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Western ‘Experts’ Failed To Destroy Russia’s Economy (Strelnikov)
G7 Allies Consider Outright Ban Of All Trade With Russia (ZH)
Feds Have No Data on How Regulations Reduce Emissions: Audit (ET)
German Tanks Pose Logistical Problems For Ukraine – Foreign Policy (RT)
Berlin To Expel Russian Diplomats En Masse, Moscow To Mirror That Decision (TASS)
Vatican Refuses To Commit ‘Grave Sin’ – Media (RT)
Trump Lays Out Timeline To End Ukraine Conflict (RT)
Biden Impeachment? (ZH)
Hunter Biden’s Lawyers To Meet With Feds – CNN (RT)
Bragg Caved. Jim Jordan Won (ET)
Airman’s Leaks Started Just 48 Hours After Russia Invaded Ukraine (ZH)
China Questions Sovereignty Of Ex-Soviet States (RT)
Macron Is ‘Bunkered,’ Le Pen Says (RT)
French Cops Confiscate Cookware (RT)
French Police Cleared To Use Drones For Crowd Monitoring (R.)
US Democrats Threaten Matt Taibbi With Arrest (RT)

 

 

 

 

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Very good from Kirill Strelnikov at RIA Novosti

“..a petrol station with matryoshka dolls couldn’t possibly stand up to the combined economic might of the enlightened West..”

It’s all about faulty modelling. A bunch of economists looking at nominal GDP only.

Western ‘Experts’ Failed To Destroy Russia’s Economy (Strelnikov)

As is often the case in the Western media, the most embarrassing facts are only covered when they can no longer be hidden, but even then unpleasant admissions are made with numerous caveats and excuses. This week, the International Monetary Fund published a report, which drew the long overdue conclusion that the economic hegemony of the leading Western countries, represented by the G7, is shrinking as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) surge. Its conclusions were, of course, ‘polished’ by all the leading Western media outlets, but one thing became clear: Any triumphant Western predictions about the BRICS in general, and Russia in particular, can be safely tossed into the rubbish bin. In 2007, Western experts published a reassuring report stating that the total contribution of the BRICS to the world economy would not be comparable to that of the G7 until 2032.

But once again Western economic projections have failed, and the fact is that the BRICS countries caught up with the G7 in terms of their contribution to world economic growth as early as 2020, and at the moment the figures, even creatively manipulated by pundits, stubbornly show that by 2028 the BRICS will account for at least 35% (some sources say as much as 40%) of world GDP (compared with 27.8% for the G7). Western analysts, who are in fact echoing the wishes of the global deep state, have fallen into a similar trap in their assessment of Russia’s prospects and impact on the global economy. As we recall, since the beginning of last year, more sanctions have been imposed on Russia than on any other country in history, and the main talking heads in the West have reported with anticipation that the Russian economy will soon be reduced to dust.

Such was their confidence (after all, a petrol station with matryoshka dolls couldn’t possibly stand up to the combined economic might of the enlightened West) that analysts didn’t even bother with figures. The prediction was simple: Russia would be quickly and irrevocably destroyed – first its economy and then its social cohesion. A common trope for a number of years has been a comparison between the economies of Russia and Italy, with spurious claims that the economy of the world’s largest country is no bigger than that of the home of pizza and pasta, all based on simplistic measurements which fail to take into account currency differences, and overvalue the debt-fueled services sector. But something went wrong, and to the astonishment of the prognosticators, not only did Russia not kneel, it did not even bend to their will. The country’s position as a global energy superpower has been reaffirmed, and the title of global food superpower has been added. Other such titles will come in time. The forecasters began to compare their calculations and came to the conclusion that they had been counting wrongly.

As a result, a respected US publication, The National Interest, has published an ashen article whose main conclusion is that the comparison of the economies of Russia and Italy betrays the blatant incompetence of Western experts. In short, the roots of the comparison lie in the methodology of comparing economies by nominal GDP – the total value of all goods and services produced or sold in a country over a given period. Indeed, according to the World Bank, Russia’s nominal GDP in 2013 was about $2.29 trillion and Italy’s was about $2.14 trillion. But according to the authors of the article, the approach itself was fundamentally flawed: neither the exchange rate nor purchasing power parity (PPP) adjusted for living standards and labour productivity, per capita wealth and, most importantly, the availability of crucial material resources and goods, as opposed to nice “paper” assets like the value of global brands, copyrights and so on, were taken into account in the calculations.

With this correction alone, Russia’s real GDP is quite comparable to that of Germany (one of the ten most economically developed countries in the world): $4.81 trillion for Russia versus $4.85 trillion for Germany in 2021. But even such sophisticated calculations do not reflect the real situation. In times of crisis, the production of physical goods comes first, and here the Russian economy is not only stronger than the German economy, but more than twice as strong as France. Add to this Russia’s key role in supplying the world with energy, vital natural resources and food (not to mention its impact on global security) and we don’t need the conclusions of the world’s smartest analysts to understand our country’s real place in the world. Not so long ago, the IMF forecast 0.3% economic growth for Russia in 2023. Perhaps we should thank the “experts” and send this forecast to the same place as the others. Meanwhile, it’s better that we win in the real world, not on paper.

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Trying to sink Europe…

G7 Allies Consider Outright Ban Of All Trade With Russia (ZH)

Washington is in discussion with several Western partners about outright ending trade with Russia. The debate is occurring as the US-led economic war on Russia has failed to stop Moscow’s war machine in Ukraine. According to Bloomberg News, members of the Group of 7 (G7) are considering banning exports to Russia. The debate is occurring among member states – the US, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the European Union – ahead of an international summit in May. Members of the G7 have maintained significant exports to Russia since Washington declared it would isolate Moscow using sanctions. According to Trade Data Monitor, $66 billion in goods have flowed to Russia from member states. The proposed ban will essentially switch the way Washington outlaws trade with Russia.

Currently, the US and its allies are blacklisting Russian products, companies and individuals. If adopted, the export ban will prohibit all trade with Moscow that is not explicitly exempted from Western sanctions. The Miami Herald reports that food and medicine will likely be on the exemption list. However, international aid organizations argue that exemptions are ineffective and sanctions largely stomp out the trade of civilian goods. The proposed export ban faces serious obstacles to overcome before the May G7 summit. All EU member states will have to agree to the ban for the bloc to sign on. Additionally, the export ban could threaten the grain export deal that Turkey and the UN brokered with Russia and Ukraine last year. According to the EU, since the agreement was implemented, 23 million tonnes of food products have left Kiev’s Black Sea ports.

After Russia invaded Ukraine 14 months ago, the White House unleashed a series of sanctions targeting Moscow that it believed was acting as an economic nuclear weapon. While the Joe Biden administration hoped that the entire globe would join in on the Kremlin’s isolation, after a year, only close Western partners have followed Washington’s lead. This has allowed Moscow to weather the West’s sanctions by turning to other trading partners – including China and India.

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More disaster modelling. Canada commits $200 billion to an empty model.

Feds Have No Data on How Regulations Reduce Emissions: Audit (ET)

The federal government does not know the extent that regulations are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite committing $200 billion towards the issue. An April 20 report released by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Jerry DeMarco, indicates that Environment and Climate Change Canada does not attribute emission results to specific regulations. The federal department does not measure, or report on, the contributions of each regulation toward meeting the set target for 2030. An audit by the commissioner concluded that Environment Canada “used modelling approaches to estimate greenhouse gas emission reductions.” The federal government does not know if regulations to limit methane emissions are achieving their target, said the report. The audit found that large sources of methane emissions were unaccounted for in inventories and not covered by any existing regulations.

