against humanity on native people around the globe and within the lands some of us now live. Might I remind you of the recent discoveries in Canada and their crimes that the US, and Australia also share.
@William_Mary unfortunately the so called burial of Canadian first people's was not proven. There have been no autopsies on bones.
I haven't been keeping up with this, my mom had another stroke and was in the hospital since Monday, she was barely released late last night. Sorry about your health problems, hoping you're better and your return to work goes smoothly.
I'm so sorry, Michelle, I've been on and off myself and hadn't realized your mom had another stroke. Fuck. I hope she's had some improvement since then, and continues to feel better.
@Lauren Thank you Lauryn, she seems to be doing better. She finally got all the tests she needed and her neurologist said that her brain shows that it's healed since this last stroke. So I'm hoping for a full recovery and that she continues to be better, it's been a very bad 2 years with my mom's health. I'm not ready to lose her and she tells me that she's not ready to die!
@MichelleGar1 That's excellent news! You've (all) certainly had your extra measure of stress these past few years. I know the travel has to wear on you, but I'm sure it's been healing for your mom to have you there.
@Lauren I'm in El Paso, TX. I haven't moved in with metalhead222, he's going to move in with me here. He knows now that my mom needs me here. I was going to move in with him during the pandemic, I was already living with him and then my mom found out she had cancer, so that put a stop to me moving in with him.
@MichelleGar1 Oh, I'm way behind! I thought you had been going back and forth. Speaking as a mom, I appreciate you being with her, and speaking as a daughter, I'm glad you guys were able to make it work.
@Lauren I was traveling back and forth to visit him when I was able to. I was visiting him last when my mom had her stroke and he flew back with me to El Paso and he stayed with me for a month. His mom passed away December 12th so I went to help him with whatever he needed during that time, then my mom's stroke.
He's in the process of getting his mom's estate and paperwork in order then sell his house and move here, it seems like it's taking forever but in reality he's only been back in Virginia for a month now.
@Lauren She's my mom and it's the least I could do for her! She has always been there for me, my turn! I hope if this ever happens to me that my kid's will help me but you never know.
@MichelleGar1 I'm sure they would, but hope they never have to.
@Lauren True! My mom was very healthy and then all of this happened!
Thank you, I'm doing fairly well. I hope better days are ahead of you also!
@William_Mary Thank you!
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