Life in Russia

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

Ramzan Kadyrov has been re-elected leader of Chechnya with 99.85% of the vote, up from 99.73% in 2021.

Clearly, his efforts to win over the undecided are bearing fruit.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...42414081085910

Brian McDonald

An interesting takeaway from Russia’s election is the major political turnaround in the Far East, a region that for years had been considerably less receptive to United Russia than much of the rest of the country.

The most obvious example is Khabarovsk, where in 2018, LDPR candidate Sergei Furgal defeated the incumbent United Russia governor by almost 70% to 28% and a year later, the LDPR swept 30 of 36 seats in the regional parliament, while United Russia was reduced to just two.

Furgal’s 2020 arrest (on charges related to mafia activity in the 2000s), then kicked off months of unusually large anti-Kremlin demonstrations in Khabarovsk, reinforcing the region’s reputation as one of Russia’s strongest centres of protests (along with its reputation for off-the-scale corruption), but now the picture is very different.

With all precinct protocols counted, United Russia has taken 48.16% in Khabarovsk Krai, with the Communists on 16.49% and the LDPR on only 12.79%, plus United Russia candidates also won both of the region’s single-member Duma constituencies.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...19010191626412

The European Union says it will impose sanctions on people who organised or stood as candidates in Russia’s State Duma elections in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

“The European Union does not and will never recognise either the holding of these so-called ‘elections’ in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine or their results,” a statement says.

“Those involved in organising these sham elections or standing as candidates in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine … will be sanctioned.”

The EU said sanctions would also target people it considers responsible for “undermining the possibility of free and fair elections inside Russia.”

Brussels also criticised Moscow for excluding Yabloko candidates from the federal party list, describing it as “one of the last remaining opposition forces and the only party with an anti-war platform,” and expressed regret that Russia didn't invite OSCE observers to monitor the vote (although would that even be feasible given sanctions?)

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...11208828334332

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I think the guy in the video is poking some fun at a situation that has caused Russians to be upset with their internet capabilities. Internet service in Russia has become highly restrictive, characterized by widespread mobile internet blackouts, the blocking of foreign messaging platforms, and the enforcement of a state-controlled "whitelist" model. Since early 2026, the Kremlin has escalated these measures under the guise of security against Ukrainian drone attacks, though analysts and citizens view them as a systematic effort to suppress dissent and isolate the domestic internet from the global web. These restrictions have caused significant public discontent, with citizens reporting frustration over the loss of digital convenience and privacy. Even among loyalists, the crackdown has generated unease as it disrupts daily life and economic activities. The Kremlin maintains that these measures are temporary security protocols, but experts warn they are establishing a permanent "digital Iron Curtain" similar to systems in China and Iran. (text above is ai generated)

But why did you generate that commentary using AI rather than sharing your own perspective?

Always remember: AI, when offering a political opinion, is trained on mainstream rhetoric.

(And here, it shows)

[rgray222]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by rgray222 (here)
I think the guy in the video is poking some fun at a situation that has caused Russians to be upset with their internet capabilities. Internet service in Russia has become highly restrictive, characterized by widespread mobile internet blackouts, the blocking of foreign messaging platforms, and the enforcement of a state-controlled "whitelist" model. Since early 2026, the Kremlin has escalated these measures under the guise of security against Ukrainian drone attacks, though analysts and citizens view them as a systematic effort to suppress dissent and isolate the domestic internet from the global web. These restrictions have caused significant public discontent, with citizens reporting frustration over the loss of digital convenience and privacy. Even among loyalists, the crackdown has generated unease as it disrupts daily life and economic activities. The Kremlin maintains that these measures are temporary security protocols, but experts warn they are establishing a permanent "digital Iron Curtain" similar to systems in China and Iran. (text above is ai generated)

But why did you generate that commentary using AI rather than sharing your own perspective?

Always remember: AI, when offering a political opinion, is trained on mainstream rhetoric.

(And here, it shows)

I have been following the internet restrictions that Putin has put in place over the years, especially in the last four years when the restrictions became much more severe. Putin has now blocked or limited access to major platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, YouTube, and others. This has become more than just an annoyance for Russians. The outages have become routine, affecting almost every region in the country. These outages are no longer counted in hours; they can now last days or even weeks. I honestly believe that these restrictions and outages are about suppressing and controlling information, particularly about the war. The message being conveyed to all Russians is: use the internet at your own peril; we (the government) are in control.

