Apr 102022
 


Inge Morath Window washers 1958

 

The Military Situation In Ukraine (Jacques Baud)
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Ousted By Parliament (PD)
The Total War to Cancel Russia (Escobar)
“Europe Has Chosen Its Fate” (Escobar)
BRICS Ministers of Finance Hold a Meeting
Russia Urges BRICS Nations To Create Own ‘SWIFT’ System (ZH)
Support Grows Among Republicans For Hunter Biden Special Counsel (JTN)
$54M in Chinese Gifts Donated To UPenn, Home of Biden Center (NYP)
Hunter Biden Sought Oligarchs’ Cash In 1st Russian War On Ukraine (JTN)
Durham Evidence: Relentless Democrat Effort To Sell Russia Collusion Hoax (JTN)
Bill Maher Cheers On Elon Musk Joining Twitter (Fox)

 

 

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It’s not about health, it’s about a treaty we signed…

 

 

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Jacques Baud is a Former Colonel of the General Staff, former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist in Eastern European countries.

The Military Situation In Ukraine (Jacques Baud)

We have to go back to March 24, 2021. On that day, Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree for the reconquest of Crimea and began to deploy his forces towards the south of the country. Simultaneously, several NATO exercises were conductedbetween the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, accompanied by a significant increase in reconnaissance flights along the Russian border. Russia then conducts a few exercises to test the operational readiness of its troops and show that it is following the evolution of the situation. Things calm down until October-November with the end of the ZAPAD 21 exercises, whose troop movements are interpreted as a reinforcement for an offensive against Ukraine. However, even the Ukrainian authorities refute the idea of Russian preparations for a war and Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukrainian Minister of Defense declares that there has been no change on its border since the spring.

In violation of the Minsk Accords, Ukraine is conducting aerial operations in Donbass using drones, including at least one strike against a fuel depot in Donetsk in October 2021 . The American press points this out, but not the Europeans and no one condemns these violations. In February 2022, events rush. On February 7, during his visit to Moscow, Emmanuel Macron reaffirms to Vladimir Putin his attachment to the Minsk Accords , a commitment he will repeat after his interview with Volodymyr Zelensky the next day. But on February 11, in Berlin, after 9 hours of work, the meeting of the political advisers of the leaders of the ” Normandy format ” ends, without concrete result: the Ukrainians still and always refuse to apply the Accordsof Minsk, apparently under pressure from the United States. Vladimir Putin then notes that Macron has made empty promises to him and that the West is not ready to enforce the Accords, as they have been doing for eight years.

Ukrainian preparations in the contact zone continue. The Russian Parliament is alarmed and on February 15 asks Vladimir Putin to recognize the independence of the Republics, which he refuses. On February 17, President Joe Biden announces that Russia will attack Ukraine in the coming days. How does he know? Mystery& But since the 16th, the artillery shelling of the populations of Donbass has increased dramatically, as shown by the daily reports of OSCE observers. Naturally, neither the media, nor the European Union, nor NATO, nor any Western government reacts and intervenes. We will say later that this is Russian disinformation. In fact, it seems that the European Union and some countries purposely glossed over the massacre of the people of Donbass, knowing that it would provoke Russian intervention.

At the same time, there are reports of acts of sabotage in the Donbass. On January 18, Donbass fighters intercept saboteurs equipped with Western equipment and speaking Polish seeking to create chemical incidents in Gorlivka . They could be CIA mercenaries , led or “advised” by Americans and made up of Ukrainian or European fighters, to carry out sabotage actions in the Donbass Republics.

[..] The Russian offensive proceeds in a very “classic” manner. At first – as the Israelis had done in 1967 – with the destruction on the ground of the air forces in the very first hours. Then, we witness a simultaneous progression on several axes according to the principle of “flowing water”: we advance wherever resistance is weak and we leave the cities (very voracious in troops) for later. To the north, the Chernobyl plant is occupied immediately to prevent acts of sabotage. The images of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers jointly guarding the plant are naturally not shown… The idea that Russia is trying to take over Kiev, the capital, to eliminate Zelensky, typically comes from the West: this is what they did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and what they wanted to do in Syria with the help of the Islamic State .

But Vladimir Putin never intended to take down or overthrow Zelensky. On the contrary, Russia seeks to keep him in power by pushing him to negotiate by encircling kyiv. He had refused to do so far to apply the Minsk Accords, but now the Russians want to obtain Ukraine’s neutrality. Many Western commentators marveled that the Russians continued to seek a negotiated solution while conducting military operations. The explanation is in the Russian strategic conception, since Soviet times. For Westerners, war begins when politics ceases. However, the Russian approach follows a Clausewitzian inspiration: war is the continuity of politics and one can pass fluidly from one to the other, even during combat. This creates pressure on the opponent and pushes him to negotiate.

From an operational point of view, the Russian offensive was an example of its kind: in six days, the Russians seized a territory as vast as the United Kingdom, with a speed of advance greater than what the Wehrmacht made in 1940. The bulk of the Ukrainian army was deployed in the south of the country for a major operation against Donbass. This is why the Russian forces were able to encircle it from the beginning of March in the “cauldron” between Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk, by a thrust coming from the east via Kharkov and another coming from the south from the Crimea. The troops of the Republics of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (RPL) complete the action of the Russian forces with a push from the East.

At this stage, the Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose, but are no longer under time pressure. Their objective of demilitarization is practically achieved and the residual Ukrainian forces no longer have an operational and strategic command structure. The “slowdown” that our “experts” attribute to poor logistics is only the consequence of having achieved the objectives set. Russia does not seem to want to engage in an occupation of the whole Ukrainian territory. In fact, it seems rather that Russia is trying to limit its advance to the country’s linguistic border.

Jacques Baud is a former Colonel of the General Staff, former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist in Eastern European countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He was the head of doctrine for United Nations peace operations. A United Nations expert for the rule of law and security institutions, he designed and led the first multidimensional United Nations intelligence service in Sudan. He worked for the African Union and was responsible for the fight against the proliferation of small arms at NATO for 5 years. He was engaged in talks with top Russian military and intelligence officials right after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he followed the Ukrainian crisis of 2014, then participated in programs of assistance to Ukraine. He is the author of several books on intelligence, war and terrorism, and in particular Le Détournement published by SIGEST, Govern by fake news, The Navalny affair, and Poutine, master of the game? published by Max Milo.

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Pushing regime change in a country of 220 million people. Which is a nuclear power.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Ousted By Parliament (PD)

Pakistan’s parliament passed a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the early hours of Sunday April 10. Sunday’s vote took place one week after Khan had dissolved parliament in order to avoid the no-confidence motion, citing foreign interference. The Supreme on Thursday April 7 ruled that the move was illegal and that the parliament must be restored. The vote against Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on April 10 was promoted by legislators from the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and other parties) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and received 174 votes in favor, two more than the necessary 172 to be passed. The session was chaired by Ayaz Sadiq of PML-N after the National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser resigned from his post.

Qaiser stated that he could not take part in a foreign conspiracy to oust the prime minister, “In line with our laws and the need to stand for our country, I have decided that I can’t remain on the position of speaker and thereby resign.” When the no-confidence measure was first raised Khan had warned that it was product of an international conspiracy and alleged US involvement. While US officials denied any involvement, many have raised suspicion that the move gained strength just as Pakistan began to distance itself from Washington’s diktats. Since the Taliban take over the government of Afghanistan in August and the complete isolation of the country by the US and its allies, Pakistan has been one of the only countries engaging in economic and political relations with the government as the country faces a humanitarian crisis.

