Admittedly this news came as a surprise, but, after taking the time to think about it.. It wasn’t that surprising.
Martyr for the cause..a person who suffers greatly or dies for a cause, belief, etc.
Alexei Navalny has been around for a some time He’s been presented, to western audiences, as an opposition figure in Russia for better than a decade now. By that I mean some type of real opposition. Though, he was nothing of the sort. Not really. He was the mascot/figure head of an opposition that existed more firmly in the minds of Americans, Canadians and Europeans.
My suspicion is that Navalny is more valuable as a western intelligence asset, dead.
- His usefulness alive was virtually non existent.
- He was no real opposition leader or figure head. He had no real support among the Russian citizens
- Coming hot on the heels of the wildly successful Tucker Carlson interview with Putin- this timely death puts Russia back in a negative light. And Putin is back to being presented as a killer.
- The catastrophe that is Avdiivka can be ignored. Ukraine left man to die. They used them as fodder. This loss comes right after Zaluzhny appoints the butcher to lead the military
Avdiivka- Attempts To Escape From The Encirclement Turned Out To Be A Disaster. Military Summary For 2024.2.16
Avdiivka and the butcher aside.
We can recall that Navalny played divide to conquer.
Even Levada polling couldn’t shine a favourable light on this man
Russians Sour on Navalny After ‘Extremist’ Ruling – Poll
Levada, btw, is alleged to be more independent, which just means it’s western backed/supported. There’s probably some previous report on Levada at my previous site
“The ANO Levada Center has been included in the registry of non-commercial organizations acting as foreign agents“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_Center
The Levada Center has partner relationships with various regional research centers in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic states
The Levada-Center is included in the list of independent analytical centers of Europe published by Freedom House
The lionizing of this individual in the media is a sight to behold. I realize this is a loss to his family and that’s got to be difficult. For them he was real and tangible. For the western audience that wanted to believe he was a luminary. For many of us, though, Navalny was just another of many western backed intelligence assets that have come and gone through the years- He is not the first and he won’t be the last.
28 replies on “Alexei Navalny- A Timely Martyr for The Cause”
As mentioned I wrote about Navalny in 2013 it’s now 2024 and he’s reported to be deceased. Though the Navalny chapter, in the destablizing Russia book is closed, the authorship of the story will continue on. There’s no doubt of that.
So, share some thoughts?
Gary
Mark
Gallier the Elder
Corrine
Kaz, if your still about?
Rae
and anyone else?
Hi Penny:
I think the Navalny story in the western media is simply the standard propaganda. He perhaps was the Juan Guaido for Russia. Much ado about nothing.
When you are given a suspended sentence for a crime, what is the first thing you should do? Commit another crime and be sent to prison?
Hi Gary,
Was looking at the headlines this morning and still lionizing this individual as something he wasn’t.
Just looked now and it’s still the top story?!
Amazing to me- no matter how many years I’ve been at this- it still amazes me how the media creates the perception and tells people what to think!
Hi Penny: You’ve pretty much said it all. But I can report that, for the first time, I now have TASS very close to the top of my reading list.
It seems pretty evident that Navalny’s death was not what Russian authorities wanted:
— Western statements regarding Navalny’s death unacceptable — Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov pointed out that there had been no information from the medics and the forensics.
— On February 16, the FPS announced that Alexey Navalny died in a penal colony. According to the agency, Navalny felt sick after a walk in prison and lost consciousness. Medics have immediately started providing medical aid, resuscitation attempts continued for over 30 minutes.
https://tass.com/politics/1747769
I saw a comment on twitter- it was a good comment and observation
Northstream- who blew that up? Why it’s a mystery. All this time later. Despite some sort of so called investigation?
Navalny dies and the foregone conclusion is Putin did it!?
the trial by media is spectacular!
I agree that Navalny’s death is not something Russia wanted and is in no way advantageous to the nation or it’s government
Penny, I can find no fault with your reasoning.
