Seymour Hersh | The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now | Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning. ● Two of the pipelines, which were known collectively as Nord Stream 1, had been providing Germany and much of Western Europe with cheap Russian natural gas for more than a decade. A second pair of pipelines, called Nord Stream 2, had been built but were not yet operational. Now, with Russian troops massing on the Ukrainian border and the bloodiest war in Europe since 1945 looming, President Joseph Biden saw the pipelines as a vehicle for Vladimir Putin to weaponize natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions. ● Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible. THE OPERATION: Norway was the perfect place to base the mission. In the past few years of East-West crisis, the U.S. military has vastly expanded its presence inside Norway, whose western border runs 1,400 miles along the north Atlantic Ocean and merges above the Arctic Circle with Russia. The Pentagon has created high paying jobs and contracts, amid some local controversy, by investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade and expand American Navy and Air Force facilities in Norway. The new works included, most importantly, an advanced synthetic aperture radar far up north that was capable of penetrating deep into Russia and came online just as the American intelligence community lost access to a series of long-range listening sites inside China. ● [In] Washington, planners knew they had to go to Norway. “They hated the Russians, and the Norwegian navy was full of superb sailors and divers who had generations of experience in highly profitable deep-sea oil and gas exploration,” the source said. They also could be trusted to keep the mission secret.

■ 2 Minutes of U.S. Official Incitement Against Nord Stream Pipeline (C-Span2/You Tube)
■ The West attempts to silently curtail Nord Stream terrorist acts’ investigation — Kremlin (TASS)
■ Snowden comments on Nord Stream revelations (RT.com)
■ Some Small Corrections To Seymour Hersh's New Nord Stream Revelations (MoA)
■ Seymour Hersh on the American "covert sea operation" to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines (eugyppius)
■ "Северные потоки" взорвала страна-террорист (RIA Novosti)[DeepL.com]
■ Россия пригрозила США последствиями за атаки на «Северные потоки» (lenta.ru)[DeepL.com]

■ The United States, Norway and NATO have Committed an Act of War Against Russia (Hal Turner) | Very long story short: The President of the United States ordered his staff to come up with a way to "deal with" the Nord Stream Pipeline. They did. It got blown up. This was a crime. It is also, an Act of War against Russia.

ER Editor: It’s clear that the Covid criminals have hit some of the wrong people, including retired Swiss banker Pascal Najadi and Thai princess, Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, for example. Najadi is triple vaccinated and injured; Mahidol, idem and in a coma since December. | Following the intervention of Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi (also a friend of Najadi) with the Thai government recently, Thailand may be the first government to take contractual action against Pfizer. We’re publishing this to note that Pascal Najadi is bringing his own legal action against the Swiss government, plus the fact of there being some interesting legal angles to this matter, called ‘universal jurisdiction’ crimes.

■ hailand to become first country in the world to declare its Pfizer contracts null and void (02/03/23)

Valentina Matvienko | The only possibility for Kiev to prevent an ultimate catastrophe is to start searching for a peace formula that takes into account objective reality and Russia's legitimate interests. | This is the only real prospect. Because Joe Biden's promise to maintain a military confrontation for as long as it takes, if you think about it, is a requiem for Ukraine. Because the Kiev regime has zero chance of defeating Russia on the battlefield, the American president's statement condemns Ukraine and its people to slaughter. This is exactly what is happening right now. The losses of the AFU are huge, the economy is collapsing, people are fleeing. The country is getting closer and closer to the line beyond which it risks the total and irrevocable loss of statehood. For what? For the interests of the United States and its allies? For the West's desire for world hegemony? (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator; free version)

Ukrainian military bloggers also spoke almost directly about this the day before. Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the DPR, said that they were dropping munitions banned by all possible conventions from drones. In addition, poisonings of Russian fighters were also reported. | AFU preparing to use banned chemical munitions in Artemivsk. Ukrainian “military blogger” Yuriy Madiar has published a video showing chemical munitions and “hinted” that the Ukrainian armed forces are preparing to use banned munitions on facilities in Artemivsk (Bakhmut). Previously, “Madiar” posted footage of him and members of his gang making drones with colourful cylinders. At that time, it was not known exactly what the Ukrainian soldiers were using in their homemade bombs, but now the blogger has independently confirmed that the containers contain chemical weapons.

