@15poundstogo@themarketswork at Dec 6, 2015 meeting was Cristin Goodwin (once again) plus Christopher Betz, then at Microsoft cybersecuriy, wired.com/2016/05/romani…,
later in 2018 at CenturyLink (which then offered DNS data to GaTech) and which, as Lumen, has disconnected Russia
One can almost see a pattern emerging on visitors accompanying Christopher Krebs to WH meetings hosted by Brianne Law.
@15poundstogo@themarketswork in Georgia Tech emails, there is an interesting connection in late July 29, 2019 between senior executives in Microsoft "Azure Government" program, Ga Tech and Joffe's Packet Forensics. Intro made by McCainite Kirk McConnell of Senate Armed Services, a player in Alfa Bank hoax
@15poundstogo@themarketswork Microsoft execs in correspondence are: Lily Kim, Ashfia Rahman, William Chappell, Christian Cook - all senior executives.
From 2011-2019, Christian Cook has been Deputy Staff Director of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, more or less ground zero of Russiagate hoax.
@15poundstogo@themarketswork from Lily Kim (Microsoft)'s cv: she is responsible for Microsoft's global Azure Government program. The other Microsft executives visiting Georgia Tech program were also in Azure Government division.
Which has an interesting possible connection to events of interest.
@15poundstogo@themarketswork in late July 2016, GSA entered into an agreement with Trump campaign to provide secure "architected infrastructure" to Trump campaign and, if successful, to Trump transition
@15poundstogo@themarketswork we also know that Joffe obtained confidential DNS data as a "sub-contractor" in a contract by a vendor to the US government, in particular to the Executive Office of the President, which, under the circumstances, appears to include transition.
@15poundstogo@themarketswork Most plausible scenario right now is that Neustar was providing identify verification services to a (supposedly) secure vendor to the Executive Office of the President (via the GSA), but at present, we don't KNOW who Neustar was subcontracting to. Who was the vendor?
@15poundstogo@themarketswork One guess that I've seen is Verisign, who, like Neustar, are in the identity verification business. But Verisign seems to have been a competitor to Neustar, not a customer.
@15poundstogo@themarketswork My hypothesis (and it's more of a dig-here): that Joffe got his data pertaining to Executive Office of the President from Neustar's subcontract to Microsoft Azure Government.
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in early 1990s, component republics of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia etc) declared independence and soon recognized by western nations, but separations of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk have been denounced by west. Is there a principled difference? Or merely partisanship?
I've done some preliminary googling and encountered a seemingly astonishing response to Donetsk/Lugansk by the recently separatist Balkan republics.
aa.com.tr/en/europe/west… the various Balkan republics, each of whom unilaterally declared independence from Yugoslavia, denounce corresponding declarations by Donetsk and Lugansk as "violation of international law"
@ProfMJCleveland@Pimpernell13@15poundstogo@themarketswork If Joffe's stories were based on data acquired by Neustar as subcontractor to Azure Government under strict confidentiality, seems to me that his claims that he was legally entitled to tell stories to FBI, CIA, OIG, Senate Armed Services, NYT, Mother Jones, etc are questionable
@ProfMJCleveland@Pimpernell13@15poundstogo@themarketswork second, without knowing identity of vendor, it's hard to know what issues arose. For example, identification of Danchenko (or Joffe) raised all sorts of questions and issues that couldnt be even thought of until they were identified.
@ErrataRob Here's a comment from a 2007 review of DoD program doi.org/10.17226/12005, indicating that DoD piggybacked research into bioweapon pathogens into reluctant nations by tying funding to local disease research with bioweapon research
@ErrataRob 2/ clearly there are biolabs with non-sinister purposes. But wouldn't one ordinarily expect biolabs associated with disease control to be funded or supported through WHO or CDC or that type of organization, not DoD? So why the huge DoD role in Ukraine biolabs?
@ErrataRob 3/ Same report said that one important reason for US involvement in biolabs was to enable US DoD to directly obtain pathogen strains without having to submit to external scrutiny or "questions" that would "unnecessarily delay transfer". Maybe those questions should be asked
everyone in west seems convinced that sanctions are going to cripple Russia and that war effort is being financed by exports. But in late 2021, Russia was running a very large current surplus of $27 billion/month with exports nearly double imports ($57 billion vs $30 billion)
in 2020 (and it will be significantly different in 2021), approximately half Russia's imports came from China and Belarus. I expect that most of the $2B/month of imports from Germany and $1B/month from US could be easily replaced from China.
in contrast, US is running a current account deficit of $80 billion per month and has international debt of $22.8 trillion (Russia: $0.48 trillion).
hromadske.tv , the purveyor of this hateful rant from Ukrainian journalist Bogdan Butkevich about Donbass residents, was supported by US Embassy, governments of Netherlands, Canada and by George Soros.
Butkevich said that Donbass was "severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for" and that out of 4 million inhabitants in Donetask oblast, "at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous"
Butkevich said "Donbass must be exploited as a resource". He did not claim to have a final solution ("quick solution recipe"), but said "the most important thing that must be done- no matter how cruel it may sound – there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED"
Biden and US seemed more concerned with throwing their weight around than listening to long-standing concerns. But in addition, read Reagan era ambassador Jack Matlock's words - somebody who was at the table for big events. US alliance with Ukraine makes war more, not less likely
Kyiv regime has been at war with Russian-speaking separatists for eight years and has killed thousands of them. It was, and is, madness for Western countries to allow Kyiv regime to be tail that wags dog in potentially catastrophic war-peace decisions betwe US and Russia.
if Kyiv regime had been cut loose years ago, they would have been forced to make practical accommodations and none of this would have happened.