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Russia invades Ukraine. Russia invades Ukraine. But not to worry. Trump has declared Russia's invasion is a work of genius. And if the U.S. or Europe is worried about a war, then Trump will step in and solve the problem: Trump holds the title of General Bone Spurs, which refers to his medical deferment for bone spurs to avoid military service during the Vietnam war. Also, Putin said he was sending in peace-keeping forces. So ignore the reports of large explosions, and dead military and civilians. Putin is only trying to help. -------- -------- Associated Press Russia attacks Ukraine; peace in Europe 'shattered' YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA Wed, February 23, 2022, 9:51 PM KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine's government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the world. In unleashing Moscow's most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Vladimir Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions — and chillingly referred to his country’s nuclear arsenal. He threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.” Ukraine's president said Russian forces were trying to seize the Chernobyl nuclear plant, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, and Ukrainian forces were battling other troops just miles from Kyiv for control of a strategic airport. Large explosions were heard in the capital there and in other cities, and people massed in train stations and took to roads, as the government said the former Soviet republic was seeing a long-anticipated invasion from the east, north and south. The chief of the NATO alliance said the “brutal act of war" shattered peace in Europe, joining a chorus of world leaders who decried the attack, which could cause massive casualties, topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government and upend the post-Cold War security order. The conflict was already shaking global financial markets: Stocks plunged and oil prices soared amid concerns that heating bills and food prices would skyrocket. Condemnation rained down not only from the U.S. and Europe, but from South Korea, Australia and beyond — and many governments readied new sanctions. Even friendly leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orban sought to distance themselves from Putin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cut diplomatic ties with Moscow and declared martial law. “As of today, our countries are on different sides of world history," Zelenskyy tweeted. "Russia has embarked on a path of evil, but Ukraine is defending itself and won’t give up its freedom.” His adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said: “A full-scale war in Europe has begun. ... Russia is not only attacking Ukraine, but the rules of normal life in the modern world.” While some nervous Europeans speculated about a possible new world war, the U.S. and its NATO partners have so far shown no indication they would join in a war against Russia. They instead mobilized troops and equipment around Ukraine’s western flank — as Ukraine pleaded for defense assistance and help protecting its airspace. In Washington, President Joe Biden convened a meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday to discuss Ukraine as the U.S. prepares new sanctions. Biden administration officials have signaled that two of the measures they were considering most strongly include hitting Russia’s biggest banks and slapping on new export controls meant to starve Russia’s industries and military of U.S. semiconductors and other high-tech components. The attacks came first from the air. Later Ukrainian authorities described ground invasions in multiple regions, and border guards released footage showing a line of Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukraine’s government-held territory. European authorities declared the country’s airspace an active conflict zone. In a worrying development, Zelenskyy said Russian forces were trying to seize the Chernobyl plant, and a Ukrainian official said Russian shelling hit a radioactive waste repository and an increase in radiation levels was reported. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. Other governments did not immediately corroborate or confirm the claims. The plant was the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident when a nuclear reactor exploded in April 1986, spewing radioactive waste across Europe. The plant lies 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of the capital of Kyiv. After weeks of denying plans to invade, Putin launched the operation on a country the size of Texas that has increasingly tilted toward the democratic West and away from Moscow's sway. The autocratic leader made clear earlier this week that he sees no reason for Ukraine to exist, raising fears of possible broader conflict in the vast space that the Soviet Union once ruled. Putin denied plans to occupy Ukraine, but his ultimate goals remain hazy. Ukrainians who had long braced for the prospect of an assault were urged to shelter in place and not to panic despite the dire warnings. “We are facing a war and horror. What could be worse?” 