Odessa, the City of Catherine
16 Dec 2023
Ukrainian workers dismantle the “Monument to Empress Catherine II of Russia and her companions” in Ekaterininskaya Square, Odessa, on December 28, 2022.
They came in the middle of the night, a handful of municipal employees manning a crane which they used to dismantle the bronze statue of Empress Catherine II, known as “Catherine the Great.” The statue was part of an assembly of bronze figures collectively known as the “Monument of the Founders of Odessa.” One of these figures was of José de Ribas, a Spanish naval officer who joined the Russian Imperial Army in 1772, leading it to victory against the Ottoman forces. Ribas led the assault that captured the territory which would be, in 1794, under an imperial edict issued by Catherine, Odessa. Ribas was the first administrator of the city. Another figure depicted François Sainte de Wollant, a Flemish engineer who was the first architect of Odessa. Platon Zubov was a Russian nobleman and believed to be Catherine’s closest advisor (and secret lover), while Grigory Potemkin, another Russian nobleman, was Catherine’s most influential advisor (and secret lover), who was the first Governor of the territories of New Russia, including Odessa, that were captured from the Ottomans.
These figures were all removed, and placed in storage, as part of an effort overseen by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “de-Russify” Ukraine by eliminating all symbols of Ukraine’s Russian heritage.
Zelensky’s efforts, however, have not dampened Russia’s emotional and historic ties to Odessa. This point was driven home by Russian President Vladmir Putin during his annual end of the year question and answer event on December 14. “I have always said and as I am saying today,” Putin declared, “that despite the current tragic developments, Russians and Ukrainians are essentially one people.”
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Putin likened the current conflict to a “civil war” between two fraternal peoples. But he made clear that parts of Ukraine were more Russian than Ukrainian. “The southeastern part of Ukraine has always been pro-Russian because it is historically a Russian territory,” Putin said. “Neither Crimea nor the Black Sea region has any connection to Ukraine,” he continued, before concluding, “Odessa is a Russian city. We know this. Everyone knows this.”
The original Monument to Empress Catherine II of Russia and her companions was built in 1900, the belated byproduct of patriotic fervor that had gripped Odessa in 1894—Odessa’s centennial. It was toppled by the Bolsheviks in 1920, with Catherine’s bust dismantled, and the statues of the four founders removed to a warehouse. In 2007 a pro-Russian member of the Odessa City Council, Ruslan Tarpan, raised funds to restore the monument of Catherine and her four subjects. On October 27, 2007, the new monument was unveiled in a lavish ceremony that featured fireworks and a philharmonic orchestra.
But not everyone was thrilled with the idea of celebrating a Russian Empress; then-President Viktor Yushchenko, who had elevated the pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalist leader, Stepan Bandera, to “hero” status in Ukraine, condemned the monument, and police had to be called in to separate those who participated in the unveiling ceremony from crowds of Ukrainian nationalists who had traveled to Odessa to disrupt the proceedings.
These Ukrainian nationalists eventually succeeded in forcing Tarpon to flee to exile in the United Emirates to escape charges of embezzlement; these same nationalists later flocked to Odessa in May 2014, where they set fire to a building where pro-Russian demonstrators had gathered, leading to the deaths of 48 persons. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 provided the final impetus for the Ukrainian nationalists to remove the monument.
The marble plinth that held the monument is now empty, save for a Ukrainian flag. Despite the passage of a law by President Zelensky in April 2023 forbidding Russian names to be used for public places, the square that was home to the monument is still known as Katerynynska Square. Nearby are the Potemkin Steps, made famous in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 classic silent movie, Battleship Potemkin, which tells the story of the revolt of the sailors of that warship during the 1905 Revolution.
While the Soviet authorities sought to depict Odessa first as a revolutionary city, and later as a “Hero City” (the city was besieged by German and Romanian forces from August-October 1941, before falling), the reality of Odessa was perhaps most closely captured by the Jewish-Russian writer, Isaak Babel, who, in his Odessa Tales, depicts a city defined by hedonism and lawlessness. Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet, spent 13 months in exile in Odessa; his observations of life in that city, circa 1823-24, is said to have influenced his famous novel, Eugene Onegin. The culture of Odessa, whether told through the eyes of Babel or Pushkin—or any other Russian writer—was defined by its geography, positioned as it was on the Black Sea, serving as the gateway to the Bosphorus and eastern Mediterranean Sea. Odessa was always more Levantine than European in terms of its culture, its port city status linking it to the rich mercantile heritage of the region.