The audit considered five regulations with the stated intent to reduce emissions from vehicles on the road, power plants, and oil and gas production. DeMarco concluded, “Without comprehensive impact information, the federal government does not know whether it is using the right tools to sufficiently reduce emissions to meet its target.” The audit suggested some regulations, targeted at reducing emissions from power generation, achieved the targeted level, while regulations intended to reduce vehicle emissions failed to meet their target. “Although greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars decreased, this was offset by even larger increases in emissions for light trucks and heavy-duty vehicles, such as school and transit buses and freight, delivery, garbage, and dump trucks,” said the report.

The audit also said the government took “too long to develop regulations given the urgency of the climate crisis.” The report was critical that it took more than five years to develop the Clean Fuel Regulations, which was double the initial plan. The Liberals first promised to plant 2 billion trees by 2031 on the campaign trail in 2019, and said the country would cut emissions from 42 to 45 percent lower than 2005 levels. The country only cut 8.4 percent of emissions between 2005 and 2021, according to the most recent national greenhouse gas inventory report.

The audit found the country isn’t on track to plant even one-tenth of the promised trees by the deadline, despite a $3.2 billion allocation in the 2020 fall economic statement. “There is no solution to climate change and terrestrial biodiversity loss that does not include forests,” DeMarco’s report said. “It is unlikely that the two billion trees program will meet its objectives unless significant changes are made.” On the emissions front, the audit indicates the federal government committed to eliminating 2 million tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions yearly, by 2030. Now the Liberal government said it will not start reducing emissions until 2031, at the earliest.

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Most of these tanks will never be in action.

German Tanks Pose Logistical Problems For Ukraine – Foreign Policy (RT)

Ukraine will likely have to procure a range of different munitions, rather than a single type, for German-made Leopard tanks, Foreign Policy has reported. In a report on Thursday, the media outlet stated that the vehicles provided to Kiev by eight countries are not uniform in terms of the shells they fire. The article also highlights the supposed inadequacy of air defences that have already been supplied. Foreign Policy wrote that the “Leopard tanks arriving from eight different countries fire different rounds, meaning that Ukrainians can’t buy munitions for their newly tricked-out ground forces in bulk.” As for Abrams tanks which the US has pledged to donate, these will likely take months to actually arrive on the battlefield, the outlet noted.

According to the article, Ukraine is also facing severe shortages of modern air defense systems. The country reportedly has enough to cover just a few cities. To make matters worse, the Hawk missile systems provided by Washington have been shipped without radars, Foreign Policy claimed. The setbacks are supposedly holding up Kiev’s planned spring counteroffensive, and causing discontent among the Ukrainian leadership. The media outlet cited President Vladimir Zelensky’s calls on the West to step up its military support for Ukraine late last month. Echoing that sentiment, Aleksey Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, lamented to the Associated Press earlier this week that some of Ukraine’s backers “promise one thing and do a completely different one.” The official also made it clear that “nobody will start unprepared,” referring to the planned counteroffensive.

A Ukrainian MP quoted by Foreign Policy claimed that the push had originally been planned for April, but had to be postponed indefinitely due to the lack of weapons necessary to pull it off. On Friday, the New York Times published a report saying that as of late February Kiev had only 200 of the 253 tanks that US military officials deemed sufficient for a successful counteroffensive. The paper, citing leaked Pentagon documents, noted that the majority of hardware was of Soviet design. The NYT also claimed that the US and its allies were having difficulty keeping up with Ukraine’s demand for artillery shells.

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Yeah, don’t let’s talk.

Berlin To Expel Russian Diplomats En Masse, Moscow To Mirror That Decision (TASS)

The German authorities have decided to massively expel Russian diplomats, thus Berlin is pursuing a course to destroy the entire range of Russia-Germany relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry told TASS on Saturday. “The authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany have decided on another mass expulsion of members of the Russian diplomatic missions in Germany. We strongly condemn these actions of Berlin, which continues to demonstratively destroy the entire range of Russia-Germany relations, including in their diplomatic dimension,” the ministry pointed out. The diplomats promised to give a mirror response to Berlin’s decision.

“As a response to Berlin’s hostile actions, the Russian side has decided to mirror the decision and expel German diplomats from Russia, as well as to significantly limit the maximum number of employees of German diplomatic missions in our country. On April 5, 2023, the Russian Foreign Ministry officially notified German Ambassador to Russia Geza Andreas von Geyr of this decision,” the diplomats said. They also pointed out that Berlin, in violation of its assurances, has put the media on notice of another mass expulsion of Russian diplomatic staff. “It is indicative that the German side, despite its repeated assurances of unwillingness to make the story public, violated them by making representatives of the media regularly used to organize ‘controlled leaks and information’ issues aware of its plot,” the ministry said.

On March 25, the Focus media outlet said, citing sources in the foreign ministry, that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock planned to declare more than 30 accredited Russian diplomats personae non gratae. According to the Focus, German security agencies claim that these diplomats use their diplomatic status to illegally obtain political, economic, military, and scientific information for subsequent use in acts of sabotage and dissemination of disinformation. Commenting on these reports, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia would give a tough response to such steps.

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Conveniently hiding behind papal secrecy.

Vatican Refuses To Commit ‘Grave Sin’ – Media (RT)

A representative of the Vatican has said in a court filing that it would be a “grave sin” for the church to be forced to disclose communications between an archbishop and a cardinal in a UK trial related to a disputed real estate deal, according to a report by Bloomberg. “The violation of the pontifical secret is deemed a grave sin,”Carlos Ferando Diaz Paniagua, a Roman Catholic priest and lawyer, declared in documents filed with a London court in March. The pontifical secret, also referred to as papal secrecy, refers to an oath taken by members of the church designed to protect the distribution of sensitive information. It stands, Diaz Paniagua added to the court, “regardless of any grave or urgent considerations or the need to protect the common good.”

The legal request for various emails and text messages stems from a 2018 claim by the Vatican that it was defrauded by financier Raffaele Mincione and his companies in the $383 million sale of a former Harrods warehouse in London’s high-end Chelsea district. Ten people – including an Italian cardinal – have been accused by Vatican prosecutors in relation to various fraud and embezzlement charges amid allegations that the property had been sold at an inflated price. The Vatican has claimed it could lose as much as $186 million in its purchase of the site, which was intended to be developed into luxury apartments, and that it was improperly advised throughout the proceedings. Mincione, who is a defendant in the Vatican case, has in turn sued the church in the aforementioned London civil trial. He claims that his reputation has been damaged by the Vatican’s accusations against him.

In 2020, he petitioned the London court for a declaration that he had acted in good faith throughout his role in the real estate deal – a ruling his legal team believes would assist him in the separate trial brought by the Vatican. As part of the civil case, Mincione’s lawyers sought a trove of digital communications between high-ranking church officials Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra. Diaz Paniagua claimed in response that emails and text messages between the pair are irrelevant to the case, while the Vatican has said messages protected by pontifical secret are akin to state secrets Lawyers representing Mincione have declined to comment. The Vatican has until April 28 to decide if it intends to maintain pontifical secret as its reason for refusal to comply with a court request.

