Where’s the Zaporozhe “offensive”, Tony, Brian…, Maureen?
Or, The First Of The Anti-Tyranny “Terrorism”; Part Two: Alternative Media
Although this is an article in the series about the conviction of Oliver Lewin, it has to deal with English-language, always controlled opposition, alternative media that agitated a man to the extent that he could be imprisoned as a terrorist. And because this is not just a case of well-meaning people causing unfortunate reactions in their audience for which they shouldn’t be held accountable, but is in fact a matter of design, this also has to deal with the closed-system network of alternative media that, by its being an uninterrupted environment that offers no real choice in the same way as does corporate-media, which it is ancillary to by offering a second chance of exposure to the controlled message, leads by the nose in every sphere of information it concerns itself with, so that there is, one way or another, complete redirection of the audience (which explains the title, as the reader will see).
When we come to look at it later on in this series, we will see that Oliver Lewin could not have committed the so-called terrorist acts that he was accused of plotting. In fact, the official presiding over the farce which was the trial of Britain’s first “anti-tyranny terrorist” (as coined at this place) recognised the fact in his lenient sentencing.
However, because UK Government has also defined terrorism as preparing to commit the act, in order to obtain a successful conviction the prosecution of a terror case can insinuate from what might be quite innocent deeds performed by the suspect, coloured by what is claimed to be motivation, and potential. Of course, by its very nature, all motivation for terrorism is political with the quality of tending to violence – and this is where the “potential” comes in.
In Lewin’s case, he was accused of wanting to damage infrastructure in an effort to overthrow the Tory executive (this was quite specifically stated, for those who can tell the difference between the executive and government). With his political motivation coming from being against lockdowns on the pretext of a public health crisis, his potential was established by an alleged interest in some specifically “Covid-19”-related “conspiracy theories”, and other libels against certain people which would bound to make him appear to be suitably unhinged. As such, his political radicalism could be interpreted as being extreme. Indeed, that Lewin as a “conspiracy theorist” was something that corporate-media coverage wanted to make quite plain, quite obviously to discredit him in the court of public opinion reflecting the effort to convict him in the trial.
In a set of circumstances that should not come as a surprise to an FBEL reader, at least one of Lewin’s ideas relating to “Covid-19” that could be, and was used to malign him would clearly have been encouraged by what was at the time of the lockdowns staple output of big name UK alternative media: namely, that “Covid-19 vaccines” were intended to cause a “genocide”. The agitation caused by this input clearly worked in conjunction with intelligence agent loaded online forums that appear to have goaded Lewin into behaving as if he appeared to be preparing to commit acts of violence.
Now, the influencing activity of the informants is a subject for later in the series. This article is interested in the part played by alternative media in getting Oliver Lewin convicted as a terrorist.
In actual fact, there were two “Covid-19” specific (or related) “conspiracy theories” that Lewin was said to subscribe to, and these were that “vaccine passports” would disqualify people from society, and that the “vaccine” was a means to commit mass murder. In fact, Lewin was supposed to have put stock in variations where there is victimisation of the majority racial demographic (completing the impression to be had that he was an extremist), but these were the basic apprehensions he was labouring beneath.
Of course, none of this nonsense was purveyed at this site. Regarding the notion of people being excluded for not having taken a “vaccine”, it was stated that, if such an apartheid was ever realised, it presented an opportunity to build an alternative system that could out-compete the “health-crisis” adjusted official one. More importantly, it was pointed out that “vaccine” refusal could damage the capability to establish a two-tiered partitioning because too many would be within the excluded alternative (which would be too competitive).
On the other hand, consider an article published by UK Column on 23rd December, 2020, written by the Tweedledum to Patrick Henningsen’s Tweedledee, Mike Robinson, entitled Immunity Passports: The Desperation of Fact Checkers. It disputes a Reuters “fact checked” claim that UK Government had awarded a contract to develop a “Covid-19 Certification/Passport” and not a “vaccine passport”. And then there is this key paragraph (emphasis added):
The level of hair-splitting here is off the charts. This may not specifically be a “vaccine passport”, but since the British government has itself been so keen to conflate immunisation with vaccination (itself misinformation, since the vaccine does not provide immunity), it’s hardly surprising that people do the same.