I thought the video added some humor to a difficult situation that many Russians are experiencing. I chose to use AI to create this post because I had very little time, and I wanted to make sure I covered the most important points. I did not include all the information AI provided, only what I thought was a clear and honest summary of the current internet problems Russians are facing. I think it warrants close surveillance because it could easily happen anywhere in the world. You and I may disagree on why these internet restrictions and outages are happening, but the info I am putting forward, either from AI or my own words, is what I believe to be true.

[Ravenlocke]

Russian Embassy in Kenya/Посольство России в Кении

🗨️The Dialogue about Fakes 4.0 international forum is taking place in Moscow.
It is a global platform for discussing methods to counter disinformation and develop fact-checking technologies - bringing together 120+ organizations from 50+ countries.

More: https://fakes2026.dialog.info/en/

https://x.com/russembkenya/status/2102324778443145300

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

The Communists were the biggest losers in Russia’s parliamentary elections in terms of seats, with the former Soviet ruling party set to have 20 fewer deputies in the new State Duma than in the previous convocation.

Fair Russia also fell from 27 seats to 17, while the LDPR increased from 21 to 23 and New People from 15 to 19.

Putin's United Russia gained 40 seats

Russia’s final parliamentary election results have been published.

United Russia (Putin's party): 349 seats
The Communists: 37
LDPR (far-right): 23

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...19145325109365

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

This bull**** is going viral. The suspected plague case was in eastern Siberia, farther from St Petersburg than St John’s, Newfoundland (Canada) is.

The plague may be suspected, but the geographical illiteracy is confirmed.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...59663808839960

Brian McDonald

A new viral trend in Russia is seeing people dress as medieval plague doctors and joke about the alleged outbreak in Siberia.

Videos show people doing “get ready with me” routines before putting on the distinctive beaked masks, while others joke about choosing a plague-doctor costume as their essential autumn accessory.

It follows the death of a 28-year-old employee of an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk.

The Kremlin has issued a cautious response to the Irkutsk plague scare, referring questions to Russia’s public-health watchdog rather than commenting directly on whether plague was involved.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, just now, “the main agency competent in this area is Rospotrebnadzor it's their official statements that we should rely on, rather than listening to various rumours and speculation.”

“Rospotrebnadzor employs highly qualified professionals in this field,” Peskov added. “Let's listen to their official statements.”

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...96718299005175

Brian McDonald

REN TV reports that at least 197 people have been identified as having had contact with a woman suspected of having pneumonic plague in Russia’s Irkutsk region, with more than 100 currently hospitalized for observation.

Some of those hospitalized are displaying symptoms, according to the channel’s source, although their admission is described as a precautionary measure and no conclusions have been reached that they are infected. Authorities also plan to hospitalize people who subsequently came into contact with those already under observation.

The woman died at the Shelekhov District Hospital on October 1 after developing what was suspected to be pneumonic plague.


JUST IN: A woman has died from suspected pneumonic plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region, according to local media, prompting authorities to quarantine part of a district hospital.

The woman, reportedly an employee of an anti-plague research institute, had recently returned from a work trip and the pneumonic plague was identified after she was admitted to Shelekhov District Hospital, where she later died, Gazeta reports.

Regional authorities have confirmed a suspected case of an “especially dangerous infection” but haven't publicly named the disease. Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Anna Popova has travelled to the region and joined an emergency anti-epidemic commission meeting.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...99488766845091

[Tintin]

Copied from here on the WW3 thread. Pay particular attention to the Taylor Swift video, released the same day as this supposed incident:

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Posted by Ravenlocke (here)

Posted by grapevine (here)
Russian 'plague': How worried should we be?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MGLY7TtXIr8

2:36

Following Dante's and Inversion's posts above, here's a short follow-up about the Russian "plague", thought to be pneumonia of unknown origin. Let's hope it's been quickly contained.