Further, it has not fallen into line with the US regarding Russia and has continued to conduct lifesaving trade and has refused to economically and politically marginalize the superpower. Khan denounced a joint letter issued by 22 European countries urging Pakistan to support a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. He declared at a public rally: “Are we slaves and do whatever you tell us… We are neutral in this conflict and will support those who want to end the war in Ukraine.” With the success of the no-confidence measure, Khan will be forced to step down. No democratically elected government has completed a full term since the creation of Pakistan in 1947. Khan’s removal comes amid a growing economic crisis due to global inflation. Prices of essential items such as cooking oil, grains, wheat, and sugar have all increased. Khan’s government turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for support and had entered a stalemate with the institution which was demanding strict conditions and austerity policies.

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Two parts from one article by Pepe Escobar.

The Total War to Cancel Russia (Escobar)

By now it’s abundantly clear that the neo-Orwellian “Two Minute Hate” Russophobic campaign launched by the Empire of Lies after the start of Operation Z is actually “24/7 Hate”. Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated. The full psyops has de facto upgraded the Empire of Lies to the status of Empire of Hate in a Total War – hybrid and otherwise – to cancel Russia. Hate, after all, packs way more punch than mere lies, which are now veering into abject ridiculousness, as in U.S. “intelligence” resorting to – what else – lies to fight the info war against Russia. If the propaganda overdrive has been lethally effective amidst the zombified Western masses – call it a “win” in the P.R. war – in the front where it really matters, inside Russia, it’s a major fail.

Public opinion support for both Operation Z and President Putin is unprecedented. After videos of torture of Russian POWs that caused widespread revulsion, Russian civil society is even bracing for a “Long War” lasting months, not weeks, as long as the targets of the Russian High Command – actually a military secret – are met. The stated aims are “demilitarization” and “denazification” of a future neutral Ukraine – but geopolitically reach way beyond: the aim is to turn the post-1945 European collective security arrangement upside down, forcing NATO to understand and come to terms with the concept of “indivisible security”. This is an extremely complex process that will reach the next decade.

The NATOstan sphere simply cannot admit in public a series of facts that a military analyst of the caliber of Andrei Martyanov has been explaining for years. And that adds to their collective pain. Russia can take on NATO and smash it to bits in 48 hours. It may employ advanced strategic deterrence systems unmatched across the West. Its southern axis – from the Caucasus and West Asia to Central Asia – is fully stabilized. And if the going gets really tough, Mr. Zircon can deliver his hypersonic nuclear business card with the other side not even knowing what hit it. It may be enlightening to see how these complex processes are interpreted by Russians – whose points of view are now completely blocked across NATOstan.

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“What you are seeing now is the death of Europe. Even if it does not come to nuclear strikes on industrial centers, Europe is doomed..”

“Europe Has Chosen Its Fate” (Escobar)

It may be enlightening to see how these complex processes are interpreted by Russians – whose points of view are now completely blocked across NATOstan. Let’s take two examples. The first is Lieutenant General L.P. Reshetnikov, in an analytical note examining facts of the ground war. Some key takeaways: – “Over Romania and Poland there are airborne early warning aircraft of NATO with experienced crews, there are U.S. intelligence satellites in the sky all the time. I remind you that just in terms of budgets for our Roscosmos we allocated $2.5 billion a year, the civil budget of NASA is $25 billion, the civil budget of SpaceX alone is equal to Roscosmos – and that is not counting the tens of billions of dollars annually for the entire U.S. feverishly unfolding the control system of the entire planet.” – The war is unfolding according to “NATO’s eyes and brains. The Ukronazis are nothing but free controlled zombies. And the Ukrainian army is a remotely controlled zombie organism.”

– “The tactics and strategy of this war will be the subject of textbooks for military academies around the world. Once again: the Russian army is smashing a Nazi zombie organism, fully integrated with the eyes and brain of NATO.” Now let’s switch to Oleg Makarenko, who focuses on the Big Picture. – “The West considers itself ‘the whole world’ only because it has not yet received a sufficiently sensitive punch on the nose. It just so happened that Russia is now giving him this click: with the rear support of Asia, Africa and Latin America. And the West can do absolutely nothing with us, since it also lags behind us in terms of the number of nuclear warheads.” – “Europe has chosen its fate. And chose fate for Russia. What you are seeing now is the death of Europe. Even if it does not come to nuclear strikes on industrial centers, Europe is doomed.

In a situation where European industry is left without cheap Russian energy sources and raw materials – and China will begin to receive these same energy carriers and raw materials at a discount, there can be no talk of any real competition with China from Europe. As a result, literally everything will collapse there – after industry, agriculture will collapse, welfare and social security will collapse, hunger, banditry and chaos will begin.” It’s fair to consider Reshetnikov and Makarenko as faithfully representing the overall Russian sentiment, which interprets the crude Bucha false flag as a cover to obscure the Ukrainian army torture of Russian POWs.

And, deeper still, Bucha allowed the disappearance of Pentagon bioweapon labs from the Western mediasphere, complete with its ramifications: evidence of a concerted American drive to ultimately deploy real weapons of mass destruction against Russia. The multi-level Bucha hoax had to include the Brit presidency of the UN Security Council actually blocking a serious discussion, a day before the Russian Ministry of Defense struggled to present to the UN – predictably minus the U.S. and the UK – all the bioweapon facts they have unearthed in Ukraine. The Chinese were horrified by the findings.

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That’s most of the world. And its resources.

BRICS Ministers of Finance Hold a Meeting (CTH)

This is not some grand conspiracy, ‘out there‘ deep geopolitical possibility, or foreboding likelihood as an outcome of short-sighted western emotion. No, this is just a predictable outcome from western created events that pushed specific countries to a natural conclusion based on their best interests. You can debate the motives of the western leaders who structured the sanctions against Russia, and whether they knew the outcome would happen as a consequence of their effort, but the outcome was never really in doubt. Personally, I believe this outcome is what the west intended. The people inside the World Economic Forum are not stupid – ideological, yes, but not stupid. They knew this would happen.

The finance ministers of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have decided to create their own financial mechanisms to continue trade between nations of similar disposition. Once the internal issues inside the BRICS alliance are resolved, and once the mechanisms are created, then other nations will be able to decide to join or not. The great global cleaving will commence. [..] The bottom line is – the 2022 punitive economic and financial sanctions by the western nations’ alliance against Russia was exactly the reason why BRICS assembled in the first place. The multinational corporate control of government is exactly what the BRICS assembly foresaw when they first assembled during the Obama administration. When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem.

In the bigger picture, the BRICS assembly are essentially leaders who do not want corporations and multinational banks running their government. BRICS leaders want their government running their government; and yes, that means whatever form of government that exists in their nation, even if it is communist. BRICS leaders are aligned as anti-corporatist. That doesn’t necessarily make those government leaders better stewards, it simply means they want to make the decisions, and they do not want corporations to become more powerful than they are. As a result, if you really boil it down to the common denominator, what you find is the BRICS group are the opposing element to the World Economic Forum assembly. The countries run by multinational corporations are in Yellow, the countries who have not yet chosen a side are in GREY:

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“It will be clear to everyone that the supposed effectiveness of sanctions is an absolute lie.”