■ Ukraine war: Borrowed time for Bakhmut as Russians close in (Penny For Your Thoughts)
■ Video Proof Ukraine Using Chemical Weapons Against Russian Troops (02/08/23)

Ukraine handed over the last of its Soviet-era nuclear weapons to Russia in the mid-1990s after signing an agreement on security guarantees with Moscow and Washington. Last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Kiev might revoke its non-nuclear weapons status due to “Russian aggression.” | Owing to its large-scale nuclear potential, Ukraine may have already built a nuclear bomb, Polish General Waldemar Skrzypczak suspects. 💬 “I do not rule out Ukraine having nuclear weapons, because the Ukrainians have nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories and knowhow. In other words, everything they need to possess such a weapon. In fact, today no one is in a position to prohibit the Ukrainians from having it,” Skrzypczak, the former commander of Poland’s Land Forces, said in an interview with Polish media.

On 6 February, south-eastern Turkiye and northern Syria were hit by a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, several powerful aftershocks and then another earthquake causing unimaginable devastation. | The earthquake toppled thousands of buildings and has left more than 15,000 dead in both countries. The death toll is expected to climb as more bodies are recovered from the rubble. Many international organizations and world leaders have offered assistance to the Turkish and Syrian authorities to deal with the aftermath of the disaster. Turkiye says it was the most powerful earthquake recorded in the country since 1939. It was followed by more than 78 aftershocks and a second quake of 7.5 magnitude.

WARNING. GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW. VIEWER DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED. | Video has been put out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces laughing about their use of Chemical Weapons to kill Russian Troops. The video, complete with happy, carnival-type music, appears below. The video, shot from the drone which drops the chemical weapon, shows two separate cartridges being dropped on Russian troops who have taken cover in a small creek or stream. The first cartridge has limited effect. The second cartridge, with a blue end cover, is utterly horrifying.

On 6 February, south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria were rocked by a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, several powerful aftershocks and then another earthquake causing unimaginable devastation. | The earthquake toppled thousands of buildings and has left more than 8,000 dead in both countries. The death toll is expected to climb as more bodies are recovered from the rubble. Many international organizations and world leaders have offered assistance to the Turkish and Syrian authorities to deal with the consequences of the disaster. Turkey says it was the most powerful earthquake recorded in the country since 1939. It was followed by more than 78 aftershocks and a second quake of 7.5 magnitude.

Elena Panina (Елена Панина) | Historical parallels: Kursk-1943 - Bakhmut-2023 | The upper photo shows German Ferdinand SAU shot down near Kursk in 1943. On the lower photo - Latvian SAU M109A5Ö, transferred to AFU and shot down near Bakhmut in 2023. The two photos summarize the whole point of the West's wars with Russia. History repeats itself. We will have to answer the challenge again, just as we did 80 years ago. It will not be easy. But our cause is right. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours! (Translation: DeepL.com)

Viktor Medvedchuk | The country was plunged into a fire for the inflated ego of this man | President Vladimir Zelensky condemned Ukraine to destruction in the name of Western interests because he is too incompetent and ambitious to govern it properly, exiled opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk believes. Zelensky was elected in 2019 as a “peace candidate” who pledged to put an end to the warmongering policies of his predecessor, Pyotr Poroshenko, Medvedchuk, who was the leader of the banned Opposition Platform – For Life, wrote in an article published by RIA Novosti on Wednesday. But instead of becoming “a sentence” for Poroshenko, which was his campaign promise, Zelensky became a sentence for Ukraine, the politician said. The new leader had a mandate to rebalance Ukraine’s political system and make the country neutral and peaceful, Medvedchuk wrote. But this required a boring routine and difficult work. Zelensky “failed to put the nation in order, and found that blaming Russia rather than his own incompetence for the problems” was easier.

In recent years, Norway has maintained a close military collaboration with Germany, including submarine cooperation. The bilateral engagements between Oslo and Berlin received a shot in the arm after the conflict in Ukraine began, as Norway replaced Russia as the EU's biggest supplier of gas. | Norway has decided to acquire 54 German Leopard 2A7 main battle tanks, bringing a bitter debate between the military and politicians over funding priorities to a close. ● The planned 19.7Bln NOK ($1.91Bln) package also includes an option to buy a further 18 vehicles. The new tanks will replace Leopard 2A4 vehicles and are due to be phased in between 2026 and 2031. Although the contract with manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMV) has yet to be signed, Norway's Defense Materiel Agency said it is expected to be in the near future. ● Justifying the procurement, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store enigmatically claimed that Oslo finds itself in "one of the most demanding security policy situations since the Second World War." He also stressed that the Leopard 2A7 acquisition will both lead to closer security ties with Germany and ensure that Oslo shares a common main battle tank with its Nordic neighbors and close allies. The choice of the Leopard follows Norway’s close military collaboration with Germany on a number of major defense and security related projects, including submarine cooperation.