The bone of contention is “Negative COVID Test Status Evidence” that manifests as a QR code. As hard as one looks, the matter of immunisation doesn’t come into it. The “Covid-19 Certification” is purely about evidencing a negative test. However, through this misrepresentation, the connection to “vaccines” has been made (and as it turns out, people don’t do any conflation until their media influencers suggest it to them). The article then proceeds to scare using its writer’s own suppositions:
Consider: every individual in the UK is denied access to workplaces, educational centres, health and social care services, and places of business unless they can prove their immunity status. They must have a QR code scanned every time they go to work, school, the dentist and the supermarket.
As for the purpose of “vaccines”, it was always said at this site that they were like any allopathic medicine in that they would damage the individual subject to them, and they were par for the course in ensnaring victims into pharmaceutical drugs dependency. In fact, warnings were issued:
Beware, reader, of alternative media and its doomsday coverage of “Covid-19 vaccine”. The big pharmaceutical companies cannot make big bucks siphoning off tax-payers’ money through its social healthcare partners and client creators (the NHS, in the UK) if everyone is dead. If everyone is only sick, on the other hand, and keeps on being sick, then the demand through social healthcare for pharmaceutical product will be sustained, and the taxpayers’ money, tolerated as part of the social healthcare bill, will keep flowing to the pharmaceutical companies.
Indeed, the FBEL article, No UK Government Vaccine Triumph Suggests No Culling Of The Over-80s, Actually, was – as is indicated by the reference to an operation run by ex-military in a military town – a reaction to another UK Column outrage. There’s more to tell about the doings of this outreach unit in this respect, but a quick detour must be taken to look at the influential work of a certain Vernon Coleman, friend of UK Column and in the past a corporate-media columnist.
In his article entitled, Covid-19 Vaccines Are Weapons of Mass Destruction – and Could Wipe out the Human Race, Coleman takes “Covid-19 vaccine” mass death fantasy to a new level by claiming it will be dangerous to those who don’t receive one:
Disastrously, by giving vaccines to millions we are teaching the virus how to mutate and to become stronger and more deadly. Trying to devise new vaccines for new mutations simply makes things worse because the scientists cannot possibly get ahead of the mutated viruses. And the people who have been vaccinated are now sharing mutated viruses with those around them. The mutations are becoming stronger and deadlier.
Of course, that Coleman, at the heart of this activity, is reinforcing the false paradigm that the spread of a standalone “virus” (that is capable of invading any host equally) is at the crux of the “Covid-19” illness (rather than it being a protein at the lung promoted by allopathic medicine – search this site for ACE2) automatically disqualifies him as one more interested in doling out bedtime fairy tales to induce nightmares. That he is also a vegan who promotes vegetarianism signals that he is an accessory to the bad health of his audience rather than one who works for the good of it.
Corbyn, Coleman, and Jesus
Needless to say, however, Coleman was a speaker, along with the discredited Piers Corbyn and the Son of Icke (David) at one Trafalgar Square rally at least. The date was 24th July 2021, absolutely coinciding with those attempts to invigorate crowds for being incriminated as explained earlier in this series.
Indeed, it has been documented in these pages how UK Column has also found to be encouraging attendance at Trafalgar Square rallies, and therefore to be caught in the trap of being involved in staged acts of violence (and whatever organic escalation might come from that). This makes the operation quite the major culprit if one also considers its part in the existence of a theory whereby the “vaccines” were going to cause a genocide. In fact, the point of germination may well be a particular special edition of UK Column which featured an interview with an unnamed source, with “the voice… changed to protect her identity”, claiming to be senior NHS personnel. The event was titled Senior NHS Board Member Warns: Stop The Genocide Or Our Children Are Next, and the intent to be sensational is made automatically clear.
There perhaps should be full analysis of a transcript that UK Column made available of a conversation between a “whistle-blower” and ex-military man and UK Column chief, Brian Gerrish, but not at this time. It suffices for the moment to look at the presentation of this edition through UK Column’s twitter promotions, and note the instruction to audience to disseminate a message of “genocide”: “Retweets give power to the message. Please ReTweet”. Indicating much less than full conviction in their story, UK Column, in fact, wouldn’t take responsibility for the terminology: “genocide was her word, not ours”. However, guilt cannot be wriggled out of so easily: it is exactly because this whistle-blower was anonymous that UK Column is culpable for the material it produces. The anonymity of the whistle-blower means the whole revelatory event can be treated as a potential fiction – and it certainly is not beneath UK Column to engage in this sort of thing (see the second listed article at the foot of the page). It is feasible to accuse UK Column of creating an Orson Welles style fabrication to engender agitation in its audience, and for assisting in the creation of a media environment out of which individuals can be plucked and convicted as terrorists.