Russia Urges BRICS Nations To Create Own ‘SWIFT’ System (ZH)

The dollar reserve system is facing its greatest threat yet. Russian Finance Minister Anatoly Siluanov said on Saturday that the five BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – could mitigate the backlash of Western sanctions against Russia on their economies by pooling their efforts and using a range of financial instruments at their disposal. “The current crisis is man-made and BRICS countries have all the instruments necessary to mitigate its consequences for the national and global economies,” Siluanov was cited as saying by the Russian Finance Ministry. The minister blamed economic sanctions on Russia for “destroying the foundation of the existing international monetary and financial system based on the US dollar” and urged BRICS to rely more on their national currencies in foreign trade, integrate payment systems and create an alternative to the SWIFT payment messaging platform.

Siluanov on Friday told a ministerial meeting with BRICS that the global economic situation had worsened substantially due to the sanctions, a statement from his ministry said on Friday. “This pushes us to the need to speed up work in the following areas: the use of national currencies for export-import operations, the integration of payment systems and cards, our own financial messaging system and the creation of an independent BRICS rating agency,” Siluanov said. As The Statesman reports, central banks of the BRICS countries have already agreed to conduct the fifth test of a banking mechanism that will allow them to jointly pool “alternative currency” reserves to shield their economies from outside shocks, the ministry said.

Siluanov’s comments echoed Dmitry Medvedev’s comments on Telegram. The Deputy Head of Russia’s Security Council warned of the geopolitical consequences of Western sanctions and the weaponization of the US dollar reserve system: “Their result will be a destroyed international order and extremely difficult consequences for the world economy and the life of individual countries,” adding that: “It will be clear to everyone that the supposed effectiveness of sanctions is an absolute lie.”

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“I won’t have any faith in him,” [Ron] Johnson said of a special counsel.”

Support Grows Among Republicans For Hunter Biden Special Counsel (JTN)

Nearly 100 House Republicans are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals, saying they had the hallmarks of an influence peddling scandal. The letter led by Reps. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.), the chair of the House GOP Study Committee, comes as the U.S. attorney in Delaware enters his third year investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes, foreign lobbying and money movements. In all, 95 House GOP members signed the letter. “It is increasingly clear that Hunter Biden took advantage of his father’s position as Vice President to develop business relationships with clients in Ukraine, China, and Kazakhstan,” the lawmakers wrote.

“Hunter Biden likely facilitated lobbying for foreign entities through third-party channels without registering for the Foreign Agents Registration Act. “It appears that Hunter Biden used his position as son of then-Vice President Biden to gain wealth and influence in foreign countries, using questionably sourced money to pay tax liabilities, and lobbying on behalf of foreign entities without proceeding through the proper channels.” The House Republicans said they were concerned DOJ “has an actual conflict of interest and certainly has the appearance of a conflict of interest that could prevent a fair and impartial investigation of his activities.” “We believe that in the case of Hunter Biden a special counsel must be appointed to preserve the integrity of this investigation and any subsequent prosecution.

A special counsel would also ensure there is no bias in the investigation or undue influence from the White House,” the lawmakers added. [..] While support for a special counsel has been growing, some Republicans like Sen. Ron Johnson argue it isn’t necessary and would only further delay an already slow moving investigation. “I won’t have any faith in him,” Johnson said of a special counsel.

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No investigation of Hunter can be complete without investigating Joe.

$54M in Chinese Gifts Donated To UPenn, Home of Biden Center (NYP)

A government watchdog is demanding the US Attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden. The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records. Most of the anonymous donations came after the university announced in February 2017 that it would create the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Joe Biden, whose term as vice president had just ended, was to lead the center and was also named a professor at the university. The center, which is located in Washington, DC., opened its doors in February 2018.

Antony Blinken, whom Biden named as Secretary of State, briefly served as its managing director. The Ivy League university received $15.8 million in anonymous Chinese gifts that year, including one eye-popping $14.5 million donation in May 2018, records show. The flurry of donations may be related to Hunter Biden’s business interests in China, the National Legal and Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog, alleged in complaints sent in May and October 2020 to the Departments of Education and Justice. Last week, the group asked US Attorney David Weiss to step in and investigate the Chinese largesse to the school as part of his federal tax probe of Hunter Biden. “We’ve asked … Weiss to pursue the larger network of individuals and institutions who benefited from millions doled out by foreign interests connected to Hunter Biden’s work in China and Ukraine,” said Tom Anderson, director of the NLPC’s Government Integrity Project.

In its 12-page complaint, the watchdog cited a 2017 text found on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop that CEFC China Energy Co, one of the firms that Hunter Biden had a financial stake in, wanted to lobby politicians in the US but did not want to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), required for all foreign lobbyists. “We don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA [sic] which … is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know,” reads the May 1, 2017, text sent from Hunter Biden to his former business partner Tony Bobulinski.

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“..Moscow’s military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean region in 2014 was a wild card that could scuttle the success of their business pursuits..”

Oh, and definition counts: There was a 1st war on Ukraine? Was that when Ukraine invaded the Donbass?

Hunter Biden Sought Oligarchs’ Cash In 1st Russian War On Ukraine (JTN)

In the shadows of Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, Hunter Biden and his business partners embarked on an aggressive campaign to score millions of dollars in “life changing” business with oligarchs in both countries who had an interest in his father’s policymaking business, according to emails and court records obtained by Just the News. President Joe Biden’s son and his associates targeted Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina — who eventually was sanctioned by the U.S. a few years later in 2018 — for as much as $200 million after helping her get a bank account set up in America, the emails show. Hunter Biden and his associates even arranged for Baturina and her husband, an ex-Moscow mayor, to meet with then-Vice President Joe Biden at an intimate dinner in Washington in 2015.

At the same time he and his team courted Baturina, Hunter Biden was securing lucrative board positions and consulting deals with Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, a man whose company, Burisma Holdings, the United States and Great Britain wanted investigated for corruption. The delicate balancing act of cashing in on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides of the conflict left the younger Biden and his partners acutely aware that Moscow’s military annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean region in 2014 was a wild card that could scuttle the success of their business pursuits, the memos show.

“Just spent two hours on the phone with Kiev. I am confident at this point that this is a good if not life changing deal if the Uk [Ukraine] doesn’t collapse in the meantime,” now-convicted Biden business partner Devon Archer wrote Hunter Biden in one particularly candid assessment of their strategy in mid-April 2014. Eventually, another of Hunter Biden’s convicted business associates, John Galanis, would declare in a sworn affidavit to a federal court that he and his son Jason became aware of a strategy by Hunter Biden-related companies of promising oligarchs “quid pro quo” access to Washington in return for their dollars. “Jason Galanis gave his interest in Burnham/Wealth Assurance to Archer on the prospect that Archer and Hunter Biden would continue to attract foreign oligarchs on the promise of high level political contacts,” John Galanis swore in a January 2020 affidavit that unequivocally referred to the scheme as “political influence peddling.”

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Sussmann will be fun.

Durham Evidence: Relentless Democrat Effort To Sell Russia Collusion Hoax (JTN)

As the trial for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann draws closer, Special Counsel John Durham is painting a picture of a relentless effort by Democrat operatives to sell the Russia collusion narrative across the U.S. government from the FBI to the State Department. Essentially, Hillary Clinton operatives flooded the zone in the summer and fall of 2016, hoping multiple Trump collusion allegations circulating inside the government agencies might prompt an investigation and media interest. For the first time this week, Durham called it a “joint venture” and a conspiracy to shop unproven Trump dirt.

In the case of Sussmann, Durham alleges that effort involved deceit by lying to the FBI that he did not have a client when he presented (since-discredited) evidence to the FBI that Donald Trump had a secret computer back channel at the Alfa Bank in Moscow to talk with the Kremlin. In fact, Sussmann was working on behalf of the Clinton campaign and a tech executive named Rodney Jaffe who was aligned with the campaign when he approached the FBI in September 2016 and made the anti-Trump allegations, Durham’s team alleges. A few months later, prosecutors say, Sussmann was still representing the tech executive when he approached the CIA in February 2017 to get the spy agency involved and again claimed he wasn’t representing a client’s interest.

