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Russia Foils Attack On Turkstream Pipeline, Saboteurs Arrested
The Interfax news agency cited a report from the Kremlin about a "foiled attack" on a major natural gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey called the TurkStream, according to Reuters.

The Kremlin said several people were arrested Thursday during an attempt to sabotage the pipeline that links Russia to Turkey and Southern Europe. The pipeline has a capacity of 31.5 billion cubic meters per year and was launched in early 2020.

"Certain forces … have already made an attempt on TurkStream. The saboteurs have been caught, and several people have been arrested. They wanted to blow it up. On our territory, on soil," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Peskov's comments come as Russia plans to transform Turkey into a central hub for Russian NatGas, then re-exporting it through Europe. The spokesman commented about the incident on the sidelines of an international summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.

On Monday, President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine was attempting to attack a section of the TurkStream pipeline. This followed the bombing of a bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula last weekend. Putin blamed Ukraine's intelligence services for the attack.
 
Mainstream continues to lose its mind over Russia's surgical and tactical battle gains.



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Flashback: Opinion
Kenneth Rapoza Senior Con Apr 27, 2016,03:19pm EDT
The best way to raise funds for a media project in Ukraine? Go full-bore anti-Russia to easily woo North American and European governments to give you money.

Kiev-based Hromadske.TV is the symbol of the info wars between Moscow and the Western world, a war that the West claims it is losing to the big guns in Moscow. So worried are the Europeans, Canadians and Americans that the Russians are beating them at their own game --the sexy world of news and entertainment -- that they're funding the company.


According to their financial report for the year ending 2015, they have nearly a dozen foreign backers. Some long term, some more fly-by-night.


Who are they? They are the Canada International Development Agency (CIDA); the Embassy of The Netherlands in Ukraine; another Canadian charity called the Ukrainian World Foundation; independent DC-based Pact World; the U.S. Embassy of Ukraine's Media Development Fund; California based Internews Network; Swiss Cooperation Office and the Swiss International Development Agency; eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's fund is one of the four biggest donors; the Swedish International Liberal Center; Thomson Foundation; the German Embassy of Ukraine and the biggest funder of all, the European Commission's Ukrainian delegation office.


The U.S. is the smallest donor while European and Canadian government backed agencies are the biggest.


Many of the donations are harmless funds from organizations like Pact and Thomson that train young reporters. But donations from the European Commission are a particularly interesting reveal given the anti-Russian government news flowing coming out of Hromadske.


The site was created by 43 year old Ukrainian journalist, Roman Skrypin, during the heat of the Euromaidan movement in 2013. Within a year, the site became one of the go-to spots for news from the activists point of view, all of whom were pro-Europe.


The movement began following the rejection of a trade deal between Brussels and Kiev by then-president Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych was then "rewarded" by the Russians by getting a Gazprom subsidized natural gas agreement. Ukrainians in Kiev saw this as a slap in the face to national sovereignty, and Yanukovych was ousted from power in February of 2014, punished for kowtowing to Vladimir Putin. Ukraine quickly moved to install a pro-Western government and Hromadske was its young, aggressive, digital chronicler of events.


Not unlike Ukraine, Skrypin allegedly stole around $250,000 from the online media company he created. The channel is suing their ex-CEO.


Although Hromadske's producers go after president Petro "Panama Papers" Poroshenko too, the media outlet can be relied on to push anti-Russia rhetoric about Putin's aims in Ukraine and the Baltics, a three hour flight north of Kiev.


The Baltic story line has been one of particular interest to the West. Even Hillary Clinton has chimed in saying the Russians were coming to a Baltic country near you. Hromadske follows that narrative and others regularly seen in Russia-Ukraine headlines out of the U.S. and Europe.


For instance, this week it ran a story favorite to Western journalist sentiments about how the Crimean Tatars were under attack and being treated as third class citizens in Crimea, now owned by Russia. The Russian government barred a separate assembly for the minority group, which set off the firestorm.


Nevertheless, the Tatars are a constant cause of concern for the U.S. press. They make up 10.6% of the population of Crimea. By comparison, African-Americans are around 13% of the U.S. population.


Hromadske also ran a piece this week assuring readers that NATO and Russia are most definitely not friends, despite recent meetings between the two sides. Whew... If they were actually talking to each other sensibly, and someone reported on it, that would really throw a wrench in the narrative.


Interestingly enough, both the U.S., U.K. and Germany have sounded alarm bells about Russian television's impact on public opinion in Ukraine and abroad. The Daily Beast, no friend of Putin, reported back in September that the reach of Russia Today, better known as RT, was not as big as Russia said it was. RT is Russia's BBC.


Sure, the Russians fund this and the Russians fund that and the CIA funds this and the CIA funds that. But until governments are 100% transparent in what they spend on foreign ventures, it is safe to say that the West equally invests in promoting its official story line to influence public opinion as the Russians do.


Hromadske.TV is merely an example. American consumers of news media would be disgusted if they learned that the Huffington Post received grants from Russian think tanks. It may not lead to outright editorial input in daily operations, but journalists and newsrooms are notorious self-censors. And increasingly under financial strain. Who will bite the hand that feeds it? Judging by a small sampling of Hromadske's daily coverage, not them.


President Vladimir Zelensky has urged the West to supply more anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine, insisting that his country currently has only 10% of what it needs. Zelensky made the remarks as he addressed a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Thursday via videolink.

“Our ability to close the skies is not sufficient,” Zelensky told the transnational body, adding that the country “would like” to receive “many times” more anti-aircraft defense systems from the West.

Zelensky urged the PACE members to spread pro-Ukrainian sentiments wherever they could and advocate deliveries of anti-aircraft defenses to the country. “I ask you at all levels, in politics, in the media, in communication with voters, to back the supply of sufficient air and missile defense systems to Ukraine,” he said.

