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@MaxBlumenthal
May 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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At this event on the Diaa digital ID app, I asked Ukraine’s ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova about her govt promoting itself as a laboratory for predatory surveillance tech & its maintenance of a kill list that includes my colleagues Anya and @aaronjmate

She walked away
Eurasia Foundation Pamela Spratlen was on stage beside the Chairman of Visa, who celebrated the war as an opportunity to push new means of digital payments on Ukrainians.

I asked her if she she was at all ashamed to promote disaster capitalism.

A USAID guy shoved me away.
The USAID-sponsored, Visa and Google assisted Diaa app not only forces Ukrainian into a digital ID panopticon, it encourages them to snitch on fellow citizens, reporting them as Russian collaborators so they can be arrested and disappeared.
Yale-trained Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine’s ministry of digital transformation was on hand to sell Diia as the future of e-governance.

Fedorov previously oversaw Ukraine’s partnership with FTX, which saw $60 million in “aid” disappear in Kiev. thegrayzone.com/2022/11/15/ftx…Image
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With Zelensky's election in 2019, the Davos-centric Fourth Instrustrial Revolution came to Ukraine.

Here's a video featuring Zelensky as Great Reset salesman shown at the DC roll-out of Diaa (introduced by tech industry PR agent/journalist Kara Swisher)
On hand for the Diia event was celebrity chef Jose Andres, who was clad in a Ukraine military jacket.

Andres’ World Central Kitchen is effectively an arm of USAID that operates in Ukraine while Andres cheers on the war and fronts for any State Dept or WH initiative he can. Image
Visa executive chair Al Kelly explains how his corporation helped Ukraine expand its Diia e-governance app by making it a platform for government "incentive payments for Covid vaccinations"

Was US aid used to bribe Ukrainians to get the jab?

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Feb 22
The suspects behind attacks that helped trigger a national antisemitism freakout in Australia turn out to be apolitical scofflaws who've "never mentioned Israel or Palestine" and "wouldn't have the brains" to plan the attacks on their own
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Aussie politicians painted the discovery of explosives in a caravan as a massive planned antisemitic terror attack

It turns out to have been an an old stolen cache reported by prison inmates seeking a reduced sentence sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/politicia…Image
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Then there was the embarrassingly failed manufacturing of antisemitism by Ofir Birenbaum, a Zionist operative who was escorted by Murdoch media as he attempted to provoke staff at Cairo Cafe in Sydney
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Jan 14
Tony Blinken has already sustained two long interruptions during his closing Atlantic Council speech touting his own Middle East accomplishments: “Your legacy is genocide!” one protester shouted, causing Blinken to pause for over a minute.

This is the scene outside.
Blinken’s speech is a narcissistic Zionist rant, blaming Hamas for “hiding behind civilians” and refusing to “put down its arms” and end its struggle. It is a call for total Palestinian subjugation and ultimately an effort to polish his own bloodstained record. He urges empathy for Israelis, while painting Palestinians as a historic roadblock to US regional ambitions. Painting himself as a moderate caught between extremes, he openly wonders if he applied too much pressure on Israel to show restraint. A disgraceful curtain call evidencing a lack of self awareness capped with an empty call for peace.
Protester to Blinken: “Your policy for the Middle East - kill, kill, kill, and kill, just like the Israelis say!”
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Dec 12, 2024
This is an obviously staged and fake scene by one of the biggest regime change frauds in corporate media. This prison had already been cleared out by HTS goon squads days earlier, then civilians scoured its cells for relatives. But somehow Clarissa Ward, the news actress who once faked being under direct fire by Hamas, and who has spent over a decade shamelessly propagandizing for the jihadists now executing minorities in Latakia, just happened upon the last prisoner slumbering under a blanket. This scam scenario reminds me of the time Ward's colleague, Arwa Damon, determined that Assad used chemical weapons by sniffing a child's backpack, and of the countless blatant deceptions deployed by the Syrian opposition on its way toward become the new gangster government. Journalist flim-flam like not only exposes the absence of editorial standards at CNN, it raises questions about the credibility of Ward's past pieces trumping up regime change in other countries targeted by US and UK intelligence.Image
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CNN’s @clarissaward testified at the UN in 2017 as a guest of the US govt to clamor for regime change in Syria

There, she described “Islamist factions” like Jolani’s Al-Nusra as “heroes on the ground”
Great 🧵on CNN's shamelessly staged atrocity propaganda scene
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Nov 8, 2024
Here are the Israeli Nazis chanting for the slaughter of Arab children after tearing down Palestinian flags and refusing to honor the moment of silence for Valencia

Sounds like some locals got fed up with these demons and decided to take out the trash
Many videos going around of Israeli soccer goons vandalizing property in Amsterdam, attacking cops and bystanders, and ripping down Palestinian flags. Now this fascist infestation is playing the victim and waiting for airlifts back to the colonies.
Absolute trash. It sickens me that propagandists are conflating these colonial demons with the entire Jewish world.
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Sep 16, 2024
Would-be Trump shooter Ryan Routh has published a 291 page book, “Unwinnable War,” about his time in Ukraine’s Int’l Legion

Routh says he’d like to see Putin assassinated, seems to hope for Trump’s assassination as well, and calls for the US to “instigate” a nuclear war with Russia

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Ryan Routh calls for the assassination of Putin and Lukashenko of Belarus, arguing that their killing would bring on the demise of the Russian’s state’s viability as an independent power, as no one can succeed Putin


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Routh urges the West to “instigate” a nuclear conflict with Russia and “strike first.” He wants a “quick and decisive and powerful blow to end it once and for all,” as the US did at the end of WWII.
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Mar 4, 2024
Today, Pramila Patten will launder the “Hamas mass rape” hoax through the UN

Patten was hosted and coached by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and Yossi Landau, the infamous ZAKA liar who fabricated tales of a fetus cut from a pregnant woman, beheaded babies and more

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According to ZAKA, Patten’s visit was the result of Israel lobby pressure on the UN

Her tour was overseen by ZAKA and Landau, notorious fabulists who gifted her with a “Never Again” plaque which she wore around her neck
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In 2022, Patten falsely claimed Russia was giving Viagra to its soldiers to rape Ukrainian women

She later fell for a prank call during which she admitted she had no evidence for the claim, and was a dupe for Ukrainian propaganda
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