On Monday, Durham showed the strength of his evidence of Sussmann’s alleged lie: He offered the handwritten notes of two senior FBI officials who recorded that the Clinton lawyer had said he was not acting on behalf of a client when he reported the Trump dirt. “Said not doing this for any client,” then-Assistant FBI Director for Counterintelligence Bill Priestap wrote in his notes, recording what Sussmann had told him. A deputy general counsel wrote a similar notation.

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“..it’s living in a space that’s not exactly a publication, but it’s not exactly a private company either… That’s why it’s so tricky.”

Bill Maher Cheers On Elon Musk Joining Twitter (Fox)

“Real Time” host Bill Maher offered enthusiastic support for Tesla CEO Elon Musk as he joins Twitter. Musk shocked the world this week when it was revealed he purchased 9.2% stake in Twitter, Inc., making him the largest shareholder in the social media giant. He made even more headlines when it was announced that he was joining Twitter’s board of directors, suggesting he could have influence over Twitter’s policies in favor of free speech principles. During Friday’s “Overtime” segment on YouTube, a viewer submitted a question asking, “What’s the panel’s thoughts on Elon Musk becoming Twitter’s single-largest shareholder. “I’m for it!” Maher exclaimed while pounding the table. New York Times writer David Leonhardt said his reaction to the Elon Musk news was, “Are we gonna have to read Donald Trump’s tweets again soon.”


“Which is a tough one,” Maher reacted. “Because once they took Trump off Twitter, things did get better but it’s… bad for free speech. And then they’re gonna go somewhere. And then the resentment and then the idea, ‘Well, you know, the people who are ganging up against us- the media and Big Tech and Big Government. I mean, that’s the convoy. You know, those convoys in Canada and all over the world.” Liberal author Nancy MacLean pushed back against Maher, arguing that Twitter’s censorship of Trump is not in violation of the Constitution since the First Amendment only applies to the government suppressing free speech, not private companies. “We live in a different age where Twitter is the public square now. If you deny someone’s right to speak on Twitter, you’re basically saying you don’t have free speech rights,” Maher said. “We’re not living in 1980 anymore. This is a different world we live in where social media controls this. So social media is sort of a… it’s living in a space that’s not exactly a publication, but it’s not exactly a private company either… That’s why it’s so tricky.”

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    Inge Morath Window washers 1958   • The Military Situation In Ukraine (Jacques Baud) • Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Ousted By Parliament (
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 10 2022]

    #105827
    Michael Reid
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    P L A N D E M I C 3 (TEASER 2022)

    P L A N D E M I C 3 (TEASER 2022)

    #105828
    V. Arnold
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    Inge Morath Window washers 1958

    Somebody has to do it…
    I wonder how much they were paid…

    #105829
    a kullervo
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    (Conversations with grandchildren, part one)

    You can’t have a talk with children because there’s the mother, and nowadays the main role of the mother is not to raise children but to confront the father.

    (Who’s to blame? We, men, not only allowed but have encouraged women to stray that way. We decay; that’s the Law. So, don’t blame Putin, don’t blame Biden: blame yourself, blame your father. And after coming to grips with it, make peace with yourself – make peace with your Maker.)

    (Conversations with grandchildren, part two)

    Hard times make you strong;
    gentle things make you glad.
    Be grateful for both,
    fall in love with neither.

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    V. Arnold
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    a kullervo
    Hard times make you strong;
    gentle things make you glad.
    Be grateful for both,
    fall in love with neither.

    Wonderful post…
    Agree 100%
    Cheers…

    #105831
    Oroboros
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    Macron is such a smarmy little vermin.

    The Empire of Lies trying to say that there’s ‘Russian interference’ in the French election is rich.

    It’s an all paper ballot in person kind of event, pretty hard to ‘influence’ with electronic dirty tricks like all Empire of Lies elections are rigged.

    If Macroni ‘wins’ France is doomed by their own hand.

    In the recent event of the french farmer shooting a burglar during a home invasion and that arrogant little prick saying he didn’t believe in self defense, well, that sums it up in a nutshell.

    He probably doesn’t think France itself has the right to defend itself, except for Putin sanctions, and even there, France should wait for the EU lemmings to straighten out mass invasion via mandatory unchecked immigration policies.

    The French Presidential Election

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    Dr. D
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    No democratically elected government has completed a full term since the creation of Pakistan in 1947.

    This is why India doesn’t respect and makes fun of Pakistan. I mean: just pick one. If you’re not a Democracy, don’t believe in it, just don’t pretend. If you are, then when the going gets tough, you have to keep your elected leader ’til the election time. Not hard. …Showing the U.S. no longer believes in democracy, but in coup. …At home, since 2016. Like Pakistan they have tried to impeach every Republican President since…Reagan? No democracy, no vote, only power?

    Russian civil society is even bracing for a “Long War” lasting months.”

    Yeah, we thought the US Civil War would last a few days as well and packed for a picnic. Here the GazRuble has launched and weeks later, nothing in our markets. It’s like some kind of immovable object and unstoppable force combined. A faceless, thoughtless, all-devouring monster like “The Blob.” Forget removing it, is there any force that can even get it to change and respond? Truly supernatural.

    “Russia can take on NATO and smash it to bits in 48 hours.”

    They may have to do this as the only option as the West is incapable of thought. And why should they think? No POSSIBLE consequences fall on them, only on the people of Iowa, which they already want to kill and fully approve of.

    The West considers itself ‘the whole world’ only because it has not yet received a sufficiently sensitive punch on the nose.”

    “All the bioweapon facts they have unearthed in Ukraine. The Chinese were horrified by the findings.”

    Elaborate? Because (again) they target genetic Asians? Or because they create, then release the attack from 3m outside the Wuhan lab and blame it on China?

    When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem.”

    Yes, the problem is “Fascism,” where that is the definition. The government is no longer an arbiter of equal justice and property rights as we contracted it to be, but a partisan player against the people and for their corporate friends. Therefore, in the ‘States at least, our contract is breached and void. There is a certain document we wrote that describes what happens next, you might have read it.

    There was a better map where they erased the rest of world outside of yellow, showing how vacant the map is. Someone needs to improve that accuracy by erasing all the U.S. except the coasts, and all central Australia where no one lives. Or the opposition to Russia is a country equal to the size of Nigeria.

    “Russia Urges BRICS Nations to Create Own ‘SWIFT’ System (ZH) “

    I guess? But if Europe collapses itself, as I think it has done, then they won’t be able to bully and bribe the R-o-W, and it will all vanish on its own without bothering.

    “Hunter Biden Sought Oligarchs’ Cash in 1st Russian War on Ukraine (JTN) “

    Meeting with Russians, taking millions from Russians, setting up otherwise illegal bank accounts for Russians…see? Nothing to see here. Pure as the driven snow. When Don Jr does the same thing, I’m sure they’ll understand.

    “[Sussman] “Said not doing this for any client,”

    And the FBI believed him? With that evidence? You’re Fired. You also knew full-well all about it, as proven in other documents. Don’t give me the “I wuz R Fooled” nonsense. But if you’re following inside baseball, who ISN’T in the docs? Rosenstein. The one who was reported as offering the Presidental wiretap. So he’s been a double-agent all along? Drawing Comey in? Perhaps we’ll find out sometime.