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“..you don’t need bullets, you don’t need tanks, you don’t need weapons of any kind, you just need some common sense.”

Trump Lays Out Timeline To End Ukraine Conflict (RT)

Former US president Donald Trump has promised to put a swift end to the bloodshed in Ukraine should he be elected again in 2024. The Republican also trashed the incumbent Joe Biden’s foreign policy, claiming it has made the world a more dangerous place. Speaking to his supporters in Fort Myers, Florida, on Friday, Trump said: “Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. I’ll get it settled very quickly.” He explained that he “know[s] both” Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. Trump, who served as president from 2017 until 2021, claimed that he “got along” with the Russian head of state, and that Putin would not have launched his military campaign against Ukraine had Trump been in office.

“It’s still pretty easy for me to do,” the Republican insisted, referring to ending the conflict that has gone on for more than a year. He went on to allege that other countries’ leaders have lost respect for the US under Biden’s leadership because of his allegedly poor handling of America’s foreign policy. To regain it, Trump argued, “you don’t need bullets, you don’t need tanks, you don’t need weapons of any kind, you just need some common sense.” The former US president described himself as the “only candidate” who could promise to prevent the US from getting involved in World War III. If “these incompetent people” remain in office, however, there “will be a war like no other” with belligerent parties using nuclear weapons, Trump warned.

Last month, the Republican hopeful publicly asserted on at least two occasions that it would take him 24 hours to get Russia and Ukraine to end the fighting and negotiate if he were to be reelected. Talks between Kiev and Moscow were suspended last April by the Ukrainian leadership. Kiev accused the retreating Russian military of committing atrocities in several Kiev suburbs, a claim Moscow has denied.In October of last year, President Zelensky signed a decree, ruling out talks with his Russian counterpart. That order was given after Russia absorbed four Ukrainian regions following referendums. The Kremlin maintains that it is open to peace negotiations in principle as long as Kiev relinquishes its claim to the territories and agrees to Russia’s terms. Ukraine, in turn, says it is determined to resolve the issue by winning the conflict on the battlefield.

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“I cannot imagine how the Justice Department allowed this to go on, if not for corruption at the highest level. And they are in some serious trouble right now. I think they know it..”

Biden Impeachment? (ZH)

A Republican member of the House Oversight Committee thinks a flurry of recent corruption scandals could lead to the impeachment of President Joe Biden. Between the revelation that the ‘Hunter laptop letter hoax’ signed by 51 current and former intelligence officials was created at the best of Antony Blinken during the 2020 US election, the obvious implications of CCP leverage over the Biden family, and information presented by an IRS whistleblower regarding the Hunter Biden probe, things may get interesting according to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN). When asked about China’s influence over the Biden family, Burchett told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Friday: “We know of at least eight Biden family members who have profited from dealings overseas,” adding “I think if you delve into it deep enough, there’s prostitution rings involved in this, human trafficking has been rumored to be part of some of this. These so-called companies that have allowed the Biden family to profit. It is gross, and it is disgusting.”

“If I was those 51 people, I’d be lawyering up right now because they’re going to be asked in public at some point what they knew and if they knew that all this other stuff was going on, because it is very damning Maria. This is just the very tip of the iceberg,” he continued. “This very brave IRS agent coming forward, I think, will just start it,” Burchett said, referring to the senior agent in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation who came forward earlier this week in a letter to lawmakers, accusing the DOJ of ‘mishandling’ the Hunter Biden case, and that his client had information that would contradict sworn testimony from a senior political appointee. When asked if that might lead to an impeachment, Burchett said: “If this coverup shows what’s going on, what we assume is going on, and that the 51 folks were basically lied to and showed false documentation, how can you not…”

“The lawyer for the whistleblower joined “Special Report with Bret Baier” Thursday night claiming his client is “not a political person” and does not have a “political agenda,” but does have documents to support his allegations that he hopes to bring to both congressional Democrats and Republicans. “If you delve into it deep enough, there’s prostitution rings involved in this. Human trafficking has been rumored to be a part of some of these so-called companies that have allowed the Biden family to profit. It is gross and it is disgusting about what has been allowed to go on,” Burchett said.” -Fox News “I cannot imagine how the Justice Department allowed this to go on, if not for corruption at the highest level. And they are in some serious trouble right now. I think they know it,” Burchett continued.

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“..failure to file taxes, felony tax evasion and falsely stating on a federal form for a gun purchase..”

That is all.

Hunter Biden’s Lawyers To Meet With Feds – CNN (RT)

Lawyers representing Hunter Biden have reportedly set up a meeting with US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to discuss the status of a criminal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son. The meeting will take place next week and include a senior DOJ official, as well as US Attorney David Weiss, the Delaware prosecutor who has led the probe on Hunter Biden since 2018, CNN reported on Friday, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter. Fox News, which confirmed the report, said Biden’s lawyers requested the meeting weeks ago, and it’s unrelated to allegations made this week about the investigation by an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower.

CNN said prosecutors have narrowed the scope of the probe to include possible charges for failure to file taxes, felony tax evasion and falsely stating on a federal form for a gun purchase that he had not used illegal drugs. Weiss is reportedly also considering related charges involving money laundering and unregistered foreign lobbying. The tax case relates at least partly to Biden’s income from ventures in Ukraine and China. The IRS whistleblower, who has not been identified and has sought permission to give testimony to Congress, supervised the agency’s investigation into the younger Biden’s alleged tax violations. The whistleblower reportedly claims that the probe has been undermined by “political considerations” and that Attorney General Merrick Garland misled Congress about how the case is being handled.

There is no indication that the scheduling of next week’s DOJ meeting with Biden’s lawyer suggests that prosecutors are prepared to make a decision soon on whether to file charges, Fox said, citing a source. There is “growing frustration” in the FBI because the bulk of the investigative work concerning the Biden allegations was completed last year, NBC News reported on Thursday. The IRS finished its part of the investigation more than a year ago, the report adds. A bombshell New York Post report on alleged foreign influence-peddling by the Biden family surfaced in October 2020, just three weeks before the presidential election. The report was based on correspondence contained on a laptop computer that Hunter Biden had abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.

Former CIA Director Mike Morell recently admitted in congressional testimony that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign played a role in the creation of an open letter – signed by 51 former intelligence officials – claiming that the Hunter Biden allegations had “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Morell, who acknowledged that he wanted to help Joe Biden get elected, said the letter was prompted by Biden campaign staffer Antony Blinken, now US secretary of state. Media outlets and the Biden campaign used the letter to discredit the Post report, which was censored by Facebook based on an FBI misinformation warning.

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“..Mr. Pomerantz’s deposition will go forward on May 12, and we look forward to his appearance,”

Bragg Caved. Jim Jordan Won (ET)

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped his effort to quash a congressional subpoena to a former prosecutor who worked in his office, a congressional aide told The Epoch Times in a statement on Friday. “This evening, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office withdrew its appeal in Bragg v. Jordan. Mr. Pomerantz’s deposition will go forward on May 12, and we look forward to his appearance,” Russel Dye, spokesperson for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to The Epoch Times in a statement. “Bragg caved. Jim Jordan won,” the House Judiciary Committee wrote in a statement on Twitter Friday.

