UK Column News - Friday, 9th December 2022 52:00 - Funny fundraising for fey fashionistas: Demna Gvasalia is a curious link

 

UK Column News - Friday, 9th December 2022 52:00 - Funny fundraising for fey fashionistas: Demna Gvasalia is a curious link

52:00 Balenciaga, mired in child-imagery scandal, is thick with the Ukrainian régime

Vanessa Beeley Substack: Balenciaga creative director is ambassador for Zelensky's United24 fundraiser

United24 (Government of Ukraine): 7 months of work

Entrepreneur.com: "It was inappropriate": Balenciaga photographer speaks out over child model

55:10 BBC (2013): Hundreds held over Canada child porn—Azov Films connection

56:00 U24 (Government of Ukraine)—Total collected: $245,960,676 (the figure went up by $8 million after broadcast)

Vanessa Beeley commentary: The narrative of urgency to purchase systems to stop Iranian Shahed drones is very familiar from wars in the Levant—there is a desperation to stop the adopted allies being targeted—in many cases, the hospitals and schools being targeted in Ukraine, as previously in Syria, are full of radical soldiers

58:48 Clip: Clare Daly MEP—"Ukraine's future is being sold to fund a proxy war"

More fundraisers shown on screen: World's first fleet of naval drones; Azovstal bracelets

1:02:05 United24: Anti-drone system—Timothy Snyder is raising funds (author of Bloodlands)

Vanessa Beeley commentary: Ironically, Snyder's acclaimed book describes the oppression of totalitarian régimes

1:03:19 Kyiv Post: Astronaut Scott Kelly joins fundraiser

1:04:49 Vanessa Beeley commentary: The eighth of Arthur Ponsonby's ten principles of war propaganda applies yet again—

Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause.

Fashion outlet soph_ukraine Instagram post: boiling a Russian baby for breakfast

Other designs by soph_ukraine (shown on screen) include children's rabbit character Miffy carrying an assault rifle, matryoshka dolls being exploded, and Stepan Bandera being extolled