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Your totalitarian Marxist media is getting a little troubled that independent thought and personal observations and comments might be allowed again in the mainstream. From the Guardian to MSNBC concern that anyone has a right to speak and be heard scares them witless (& sh**less). Alternative opinion leaves them pooing there transgender loving, binary specific, pronoun pants. Poor little lovies, no longer is the orange man bad, nope it's Tesla man, yep he's the new face of evil. Rand Report Prescribed US Provocations Against Russia and Predicted Russia Might Retaliate In Ukraine (by Rick Sterling - March 28, 2022)
According to a 2019 Rand report titled "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia", the US goal is to undermine Russia just as it did the Soviet Union in the cold war. Rather than "trying to stay ahead" or trying to improve the US domestically or in international relations, the emphasis is on efforts and actions to undermine the designated adversary Russia. Rand is a quasi-US governmental think tank that receives three-quarters of its funding from the US military. The report lists anti-Russia measures divided into the following areas: economic, geopolitical, ideological/informational, and military. They are assessed according to the perceived risks, benefits and "likelihood of success". The report notes that Russia has "deep seated" anxieties about western interference and potential military attack. These anxieties are deemed to be a vulnerability to exploit. There is no mention of the cause of the Russian anxieties: they have have been invaded multiple times and had 27 million deaths in WW2. Significance of Ukraine Ukraine is important to Russia. The two countries share much common heritage and a long common border. One of the most important leaders of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, was Ukrainian. During WW2, Ukraine was one of Hitler’s invasion routes and there was a small but active number of Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi Germany. The distance from the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, to Moscow is less than 500 miles. For these same reasons of geography and history, Ukraine is a major component of a US/NATO effort to undermine Russia. Current Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said that over 20 years the US invested $5 billion in the project to turn Ukraine. The culmination was a violent coup in February 2014. Since 2015, the US has been training ultra nationalist and Neo-Nazi militias. This has been documented in articles such as "U.S. House admits Nazi role in Ukraine" (Robert Parry, 2015), "The US is arming and assisting neo-nazis in Ukraine while the House debates prohibition."(Max Blumenthal, 2018), "Neo Nazis and the far right are on the march in Ukraine" (Lev Golinken in 2019) and "The CIA may be breeding Nazi terror in Ukraine" (Branko Marcetic Jan. 2022). Rand suggested provocations Prior to 2018, the US only provided "defensive" military weaponry to Ukraine. The Rand report assesses that providing lethal (offensive) military aid to Ukraine will have a high risk but also a high benefit. Accordingly, US lethal weaponry skyrocketed from near zero to $250M in 2019, to $303M in 2020, to $350M in 2021. Total military aid is much higher. A few weeks ago, "The Hill" reported, "The US has contributed more than $1 billion to help Ukraine’s military over the past year". The Rand report lists many techniques and "measures" to provoke and threaten Russia. Some of the steps include:
These and many other provocations suggested by Rand have, in fact, been implemented. For example, NATO conducted massive war exercises dubbed "Defender 2021" right up Russia’s border. NATO has started "patrolling" the Black Sea and engaging in provocative intrusions into Crimean waters. The US has withdrawn from the INF Treaty. Since 2008, when NATO "welcomed" the membership aspirations of Ukraine and Georgia, Russia has said this would cross a red line and threaten its security. In recent years NATO has provided advisers, training and ever increasing amounts of military hardware. While Ukraine is not a formal member of NATO, it has increasingly been treated like one. The full Rand report says "While NATO’s requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine could gain membership in the foreseeable future, Washington’s pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development." The alternative, which could have prevented or at least forestalled the current Russian intervention in Ukraine, would have been to declare Ukraine ineligible for NATO. But this would have been contrary to the US intention of deliberately stressing, provoking and threatening Russia. Ukraine as US client In November 2021, the US and Ukraine signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership. This agreement confirmed Ukrainian aspirations to join NATO and rejection of the Crimean peoples decision to re-unify with Russia following the 2014 Kiev coup. The agreement signaled a consolidation of Washington’s