    “it’s living in a space that’s not exactly a publication, but it’s not exactly a private company either… That’s why it’s so tricky.”

    It’s not tricky at all: it’s illegal under Article 230. They just won’t enforce the law and want to define it both ways. Enforce the law you already passed, and the ‘trickiness’ goes away. We’re incapable of either thought, or law, only Power.

    “New York Times writer David Leonhardt said his reaction to the Elon Musk news was, “Are we gonna have to read Donald Trump’s tweets again soon.”

    No. You don’t. You can block him. That’s what “Free Speech” means. As opposed to harassment. Your position is “I censor everybody I don’t like even a little, so no one ELSE can read them.” Because I am the sooper-smart people who decides for everybody else, as is my birthright.

    Karlin: “A Bill of Temporary Privileges”. Yes, that’s why we have 1A, 2A and a CONTRACT government. If they treat our rights as privileges, we are duty-bound to inform, then reform, then utterly erase them. They only respect the people if they live in open terror of us and what we will do to them if they try anything.

    They are not privileges. They are innate impulses established by our Creator, and cannot be removed or erased. …Thus the drive for trans-humanism to hack our humanity, our impulses, our “having nothing and being happy [doped on auto-Soma]” by the way.

    Steaks: Psychics had already seen this just a few months ago, before the war. It had the addition that prices would change so fast you’d have to call over a manager to the register so he could price them that hour.

    Sandwich: that must be wrong, there’s no flat-screen TV price in that sandwich, where it didn’t go up. Same with rent, energy, taxes, and health care: all excluded from the index.

    Yesterday:

    “We are also making it easier for Ukrainians fleeing the war to come to Canada.” –Trudeau

    He’s fighting the war by not fighting the war? That is, Canada is in Ukraine with $12B but isn’t in the war because no declaration? See, the RUSSIANS are in the war with us, we’re not in a war with THEM. Ha Ha! See how smart that is?

    We’re fighting the war in Ukraine by removing all the people from Ukraine? Removing them to Canada? So who’s back in Europe using the weapons you bought? Were these guys invited to too many drug and sex parties like down in the ‘States?

    “She foresees a need to legislate human rights guarantees into this new [CBDC] system,”

    Why? They ignore every other law and Right ever written. There’s no sense in wasting your time and breath unless you arrest everyone violating the rights we already have.

    “Europe is doomed. In a situation where European industry is left without cheap Russian energy”

    I realize the system needed to steal and Hypothecate a Ukraine, or, more likely with vertical compounding, steal a whole Russia to not implode. Right. So instead we have stolen and erased Western Europe instead. Wow, there’s a thought. And they said, “Okey-doke! Boy these ovens sure are hot!”

    Great report on the French elections. I’m still trying to game theory properly the two-stage voting which may have more subtleties than are first apparent. But clearly Macron was picked as a male model and escort, and clearly the people were largely aware and chilly to him from the beginning and now.

    On the Navy, the ability and success to put tiny nuclear reactors inside ships must be one of the last and greatest engineering achievements of the United States. So there’s no chance we’ll do that again. Not in an American lifetime.

    #105833
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    “The whole Ukraine issue is over hypersonic missiles that can reach Moscow in less than four minutes. The US wants them there, in Poland, Romania, Baltic States, Sweden, Finland. This is in direct violation of the agreements in 1991 that NATO will not expand in Eastern Europe. The US does not have hypersonic missiles now but should – in a year or two. This is an existential threat to Russia. So they had to go into the Ukraine to stop this. Next will be Poland and Romania where launchers have been built in Romania and are being built in Poland.”

    https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/8853

    #105834
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’m telling all my European friends to run-for-their-lives

    This is a Darwin Award contest.

    The ones who have ‘situational awareness’ might survive to actually have a life worth living.

    The ones who stay put and try to ‘reform the system from within’ will be like bugs talking inside a chicken’s stomach about ‘working constructively with a positive attitude’ to change the rooster’s ‘disturbing habit of crowing too early at each dawn.

    As Goose Mumma said in the Twit above, the smarty pants ‘West’ doesn’t give a shit about Ukraine, more hollow virtue signaling, while they intentionally leave their own children defenseless against medical genocide and tyranny.

    You have to create hundreds of millions of humans to occasionally produce a Da Vinci or a Picasso

    What a pitiful batting average for a species.

    You only need to create a hundred humans to get 2 or 3 true certified psychopaths.

    .

    #105835
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Did a retake on legendry Lao Tzu recently. Always a favorite in my youth, but I guess I succumbed in mid to later life just like he supposedly did to the realization of the travesty and wanton destruction of nature by humanity.

    According to legend he finally gave up on society ever correcting it’s course to respect Natural Law and temper it’s bottomless desire for more more more.

    Twenty six centuries later, worse than ever.

    I can’t imagine Lao Tzu’s reaction to what we’ve done to the planet since his time.

    But there is no where to find peace and undisturbed Nature on the planet, every square inch is claimed by humans for some purpose of exploitation. Gotta always make a quick buck.

    .

    #105836
    zerosum
    Participant

    Thank you ….
    WOW!
    Shifting Realities

    La situation militaire en Ukraine


    • The Military Situation In Ukraine (Jacques Baud)

    It is essential to recall here that the Agreements of Minsk 1 (September 2014) and Minsk 2 (February 2015), provided neither for the separation nor the independence of the Republics, but their autonomy within the framework of Ukraine. Those who have read the Agreements (they are very, very, very few) will find that it is written in full that the status of the republics had to be negotiated between Kiev and the representatives of the republics, for an internal solution to Ukraine.
    ———–
    https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/s_res_2202.pdf
    United Nations S/RES/2202 (2015)
    Security Council
    Resolution 2202 (2015)
    Adopted by the Security Council at its 7384th meeting, on
    17 February 2015
    Adopted by the Security Council at its 7384th meeting, on
    17 February 2015
    The Security Council,
    Recalling the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
    Nations and reaffirming its full respect for the sovereignty, independence and
    territorial integrity of Ukraine,
    Expressing its grave concern at the tragic events and violence in eastern
    regions of Ukraine,
    Reaffirming its Resolution 2166 (2014),
    Firmly convinced that the resolution of the situation in eastern regions of
    Ukraine can only be achieved through a peaceful settlement to the current crisis,
    1. Endorses the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk
    Agreements”, adopted and signed in Minsk on 12 February 2015 (Annex I);
    2. Welcomes the Declaration by the President of the Russian Federation, the
    President of Ukraine, the President of the French Republic and the Chancellor of the
    Federal Republic of Germany in support of the “Package of measures for the
    Implementation of the Minsk Agreements”, adopted on 12 February 2015 in Minsk
    (Annex II), and their continuing commitment therein to the implementation of the
    Minsk Agreements;
    3. Calls on all parties to fully implement the “Package of measures”,
    including a comprehensive ceasefire as provided for therein;
    4. Decides to remain seized of the matter

    Annex I
    Package of Measures for the Implementation of the
    Minsk Agreements
    Minsk, 12 February 2015
    1. Immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in certain areas of the Donetsk and
    Luhansk regions of Ukraine and its strict implementation as of 15 February 2015,
    12 a.m. local time.
    (go read the remainder)
    ————-

    the Ukrainians still and always refuse to apply the Accords of Minsk, apparently under pressure from the United States. Vladimir Putin then notes that Macron has made empty promises to him and that the West is not ready to enforce the Accords, as they have been doing for eight years.