The development wrapped up a legal clash between Bragg and House Judiciary Republicans, whereby Bragg had attempted to stop the lawmakers from requesting testimony from Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor who investigated former President Donald Trump’s finances. Pomerantz left Bragg’s office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg’s initial unwillingness to bring an indictment against Trump. A grand jury, encouraged by Bragg, brought an indictment against Trump in late March, prompting Jordan to initiate a probe into what he calls a “politically motivated” prosecution against a former president. Jordan subpoenaed Pomerantz to seek his testimony as a part of that probe.

In response, Bragg sued the House Judiciary Committee and Pomerantz to prevent Pomerantz from testifying. That lawsuit led to a hearing on Wednesday in the Southern District Court of New York, and a subsequent decision by District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, ordered that the congressional panel has the authority to become involved in the investigation of Trump and declined Bragg’s request for a court injunction on the congressional subpoena.

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Went on for well over a year…

Airman’s Leaks Started Just 48 Hours After Russia Invaded Ukraine (ZH)

The Pentagon’s humiliation just grew deeper, as it turns out National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira’s leaks of classified documents started far earlier than has previously been reported. Tipped off about a second, 600-member Discord chat group where Teixeira also posted, the New York Times found the Massachusetts Air National Guard information technology specialist started sharing information about the war in Ukraine within 48 hours of Russia’s February 2022 invasion. In contrast to the previously reported chat group, this one was far larger and was publicly listed on a YouTube channel. This development makes the intelligence community’s failure to discover the posts all the more embarrassing: The document used to criminally charge Teixeira says he started posting in December 2022, but it turns out his stream of leaks spanned 13 months.

The Times matched Teixeira to the account in the newly-publicized chat room by a variety of means, including the user name, photos he posted that match known photos of his family home’s interior, a reference to his birthday, and, not least, the user’s declaration that he worked in an Air Force intelligence unit. The posts reviewed by the Times were detailed descriptions of classified documents, with the user believed to have also posted photos of documents that have since been deleted. Teixeira jumped into leak mode just two days after the Russian invasion, posting, “Saw a pentagon report saying that 1/3rd of the force is being used to invade.” When others in the chat room questioned his information, he wrote, “I have a little more than open source info. Perks of being in a USAF intel unit.”

In a March 27, 2022 post in which he said he was citing “an NSA site,” Teixeira told the group Russian forces were about to pull back from Kiev: “Some ‘big’ news. There may be a planned withdrawal of the troops west of Kiev, as in all of them.” Two days later, Russia announced it was doing just that. “The job I have lets me get privilege’s above most intel guys,” he boasted with imperfect punctuation. When another chat participant cautioned him not to abuse those privileges, Teixeira fittingly replied, “Too late.”

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“There are enduring problems, aren’t there, about their conflict, their problem? It’s so easy to say in one word. If you have any problems, you can talk about it together.”

China Questions Sovereignty Of Ex-Soviet States (RT)

China’s ambassador to France has called into question the sovereignty of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, suggesting that their hazy status under international law makes it difficult to resolve conflicts over disputed territories such as Crimea. “Even these countries of the former Soviet Union don’t have effective status in international law because there is no international agreement to make their status as a sovereign country concrete,” Ambassador Lu Shaye said on Saturday in an interview with French broadcaster LCI. Asked by Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin whether Crimea is Ukrainian territory, Lu said, “It depends on how you perceive the problem . . . . It’s not that simple.” Rochebin tried to correct his guest, saying, “Sorry, according to international law, you know it’s Ukraine. Under international law, you can argue it, you can dispute it, but this is Ukraine.”

Lu replied, “Crimea was originally part of Russia, wasn’t it? It was [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev who gave Crimea to Ukraine in the Soviet Union.” Pressed again on the peninsula’s status, the Chinese diplomat said, “Now, we must not quarrel about this kind of problem again. Now, the most urgent thing is to stop, to cease fire, to stop.” Chinese officials have tried to maintain a neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, resisting pressure from the US and other Western powers to join in condemning Moscow and imposing sanctions. Beijing, which proposed a 12-point peace plan in February, has emphasized the need to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine and work toward a diplomatic solution that accounts for the security concerns of all parties involved.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has vowed to recapture all of his country’s territory, including Crimea – a goal that most of Kiev’s Western backers don’t see as realistic. Residents of the peninsula voted overwhelmingly for Crimea to become part of Russia in 2014, following a US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government. Asked about the importance of territorial integrity from Kiev’s point of view, Lu again pointed to the historical complexity of the issue, saying, “There are enduring problems, aren’t there, about their conflict, their problem? It’s so easy to say in one word. If you have any problems, you can talk about it together.”

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“France’s next presidential election is scheduled for 2027, when Macron won’t be able to run again because of term limits.”

Macron Is ‘Bunkered,’ Le Pen Says (RT)

Emmanuel Macron’s decision to push through pension reforms – in defiance of public opinion on the issue – has created a “total rupture” between the French president and his country’s people, opposition party leader Marine Le Pen has claimed. “The problem is that Emmanuel Macron is completely bunkered,” Le Pen said on Saturday in an interview with France’s BFM TV. “He can no longer leave the Elysée [presidential palace] without arousing the ire of a people he refuses to listen to and whose will he refuses to respect.” Macron was booed by crowds in eastern France on Wednesday, when he made his first public appearances since he signed into law an unpopular pension law earlier this month. Union workers claimed credit for cutting off the electricity at a woodworking factory in Muttersholtz just before the president arrived, leaving him partially in the dark during his visit.

The pension reforms, which included raising France’s retirement age to 64 from 62, sparked mass protests and civil unrest across the country. “He generated anger, and it is he who is at the origin of the disorder, the chaos,” Le Pen said. “I believe that today, there is a total rupture between Emmanuel Macron and the French people.” Le Pen accused the president of refusing to listen to public outcry on the pension law, reflecting a “failing democracy.” She added, “When the people say no, it’s no. We will have to tell him that democracy is doing what we said we were going to do. Democracy is respecting the will of the people.”

An Ifop Group poll released on Wednesday showed that Le Pen has overtaken Macron in public popularity. Asked which of the two personalities they prefer, respondents favored Le Pen over the president by a 47%-42% margin. Macron defeated Le Pen in last year’s presidential election by more than 17 percentage points. He beat her even more handily in 2017, winning 66.1% of the votes. France’s next presidential election is scheduled for 2027, when Macron won’t be able to run again because of term limits. Le Pen, leader of France’s National Rally party, plans to run for president for the fourth time. Even before Macron signed the pension bill last week, a poll showed that he would lose to Le Pen by a 55%-45% margin if they were to face off again.

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Other words for pots and pans… “..a regulation banning “portable sound devices”.. “..the brand-new edict forbidding “entertainment devices.“.. “any sound device that is portable or emanating from a vehicle that has not been duly authorized..”

French Cops Confiscate Cookware (RT)

French police in the village of Ganges confiscated saucepans and other metallic cookware from protesters on Thursday after hurriedly adopting a regulation banning “portable sound devices” ahead of a visit from President Emmanuel Macron. The French leader is currently touring the nation to defend his unpopular pension reforms. Video posted to social media shows police officers opening backpacks and ordering protesters to ditch their cookware. When one complains such restrictions are illegal, the officer retrieves a piece of paper from his car, presumably bearing the brand-new edict forbidding “entertainment devices.” Demonstrators were also reportedly forbidden from bringing small flutes anywhere near the school where Macron was to speak.