Simon Tilford | Things weren’t nearly this bad in the 1970s—but the country’s leaders haven't grasped that yet. | By any criteria, the United Kingdom faces a serious economic and social crisis, one that will deepen without big shifts in policy. Yet there is little sense of this crisis among the country’s elite, not least its politicians. ● The power of narratives helps explain this disconnect. The gap between the U.K.’s reality as portrayed by the dominant narrative of its economy’s performance and real life as experienced by its average citizen has widened to the breaking point. The resulting political distortions are now making the underlying problems even worse. ● Narratives and the emotional impulses that drive them play an underappreciated role in our understanding of the way economies work and whether they are perceived to be performing well or not. Sometimes, there is real grounding to those narratives; other times, they are largely fictional constructs. This does not necessarily mean that those who believe them and propagate them are dishonest, only that their personal experience may not be representative of the economy as a whole.

The West imposes brutal sanctions against Syria, debilitating & ruining every aspect of Syrians' lives, in addition to stealing their oil, backing terrorist groups & creating the unnecessary war on Syria in the first place...and after the tragic earthquakes in the region, who helps Syria? Those vilified by the hypocritical West: Iran, Russia, Iraq, Lebanon, & Syrians themselves (although, thanks to those damn sanctions, fundraising efforts by Syrians abroad are nearly impossible). * Russian Ministry Of Emergency Services Personnel Get To Work In Syria. 50 personnel and three search-and-rescue canine crews arrived in Syria on Tuesday to assist with emergency operations following the deadly earthquakes that struck the country. Earlier, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu ordered Russian military personnel deployed to the country to begin assisting search-and-rescue operations. (Eva Bartlett)

Early on Monday, an earthquake of 7.7 magnitude on the Richter scale struck south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria. Another 7.6 magnitude earthquake occurred a few hours later. | The death toll from Monday's earthquake in Turkey has risen to 3,381, with 15,834 injured, a Turkish news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Turkish disaster and emergency management authority (AFAD). ● The European Union sent rescuers to Turkey, responding to its request to activate the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Russia also sent teams to assist Turkey and instructed its troops to help the Syrian authorities as well. A number of other countries have also voiced their eagerness to provide assistance if necessary. ● On Monday, Syria appealed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to mobilize all resources available to help the war-stricken country deal with the deadly catastrophe.

■ Число погибших при землетрясении в Турции выросло до 3419
■ Re: The Devastating Earthquake Struck Syria (02/06/23)

Evidence that external forces were involved has been suppressed for ‘political reasons’ | Political scientist Ivan Katchanovski – of the University of Ottawa – has revealed that a paper he produced outlining evidence that the February 2014 massacre of Ukrainian protesters by sniper fire, a defining moment of the Western-backed Maidan coup, was not published by an academic journal for “political reasons.” ‘The evidence is solid:’ In a lengthy Twitter thread posted on January 6, Katchanovski first laid out the circumstances behind the rejection of his article, and the bombshell evidence included in it. The paper was initially accepted with minor revisions after peer review, and the journal's editor offered a glowing appraisal of his work, writing: 💬 “There is no doubt that this paper is exceptional in many ways. It offers evidence against the mainstream narrative of the regime change in Ukraine in 2014… It seems to me that the evidence the study produces in favour of its interpretation on who was behind the massacre of the protesters and the police during the ‘Euromaidan’ mass protests on February 18-20, 2014, in Ukraine, is solid. On this there is also consensus among the two reviewers.” As the editor noted, the massacre was a “politically crucial development,” which led to the “transition of powers in the country” from the freely elected Viktor Yanukovich to the illegitimate and rabidly nationalistic administration of Aleksandr Turchinov, a former security services chief. It was endlessly cited in Western media as a symbol of the brutality of Ukraine’s government and an unprovoked attack on innocent pro-WesternMaidan protesters, who allegedly sought nothing more than democracy and freedom.