Navalny got one of those miracle ( CIA selection ) scholarships to Yale and was positioned to act as an ‘agent provocateur’. Three days ago nobody was talking or thinking about Navalny, now he’s being compared to Martin Luther King. His death is a PR disaster for Russia and the last thing Putin would have wanted. Having said that I find it unlikely that the Ukrainians or other westerners could have bumped him off in a Siberian prison. I suspect natural causes.
This is a media kerfuffle that will take at least a week to play itself out with the medicated, indoctrinated and uncaring audience amidst Ukrainian retreats, the genocide in Gaza and celebrity gossip.
Yes, one of those miracle Yale scholarships.. Only to the most deserving 😉
I wasn’t thinking about Navalny days ago, in fact, hadn’t thought about him for a long time- He wasn’t a serious figure in Russia.
His death is a PR disaster for Russia, for sure!
I finally caught the Duran talk and they were mentioning it as a blood clot.
https://archive.ph/2eZvK
“Some state media outlets went further, saying that Mr. Navalny died from a blood clot without providing the source of that assertion.”
This makes sense particularly if imprisonment includes long periods of being sedentary, sitting or lying around. That increases the likelihood of blood clot formation.
My mind goes to the “clot shot” of course.
You know that saying when life gives you lemons, make lemonade?
Lots of lemonade being made at this time!
It looks to me as if NYT’s is acknowledging his death as likely due to the toll of his imprisonment. Not murder or whatever else may be implied.
Clearly he wasn’t in a spa like setting..
It was cold and he was not moving about for extended periods of time
Mr. Navalny described dire health conditions in prison, where he said many inmates suffered from tuberculosis. (Did he have tuberculosis as well?)
7×10 foot cell cold and damp. Little exercise.. It seems he’d been increasingly unwell.
https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2017/02/alexei-navalny-western-ngorussian.html?zx=29de8bfa0acd00e3
Since Navalny had zero chance of winning an election against Putin.. His being found guilty is most probably due to the fact he is actually guilty of embezzlement.
“In July 2013 he was found guilty in an embezzlement case involving an allegedly crooked timber deal and given a five-year suspended sentence, after an initial ruling to jail him was quickly altered when it prompted protests.
But Navalny was then forced to spend months under house arrest and often kept incommunicado over another graft case linked to the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher.”
I knew there was some cosmetic company he had been criminally linked to!!
“They are charged with stealing 31 million rubles ($520,000) from two companies, including an affiliate of French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher, and of laundering some of the money.
He was also given a suspended sentence in that case, but his brother Oleg, a co-defendant, was not so lucky: He was imprisoned for three and a half years.”
Brother goes to jail but he doesn’t? Alexei must have still had some spooky work to do!
Navalny was a crook. He was involved in a big embezzlement case with his brother. His company Glavpodpiska stol millions from the French Yves Rocher cosmetic group that openened business in Russia.
Hey gallier2
I covered the embezzlement at the time- Yah, he was crooked. I don’t doubt that for a minute
I am sharing an article by Thomas Röper (Anti-Spiegel.ru ), a German journalist who has been living in St-Petersburg for a very long time). I have got into the habit of having Russian texts or texts published by the Russian side translated on Yandex, as I have found that the translations of Deepl.com because they are unreliable (one of my main professions is translator for German and French [certified by the state and sworn in].
I am sharing an article by Thomas Röper (Anti-Spiegel.ru ), a German journalist who has been living in St-Petersburg for a very long time). I have got into the habit of having Russian texts or texts published by the Russian side translated on Yandex, as I have found that the translations of Deepl.com because they are unreliable (one of my main professions is translator for German and French [certified by the state and sworn in].
Link: https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2024/nawalnys-gesundheit-und-russische-wahlen/
For translation, please go here
https://translate.yandex.ru/?source_lang=de&target_lang=en&text=Kommentar%20zum%20Tod%20von%20Nawalny
Many greetings from ancient Germania
Hello Gallier the Elder
btw? How is Gallier2 doing?