Indeed, this is not just a case of some alternative media being a bit careless. The nature of UK Column is not only to be discerned by its message activity, but by its place in the controlled opposition closed system, which is about to be demonstrated.
Firstly, a word about this second tier media which is ancillary to the corporate version. Consider how at the primary layer of broadcast media, people turn on their TV and are allowed a limited choice: BBC, ITV, or Sky, for example. Moreover, these same companies (and one of two more) own the other channels – certainly if they are doing current affairs. The same has been achieved with the alternative media that, in can be argued, in the early days captured the internet to be oppositional to government: people wanting to expose the Oklahoma bombing, for instance, used it as another desperately needed outlet. Alternative media was diluted a long time ago so that it mirrors the mainstream (because some alternative media is corporate) in that it has its pro-government perspective split into the usual factions, but as a whole, and in terms of what gets consumed the most – and this is managed by direction of audiences – it offers the same non choice as mainstream media. The direction is done by having big names refer each other. They appear on each other’s shows. A big name in one “for-government” faction attacks another. All of these attack the “against-government” big name, and vice versa. It creates the impression of towering importance, so that fame, or infamy, represents a conduit into the information just as if they were the buttons on a TV to select channels.
When much younger, the author saw a television interview with an A&R man in the music industry, who insisted there was no talent out there waiting to be discovered that he hadn’t yet. The author thought this an incredible statement to make, but since being on the margins of alternative media for over a decade, has finally understood what it means. This A&R man was saying that the people who control the industry had all the talent they needed. Plus, it doesn’t matter if it is out there waiting to be discovered – when the people who control the industry want new output, they’ll find talent as they like. What is important is that the people who control the industry control exposure, or create the names and the gravity which attracts support. It’s the same with “news media”, with the controllers being military intelligence. And with that being the case, there could be nothing easier than assigning its own personnel as the talent.
Take UK Column’s Alex Thomson. His write-up at the UK Column goes like this:
After learning what today’s British Establishment was all about at Rugby School and Cambridge, Alex Thomson served in a Christian mission in the former Soviet Union and went on to spend the rest of his twenties as a GCHQ officer.
He moved to the Netherlands aged thirty in 2009 and has spent the last decade more quietly as a translator and interpreter and a researcher of networked evil.
Since 2014, Alex has presented his emerging findings via the Eastern Approaches brand on UK Column News, where his specialisms are Europe, geopolitics, religious affairs and constitutional matters.
This describes the career of a spy, with career moves being reassignments. Apparently, however, people can be fooled into thinking otherwise when this career is characterised as “leaning all about” Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, presumably just so that Thomson, when he’s done spying on them from Cheltenham, and living in the land of the Hague and its umpteen international bodies (spying, perhaps? Working for NATO?), can alert the Muggles just in time about their predicament.
As it happens, Alex Thomson was a guest on “Roundtable podcast #25”, which is the product of Gonzalo Lira, or the Prisoner of Kharkov as he is referred to around here. Of course, Lira’s situation is so implausible, what with his living in Ukraine, and having been arrested by Ukrainian secret police, then released (after alternative media scared its audience about him being murdered), and still being able to carry out his activity against the anti-Russian axis, that the only way that the author can explain it is that he’s actually one of them: an American asset. There’s not much room to go into this, but one notices Lira is an Ivy Leaguer who got into novel writing and filmmaking soon after graduating, and had immediate success. The author supposes he was assigned “talent”.
Anyway, Lira’s shows are a who’s who of alternative media geopolitical analysis, and featuring more than once has been Brian Berletic, a man who has been described satirically in these pages before as
an ex-US Marine who surprisingly didn’t go into US intelligence but became an alternative media poster-boy journalist/analyst instead.
The author’s complaints about Berletic are manifold, but the biggest is about how he victimised his audience regarding a Ukrainian “offensive” into Russian-held Zaporozhe. The reader can look at this history in the above linked-to article†, although it is only half of the story. After discerning the full extent, of Ukrainian ambitions regarding their Human Wave forward manoeuvres of late 2022 (as described in the article, The Offensive That Isn’t On 17th December: Russian Activity In The Kupyansk And Krasny Liman Directions), and realising that they had not been realised, and most of all not in Zaporozhe, something became obvious:
there should have been a Ukrainian attack using the momentum of – so in the same time frame as – the movements into Kherson and Kharkov. That it was planned this way is why the insider alternative media was able to predict a “Zaporozhe offensive”, and kept predicting it even when all prospect of it had been dashed.
