The British government is threatening a professor who questioned not the entire doctrine of the war against Russia, but simply the already totally disproved claim that Russia purposefully bombed a theatre full of civilians for no specific reason.
I wonder if before the West admitted that the Ghost of Kiev and Snake Island were hoaxes, the government would have threatened people who questioned those? What about all these other hoaxes?
You just have to believe totally nonsensical gibberish, or you’re an enemy of the state.
You don’t even have to deny the gibberish. You can’t even think about the possibility that it could be wrong. All this guy did was share an article – he could have just been saying “food for thought!”
Thoughts aren’t allowed to have food anymore. There’s a food shortage.
University of Edinburgh professor Tim Hayward is being hammered in the media for sharing an article suggesting the bombing of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol may have been staged by Ukrainian nationalists. Hayward’s skepticism has already led Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to promise a “crackdown” on such wrongthink.
Hayward shared an article on Sunday from the Grayzone, a left-wing news outlet. Citing eyewitnesses in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the article claims that Ukrainian ‘Azov’ fighters – once described by western outlets and lawmakers as “neo-Nazis” – sheltered behind civilians in a theater in Mariupol, before blowing the building up as Russian forces entered the Ukrainian city.
Azov forces and journalists linked to the extremist unit accused Russia of bombing the building, and used the incident to call for western intervention against Russia. US President Joe Biden declared Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” in response, and American politicians from both parties and from Europe renewed their calls for military aid – including fighter jets – for Ukraine.
However, no video exists showing the theater being bombed and Russia denies attacking the building, stating that it had “never been considered as a strike target.” Conflicting reports of the weapons supposedly used and the civilian casualties or lack thereof only muddy the picture further.
Yet Hayward was condemned by his colleagues for raising the issue. In a Timesarticle on Tuesday accusing him of “spreading propaganda,” Dr. Aliaksandr Herasimenka, a ‘misinformation’ researcher at Oxford University, said that “we must be very careful” when reading reports critical of the official narrative in Ukraine, and that outlets like the Grayzone “are currently engaged in a massive disinformation campaign.” He did not provide any evidence that would support such allegations against the media outlet.
Hayward has been singled out by the Scottish government too. Having shared articles questioning the alleged bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol and claiming that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad did not gas his own citizens as Western sources insist, the professor was accused in Westminster last week by Tory MP Robert Halfon as being a “useful idiot for President Putin’s atrocities.”
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said that academics like Hayward were already being investigated, and that their universities would be contacted.
“Putin and his cronies are a malign influence on anyone in this country buying their false narrative, and I have to repeat it is a false and dangerous narrative, and we will crack down on it hard,” Zahawi said, without elaborating on how.
So what does that mean?
This Paki scumsucker is a government official, threatening a hard crackdown.
Are professors who share information the state disagrees with going to be arrested? Are they going to be shot?
Are they going to be taped to posts and whipped?
Since when has any Western society accepted the idea of a “hard crackdown” on university professors who share information the government doesn’t like?
What exactly has happened in the last two years?
It’s just surreal, is it not?
At Least Azov Did a Great Job Protecting Mariupol
You might not like satanic neo-Nazis who use human shields, but you have to admit – they’ve done a great job protecting their human shields in the Trve Aryan Anal Empire of Mariupol.
What brave fighters.
Grey Zone is Really Good
Grey Zone has been great, by the way. I’ve been reading their site and watching their streams. The most recent stream with Scott Ritter went off the rails a little bit. Ritter might be some kind of disinformation agent, frankly.
But for sure, the people at Grey Zone are putting out 95% good information. They don’t put out a lot of stuff, it’s a small operation, but it’s high quality.
Sometimes I feel like they’re reading my site, because they’re reaching so many of the same conclusions. But I really doubt they are, which just makes me more comfortable in my own analysis. I do hope they hear the message from me that they’re about to get banned from everything and they need a plan for that. Their streams are getting over 100,000 views, so they need to start migrating their audience to some other platform.
Personally, I think they should call up Nick Fuentes, and see if they can get on Cozy.TV. They’d fit right in. But Odysee also has working streaming now. And they should do backup uploads on BitChute.
I’m surprised they’re still on YouTube, but that won’t last long. They will also all get banned from Twitter, and get shut off of servers. I checked their Whois and they are using several services which will definitely ban them. They also need to be ready for CIA DDoS attacks from “Anonymous” – those attacks always accompany bannings.
I’ve been in this game a long time, and I can see the storm gathering – Grey Zone is going to be targeted as a “leading source of Russian disinformation” and the media is going to lead a moral outrage campaign against them.
Thankfully, there are options these days. But they should be prepared. If anyone who reads this site knows them, tell them I said that. Everyone on the internet knows what I went through, so I do have some authority to speak on this topic.