    Ukrainian preparations in the contact zone continue. The Russian Parliament is alarmed and on February 15 asks Vladimir Putin to recognize the independence of the Republics, which he refuses. On February 17, President Joe Biden announces that Russia will attack Ukraine in the coming days. How does he know? Mystery& But since the 16th, the artillery shelling of the populations of Donbass has increased dramatically, as shown by the daily reports of OSCE observers. Naturally, neither the media, nor the European Union, nor NATO, nor any Western government reacts and intervenes. We will say later that this is Russian disinformation. In fact, it seems that the European Union and some countries purposely glossed over the massacre of the people of Donbass, knowing that it would provoke Russian intervention.

    At the same time, there are reports of acts of sabotage in the Donbass. On January 18, Donbass fighters intercept saboteurs equipped with Western equipment and speaking Polish seeking to create chemical incidents in Gorlivka . They could be CIA mercenaries , led or “advised” by Americans and made up of Ukrainian or European fighters, to carry out sabotage actions in the Donbass Republics.

    A parallel universe
    We are not living in this universe.
    There is no peace

    —————

    #105837
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @zerosum: – apparently under pressure from the United States.

    … banality of evil is unrelenting! And not “apparently”, either.

    The U.S. is simply presuming that they are terrifyingly normal country, … you know, can do evil without being evil!

    F.S.

    #105838
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    The whole Ukraine issue is over hypersonic missiles that can reach Moscow in less than four minutes. The US wants them there, in Poland, Romania, Baltic States, Sweden, Finland. This is in direct violation of the agreements in 1991 that NATO will not expand in Eastern Europe. The US does not have hypersonic missiles now but should – in a year or two. This is an existential threat to Russia. So they had to go into the Ukraine to stop this. Next will be Poland and Romania where launchers have been built in Romania and are being built in Poland.

    If Russia were to invade Poland, Romania, or the Baltic States, they would be attacking NATO. That means World War Three. Very scary, but I can’t say that I find any of this surprising.

    #105839
    zerosum
    Participant

    Our leaders do not want peace.

    the Agreements of Minsk 1 (September 2014) and Minsk 2 (February 2015), provided neither for the separation nor the independence of the Republics, but their autonomy within the framework of Ukraine.

    The lost lives
    The unbelievable consumed/lost energy
    The pain/suffering
    The food insecurity
    Why are our leaders doing this war?

    #105840
    Noirette
    Participant

    > Dr. Day. prev. thread, — thx for thumbs up from others 🙂

    Yes, Switzerland is no longer neutral. It has in effect joined the majority in Europe, i.e. the political EU, and given up, for ever, imho, one of its core principles that ppl adhere to, plus its advantages if one want to be pragmatic and cynical. (Being neutral confers various bonuses, opportunities.)

    Some ppl here comfort themselves with the fact that CH has refused to send arms to Ukraine, and isn’t contributing any (I believe this is so); sending arms to participants engaged in active, hot war, is contra the Swiss Constituion. Blatant hypocrisy of course.

    In a way, this alignment was evident with COV19. CH had NO provisions for administering a vax that had not passed thru the long-term, accepted, trials, certification.

    There was no legal justification for it (contrary to other countries who have ‘emergency use’ provisos), and at the start of the pandemic, the MSM published articles saying COV19 vaxxes would not be certified in CH, as not properly ‘tested’ etc.

    That didn’t hold.

    The vaxxes were quickly, via some xyz emergency deal, approved, and boosted, etc.

    Then, rapidly demanded by the “public”, care of MSM TV, as offering an end / easing, to lock-down.

    (Mild here, public transport, all shops, parks, congregating outdoors, take-out on the local bench, drinking in the street, etc. were all OK …)

    #105841
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    I coincidently came upon the Jacques Baud piece last evening, and couldn’t believe my eyes. I mean, it ties so many of the apparently random pieces of flotsam into a pretty coherent tapestry.

    Running down links, including checking to see if he was a real person… I couldn’t find anything missing or significantly waving red flags.

    His interview with Thomas Kaiser is as clear as it comes. Maybe, too clear (or is that just good editing?)

    “The policy of the USA has always been to prevent Germany and Russia from cooperating more closely”

    #105842
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    The whole Ukraine issue is over hypersonic missiles that can reach Moscow in less than four minutes.
    ___________________

    Nope! Escobar is not wrong with saying above, … but the issue is much, much grander, … and Pepe knows it!

    Anyway, ever heard about balkanization of Russia? Yes, that is – by definition – the operating word for fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or statelets, …

    … something like this:
    https://www.deviantart.com/marketey/art/Balkanization-of-Russia-after-WW3-Allied-Victory-816447345

    It’s above,… or this instead? Hmmn, …
    https://www.deviantart.com/dragonvanguard/art/Balkanized-USA-847769651

    F.S.

    #105843
    zerosum
    Participant

    Figmund Sreud

    Those two example of r fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or statelets, …

    only mean wars
    The lost lives
    The unbelievable consumed/lost of energy/inventories
    The pain/suffering
    The food insecurity
    More leaders hording
    Why would our leaders allow doing these wars?

    #105844
    zerosum
    Participant

    I”ve seen, on TV, that the scrap/metal/recycling dealers are already picking up the discarded museum hardware that the Russians have left behind.

    #105845
    a kullervo
    Participant

    @V. Arnold

    Thank you.

    #105846
    zerosum
    Participant

    TV is showing a 13 mile long convoy of museum pieces going south, to dumbas and reporting an airfield that was destroyed in a nearby town. (after the train station was attacked with two missiles.)

    #105847
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @zerosum Why would our leaders allow doing these wars?

    The answer is contained within the word itself, a verb. Think of Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, Yugoslavia, Marshal Josip Tito, … balkanization. Study the area’s economic and political history, read between the lines!

    Further to that, look at continental Europe. Why would our leaders? For shortcut, start with ‘Early modern Europe:Renaissance’, all the way to today’s “Ukrainian Circus”. That’s why!

    Wars are economically enormously profitable to a selected – affluent – crowds, … and consequences are simply downloaded onto vulgar masses ( … think Leo Strauss!). How cool is that?

    Best,

    F.S.

    #105848
    Dora
    Participant

    re: • The Total War to Cancel Russia (Escobar)

    I’m waiting for the US good-thinking lemmings…er… liberals to cancel this winter’s holiday performances of The Nutcracker Suite, because Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer… in 1880.

    #105849
    wdt
    Participant

    Just hilarious

    #105850
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Note for Canadian residents frequenting this blog:

    Wow! What a nice gift to us Canadians, … er. rich Canadian residents with loose cash, from the non-financial, Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, in her last Federal Budget! Details by Garth Turner, at one time MP in Canadian Prliament:

    … about the Tax-Free First Home Savings Account?

    You will recall it was unveiled during the totally unnecessary 2021 federal election campaign which ended up giving us a Trudeau-Singh coalition administration. At that time the FHSA was earmarked only for people under 40, proving once again that ageism is perfectly fine for all the woke people who hate every other ‘ism.’

    That’s gone now. Saner heads prevailed. The FHSA is open to anybody meeting these criteria:

    Over 18
    Canadian resident (you do not need to be a citizen or a PR)
    Don’t currently own a home, and
    Have not owned one at any time in the previous four calendar years (so when the accounts are available next year that will mean no real estate held since 2018)
    And how does this thing work?

    Contributions to the FHSA are deductible from taxable income in the year they’re made, just like an RRSP. To that extent (like retirement plans) they favour people in higher-income brackets who can score a bigger tax refund. The money inside the FHSA can be invested in almost any financial asset (like other shelters) and all growth is untaxed – as with an RRSP.