Of course, the one particular insider that the author had in mind was Brian Berletic.
Berletic makes it all very easy to doubt by having a delightfully shadowy background. Famously, his other pseudonym is Tony Cartalucci, a name long associated with the Land Destroyer website which has been in existence since May 2009. Interestingly, RationalWiki.org maintains an entry about this site, stating that it is written by an “undetermined number of authors”. Nevertheless, all material was produced under the name of Tony Cartalucci until about October 2020 when Brian Berletic started to be credited.
Although it very much appears that Berletic dropped his Catalucci identity as a matter of business (as will be explained), he seems to claim that there was some pressure from being exposed in the less than open way he worked, as he explains:
Since around 2014 ex-senior Reuters correspondent Andrew MacGregor Marshall began claiming I was Michael Pirsch – an elderly American expat who at that time wrote 2-3 articles under his real name and heavily relied on my work as a source. There was never any evidence, yet this lie took deep root among MacGregor’s followers and even across the Western corporate media – at great cost to Michael Pirsch himself.
As a matter of fact, information supplied by Berletic himself in the form of screenshots (reproduced at the foot of the page) shows that MacGregor Marshall said that “Tony Cartalucci” was Michael Pirsch, not that Michael Pirsch was Brian Berletic. Indeed, more of the same information alleges that after Pirsch, aka Cartalucci (allegedly) was banned from Facebook and Twitter for “suspicious coordinated activity” he assumed a new pseudonym, Somchai Chaihat. Does this have anything to do with Brian Berltic? Well, of course he would say yes, because he claims to have been Tony Cartalucci. But look at the images shown below. On the left, Brian Berletic. On the right, a different face, most certainly, and one that the author even remembers being associated with Tony Cartalucci back in the day.
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On the other hand, Berletic shares a commonality with Cartalucci when he admits
Twitter and Facebook not only deleted accounts created under my pen names, erasing years of work and thousands of followers, but also erased my real accounts I used to promote my community work in real life.
This drama evidently happened in July 2019, and the New Eastern Outlook (NEO), the publication that Cartalucci contributed to (from 2014 to 2021), reported on it:
All Facebook and Twitter accounts associated with Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci have been deleted. The extent to which both American-based tech companies went to target Cartalucci could be seen in a recent Reuters article reporting on it.
Unsurprisingly, the NEO’s perspective was that Cartalucci was specifically being censored. Reuters, on the other hand, provided something slightly more objective, reporting that Facebook had had a purge across four countries, taking down 294 accounts, 1509 pages, and 32 groups for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”. Moreover, the action was “based on deceptive behaviour (and not the nature of the content posted”. The Reuters report continued, citing Facebook’s Head of Cybersecurity Policy, and made reference specifically to Cartalucci, although not be name, but it would also document action taken on accounts emanating from Russia, Ukraine and Honduras:
The accounts removed in Thailand used “fictitious personas” to promote narratives about Thai politics, U.S.-China relations, protests in Hong Kong, and criticism of democracy activists in Thailand…
We were able to determine conclusively that some of the activities of this network was linked to an individual based in Thailand associated with New Eastern Outlook, a Russian government-funded journal based in Moscow.
Now, with all this data to process, it is hard to focus on how it amounts to this: Tony Cartalucci has a history of what can only be construed as being some very shady activity. Brian Berletic makes a claim to owning it.
In October, 2020, when Berletic wrote an article to explain why he was dropping his pseudonyms (Who is “Tony Cartalucci?”), he told of how it was for the purpose of operating without being censored, which we must take to mean avoiding being curtailed by punishment for working coordinated puppet accounts.
It will allow me to give interviews to media networks around the globe and create content with an impact that mere articles cannot have – while reaching much wider audiences.
This is interesting, because it is clearly about becoming a name with a face, and because it coincides with the launching of his visual persona and video work, must be about the new approach for “Tony Cartalluci”, as explained in a December 2020 article entitled, Land Destroyer Now Does Daily News Videos:
(Brian Berletic aka Tony Cartalucci – LD) – For years I have written articles for Land Destroyer regarding geopolitics, US military intervention, and the use of so-called “soft power.” I now have a YouTube channel and a BitChute channel where I do videos as well as articles.
