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Alexander Shulgin to the OPCW

The following is the unofficial translation of the statement made by Alexander Shulgin, the head of Russian delegation at the OPCW, at that body’s April 18 Executive Council meeting at the Hague.   The text is provided by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Netherlands.

Mr. Chairperson,

I would like to start my speech with the words that belong to the great thinker Martin Luther, “A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it, the bigger it becomes”.
This wise aphorism is fully applicable to politics. He who has chosen the path of deception will have to lie again and again, making up explanations for discrepancies, spreading disinformation and doing forgery, desperately using all means to cover the tracks of the lies and to hide the truth.
The United Kingdom has entered this slippery path. We can clearly see all of this on the example of the “Skripal case” fabricated by the British authorities, this poorly disguised anti-Russian provocation accompanied by an unprecedented propaganda campaign, taken up by a group of countries, and the finalized unprecedented expulsion of diplomats under a far-fetched pretext. Please, do not try to pass this group for the international community – it is far from that.
It has already been a month since the Prime Minister of Great Britain Theresa May put forward some extremely serious accusations against Russia of the alleged use of chemical weapons. We have been waiting for an explanation for a long time, counting on our British colleagues to eventually back up these loud statements with some at least halfway intelligible facts. We have repeatedly proposed to them to work together on the investigation of the events in Salisbury, have been requesting information. The response consisted in haughty, arrogant statements saying Russia should confess to the crime.
The British side continues to scatter absolutely unfounded accusations, disseminating more and more new, often senseless, versions of the events. The British politicians and officials simply cannot stop anymore and continue pouring down new torrents of lies. London sabotages every attempt to conduct a truly objective investigation into the incident in Salisbury with the participation of Russian experts. They have classified everything, supposedly conducting their own national investigation. Although the “responsible” have already been designated.
Why they are doing this is obvious. Great Britain strives to avoid at all costs the establishment of the truth about the events, hide all evidence, which could unmask them. They are simply playing for time. Because the further it gets – the more difficult it will be to figure out what really did (or did not) happen in Salisbury.
The lie always fears the truth, for the truth is the most terrifying weapon against lies. Let us, therefore, turn to the naked facts which demonstrate how insolently and clumsily the British government is disseminating the insinuations regarding the “Skripal case”.
LIE №1
Russia does not respond to any legitimate questions made by the United Kingdom on March 12, 2018 through the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to London A.V. Yakovenko (some of the allies of the United Kingdom keep repeating this like a mantra).
I would like to remind you that the British side has suggested that we confess to one of the two versions it has made up: either the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripal was a purposeful action by Russia, or Russia has lost control over the arsenal of chemical weapons it allegedly has. Despite the brazen nature of this ultimatum, we definitely did not ignore it, but immediately gave an unequivocal answer: Russia has nothing to do with the chemical incident in Salisbury. Great Britain has not contacted us with any other questions.
LIE №2
Great Britain acts in strict compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
The facts demonstrate exactly the opposite. Thus, the Article IX of the Convention stipulates that States Parties shall conduct bilateral consultations on any ambiguous issues. We see that in reality the United Kingdom has avoided complying with this provision and still refuses to interact with us. As far as the British ultimatum communicated through the Ambassador of the Russian Federation I have mentioned is concerned, it cannot in any way be considered a “proposal of cooperation” in the sense of the CWC or a “request for legal assistance”.
On our part, on April 13, we sent through the Technical Secretariat a note to the British side under the Paragraph 2 Article IX with a list of legitimate questions that we have regarding the “Skripal case”. We have been acting strictly in accordance with the Convention and expected that our partners from London would do the same. There still has been no response. It is as if the United Kingdom did not notice the Convention at all or did not want to act in accordance with its norms.
We also witnessed how London came up with a new form of work – “the independent verification by the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW of the British side’s findings.” I would like to underscore: there is nothing like this in the Convention. This is an invention by the United Kingdom. Instead of precisely following the provisions of the Convention, the United Kingdom tries to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes.
LIE №3
Russia refuses to cooperate in establishing the truth.
In the reality, it is exactly the opposite. Russia is extremely interested – probably, even more than any other country – in an honest, open and impartial investigation of the incident in Salisbury. We have repeatedly proposed, asked, demanded from the British side to cooperate in the investigation. We have put forward for the consideration of the 57th extraordinary session of the Executive Council a draft decision that contained the call for Russia and Great Britain to establish such interaction with the involvement of the Technical Secretariat. We expressed then and confirm now our readiness to cooperate with the OPCW and within the OPCW.
Unfortunately, all of our efforts stumble into a blind wall of complete unwillingness of London to interact.
LIE №4
The United Kingdom claims that Russia, allegedly, infinitely multiplies its versions of the chemical incident in Salisbury trying to divert from itself the wave of criticism for the alleged use of chemical weapons on the British soil.
In the reality, this is what the British side has been doing, disseminating through its so-called “independent” media the infinite versions: the poison first was in the suitcase, then on the door handle, then in the buckwheat, then at the restaurant, then in the flower bouquet, then in the ventilation system of the car, then in perfume, etc.
LIE №5
The Russian leadership has allegedly stated that the extermination of traitors abroad is the state policy of the Russian Federation.
This is slander and complete nonsense. Let them demonstrate where they saw this. Obviously, the United Kingdom will not be able to present a single example of a statement of this kind because nothing similar has ever been said by the Russian leadership.
LIE №6
The conclusions made by the experts of the Technical Secretariat based on the results of the analysis of samples collected from the Skripal father and daughter confirmed that they had been poisoned with a substance from the “Novichok” family.
Our military experts are ready to present their evaluation of what was said in the report by the Technical Secretariat based on the results of the work of the group of specialists in the United Kingdom.
