Gonzalo Lira talking about Graham Phillips and Alina Lipp

All three are Western journalists working in Donbass and accused of being pro-Russian propagandists. Which may be true. However, we at TransFormator believe that being an honest propagandist may have only one alternative - being dishonest propagandist.
We have already mentioned, that if you are writing about something of vital importance and to what you have an emotional attachment, then certainly, your attitude will be transferred to the text and the reader. You may admit it, or pretend that you are "impartial", so that you can blame others for being "propagandists".

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https://youtu.be/NDdPB_dCR-E
This is only a small episode from Johan Mearsheimer about when thinks went wrong and what is happening now.

German cities are switching off hot water and central heating in public buildings and not lighting monuments 

Berlin has plunged 200 monuments and buildings into darkness, while Hanover has let its fountains run dry

Moves come as Gazprom, Russia's state-run supplier, has cut the flow of gas from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline

Of course, the data is distorted here. It is important to mention, that the reduction in the supply (down to 40% of planned) has happened due to the Western sanctions imposed on the planned repair and maintenance of turbines, manufactured by Siemens. The rest of it is true, however, Germany may blame for it only itself.

A nice one from Peter Hitchens:
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For some reason, the USA has for 14 years now been having a costly arm-wrestling contest with Russia in Ukraine. This turned hot eight years ago and has led to horrible numbers of deaths, and much destruction, in Ukraine itself.

I really cannot see what ordinary Ukrainians will ever gain from it. Nor can I see what interest Britain has in it, apart from our endless, rather pathetic desire to please the USA, which neither notices nor cares.

Yet we pledge billions in arms supplies, so sustaining the horror. The same goes for all the other European nations now preparing for a chilly winter of fuel shortages and raging high prices.

Is there anybody out there with the wit and courage to bring an end to this idiocy? Or, in years to come, as we sit unemployed in our freezing houses eating bread and potatoes, while Ukrainians pick about in the ruins of their 'victorious' country, wondering how to rebuild it, and where all the young men have gone, will we comfort ourselves by saying that it was all worth it?

 

That what means freedom of speech and expression in the cradle of democracy nowadays. Or, probably, it was always like that, just applied selectively.

Good and honest one from Peter Hitchens again.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11065067/PETER-HITCHENS-Freedom-means-freedom-nasty-people.html

We were writing about it just recently @TrFormer

Roger Waters Tells CNN Why Biden Is A War Criminal, Says Host Needs To Read More

(must read if you are a fan of Pink Floyd)

Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is currently on his This Is Not A Drill tour, which CNN recently covered in a segment with anchor Michael Smerconish. During Smerconish’s interview with Waters, the host questioned the overtly political elements of Waters’ set, particularly one where Waters displays a “War Criminals” montage with a photo of Joe Biden. “Well, he’s fueling the fire in the Ukraine, for a start,” Waters replied. “That’s a huge crime. Why won’t the United States Of America encourage [Volodymyr] Zelensky to negotiate, obviating the need for this horrific, horrendous war?”
“But you’re blaming the party who got invaded,” Smerconish responded. “You’ve got it reversed.”

“Well, any war, when did it start? What you need to do is look at the history, and you can say, ‘Well, it started on this day.’ You could say it started in 2008… This war is basically about the action and reaction of NATO pushing right up to the Russian border, which they promised they wouldn’t do when [Mikhail] Gorbachev negotiated the withdrawal of the USSR from the whole of Eastern Europe.”

“What about our role as liberators?” Smerconish countered.

“We have no role as liberators,” Waters replied, and the two men proceeded to go back and forth debating World War II history. “I would suggest to you, Michael, that you go away and read a bit more, and then try and figure out what the United States would do if the Chinese were putting nuclear-armed missiles into Mexico and Canada?”

From there, they got into it over the Chinese, Taiwan, and who in the world is more of a global threat. The conversation gets pretty heated, but they still seem to like each other by the end. Check it out below.

Just in case if it would be removed from u-tube...
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/politics/2022/08/06/smr-roger-waters.cnn

https://youtu.be/megyZ_G3YO8

Watch this video till the end. Luckily - no casualties!💤

Recently we have been writing about Graham Phillips who is a journalist and documentary filmmaker.
Phillips has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the Russian side, initially from the Chernihiv area of Ukraine, then from Mariupol, then from Donetsk, and onto the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic on his YouTube channel.
In July 2022, the UK Government imposed sanctions on him.

CNN aired a report showing people from Zaporozhye visiting their parents and grandparents in Kherson, a Russian-controlled territory.

That's that they just go with cats, children, trunks and suitcases appears to be suspicious. That's because they don't go to visit their parents. They go to stay.

However, CNN would not be CNN, if they would not explain the lack of the reverse traffic by bad Russians blocking people on the Russian controlled territory...

People are naturally moving to the safety, not to where Western propaganda wants them to.

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The Kiev regime demands to check Amnesty International's communications with the Kremlin.

A similar proposal was made by the assistant to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak.

They are going to check the organization for receiving "benefits" from Russia.

Representatives of Amnesty International have published a report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are deploying military equipment in schools and hospitals.

If human rights defenders criticize Ukraine, it means that these are some wrong human rights defenders.

SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service of Russian Federation): Ukrainian authorities began selling off the country, giving priority to Poland

SVR: Poland establishes control over the most promising sectors of the Ukrainian economy

MOSCOW, August 8 - RIA Novosti. Available intelligence confirms that the current Ukrainian authorities have begun to gradually give neighboring Poland control over sectors of the national economy, the website of the Foreign Intelligence Service reported.
"The information received by the Service testifies to the gradual implementation by Warsaw of its far-reaching plans for Ukraine. It is becoming increasingly clear that we are talking not only about the possibility of introducing "Polish peacekeeping forces" into the western regions of this country, but also about establishing control over the most promising industries economy of a neighboring state," the publication says.

