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How Is Patrick Lancaster The Only Western Reporter on The Ground In Donetsk Yet Every "Journalist" Appears To Know The Truth?
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How Is Patrick Lancaster The Only Western Reporter on The Ground In Donetsk Yet Every "Journalist" Appears To Know The Truth?

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Celia Farber
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Patrick Lancaster truly appears to be the only western reporter on the ground in Donetsk, talking to people, finding out why men in their late 60s are enlisting, to “defend their fatherland,” against (their words) “Ukrainian fascists,” and put an end to an 8 year war Americans don’t know about. Amazing. He’s been reporting on War in Dombass war since the very beginning eight years ago. The story he is telling is not something we see reflected in the mass media. This morning I took this photo of the cover of the NY Post. It’s propaganda at its finest, and I felt punched in the face.

Mark Crispin Miller has spoken of propaganda as being designed to make you so angry you can’t see or hear anymore. (Maybe that last part is my embellishment.) But certainly, it plays on human outrage, and utter elimination of nuance and complexity. Human voices are of no interest to the propagandist.

I looked at the image and wished somebody would tell me: Who is this? What happened to her? Where? When? Who placed gauze on her head? Did she get medical attention, beyond this? And so forth. Norman Podhoretz? Seriously, in New York City, we can’t find a Ukrainian or a Russian to weigh in, rather than a random American neo-con?

One thing that is very clear is that Russians are the bad guys, Ukrainians the good guys. We’re sticking to our story. What takes my breath away is how these mass persuasions are directly downloaded into the “minds” of millions of people, within minutes of the breaking of a huge story none of us ever paid attention to, in this case, the eight year war in Bombass, between Ukraine, Russia, NATO, and EU. I saw right away on FB that old friends in Sweden had changed their FB photo to a Ukrainian flag. They were “standing with Ukraine,” in solidarity.

Fine. But did they study anything, before they came to this position?
No. It was just the right position, and everybody, somehow, knew.



“I met my wife here. I know exactly what the people want and wanted.”

”Indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas.”

”So many people were killed and put in mass graves.”

”…They felt their Ukraine was gone.”

”That’s why they voted to break away. They were Russian.”

The biggest hope is that Donestk and Luhansk will become part of Russia.”

—Patrick Lancaster


Meanwhile, is this appropriate?

Twitter avatar for @CityOfNFallsNYCity of Niagara Falls, USA- Mayor's Office @CityOfNFallsNY
#NiagaraFalls will be lit this weekend in support of #Ukraine From 9:00pm until 10:00pm each night, blue and yellow colors will be shown.
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February 25th 2022

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How did they get all those blue and yellow lights coordinated and in place, so fast?

Twitter avatar for @peterrobbo17Peter Robinson CMgr FCMI MSyl @peterrobbo17
St George’s Hall in Liverpool tonight #Ukraine #Solidarity
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February 25th 2022

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“Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.”

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Mark Crispin Miller
Writes News from Underground by Mark C… Feb 25Liked by Celia Farber

We've all been waiting for the second shoe to drop (the Thing has many legs, hence MANY shoes), and here it finally is. Here we've been wondering if it might be a cyber-attack, or food shortages, or an alien invasion, or some other novel horror—and they come up with the oldest head-game in the book, as it's "the Hun" all over again. Looks like it never fails.

This piece is really excellent.

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JohnS
Feb 25·edited Feb 25

It's amazing that despite all the Covid gaslighting, that anyone believes the prevailing narrative, especially in the early days of any situation. It's way too unanimous - perhaps coordinated would be the better word - to be believable. I was sitting in amazement just moments ago listening to Newsmax afternoon gasbag Eric Bolling wax on about how patriotic and courageous the Ukrainian people are . . . as if it's a given that they all feel the same way about what is happening and has been happening. As nauseating as when our bloviating politicians (from both sides) wax poetic about the beliefs/feelings/intelligence of "the American people" as if all 330,000,000 of us think with one mind.

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