The Herault prefecture rushed to impose the ban on “any sound device that is portable or emanating from a vehicle that has not been duly authorized” within the security perimeter of the areas to be visited by Macron just hours before his visit on Thursday, hoping to protect the head of state from the chorus of metallic banging he faced during his first event in Alsace. While authorities insisted the snap edict was a “common police measure” meant to target amplifiers and speakers, experts questioned the legality of confiscating pots and pans, noting that the hastily adopted decree banned the use of the devices, not their possession. Macron’s political opponents seized on the pan ban’s overreach. “Is it possible to get out of a democratic crisis by banning saucepans?” Green Party MP Sandrine Rousseau asked. Communist Party spokesman Ian Brossat said he was “impatiently awaiting the bill which will prohibit the sale of saucepans.”

Asked whether he would face the demonstrators, Macron responded that he would do so only “if people are ready to talk.” “Where I’m from, eggs and pans, these are for cooking,” the president quipped. Macron later attempted to further marginalize the protesters, declaring, “it is not saucepans that will move France forward.” “The person who is preventing France from moving forward is [Macron],” Chloe Bourguignon, the secretary general of regional union UNSA Grand-Est, told FranceInfo. “It shows great contempt to say such a thing, particularly after all the messages of provocation that he has sent in the last few weeks.” After the pension reform package became law this week, Macron ordered his government to “restore peace” over the next 100 days, vowing not to back down on raising the retirement age by two years even though the legislation is opposed by more than two-thirds of the French population.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1649824727542779987

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Get their pots and pans and bring out the high tech…

French Police Cleared To Use Drones For Crowd Monitoring (R.)

French police is allowed from Friday to use drones equipped with cameras for a wide range of tasks including crowd monitoring and border control, following the publication of a decree in the Official Journal on Thursday.
This comes just over a year before the Paris 2024 Olympics and at a time when opposition to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform has triggered huge protests that at times turned violent. The decree allows police, customs or military to use drones to prevent attacks on people or property, ensure the security of gatherings in public places as well as maintain or restore public order when these gatherings are likely to severely disrupt public order.


The drones can also be used for the prevention of terrorist acts, the regulation of transport flows, border surveillance, and rescuing people, the decree said. The decree details and implements in practice a security law voted by parliament last year. France’s CNIL data privacy watchdog had in March demanded that a detailed policy of use be published, including on the information of the public concerned by the use of drones.

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Taibbi and Elon Musk have had some sort of falling-out I see.

Taibbi: “You people are shockingly dishonest. This is referencing my refusal to leave Substack and move to Twitter subscriptions. The full quote is: “This whole business of me maybe moving to Twitter or using this new subscription service – I was trying to protect Elon in this situation… I was trying to communicate this to him: the Twitter Files wouldn’t be taken seriously if there was even a theoretical financial relationship between the two of us.”

US Democrats Threaten Matt Taibbi With Arrest (RT)

Democratic congresswoman Stacey Plaskett has threatened Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi with prosecution for perjury, journalist Lee Fang revealed on Thursday. Plaskett reportedly accused the independent journalist of deliberately misrepresenting the partnership between the social media giant and various US government agencies during his testimony before Congress last month. Fang, who obtained and published a copy of the letter from the Virgin Islands representative, pointed out that Plaskett based her allegations largely on claims made by MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan during a recent confrontational interview between Hassan and Taibbi – accusations Fang had already debunked in a recent piece published on his Substack blog.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1649833430228631553

Plaskett’s claim that Taibbi had deliberately mixed up CISA (the Homeland Security subsidiary, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and CIS (the Center for Internet Security) in order to falsely depict an unconstitutionally cozy relationship between the Department of Homeland Security and Twitter was based on a single tweet, which Taibbi had deleted upon realizing his error and which was unrelated to his March 9 testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. As Taibbi pointed out to GrayZone journalist Aaron Maté on Friday, that comment referred to just one of many well-documented connections between DHS, its contractors (like CIS and the Election Integrity Partnership), and Twitter, and the Twitter Files ultimately revealed the platform was working with both CIS and CISA in the same manner.


Plaskett, who denounced Taibbi as a “so-called journalist” during the subcommittee hearing and accused him of posing a threat to people who disagreed with him, rounded out her letter with seven questions, demanding answers by this past Friday on the penalty of prosecution for perjury, which carries a five-year prison sentence. However, Taibbi claimed he did not even receive the message until the deadline had already arrived. Analyzing the document, Fang revealed it was co-written by staffers for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and former House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler. Taibbi was the first journalist hand-picked by Twitter CEO Elon Musk to report on internal communications confirming the depth of the collusion between a dozen US government agencies and the major social media platforms to squelch dissent and promote narratives desirable to Washington. While he was in Washington testifying before Congress, a tax agent visited his home, leaving a note in what Republican lawmakers have denounced as an intimidation tactic from their political foes.

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    Banksy   • Western ‘Experts’ Failed To Destroy Russia’s Economy (Strelnikov) • G7 Allies Consider Outright Ban Of All Trade With Russia (ZH) • Fe
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 23 2023]

    #133939
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Bud Light Marketing Executive Goes On Leave After Disastrous Trans-TikTok Stunt

    Again, no apology: complete defense. Since when does the 3rd VP of paper clips lose the company $3B in three weeks and not get fired? That means their behavior remains entirely abnormal. They continue to attack their customers every way they can think of. That’s why the CIA was installed at Bud.

    Exactly following: apparently the TN shooter’s manifesto was long, elaborate, and highly disturbing. Which is why it’s been entirely classified and hidden from the public. Suppose this shooting was from a Constitutional gun-rights person “taking back” the country: think they would hide who they are and everything they’ve ever said right down to which gender they are? I don’t think so either. So if you’re the “Right” kind of people, the law doesn’t apply. Then it’s “dangerous” to tell you the truth and might disturb your “safe space” of complete ignorance. If I told you the truth, you wouldn’t do what I want you to. You wouldn’t obey me at your own detriment.

    There are several of these a week, no need to elaborate. The most oppressed group, which claims they are undergoing a “genocide” while their numbers triple in 10 years, are defended by let’s see: all major multi-billion, multi-national corporations, all government organizations, all pop stars and influencers, the entire mainstream media, and generally the entire medical establishment. Yes, I’m sure that’s what “genocide” looks like, people. And they wonder why people think they’re mentally ill. Wearing pants doesn’t make you a man, people, anymore than a wool hat makes you an alpaca.

    “”Entire Downtown Is Effectively Dead:” Baltimore City Descends Further Into Turmoil

    I was in Baltimore, in this area once. It was beyond a movie, South Bronx or Omegaman. It was like landing on a collapsed planet, where nothing of civilization remained. That was in the good old days, before the hard times we have now.

    “Feds Have No Data on How Regulations Reduce Emissions: Audit (ET) The federal government does not know if regulations to limit methane emissions are achieving their target…”

    Strangely, I believe this makes such laws or regulations illegal. Back of my mind, Supreme Court cases, has to do with how it’s not a law, but “policy” fabricated by bureaucrats. Since they can’t argue why their policy upholds Congress’s mandate/law, then it’s “just made s—t up” and lacks legal force and standing. Which is appropriate. What if they said “regulate Methane” and instead the guy was “policy” for his HomeOwner’s Association and his Ex-wife? They have to be clearly related.