Intelligence officials note that we are talking primarily about the agricultural sector. Thus, Polish companies, taking advantage of the difficult situation of Ukrainian agricultural producers, "including in terms of storing the harvested crop," buy their products at low prices. In some cases, this makes the bankruptcy of enterprises inevitable. Then it is supposed to buy assets and land at bargain prices.

"This can be illustrated, for example, by the facts of the purchase of a new crop of barley at $30 per ton, which is almost five times cheaper than the real cost of this product," the Foreign Intelligence Service said.
The intelligence service indicated that in parallel with this, the Polish side is investing in the creation of a transport and logistics infrastructure for the unhindered export of food to markets, where prices are much higher.
"The implementation of these aspirations of Warsaw is facilitated by the new legal framework created by Kyiv - the law on special guarantees for Polish citizens adopted by the Verkhovna Rada at the end of July this year and the law on privatization, which allows the sale of Ukrainian industrial enterprises with a 50 percent discount," the Foreign Intelligence Service stressed.

The intelligence service stated that the Kyiv authorities have already essentially begun to sell the country.

The Ukrainian authorities are consistently moving towards creating special conditions for Poland. So, at the end of July, the deputies of the Rada adopted a bill that equalizes the rights of Polish citizens with Ukrainians. After the adoption of the law, the Poles will be able to legally stay in Ukraine without special permits for a year and a half and enjoy all the rights and freedoms of a citizen of the country during this period. In particular, they will be able to work without obtaining a permit, become tax residents, receive education, receive medical treatment, and qualify for social benefits.

The national battalion "Kraken" has lost its combat capability due to Russian strikes

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the national battalion "Kraken" has lost its combat capability due to airborne strikes

MOSCOW, August 8 - RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian neo-Nazi formation "Kraken" has lost its combat capability as a result of strikes by the Russian military, the Ministry of Defense said.
"In the Kharkiv direction, as a result of the destruction of the points of temporary deployment of Ukrainian nationalists by pinpoint strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile forces, mass losses and desertion of mercenaries, the Kraken national formation lost its combat capability," the report says.
To make up for losses, the commanders of the Kraken are trying to force the inhabitants of Kharkov to join it, but to no avail, the military department added.
The Russian military constantly strikes at the places of deployment of the Kraken. So, on July 31, it was reported that the losses of militants hiding on the territory of the Morozov Mechanical College in Kharkov amounted to about 350 people.

A power surge occurred at the Zaporozhye NPP due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ministry of Defense: there was a power surge at the Zaporizhzhya NPP due to shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine

MOSCOW, August 8 - RIA Novosti. As a result of another shelling by Ukrainian troops, a high-voltage line was damaged at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, a power surge occurred, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov.
“A power surge occurred at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which caused smoke at the open switchgear of the station. The protection system also worked, turning off the power supply. The fire brigade who arrived managed to eliminate the smoke,” the general specified.

According to him, the technical staff reduced the power of the fifth and sixth power units to 500 megawatts to prevent disruption of the power plant.

Earlier on Monday, the head of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, also said that after the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two power units of the Zaporozhye NPP were not operating at full capacity. He called on IAEA and UN delegations to come to the station to inspect and record the facts and the direction of the shelling.

On August 5, the Ukrainian military launched artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, firing 20 shells of 152 mm caliber. As a result, a hydrogen pipeline caught fire, which was quickly extinguished by emergency services. Part of the equipment of power unit No. 3 was de-energized at the NPP, and the generated power of power unit No. 4 was reduced.
In addition, on the night of August 7, the Ukrainian army again attacked the station from the Uragan MLRS. According to the Energodar authorities, fragments and a rocket engine fell about 400 meters from the operating power unit.
Since March, the ZNPP has been guarded by the Russian military, but is operated by a Ukrainian operator.

Zaporozhye authorities announced that the referendum on the status of the region will be held in person

SIMFEROPOL, August 8 - RIA Novosti. The referendum on the reunification of the Zaporozhye region with Russia will be held in person, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration, said on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.
"Offline, we are ready 100 percent. Everything is working well. We will have a voting format that is quite understandable to people. We will not conduct any experiments. Regarding electronic voting, we are thinking about it now, we are looking to make it technically possible to do it all," the official said.
At the same time, he clarified that it is still premature to talk about electronic voting. According to Rogov, the main task is to protect citizens and not allow people who voted in the territories controlled by Ukraine to be persecuted.
Also, the authorities of the region invite and wait for all interested to become international observers to the referendum.

The order to hold a referendum was signed today by the head of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky at the forum "We are together with Russia".
The issue of the expression of the popular will in the liberated territories was also addressed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. In his video message, he said that holding referendums would close any possibility of negotiations with Ukraine for Moscow.
As the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov noted in response to this, Zelensky should not turn to Russia, but to the inhabitants of these territories, since this is their desire.
During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. New administrations have been formed in the regions, the circulation of the ruble has begun, Russian TV channels and radio stations are broadcasting. Both regions announced plans to become subjects of Russia.

Ukraine's shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is a warning to both Russia and Europe that no referenda should be held.

This is pure, unadulterated terrorism. Which will lead to nothing but even greater disgust of thinking people for the current Ukrainian government.

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine

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