I translated the piece and first thanks for sharing it
Second- I note the connection between the timing of Navalny’s alleged Novichuk poisoning ( I’ve got a post on that incident at my censored site) and the previous election, with the death of Navalny at this time and the upcoming election
Third, Yes Navalny is worth more dead than alive- that was my very first thought when the news of his death broke
Fourth- When assets have run their course or are less useful, they can be discarded. A few were mentioned in the article and they definitely fits Navalny
Fifth- the smuggling of illicit substances into prisons
It happens everywhere, including here in Canada. So, it’s another good point to be raised
I agree there is nothing in this for Russia or Putin. Navalny was not a serious contender for anything in Russia- No threat at all. And from a PR perspective his death plays into western propaganda and is for western audiences
Greetings from Canada and an enjoyable read 🙂
Penny, … RE: Russian “clot shot”
It is my understanding that the Russian “vaccine”, marketed as ‘Sputnik V’ was not based on new MRNA technology but was more the latest version of the yearly “flu shot”. There were apparently less adverse reactions. I know that Russian sources were complaining that their long haul cross-border truckers (like ours) were forced to take a Pfizer or ‘western’ shot to conduct pre-sanctions business with the EU.
I throw this out there with some uncertainty. Maybe you or one of your knowledgeable readers can correct me if I’m wrong.
Hi Mark,
That was my understanding on the sputnik as well- But if anyone else has different information hopefully it will be shared
Dead wrong!!!
Sputnik-V uses the same technology as AstraZenica, ie it is a virus-vector genetic vaccine. It delivers DNA as apposed to mRNA like pFizer. Therefore it is a novel untested gene-therapy ‘vaccine’ and not at all ‘traditional’. AstraZenica was deprecated in UK and most of Europe because of concerns over clotting, ‘in very rare cases’ (of course).
Maybe of interest-
“Sputnik V: What you’re not being told”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/sputnik-v-what-youre-not-being-told
“Navalny’s death: Views from Russian media”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/navalnys-death-views-from-russian
Hi Gimlet and thanks for the links. And I ‘ve got some reading to do 🙂
Had to look up adenovirus to understand the use as vector in the sputnik- the term originates from viruses located in human adenoids, the idea being our body is more familiar with these types of viruses so it mounts an immune response, quickly.
However because we are immune to these adenovirus another simian derived vector may be used to stimulate the response
Digression- I get SV-40 flashbacks when I read this- increased cancer as that is a carcinogen
the manufacture of
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/CA/en/technical-documents/technical-article/pharmaceutical-and-biopharmaceutical-manufacturing/vaccine-manufacturing/adenovirus-vaccine-manufacturing-process
So Sputnik is not an mRNA vaccine. But it’s definitely as gross and disgusting as all other jabs
“the idea being our body is more familiar with these types of viruses so it mounts an immune response, quickly”
the salient point, as I see it and what your linked article seems to gloss over, is that the virus vector (of whatever virus) is the delivery mechanism for lab created foreign DNA. So, AstraZenika, Sputnik and J&J are DNA ‘vaccines’ rather than (m)RNA of pFizer etc. Still genetic, novel and untested all the same.
Thank you, I stand corrected. I do recall the ‘clotting’ concerns with AstraZeneca type technology.
I just hope I ‘m not ‘dead wrong”.
Regarding the piece on Navalny’s death-first comment
Live as a joke. Die as a joke.
Word is Navalny didn’t trust Russian vaccines and took American version. Another Death-Vax Kill-Shot Victim. American Style.
Interesting, but, can’t be proven or disproven
There is mention that his lawyer had visited him two days prior to his death..
What ever actually happened, the idea of what we are supposed to think about the situation, has been provided to us via our media. That’s undeniable.
My conclusions remain- natural causes or othewise- Navalny’s ship had sailed and his value in death is greater than alive- Cui Bono?
So far, it looks to be the NATO crew, led by the US.