Please also see more info here,

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1729903

We needn't be at all worried about the 'plague'. Irkutsk is thousands of miles away in a remote spot closer to Mongolia than anywhere else that a regular person could map, for reference.

This all of course timed perfectly it seems with, wait, the release of a Taylor Swift song called "Patient Zero" (well well :winks: ) on the very same day.

Check these out:

Via Truthstream Media:

https://x.com/truthstreamnews/status...96511527870877

Oh hey look, it’s another one of those amazing on-the-nose coincidences that is so totally random it couldn’t be more random if it tried to be random which it obviously did.

What would seem to be a lot more like fiction, especially if it comes from these folks who are essentially agency cut-outs:



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From Carlos Rivas, M.D:

https://x.com/CarlosRivasMD/status/2107102654715383990

It’s funny because anyone who actually knows anything about microbial biology knows that the plague bacteria is super easy to treat and not very contagious.

“The plague” is only scary because it SOUNDS scary to the uninformed. It’s not dangerous in 2026 unless they intentionally keep you from basic knowledge and basic treatments.

Any hype about “the plague” is pure ignorance and propaganda.

Which is unfortunately easy to disseminate nowadays due to the total destruction of the reality-based academic systems of the past.

They’ve so drowned education in abortionist LGBT DEI communist propaganda that anyone under the age of 35 is worse off than an illiterate.

Their brains are full of lies put there by the system that prevent them from pursuing and acquiring truth and are incapable of processing new contradictory information even when it’s right in front of them. Obviously there are exceptions, those self-educated geniuses, but they are rare.

And anyone over 60 has been programmed to trust the system due to being enriched by obedience to the system. The system was good to them so they have a hard time questioning it. Of course there are rare exceptions who remain skeptical due to the irrationality of it.

People: don’t trust the media. “The plague” is not dangerous. The government and the media are very dangerous. Beware. This is a psyop. They are setting up for something bigger.

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From Inej, an Irkutsk resident:

https://x.com/inejjjjjjj/status/2107111559189172489

****, what the hell plague outbreak, are you all ****ing insane, hugging a tree or some ****? I LIVE in Irkutsk, and:

the city WASN'T locked down for quarantine
they DIDN'T drop a nuke on Shelekhov
people are WITHOUT gas masks

plague outbreak - a single infection from a mistake? holy ****, you're really yanking your dick up to your nose

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From Mats Nilsson:

https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/2107159650768445712

What's happening in Irkutsk? According to one of my friends in Ufa: not much. So let's take a closer look at who launched the website to "monitor" the infection situation in Irkutsk, and why?

First came an official statement from Rospotrebnadzor, which was spread in Russian media on October 4: an employee at an institute for combating plague in the Irkutsk region has been diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown origin. So far so good. It happens relatively often in the region bordering Eastern anthrax Mongolia.

However: On October 3, the website IrkutskLive appeared online; it is promoted as a resource for monitoring the situation in the Irkutsk region, where a death due to pulmonary plague was claimed to have occurred. The new website uses the narrative "the authorities are hiding something" and asserts without basis that the woman has died. Probably to spread anxiety among people in Russia and the rest of the world.

Its working method is characterized by maximum sensationalism and minimal objectivity. So who are these "journalists"?

🔸The website is written in English with automatic translation to Russian, hardly necessary for Russian-speaking users.

🔸As the contact party is listed FirstStrike News Ltd, but there is no information about this organization.

🔸According to data on registration of websites in the .com domain, the site was launched on October 3.

🔸It is not operated from Russia; on the website itself, Australia is mentioned in connection with the time zone where the information monitoring began and the legal framework within which the site operates.

🔸At the same time, a profile with the same name appeared on X. This account was also registered from Australia, however already in May 2026, and changed its name in October.

🔸The website reports in alarmist terms about the risk of the plague spreading from Russia to the rest of the world. It refers to articles in foreign media and Russian media classified as our Western influence organs, for example The Insider, as well as to information from WHO, the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and Mayo Clinic (Minnesota, USA).

🔸It tracks the number of known cases—there is still only one—and which people have been in contact with the infected; even these figures are known and unchanged; a diagram has been produced showing flight departures from Irkutsk over the past few days.