For now, I will only say one thing: the claim that the Technical Secretariat confirmed that this chemical points to its Russian origin is an outright lie. The report itself does not say a single word about the name “Novichok”; the CWC simply does not contain such a concept. And in the report by the Technical Secretariat there is also no confirmation of the “Russian footprint” in the chemical substance found in Salisbury.
Nevertheless, the British authorities immediately disseminated in the world media the fake news that the OPCW supposedly confirmed that the Skripals were poisoned with “Novichok”, and that the latter, they say, was developed in the USSR and Russia only, hence Moscow is to blame. This is how the findings of the report by the Technical Secretariat are being falsified.
LIE №7
The so-called “Novichok” is a Soviet invention and it, supposedly, could have been produced only in Russia.
It is necessary to remind that “Novichok” is the name invented in the West for a group of chemical agents which were developed in many countries, including in the United Kingdom. In one of his recent interviews, the Secretary of State Boris Johnson confirmed that the United Kingdom has samples of this substance at the laboratory in Porton Down. Actually, we have a lot of questions to ask this laboratory. It would be interesting to know how they determined that the Skripals had been poisoned with a “Novichok”-type nerve agent. Because any reasonable person would understand that you can establish this if you have the original component to which you can compare the chemical which has been found. It follows that this laboratory has a stock of “Novichok”, and, possibly, also the antidotes which were used in the Skripals’ treatment.
In Russia, there has never been any research and development or experimental work conducted as part of a programme under the name of “Novichok”. I reiterate, there has never been a programme with such a name. In the Soviet times, starting with the 1970s, not only the Soviet, but also the British and American scientists were working on creating new types of nerve agents. This is how the famous VX nerve gas was created. And in the 1990s, after the breakup of the USSR, the Western special services exported from Russia a group of chemists together with the documentation. The specialists in the West began to closely study the documents and, based on them, started working in this direction, achieved certain results, which were made public.
We know very well that the “Novichok”-type nerve agents were in production in a number of countries. And, unlike our Western partners, who are constantly rolling their eyes and saying that they know something but that it, as they say, is intelligence data and they cannot reveal it, we operate in a different fashion. We work with open sources. Thus, on December 1, 2015, the United States Patent and Trademark Office contacted the Russian agency responsible for issues concerning patents with a request to check the patentability of an invention made by an American scientist T. Rubin. Here is this document (demonstration).
This document talks about the invention of a special bullet, the distinctive feature of which is that it has a separate cavity for equipping it with different kinds of toxic agents. When using the mentioned invention, the lethal effect is achieved due to the effect of this toxic agent on the human body. In other words, this ammunition falls under the jurisdiction of the CWC. The principle of operation of the bullet consists in equipping it with binary components which interact with each other upon impact. And this is what we read on the page 11 of this official American document, “At least one of the active substances may be selected from nerve agents including… tabun (GA), sarin (GB), soman (GD), cyclosarin (GF), and VG, …VM, VR, VX, and [attention!] Novichok agents.”
In other words, this document confirms that in the United States the “Novichok”-type nerve agents were not just produced but also patented as a chemical weapon. And not some long time ago, but just a couple of years ago – the patent is dated December 1, 2015.
Moreover, searching by the key word “Novichok” on the digital source google.patents.com you can find over 140 patents issued by the United States, related to the use and protection from exposure to the “Novichok” toxic agent.
These are the real facts, not some idle talk, and the response to those who insolently claim that the “Novichok”-type nerve agents existed and were produced in the USSR and Russia.
LIE №8
One of the victims, a Russian citizen Yulia Skripal is, allegedly, avoiding contacts with her relatives and refusing the Russian consular assistance.
Presently, the British authorities are zealously hiding Yulia Skripal from the media and the public. Her whereabouts are unknown. The Russian side, as well as her relatives (her cousin Victoria was refused an entry visa by the British authorities) are being denied access to her. She does not have the opportunity to go back to Russia and undergo medical examination and treatment.
The abovementioned circumstances indicate that, in fact, the Russian citizen Yulia Skripal is being held hostage by the British authorities, held by force on the territory of the United Kingdom, subjected to psychological manipulation.
I have given just a few examples of how the British authorities spread disinformation and blatantly lie. This list of disclosures could, probably, go on, but we should probably stop here. It is typical that the United Kingdom is not even thinking about refuting any of their theses, despite the fact that they are completely unfounded.
I have no doubts that in the future, we can await new waves of disinformation, pseudo-leaks to the media, insolent attacks on us by the British officials. But no real evidence will ever be produced.
The United Kingdom demonstrates clear unwillingness to adequately cooperate regarding the investigation of this obscure story. This convinces us that the United Kingdom does not want any truth. They cannot allow it to come to light.
The report presented by the Technical Secretariat concerning the British specialists’ findings poses a number of questions and calls for additional detailed examination, including by the British side. Any specialist would understand that the final conclusions can be made only having before your eyes the materials of the chemical and spectral analysis of the mentioned samples. And the Technical Secretariat has passed these materials only to London.
We underscore, Russia will not take at face value any conclusions regarding the “Skipal case” until one simple condition is met: the Russian experts will be provided with access to the victims, as well as to the mentioned materials of the OPCW expert analysis and the entire volume of the real information regarding this incident London has at its disposal.
We have solid grounds to believe that all of this is a gross provocation against Russia by the special services of the United Kingdom. And if the British side continues to refuse to cooperate with us, it will only reaffirm our conviction that this is exactly the case.
Mr. Chairperson,
One cannot help but recall the following saying: for some people lying is not a means of justification, but a means of defence. On April 16, we heard yet another strange statement: the G7 calls upon Russia to respond to the legitimate questions of the United Kingdom regarding the “Skripal case”. You can consider this statement our response.
At the same time, we would like to hear from the British side the answers to the numerous and specific questions of the Russian Federation regarding the incident in Salisbury. Moreover, we would be grateful if the representatives of the G7 could explain to us why their countries launched a diplomatic war against Russia based on some fakes.
Thank you, Mr. Chairperson.