economic, political and military influence. December 2021 Russia red lines followed by military action In December 2021, Russia proposed a treaty with the US and NATO. The central Russian proposal was a written agreement that Ukraine would not join the NATO military alliance. When the proposed treaty was rebuffed by Washington, it seems the die was cast. On February 21, Putin delivered a speech detailing their grievances. On February 24, Putin delivered another speech announcing the justification and objectives of the military intervention to "demilitarize" and "denazify" Ukraine. As Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov later said, "This is not about Ukraine. This is the end result of a policy that the West has carried out since the early 1990’s." Afghanistan again? As earlier indicated, the Rand report assesses the costs and benefits of various US actions. It is considered a "benefit" if increased US assistance to Ukraine results in the loss of Russian blood and resources. Speculating on the possibility of Russian troop presence in Ukraine, the report suggests that it could become "quite controversial at home, as it did when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan." (p 99 of full report) That historical reference is significant. Beginning in 1979, the US and Saudi Arabia funded and trained sectarian foreign fighters to invade and destabilize the Afghan government. The goals were to overthrow the socialist inclined government and lure the Soviet Union into supporting the destabilized government. It achieved these Machiavellian goals at the cost of millions of Afghan citizens whose country has never been the same. It appears that Ukrainian citizens are similarly being manipulated to serve US goals. A "disadvantageous peace settlement" The Rand report says, "Increasing US military aid would certainly drive up the Russian costs, but doing so could also increase the loss of Ukrainian lives and territory or result in a disadvantageous peace settlement." But who would a peace settlement be "disadvantageous" for? Ukrainian lives and territory are currently being lost. Over fourteen thousand Ukrainian lives have been lost in the eastern Donbass region since the 2014 coup. A peace settlement that guaranteed basic rights for all Ukrainians and state neutrality in the rivalry of big powers, would be advantageous to most Ukrainians. It is only the US foreign policy establishment including the US military media industrial complex and Ukrainian ultra-nationalists who would be "disadvantaged". Since Ukraine is a multi-ethnic state, it would seem best to accept that reality and find a compromise national solution which facilitates all Ukrainians. Being a client of a distant foreign power is not in Ukraine’s national best interest. The Rand report shows how US policy focuses on actions to hurt Russia and manipulates third party countries (Ukraine) toward that task. Two very different videos and subjects. Downing Street had their parties whilst you kept calm but couldn't carry on. Nancy & her ilk were and continue to display their incoherent ramblings and the pharmaceutical industry (well Pfizer & a few others) are raking in billions of dollars/pounds/euros in profit, way above their usual disgusting greedy norms. So how do you feel about your beloved leaders? If your a cretin Biding Your Time & hoping this will all just blow over (just like Pfizer) then good luck with that. Ukraine's terrible war might seem like a good time to bury bad news however these days not everyone is asleep or dumbed down enough not to think for themselves. Laugh or cry this is the modern world & keep in mind there were not enough lifeboats on the Titanic, and these leaders, companies and shareholders have already booked their seats. Maybe torpedo's do have a positive application, good hunting friends. Two videos that I would urge you to watch if you interested in what is happening in Europe right now. The gentleman in the first video lives in Ukraine with his family and has been reporting from there independently since this sad war began. It's short and concise and helps build the jigsaw that is Ukraine's recent history. The second is a shortish documentary filmed in 2018 about a secret Bio Lab in Georgia not far from the border with Russia & again confirms the Bio Labs in Ukraine. Now why are the BBC ignoring all of this? Welcome to the propaganda & censorship wars along with so many crocodile tears from these overpaid, compliant reporters from the MSM. The first casualty of war is the truth. Sometimes however it has the nasty habit of resurfacing as people dig a little deeper, regardless of their political bent. ,The real reasons why Ukraine is so important To Biden, Clinton and their ‘global crime cabal’: Ukraine is their ‘little crime playground’ where their devastating secrets are hidden