The service snaps up all mentions of the event. An example is reports in local media that mask requirements were introduced at IrkAZ "due to a suspected infection in the Irkutsk region"; the factory management acted cautiously and took measures for safety's sake, but the information was immediately spread further via various channels.

The main news headlines are adorned with a portrait of Vladimir Putin, a symbol of biological danger, and an image of "bacilli." The entire layout is in yellow and black, colors that heighten anxiety among people who remember the covid-19 "pandemic."

"Analysis material," probably produced with the help of AI, examines reports of an infection in the Irkutsk region; reports that are claimed to have been published and then deleted in order to hide important information from the public.

This suggests that someone in the West is actively exploiting the event and inflating the hysteria around a single, isolated case to create panic among the public, including foreign news consumers, and thereby undermining Russian citizens' trust in the authorities. Hybrid influence.

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Here's 39 seconds of the Taylor Swift video - pay attention to the lyrics



The real lyrics are of course here, if anybody wishes to torture themselves with them; I'd recommend one didn't.

[Tintin]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Brian McDonald

This bull**** is going viral. The suspected plague case was in eastern Siberia, farther from St Petersburg than St John’s, Newfoundland (Canada) is.

The plague may be suspected, but the geographical illiteracy is confirmed.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...59663808839960

Brian McDonald

A new viral trend in Russia is seeing people dress as medieval plague doctors and joke about the alleged outbreak in Siberia.

Videos show people doing “get ready with me” routines before putting on the distinctive beaked masks, while others joke about choosing a plague-doctor costume as their essential autumn accessory.

It follows the death of a 28-year-old employee of an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk.

The Kremlin has issued a cautious response to the Irkutsk plague scare, referring questions to Russia’s public-health watchdog rather than commenting directly on whether plague was involved.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, just now, “the main agency competent in this area is Rospotrebnadzor it's their official statements that we should rely on, rather than listening to various rumours and speculation.”

“Rospotrebnadzor employs highly qualified professionals in this field,” Peskov added. “Let's listen to their official statements.”

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...96718299005175

Brian McDonald

REN TV reports that at least 197 people have been identified as having had contact with a woman suspected of having pneumonic plague in Russia’s Irkutsk region, with more than 100 currently hospitalized for observation.

Some of those hospitalized are displaying symptoms, according to the channel’s source, although their admission is described as a precautionary measure and no conclusions have been reached that they are infected. Authorities also plan to hospitalize people who subsequently came into contact with those already under observation.

The woman died at the Shelekhov District Hospital on October 1 after developing what was suspected to be pneumonic plague.


JUST IN: A woman has died from suspected pneumonic plague in Siberia's Irkutsk region, according to local media, prompting authorities to quarantine part of a district hospital.

The woman, reportedly an employee of an anti-plague research institute, had recently returned from a work trip and the pneumonic plague was identified after she was admitted to Shelekhov District Hospital, where she later died, Gazeta reports.

Regional authorities have confirmed a suspected case of an “especially dangerous infection” but haven't publicly named the disease. Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Anna Popova has travelled to the region and joined an emergency anti-epidemic commission meeting.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...99488766845091

More here via News Arena:

Source: https://news-arena.org/topics/2048/e...1/stories/4355

Peskov's Irkutsk infection response

Oct 5

An unidentified journalist asks whether the Kremlin is monitoring the situation in the Irkutsk region, citing reports that an anti-plague institute employee contracted plague and contrasting them with Rospotrebnadzor's account of pneumonia of unknown origin. Dmitry Peskov identifies Rospotrebnadzor as the competent lead agency, urges reliance on its official statements rather than rumors or speculation, and praises its professionals. He does not directly confirm Kremlin monitoring or give a categorical diagnosis or denial of plague in this excerpt.

At his October 5, 2026 Kremlin conference call, Dmitry Peskov responds to a question about reported infection of an Irkutsk-region anti-plague institute employee. The journalist contrasts plague reports with Rospotrebnadzor's description of pneumonia of unknown origin. Peskov calls Rospotrebnadzor the competent lead agency and urges listeners to heed its official statements rather than rumors and speculation, praising its expertise. The response does not directly confirm Kremlin monitoring or categorically determine the illness.