While Ukrainian nationalists emphasize that, based upon the 2001 census, a little over 60% of Odessa’s population of 1.1 million persons identifies as Ukrainian (Russians comprised just under 30%), the reality is that Odessa has always had an air of Russophone cosmopolitanism, with its inhabitants speaking in uniquely accented-Russian. This diversity of cultures grounded in Russian reality is what defines much of the Russian Federation today, a definition that held true during Soviet and Imperial Russian rule as well. The fact that Odessa and the pro-Russian regions of southeastern Ukraine (or New Russia, as it was known during the time of Catherine the Great) fell under Ukrainian rule following the dissolution of the Soviet Union is, as Russian President Putin noted, an accident of history.
It looks as if the “accident” is about to be rectified. Putin’s reference to Odessa as a “Russian city” provides a critical insight into the thinking of the Russian leadership. But this thinking is not shaped by nostalgia alone—the fact that the Ukrainian government has transformed Odessa into a base where NATO, using Ukrainian forces as its proxy, is able to threaten the Black Sea Fleet’s Sevastopol base, sealed Odessa’s fate. Simply put, Russia cannot permit whatever Ukrainian entity that emerges from the current conflict to ever again be able to use Odessa as a sword pressed into Russia’s side.
Odessa will be Russian again. This is a fact driven by geopolitical reality as well as historical precedence. Odessa will be Russian because it always has been Russian. No matter how much Ukrainian nationalism, manifested in the ideology of Stepan Bandera as interpreted by the deeds and actions of Voldymyr Zelensky, seeks to argue otherwise, the simple fact of the matter is that the Banderist ideology of the Zelensky government is completely out of step with the reality of Odessa which, even today, still retains the characteristic rogue charm as described by Babel in the 13 short stories that comprise his Odessa Tales.
Isaac Babel was executed by the NKVD in 1940, his post-revolutionary writing considered counter-revolutionary by Stalin and his ilk. But his words live on in the daily beat of life in a city which came to life under the multi-cultured guidance of Catherine the Great and her four associates—half of whom were not Russian. And let there be no doubt—someday in the not-so-distant future, Catherine’s visage, and those of her four advisors, will once again grace the plinth in the center of Katerynynska square, a Russian leader once again looming large over a Russian city.
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Pro-Putin extremists in Congress want to see Russia win.
Unacceptable.
America’s national security interests in Ukraine must prevail.
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
What are our national security interests in Ukraine?
Inquiring minds want to know…
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60,000 Americans live in illegal settlements, built on land stolen from Palestinians; another 100,000 are living in stolen homes in Jerusalem
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How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian lands
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Remember this moment. This is when the European Union was destroyed over Ukraine, a non-EU state. Nations agreed to join the EU on the promise of unanimity for all major decisions. This promise is now being broken. It’s the end of the European Union.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736054748028244220
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Why did not nobody within the Western ruling political class listen to this man? -John Mearsheimer
#Ukraine️ #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussianWar #Ukrainekrieg #UkraineWar #ukrainecounteroffensive #Ukrainien #Ukraina #UkraineFrontLines
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736024591280341240
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A headline you will never read in the MSM: the G7 is actively exploring ways to seize Israeli assets to fund Gaza.
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848
YOU ARE THE “EMERGENCY SITUATION”! – German Parliament member Sahra Wagenknecht rips egghead Scholz a new one in video above, joining voices speaking against EU’s accession negotiations with Kiev, blasting dictatorial government’s suicidal support of corrupt Ukraine that will cost taxpayers billions.
Wagenknecht’s petition in February calling for peace with Russia and blocking arms deliveries to Ukraine collected 700,000 signatures in 20 days.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736017499756298694
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Japanese Researchers Uncover Conclusive Proof That All COVID Variants Originated from Human-Made Sources
A stunning Japanese study that has evolved from preprint to peer-reviewed publication suggests that all COVID-19 variants were engineered in biolabs and intentionally released upon humanity.
First released in August 2023, the study, conducted by renowned Japanese virologists Professors Atsushi Tanaka and Takayuki Miyazawa of Osaka Medical University and Kyoto University, affirms that the push to keep COVID around is part of a nefarious deep state scheme to remove our individual freedoms and control us.