64-year-old Liudmila Gireyeva said in Kyiv. She planned to flee the city and try to eventually get to Poland to join her daughter. Putin “will be damned by history, and Ukrainians are damning him.” With social media amplifying a torrent of military claims and counter-claims, it was difficult to determine exactly what was happening on the ground. Ukraine’s military chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said his troops were fighting Russian forces just 7 kilometers (4 miles) from the capital — in Hostomel, which is home to the Antonov aircraft maker and has a runway that is long enough to handle even the biggest cargo planes. Russian officials said separatist forces backed by Russia in the east have taken a new strip of territory from Ukrainian forces, but have not acknowledged ground troops elsewhere in the country. Associated Press reporters saw or confirmed explosions in the capital, in Mariupol on the Azov Sea, Kharkiv in the east and beyond. AP confirmed video showing Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukrainian-held territory in the north from Belarus and from Russian-annexed Crimea in the south. Russian and Ukrainian authorities made competing claims about damage they had inflicted. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had destroyed scores of Ukrainian air bases, military facilities and drones, and confirmed the loss of a Su-25 attack jet, blaming it on “pilot error.” It said it was not targeting cities, but using precision weapons and claimed that “there is no threat to civilian population.” Ukraine’s armed forces They reported at least 40 soldiers dead, and said a military plane carrying 14 people crashed south of Kyiv. Poland’s military increased its readiness level, and Lithuania and Moldova moved toward doing the same. Border crossings increased from Ukraine to Poland, which has prepared centers for refugees. Putin justified his actions in an overnight televised address, asserting that the attack was needed to protect civilians in eastern Ukraine — a false claim the U.S. had predicted he would make as a pretext for an invasion. He accused the U.S. and its allies of ignoring Russia’s demands to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and for security guarantees. The consequences of the conflict and resulting sanctions on Russia reverberated throughout the world. World stock markets plunged and oil prices on both sides of the Atlantic surged toward or above $100 per barrel, on unease about possible disruption of Russian supplies. The ruble sank. Anticipating international condemnation and countermeasures, Putin issued a stark warning to other countries not to meddle. In a reminder of Russia’s nuclear power, he warned that “no one should have any doubts that a direct attack on our country will lead to the destruction and horrible consequences for any potential aggressor.” Among Putin’s pledges was to “denazify” Ukraine. World War II looms large in Russia, after the Soviet Union suffered more deaths than any country while fighting Adolf Hitler’s forces. Kremlin propaganda paints members of Ukrainian right-wing groups as neo-Nazis, exploiting their admiration for WWII-era Ukrainian nationalist leaders who sided with the Nazis. Ukraine is now led by a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and angrily dismissed the Russian claims. Putin’s announcement came just hours after the Ukrainian president rejected Moscow’s claims that his country poses a threat to Russia and made a passionate, last-minute plea for peace. Zelenskyy said he asked to arrange a call with Putin late Wednesday, but the Kremlin did not respond. The attack began even as the U.N. Security Council was meeting to hold off an invasion. Members still unaware of Putin’s announcement of the operation appealed to him to stand down. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the emergency meeting, telling Putin: “Give peace a chance.” But hours later, NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg indicated it was too late: “Peace on our continent has been shattered.” | |
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| 02-24-22 01:15pm - 938 days | #2 | |
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Republicans blame Biden for Putin's Ukraine invasion. If Trump were the President, Russia would never have invaded Ukraine. Russia would have been too afraid to anger Trump. But Biden is a different story: Biden is a weakling, who will let Russia invade Ukraine, and do nothing to stop the killing. Vote for Trump, who will make America great again. ------- ------- Republicans target Biden for blame over Putin's Ukraine invasion Reuters David Morgan February 24, 2022, 10:18 AM By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine brought no pause to partisan squabbling in the U.S. Congress on Thursday, as some Republicans blasted Democratic President Joe Biden's handling of the crisis and called on him to "change course" in his response. Some Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives blamed Biden for failing to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from sending forces into Ukraine and called on the U.S. president to take a stronger position on the largest conflict in Europe since World War Two. "There's no doubt that weakness leads to war," Representative Brian Mast, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a Thursday morning tweet. "Putin