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[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

Russia’s public health watchdog says Western-media reports that strict epidemiological restrictions have been imposed in the Irkutsk region (due to an alleged plague outbreak) are false, and that the situation remains “calm.”

Rospotrebnadzor (equivalent to America's CDC) insisted no enhanced sanitary regime or other restrictions had been introduced following the death of an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute.

The agency said extensive testing found no microorganisms associated with the woman’s professional work, while two investigations found no biological-safety incident at the institute.

Medical monitoring has now ended for 60% of people who had contact with the woman, the statement adds

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...08774474674594

[Ravenlocke]

The Joey Goode Show

Oct 5
She literally released this fictional book in July.

It’s about a Russian pneumonic plague leak from Siberia. 🤡

https://x.com/Real_MrGoode/status/2107122013055983877

7̵7̵7̵_IS_666

BIOLOGICAL WAR by Anne Jacobsen was just published a few months ago and is about the PNEUMONIC PLAGUE starting in RUSSIA after a lab accident.

Annie Jacobsen’s narrative non-fiction thriller maps a minute-by-minute, ticking-clock progression of a global biological catastrophe.

• The Inciting Incident: In Siberia (RUSSIA), an accidental fire and explosion rock the secretive, high-security Vector Institute (a real Biosafety Level 4 facility). A laboratory technician accidentally unleashes a weaponized pathogen, flees in panic into the tundra, and dies. Hunters discover his body, contract the illness, and unwittingly spark a chain reaction of global transmission.

• The Pathogen: The virus is a modified strain of PNEUMONIC PLAGUE (Yersinia pestis). It is a genetically engineered "chimera pathogen" designed by Soviet Cold War scientists under the bioweapons division, Biopreparat.

• The "Booby Trap" Mechanism: Unlike ordinary plague, this strain is engineered with an insidious twist. Early symptoms deliver a manic, neurochemical "high" that drives patients to feel euphoric and highly social, exponentially increasing early spread. More terrifyingly, the pathogen is antibiotic-resistant. If doctors attempt to treat the patient with standard antibiotics, the medicine acts as a genetic "booby trap"—triggering an engineered encephalitic toxin that causes rapid neurological destruction and death.

• The Global Fallout: A traveler passes through Siberia, catches the plague, and carries it on flights to major hubs. Because the Russian government strictly denies the existence of the illegal weapon and refuses to share genetic sequencing data, international health organizations fail to isolate the threat. Within weeks, public health infrastructure fails, supply chains snap, martial law is invoked, and global civilization collapses into a plague-ravaged wasteland


https://x.com/777_IS_666/status/2107271536168350007

[Ravenlocke]

Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®


BREAKING—lab worker in Siberian Anti-Plague Lab dies from a fulminant pneumonia in a few days. Epidemiologist Nic Hulscher concerned it may be a bioweapon and Dr McCullough is suspicious it’s indeed pneumonic plague from Yersinia pestis—possibly modified to be resistant to antibiotics. Courtesy FINNERTY, NewsMax.
@RobFinnertyUSA

@NEWSMAX

@NicHulscher

@McCulloughFund

https://x.com/onlyjustbegun21/status...14018859749684

RT

Israel reportedly only country currently developing mRNA vaccine against PNEUMONIC PLAGUE as outbreak fears raise concerns

Researchers at Tel Aviv University & Israel Institute for Biological Research, led by Dan Peer, tested experimental vaccine in mice

Would you take it?

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2107073305656308024

[Tintin]

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®


BREAKING—lab worker in Siberian Anti-Plague Lab dies from a fulminant pneumonia in a few days. Epidemiologist Nic Hulscher concerned it may be a bioweapon and Dr McCullough is suspicious it’s indeed pneumonic plague from Yersinia pestis—possibly modified to be resistant to antibiotics. Courtesy FINNERTY, NewsMax.
@RobFinnertyUSA

@NEWSMAX

@NicHulscher

@McCulloughFund

https://x.com/onlyjustbegun21/status...14018859749684

RT

Israel reportedly only country currently developing mRNA vaccine against PNEUMONIC PLAGUE as outbreak fears raise concerns

Researchers at Tel Aviv University & Israel Institute for Biological Research, led by Dan Peer, tested experimental vaccine in mice

Would you take it?