If true then there can be no other conclusion that Globalists who have talked for many decades about Eugenics have indeed declared war upon the rest of humanity with a massive depopulation agenda.
#Pfizer #Moderna #mRNA #ExcessDeaths #DiedSuddenly #suddendeaths #VaccineInjuries #DepopulationAgenda #WEF #WEF2030Agenda 
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“NATO support for the Kiev regime will only lead to hundreds of thousands of people being sacrificed in a war led by Washington” -Robert Fico, Prime Minister Slovakia
#Ukraine️ #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussianWar #Ukrainekrieg #UkraineWar #ukrainecounteroffensive
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736023627055951955
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REVEALED: Trudeau government paid Twitter ‘influencers’ to promote Covid vaccines
The Trudeau government has paid out $682,000 to “influencers” on Twitter, now known as X, since 2021 to try to convince Canadians to take the Covid-19 vaccine and embrace Liberal policies.
According to Blacklock’s Report, Health Canada has been a major contributor to this stealth paid advertising campaign.
The campaign description states that it is an “Influencer campaign to help people in Canada make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines.”
“Expenditures relate to work by the agency including planning, material development, influencer outreach and liaison, updates, content monitoring, evaluation, and as management of payments to influencers.”
#VaccineInjuries #mRNA #Myocarditus #SpikeProteins #SuddenDeaths #DiedSuddenly #DepopulationAgenda #WEF #WEF2030Agenda #Trudeau
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Lukashenko discloses details of his discussion with Zelensky…..
#UkraineWar #Ukraine️ #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussianWar #Ukrainekrieg #ukrainecounteroffensive #Ukrainien
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1735945030790246613
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Ukrainians continue kidnapping their brothers to go fight in the other Western-backed killing fields…..
As Lindsay Graham said, “To the last Ukrainian.”
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736172443847561433
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Steven Cotterill@socialiststeve6
What do you call a nation that sends over $100,000,000,000 to Ukraine, while simultaneously ignoring the plight of its own unemployed, underemployed, working poor, homeless, incarcerated, elderly, disenfranchised, and most destitute?
A failed state.
The U.S. is a failed state.
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So will Russia “attack NATO,” as Biden fears?
Putin’s answer: “This is complete nonsense. I think that President Biden understands this. He says this in order to justify his erroneous policy towards Russia. It is erroneous, because I don’t think that the United States is interested, as they thought 20 years ago and as they are publicly declaring now that they are “inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.” I don’t think that this is in the national interests of the United States itself. This is the first. Second, the president of any major country, a NATO country, is the “master of NATO,” and the United States is the master of NATO , this is their “backyard”, everything is NATO, he cannot help but understand that Russia has no reason, no interest – no geopolitical interest, no economic, no political, no military, to fight with NATO countries. We have no territorial claims against each other, there is no desire to spoil relations with them. We are interested in developing relations. So, they took Finland into NATO. Did we have any disputes with Finland? All disputes, including those of a territorial nature mid-20th century, everything was decided long ago. We had the kindest, most cordial relationship. There were economic relations. There were no problems, now there will be, because now we will create the Leningrad Military District there and concentrate certain military units there. Why did they need this? This is some simple nonsense. It’s the same with other countries, including NATO countries. Who do we have any problems with? Not with anyone. It is they who artificially create problems with us. Because they don’t want to have such a competitor in Russia, that’s all.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736299722728489285
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Putin unveils 10-year infrastructure plan of new railway lines and more connectivity with Asia
By imposing sanctions on Russia, Europe thereby shot itself in both legs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday announced Russia’s ambitious plans for the next decade, focusing on massive infrastructure expansion, particularly in railroad transport. Speaking at a plenary session of Russia’s Railways meeting, Putin noted that the new railway lines including the Arctic and the Pacific ones, will help Russia link its already vast transport infrastructure to major logistics hubs in southern and eastern Eurasia.
Putin also stressed the nation’s commitment to developing economic ties, especially with Asian nations, consisting 70% of trade turnover amid unprecedented sanctions from the West. With a 10% growth in exports to Asia and an over 50% rise to Africa, Russia aims to modernize key railway lines, including the Trans-Siberian railway, and improve port infrastructure in the Azov, Black, and Caspian Seas.