This is why it was said that Berletic left behind his role-juggling as a matter of business: it was about the launch of a new product. If one examines the procession of entries on Land Destroyer, the videos start on and after October 29, 2020, and everything is attributed to Berletic. Before that date, (when it’s not being penned by “guests”) each written article is a Cartalucci.
And this is ultimately why the author believes that Berletic doesn’t necessarily have to be Cartalucci.
First and foremost, it is very hard to accept that Cartalucci, after eleven years of being uniquely literary, felt capable of becoming what is the equivalent of a TV presenter. Berletic is very slick. He even knows how to lean dynamically into the camera.
Secondly, there is that image of Cartalucci, which the author actually suspects is a cardboard cut-out, as with the persona, for a character worked by a lot of operatives – an idea that suggests itself because of how, thirdly, there is this shady business of Cartalucci being a fake identity along with who knows how many other fake identities to, quite feasibly, support the work being produced in the name of Cartalucci, as is suggested by the reasoning for the Facebook banning. It’s dodgy, and there’s no getting away from it.
So, what all the information presented here suggests to the author is that Berletic could have been an operator of these accounts without necessarily being Cartalucci.
With that stated, and returning to the purpose of this piece, who do we find helping to promote the new product with a video interview with Berletic in December 2020 but none other than UK Column’s Patrick Henningsen in an edition of what appears to be his personal vehicle, 21st Century Wire (the reader will please perform an internet search for “Interview by Patrick Henningsen of 21st Century Wire”).
Henningsen, of course, not unlike “Cartalucci” who had his own long association with the organisation, previously was an agent attached to InfoWars (see the articles listed 2 and 4 at the foot of the page), which has always been discredited since William Cooper designated Alex Jones a liar at the very commencement of the latter’s career (later reckoning him to be CIA), and long before the organisation was discovered as having an association with Stratfor (the CIA for the 21st century, as some argue).
“21st Century Wire”, writes Berletic, “has helped share my articles for many years when I wrote anonymously under the pen name Tony Cartalucci – and hopefully this is the first of many interviews and video collaborations I will be doing with them in the future now that I’m out in the open.”
Not the use of the word “them”, because Henningsen surely won’t be running that operation on his own, if he’s running it at all.
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Related:
1. Versus Controlled Opposition/The Truth Industrial Complex* On Twitter (link)
2. The Times Outs Controlled Alternative Media; Part One: A Preamble (link)
3. The Times Outs Controlled Alternative Media; Part Two: The Project To Conflate Anti-Lockdown With Extremism By Every Measure That UK Government Can Conceive Of (link)
4. The Trafalgar Square Turd (link)
5. The “Tommy Robinson”-Alt-Right-Infowars-QAnon Nexus Of Disinformation And Deception (link)
6. Notre Dame, Assange, And The Non-Existent Skripal Ducks; Alternative Media Does Its Thing (link)
† For convenience, here is the central bone of contention:
There’s another one [Ukrainian offensive] that we keep hearing about both from Ukrainian and pro-Russian sources, one from Zaporizhzhia pushing toward Melitopol and the point of this is to cut the land bridge from Crimea to the rest of Russia… What Ukraine is trying to do is cut Crimea off from the rest of Russia, that’s what that is meant to do. It has not been launched yet, there appeared to be obvious preparations, everyone is just holding their breath waiting for the offensive to begin. And then we had this attack [on the Crimean bridge]… Ukraine has been talking about destroying the Crimean bridge since it was built and especially from February onward this is all they’ve talked about is blowing up the Crimean bridge.
Now destroying the Crimean bridge – now think about this – you cut off the land bridge between Kherson and Crimea and the rest of Russia, but what difference does that make, is it really fully severed if you still have the Crimean bridge delivering supplies, additional troops… have you truly severed these two regions if that bridge is still standing? And the answer is no, so the timing of this attack and the fact that everyone is waiting for the Zaporizhzhia front to see action, I think that says a lot, I think they’re definitely connected, and it’s just a matter of time now – imminent – the launching of the offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region toward Melitopol.
Brian Berletic, at The New Atlas channel on YouTube, 8th October, 2022.
