For those who read my last piece…..
I was wrong…..
…..about the Polish university webpage “spoofing.”
The truth is even more interesting.
(Read on. I’ll tell you about the GREATEST psy-op ever carried out by the Ukraine.)
Turns out, it’s a real webpage…..
It’s just not searchable.
Not even from the university’s main page.
Because not only the data…..
…..but also some or all of the headings…..
…..are in “image” form.
Turns out, the university monitors bismuth…..
…..(which is NOT “radioactive”, in the sense of being harmful)…..
…..that comes out of the ground…..
…..together with periodic “burps”…..
…..of radon gas.
There is a huge bismuth spike…..
…..in the Lublin, Poland air…..
…..ABOUT ONCE PER MONTH…..
…..with smaller spikes…..
…..in between larger ones.
The May 15th spike…..
…..was NOT the largest this year.
To see this…..
All you have to do…..
…..is access the archives…..
…..and adjust back your start date.
MORE IMPORTANTLY….
As I wrote…..
Look on the periodic table of elements.
Uranium does NOT decay into bismuth…..
…..in two days.
These elements are many spaces apart.
The uranium-238 decay chain is available online.
The natural decay to bismuth…..
…..takes hundreds of millions of years…..
…..at least!
You can’t speed that up…..
…..with a mere explosion and fire.
We’re not talking about a nuclear fission event here.
Yes…..
There was likely a good deal…..
…..of depleted uranium munitions…..
…..that got blown up…..
…..in Khmelnitsky.
It doesn’t look good on the Ukraine’s “friends.”
As I’ve said more than once…..
These “friends” will toss the Ukraine…..
…..like a used condom.
But…..
…..circulating unattributed rumors…..
…..of high gamma (!!!) radiation readings…..
…..in that town…..
…..and then…..
…..passing along this “fallout is so bad that it’s been detected even in Europe” nonsense…..
…..was a psy-op…..
…..intended to further panic the locals…..
…..creating some “panic migration”…..
…..and discrediting the government.
Some of the very largest Russian Telegram channels…..
…..such as Podoliak and Cassad…..
…..were circulating the “gamma” rumors simultaneously…..
…..and then, posted the “bismuth spike” screenshot…..
…..(with the ridiculous “fallout” interpretation)…..
…..WITHIN ABOUT 24 HOURS…..
…..of the spike data being posted…..
…..by the Polish university.
As if, on cue.
As if…..
All following some notes or “talking points“…..
…..being “passed around.”
I mean…..
How did they all…..
…..suddenly know about it?
Quite possibly…..
Someone in Russia…..
…..was monitoring that site for months (or longer)…..
…..waiting for the right time…..
…..to take a screenshot.
Regardless…..
This kind of thing can actually “work”…..
…..because the two countries…..
…..share substantially the same online space…..
…..(or with huge overlap, in any case.)
People who feel they are getting bullshit…..
…..from their own side…..
…..or alternately…..
…..those who just want to troll…..
…..will often head over…..
…..to see what’s on the other side.
The Ukraine’s psy-ops command…..
…..has taken advantage of this…..
…..almost since day one.
The Ukraine also has many millions…..
…..of fluent, perfectly-accented Russian speakers…..
…..(in fact, over half of its adult population)…..
…..who can be paid to do…..
…..any kind of fake video…..
…..like, say…..
…..”I ran away from my Russian army unit, after I saw my comrades raping dogs and old ladies during the Battle of Kiev.”
The Ukraine’s GREATEST success…..
…..was in stirring up…..
…..a bunch of fake, “I got a draft summons” videos…..
…..and related crap…..
…..to convince hundreds of thousands…..
…..of Russian men under 35 or so…..
…..(mostly, programmers, designers, and other “telework-eligible workers”)…..
…..to flee the country…..
…..in a matter of weeks, last fall…..
…..when in fact…..
…..MOST of those geniuses…..
…..were clearly NOT eligible…..
…..for the draft…..
…..that had been announced at that time…..
…..as they had no prior military service…..
…..and Russia was ONLY calling up men…..
…..with prior service.
(A few non-veterans were called up by mistake, but they were sent home.)
That was one VERY successful psy-op.
Of course…..
Most of these guys…..
…..now realize THEY’VE BEEN HAD.
And…..
They’ve been trickling back.
Still…..
It was bad PR for Russia…..
…..and led to a shortage of IT workers.
Now, it seems to me…..
Russia is finally learning…..
…..how to play the game.