■ 6 reasons the neocons in the West wanted this war with Russia (Life Site News)
■ US Openly Salivates Over Ukraine's Vast Untapped Titanium Reserves (01/29/23)
■ The Minsk Agreements Explained (12/09/22)
■ EVIL DEFINED: "Overextending & Unbalancing Russia" (Rand Corporation) (09/16/22)
■ How Obama Started Ukraine’s War (Eric Zuesse) (08/12/22)
■ Both Zelensky and Poroshenko Acknowledged They Came to Power Illegally (08/04/22)
■ WATCH: ‘The War in Ukraine’ (08/04/22)
■ Ukraine: A War Over Oil And Gas (First published on AWIP on 08/18/14) (02/28/22)
■ All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’ (11/21/14)
■ Euromaidan supporters justify Odessa massacre, defend member accused of killing (09/05/14)
■ Watershed press conference by top Novorussian officials (MUST SEE!) (09/01/14)
■ 400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op (05/12/14)
■ Blackwater Killers in Eastern Ukraine (Stephen Lendman)(05/12/14)

Antioch-Rehaniyya Road
Another Building Collapses in Aleppo City
More Than 100 Deaths and Hundreds of Injuries Were Reported
Combined death toll in Turkey and Syria rises to at least 640 dead (AP/The Guardian)
Death toll in Turkish quake surpasses 1,000 – authorities (RT.com)

This page will continue to expand as more so-called “Human Rights” groups are outed for propagating anti-Syria war rhetoric and false allegations against the Syrian government and Syrian Arab Army. As it is, the list of players is quite extensive. Below, I’ll list the known HR front people and groups (many, if not most, with links to the US State Department and criminals like George Soros). As Rick Sterling wrote in his “Humanitarians for War on Syria” (March 2015): 💬 A massive campaign in support of foreign intervention against Syria is underway. The goal is to prepare the public for a “No Fly Zone” enforced by US and other military powers. This is how the invasion of Iraq began. This is how the public was prepared for the US/NATO air attack on Libya. 💬 The results of western ‘regime change’ in Iraq and Libya have been disastrous. Both actions have dramatically reduced the security, health, education and living standards of the populations, created anarchy and mayhem, and resulted in the explosion of sectarianism and violence in the region. Now the Western/NATO/Israeli and Gulf powers, supported by major intervention-inclined humanitarian organizations, want to do the same in Syria.

The Biden administration on Friday announced a new $2.2 billion arms package for Ukraine that includes longer-range rockets, marking the latest US escalation, although they won’t be delivered until much later this year. | The Boeing-made Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs (GLSDB) can hit targets up to 94 miles away, nearly twice the range of the munitions Ukraine is currently using with the US-provided HIMARS rocket systems. 💬 “This gives them a longer-range capability — long-range fires capability that will enable them, again, to conduct operations in defense of their country and to take back their sovereign territory in Russian-occupied areas,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. The announcement comes after a series of other US escalations, including pledges to provide M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Each step brings the US and Russia closer to a direct conflict.

■ What's in the Latest US Arms Package? (The New Atlas)(VIDEO)
■ Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine (Mike Whitney)
■ Former Israeli PM Bennett Says US ‘Blocked’ His Attempts at a Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal (02/06/23)

US sanctions against Russia are illegal and are unilateral moves unauthorized by the United Nations. Now the US is even transferring the personal assets of Russian individuals to others, which highlights the plundering nature of the US as a robber. | According to US media reports, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday the first transfer of forfeited assets from sanctions against a Russian oligarch during an appearance with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin at the US Justice Department. The assets, confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev after his indictment on sanctions evasions in April, will go toward aiding Ukraine. ● The transfer of assets is a high-profile political stunt, which the US government is pretty good at. The $5.4 million assets can be just pocket money for the US - it offers to Ukraine as aid, while Ukraine would use it to buy weapons from the US to feed the US military-industrial complex. This reminds people of how the US dealt with the $7 billion in frozen funds from Afghanistan's central bank. In February 2022, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing approximately half of the $7 billion to be reserved for victims of 9/11 attacks, which means the US keeps the money for its own. This is the very US - robbing money while at the same time appearing to be compassionate for others.