Expanding the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is under discussion to link Murmansk and Mumbai for faster cargo transit. The Russian leader also mentions about creating an additional railway network in Russia’s far eastern regions, relieving the Trans-Siberian railroad and establishing a major logistical hub in the Urals and Siberia.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736187841141510576
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848
75% of Internet users in Ukraine followed Putin’s direct line.
The Gallup Research Institute has published data on the results of December 14. It turned out that about 75 percent of Ukrainians with Internet access watched Putin’s live line with the help of various VPN services.
The viewing depth amounted to a record for Ukraine – 50%.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736123457333543418
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How many people knew THIS about UKRAINE?
Russia is the biggest experter of Crude Petroleum
China is the biggest exporter of Manufactured Goods
USA is the biggest exporter of Refined Petroleum
AND
Ukraine is the biggest exporter of…guess what? ZELENSKY’S SPEECHES. 
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Vladimir Putin in interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin:
Putin admitted that naivety was inherent in him despite his work in intelligence and government positions;
He added that in the 2000s, he had naive ideas about the West;
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Putin said that he blamed the inertia of the West’s thinking for its tendency to confront Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union; The West believes that such a big Russia is not needed and wants to divide and subjugate it;
Putin called the claim that Russia might attack NATO “complete nonsense” and that Biden’s remarks about it were a figure of speech; Russia is interested in developing relations with NATO countries;
Russia has neither territorial claims nor any other interest in going to war with NATO
countries; Russia had great relations with Finland, and now it will have to concentrate military units in the Leningrad Military District;
The US will have to take Russia into consideration and find common ground
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Transkipzioa:
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three episode 89 of asked the inspector
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the lightning round today Scott answers
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all questions in three minutes or less
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and uh we just published a new post on
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substack about the Gonzalo L situation
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I’ll let you uh talk about it the only
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thing I want to say is that I’m amazed
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by your allies being so dismissive and
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and and they’re so tur about it when you
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have made such a tremendous effort to
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explain yourself including a three-hour
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Twitter spaces at least a half an hour
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here with me and now your most extensive
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article yet so maybe they’ll at least
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acknowledge that you’ve given an
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explanation that they could possibly uh
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address we’ll
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see you know I’m I’m at the point where
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I you can lead a horse to water but you
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can’t make him drink um but with all due
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respect to everybody and I mean
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everybody and I’m talking about you
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Larry Johnson I’m talking about you
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Brian berck I’m talking about the Duran
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people that you know I like I think
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they’re they’re nice people I don’t know
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Brian so I can’t say I like Brian
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because I’ve never met him that would be
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disingenuous but I like the Durant I
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like Larry Johnson but um back the [ __ ]
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off and there I am using the fword you
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guys don’t know what the hell you’re
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talking about let’s put it in proper
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perspective please we’re at War okay you
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may not think you’re at War but we’re at
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War because the other side you know
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those guys that we always criticize the
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ukrainians the Nazis the sbu all these
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bad guys they’re real it isn’t a figment
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of your [ __ ] imagination they put out
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a Hit List called the Mir for its hit
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list I’m on it some of you might be on
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it it’s not a [ __ ] joke they kill
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people okay they have an organization
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called the center for countering
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disinformation you know what they do for
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a living information Warfare against you
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whether you want it or not whether you
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think you’re the bad guy or the enemy or
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combatant or not they view you as the
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enemy they call you an information
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terrorist I’ve seen a lot of people
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going that’s a ridiculous concept I’m
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not debating the point but what I’m
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trying to tell you is they view you as
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an information terrorist and from their
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perspective that means you’re a