once said the collapse of the Soviet empire was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe' of the past century for Russia. For America, President Biden may be the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of this century." The invasion of Ukraine followed months of Russian military buildup along the country's borders, leading to frantic diplomacy and sanctions from the United States and NATO that failed to prevent the incursion. Biden plans an address to the nation at 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT). "Almost 12 hours since Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine and the only response we've gotten from Biden is a Zoom call. Where's Biden? He's the leader of the free world. It's time to start acting like it," Representative Carlos Gimenez wrote on Twitter. Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the invasion began late on Wednesday, convened his National Security Council on Thursday, and met with his counterparts from the Group of Seven allies to map out more severe responses. "The president must change course or our deterrent posture will continue to collapse, chaos will continue to spread and eventually no one will trust America's promises or fear America's power," said Representative Mike Gallagher, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Former President Donald Trump — who even out of office remains the most powerful voice in the Republican Party — had threatened during his four years in office to leave NATO, calling the military alliance "obsolete." He withdrew the United States from international agreements — including the Paris Climate Accord, which it has since rejoined — and pulled out of a pact in which Iran had curbed its uranium enrichment program, a possible pathway to nuclear arms, which is now being renegotiated. Trump, who has expressed admiration for Putin, described the Russian leader's actions leading up to invasion as "genius," "smart" and "pretty savvy." ELECTIONS LOOMING The response among congressional Republicans — blaming Biden, calling for stronger sanctions and warning against any use of U.S. troops in Ukraine — largely mirrored the sentiments of Republican voters, as lawmakers approach the Nov. 8 midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Only 34% of Americans — including just 12% of Republicans — approved of the way Biden was handling the crisis in the run-up to the invasion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Tuesday and Wednesday. Twenty-five percent of Republicans polled said Biden was primarily to blame for the conflict, with 46% saying Putin was primarily to blame. Nearly one in five was unsure who to blame. Senator Mitt Romney, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a moderate voice in his party, offered broader criticism that also blamed U.S. responses to Russia by former Presidents Barack Obama and Trump while evoking the Reagan era's tough posture against the former Soviet Union. "Putin's impunity predictably follows our tepid response to his previous horrors in Georgia and Crimea, our naive efforts at a one-sided 'reset,' and the shortsightedness of 'America First.' The '80s called' and we didn't answer," Romney said in a statement. Senator Dan Sullivan, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, warned that Putin's action had changed the global landscape for the Americans and their Western allies. "We must wake up to the fact that this new era of authoritarian aggression will likely be with us for decades. We need to face it with strategic resolve and confidence," the Alaska Republican said. (Reporting by David Morgan, additional reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone and Jonathan Oatis) | |
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| 02-24-22 01:24pm - 938 days | #3 | |
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Donald J. Trump's friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, might be the richest man in the world. That's one reason why Trump admires Putin. Billionaires must stick together. ------- ------- Explainer: How rich is Putin, and can the West sanction his money in Ukraine crisis? Yahoo News Niamh Cavanagh February 24, 2022, 9:49 AM Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched a “full-scale” attack in Ukraine, reportedly blasting missiles and bombs in cities at dawn. It came hours after the Kremlin leader declared war on Ukraine in a televised address calling for the “de-Nazification” of the country. The response by the West has been swift. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed that he would impose “massive” sanctions on Russia that would “hobble” its economy. Johnson said the details of the sanctions would be coordinated with the country’s international allies. He called for the West to end its dependence on Russian oil and gas as a response to the invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, Germany made the decision to shut down the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, an $11 billion project between Russia and Germany. But many believe that these sanctions will do little to thwart Russia’s actions in Ukraine. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said the sanctions amounted to too little, too late, to curb Putin’s aggressive moves. Many are calling for tougher sanctions aimed directly at Putin and his inner circle, which raises questions about just how wealthy the Russian president is, and where the bulk of that wealth is spread around the world. The yacht Graceful sails along the Kiel Canal near Rendsburg, north of Hamburg, Germany. The yacht Graceful sails along the Kiel Canal near Hamburg, Germany. (Steffen Mayer/Reuters) In a scene out of a James Bond film, just days before it was believed that Western nations would impose sanctions on Russia, a $125 million superyacht believed to be owned by Putin was swiftly sailed from German waters to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. The luxury yacht, named Graceful, had been left at a port in Hamburg for repair work before it abruptly left on Feb. 7. One report revealed that the yacht was receiving several modifications, including a swimming pool extension and the enlargement of two balconies. In 2017, Fortune magazine said Putin was believed to be the richest man in the world, with a net worth of $200 billion. Hermitage Capital Management CEO Bill Browder, who previously worked as a fund manager in Russia, said in 2015: “After 14 years in power of Russia, and the amount of money that the country has made, and the amount of money that hasn't been spent on schools and roads and hospitals and so on, all that money is in property, bank, Swiss bank accounts, shares, hedge funds, managed for Putin and his cronies.” Last year, a palace worth $1.37 billion was featured in a viral video by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny — who has since been jailed for allegedly embezzling donations, an accusation that he has vehemently denied. Navalny said the luxury Black Sea property was paid for “with the largest bribe in history. [They] built a palace for their boss with his money.” One builder described the palace as if the Egyptian pyramids were being built. "I reckon around 1,500 people worked at the construction site at that point,” the builder told the BBC in 2011. “There were Russians, Uzbeks; there were soldiers. There was a rush to get it finished." According to others who worked at the site, the property included a Japanese garden, a gym made out of marble, an underground ice hockey rink and a vineyard. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media at the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media at the Kremlin. (Sergei Guneyev/Pool/Tass via Getty Images) A recent investigation by Forbes put forward a number of theories about how Putin could have amassed and hidden his fortune. One theory relates to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian oligarch who was once believed to be the richest man in Russia, with an estimated $15 billion fortune. In 2003, however, he was imprisoned on charges of tax evasion and fraud. He continually denied these accusations. Khodorkovsky’s fortune was frozen and his companies were broken up. But Browder, who is wanted by Putin after being sentenced to nine years in prison in 2019 for tax evasion in Russia and funneling money overseas, told Forbes he believes the arrest could have allowed Putin to cut new deals with other oligarchs. “The deal was, 'You give me 50 percent of your wealth and I’ll let you keep the other 50 percent,'” he said. “If you don’t, [I'll] take 100 percent of your wealth and throw you in jail.” Another theory is that Putin increased his fortune by using his position in government to help his family and close friends. Forbes suggested that those in his inner circle would offer him money or stakes in a company they acquired as a result of his help. One of Putin's friends, Arkady Rotenberg, received more than $7 billion in state contracts in the lead-up to the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. According to an investigation by Reuters in 2015, Putin’s daughter Katerina, then 29, had corporate holdings worth about $2 billion with her reported husband, Kirill Shamalov, son of Nikolai Shamalov, a longtime friend of the president. Financial analysts revealed that the wealth of Putin’s daughter stemmed mainly from a large publicly disclosed stake in a major gas and petrochemical corporation that Kirill acquired from another friend of Putin's, Gennady Timchenko — who was hit with sanctions from the U.K. earlier this week. Along with the holdings, Putin’s daughter reportedly owned a villa in France worth $3.7 million. Not much is known about his other daughter’s wealth. That’s what reporters in the West have uncovered. But what’s the official Russian party line about the president’s wealth? An annual list of declared earnings in the Kremlin stated that Putin is paid 8.6 million rubles per year, or $234,000, as president of Russia. In 2015, Putin famously claimed he did not know how much his salary was, saying: “They just give it to me, and I put it away in my account.” The properties he declared in 2019 included two apartments, three Russian-made Soviet-era cars — two GAZ-M21s and a Lada Niva — and a Skiff trailer (also made in Russia), reported the Russian state-controlled media site RT. The value of the three cars adds up to no more than an estimated $27,000. In 2002, Lada Niva was awarded zero stars out of a possible four for safety after a dummy passenger was hit by the glove compartment so hard that it showed a risk for a traumatic brain injury. Despite all the items listed, no international buildings or apartments were featured in Putin's declaration, nor were any mega-yachts now berthed safely in Russian waters. So if Putin did amass the bankroll that Fortune magazine believes he has, where is the money, and how can Western countries come up with sanctions aimed directly at Putin’s real assets? Where are Russian forces surrounding Ukraine? Check out this explainer from Yahoo Immersive to find out. | |
