In the last couple of days Russian propaganda has published a lot of content alleging that Poland staged provocations against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The content in question has employed narratives in use by the Kremlin in its influence activities against Poland. 1/6

Pattern no. 1
Articles posted to Russian websites pick up false accusations against the Poles. These include bogus claims that Poland sabotaged the construction site of the Russia-to-Germany gas link and carried out a direct attack on the pipeline. 2/6

Pattern no. 2
Some of the articles warn that the Kremlin may take retaliatory actions against Poland. Based on false accusations thrown by Russia, the Kremlin’s propaganda amplifies the calls by some journalists and contributors to embark on aggressive activities against PL. 3/6

Pattern no. 3
The Russian media outlets publish a lot of materials that mock the Polish Navy. The narratives that denigrate this component of the Polish Armed Forces are based on opinions and quotes by single Polish Internet users. 4/6

These information warfare efforts aim to:

- solidify false accusations made against Poland

- threaten the Polish society with a potential response by Russia

- weaken the morale of the Polish soldiers and undermine the image of the army 5/6

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1. Helmut Voigt was a professional
He was on the run with several false passports
living under a false identity in the port city of Volos
He was caught when his wife Carla visited in 1992 with a tracking device hidden in her luggage
He was arrested at the hotel Balasca in Athens

2. The Hotel Balasca, just a few minutes walk across the park from Larissa Sation, then hop on the train back to Volos with dear Carla

3. Volos
A pleasant enough place to hide away from the past
...and the

4. The Red Star

5. “He is,” says a former Stasi major appreciatively, “the perfect secret service man. An absolute professional. ”

Un dia como hoy, la mítica guerrillera del ELN, Monika Ertl, consumaba su venganza ejecutando a tiros al coronel boliviano Roberto Quintanilla, el responsable de amputar las manos al Che Guevara, para humillarlo estando ya muerto.

Así fue la apasionante historia de Monika.

La historia de Monika comienza, por extraño y enrevesado que parezca, en la Alemania nazi.

Ella era hija de Hans Ertl, fotógrafo personal de Hitler y de Erwin Rommel. Hans fue uno de los mas importantes propagandistas de los nazis.

Aquí Monika con su padre nazi, cámara en mano.

Después de la derrota nazi a manos de la URSS, más de 9000 nazis se escondieron como ratas en Sudamérica con protección de EEUU y la oligarquia capitalista.

Monika y su padre huyeron a Bolivia, en 1950, llegaron junto a asesinos nazis como Klaus Barbie, "el carnicero de Lyon".

Monika, a pesar de crecer entre asesinos nazis, paradójicamente adoraba al Che, admiraba su lucha revolucionaria a muerte contra el imperialismo y poco a poco fue haciéndose comunista.

Después de 10 años en Bolivia, montó un orfanato para ayudar a los niños pobres bolivianos.

El asesinato físico de su idolo Che Guevara en la selva de Bolivia en octubre de 1967, le hizo dar un paso más allá en sus ideales y tomó la decisión de alistarse a la guerrilla del ELN.

Rompió con todo, incluido con su familia, su padre le dijo que no volviera a casa nunca más.

@BillyBostickson Gotcha: @BillyBostickson: @VMGumball @Karabakh_MoD Yes, I see: It is essential for forces likely to be targeted by modern arm... https://t.co/hXWqwTp5zx Have a good read.

1. "Everything starts here, everything disappears from here, & the South China Seafood Market will become clean!"
Interesting Chinese report about the South China Seafood Market & WCDC's pathogen Lab at 288 Machang Road which makes many insinuations yet has not been censored
yet

2. "I'm here for the second time to take samples!" Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, appeared at the South China Seafood Market at 17:00 on March 3. On the same day, she and her team took two boxes of samples.

3. Shi Zhengli collects samples from the market to study environmental survival of the coronavirus
"It's not easy to come once" ;)
"Compared with CCDC we have taken much fewer samples, & findings are the same as their results
"They found more than we found, & we found nothing"

4. March the 3rd - 5th - The WCDC "Killing Teams" Arrive

5. "The Thin Lady"
Faced with doubts, on Feb 2, Shi Zhengli declared:
"I, Shi Zhengli, bet my life, it has nothing to do with our laboratory."
Her "statement" was widely questioned.
As of March 3, doubts were still flying, & Zhengli's appearance at the Market was eye-catching.

There have been a lot of stories recently on the search into COVID19/SARSCoV2 origins, but they have been written to tell stories of intrigue or mystery, not to summarize known facts.

Thus I thought it might be useful to succinctly summarize what we actually know...

1/n

I'll say from the outset we know zero about where sarscov2 itself came from, so the only facts we can list are those that could be proximally relevant. That is, each of these facts is either about SARSCoV2 discovery or just one potential step removed from SARSCoV2 origins.
2/n

First, the briefest bit of background: SARSCoV2 is in the clade or coronaviruses called the sarbecoviruses, named after its first known member, SARSCoV1, the cause of SARS discovered in 2002. SARSCoV1 and SARSCoV2 are 80% identical.

3/n

They essentially cause the same range of pathologies (flu-like disease which then progresses sometimes to inflammatory pneumonia and sometimes systemic inflammation), but with very different outcome distributions

4/n

Now, on to the circumstantial facts.

1. The 1st known case of SARSCoV2 disease was detected on 2019/12/8 in Wuhan, China. Most cases in the next 3 wks were linked to the Huanan seafood market, but the 1st case, and 4 of the first 5, were not.

4. WTF?
Yoichi Shimatsu now brazenly accuses one of Japan's top microbiologists, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of engineering SARS-COV-2 by inserting "HIV force multipliers", similar to his earlier work at University of Wisconsin on Influenza and HIV back in 2011.
https://t.co/ZhhZWnuKow

"I learned of Kawaoka's reckless violations of science ethics from Robert Finnegan, former editor of Jakarta Post, who was tracking theft of MERS & other virus samples from NAMRU-2 by a senior local lab technician who personally smuggled the dangerous materials to Wisconsin Uni"

"a decade ago at his lab in Wisconsin with generous funding from Japanese state institutions, Kawaoka was developing an "unstoppable flu", secretly derived from an illegal exhumation of the Arctic frozen corpse of an Alaskan native who died in the 1918-19 influenza pandemic"

Exhibit B is a 2011 research paper by Y. Kawaoka et al at his animal virology lab at University of Wisconsin:
"HIV reverse-binding protein is essential for influenza A virus replication & promotes genome-trafficking in late-stage

Favourite quote:
"The lawless pharmaceuticals, insane vaccinators & rogue microbiologists must be stopped in their tracks or humanity will face its final solution.
High-ranking sponsors in government & major corporations also should be indicted & appropriately punished by judges"