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2107073305656308024

Quick view, maybe right, maybe wrong. McCullough and Robert Malone made some very sensible and perhaps accurate calls on COVID, but we are in 9/11 truther/skeptic territory here. Both have invested so much time in the para-social millieu, that now defines them as an alternative source of, let's say, employment, that I do have to now hold them both a little at arms length. Malone really doesn't need to comment on everything (much like Bret Weinstein). My view, definitely not expert, is that the whole plague narrative is a gigantic psyop.

Engagement bait for the less discerning, maybe.

[Ravenlocke]

This is a very nice song and catchy..The subtitles in the video are in English.

🇷🇺 Home in Russia | Jozef Schutzman

"С НАМИ БОГ" | "GOD IS WITH US"
⬇️RUSSIAN/ENGLISH DESCRIPTION BELOW⬇️

This song is a tribute to the brothers from some grateful Americans who now call Russia: "Home."

For those who defend their country, their families, their traditions, and the Faith of their fathers.

A cross beneath his armour. A daughter’s drawing in his pocket. Birch trees and an old apple tree waiting at home. From a smoky dugout to a triumphant chorus, it brings together Christian faith, love of country, loyalty to comrades, and the dry humour of men living close to death.

“God Is With Us” is an original Russian-language folk song told through the voice of a Russian soldier.

Through the declarations of resolve runs a quieter wish: to return home, stand his son beside the old apple tree, and watch him grow. The song ends with a simple prayer: “Lord, have mercy.” Russian vocals · English subtitles #GodIsWithUs #СНамиБог #RussianFolk
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Эта песня дань уважения братьям от благодарных американцев, для которых Россия стала родным домом.

Тем, кто защищает свою страну, свои семьи, свои традиции и веру своих отцов.

Крест под бронёй. Дочкин рисунок в кармане. Берёзы и старая яблоня, которые ждут его дома. От дымного блиндажа до торжествующего хорового припева в песне переплетаются христианская вера, любовь к Родине, верность товарищам и сдержанный юмор людей, каждый день живущих рядом со смертью.

«С нами Бог» оригинальная песня на русском языке с народным звучанием, рассказанная от лица русского солдата.

Сквозь слова решимости звучит тихое желание: вернуться домой, поставить сына рядом со старой яблоней и смотреть, как он растёт.

Песня завершается простой молитвой: «Господи, помилуй».

Вокал на русском языке · Английские субтитры

#GodIsWithUs #СНамиБог #RussianFolk

https://x.com/HomeinRussia/status/2107335041005101082

[Tintin]

Source, with the text: "Here we go again"

Our enemies are becoming really really bad at this propaganda stuff aren't they



Regarding the Taylor Swift video segment I shared, I'd meant to add a smiley of some sort, but was posting quickly before heading out to work. The real lyrics are of course here, if anybody wishes to torture themselves with them; I'd recommend one didn't.

[Tintin]

'Plague' update:

Sourced from https://x.com/patriot_senior/status/2107807595117289856

🇷🇺 IRKUTSK - THE FACTS ARE STARTING TO SPEAK.

The case presented for several days as a possible "plague epidemic" is taking a very different turn as verifiable data accumulates.

➡️ Russia has officially responded to the WHO under the International Health Regulations.

➡️ The WHO confirms that the Russian authorities informed it that no recent cases of plague had been recorded in the Irkutsk Oblast.

➡️ No high-risk pathogen has been detected in the contacts.

➡️ According to Rospotrebnadzor, nearly 5,000 laboratory analyses have now been conducted: no dangerous pathogenic microorganism has been identified.

➡️ More than 90% of the people placed under surveillance have been released without any infectious manifestation related to the event.

➡️ The only infections found in the contacts: 2 cases of Covid-19 and 2 rhinoviruses.

➡️ Two biosafety commissions, according to the Russian health authorities, found no accidents during the handling of pathogenic microorganisms at the Anti-Plague Institute.

At this stage, there is therefore no element establishing a plague epidemic, secondary transmission of plague, or even a second confirmed case.

One question nevertheless remains open: the exact cause of the severe pneumonia that led to the employee's death. The WHO is still requesting clarifications from Moscow on this point, as well as on the rumors concerning a second sick employee.