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terrorist with all that that attends
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that means you can be killed that means
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you’re a combatant an enemy combatant
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you don’t have any rights we’re at War
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wake the [ __ ] up guys you’re out there
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pretending that this is some sort of
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debating Club it’s not it’s not a game
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it’s real they will kill you they have
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already killed people they’re G to kill
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more people they’ve tried to kill people
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it’s not a game so for you to sit there
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in your little cloud and pretend that
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what happened to Gonzalo lra is just a
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[ __ ] sense of coincidence man oh yeah
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he was arrested by the sbu the sbu the
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people who made the Meritor Hit List to
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kill people by the way Galer was on that
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list
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why is he still alive if he was in sbu
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custody question number one answer that
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one you can’t he was arrested for what
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for carrying out actions that the
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Ukrainian government deemed to be
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information terrorism which they likened
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to terrorism he’s a [ __ ] terrorist in
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the custody of the sbu who kills people
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like him but they released him five days
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later yeah they took his computers they
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took his phones but they let him get
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another computer and hop right back on
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the internet to do the exact same
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information
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terrorism and nobody asked a [ __ ]
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question how stupid can you be we’re at
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War people this isn’t a game the sbu
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flipped him it’s called a police
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confidential informant hey Larry Johnson
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[ __ ] off you and your CIA guy what a
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disingenuous answer that was really no
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one talked about the CIA recruiting an
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American citizen you made that [ __ ] up I
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never once brought it up but you know
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goddamn well what the CIA does
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especially when they’re dealing with
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people that cause paperwork you silly
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stupid person that was disingenuous
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Larry you know what the CIA does when
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they have a problematic Source like that
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they get a friendly service to flip them
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for them yeah Larry you know it I know
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it because we’ve done it I don’t know if
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you’ve done it I’ve done it flip them
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let the other service run it then you
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reap the benefits of their job they have
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the paperwork you don’t have the
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paperwork God Almighty but to pretend
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and this is what bothers me Larry
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Johnson went out of his way to try and
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denigrate then when he knows better he
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knows goddamn well that they flip people
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like Gonzalo Larry all Lura all the time
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for what purpose intelligence collection
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human intelligence to get a man on the
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inside cops do it every single day in
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America they do it around the world
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intelligence services do it all the time
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and yet suddenly boom it can’t be done
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to Gonzalo L because you [ __ ] like
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him God how stupid can you be we’re at
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War people this is a real war the
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ukrainians view this as a matter of life
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and death they’re not [ __ ] around
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Gonzalo L was flipped and everybody goes
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well uh I was on his round
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table there was a great conversation I
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don’t understand the intelligence value
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then you don’t understand intelligence I
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laid it out for you in the article read
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it understand that the very process of
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carrying out the round table gives
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invaluable Insight on the part of
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Gonzalo L’s handlers into the behavioral
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psychology of everybody involved we’re