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| 02-25-22 06:42am - 937 days | #4 | |
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This is wrong. Talk show hosts complain that Trump is praising Putin for killing Ukraine citizens. In the US, we have the right of free speech. If Trump, the most genius president of the United States we've ever had, wants to praise Putin for killing people, Trump has that right, protected by the U.S. Constitution. Putin has said he's invading Ukraine for peace-keeping: he wants to keep the people of the Ukraine safe. Give Putin the Nobel Peace Prize for being such a fine fellow. And put Trump back in the White House, where he can send nuclear missiles to California or any other state that did not vote for him. -------- -------- Kimmel and Colbert hammer Trump for praising Putin amid invasion of Ukraine Yahoo TV Stephen Proctor February 25, 2022, 2:05 AM On Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Thursday, Kimmel and Colbert took time out of their monologues to address former President Trump’s remarks regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Trump has praised Putin’s justification for the invasion, calling him a genius, and blamed the invasion on his lie that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. “It takes a special kind of son of a bitch to see innocent people fleeing their homes and think, ‘How can I make this about me?’” Kimmel said. “But nobody does that better than Donald Trump.” Kimmel later continued, “There are hundreds of casualties in Ukraine, images of families running for their lives, and not only hasn’t Trump condemned Putin, ‘Sar-a-Lago’ has been praising his KGBFF. He called him a genius. He called what he's doing wonderful. He keeps defending Putin, which is embarrassing. He's never gonna date you, dude, give it up. There’s nothing good you can say about Vladimir Putin.” It's important to keep our eyes on the unhinged fascist lunatic.Stephen Colbert Colbert had clearly seen the same interviews as Kimmel, as well as the speech Trump gave at Mar-a-Lago in which he also praised Putin. But since Trump left office, Colbert refuses to speak his name on The Late Show, instead giving Trump a different name each time he talks about him. “Amidst all this horror, it's important to keep our eyes on the unhinged fascist lunatic,” Colbert said. “I’m talking about former ‘President Stonewall Jackass.’ He has been out there pushing a pro-Putin agenda, forever.” Colbert also called out Fox News for some of its coverage of Putin and Ukraine in the lead-up to the invasion. Some at Fox, especially popular opinion host Tucker Carlson, defended Putin’s buildup of military forces along the Ukrainian border before the invasion began. “The ex-prez took to Russian state media — I’m sorry, I misread that — Fox News, and he had a lot of opinions,” Colbert said. “He had a lot of opinions, just not a lot of information.” Colbert was referencing an interview Trump did with Fox’s Laura Ingraham on Wednesday in which the former president became confused about who was landing on Ukrainian shores shortly after the invasion began. When Ingraham mentioned an amphibious landing by Russian forces, Trump thought she was talking about American troops. “Sometimes he has trouble telling the difference between America and Russia,” Colbert said. “He knows he worked for one of them.” The Late Show With Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on CBS. Jimmy Kimmel Live aires weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on ABC. Watch Russian expatriate Garry Kasparov say that Putin has a 'sick' view of the world following the invasion of Ukraine: | |
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| 02-25-22 07:15am - 937 days | #5 | |
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Trump and Putin agree: we must be strong and kill our enemies. Trump will sign a non-aggession pact with Putin, that will strengthen the ties between the two world leaders. And once Trump re-takes the White House, from the scum Democrat who stole it from our beloved Trump, America will once again be great and powerful, striking fear in the hearts of its enemies. Trump will rally the troops and march on New York, which is a treasonous state that is investigating Trump for possible civil and criminal acts. Hail Trump, uber alles!!! ------- ------- Why Putin's 'de-Nazification of Ukraine' argument makes no sense Yahoo News Dylan Stableford February 24, 2022, 2:00 PM In announcing an unprovoked military assault on Ukraine Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was acting to prevent "genocide" against Russian-speaking people in the sovereign nation and aiming for the “de-Nazification of Ukraine.” “Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide," Putin said in