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I’m on disability and live on $1300 a month. Your website is one of the few things I can afford. I do see your point. Even if it does travel a long distance, more than likely it will become very diluted. The actual danger, if any, is probably local and a person would have to come in contact with the actual dust. I can get very excited and compulsive sometimes. Thanks for bringing me back to earth. Subject officially dropped. LOL
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I said that their COULD be a cloud of dust, and I didn’t compare it to a nuclear explosion or a volcano. And if it was present, it could have settled already. I was not intending to be dramatic and should have left out the exclamation points. But any amount of DU-238 dust residue in the environment is a cause for concern because of it’s long half life and lethality if ingested or inhaled.
Whatever, dude. You obviously had in mind stratospheric contamination that moves (at least) hundreds of kilometers with the winds high up in the atmosphere. Otherwise, how does it get to Poland… and beyond???
You obviously have no idea how HEAVY uranium is. It won’t just stay in the air like water or pollen. Look on the damn periodic table of elements. It’s the heaviest natural element.
Stop reading comic books. Better yet, take your comic book budget, and donate it to me.
A further elaboration of my previous message one day ago : The Khmelnitsky explosion of an ammunition dump caused by Russia dropping a FAB 500 upgraded and guided gravity bomb on Depleted Uranium ordinance possibly kept at that location could cause the same result as if those projectiles were used on the battlefield causing dust residue to be released. Thus, there could very well be a radioactive cloud of DU-238 dust drifting toward Poland and areas west of there. DU-238 has a half life of 4.5 billion years. Smooth Move UK!!
Total nonsense. Cloud of drifting dust, jeez louise. We’re not talking about a large nuclear explosion or a damn volcano!
Jacob, It has to be said that you are a breath of fresh air in a fetid swamp.
“I was wrong”
Your willingness to say this, when warranted, further adds to your credibility.
On top of your willingness not to overhype–and even to call out the missteps–of the side that you want to prevail in the Ukraine War.
Uranium ore contains mostly U-238 and less than one percent U-235 which is the isotope that is used in bombs and fuel for reactors. The enrichment process utilizing centrifuges increases the amount of Uranium 235 to 20% for fuel for reactors and to 90% for nuclear warheads. Depleted Uranium is the U-238 left over from the enrichment process and is the material that they use for projectiles in the 30mm cannon in the A-10 Thunderbolt also known as the Warthog which just happens to be one of the most survivable military aircraft ever developed by any country. It’s also in the tank projectiles known as the fin stabilized discarding sabot tank round. Uranium decays into lead. The half life of U-238 is 4.5 billion years. U-238 emits alpha particles which will not even penetrate your skin. It becomes dangerous when a Depleted Uranium projectile is fired at a target and disintegrates on contact forming a dust which if ingested or inhaled will contaminate a human body internally where the alpha particles bombard a person’s internal organs such as your lungs, if inhaled, possibly giving a person lung cancer in the future. I hope this was enlightening and thanks so much for reading.
Hello, just a short technical note – when you were talking about big Russian TLG channels you mentioned “Podoljak”. In this case this little typo matters a little bit, because he is actually “Jurij Podoljaka” (the blogger) and thus can be easily confused with “Michajlo Podoljak” (Zels adviser, whose TLG messages are just very funny propaganda jokes). Yes I know you know it Jacob, it was for your readers.
Thanks, I did at some point know the “a” at the end, but, I temporarily forgot it. Sometimes, little things fall out of my brain. Thanks again.
The information war is important in the collective west to keep the general population hoodwinked, so western powers are very focused on it.
The Russian government has not engaged in an information campaign in the west because (I’m guessing) they know it would be a waste of time and resources. The control of the western media by the powers that be is so complete there’s no point even trying.
Outside of the west, on the other hand, where it now actually really matters to them, Russia is winning hands down and the west is punching itself repeatedly in the face.
Thanks, yes, I wrote the same thing a few months ago. What’s truly amazing, they’ve explicitly blamed their global failure on Russia Today’s (LOLOLOL) regional divisions/efforts—Araby, Africa and wherever else. They can’t bring themselves to admit that they lost “fair and square” on SUBSTANCE, not message. To borrow Jonathan Turley’s favorite phrase, “Res ipsa loquitur.” When you publicly bully and threaten countries such as India not to trade with Russia, that gets around, and those people notice and they form their opinions accordingly. And you know, there’s more people living in India alone, than in the entire U.S. hegemonic bloc including all of NATO, Can/Aus/NZ, Japan, and South Korea. And as far as Araby, seriously, what did they expect anyway? LOL.
100%. They can drown the substance in propaganda within the west but not outside it. Add to that the fact that the messaging of the West to the “Global South” has been unbelievably racist and condescending since the Ukraine conflict blew up. Any veneer of civility and diplomacy has disappeared in a Russo-phobic Western brain-melt.
I guess their biggest success was to make people in the West believe, that the WHOLE world is against Russia and Russia is “losing face” and “Putin is losing face”. The “losing face”-mantra is one of the biggest narratival instruments of western MSM (There is this podcaster Packman, he indoctrinates millions with his BS).