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War people they actually have teams of
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people that evaluate the behavioral
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psychology to find and find points of
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tension to break teams up to
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artificially create teams who led those
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round tables I spent a lot of time
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watching them man a lot of time uh
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Gonzalo lero LED them he was like a
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conductor in the orchestra and you
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became a goddamn member of the orchestra
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hey Larry play the fiddle a little bit
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more hey the Duran bring up the trauma
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bones Brian bring in the base that was L
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boom boom boom boom I watched it he
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manipulated you he controlled the entire
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tone tener content he got you to commit
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to [ __ ] you may not have committed to
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any other time he was in charge and you
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think he wrote the goddamn script NOP
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sbu wrote it he was working for them
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collecting behavioral now people say to
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what end well again if you read the
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article you’ll see that they do these
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things called events it’s event driven
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they want an event let me tell you what
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event they just got
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they got me calling Larry Johnson a man
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I like and I respect a dumb [ __ ] on a
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podcast that’s what they got okay they
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they got Mr Ritter Mr pav L’s dog they
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rang the bell and I jumped for it
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because they know who I am they know how
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to tweak me up they know who you are
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they watched you on the on the round
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table they watched you cave in lra to
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crawl to the throne of Gonzalo lra and
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bow before the king of [ __ ] and then
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they knew that they could tweak this
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thing up and get this fight going at
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least I have the balls to sit there and
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call it what it is at least I have the
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honesty to say this is what’s happening
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all right none of you do we’re at war
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gonzal lra is a conspirator he’s a he’s
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he’s a collaborator you know what they
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do to collaborators in the old days pop
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I’m not asking for that but I’m saying
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that’s what he is he’s not your [ __ ]
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friend he’s a man who caved into the
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enemy was doing their bidding because
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they’re at war against you and they want
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to kill you they want to disrupt you
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they want to deny service they want to
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demonetize you they want to do all the
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things that they’re doing on a daily
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basis because they’re at war against you
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against me against everybody and if you
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don’t treat Gonzalo lra as what the
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evidence shows he is a confidential
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informant working for the
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sbu then you’ve lost this war you’ve
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lost this battle and you’re my enemy now
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because I’m at War I’m on a Target list
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I’m not going to sit here and play
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goddamn games anymore if you guys want
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to invite me on your show I’ll come on
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your show if you don’t tough [ __ ] I
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don’t want to be part of it anymore you
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guys have given into to the enemy you’re
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part of the problem you’re not part of
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the solution Gonzalo lra is an sbu
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confidential informant he’s an sbu asset
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do I have proof got a whole bunch of
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circumstantial evidence but you know
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what in times of war and anybody who’s
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been in war and an intelligence War
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Larry come on you know this when the red
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flag goes [ __ ] up you don’t wait for
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proof Pro man this isn’t a court of law
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This Is War there are enough red flags
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here to sail a ship around the
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world and yet you’re not calling what it
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is because you got co-opted you got