Bennett says the US and its Western allies decided to 'keep striking Putin' and not negotiate | Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview posted to his YouTube channel on Saturday that the US and its Western allies “blocked” his efforts of mediating between Russia and Ukraine to bring an end to the war in its early days. ● On March 4, 2022, Bennett traveled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin. In the interview, he detailed his mediation at the time between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which he said he coordinated with the US, France, Germany, and the UK. ● Explaining his decision to mediate, Bennett said that it was in Israel’s national interest not to pick a side in the war, citing Israel’s frequent airstrikes in Syria. Bennett said Russia has S-300 air defenses in Syria and that if “they press the button, Israeli pilots will fall.”

■ Kremlin Won't Disclose Details of Putin-Bennett Talks After Ex-Israeli PM's Bombshell Interview (RT.com)
■ More Evidence That The West Sabotaged Peace In Ukraine (Caitlin Johnstone)
■ The Missed Opportunities of the War in Ukraine (Ted Snider)
■ Les négociations Russie-Ukraine interrompues par les Occidentaux, selon l'ex-médiateur Bennett (RT France)
■ Bennett: Putin assured me at Moscow meeting he wouldn’t kill Zelensky (02/05/23)

Two more bodies were recovered from the debris of a residential block, the mayor has said | A Ukrainian artillery strike on the Russian city of Donetsk which took place on Saturday killed at least three people, according to the local authorities. ● Writing on Telegram on Sunday, Mayor Aleksey Kulemzin said that while clearing the debris of a residential block in the northern Kievsky District, the body of a 30-year-old woman was found. Two hours later, he said that another body was uncovered from the rubble, describing the deceased as a man, but providing no further details. ● The Emergencies Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) confirmed the information, adding that rescue operations are still underway.

Ex-PM says Russian president also agreed not to push for Kyiv’s disarmament; former premier says everything he did was in coordination with US | Former prime minister Naftali Bennett said in a video published Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin assured him, in the early days of the war, that he wouldn’t kill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 💬 “He gave me two great concessions,” Bennett said of his March 5, 2022, meeting with Putin, when he flew to Moscow in an effort to mediate shortly after Russia began its invasion. “I knew Zelensky was under threat, in a bunker… I said to [Putin], ‘Do you intend to kill Zelensky?’ He said, ‘I won’t kill Zelensky,’” Bennett recalled in the interview, which was published on his own YouTube channel. “I need to understand. Are you giving me your word that you won’t kill Zelensky?” Bennett said he asked Putin. Bennett said the Russian president repeated: “I won’t kill Zelensky.” ● Bennett said he called the Ukrainian president immediately after the three-hour encounter with Putin, and told him, “I’ve just come out of a meeting — [Putin] is not going to kill you. 💬 “[Zelensky] asked me, ‘Are you sure?’ I said 100 percent. [Putin’s] not going to kill you.”

Moscow could retaliate “in any way possible” should Kiev decide to attack Crimea, Dmitry Medvedev has said | Washington’s decision to supply Ukraine with longer-range missiles and allow Kiev to use them at will can only lead to further escalation, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday. He added that the US appears to not want the Ukraine conflict to end. In an interview with Russian journalist Nadana Fridrikhson, Medvedev denied that Ukrainian strikes against the Crimean peninsula would force Moscow to sit down at the negotiating table. “The result would be exactly the contrary. There would be no talks in such a case. There would only be retaliatory strikes,” he warned.

■ Longer-range rockets included in $2 bln U.S. pledge for Ukraine (Reuters)
■ DMITRY MEDVEDEV @medvedev_telegram replied in writing to several of my questions (02/05/23)

The Russian president has condemned Western tank deliveries to Ukraine, promising a response that goes beyond armored vehicles | Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit out at the looming deliveries of Western-made tanks to Ukraine, warning that Moscow’s response to the threat will span far beyond armored vehicles. The Russian leader made the comments during a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of victory at the Battle of Stalingrad. 💬 "Unbelievable, but true – we are once again threatened with German Leopard tanks, with crosses on their hull. And once again seeking to battle Russia in Ukraine with the help of Hitler’s followers, the Banderites. Those seeking to defeat Russia on the battlefield apparently do not realize that a modern war with Russia would be entirely different for them. We’re not sending our tanks to their borders. Yet we have something to respond with, and it would not be limited to armor use only, everyone must realize that,” he said.