    ““There is no solution to climate change and terrestrial biodiversity loss that does not include forests,”

    I mean, yes, but that has nothing to do with CO2. Nothing. Hey dum-dums: all the CO2 put in the trees will be re-released when the tree dies of old age. Except in extremely unusual cases. …I can’t believe things as simple as this aren’t understood, either by discussion or with simple thought of a few loose brain cells. We grow the food, we eat the food. Circle of life. Time Exists. This is too difficult a concept to comprehend.

    CO2 and Masks: I don’t think they’re good for you, but that doesn’t mean you should make up or wildly exaggerate evidence against them either. Waiting, but pretty sure this is going to be essentially false.

    John O’Looney, Once again point out that if he said “Bigfoot is real and had tea at my house” they wouldn’t ban him. They’d take the money. Only TRUE things are banned.

    “Shannon Corbett” Hate to say this but again, this is a Intelligence + Fortitude test. Can you READ, and can you stand for your beliefs? If you were trying to reduce the passengers on the Rocket Ship, this is how you would do it. Some people can’t read, some can’t be bothered, and some can’t stand up for themselves. That’s life, but Nature is not required to help such people.

    ““..a petrol station with matryoshka dolls couldn’t possibly stand up to the combined economic might of the enlightened West..” It’s all about faulty modelling. A bunch of economists looking at nominal GDP only.”

    As generally, as always, telling lies leads to you eventually falling for your own bulls–t. This is only less true than that the Secret State will always topple the legitimate government. And here we’re +20 years past John Perkins printing that the “Economic Modelling” is always false and always has been as a pathway to theft. No one looked and checked their assumptions because of it.

    I’ve said this steadily, as have others: The U.S. economy is consistently 30% smaller than printed as it is FIRE and fraudulent Bond-Kiting. Now it may be +40%. If we have a $9T economy where does that put us? Since we don’t know how to make a road or trains, how do we compare with essentially anywhere in Asia? Yeah, we’re struggling to hold on to 1955 while they’re in the 2090’s.

    Again, however, if I were the good guys, I would enhance all their wrong assumptions, put them to go further and make their conclusions as public as possible. This is the only way to be discredited is for the little people, the janitors, the phone-answerers, to not save them from themselves. We’ve had a parasite of evil and constantly save the organism, making it stronger and more capable for the parasite’s use. Don’t. Let them run it with their terrible thinking and it’ll crash in hours, and we can identify and remove the problem. This is exactly the core premise of “Atlas Shrugged” and strangely turns out to be true, the only thing that’s worked in the 60 years since then.

    If you’re the good guys? You know only Russia can devastate NATO and Davos adequately for the money to collapse? Then you push to publish all the “Over in 5 days” “they’ll greet us with flowers” papers internally and in press releases, knowing you’ll lose, Russia will destroy them, and all these guys will be discredited and lose power. Then, for example, leak the Pentagon Papers II to contrast with the truth.

    Anyway, so Russia is 2-3 Germanys, and China is 2-3 Americas. We are the size of Canada, and Canada is a crater of certain housing collapse.

    Internets: “It’s pretty bad in Canada. They could have had it all: America’s sense of freedom, British literature, and French cuisine. Instead? They got French immigration policy, Britain’s love of pointless bureaucracy, and American economic policy. And they’re paying for it, literally.”

    Oh Canada. What are you doing? You were once modest and great. Did this all start with abandoning the Maritimes to Welfare death forever? After ceding the Grand Banks to China for extermination?

    “German Tanks Pose Logistical Problems For Ukraine – Foreign Policy (RT)

    Yes, all the “Help” from government makes Ukraine lose FASTER. Like all other government help, nearly everywhere in time and space. Go for it. I want the war over too.

    “• Berlin To Expel Russian Diplomats En Masse, Moscow To Mirror That Decision (TASS)”

    Excellent, now Russia can continue to dispense with dealing with Europe for a generation, and it’ll be Europe’s fault. This will save them no end of trouble.

    “Airman’s Leaks Started Just 48 Hours After Russia Invaded Ukraine (ZH)”

    Still hard to tell. He is the P.R. fabricator’s poster child against the mythical “Right”. He had access to above-top-secret data in Army (okay) but also CIA data streams. Yet the roots of the story hold. Why would White Hats burn their own for no real reason, and a year ahead? Black Hats clearly are feckless running around with their hair on fire, so they didn’t see it, didn’t know it, and are reacting. High level people are the clear winners here, top, multi-agency war-stoppers. Yet there is no real mechanism and no follow up. The media dutifully report on it, creating the black eye WHILE ALSO arresting the airman for them and suppressing all the info.

    So a 3rd airman ACCIDENTALLY stopped WWIII on schedule? Really?

    since he signed into law an unpopular pension law earlier this month.”

    Each time I hear this reported, they wildly understate what happened. Why I’m not sure, because this is the quickest way to explain? Macron put through a major, nationwide change, against any popular support, without using any political process. That’s a major. He did it using “Emergency Powers” when there was no emergency, erasing the French “Constitution” and therefore erased the Fifth Republic altogether. He did this for his former employers, the Banks – Rothschilds in fact, not by implication, but by actual name — and thereby dumped all the hundred-billion of Bank Balance Sheet “dog s—t” as the traders say, onto the French People via the French Pension funds. This is an unprecedented direct theft that will lead to immediate collapse, and back-fill by (poorest) taxpayers in the future.

    This is no doubt one of the many ways Davos has prevented collapse with Powell hiking rates, but it cost them. Yes, that is a more complex thing to describe, but you could say “Macron trampled all French law and custom” to “Transfer $100B to the corporate Banks” and that’s why they’re rioting. That’s not a “Reform.” Duh. You fools. I’m going to go “Reform” this Liquor Store with my .38 today!

    “French Cops Confiscate Cookware (RT) “

    Following London’s hard-knuckle sweep confiscating Spoons. Then later, a crackdown on people in parks, 30 meters from each other. They should be so proud. You did see the French Publisher arrested in UK at France’s behest, right? Yes, Taking out MissTrust, Davos re-captured the Brexit Island to liquidate in defense of the WEF and tyranny. Sure, I always arrest people in one nation for breaking the law in another. That’s just common sense. We’ve always done that, don’t you remember?

    “Macron responded that he would do so only “if people are ready to talk.” “Where I’m from, eggs and pans, these are for cooking,”

    I’m the opposite. Club him into a l’hopital with a saucier and maybe he’ll be ready to talk. Like CIA/Bud (run by the same people as Macron), he has no apology and no respect. He needs to have some put into him tout suite. They remain far too polite in France and in Canada where they egg the PM on sight as well.

    “They blocked the A69 highway with concrete blocks.”

    That is an excellent idea. Why haven’t we done this before?

    “French Police Cleared To Use Drones For Crowd Monitoring (R.) “

    “Monitoring”. And do WHAT? “Monitor” like the FBI fully ‘monitored’ the Kenosha Riots and ‘monitored’ Rittenhouse being nearly shot, then beaten to death while they ‘monitored’? That is to say: cameras are only relevant if they help you DO something. This is true nationwide. They “monitor” electric substations for instance. But they are 50 miles away and no one is coming. You could unload a bulldozer, level the whole area, re-load it, then return it to the Rental Agency before anyone arrives.