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co-opted every single one of you got
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co-opted by Gonzalo
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L I did too prior to his arrest I got
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sucked into the Gonzalo L Aura every was
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like you gotta go on Gonzalo l so I went
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on Gonzalo l then they’re like oh gonzal
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L’s going to make you and break you he
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can do things he’s calling up saying I
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can get you monetized I can do this Mr
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dealmaker come on my show I’m gonna
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introduce you to people make [ __ ] happen
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and I’m sitting there going oh cool I’ve
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never done this internet [ __ ] before
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it’s all a cool ride then he got
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arrested Red Flag I was like something’s
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wrong here then in June he came out with
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his video y’all know what I’m talking
9:20
about don’t trust Scott R anymore Brian
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Berle calls it a tiff I call it a red
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[ __ ] Flag Brian that’s why you were
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an electronic Optics repair man in the
9:28
Marine Corps and I was an intelligence
9:29
officer yeah I’m saying it Brian you can
9:32
do your geopolitical allowances but
9:33
don’t pretend that you know anything
9:35
about intelligence because you don’t not
9:38
one thing and yet you’re out there
9:41
saying I don’t know what I’m talking
9:42
about I’m crazy that’s okay you’re on
9:45
the side that’s going to lose you’re on
9:47
the side that’s been co-opted by the sbu
9:50
you’re on the side that’s going to be
9:51
discredited I’m on the side of at least
9:53
trying to win this is an information War
9:57
this is about right or wrong you know
9:58
the the the consequences of this aren’t
10:00
trivial either you all do know that this
10:03
information war that we’re involved in
10:05
is part of a struggle that includes the
10:06
United States strategic objective of
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defeating the Russians and you know what
10:12
the consequences of Russian being
10:13
defeated are don’t you let me tell you
10:16
nuclear [ __ ] War we all die so wake
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the [ __ ] up start playing the game the
10:22
way it’s supposed to be played by
10:23
knowing what the rules are and the rules
10:25
are when somebody is arrested by thebu
10:28
for a crime that normally gets people
10:29
killed tortured murdered released five
10:32
days later and given access to a
10:33
computer to do the exact goddamn same
10:35
thing stay the [ __ ] away but you all
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went crawling to the round table y all
10:41
went bowing down at the Throne of
10:42
Gonzalo lra and you were all co-opted
10:45
and it shows today by your inability to
10:47
recognize what it reality is to call a
10:50
spade a spade that took more than three
10:52
minutes I deserve to be whipped Plus
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Marina is going to kill me for swearing
10:57
but um I had to I won’t kill you and I
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want to add that uh Brian blocked you on
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Twitter which I think is a real cuck
11:04
move for Marie hey Brian if you’re
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listening [ __ ] [ __ ] block me come on
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man you’re Mr intellectual Mr
11:12
geopolitics you wear go let me say
11:14
something about Larry Johnson too we pre
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or you previously had a disagreement
11:19
with Larry and one of our first episodes
11:21
Larry was our guest and he came on he
11:23
debated you it was very civil and it
11:26
went great not just my opinion I I
11:29
communicated with Larry Afters and he
11:30
agreed it went great he’d love to come
11:33
back so cut to this episode I invited
11:36
him to come on last Friday’s episode to
11:38
debate you on this and he replied in a
11:40
text I’d love to but I have dinner plans
11:44
so then I got back to him twice twice
11:47
looking to find another day in time
11:49
because I took him out his word he said
11:51
he’d Lov to but he’s ignored me since
11:54
then so that’s how much he’d love to now
11:56
watch him in uh what he said in another
11:58
podcast
11:59
case of Gonzalo lra yeah it’s so so
12:05
everybody’s talking about this Scott
12:08
said that he’s a Ukrainian sbu asset
12:12
yeah that’s crazy I so if you’re going
12:16
to be an asset of the
12:19
sbu you’re going to be doing the work
12:21
that’s going to benefit the spu correct
12:25
I don’t get it I mean so what is it I’ve
12:29
I’ve asked people this I’ve yet to get a
12:30
good answer and I hope to ask
12:34
Scott what is it that Gonzalo lra did
12:37
that benefited the spu just name me one
12:40
thing disingenuous is exactly the right
12:43
word for him here he is pretending oh
12:45
he’s so anxious to get this information
12:48
as if you haven’t given a full
12:49
explanation and here I can tell you that
12:52
we’ve tried hard to get him on and he
12:54
won’t come
12:56
so but I just wrote an article lar read
12:58
it
12:59
I spell out in great detail what you
13:02
already claim to know see Larry and I
13:04
have talked about information operations
13:06
before not the context of Gonzalo lra
13:08
but Larry knows what an inform
13:10
information operation is he knows what
13:12
covert human intelligence activity is
13:14
online he knows all this so for him to
13:17
sit there and say I I don’t know what
13:19
they could do either you were never a
13:21
[ __ ] intelligence Officer Larry and
13:23
your whole goddamn resume is a joke or
13:25
you’re being disingenuous because you
13:27
don’t want to hurt your good friend
13:29
Gonzalo Larry’s feelings you know what a
13:30
[ __ ] information operation is Larry
13:33
you know it you know what Behavioral
13:34
Science is Larry you’re in the CIA you
13:37
goddamn well better know it or you’re
13:39
getting seen out and you forgot it I
13:40
don’t mean to be dismissive or rude but
13:42
come on Larry crazy well crazy is you
13:46
pretending that he wasn’t flipped and he
13:48
wasn’t doing stuff you do understand
13:50
that the round table was a petri dish
13:52
for data collection for Behavioral
13:55
scientists you know that Larry don’t you
13:57
because that’s what the [ __ ] C does
13:59
on a daily goddamn basis against Islamic
14:02
State they go in and they co-opt online
14:05
discussion forms to figure out the
14:07
psychological profile of the people
14:10
participating so they can begin to pick
14:12
them off you helped that Larry you were
14:14
part of the experiment and apparently
14:16