Gimlet Eye,
“the salient point, as I see it and what your linked article seems to gloss over, is that the virus vector (of whatever virus) is the delivery mechanism for lab created foreign DNA”
The foreign virus vector being the delivery is acknowledged in the article- section headlined (If I’m understanding this correctly?)
“Overcomes Pre-existing Immunity Towards Adenoviral Vectors Using Simian-derived Vectors
Simian derived vectors are used to overcome pre existing immunity to enable a response to be mounted by the immune system”
These vectors would be lab manufactured going as far back as the polio vaccine and SV-40 contamination (wrote about this a few times at my old place)
https://en.ssi.dk/-/media/arkiv/uk/news/epi-news/2001/pdf/epi-news—2001—no-8.pdf
“The use of kidney cell cultures from different
monkey species permitted the repli-cation of poliovirus in vitro”
These have been lab created ( kidney culture cells in the case of the polio virus) from at least that far back. Possibly further? I don’t know.
Then another vaccine which used a pig culture that has infected humans with pig dna, claimed to be harmless, but, who really knows?
Another one I covered back in the day
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/22/rotavirus.vaccine/index.html
“The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, Hamburg said.”
My understanding is that vaccine remains contaminated to this day…
So long story short the replication of foreign dna, for vaccine manufacture, in the lab is a standard practice and has been used previously-
Does that make them (vaccines) safe or good? I don’t think so.
Is it introducing foreign genetic material into the human body?
Yes! Absolutely.
Do I believe this to be a good thing in general? No.
Sorry I haven’t made myself clear – by ‘lab created foreign DNA’ I was not thinking of natural foreign DNA replicated in a lab (although that is bad enough wrt SV40 etc and I do understand your concern with that) but rather I was meaning synthetic DNA created in a lab using gene splicing techniques and that is orders of magnitude more dangerous in the hands of ‘scientists’ who have no reservations about playing god. The vector might well be bad but the synthetic DNA payload is the real horror.
I’ll now stop flogging this horse.
Hi Penny, everyting’s fine here. The timing of Navalny’s death is extremely convenient for the axis of evil. At what better time could this, now useless asset, since Russia neutralized its danger for a long time now, have died? It was impossible for the NED, CIA and other agent to polish that turd. Dead he can still be used a last time to push the martyr idea all the while deflecting from the the 2 major humilations the Ukro-psyop were sujected 2 (Tucker Carlson Putinn interveiw, and the loss of Avdiivka). My timeline on twitter was also full of heroic Ukrainian counter attacks which is always a sign of things not going that well for them.
gallier2- “The timing of Navalny’s death is extremely convenient for the axis of evil. At what better time could this, now useless asset, since Russia neutralized its danger for a long time now, have died? It was impossible for the NED, CIA and other agent to polish that turd”
Exactly!
Hey Gimlet Eye
“Sorry I haven’t made myself clear – by ‘lab created foreign DNA’ I was not thinking of natural foreign DNA replicated in a lab (although that is bad enough wrt SV40 etc and I do understand your concern with that) but rather I was meaning synthetic DNA created in a lab using gene splicing techniques……”
Thanks for clarifying 🙂
Hi Penny,
Still Here, just busy with overburdened with uni that I couldn’t really look at stuff. And since I pretty much think that I know how the story will go for the coming time there has been less urgency for me keep up as fervently as I did before.(Because I am overburdened with unit stuff)
When it comes to the subject at hand. I can’t recall exactly what I said about navally in the past. The only thing I can remember is that when he showed private estates of Putin that he embezzling etc. I was not really fazed. I might have said this before and I still stand behind it that Russia leadership works like one big organized syndicate.
Besides that I also made it my own policy not to care about the internal politics of countries of which I am not a member of. Because as an outsider you can be misled by some many actors that it is just safe to not be invested in their internal politics. The only the I care is, what is the mindset of said country, so I can somewhat expect how they will deal with stuff.
– Kaz
Thank You Kaz
and I’m glad your still around, busy is good. But sometimes too busy isn’t.
bye for now 🙂