Here is the rigorous formulation:

"Confirmed plague": NO.
"Second case of plague": NO.
"Plague epidemic in Irkutsk": NO.
Medical investigation completely closed: NOT YET.

Between health caution and media frenzy, there is a difference: the facts.

Sources: WHO / Tedros Ghebreyesus, UN Geneva, Rospotrebnadzor, Reuters, Interfax - October 6 and 7, 2026.

[Tintin]

Posted by Tintin (here)
Source, with the text: "Here we go again"

Our enemies are becoming really really bad at this propaganda stuff aren't they



Regarding the Taylor Swift video segment I shared, I'd meant to add a smiley of some sort, but was posting quickly before heading out to work. The real lyrics are of course here, if anybody wishes to torture themselves with them; I'd recommend one didn't.

An update

[Tintin]

Posted by Tintin (here)

Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH®


BREAKING—lab worker in Siberian Anti-Plague Lab dies from a fulminant pneumonia in a few days. Epidemiologist Nic Hulscher concerned it may be a bioweapon and Dr McCullough is suspicious it’s indeed pneumonic plague from Yersinia pestis—possibly modified to be resistant to antibiotics. Courtesy FINNERTY, NewsMax.
@RobFinnertyUSA

@NEWSMAX

@NicHulscher

@McCulloughFund

https://x.com/onlyjustbegun21/status...14018859749684

RT

Israel reportedly only country currently developing mRNA vaccine against PNEUMONIC PLAGUE as outbreak fears raise concerns

Researchers at Tel Aviv University & Israel Institute for Biological Research, led by Dan Peer, tested experimental vaccine in mice

Would you take it?

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2107073305656308024

Quick view, maybe right, maybe wrong. McCullough and Robert Malone made some very sensible and perhaps accurate calls on COVID, but we are in 9/11 truther/skeptic territory here. Both have invested so much time in the para-social millieu, that now defines them as an alternative source of, let's say, employment, that I do have to now hold them both a little at arms length. Malone really doesn't need to comment on everything (much like Bret Weinstein). My view, definitely not expert, is that the whole plague narrative is a gigantic psyop.

Engagement bait for the less discerning, maybe.

....and thank you Sasha Latypova

McCullough sadly lost his marbles, or this is his TWC grift talking. There is no "bioweapons grade yersinia pestis", you boob. It's a fragile bacterium that needs specific culturing conditions and will not survive even a couple of hours outside of a lab. It cannot transmit person to person. It is next to impossible to infect anyone on purpose with it. Many decades of attempts by the Japanese, US and Russian bioweapons programs failed. Stop this bull****. Embarrassing.

[Johnnycomelately]

More thought on this death, about likely circumstances here, and about comparable natural events in even recent years. Summary: not a big deal.

However, John C. sees it primarily as a problem of coverup, of opacity (not releasing info that is known). He ties it to the stonewalls of info that characterized, and still do, the reaction of official medicine to da covid fail.

L = 26:34.


Thursday, Plague update

Dr. John Campbell
3.34M subscribers

Oct 8, 2026

Full review on my sub stack, https://johninengland.substack.com/p/...

Update, Russia Plague Lab Leak

Unconfirmed reports about a possible second death

Russia is now openly denying reports of a second case

WHO is checking in with Russia

Central unanswered question

What pathogen caused Darya Shipilova's fatal pneumonia?

Has Yersinia pestis been definitively excluded by laboratory testing?

Russian public health watchdog, thousands of tests, no dangerous pathogens have been found.

Darya Shipilova probably did not die of plague

Causes for concern

POTUS to call Putin soon (big problem for Russia)

US formally, confidential diplomatic communication, (démarche)

Scale of the Russian response

Staff quarantined, local worker instructed to wear masks, several hospitals in Irkutsk closed for a three-week quarantine, Doctors “already openly talking about plague”.

Public events in Irkutsk, cancelled, citywide community clean-up due last Saturday, was officially postponed

Not acting like its plague, acting like it’s something else, e.g. death in Arizona last year.