I mean, I am sometimes so depressed, I meet genuinely nice and valued people and I always have to turn a blind eye because they are so fos in terms of propaganda. They are sitting there and are soliloquizing like “Russia is so big, why does he want Ukraine”, or “They have no airforce anymore” or “Nobody wants to fight”. And even when you bring one little argument that should be enough to destroy all this crap, they are still like a hung up computer interface, it is scary because it shows that they succeded in creating human zombies/robots.
But it is so funny, I have a friend from Nigeria (Igbo tribe, once Biafra region) and he tells me that there is not a single African who doesn’t sympathize with Russia/Putin. For them the only question is: “Why didn’t the Russians act earlier?”
I’m less well informed than Jacob (or many of his readers), but it does seem that the “Global South” is getting a clear signal that it needs to decouple financially from the US if it wants to maintain any independence from it. I hope they keep up their efforts and wish them success.
(I am early retired from my first career. Maybe helping one or another of these countries in some way is a new goal I should consider for my own life.)
nothing filters IN past our “curtain”. you have to scrounge and fight for info.
Hey there. Was sent some of your old articles from American thinker recently, where you saw covid leading to a war footing about a month or so before lockdowns were announced in the west. You have the best “Sherlock Holmes” intelligence of any guy with a blog … lol.
Anyway, quick question. Can you explain why you think Ukraine is gonna get thrown out like a used johnny but also will receive F16s etc? Is it something to do with PDA vs USAI types of assistance? US media talking a lot about frozen conflicts yet Ukraine is now getting weapons previously considered “red lines”. Is it some attempt to say “we did all we could but they just couldn’t?”
Thought this was a decent thread on the types of assistance. Perhaps they’ll switch to something more insurgence style?
https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1658171931751743493
Mr. Schreiber, first please allow me to say, I think you are the greatest “evil asshole role” supporting actor of all time. I first saw you in “Phantoms”, you were a smirking dick and more fun to watch than any other name there, with the exception of Peter O’Toole.
As for the F-16’s, you read my mind and got ahead of me. Please stay tuned. Normally, I’d say you are off-topic and your comment (flattering as it is, thank you) violates my Comments Policy, but in this case, I just recorded an audio about the F-16’s, you will hear it within a few days.
UPDATE: Come to think of it, your comment is on-topic because it relates explicitly to my “they will soon give up on the Ukraine” analysis.
Already getting the popcorn ready
great analysis once again re the “gamma rays”. I can proudly say I was skeptical from the beginning. In any case, the Poles won’t want toxic Uranium dust settling on their farm lands and towns.
Uranium 238 Depleted uranium is uranium from which all uranium 235 ( the fissionable isotope used as for reactor fuel or weapons) has been extracted, nowadays by centrifuges. In uranium ore U 235 is !/141st of the Uranium. U238 has a 1/2 life of over 4.1 billion years and when it decomposes it radiates alpha particles which cannot penetrate past the skin, but can be very bad if breathed in as dust, ‘Alpha particles are helium nuclei in motion,
As a backsliding former Mercouris groupie , a couple of days ago he was revising some statements concerning radiation based on some super secret e-mail correspondence loop.Most of those Telegram channels are copy and paste with the same articles.
The really big Russian ones don’t copy each other. Those guys just don’t have time to read each other comprehensively, if they even cared to do so. Most of them have their own sources and travels and their own analysis and projects they are pursuing. It’s not the circle jerk that you’re conceptualizing.
I think I’ll go with George Carlin on this one: “It’s all bullshit folks. It’s all bullshit and it’s bad for ya.” Tell me I’m wrong.
Hi, I don’t think movement of IT specialists is due to psy-ops. Generally, they have greater affinity to migrate to Europe when compared to rest. Also when sanctions were imposed, they have no choice to job or company other than to register the at central asian countries or georgia. Only IT companies which have govt as client could exist and thrive in Russia. Now globally IT sector currently in doldrums, so there won’t be much impact. Also due to specialization and agile working principles, one could learn entire job in 2-3 months much easier to do than plumbing.
“You don’t think”, huh?
Russia’s leading “smart” newspaper, Kommersant, reported that 1/4 to 1/2 of all Russian programmers, left the country in September-October 2022, just after the draft was announced.
(Although, most, not all but most, are still tele-working their same, Russian jobs.)
And, I did not say anything about “IT companies.” I wrote, IT workers.
But, thanks for your expert thoughts.
Your expertise is valued and appreciated.
I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts.
There’s a lot more IT workers than just those that work in IT companies. Just about all companies need IT workers even if they contract it out.
I guess with the Vovan and Lexus duo uncovering a huge amount of lies and stupidity also in game for discrediting UA propaganda.