NATO ACTIVATION
February 26th, 2022Now we hold our collective breath and hope that nobody messes with GPS and/or GLONASS systems.
Increasingly, it seems like Ernst Blofeld and SPECTRE are running this show.
Via: Time:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has for the first time activated a military response force designed to boost the defenses of frontline nations in eastern Europe that feel vulnerable after Russia’s military assault on Ukraine.
Gen. Tod Wolters, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander and the top U.S. military officer in Europe, said the multinational force consisting of land, air, sea and special operations troops intended to deter Russia from further aggression.
“This is an historic moment,” Wolters said in a statement. “These deterrence measures are prudent and enhance our speed, responsiveness and capability to shield and protect the one billion citizens we swore to protect.”
The first-time activation of thousands of NATO troops in Europe represents the latest escalation in a volatile ground war that has no modern precedent. In recent months, U.S. and European allies have increased air-policing missions over allied nations and moved troops, naval ships and heavy weaponry eastward on the continent, near where the Russian military is operating.
Ukraine is not a NATO member, but it borders four nations that are: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. The U.S. and other NATO allies have pledged to protect their eastern and central European members under the alliance’s defining Article 5 mutual defense commitments.
Germany: Large Arms Shipment to Ukraine
February 26th, 2022I wonder what the plan is for keeping track of those Stinger missiles…
Is there a plan?
Via: ABC:
In a significant shift, the German government said Saturday it will send weapons and other supplies directly to Ukraine, which is fighting to keep Russia from invading its capital city. Germany is also ready to also support some restrictions of the SWIFT global banking system for Russia, officials said.
Germany’s chancellery announced Saturday evening that it will send 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 “Stinger” surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine “as quickly as possible.”
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a turning point. It threatens our entire post-war order,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a statement. “In this situation, it is our duty to help Ukraine, to the best of our ability, to defend itself against Vladimir Putin’s invading army.”
Chernobyl: Hostage Situation [???]
February 26th, 2022Update: Russia Reportedly Takes Hostages at Chernobyl Nuclear Site
Via: News:
Ninety-two members of the Chernobyl power plant operational personnel were being held hostage, the Ukrainian ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova said during a press conference in Washington, D.C.
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According to Jen…
Via: Fox:
Staffers at the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear site in northern Ukraine were being held “hostage” by invading Russian soldiers, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday.
“We are outraged by credible reports that Russian soldiers are currently holding the staff of the Chernobyl facilities hostage,” Psaki said, according to Britain’s BBC.
“This unlawful and dangerous hostage-taking, which could upend the routine civil service efforts required to maintain and protect the nuclear waste facilities, is obviously incredibly alarming and gravely concerning,” Psaki continued.
Musk Activates Starlink Internet Service in Ukraine
February 26th, 2022Cryptogon 2019: Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology:
If you’re like me, you’ve been wondering: What is Starlink’s actual purpose?
I didn’t entirely believe the prosaic narrative about better rural broadband Internet and a funding source for Elon Musk’s Mars aspirations, etc. Well, it might be about those things at some level, but the massive scale of the project and the rapid approval by the U.S. Government made me think that there had to be some sort of national security element in play.
Flash forward to today: Musk Activates Starlink Internet Service in Ukraine:
Elon Musk said Saturday his company SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service had been activated in Ukraine, after a Kyiv official urged the tech titan to provide his embattled country with stations.
“Starlink service is now active in Ukraine,” Musk tweeted, adding “more terminals en route.”
The tweet came some 10 hours after Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov urged Musk to provide Starlink services to Ukraine, days after it was invaded by neighboring Russia.
I have no doubt that this is part of a U.S. coordinated effort to ensure that the Ukrainian government maintains command and control and PSYOP capabilities. While the U.S. could use classified systems to deliver realtime battlefield intelligence to the Ukrainians, my guess is that Starlink will enable wider distribution of it, especially to irregular forces who will, as if my magic, find that they will have Internet access again on their phones.
Also, how will the Starlink systems be delivered in Ukraine, a country in which the largest war in Europe since World World War II is currently underway? My guess is that they will be included alongside the hundreds of tons of weapons that are being sent to the Ukrainians from NATO.
Ukraine Says Russian Forces Blew Up Gas Pipeline in Kharkiv
February 26th, 2022If you live in continental Europe, you might want to make sure you have some extra sweaters and jackets on hand.
Via: CBC:
Zelensky’s office also said Russian forces blew up a gas pipeline in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
US, EU, UK to Sanction Russian Central Bank, Block SWIFT
February 26th, 2022Via: AP:
The United States, European Union and United Kingdom on Saturday agreed to put in place crippling sanctions on the Russian financial sector, including a block on its access to the global financial system and, for the first time, restrictions on its central bank in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine.
Drug Distributors, J&J Agree to Finalize $26 Billion Opioid Settlement
February 25th, 2022Via: Reuters:
The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson have agreed to finalize a proposed $26 billion settlement resolving claims by states and local governments that they helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic.
U.S. Considering Large Scale Use of Offensive Cyberweapons Against Russia
February 25th, 2022This is from an email I wrote to a friend a couple of weeks ago. After mentioning some aspects of the COVID scam, I wrote:
The whole thing lurches from one giant scam to the next. I just hope the next one doesn’t involve mushroom clouds.
Flash forward to today.
I haven’t been posting much, because I’m sitting here bugeyed and transfixed by what’s happening. As I watch video of Hind Mi-24 gunships swooping over the Ukrainian countryside, I would encourage anyone reading this from .gov and .mil domains to keep one thing in mind when it comes to cyber: What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
No country is more vulnerable to cyber than the United States.
Cyber can get very dangerous. Besides effects that can rival kinetic attacks, cyber runs the risk of increasing, “The fog of war.” Increasing the fog of war between nuclear armed belligerents… could be bad.
Via: NBC:
President Joe Biden has been presented with a menu of options for the U.S. to carry out massive cyberattacks designed to disrupt Russia’s ability to sustain its military operations in Ukraine, four people familiar with the deliberations tell NBC News.
Two U.S. intelligence officials, one Western intelligence official and another person briefed on the matter say no final decisions have been made, but they say U.S. intelligence and military cyber warriors are proposing the use of American cyberweapons on a scale never before contemplated. Among the options: disrupting internet connectivity across Russia, shutting off electric power, and tampering with railroad switches to hamper Russia’s ability to resupply its forces, three of the sources said.
New Zealand: Vaccine Mandate for Police and Defence Force Employees Overturned
February 24th, 2022Via: NewstalkZB:
A High Court challenge questioning the legality of Covid-19 vaccination mandates for Police and Defence Force employees has been upheld, with the court determining that requiring frontline employees to be jabbed is a breach of the Bill of Rights.
Russian and Ukrainian Forces Fighting Near Destroyed Chernobyl Nuclear Plant [???]
February 24th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge:
The potential is rising for greater fallout from the war across Europe, as intense fighting is being reported centered in the Chernobyl area. Ukrainian authorities are sounding the alarm over potentially disastrous scenarios which could ensue in areas of the Chernobyl containment zone, which includes an expansive region surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant where radioactive contamination is highest, since the April 1986 disaster. Russian troops are reportedly entering the area from Belarus, according to Interfax:
Advisor to Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko said that Russian troops from the territory of Belarus entered the zone of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP).
Gerashchenko stressed that “if a nuclear waste storage facility is destroyed as a result of enemy artillery strikes, then radioactive dust can cover the territories of Ukraine, Belarus and the EU countries!”