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intergenerationaltrauma
intergenerationaltrauma
Apr 28, 2018 4:32 PM

This insightful quote by C. J. Hopkins from the linked article nicely sums up why actual “facts” and “truth” have become irrelevant to our overlords:
“In an atmosphere of mass hysteria and paranoia (like the one we’re living in at the moment), the authorities’ narratives do not have to make sense, or stand up to any type of real scrutiny. Their primary purpose is not to deceive, but rather, to demarcate an ideological territory of acceptable belief, expression, and emotion to which “normal” people are expected to conform. Beyond the boundaries of that territory lies the outer darkness of “abnormality” and “extremism,” which no “normal” person wants anything to do with. To avoid being cast into this outer darkness, people will conform to the most absurd and paranoid nonsense you can possibly imagine. The global capitalist ruling classes know this, which is why they don’t care if you disprove their narratives on Twitter or some “disreputable” website they’ve rendered virtually invisible anyway. They are not debating the facts or the truth … they are marking the boundaries of that “normal” territory, and herding frightened people into it.”
https://consentfactory.org/2018/04/26/the-league-of-assad-loving-conspiracy-theorists/

tomiejones
tomiejones
Apr 23, 2018 2:50 PM

Reblogged this on circusbuoy.

Kay Weir
Kay Weir
Apr 23, 2018 10:06 PM
Reply to  tomiejones

Astonishing to read that the US developed and patented’ novichoks’ as a chemical weapon in 2015, and that they hold 140 patents on ‘novichoks’. So not only the UK but the US is involved in this giant fabrication broadcast to the world as fact. How could they think this would not be exposed, as Ambassador Shulgin has so brilliantly done? – Kay Weir

leruscino
leruscino
Apr 23, 2018 2:42 PM

Reblogged this on leruscino.

Robbobbobin
Robbobbobin
Apr 23, 2018 3:41 AM

“One cannot help but recall the following saying: for some people lying is not a means of justification, but a means of defence.”
Shulgi-Shulg (as ex-Presdent G Dubbya is alleged to think of him) is quoting a saying that, in the case of the recent governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is sadly out of date. These days the UK lies not as a means of justification nor as a means of defence but as a result of the fact that lies are about all they have left.

Thomas Prentice
Thomas Prentice
Apr 22, 2018 7:36 PM

The petty island kingdom of Anglo-Saxonia, once a brutal empire, now resorts to Hitler-like Big Lies to salvage some self-esteem for its ruling class.
Who’dathunk I would EVER find the word of a Russian (soviet) ambassador more credible than that of a UK PM or an American president.

summitflyer
summitflyer
Apr 22, 2018 2:23 PM

O,what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive !

bevin
bevin
Apr 22, 2018 2:19 PM

I drew this statement to the attention of an old friend of the Tory kind. Such people, who tend to have a very warped idea of British history in which official benevolence and even handedness tend to loom much larger than the record warrants, are genuinely appalled by the vulgarity and mendacity and the current opportunist sub Thatcher, neo american Tory regime.
It offends their sense of national pride to contrast the behaviour of clowns and grifters like Johnson and May with the assurance and openness of Russian diplomats and spokesmen.
And the discussions at OPCW afford a perfect example of how low the UK (to make no mention of the US, Canada and the other puppets who speak English) has gone and of how deeply this government and its supporters disgrace the nation..

Old Pepper
Old Pepper
Apr 23, 2018 11:17 AM
Reply to  bevin

I agree with you in terms of assessing the level of pseudo Thatcher and other disrespectful Western leaders.
But I am surprised by the idiotic behavior of Russians.
They’re trying to prove the truth, but they’ve already been convicted of everything that’s been, is, and will be, and the “free press” will still smear them with shit.
Russian besides getting themselves into the trap of demanding to allow their doctors to the Skripals.
It is Highly Likely that Skripals (immediately afterwards or a few days through after such visit) will die by the efforts of the
government of the UK, and Russia will be charged with insidious destruction of these people.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Apr 23, 2018 9:36 PM
Reply to  Old Pepper

You seem to be arguing that the Russians should behave like the West ie lie, lie, lie, and, then, for some light relief, lie again. The Russians simply need to stick to the truth, to win a moral victory among the non-brainwashed.

Old Pepper
Old Pepper
Apr 24, 2018 10:03 PM

No, I don’t call on Russians to lie. I’m surprised they still haven’t realized that the West isn’t interested in the truth, which isn’t in the interests of the US.
Moreover in the West there is a Ministry of truth (Orwell) and total control over the media, as in the USSR. Therefore people in the West will not know any alternative opinion.

bal
bal
Apr 27, 2018 6:51 PM
Reply to  Old Pepper

Are you sitting comfy? Thatcher screwed the UK by her failure to roll out Fibre Optic Cable, from 1990 onwards: total Tory Twots, incapable of math, science & visionless in any societal sense of being set for the future, sadly .. & now it comes to this:-)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/obscene-masquerade-russia-criticised-over-douma-chemical-attack-denial
A more “Obscene Masquerade” for Journalism, never more twisted@theguardian & we know that ‘it’ is unequivocally all down to Corporate Interests, strategic goals, promoted subliminally & marketed in their Western MSM, also Saudi & Israeli inspired, at the behest, assistance & insistence of GCHQ & the NSA, of course, including Mossad ..
Sorry, but you seem to have completely misunderstood the global picture and lost any serious objectivity, due to your regional news concerns & digest. Russians are Bell Testing, for whom the bell tolls, which ‘key’ figures, along Pavlov’s Dogs’ principle lines of training, in exposing flagrantly anachronistic western censored systems of injustice, news delivery methodology and Russia is sternly justifiably propagating foaming mouths, either way .. exposing the very glands of all salivations! to bring about & provoke change in internationally regulatory standards of all communications, in future ! especially along the ole’ Silk Road !
Russia did NOT have to prove and succeed in undermining the whole of the western MSM, or convince the whole UN: just demonstrate ‘it’ , “the beast from the West” attacking “the beast from the East” with absurd impunity , in order to win-win in the multi-fronted media wars, inc. social , all jumbled together with global intelligence services also wholly in play, at present: the Western censorship is obvious to the whole world of intelligence today, even more so than after 9/11, in reality! No no no, Russia only had to prove to the Chinese, first & foremost and they did ! > Fact AND thankfully the Chinese have also monitored & examined the evidence, available thus far, along with all statements & Faux declarations & Flags, in all western MSM , incidents Logged, backed up with the biggest A.i. and the most advanced Satellites , inc. Photon Internet Transmissions, as extra back up, militarily, we must presume: and have therefore wisely situated their NAVY in the Mediterranean, in support of & with TRUST in their BRICS partner Russia , see ?? The Chinese can kill all communications systems and still communicate , just saying ..
The Chinese don’t want war, (or the Petro-Dollar, longterm), but their plans for re-Imagining the Silk Road, logically command & demand regional stability, finally and screw all NATO machinations and Manipulations of Corporate Interests to control the whole world via “Oil & Wars”.. in no uncertain terms, BRICS was established to promote a Multi-Polar World, re-designing markets along the Silk Road , Orient Express (solving steel over production:) and the Chinese have invested heavily wide afield, in the science of the future, with a Tunnel TEN times the size of CERN, just one tiny example, i assure you also, trains that already travel at way over 450kmh, in daily service > bad for the dirty boat businesses of the Dutch & British &&&& false flags of convenience, shipping arms & all !
Al-Jazeera are helping with presenting the REAL picture of Censorship & Western lies & propaganda, with Corporate Agenda from the “elites” , like Murdoch Cheney & Rothschild’s Genie Oil & Gas on the GOLAN HEIGHTS stealing the SYRIAN Resources , still now, right this second, with the dodgiest licenses in the history of the oil & gas business, (sold by the least legitimate Israelis) said the Economist, Bloomberg & Business Insider in 2013 .. Back to today, the only question that really remains is whether the Brits. & Yanks & micro-Macron’s French economic franchise, really want to go to War with China & Russia combined >> coz’ I don’t think Israel & the Saudi’s have technology quite like the Chinese have to operate with immediately .. and they can likely actually teach all arrogant parties around a salutary lesson in seconds, maybe without even killing anybody, this time ! and they want regional stability, (remember the USS Fitzgerald 😉 in alliance with Russia & the Syrians & the Iranians & the Turkish NATO partner, lol >> you can’t make this stuff up: NATO looks stuffed, immorally trading TERROR and wholly superfluous to requirements ! Hoist by their own petard , & their arrogant deep state retards :). Al-Jazeera DEFEATED AT&T & Associated networks , in court in the USA for effective ‘blanket discrimination’, thus now the extraneous efforts re, the ‘Israel Lobby’ to censor & manufacture news even, the very construct of news, comes to fore, on a wide variety of fronts from tweets to emails, news agencies, UK Crisis Casting Crews, faking “it”, like white helmets but worse, the news real time & streaming live ENACTED pieces on CNN ! CNN CAUGHT RED HANDED AFTER MANCHESTER !! on to privacy issues, at the wholly unregulated Staged Levels of A.i. today, on steroids: even Zuckerberg with shirt & tie & training his body language, & behavioural patterns, all tailoring & tailored for analysis, inc. his Chinese wife’s habits, lol >> it’s the WILD EAST , today, ole’ pepper! You have not been getting the full news in the west for decades ! You should see the amount of Chinese Satellites, as well as the ‘Usual’, triangulating me today, in comparison to 12 years ago, down here within the border zone to Turkey .. picking up every communication, I transmit.. & Every time we get a thunderstorm, only the Chinese Tv is working > fact ! & other Chinese Tech. ..
50% more Chinese visitors in Bulgaria , year on year, i read the other day: mull that ..
Meanwhile, understand why the Saudi’s & Israel’s best interests would be served, without Al-Jazeera in existence & the western world’s best journalists, muzzled .. & consider the Qatari position in terms of strategic business alliances & pipelines and Syrian oil & gas on the Golan Heights, being stolen by Murdoch, censoring UK & US press & politicians afraid to speak openly, like the MSM >> Leveson 2 , you need, ole’ pepper, only this time it would need to include examining the US & other nations !
See Comcast’s spread of ‘interests’ in bidding 2buy Sky ??
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/al-jazeera-denies-claims-pro-israel-group-lobby-films-180417145630034.html
A condition of the KSA to Qatar, last year was that Al-Jazeera be closed , & Think back, WHO first coined the phrase “Mad Mullah” ?
A UNited front of Corporate interests, inc. Golan Heights !?
KSA ‘gamers’ exposed: !?
http://realconservativesunite.com/2018/04/15/wikileaks-secret-cable-overthrow-the-syrian-regime-but-play-nice-with-russia/
The Russians knew this, even calling Saudis to Moscow.
No surprises the “Aramco IPO ” was put on hold ..!?
You were had, as 2 nations , decades ago by micron macron’s friends , just like page 3 .. to dumb down & divide societal ‘norms’. Was it a ‘norm’ before Murdoch, to get ‘tits’ to become a visibly integral part of the daily process of digesting NEWS ??!!
Distract, divide &&&&, control people’s diet !
GCHQ & NSA A.i. detected this after WW2 & TV was introduced .. with consummate ease, even easier today, with far more capable electronics that remain “Classified” !
Tolstoy’s Moral One Permanent Revolution, is happening right now.
Like , Natalie Portman bucking that Israeli award for $2 million bucks, better than support Morally Corrupt People & Gamers , for whom the bell tolls .. she should get an award for her noble commendable behaviour, that transcends any monetary value, coz’ she still got her SOUL & faculties in futures wide, clean & purged of the scourge of censorship, to a degree, unless your freedom to ACT interferes with or compromises others’ freedoms to act & e.g. you expose the white helmets FAKE calls of “Gas ATTACK” in the Hague.. !? under the all seeing A.i. that GCHQ & the NSA have been ABUSING, since WW2 , coz’ now the Chinese can regulate in a more philosophical & multi polar manner, as Witness on ANY security council ! & communicate and act fast at supercomputing & superconductive speeds, equitably, & unless you are lying about something and they can prove it, with evidence .. no worries 🙂
ANY future security decision in this world includes CHINA ..
Which should help you define where the real battle for Russians & Bulgarians lies right now, in Harmonising the CYRILLIC alphabet with their fellow partners’ & Chinese programming of A.i. in order to work with the Photon internet, in future, not just ole’ fibre optic cables and also it explains why 50% more Chinese are to be seen here on the only logical SHORTEST land route for the Silk Road Trains, just on the other side of the mountain, where I live .. year on year (soon 15 yrs.)..
I keep hoping for a local Chinese Restaurant, that sells aromatic crispy duck, Hong Kong style, that I can order online at Hong Kong speeds, not prices .. Logic 🙂 ) , since 2003/4, i remain hopeful .
Greetings from the real Balkans, Trust in President Radev ..
Listen no other Balkan character in the MSM, working predominantly vigilantly against him, collectively both inside & outside BG. because he has a character like Natalie Portman and is IMPEACHABLE, as well as incorruptible , thus the MSM & extra the Guardian “Blackout”, of any thing Radev says, unless they can twist particles: not articles .. !
P.s Radev still flies Mig 29’s , if really needed .
Spot on Judgement .. scientific brain & glowing NATO evaluation,
for Command Strategy !
The WAR is to Programme international ‘norms’ for A.i.
NATO presently OUT-numbered and the idiot based EU CRIMINALLY NEGLECTFUL in SUPERCOMPUTING & wasting time and member state funds, that could one day very soon be invested in the Photon internet, instead of conventional arms & Trident, ridiculous! .. BRICS is a very big club, time to get in it, innit’ ? & up to speed with a future, with less military spending, but more on societal values, communications & programming moral behaviour, from the very TOP down, once more ..
Hey, if Mark Zuckerberg, still wants to be President, let all his values , value judgements and valued contributions for societal projections , be quantified with A.i. Data that demonstrates transparently, with non-conflict of interests programming, adjudicating why he wishes to enact anything, from which A.i. will learn faster , than when quantifying the rules of “GO” to beat Grand Masters & achieve googles’ goals .. 😉 !?
“You got Five Years, that’s all you got .. ! ”
Forget “conventional warfare” !!
Start thinking war-fair 😉 just encrypted thought .. from the Indy:-
“Quantum mechanics is better at generating randomness, as measurements of quantum particles in a “superposition” have results , that are fundamentally unpredictable.
The scientists used photons – or light particles – from a laser to generate their random numbers in a process known as a “BELL test”.
Keyword: Communications – ole’Pepper , the Photon Type !!
And it may well not surprise people & you, that pure carbon can do things other resources cannot: diamonds , the Chinese’s toughest and most ‘targeted’ best friend , in pyramid forms to focus & concentrate encrypted Photons, not the ponzi kinda’ pyramid! thus their interest in the old empires of South Africa & Zimbabwe (Rhodes iAfrica, no more 🙂 ) , where the Yuan/Rinminbi rules, today ..
Mugabwe’s sweet reward, the Confucius Peace Prize from China: I loved that Chinese humour, honestly !! A perfect two finger gesture to all Westerners who think that that CIA Sponsored Terrorist, THE DALAI LAMA’s Nobel Peace Prize, in 1989 was anything more significant than PURE HYPE & HOLLYWOOD propaganda, as the world will one day finally register & finally recognise the whole truth of history & propaganda , recorded, on OPEN A.i. by compounding also ole’ military intelligence DATA , processing .. full pictures, progressively.
The Dalai Lama’s CIA wages personally, were $180,000 p.a. until 1974 > Fact.
I did Media Analysis & Research , inc. Financial, from the early 80’s onwards , professionally , finally working for the CEO of B.P. overnight during the first Gulf War, (having been head hunted), until 1991 .. to search for his brief of political & strategic international interests, inc. tech. like HAARP.. when B.P. bought ARCO Oil, for specifically this technology, to source all global oil & gas reserves with MicroRadioWaves … – – – …
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp-country/en_ru/documents/publications_PDF_eng/BP-170608.pdf
Noteworthy, is the last question & answer, from the real world of business in continuing to work with Russia, wherever & whenever possible ..
Continued Sanctions Absurd !

Ivan
Ivan
Apr 22, 2018 12:54 PM

“Independent” again heavily censores comments, this time on
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-douma-chemical-weapons-attack-latest-eastern-ghouta-russia-assad-a8315746.html
and I don’t think it is the pro western posters there who flag the posts, as the posts simply dissapear after two or three minutes (it is not that they are “awaiting moderation”), and after ten or so of my comments I got the message that “your posting limit for today was exceeded”..
Orwellian world.
The point is that on Guardian people know there will be few dissenting posts. But on “Independent” until the Skripal case people could comment freely..

John Marks
John Marks
Apr 22, 2018 5:58 PM
Reply to  Ivan

The “Independent” is edited by a viscerally anti-Putin man called Lebedev.
It is also 40% owned by Saudi Arabia.
These two facts alone probably explain much of the lost ‘independence’ at the “Independent”.

balkydj
balkydj
Apr 28, 2018 7:18 PM
Reply to  Ivan

LONG before the Skripals, NO way, Ivan, could one comment freely at the ‘independent’, from 2013 onwards ! and from 2015 Balkydj was regularly “awaiting moderation” , due to the Indy’s goals & agenda, increasingly in alignment with Murdoch, Israel &the Saudi’s grand scheme of all things ‘censorship’, to hide his commercial corporate activities and any public discussion of Murdoch, Cheney & Rothschild & Co’s Genie Oil & Gas business, STILL stealing Syrian Resources , at this very moment, from Syrian Territory, on the Golan Heights !
By 26th March 2016, the last printed edition of the not so ‘Independent’, was devoted to the defending of the Saudi’s Monarchy & Israeli’s Terror schemes & schemers, that had been in play since 2003: actions so pathetic & obvious , that somebody wanted to understandably assassinate the Saudi King with a rocket .. That was the lead story of the last Independent in print , just saying ..
I bought the first and am looking now at the last of the printed editions, ‘for the memory’ of times past & the change >> the only thing that gives the Indy any credibility today, are people like Robert Fisk .. who found ZERO evidence of any Chemical Gas attacks in Douma & Ghoutta ! But Fisk found many witnesses saying much to the contrary .. that it was just “dust & asphyxiation” from low oxygen levels in tunnels, after attacks on the Terrorists who had stolen people’s homes, all exacerbated by White Helmets’ Medics spreading loud panic, screaming “Gas Attack” & spraying water, over innocent kids & cruelly scaring them .. when only dust was in the air.
Still, 103 missiles fired and loads of gassing around Salisbury’s Skri-Pals, yet not one dead person.. in either of the notably falsely “Flagged” & “sensationalised attacks ..”
Much ado about nothing, that should leave people astounded, commanding & demanding that Macron finally places his indefatigable “EVIDENCE” on the table, for all to examine, as should Ms. May (& Trump, even though Mattis admits that the USA had no evidence:) , one would think that surely Macron gave some evidence to Trump after visiting this week, to cover their collective naked ‘butts’, against any obvious jokes, in any future court proceedings, that should ensue, PDQ ! ?
The only existing “Evidence” , is of Lies & deceptions ..
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html
N.B. NO comments section open for Fisk’s article, that has been extra speedily ‘tucked’ away, out of immediate sight & prying eyes of ‘five eyes’ nations’ inquisitive folk and now for something completely different ..
“Woman has baby” in full support of all monarchists & a royal flush of all things important !
Predictably ..

Harry Law
Harry Law
Apr 22, 2018 12:42 PM

Shulgin states…”Presently, the British authorities are zealously hiding Yulia Skripal from the media and the public. Her whereabouts are unknown. The Russian side, as well as her relatives (her cousin Victoria was re fused an entry visa by the British authorities) are being denied access to her. She does not have the opportunity to go back to Russia and undergo medical examination and treatment.
The above mentioned circumstances indicate that, in fact, the Russian citizen Yulia Skripal is being held hostage by the British authorities, held by force on the territory of the United Kingdom, subjected to psychological manipulation”.
This is true, as I pointed out in the article ‘Another look at “that” Guardian article’ both Skripals are being held hostage and incommunicado by the British state, They cannot contact relatives or friends, nor can relatives and friends contact them, this is cruel, and a kind of psychological torture, what kind of inhuman beasts these must be not to want to contact their relatives, including the 89 year old Grandmother, in truth it is Amber Rudd at the Home office and the rest of the Government who are the lying monsters behind this charade. Mr Justice Williams said at the High Court hearing recently “decision makers must look at their [i.e. patients] welfare in the widest sense, not just medical, but social and psychological” indeed the NHS Charter states the interaction of relatives and friends plays a vital part in helping their recovery.
“A spokesman said: “Ofcom granted us use of the 070 number range to enable every bedside unit to have its own unique telephone number so that friends and relatives can call patients directly, alleviating pressure on nursing staff having to field calls.
“The patient’s bedside phone number is unique to each patient’s account and can follow them around the hospital if they are moved bed, a frequent occurrence.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/01/critics-slam-rip-off-50p-a-minute-charge-to-call-patients-hospital-phones

BigB
BigB
Apr 22, 2018 11:24 AM

“Based on the analysis conducted by Government scientists, there can be little doubt that the nerve agent used in this attack was military-grade Novichok of a type manufactured by Russia. Since that analysis was revealed by the Prime Minister two weeks ago, the Russian ​state has had every opportunity to offer a plausible explanation as to how a nerve agent stock of this type came to be used in this attack. It has offered nothing concrete in response except denials and diversion. Indeed, the only solid assertion that it has offered so far in its defence was that all stocks of nerve agents were destroyed many years ago—an assertion that has been contradicted by intelligence reports. That suggests that just over a decade ago Russia invested in the use of nerve agents and developed new stockpiles of Novichok to that end. There is clear evidence that the Russian state has a case to answer, and it has failed to do so. We can therefore draw no other conclusion than that Russia has a direct or indirect responsibility for this. [NB: this is still official Labour policy; as confirmed by Ben Bradshaw last week.]
“Does she consider the expulsion of 23 British diplomats and the closure of the British Council a further provocation?
In the light of the poisoning of the Skripals and the murder of Nikolai Glushkov, what advice and support are the police and security services giving to high-profile Russians living in Britain, or indeed any other Russian national living and working in this country?
What plans does the Prime Minister have to publish and table the Government’s version of Labour’s Magnitsky amendment to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill which was blocked in February? We have been assured that that will deliver all the powers that we were demanding—including by my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor in his response to the Budget and the Finance Bill—even before the Salisbury attack, to punish Russian abusers of human rights, but we are still waiting to see it published.”
“I am asking for a clear commitment from the Government that the Magnitsky powers will be introduced and will be supported by Conservative Members. In that spirit, I also urge the Government to look again at Labour’s proposal to target the laundering of money ​through secret tax havens and undisclosed assets, as practised by many of the London-based Russian oligarchs, on whom so much of Putin’s power depends.”
“I was talking about Russian oligarchs and their power. As the Prime Minister will know, it is not just the Labour party pressing for action. Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition party leader who was barred from standing for the Russian presidency and has faced down intimidation of him, his family and his supporters at the hands of the Russian state, has made clear that the most important thing the UK could do to curb the power and punish the actions of Vladimir Putin is to hit his billionaire allies in their pockets. I hope the Prime Minister will listen to that advice.”
“Two weeks ago, I said I favoured a “robust dialogue”.I have been a robust critic of the actions of the Russian Government for more than 20 years. I opposed the abuse going on in Chechnya by Russian forces, the manipulation of elections, the oppression of LGBT rights, and the dodgy laundering of money through London by Russian oligarchs.”
“Abuses of human rights anywhere in the world are wrong. On a delegation of all-party human rights group members to Moscow at the time of the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Russia, a whole group of us made it very clear, across party lines, what we thought about attacks on LGBT people, what was going on in Chechnya, and the denial of the right of civil assembly by people in Russia. I have continued to support such calls.”
“The third issue is, of course, the war in Syria, where Russia stands accused of supporting and committing war crimes in its backing for the Assad regime, in what is now the seventh year of that desperate war.”
It was surprising that any democratic leader saw fit to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his election. I hope the Prime Minister will show the same consistency this week by refusing to congratulate President Sisi of Egypt on his sham re-election to office. President Putin’s re-election has been preceded in the past year not just by the abuses that we have already discussed, and that the Russian state has committed or abetted overseas, but by blatant abuses at home as well. According to Human Rights Watch, the number of individuals punished for violating Russia’s regulation on public gatherings was two and a half times bigger in the first half of 2017 than in the whole of the preceding year.”
“However, for all the punishment beatings meted out to student activists, for all the horrendous state-approved homophobia against the LGBT community, and for all the intimidation and banning orders against political opponents, one central, inescapable fact remains: President Putin will be the Russian President for the next six years, and we cannot afford to pretend otherwise or to wish that away.”
[precised from Hansard – 26/03/2018]

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-03-26/debates/B5EF4CEE-D0E9-4613-81C4-DDD9F03015EE/NationalSecurityAndRussia
There is an internet and alternative factual meme that Jeremey Corbyn is a sole voice of reason and composure in the current nadir of West-East relations. This point has been championed by Stephen Cohen and the objectively blinkered, epistemically challenged cult of Corbynistas. If this is the best characterisation of Russia we can come up with, then we are in for a long, long Cold War. Or, a short hot one: one of the two. If Shulgin. Lavrov and Zakharova are to be believed, and they are, everything Jeremy said was a lie. Even if we filter out the “faulty intelligence” about Novichok: the characterisation is still a lie. Do we want to take Navalny’s advice on future West-East relations; or base our diplomacy on a demonised character assassination of Russia. I sincerely hope not.

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Apr 23, 2018 1:46 AM
Reply to  BigB

Corbyn reveals his spots! A veritable pole-cat, semi housed-trained, of course. Another Bernie Sanders! Let the Zionists have him.

rtj1211
rtj1211
Apr 23, 2018 5:57 AM

I am not sure Norman Tebbitt would wish to be compared to Jeremy Corbyn, not to mention the other way around….

Mulga Mumblebrain
Mulga Mumblebrain
Apr 23, 2018 9:53 AM
Reply to  rtj1211

That was my point. Corbyn revealed! At least with Tebbitt what you saw is what you got.

susannapanevin
susannapanevin
Apr 22, 2018 10:24 AM

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