    In this case, Macron can get evidence that “Every Frenchman in France doesn’t like him.” Oh yeah? We knew that already. If you ARREST them, you’ll need to 20x your prison system, which is exactly what a protest is supposed to do. You’re SUPPOSED to be arrested. You’re SUPPOSED to demonstrate the State is utterly helpless to do anything, apply force, if the people don’t cooperate.

    Suppose he even cut off all their bank accounts, as happens in Canada, Australia. So? Now 80% of the population would use cash, or tuna cans. No taxes would be collected.

    “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

    “US Democrats Threaten Matt Taibbi With Arrest (RT)”

    I’m a little confused why this is news. The Democrats threaten EVERYONE with arrest, always. They have Articles-to-impeach or threatened to impeach every Republican President since Eisenhower. I mean, maybe like Taibbi, being Leftists themselves, they didn’t know this? Having not been on the receiving end before?

    “Is TikTok a US Deep State Front?”

    Duh. All social media companies are. And many/most others.

    “It’s the Tories”

    Well, yes but you’re missing that it’s also Labour. Or 2x Labour, who can tell they’re all so interchangeable.

    The global north is now a minority in a new world order”

    Nice picture of murdering homophobe Che behind her. Whatever, she’s not wrong and people need to hear it. If a Che poster is what’s needed so your ears function, so be it. I’ll go get one myself, made in China.

    “What’s a “Rapid Deployment Capacity”?

    It’s the Pots and Pans Shock Force. Da Coppers.

    We did Nenner the other day, this is a longer, more technical interview from before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvin1Cfm9ME&pp=ygUOY2hhcmxlcyBuZW5uZXI%3D

    “We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower

    There’s never another way. At least not yet.

    #133940
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “It’s all about faulty modelling. A bunch of economists looking at nominal GDP only.”

    It’s all about Lies, Lies,Lies

    GDP is a lie, a Big Lie

    Shadow Stats has been trying to present an alternative to the Empire of Lies, Lies, Lies for years but the State Sponsored Media Whores continue to peddle piddle.

    Russia as a ‘gas station’ economy is a case of projection.

    The largest cities in the Empire of Lies are ‘first world shit holes’ is actually closer to the truth.

    W C Fields comment about Philadelphia as, “A cemetery with lights” sums up Duhmerica on the nose

    Legalized shoplifting, flash mobs, wall to wall junkies crapping on the sidewalks, Woketard mayors with one finger in their nose picking boogers and the other finger up their lazy asses.

    The Empire of Lies only has Big Shitties® as urban areas now.

    Everyone I talk with in local business can’t get help. Plumbers, carpenters, electricians, there are no young folks interested in actually working with their hands, they all want to be ‘internet influencers’ with thousands of ‘followers’

    It’s beyond decadence and perversion, it’s an outright Death Kult worshiped as ‘culture’

    The Clotshot genocide has wrecked reproduction, both medically and mentally in the young generation.

    The new families being formed are a fraction of what’s needed to continue a functioning country and culture.

    It’s gone for at least a generation.

    Duh-merica is Gas Station Sushi®

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    Throwing out a kiss to the Empire of Lies: Blow It Out Your Ass

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    #133941
    zerosum
    Participant

    You fucked up. you can’t blame someone else.

    You made your bed, sleep in it.
    Gov. for the people, of the people, by the people.
    Democracy, liberty, freedom.
    Money/equipment for Ukraine and their votes or negotiated resolution/settlement with gov. workers.
    Even the bosses are “quiet quitting” and “working to rule.”
    A living wage for all.
    You chose war instead of peace
    You chose lying instead of truth. The secret is out.
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    #133942
    Oroboros
    Participant

    For every Russian KIA you’ve had anywhere from 7 to 10 Ukrainians KIA

    “You can’t fight a war with a kill ratio like that…”

    The Ukronazis are dragged juveniles and old men out of cafes, stuffing them in vans, and sending them straight to the front and the Russian Meatgrinder

    #133943
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Ukronazis are also trying to kill off ethnic Russians, and ethnic Hungarians and ethnic Romanians in Ukraine by sending them into the meatgrinder before ethnic Ukrainians. The blonde blued eyed Ukros need to be preserved, kill off the ‘slavs’ by mobilizing them first.

    #133944
    Oroboros
    Participant


    Ukrainian Psychologist Says 70% of His Clients are Cucked AFU Soldiers Whose Wives Ditched Them

    Sad day on the Ukronazi home front

    Where’s the loyalty?

    Can’t run a country without families

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/XTjEE43d7r6h/

    #133945
    Germ
    Participant

    The Spike
    “A growing number of scientists are sounding the alarm about the risks of both COVID and its cures”

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/the-spike

    Now they tell us?
    Hahahaha!

    TVASF

    #133946
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So not that long ago I could simply post a bitchute link in the text box here and it would display

    Just did that with a bitchute link and it remained just a text link = WTF?

    Here is a bitchute link both just pasted and clicking the LINK button and pasting

    Let’s see what happens

    Russia Has Switched To National Currencies For All Energy Payments

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZcnhOX5BvnpI/

    #133947
    Nemowillobserve
    Participant

    “Why would White Hats burn their own for no real reason,”
    Trust the plan…….

    #133948
    citizenx
    Participant

    …and what did we learn today?

    the 150th Canadian doctor who “died suddenly” since Pfizer & Moderna mRNA rolled out

    Roll over to comply…and you just might Die !
    Try forcing others to comply…and you might find a special hill to fuck off and die on.
    Die trying fuckers.

    Bidet/ Dims, C-eye-eh, F-bee-eye all collude and conspire to conceal their crimes by committing more crimes.

    Golly gosh is this a CONSPIRACY?

    “They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

    Sorry Mahatma, things have changed.
    They may not torture my body, not break my bones, not even kill me. Then they will not have my dead body, but not my obedience. Never my obedience, that will always lie with the truth.

    #133949
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just as I predicted a while back about the Ukronazis

    Prigozhin Says Wagner Won’t Take Prisoners Anymore Because AFU Killed Wounded Wagner Soldier

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/Hqlig2XBeT3x/

    #133950
    Dora
    Participant

    Ed Dowd reposted:

    #133951
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Can you spot the transgendered person in this picture?

    Of course you can’t.

    Because transgendered people look just like everyone else. It’s impossible to tell the difference.

    ~Dr. Eli David

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    #133952
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @Dora

    Wait until the 2023 stats come out on those graphs

    #133953
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #133954
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Woketards of Hollyweird jump the shark

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    #133955
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Woketard mayors with one finger in their nose picking boogers and the other finger up their lazy asses.”

    The problem is when you forget which is which.

    ““You can’t fight a war with a kill ratio like that…”

    You can if you’re 10x larger. But not if you’re 10x smaller.

    #133956
    John Day
    Participant
    #133957
    aspnaz
    Participant

    John Olooney banned on Twitter

    I suspect that this is because Grim Britainstan has all sorts of hate laws backed by monitoring cameras, spying agencies and police retards. He is hating in the same way others have been accused of hating by trying to stop child grooming in the UK. Stepping on the toes of the elite is not tolerated in the third world.

    #133958
    aspnaz
    Participant

    As a result, a respected US publication, The National Interest, has published an ashen article whose main conclusion is that the comparison of the economies of Russia and Italy betrays the blatant incompetence of Western experts.