the televised address moments before airstrikes began. "And for this we will strive for the demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine.” Putin's claim that he wanted to “de-Nazify” Ukraine was striking — and in opposition to reality. For one thing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was democratically elected to office in 2019, is Jewish. Shortly before Putin's address, Zelensky delivered an emotional appeal — in Russian — to the Russian people, pleading with them to stop Putin from launching an unjustified war. “The Ukraine on your news and Ukraine in real life are two completely different countries — and the main difference is ours is real,” Zelensky said. "You are told we are Nazis, but how can a people support Nazis that gave more than 8 million lives for the victory over Nazism? How can I be a Nazi? Tell my grandpa, who went through the whole war in the infantry of the Soviet Army and died as a colonel in independent Ukraine." Ukraine’s official Twitter account posted a cartoon image of Adolf Hitler and Putin gazing lovingly at each other. pic.twitter.com/IaqFbpayqz — Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) February 24, 2022 Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, similarly dismissed Putin's claim. “In his attempt to justify the unjustifiable, #Russia's assault on #Ukraine, Putin referred to a fictional genocide & set goal of 'denazification of Ukraine,' a country that overwhelmingly elected a Jew president,” Pifer tweeted. There is also no evidence of “genocide” by the Ukrainian army, say U.S. officials, former Ukrainian diplomats and foreign policy experts. (There are far-right elements within Ukraine's national guard, but they are not part of the government.) While Putin's claims were absurd, they were also not new. When he justified Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, he claimed to be protecting ethnic Russians. Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin on Russian state television on Thursday. (Pool via Reuters) In a speech to the United Nations last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken — whose stepfather was a Holocaust survivor — warned that Russia would make a similar claim now to “manufacture a pretext for its attack.” “Russia may describe this event as ethnic cleansing or a genocide, making a mockery of a concept that we in this chamber do not take lightly,” Blinken said, “nor do I take it lightly, based on my family history.” | |
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| 02-27-22 02:19am - 936 days | #6 | |
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Trump supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Calls the invasion a work of genius. On the other hand, America's leaders are really dumb. They don't know how to lead. Put Trump back in the White House, and he will make America great again. He will be able to stop the commies in New York from investigating him for civil and criminal actions, since as US President, he would be immune from prosecution, with the entire federal government behind him. He could even nuke New York with nuclear missiles. That would only be done with regret, since New York was home to Trump for many years. But leadership demands a strong heart. And Trump's heart is beating strongly, with passion and humanity and the spirit of American freedom. Trump uber alles!!! T-shirts proclaiming “Trump won" are selling like hotcakes. Get your order in now, before the supply disappears. 10% of sales proceeds go to fund Trump's lawyer bills, in his fight against commies investigating Trump for civil and criminal acts. ------ ------ Trump talks Putin, grievances as GOP focuses on midterm wins Associated Press STEVE PEOPLES February 27, 2022, 12:35 AM ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Leading Republicans spent much of three days avoiding Donald Trump's chief grievances or ignoring him altogether as they unified behind a midterm message designed to win back the voters the polarizing former president alienated while in office. That changed Saturday night. Facing thousands of cheering activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual meeting, Trump falsely blamed his 2020 election loss on widespread voter fraud, for which there is no evidence. As Russian troops advanced on the Ukrainian capital in an invasion widely condemned by Western leaders, Trump described Russian President Vladimir Putin as “smart.” “Of course he’s smart,” Trump said, doubling down on praise of the Russian leader that many other Republicans have avoided in the wake of the invasion. “But the real problem is our leaders are dumb. Dumb. So dumb.” While Trump expressed support for the Ukrainian people and called the country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a “brave man,” he also noted his ties with other leading autocrats. He specifically pointed to his friendly relationships with Xi Jinping of China and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump then left no doubt he is the most powerful voice in Republican politics by indicating he will run for president a third time in 2024. “We did it twice, and we’ll do it again,” Trump said. “We’re going to be doing it again, a third time.” Up until Trump's appearance, lies about election fraud, the focus of last