    The key feature is funds can be taken out of the plan free of tax (like an TFSA) even though contributors received a tax credit for putting them in. So taxpayers in general will subsidize those using a FHSA to buy an asset (real estate) which can grow in value over time and yield a tax-free capital gain. No, it’s not fair and renters should be pissed. But wait…

    The annual contribution limit is $8,000 – or 30% more than you can put into a TFSA (also unfair) – but there’s a lifetime limit of $40,000. The FHSA is also a use-it-or-lose-it thing since unused contribution room doesn’t accumulate, and expires after 15 years. If the money hasn’t been used to buy a house by then, the account must be closed (but you walk away with 15 years of untaxed compound growth of assets and the tax reduction for having put $40,000 in over that time. Sweet.).

    First-time homebuyers should note if they use a FHSA to make a down payment then cannot also utilize the RRSP Homebuyer’s Plan (which allows a couple to access $70,000 in retirement plan assets, then take 15 years to repay it). Also worth knowing is that money can be transferred from an existing RRSP into a FHSA as a ‘contribution in kind’. This is completely weird, since you get a tax break for putting money into the RRSP, collect another one when the funds are transferred to the FHSA, then the dough can be taken out to buy real estate with no tax. Wahoo.

    So the FHSA is a fabulous tool for high-income renters who want an extra tax shelter allowing 15 years of aggressive ETF-based taxless growth, tax-free withdrawals, the ability to double up on tax deductions and significantly higher annual contribution limits. But for young first-time buyers, it’s a nothingburger. Most will opt for safe, interest-bearing assets inside the account since they cannot risk volatility with down payment money and it’s unlikely to pace even the most modest annual real estate appreciation.”

    … fwiw,

    F.S.

    #105851
    zerosum
    Participant

    Would zero hedge take the challenge and post Agreements of Minsk 1 (September 2014) and Minsk 2 (February 2015), ?
    TAE posted …
    • The Military Situation In Ukraine (Jacques Baud)
    I dug a little deeper
    and got …

    It is essential to recall here that the Agreements of Minsk 1 (September 2014) and Minsk 2 (February 2015), provided neither for the separation nor the independence of the Republics, but their autonomy within the framework of Ukraine. Those who have read the Agreements (they are very, very, very few) will find that it is written in full that the status of the republics had to be negotiated between Kiev and the representatives of the republics, for an internal solution to Ukraine.
    ———–
    https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/s_res_2202.pdf
    United Nations S/RES/2202 (2015)
    Security Council
    Resolution 2202 (2015)
    Adopted by the Security Council at its 7384th meeting, on
    17 February 2015
    Adopted by the Security Council at its 7384th meeting, on
    17 February 2015
    The Security Council,
    Recalling the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United
    Nations and reaffirming its full respect for the sovereignty, independence and
    territorial integrity of Ukraine,
    Expressing its grave concern at the tragic events and violence in eastern
    regions of Ukraine,
    Reaffirming its Resolution 2166 (2014),
    Firmly convinced that the resolution of the situation in eastern regions of
    Ukraine can only be achieved through a peaceful settlement to the current crisis,
    1. Endorses the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk
    Agreements”, adopted and signed in Minsk on 12 February 2015 (Annex I);
    2. Welcomes the Declaration by the President of the Russian Federation, the
    President of Ukraine, the President of the French Republic and the Chancellor of the
    Federal Republic of Germany in support of the “Package of measures for the
    Implementation of the Minsk Agreements”, adopted on 12 February 2015 in Minsk
    (Annex II), and their continuing commitment therein to the implementation of the
    Minsk Agreements;
    3. Calls on all parties to fully implement the “Package of measures”,
    including a comprehensive ceasefire as provided for therein;
    4. Decides to remain seized of the matter
    Annex I
    Package of Measures for the Implementation of the
    Minsk Agreements
    Minsk, 12 February 2015
    1. Immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in certain areas of the Donetsk and
    Luhansk regions of Ukraine and its strict implementation as of 15 February 2015,
    12 a.m. local time.
    (go read the remainder ….)
    ————-

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    to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public.
    to skeptically examine and, where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has become.
    to liberate oppressed knowledge.
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    Here is more oppressed info.
    https://www.unian.info/politics/10787279-zelensky-putin-agreement-minsk-deal-as-basis-full-ceasefire-demining-steinmeier-formula-document.html

    Zelensky-Putin agreement: Minsk deal as basis, full ceasefire, demining, Steinmeier formula (Document)
    02:29, 10.12.19

    The common agreed conclusions were made public following the Paris Normandy summit on December 9.
    The Minsk agreements (Minsk Protocol of September 5, 2014, Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014, and the Minsk Package of Measures of February 12, 2015) continue to be the basis of the work of the Normandy format whose member states are committed to their full implementation, according to the common agreed conclusions of the Paris Normandy summit on December 9.

    According to the document, the sides commit to a full and comprehensive implementation of the ceasefire, support the development and implementation of an updated demining plan based on the Trilateral Contact Group’s decision on demining activities, dated March 3, 2016, the press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine said.
    In addition, the four leaders will support an agreement within the Trilateral Contact Group on three additional disengagement areas with the aim of disengaging forces and equipment by the end of March 2020. What is more, they encourage the Trilateral Contact Group to facilitate the release and exchange of “conflict-related detainees” in the ‘all for all’ format before the end of the year.

    The parties will also support an agreement within the Trilateral Contact Group, within 30 days, on new crossing points along the contact line in Donbas. They express interest in agreeing on all the legal aspects of the special order of local self-government (special status) of occupied areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as outlined in the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements from 2015, to ensure its functioning on a permanent basis.

    They also noted it is necessary to incorporate the so-called Steinmeier formula into the Ukrainian legislation.

    Here’s the full Normandy Summit communique… it’s not long.


    ————
    Peace was within reach.
    Who decided for war?
    The lost lives
    The unbelievable consumed/lost energy
    The pain/suffering
    The food insecurity
    Why are our leaders doing this war?

    #105852
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    A nurse speaking out about nursing in US, how care has deteriorated

    #105853
    zerosum
    Participant

    It is not Putin’s war
    It is Putin’s preventive defensive strike

    (Its my opinion and nobody cares if I’m right or wrong.)

    #105854
    zerosum
    Participant

    Have fun
    Omicron is smarter than a mushroom

    New study suggests mushrooms may talk to each other with up to 50 ‘words’
    Tom Yun
    CTVNews.ca writer
    Published Sunday, April 10, 2022 3:07PM EDT

    Computer scientist Andrew Adamatzky from the University of the West of England analyzed electrical activity from four species of fungi and published his findings last Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science. He found that spikes in electrical activity were used by fungi to communicate and transmit information to other fungi in their network.

    #105855
    John Day
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud: I read that Wiki link on Galicia. This has gone on a looong time, hasn’t it?


    @WES
    and D.BentonSmith: I caught up on your thoughts and insights, too.

    #105856
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The untold consequences have been blamed on the virus where in fact the government was responsible.

    #105857
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Doing nothing was the correct response to the virus.

    #105858
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    @Dr-D

    “All the bioweapon facts they have unearthed in Ukraine. The Chinese were horrified by the findings.”

    Elaborate? Because (again) they target genetic Asians? Or because they create, then release the attack from 3m outside the Wuhan lab and blame it on China?

    Does anyone else remember, back at the start of WWIII Plandemic, stories about CCP/PLA leadership pursuing genetic targeting bio-weapons?

    As I recall a PLA general was even bragging about it 😆

    “When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem.”