Ukraine is nothing less than the ‘Playground‘ of the ‘global elite crime cabal‘ that ‘runs the world‘, with huge amounts of drugs and human trafficking being run out of the country, along with their ‘world disinfo/control‘ operation, and Ukraine also gives them a ‘front doorstep‘ into Russia, not a word of any of this reported by their ‘controlled‘ mainstream media. And while Joe Biden, Democrats, the mainstream media and the ‘globalist cabal‘ attempt to paint Ukraine as a ‘democracy‘ and a ‘free country‘ which ‘freely elected‘ their President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, anybody paying attention to ‘real history‘ remembers that Ukraine’s government consists of very real neo-Nazi’s, many who were ‘installed‘ as ‘puppets‘ by the globalists cabal. And while this story is certainly no attempt to paint Vladimir Putin as a ‘hero‘, Ukraine is one of the most corrupt, globalist-owned countries in the entire world, quite literally the ‘headquarters‘ of the globalist crime cabal. One of the only countries in the world that they can fully control that has had the stability and infrastructure to be used for money laundering, bioweapons research and fully controlled by the ‘puppets‘ of the ‘cabal‘ itself, https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-04-reasons-ukraine-important-biden-clinton-crime-cabal.html It’s not just Biden who’s participating in the corruption in Ukraine. The swamp runs deep on both sides of the aisle. “The truth can go un-rescued for a long time… but, not forever” Who is Joseph Cofer Black? Connections: Bush, Obama, Biden, Kerry, Bulger, Brennan, Romney, 9/11, Blackwater, Burisma / Ukraine. “…and it’s shocking. Romney’s National Security Advisor, Joseph Cofer Black, sits on the Board of the same Burisma Holdings that was being investigated for corruption back in 2014, and the Vice President and Obama Administration demanded be shut down. Why? Because Burisma was/is their vehicle for corrupt practices in Eastern Europe. And CIA Director, John Brennan’s 9/11 Deep State partner, Cofer Black, is still the link to all that goes on there. In fact, I can state unequivocally that Burisma is the centre of Ukraine corruption and the Democrats’ shadow organisation for corrupt activities… https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2019/10/23/mittens-deep-state-ongoing-coup-potus/ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/26/former-mitt-romney-adviser-sits-on-burisma-board-of-directors/ “Mr. Black brought to this role his extensive background at the CIA, which he joined in 1974 and where he trained for covert operations. He rose rapidly through the ranks, becoming director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 1999 to 2002. Coincidentally, this was the time in which al-Qaeda planned and carried out the 911 attack without hindrance from the counterintelligence apparatus of the Intelligence Community. But Black was not penalized; he failed upward, being appointed ambassador at large and coordinator for counter-terrorism by President George W. Bush in December 2002. And in yet another amazing coincidence, Black was succeeded in his job as director of the National Counterterrorism Center by John Brennan.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/mitt_romney_adviser_sits_on_burisma_board_of_directors.html Also connects to Eric Prince… (Who knows where the bodies are buried?) “From there, Black began working in the private sector, serving as Vice Chairman for Blackwater (now Acedmi). Black resigned from his position following controversy surrounding Blackwater’s ASSASSINATION PROGRAM. The company has since rebranded. Black also served on Mitt Romney’s campaign for president in 2012. From the Federalist: He later worked at Blackwater as a vice chairman before joining Romney’s campaign as a “special adviser” on Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team in October of 2011.” https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/26/top-romney-adviser-worked-with-hunter-biden-on-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company/ Erik Prince is the wealthy scandal-plagued mercenary who seems never go away from the headlines. The founder of the notorious Blackwater private security company has since been involved in shady schemes and arms dealing everywhere from China to UAE to Syria to Venezuela. He currently heads the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group, providing 'security services' across the globe. And now it's been revealed that he's deeply involved in the still-raging war in Libya. ~Zerohedge “Obama took lying to new heights with the Iran deal” “When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration increasingly appears to have been a bottomless pit of deception. First, President Barack Obama failed to disclose to Congress the existence of secret side deals …” “…the Obama administration secretly tried to help Iran use U.S. banks to convert $5.7 billion in Iranian assets, after promising Congress that Iran would not get access to the U.S. financial system — and then lied to Congress about what it had done.” “…The naked collusion to commit treason, espionage, sedition, etc. against a POTUS and the American Republic is now apparent… and with hard evidence to boot. The Obama administration recklessly conspired with the U.S. Intelligence Community, various British Intelligence agencies and other foreign agents to sabotage the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Then they fabricated a fake “Russian collusion” story to cover up their unparalleled crime spree." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-took-lying-to-new-heights-with-the-iran-deal/2018/06/07/b75f72d2-6a7c-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=100267#more-100267 https://theamericanreport.org/2018/02/05/exclusive-real-russia-story-port-canaveral-project-pelican-uranium-one-deals-connected-jafars/ https://mediaequalizer.com/josh-bernstein/2018/07/project-pelican-the-secret-obama-era-scandal-that-makes-uranium-one-look-like-a-parking-ticket Bearing in mind that KLIF would have evolved even more in style by 1964, you can still hear how the station was the model for Radio London with this aircheck. Keep in mind that the listener involvement and interaction was a whole lot easier being land based but nonetheless the groundwork for the sound of Big L is clear to be heard. McLendon believed that programming was the key to Radio Station success. Here is one account of the early evolution of KLIF to the Top 40 format:
"Somewhere around late 1954 and early 1955, then, all of the ingredients necessary for Top 40 appeared to be coming together at KLIF. The real catalyst in the development of a true Top 40 format at KLIF was Bill Stewart and the ideas that he brought to the station from his earlier association with Todd Storz. Don Keyes recalled that Stewart came in knowing what he was doing. And that's when he really tightened the playlist. "That's when we really went Top 40 - hard Top 40. Then we took off something fierce. We were still number one prior to that. But, if I had a record I liked, I'd play it. If the other disc jockey didn't like it, he didn't play it. It was kinda loosey goosey. We had jingles and contests and promotions, but it wasn't a rigid Top 40. And Bill came in and firmed up that music policy, and away we went." The chemistry of whatever was happening at KLIF was beginning to have noticeable impact within the Dallas radio community. KLIF's station ratings-foremost indicators of a station's well-being in the marketplace, were indeed impressive. "Within weeks after implementing Top 40, KLIF jumped from a 2 percent share of the market to 45 percent," noted one source. Another said: "In its titan days, KLIF . . . had ratings as high as 52". Bill Stewart remembered that the station went from tenth or eleventh in the market to No. 1 in 60 days" when Top 40 was introduced. Gordon himself described KLIF's position in April 1954 as "the leading metropolitan independent in the United States in share of morning audience, third in the afternoons, fourth at night, and undeniably first on Saturdays". Hooper Ratings showed the station in June 1954 to be number one in the Dallas market in every time period. There was no doubt that KLIF was knocking the socks off the competition. But how was it doing it? The Top 40 format was only the product of a very keen intuition about what kind of radio programming people wanted to hear. Once you have ascertained what your audience wants, Gordon felt, then give it to them. On that point, Gordon once wrote: Time and again -without exception -successful broadcast operators have proved that in order to survive and prosper financially, any radio station must provide a programming service of utility to a meaningful segment of the potential listening audience. Neither sales nor general administration nor engineering comes first. Programming does. The station failing to provide some service of unique programming utility to one or another reasonably large demographic element of the population is doomed. The programming-ahead-of-sales philosophy was really Gordon's broadcasting credo. "You can have the greatest sales staff and signal in the world and it doesn't mean a thing if you don't have something great to put on the air," he would say. If he kept his eye on the programming, Gordon assumed, station advertising sales would take care of itself. And, of course, he was usually right. Programming at KLIF "received the constant attention and monitoring of its owner-to the station's obvious benefit". Gordon was convinced that much of his programming success stemmed directly from all of his attention to every detail. Gordon was forever fine-tuning his Top 40 format, while other station owners watched and followed suit. "People were coming to Dallas and monitoring KLIF, leaving with a briefcase full of tapes and going back to their hometown and doing likewise," noted Don Keyes. (It was not long before KLIF would become "America's most imitated radio station", and with good reason.) When asked what kind of audience he was programming KLIF for, Gordon replied rather matter-of-factly: "I geared it toward what I would like to hear. I assumed the audience to be interested in what I would like to hear". Free Radio Fans love what? Let's start with something simple like say... freedom. You know, free radio, freedom of speech etc etc!
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