Zelensky’s plea follows massive missile strikes launched by Russia against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure earlier this week. The strikes came in response to an explosion on the Crimean Bridge over the weekend. Moscow has squarely blamed Kiev for the bridge incident, explicitly branding the blast a “terrorist attack” against the country.

The massive missile barrage has been widely condemned by Ukraine’s Western backers, with several countries already pledging to deliver additional anti-aircraft systems and munitions to prop up Kiev in its fight against Moscow. Russia has repeatedly warned the West against “pumping” Ukraine with weaponry, stating that such activities would only prolong the conflict.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.


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Zelensky and the making of 3D speeches


German Russian Alina Lipp in her Telegram Channel "Neues aus Russia", made an entry showing the image of Zelensky how he is being scanned, so that his person can be put into any environment of their choosing. There is also a video clip on her Telegram channel (which can be seen without a telegram account), showing how this all is done...

Alina Lipp to the photo & video:
"President Zelenski's evening address directly from the centre of Kiev! Behind the scenes, so to speak ... 😁 "

Zelensky isn't fighting a war. He is just continuing his cozy longtime job as an actor in a studio, saying his lines. While in spare times, lifting iron in the gym (or posing for Vogue 🤡) to fit the roll on stage as (not really that important) general in StarWars Dark Empire.

The British guy in the video, Brent Hoberman says with a lean voice, as if introducing new Apple tech "We need to use next generation technologies. We need to make it feel like he [Zelensky] is more 'In The World' ". Oh my, oh so, ooooah. 💦 :rolleyes: as if speaking to the delight of fans and suckers...

Speaking about Hoberman, the wikipedia page says, among other things that he is a member "The Royal Academy, the UK Government Digital Service and the WEF Digital Europe Group".

Well, how fitting.
 
Another coincidence . . .

Europes Fuel Supply Fears Worsen As Major Refinery Malfunctions

The biggest refinery in Europe, Shell’s Pernis in the Netherlands, suffered a malfunction late on Wednesday, which could exacerbate an already worsening fuel supply situation in northwest Europe due to the strikes in France.

Shell Pernis said late on Wednesday that “Due to a malfunction on one of our installations, we are forced to flare.”

Shell is investigating the cause of the malfunction and is doing everything it can to solve the problem as soon as possible, and to limit the nuisance for the residents in the vicinity of the refinery near Rotterdam, the company said.

Governments have been informed about the malfunction at Europe’s largest refinery, Shell said in a statement carried by Bloomberg, but didn’t go into details about potential losses of fuel supply.
 


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"No one in the West has approached us with serious proposals. We are not going to run after them," Sergey Lavrov stressed
MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/. Moscow will not be chasing the West in pursuit of contacts on Ukraine. There have been no serious proposals for an appropriate dialogue so far, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a comment to Izvestiya posted on the daily’s Telegram channel on Thursday.

"No one [in the West] has approached us with serious proposals. We are not going to run after them," Lavrov said.

Questions about such contacts begin to be asked when the West declares that it will not talk to Russia and that only Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is in a position to negotiate, and only at the moment when he "decides that he is ready" and "on the battlefield, he has gained sufficient advantages and a stronger negotiating position."

"We have already responded to the proposal for talks at the beginning of the special military operation. At the end of March, a result was achieved in Istanbul based on the Ukrainian side’s proposals, which we accepted. Then, apparently, Kiev was told: ‘It’s too early for you to decide, Mr. Zelensky, that your negotiating positions are already good enough. We will continue the fight on the battlefield,’ as [Josep] Borrell, the EU’s chief diplomat said. London, Berlin and Washington voice the same ideas again and again. This is what the situation concerning negotiations looks like. We will not be chasing anyone, asking to do us a favor. If there are specific, serious proposals, we are ready to consider them. Nothing more. At this stage, this is it," Lavrov concluded.

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BURN THE SCIENCE: Germany announces plan to thermally recycle 800 million covid masks as FUEL amid energy crisis

Close to 800 million sealed face coverings that were manufactured for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) scamdemic will soon be incinerated as fuel to keep people in Germany warm this upcoming dark winter.

Reports indicate that the economic powerhouse of Europe is struggling to stay afloat amid the ongoing altercation between Russia and Ukraine-NATO. This has left the country unable to obtain or produce enough energy to make it through the cold season.

Many in Germany are panicking and trying to buy firewood, stoves, wood pellets and anything else they can get their hands on to create heat due to the impending loss of oil and gas reserves.

:nuts: Are the stockpiles of toilet paper in danger? Wipe your bum or heat your house . . .
 
BURN THE SCIENCE: Germany announces plan to thermally recycle 800 million covid masks as FUEL amid energy crisis

Close to 800 million sealed face coverings that were manufactured for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) scamdemic will soon be incinerated as fuel to keep people in Germany warm this upcoming dark winter.

Reports indicate that the economic powerhouse of Europe is struggling to stay afloat amid the ongoing altercation between Russia and Ukraine-NATO. This has left the country unable to obtain or produce enough energy to make it through the cold season.

Many in Germany are panicking and trying to buy firewood, stoves, wood pellets and anything else they can get their hands on to create heat due to the impending loss of oil and gas reserves.

:nuts: Are the stockpiles of toilet paper in danger? Wipe your bum or heat your house . . .
My German grandmother Elfriede used to say about really bad deals and the cost of that action (whether public or private decisions)

“So, there you got the shit. How much did you have to pay for the kilo ?”

800 million masks to be burned. Which cost the German taxpayers something in order of 4 billion €. On which a few politician key players and their buddies got fat noses from. While the rest, the people, get to pay the bill: an awful lot of euros per kilo 💩
 

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