■ Response to potential strikes ‘inside Russia’ to be hard, convincing — Medvedev (TASS)
■ Les 80 ans de la Victoire de Stalingrad : les leçons de l'histoire (Russie politics)

■ 80th anniversary of victory in Battle of Stalingrad (President of Russia) | The Battle of Stalingrad (July 17, 1942 – February 2, 1943) went down in history as one of the longest WWII land battles, involving the highest number of troops. It marked a major turning point in the war and became a symbol of a moral victory over fascism. On February 2, commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of Soviet troops defeating the Nazis in the Battle of Stalingrad are held throughout the country. Every year, the Volgograd Region becomes the centre of a national celebration. In 2011, the Battle of Stalingrad State Historical and Memorial Museum and Reserve was recognised as a particularly valuable cultural heritage site of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова)(Russian MFA) | A picture is worth a thousand words: This was taken during a torch march in the Estonian city of Tartu on 2 February 2023, organised by the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE) on the occasion of the 103rd anniversary of the Peace of Tartu. These "activists" regularly take part in events celebrating Waffen-SS legionnaires.

● By the way, continuing the legionary father's work founder and former leader of EKRE Mart Helme on 31 August 2022 gave a fiery speech about how [the] Russian [language] should disappear from Estonia:

💬 "We talk a lot about how we are fighting here, how Ukraine is fighting, and we all have our fists in this. This is all true. But we, for our part, must do everything to make the whole country of Estonia an Estonian-speaking country, and [make] the language of the aggressor country quietly disappear from our streets until it cannot be heard at all."

The face of modern Europe with a Russophobic fire in its eyes. (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator, free version)

The Moscow Post | For the first time since the beginning of a special military operation to protect Donbass, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Norwegian-made NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system. The Russian Defense Ministry said that this anti-aircraft complex was eliminated near the village of Krasnoarmeysk, where a launcher for Tochka-U missiles, which Ukrainian nationalists used to attack civilians in the Donbas, was also destroyed. Also, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter during an air battle. (Translation: yandex.ru)

■ On Friday, Russia claimed to have destroyed NASAMS air defences for the first time in eastern Ukraine. (ABC Nyheter) | In an update on the Telegram messaging service on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed to have destroyed a NASAMS air defence system in Donetsk, Ukraine. The ministry claims in the message that this is a weapon manufactured in Norway. 💬 "One must expect to take material losses in such a conflict, and it is not unlikely that NASAMS will be deployed relatively [close] to the front," says Ole Jørgen Maaø, Associate Professor at the Air War College to the Norwegian Defence Forum. ● NASAMS (Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air-Missile System) is a modular and mobile air defence system developed by Norway's Kongsberg Group, according to the newspaper. In June last year, US President Joe Biden announced that the US would supply Ukraine with NASAMS. In November last year, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksij Reznikov confirmed that they had finally received the air defence system. (Translation: www.DeepL.com/Translator)

Thailand seeks billions in retribution from Pfizer for fraudulent covid injections | A Thai government spokesperson told Professor Sucharit Bhakdi this week that his country could soon become the first in the world to nullify and make void its contracts with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. According to Bhakdi, the spokesperson said, in reference to the company’s experimental covid “vaccines,” that “we will see to it that Thailand is the first country in the world to declare this contract (with Pfizer) null.” We are told that the Royal Family in Thailand was directly impacted by Pfizer’s covid injections, which reportedly harmed the king’s daughter, Princess Bajrakitiyabha. Because of this, Thai authorities are working towards ending the country’s relationship with Pfizer. ● Bhakdi says he met with top government advisors and explained to them how the entire premise behind the “vaccines” is built on a throne of lies. Pfizer fraud is the only thing backing the jabs as there is no safety data to show they work as claimed. Upon hearing this, Thai government advisors were shocked and assured Bhakdi that they are making preparations to sever Pfizer’s contracts with the country.

A massive international research collaboration that analyzed several dozen rigorous studies focusing on "physical interventions" against COVID-19 and influenza found that they provide little to no protection against infection or illness rates. | The study, published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, is the strongest science to date refuting the basis for mask mandates worldwide. And of course, the CDC still recommends masking in areas with "high" rates of transmission (fewer than 4% of US counties, as Just the News notes), along with indoor masking in areas with "medium" rates of transmission (27%). ● According to the Cochrane study, which included the work of researchers at institutions in the U.K., Canada, Australia, Italy and Saudi Arabia, a total of 78 studies were analyzed. Most recent additions to the meta-analysis were 11 new randomized controlled trials. ● As unlisted study author Carl Heneghan - who directs the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford noted on Twitter: "Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks."