Aearnur's newletter foresees major exposure, crash of Western media scams
But it’s not just the Ukraine war disinformation, the pattern of lies, obfuscation and distortions extends into all US-orchestrated wars, genocides and atrocities and it’s cracking apart all at once.
The reckoning is on the way.
My notes are in bold and in [brackets]
WESTERN NARRATIVES ON UKRAINE START TO CRASH AND BURN
On telling a lie you must repeat it, telling further lies as questions are asked. For politicians there is no way out but to keep lying... until finally exposed and removed from office in humiliation.
AEARNUR
JUN 22
The question is no longer whether the Ukrainian regime will win against Russia. The question now is how long the western powers can sustain it until it loses. And the secondary question related to the latter is how these powers will react when their narratives about this conflict totally collapse.
Two of the big political beasts of the western world have decided to communicate a factual analysis concerning the origin of the Ukraine war. Donald Trump in the USA and Nigel Farage in the UK are both relating that the West was responsible for goading Russia into this conflict by insisting Ukraine will join NATO.
[So far I have only heard these two politicians (and most other analysts) talk about the extension of NATO to Russia’s borders as the provocation for the war. Very few are relating the story of how Kiev attacked Donbass since 2014 – and in fact is still attacking it – which is a kind of low-key genocide that has killed thousands of civilians. I have been talking about this since April 1, 2023. The lying US-controlled western media had been reporting this aggression as a “war” between Kiev and Russia, but Russia proper was not involved in the fighting. Only Donbass militias were fighting back against the US-backed Ukronazi terrorists. It was best described as a genocide. Notably, no western journalists were sent into Donbass during this time, and at least one, German independent investigative reporter Alina Lipp, was threatened with prison for reporting from there, Note the similarity between this aggression in Donbass and the genocide in Palestine. Genocide accompanied by disinformation and censorship in the media is a hallmark of US involvement in foreign conflicts. The false reporting and the hamstringing of reporters (over 100 journalists have been murdered in Gaza by Israel since Oct 7) makes it very difficult for the world to see what is happening. However, the open attacks on civilians in Gaza and the massive number of civilian deaths, many of them televised or filmed on video, ultimately made the Israeli atrocities impossible for the US-backed Israeli regime to conceal. This situation has given rise to a shift in world opinion that is hampering further atrocities with Washington’s involvement. The US and its puppets/allies are now exposed and the reckoning is underway. The world is immune to bogus accusations of anti-Semitism]
These shelling attacks in Donbass were greatly intensified in the weeks and days just before the Russian incursion into Ukraine. The whole elaborate scam was apparently a US-orchestrated attempt to goad Russia into attacking, obviously in the mistaken assumption that Russia could not stand up to all of NATO. It was a regrettable miscalculation]
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Here’s your air strike update for June 22, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
22 June 2024
The Russian army launched a group strike on warehouses with NATO ammunition and power facilities in Ukraine
Now about how the special operation is going. The Russian army launched a group attack on ammunition depots supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western countries, and on Ukrainian power facilities that supported the operation of military-industrial complex enterprises. Our units attacked with precision weapons and drones. All goals have been achieved. This is a response to the attempts of the Kiev regime to damage the Russian power sector. Warehouses where enemy unmanned boats and drones were stored were also destroyed.
Our fighters occupied more-advantageous positions in several directions at once. The enemy tried to counterattack about a dozen times, but to no avail. Total enemy losses per day: more than 1,800 militants and a lot of equipment, including a Canadian Senator armored vehicle, American howitzers, and four more electronic warfare stations. [The number of Ukrainian losses inariably hover around 2000 a day but the Ukrainian press and its Western US-led echo chamber keep insisting that the Russians are the ones taking a drubbing. Funny how Ukraine keeps running out of men while Russian forces are fully manned.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
22.06.2024
The Russian army launched a massive attack on power facilities in Ukraine at night. Main info
Anastasia Selivanova, Yulia Ryabinina
Last night, the Russian army launched a massive combined attack on power infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. It included targets in the western and eastern regions, as well as in areas of the Zaporozhye oblast controlled by Kiev.
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Information about this was confirmed by the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and Ukrenergo. As a result of the attack, according to local authorities, “equipment at power facilities” was damaged.
At about 2.30 Moscow time, an air raid alert was declared throughout Ukraine, which lasted until five o’clock in the morning. Explosions were heard in the Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnitsky oblasts, in particular in Pavlograd, in the Vinnytsia oblast and in the city of Lutsk in the Volyn oblast, in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, as well as near the city of Stryi in the Lviv oblast.
Some of the strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces targets were carried out by Geran-2 drones, after which the arrivals of Kh-101 cruise missiles were recorded, writes Voyennaya Khronika.
In Stryi there were power outages after the explosions. The head of the Lviv Regional Police Department, Maxim Kozitsky, in turn, announced a fire after damage to a “critical infrastructure facility.”
In addition, a certain target in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast was hit. The regional department of the State Emergency Service published photographs of the fire extinguishing work at the arrival site, saying that it was an “educational institution,” but, as is tradition, the background itself was blurred to make it difficult to identify the object.
Later, the underground reported that near Ivano-Frankivsk, the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which they had equipped in one of the educational institutions, was hit. The number of casualties among the military is still unknown; the wounded were taken to nearby hospitals.
The combined attack affected both the military and power infrastructure in Ukraine. For example, in Stryi, not only the substation was damaged: locals heard an explosion with a strong detonation in the direction of the railway station marshalling area, where former military warehouses are located, again used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to data that has not yet been confirmed, aircraft parts had been delivered to these warehouses.
Also, residents of Lutsk in the Volyn oblast of Ukraine reported to the underground about a powerful explosion from the airfield. It is known that at the airfield itself there is a “serious underground bunker”, arched shelters for aircraft and two large warehouses with fuel and lubricants. There are no specific details about the destruction yet.
As for the Vinnytsia oblast, the strike apparently took place in the city of Ladyzhyn, writes underground coordinator Sergei Lebedev. A few months ago, a thermal power plant there was practically destroyed, which also came under attack in the fall of 2022. However, two days earlier it became known that the thermal power plant had been repaired: foreign equipment was installed there and put into operation.
“Probably someone leaked the information. They seem to be talking about two strikes,” writes Lebedev, citing his associates. Then the blow fell directly on the territory of the thermal power plant, but there was no critical damage. Tonight, it seems, they “finished it off” - there are no new messages from Ladyzhin.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://newdaynews.ru/ukraine/830305.html
/22/2024
22 June 2024, 13:55
Russia hit UAF warehouses holding Western missiles
On the night of June 22, the Russian Armed Forces used high-precision weapons to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces' warehouses with ammunition and missiles and aerial bombs received by Kiev from the West. All targets were hit, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
The ministry noted that the group strike was carried out in response to attempts by the Kiev regime to cause damage to Russian energy facilities. The strike used high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons and attack drones.
“Tonight, a group strike was carried out on Ukrainian energy facilities that supported the operation of military-industrial enterprises, as well as on ammunition depots and aircraft weapons supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western countries. All designated targets were hit,” the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to the military, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 14 group strikes on targets in Ukraine over the past week. As a result, storage facilities for military equipment, training areas for unmanned boats, and military airfields were destroyed.
Moscow, Natalya Ryazanova
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Hezbollah’s Quarterly Report
Jun 14 2024
June 15, 2024
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Hezbollah's Quarterly Report
Hezbollah publishes what I call a 'quarterly report'. It's like the jihadi earnings call. The topline numbers (as of June) are that they have conducted 2,125 military operations (total), inflicted 2,000+ casualties on the IOF, and decolonized land 35 km deep into occupied Palestine, dislodging over 230,000 settlers. It's been another bad quarter of genocide from the IOF, and a good quarter of war from the Resistance.
Hezbollah Radwan commando. More than a match for any IDF soldier.
'Israelis' are well aware of this, despite massive wartime censorship. They can see the hills burning themselves, the settlers are deeply unsettled. Yesterday alone, 30 attack drones and 150 rockets targeted 15 military sites in occupied Palestine. Residents of 'New Galilee' have threatened to leave unless the government does something about it. Mainstream ministers like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are calling to attack Lebanon now, to put an end to it, but the generals know better.
While 'Israel' has been pre-occupied with a genocide in the south, they have lost the north. As I discussed earlier, Hezbollah has been systematically eye-poking the cyclops and, now, half the time the sirens don't even go off. Hezbollah can fire at will and the Iron Dome is broken. 'Israel's' border points have been dismantled and they're completely open to ground invasion. 'Israel's' problems compound every day the attrition goes on, and it's been nine months of daily attacks now. 'Israel' can certainly bomb Lebanon whenever they want, but now Hezbollah can bomb 'Israel' whenever they want. The strategic calculus has been shaken.
You can see this from the raw numbers in the quarterly report:
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2024/06/15/hezbollahs-quarterly-report/
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Episode 15
Garland and Joti discuss the recent EU elections, the shocking corruption throughout the so-called "Western democracies,"
their relentless push for war, and the growing wave of discontent spreading across the EU as economies begin to collapse, and how this phenomenon may soon change the political map of Europe, hopefully for the better. Russia's production capacity (also true for China) is now demonstrably superior to the West in quality and quantity. Western tanks, for example. are too big and complicated, break down often, and cost a fortune. The opposite is true for Russian tanks. The bottom line is that in every field—economic, political, cultural, military, scientific, financial—the US-led imperialist West is being surpassed by the Eurasian powers. The only field where it retains some degree of supremacy is infotainment, the modern hybrid of media and nonstop propaganda. But even in that field, the Western media are losing ground, as the younger generation moves away from the depraved legacy media to follow alternative voices.
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ZELENSKY'S NEGLECTED WIFE WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT: "WE NEED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW"
Actress wife of President of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya said that she woke up in the middle of the night with thoughts that she could not cope with the current situation in the country. She does not want her husband to run for a second presidential term. Insiders note that Zelensky left his wife and stopped listening to her advice.
Zelensky’s wife shared revelations about family life with the British tabloid The Daily Telegraph. According to her, it is not easy for her to maintain composure in the current situation. There were times when she woke up in the middle of the night with the fear that she couldn’t cope.
Zelenskaya also said that she does not want her husband to run for a second presidential term. Speaking about plans for the future, Zelenskaya said: “We will have to come up with something new.”
Let us note that Zelensky’s wife’s earlier statements to the Western press were completely different. In particular, in one of the interviews, she told the story of how a certain resident of Kiev allegedly shot down a Russian drone with a can of homemade ingredients.
At the same time, the insider telegram channel “Legitimny” noted that a crisis had arisen in the relationship of the Zelensky couple. The president constantly quarrels with his wife. The head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, contributed to the tension in their relationship. Recently, Zelensky has distanced himself from his wife. In addition, insiders note that the abandoned spouse often drinks. Insiders also note that [presidential assistant] Andrei Ermak has actually concentrated all power in Ukraine in his hands. Despite this, the United States sees Zelensky’s successor in office as the ex-commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
Let us recall that Elena Zelenskaya was the screenwriter of the TV series “Servant of the People” and was among those who directly influenced the decisions of the illegitimate president of Ukraine.
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Understanding Israel’s threats of war with Hezbollah
BY QASSAM MUADDI JUNE 21, 2024 1
Hezbollah spent the past decade accumulating military and political power to deter Israel from attacking Lebanon. But recent escalations threaten to start a war no one want s because the U.S. won’t force Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza.
More here
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New
Since September, North Korea has supplied Russia with 11 thousand containers of ammunition - WP
June 22, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un drive an Aurus in Pyongyang. Illustration: KCNA/Reuters
Since September last year, North Korea has supplied more than 11 thousand containers of ammunition to Russia. This was reported by The Washington Post with reference to the US State Department.
The data, obtained by the nonprofit C4ADS and provided to The Washington Post, covers shipments from August to January and shows that more than 74,000 metric tons of explosives were shipped from two ports in the Russian Far East to 16 sites, mostly along the country's western borders near Ukraine. . This is approximately 1.6 million artillery shells of the type that the Russian Armed Forces used in the special operation zone, the publication claims.
[I had written this in response to fake reports that Russia was losing on the battleground. What I said then is still true today. The West still can’t keep up with ammo shipments to Ukraine, and now, more so than ever as N Korea provides a steady supply of Artillery shells to Russia. Artillery shells are the key to success at the front, and the West is foundering while Russia is doing just fine. It is now generally acknowledged in the non-government West that Russia will win in Ukraine]
However, experts are not so categorical, adding “suggests” and “probably” every now and then.
“Although we cannot be sure what exactly they are supplying, explosives labels... and delivery to storage bases near Ukraine and to secret GRAU ammunition depots in other locations throughout Russia suggests that these shipments are likely delivering to Russia various types of ammunition, from artillery shells to rockets",
— said, in particular, Dara Massicot, senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace*, who reviewed the findings at the request of The Washington Post.
As EADaily reported, following negotiations between the leaders of Russia and the DPRK, the countries entered into a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement. The document was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un on June 19, TASS reported.
Before this, Putin and Kim Jong-un talked face to face for about two hours, and then talked during an informal walk around the Kumsusan residence and while drinking tea. Prior to this, negotiations took place in a broad format with the participation of members of the delegations of both countries; they lasted a little more than an hour and a half.
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Our thanks to JS for this:
RE: Republican Senator Josh Hawley questions Boeing's CEO in a congressional hearing
SEE:
Boeing used to be run by engineers who made money to build good aircraft.
The rot started when the those with Masters in Business Administration degrees took over.
Now they make bad aircraft to make good money.
Len St. Clare, Letter to the Editor, Everett Herald, 28 March 2024
SEE ALSO:
ECONOMIST MILTON FRIEDMAN SPARKED BOEING’S FALL
America today is ruled by Wall Street, which rigidly adheres to the edict that greed is good. The ruling gospel stems from this watershed essay economist Milton Friedman wrote in 1970 for the New York Times headlined:
A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
Most of America’s CEOs today care only about the enrichment of their shareholders, which in turn enriches themselves. America is decidedly on a downward trajectory, a decline for which America’s enemies owe Milton Friedman considerable thanks.
https://starkmanapproved.com/economist-milton-friedman-sparked-boeings-fall/
AND:
Let The Engineers Lead: America Needs Boeing To Be Great
by Gautam Mukunda, Forbes, Feb 22, 2024
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gautammukunda/2024/02/22/let-the-engineers-lead-america-needs-boeing-to-be-great/
EXCERPTS:
Boeing’s troubles are in the center of the public eye now, but it’s been in crisis for years. In 2014, I wrote about how Boeing's Wall Street-driven focus on outsourcing and cost-cutting was crippling its manufacturing capabilities and destroying its historic culture of engineering excellence. The result was battery fires, massive delays, and cost overruns in the 787 Dreamliner program. Rather than make bold investments in innovative aircraft as it had in the past, Boeing cut costs to please investors, despite objections from its engineers who (correctly) predicted outsourcing would cause major problems. Boeing’s short-term focus compromised the 787 and its own identity.
Then, in 2020, I wrote again about Boeing's shift from an engineering focus to a financially-driven one, a decision which led it to save costs by dangerously modifying the 1960s-era 737 instead of designing a new airplane. Its focus on boosting short-term profits directly contributed to the tragic crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed hundreds.
So what went wrong at Boeing? It was an iconic American company. If you are watching Masters of the Air, the B-17 bombers portrayed in the series that took the war to Germany were Boeing products. So was the B-29 that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the 707 that inaugurated modern jet travel, and the 747 that made it accessible to the masses. And on and on. The story of aviation is largely the story of Boeing.
So, what went wrong? Boeing’s downfall began with its merger with the failing McDonnell Douglas, one forced on it by the US government as part of the 1990s consolidation of the defense industrial base. Boeing was a company run by engineers. McDonnell Douglas was run by financiers. The outcome was tragic, but not surprising. The financiers took over the joint company so completely that there was a bitter joke in the industry that “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.” Then they took the short-term penny-pinching focus that had driven McDonnell Douglas into the ground to Boeing, and got exactly the same outcome. So the US government helped to cause this problem—and it may need to intervene to help solve it.
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At a minimum, though, Boeing would do well to remember that great engineering companies are run by engineers, not financiers. That is: If you’re working at Boeing you should actively be part of building an airplane. I think of former CEO of Boeing Commercial (and later Ford) Alan Mulally and know that nothing we’re seeing at Boeing now would have happened on his watch. But if it had? He'd be on the factory floor, walking around with a wrench. “Show me how you do your job,” he’d say, “so I can figure out what the problem is.”
Where are the engineers? Let them lead.
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