    Yes, the problem is “Fascism,” where that is the definition. The government is no longer an arbiter of equal justice and property rights as we contracted it to be, but a partisan player against the people and for their corporate friends. Therefore, in the ‘States at least, our contract is breached and void. There is a certain document we wrote that describes what happens next, you might have read it.

    Which is why the “L/R paradigm” is a dead letter in 2022…

    In real reality “liberal, socialist” apparatchik actions have embraced/fostered the expansion of Fascism (riches for all, power for me!), while only the words of these same “liberal, socialist” apparatchiks equivocate a decorum of progressive ideology/governing…

    To point, the “liberals” have veered so far “Left” as to transmogrify into part of the “Right” wing kleptocracy, while “conservatives” have meandered/pandered so far “Left” as to add the “liberals” platform to their ideology.

    To rise & profit within U$ Empire Inc., “fake” words, posturing & virtue signalling are the Modus Operandi required for ascension, which apparently is at least 60% functional nationwide, to mesmerize We the the Sheeple into an illusion of independent thought, behavior, lives, politics et al. 🙄

    While a form populism rose in 2009-2020 as the “new” center in direct revolt to the Empire of Lies & Hate, it was immediately denounced, shouted down by mass psychosis “liberals” & “conservatives” via a accusatory tsunami of “racist, xenophobic, nazi, white supremacist” lies, psyops & MSM propaganda…

    In case you didn’t notice, FAR too many are still completely deluded in the belief/delusion that Biden, Pelosi, Schumer et al. represent the “liberal, socialist” movement (even a few on TAE), which of course in “real reality” is an artifice strictly supervened by mental cases afflicted by toxic child EGO…

    All part of a gen pop cognitive dissonance coping mechanism, as F.S. stated:

    The U.S. is simply presuming that they are terrifyingly normal country, … you know, can do evil without being evil!

    A poisonous thorn bush does not produce fruit, nor does a nut tree produce bombs 😕

    #105859
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    The Golden City is losing its shine as one of the largest United States-based cryptocurrency exchanges closes its San Francisco-based headquarters.

    Kraken CEO Jesse Powell retweeted an announcement stating that the exchange will close its global headquarters at 548 Market Street, in the center of San Francisco. In the statement, a copy of which was initially tweeted by San Francisco-based political commentator Richie Greenberg, Powell states:

    “We shut down Kraken’s global headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco after numerous employees were attacked, harassed and robbed on their way to and from the office.”

    A poor advertisement for living in California’s financial center, the statement also alleges that “San Francisco is not safe” and crime is “dramatically underreported.”

    #105860
    John Day
    Participant

    Real inflation rate, moment to moment, based on current price data, continuously monitored:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/true-inflation-rate-132-censorship-resistant-price-tracker-built-blockchain
    USA:13.2%, USA food: 26.5%

    #105861
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @ Dr. John Day – I read that Wiki link on Galicia. This has gone on a looong time, hasn’t it?
    ———————————
    Yes. Galicia region has been a cauldron of misery, … probably a worst example of. Wiki link is actually quite limited, … incomplete, edited out for whoever’s convenience.

    In fact, the whole Central Europe has been a centre of misery pretty well forever, … self-inflicted most often, but also courtesy of empires: Russian, Prussian, Austro-Hungarian. Mix in adventures of Tatars, Teutonic Knights, Mongols, Deluge ( Swedish).

    The last millennium has been netherworld out there, …

    … and ever since a standstill across the Elba River*) in 1945 the whole continent has to deal with Empire of Hate™

    Best,

    F.S.

    *) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbe#/media/File:Elbe_basin.png

    ™) of Pepe Escobar.

    #105862
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    If you get the Marburg / Ebola virus the correct response is
    accept that you are going to die
    prevent anyone from touching you or your body fluids while alive or dead

    #105863
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Given the dedication of western politicians to the goal of economic death, I am wondering how long it will be before the large German companies – Bosch, BMW, Mercedes etc – decide to move their research and design functions to China as well as all component manufacturing to the BRICS.

    Keeping those functions in Europe will almost certainly mean the death of the companies given that they will have to close their factories in Germany if their is no energy supply and heavily reduced demand, retaining their existing factories in China. Obviously the CEOs will not do this yet, they will always be behind the ball, but this has to start soon otherwise these companies will die forever. The similarly interesting issue is whether China will be willing to import the European specialists needed to perform these functions.

    Alternatively, will the CEOs, as part of the Davos crowd, simply let the companies die?

    #105864
    John Day
    Participant

    Ilargi commented a few days ago that “these missiles have serial numbers, don’t they?”

    SouthFront has the serial number, and it’s within a series used against Donbass by Ukrainian forces. The Russians don’t use the Tochka-U…

    Last Point In Kiev’s Lies About Bloody Attack On Civilians With Tochka-U Missile

    On April 8, a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile hit the railway station in the city of Kramatorsk. As a result, at least 57 civilians were killed, dozens more were injured.

    According to the traditional scenario, immediately after the incident, the Ukrainian authorities sent foreign reporters to the town. However, this time the plan went wrong. The journalists filmed the serial number of the Tochka-U missile which killed dozens of civilians. They left no doubts that the missile was launched by the AFU.

    The Tochka-U missile in Kramatorsk has a series number Sh91579:
    Kramatorsk

    The Tochka-U missiles, including of the Sh915 series, are actively used by the AFU on the Donbass front lines. The following cases of the strikes with missiles of the same series have been recorded so far:

    On September 4, 2014 in Khartsyzsk (Sh915622):

    Last Point In Kiev’s Lies About Bloody Attack On Civilians With Tochka-U Missile
    Khartsyzsk

    On February 2, 2015 in Alchevsk (Sh91565):

    Last Point In Kiev’s Lies About Bloody Attack On Civilians With Tochka-U Missile
    Alchevsk

    Since February 13, 2015 in Logvinovo (Sh91566, Sh915527, Sh915328):

    Last Point In Kiev’s Lies About Bloody Attack On Civilians With Tochka-U Missile
    Logvinovo

    Before March 19, 2022 in Berdyansk (Sh915611):

    Last Point In Kiev’s Lies About Bloody Attack On Civilians With Tochka-U Missile
    Berdyansk

    Before March 17, 2022 in Melitopol (Sh915516):

    Last Point In Kiev’s Lies About Bloody Attack On Civilians With Tochka-U Missile
    Melitopol

    These are only cases confirmed by the footage from the area and which proved the use of the Tochka-U missiles of the SH-915 series only.

    #105865
    WES
    Participant

    Special Prosecutor Warning!

    Whenever you hear a Congressjonal critter cry we need a “special prosecutor”, you need to become suddenly very, very, cynical.

    Appointing a “special prosecutor” is a dirty rotten trick congress repeatedly plays on Americans. Why would Congress be so anxious to appoint a “special prosecutor”? It is because a “special prosecutor” has to report everything he does to congress, so congress can front run the evidence to ensure nobody ever gets prosecuted! That is the “Why”!

    What congress does not want is an ordinary DofJ prosecutor who doesn’t report to congress! Congress wants total control!

    Special Prosecutor John Durham appointed by deep state Bill Barr

    Now as for toothless Special Prosecutor John Durham. You see he is not allowed to prosecute anybody in the government! We all know 99% of the real criminals were all in the government! You know like Hillary!

    So who is left for Durham to prosecute? Maybe Sussman. But everybody is saying “No” you can’t prosecute him because he has connections to too many government people. So Sussman will probably escape too. This is to be decided shortly by a carefully selected court judge, of course!

    This political legal theatre is completely rigged!

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