experiment worked because apparently you
14:18
don’t have a [ __ ] clue how anything
14:20
works in the intelligence business
14:21
anymore again I apologize I don’t want I
14:23
didn’t want to get angry I sort of
14:25
waited for this thing because I was like
14:27
trying to calm down but man this really
14:29
irritates me because this is war this
14:32
isn’t a game I know and you feel B it
14:34
these are these are guys these are guys
14:36
that you’re previously friendly with and
14:38
it’s it’s it’s a weird
14:40
situation and so I would you still
14:43
welcome Larry coming on or do you think
14:45
that ship has passed no you I’ll tell
14:47
you why because Larry um has done a
14:49
couple interviews and he wrote a couple
14:51
things and um it’s unforgivable I have a
14:54
[ __ ] phone Larry you’ve called me
14:56
before before you go on and commit to
14:58
[ __ ] to call me crazy in public like
15:00
that call me up talk to me ring ring you
15:04
could do that Larry but you didn’t you
15:06
know who did try to call you to get you
15:07
on me call you Jeff tried to call you we
15:11
at least gave you the courtesy of coming
15:13
on and having this thing talked out in
15:15
public before I went out and did this
15:17
but I’m not going to sit here and wait
15:18
all goddamn day long while you sit there
15:21
and drag my name through the mud calling
15:23
me crazy saying I don’t know what I’m
15:25
doing you know I ain’t perfect I make a
15:27
mistake every hour sometimes every
15:28
minute I know that and uh you know
15:31
sometimes my mouth gets ahead of my
15:33
analysis and I have to bring words back
15:36
but I’m pretty goddamn good at what I do
15:38
Larry and what I did professionally was
15:40
Intelligence for a long time at every
15:43
goddamn level and I know what I’m
15:46
talking about here and you know that I
15:47
know what I’m talking about but you
15:49
can’t admit it neither can the others
15:51
because you’ve been co-opted go back and
15:54
look at your goddamn Round Table
15:56
conversations with Gonzalo ler and tell
15:58
me who’s in charge of the narrative is
15:59
that you going on voicing your opinion
16:02
strongly or is that you playing little
16:04
puppy to Gonzalo who’s telling you how
16:06
to tune your fiddle I watched it Larry I
16:09
watched not all of them because there’s
16:11
a whole bunch of them but I watched
16:12
about 20 of them uh over over the course
16:15
of the last couple days just trying to
16:16
get some insight into this because I I
16:19
read the the the the uh gchq training
16:22
document and I’m going man man man look
16:24
at what they’re saying look what they’re
16:26
doing this round table sounds an awful
16:27
lot like what they’re talking about then
16:29
I watched the round table yeah that’s
16:31
exactly what they’re talking about and
16:34
if it isn’t if the FCU wasn’t running it
16:36
they’re still getting everything they
16:38
want but that’s indirect and you can’t
16:40
blame Gonzalo leer for that but again no
16:42
one’s answered the question how did he
16:44
get a goddamn computer and why was he
16:45
allowed to continue to do the [ __ ] that
16:47
got him arrested prior no one’s answered
16:49
that question yet until you answer that
16:51
question he’s a flipped asset you know
16:53
it I know it everybody needs to know
16:57
it
16:59
okay let’s uh go to the what’ you say I
17:03
said I’m sorry that’s all right that’s
17:05
all right nothing to apologize for some
17:07
of the people uh in the comments are
17:09
asking questions to the effect of what
17:11
is he ranting about what is he ranting
17:12
about and um yeah it’s nothing wrong
17:15
with being somebody who’s not aware of
17:17
all this but I think if you go and read
17:19
this new article you’ll understand that
17:21
Scott Ritter extra.com just published
17:25
this morning all right let’s go to the
17:27
questions from our beloved audience and
17:29
if you have a few minutes at the end of
17:31
the show Scott maybe we’ll go overboard
17:32
to make up for our semil loquacious
17:35
opening not semi
17:38
Ultra the first question is from Justin
17:41
who lives on the internet aka the
17:43
worldwide web regarding Brian berc
17:47
blocking you he’s basically doing what
17:50
Gonzalo is doing but in Thailand so it’s
17:53
personal to him he could be in a similar
17:55
situation for speaking out against a
17:57
western puppet government in Thailand so
18:00
I think this is why he took it
18:02
personally and now we start timing three
18:05
minutes this is exactly what I’m talking
18:07
about Justin everything you just said
18:09
there you know how invaluable that
18:11
Insight is to a to an sbu officer to a
18:14
gcq officer to a CIA officer trying to
18:17
develop a psychological profile a
18:18
behavioral profile about Brian and the
18:20
people he interacts with everything you
18:22
g you talk about there are points that
18:25
can be exploited that’s what that’s what
18:27
human intelligence is about the
18:28
collection of data that can then be
18:30
turned around for intelligence benefit
18:32
so you’re making my case thank you very
18:35
much all right that was rather
18:39
succinct uh hang
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How can Jake Sullivan be so wrong? This is the caliber of people surrounding Biden.
Putin has taken 20% of Ukraine. Huge gain. More likely to come – like Odessa
Russia is in no hurry to end the war, since it’s bleeding NATO & humiliating USA
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736201426752380930
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BREAKING:
Slovak Prime Minister Fico in the face of Stoltenberg:
“Washington is waging the war in Ukraine”
“NATO’s support for the Kiev regime will only lead to hundreds of thousands of people being sacrificed in the war waged by Washington.”
Slovak Prime Minister Fico was very honest at the joint press conference with Stoltenberg, where he stated that he and the NATO Secretary General take diametrically different positions on Ukraine.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1736388739490799957
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China agrees with Putin that “NATO is creeping into Asia.”
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
NATO’s eastward march into the Asia-Pacific region contradicts the alliance’s positioning as a regional defense military organization.
These actions will only lead to confrontation between camps in Asia and undermine regional peace and stability.
China-Russia relations are based on the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties. The relationship goes beyond the model of a military-political alliance from the “Cold War” era, differing fundamentally from NATO’s “small circle” and bloc confrontation.
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ASSAD:
“Most people are unaware that the rise of the Nazis between WWI and WWII was supported by the Americans… many believe the West triumphed over the Nazis in the Normandy landings, but few know that Hitler’s defeat began in 1941 at the walls of Moscow.
The Western powers, especially the US, did not take any action against the Nazis at that time. Stalin urged America to intervene, but it refused.
America wanted the Nazis and the Communists to destroy each other so that it could control Europe after both sides were weakened… the famous Nuremberg Trials were held for Nazi leaders who refused to collaborate with America. Those who cooperated lived honorably in America.”