    Remember the Imperial College experts telling us we were all going to die of Covid. The much renown Imperial College, one of the most prestigious engineering and science universities in the UK. If that is the best of the UK then the UK is failing rapidly. Even if the UK leaders were conscientious people trying to improve the country – we know they are not – what can they do when they are fed garbage information.

    #133959
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The federal government does not know the extent that regulations are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, despite committing $200 billion towards the issue.

    Because it is not about the climate, it is about theft. Theft by redirecting government money to favoured companies, facoured people, favoured crooks like the USA’s Ukraine government. For example, farmers in the Netherlands are having their farms confiscated by the government in order to save the climate, that land has to be used for something so it will end up enriching the government owners. Why would they care what happens to the climate when they are busy counting all the cash they are stealing?

    #133960
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    Clouseau Pot

    #133961
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Ukraine will likely have to procure a range of different munitions, rather than a single type, for German-made Leopard tanks, Foreign Policy has reported.

    It’s not about tanks, it is about theft. Sanctions and “financial contributions” to the US government’s Ukraine pseudo-government. Same basic model as the climate change theft. All they want is to steal your stuff so that you will own nothing by 2030.

    #133962
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Former US president Donald Trump has promised to put a swift end to the bloodshed in Ukraine should he be elected again in 2024.

    Which general will he murder to do that then?

    #133963
    John Day
    Participant

    Dr D was dissing the Che poster in a picture, and fair enough, Che killed people, but that same poster always looked so good that it is still chic. I learned about Che back in the 1970s, and saw the poster differently after that.

    “But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, You ain’t gonna make it with anyone a-ny-how..”
    This is the pure, unobtainium cultural revolution stuff that you can’t even buy on Chinese eBAY:
    “Follow the Chairman, the Great Helmsman, through stormy seas”
    Great Helmsman

    Awww, it’s not showing up.See it here: https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/real-world-problems

    #133964
    Oroboros
    Participant

    From Team Desantis, a goof on Woketurds

    #133965
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    The U.S. is sick, sick, sick…
    The transgenderism political movement is but one of many issues destroying the fabric (what is left of it) of U.S. society.
    God help the children of that doomed society…
    The LoS has always accepted Transvestites (check out Pattaya & Bangkok) but has never acted out the looney toons seen in the U.S.; thank the gods…
    The above picture of the basket ball team says it all…

    #133966
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    So Glen Beck is sitting there ranting on camera to anyone who’ll listen, complaining that he’s had just about all he can take of the massive bull shit and lunatic criminality that’s going on in broad fucking daylight with practically everything that exists, and how NOBODY is doing a GAWDDAM thing bout fixing ANY of it even though it is plain see that it needs fixing in an urgent way!

    So he’s WAITING (on camera, and loudly!) for solutions to just happen spontaneously? I suppose the next step of his brilliant plan will be to threaten to hold his breath until Daddy fixes everything for him.

    To which an adult can only say, “Well okay, Glen, have it your way if you insist. We’ll all just stand around like infantile imbeciles until God fixes it for us. But I strongly recommend that you not to hold your breath. And it might also be a good idea to prepare yourself for not liking the way He fixes it. It might not be to the specs that you expect.”

    Glen’s problem, see (although don’t hold your breath waiting for him to see it himself any time soon) is that he doesn’t know that his trusted “civilization” is not built into the universe like some guaranteed Bill of Rights. It’s just a machine. It’s really just another sort of “AI”. It’s the sort of AI that runs on people and policies, rather than the computerized kind that runs on electrical machines and digitally programmed data), but it really is just a machine that follows the rules that are built into it, and that’s ALL that it does.

    He trusted that AI (that so-called “Civilization”) to do absolutely EVERYTHING for him, and now that it is NOT doing what he WANTS it to do he hasn’t got the foggiest fucking notion of how to do ANY of it for himself. Not a clue.

    It used to give him money, and services, and justice and even food . . . and all he had to do was WANT whatever he wanted (and shove a little counterfeit money into the slot to prove that he “deserved” to get what he wanted.)

    Well I’ll tell ya what, Glen old boy. The ol’ “civilization” of yours is running EXACTLY the way that you (and everybody else) collectively designed it. That’s what it frigging consists of in the first place! Every time that you (or anyone else) abdicated responsibility for knowing and doing what needed to be done (and assigned a particular part of the job to someone else who was thereafter “responsible” for that specific task or decision) you contributed a working part to the giant AI “machine” that we fondly (and perhaps wishfully) have called Civilized Society.

    He shouldn’t go whining and crying (and waiting for someone to automatically give him something different) when “American Capitalistic Democracy” (jeez!) works the way he built it instead of the way he said it.

    No free lunch, . You want justice, fair play, courage and sanity? Well, then, you gots ta know HOW to do them thangs, Glen, and then actually DO them. Justice, sanity and courage can not be farmed out or purchased like a ham sandwich.

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    John Day
    Participant

    This made it really easy to feed the boy whatever information you might want him to leak.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/airmans-leaks-started-just-48-hours-after-russia-invaded-ukraine

    The Pentagon’s humiliation just grew deeper, as it turns out National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira’s leaks of classified documents started far earlier than has previously been reported.

    Tipped off about a second, 600-member Discord chat group where Teixeira also posted, the New York Times found the Massachusetts Air National Guard information technology specialist started sharing information about the war in Ukraine within 48 hours of Russia’s February 2022 invasion. In contrast to the previously reported chat group, this one was far larger and was publicly listed on a YouTube channel.

    #133968
    John Day
    Participant

    As The FT reports, Jen estimates that if you adjust for price changes the dollar’s share of official global reserve currencies has gone from about 73 per cent in 2001 to around 55 per cent in 2021.
    Then, last year, it fell to 47 percent of total global reserves.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/its-defund-global-police-moment-jen-says-de-dollarization-happening-stunning-pace

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    Dora
    Participant

    John Campbell talking about the WHO treaty debate in the UK.

    #134013
    Noirette
    Participant

    To Oroboros + others, prev. thread.

    I use public transport, volunteer for a charity, speak to ppl around, frequent the train station, cafés, etc. (CH) The Ukr. ‘fleers’ / ‘refugees’ here come in two classes, surprise.

    The Rich are downtown shopping and in Hotels and maybe (idk) staying with powerful ppl. They mostly got rid of their cars bearing Ukr. plates and use rentals, I have heard, and seen, at the start of the war there were many lux cars with Ukr plates.

    Leaving Ukr. via Poland, destination Europa, having the guards turn a blind eye to men 18-45 (say) costs 10K Euros, I have heard — a right price imho.

    So some rich men are here with ‘family’ and to my eye they are very anxious, angry, defensive. (From the street, the shops, etc.) Their wives and children are submissive and subdued, unhappy. While sporting the latest Nike shoes, Designer handbags, etc.

    In the class notches below there are handicapped men, physical mostly, mental also, but not only. Men with more than 3 children under 12 (or so, age varied, was 14 at some point I read) were exempt from the ‘draft’ for a while, so there are a lot of them. The rest are grandparents, 55-60-or +, with daughter Mother, and some number or children.

    Ukr. ‘refugees’ (does NOT tally the Rich ppl, they are tourists or temp. residents, etc.) 75 K in CH. > pop 8 million.

    In France 110 K ‘refugees’, 80% are women (MSM.) > pop 68 million.

    Another story…

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