US, about 7 cases per year, usually from Prairie dogs

1924, last human to human transmission in US

Plague is endemic in Russia, especially SE Russia, near Mongolia.

Russia acting like it is a transmissible disease

Potential to be viral

Plague escape protocols are well rehearsed

Deaths despite antibiotics

Drug resistance plague?

Death despite prophylactic antibiotics

Engineering antibiotic resistance is possible

Mongolia, Kazakhstan, impose “health surveillance”

Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute, history

For Anti-Plague, read biolab.

How much Russia is using AI for research

Lack of transparency in UK and US as well.

Known Unknowns

Precise diagnostic and PM reports

Microbiological reports, genome sequences

Route of exposure

Exactly what happened in the lab

Did containment and reporting procedures work
Russian covert motivation?

Weaponised microorganism?

Level of antibiotic resistance

Enhance person to person spread capabilities

Darya Shipilova (Glubina)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new...

Svetlana Shipilova

“I know the truth,”

“I’m having to fend off stupid acquaintances who believed all this – the clever ones didn’t believe it, of course.

“Not even all medical professionals understand it’s impossible to break a test tube like that,”

“Even if you fling it at the wall. Only an amateur could say something like that.

“Even hypothetically, you simply can’t spill what’s inside or break the tube – they’re that well protected.”

“They simply let my daughter die.”
Russia and transparency

1979 anthrax accident in Sverdlovsk, former Soviet Union.

Spores were accidentally released from a military facility.

Death toll, CDC puts it at a minimum of around 65 to 70 deaths from (inhalational of anthrax), deaths occurred April 1979.

May 1992, Boris Yeltsin acknowledged that it had in fact resulted from Soviet military bio-weapons work.

About 13 years of denial.

Chernobyl accident, April 26th, 1986

Explosions, graphite fire, huge amount of radioactive material into the atmosphere.

Pripyat evacuated 36 hours later

May Day parades, Kyiv went ahead, May 1st

Alarms in Sweden and England


New R value?

Madagascar 2017 — mean R₀ = 2.4

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30450...

Estimation of Pneumonic Plague Transmission in Madagascar, August-November 2017

2,500 cases



CDC, Pneumonic plague

R₀ = 1.18

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/r...

Came from CDC analysis of all reported primary pneumonic plague cases in the US from 1900 to 2009.

San Francisco in 1904
Oakland in 1919
Los Angeles in 1924.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qI70PXRIUI8

[grapevine]

Annie Jacobsen Warns: Watch What Happens Next in Russia

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQniwebUQWk

24:41
"Author and investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Michael Smerconish as troubling reports emerge from Russia involving a scientist’s death, quarantine measures and fears surrounding pneumonic plague.

The story bears an unsettling resemblance to Jacobsen’s recent book, “Biological War: A Scenario,” which imagines a dangerous pathogen escaping from a maximum-containment laboratory in Siberia and rapidly spreading around the world.

Jacobsen explains what pneumonic plague is, why researchers take it so seriously, the history of Soviet biological weapons research and what signs she will be watching as information continues to emerge from Russia. But she also makes an important distinction: we do not yet know exactly what happened inside the Russian facility, whether a pathogen escaped, or whether anything involved was genetically modified or weaponized.

So what would constitute a genuine warning sign? According to Jacobsen, reports of additional deaths — particularly pneumonic plague cases appearing outside Russia — would dramatically raise the level of concern.

Michael and Annie discuss what we know, what we don’t, and why getting reliable information may be the biggest challenge of all."

Interesting discussion here and the jury's still out as to the reality of the situation. Annie J (whose honeyed tones should be available on prescription) said that Russia has labs researching the plague virus because Russia still gets plague - like many other countries in the world - but that these labs also research bio weapons. She added that the person who broke the phiall would 100% be vaccinated and would also have gone straight into quarantine.

My view: the problem with biological warfare is the danger of the virus mutating making vaccination irrelevant, even for the originator. The fear it creates works for both sides.

[Ravenlocke]

Brian McDonald

Mad video from Cape Chelyuskin, the northernmost point of mainland Eurasia, deep inside the Russian Arctic. Three polar bears broke into the meteorologists’ building yesterday, forcing staff to enlist the canine battalion to drive them away.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...83378373877826