year’s conference, had been an afterthought among the top speakers. No one parroted Trump’s approving rhetoric toward Putin. And some leading Republicans didn’t even mention Trump’s name. Instead, those most likely to seek the GOP's 2024 presidential nomination not named Trump united behind an agenda that includes more parental control of schools, opposition to pandemic-related mandates and a fierce rejection of “woke” culture. The message from more than a half-dozen elected officials, delivered to thousands of mostly white activists at an event that usually celebrates far-right rhetoric, does not mean the party has turned its back on Trumpism. Far from it. The former president was a frequent topic among some of the conference's lower-profile speakers. T-shirts proclaiming “Trump won" were being sold in the hallways. And Trump is expected to be announced the overwhelming winner of CPAC's 2024 presidential preference straw poll on Sunday. Still, conference organizer Matt Schlapp, the chair of the American Conservative Union, noted that Trump does not have an absolute lock on his party's base. He pointed to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in particular, who was a crowd favorite throughout the first three days of the four-day conference. Audience members applauded almost every time DeSantis' name was referenced or his picture appeared on big screens. “Trump looms large,” Schlapp said in an interview. “No. 1 is, Does he run again? And it’s overwhelming that people want him to. But there’s a diversity of opinion.” And while Trump's most controversial supporters were generally given lower-profile speaking slots over the four-day program, they were not excluded. Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., appeared on a Saturday morning panel hours after being featured at a conference of pro-Trump white nationalists. Trump offered Taylor Greene a particularly warm shoutout during his speech as he ticked down the Republican officials in attendance. “I refuse to shut up,” Taylor Greene said earlier in the day during a brief appearance as she railed against “Democrat communists.” Despite Trump's dominant place at the head of the Republican Party, other party leaders are increasingly optimistic they have found a forward-looking strategy to overcome pro-Trump extremism and expand the party's appeal with control of Congress at stake in November. It's essentially the same playbook that Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin used last fall when he won in the swing state by avoiding Trump and his biggest grievances, including the false notion that the 2020 presidential election was plagued by mass voter fraud. “There are people that perhaps have never voted the same way any of you have in a presidential race and they're really angry,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday. “And that’s why I believe that for all the negative we’ve heard, the pendulum is swinging.” Democrats are clinging to paper-thin majorities in the House and Senate, and voter sentiment has swung in an ominous direction for them since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. In an AP-NORC poll conducted Feb. 18-21, 70% of Americans said the country was headed in the wrong direction. As few as 44% said the same in April 2021. Some leading Republicans seemed intent at CPAC on not helping Democrats by embracing Trump. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who tried to block the certification of Biden's electoral victory after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, sidestepped a question about whether he would challenge Trump in a 2024 prospective matchup. "I’ve said I’m not planning to run for president,” Hawley said. He also declined to say whether he wants Trump to run again in 2024: “I never give him advice, including on this.” Hawley also said it was a mistake for Republicans like Trump to offer soft praise for Putin. “Putin is our enemy. Let’s be clear about that,” Hawley said. DeSantis, who has also refused to rule out a 2024 presidential bid should Trump run, did not mention the former president in his 20-minute address, focusing instead on his resistance to mask and vaccine mandates. Trump's former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, spoke about his work in the Trump administration, but he did not repeat his own recent flattering comments about Putin, in which he called the Russian leader “very capable” and said he has “enormous respect for him.” South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, considered a potential running mate for Trump in 2024, talked about the 2016 presidential election and the unsubstantiated allegations that Democrats in power “spied” on the Trump campaign. But she pivoted quickly to the future. “We have some fantastic fighters, like President Donald Trump. But he’s not alone. The American people are on our side,” Noem said. ___ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in New York, Nick Riccardi in Denver and Emily Swanson in Washington contributed to this report. | |
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| 02-27-22 03:20am - 936 days | #7 | |
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Trump sends personal email to Putin asking for the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower, capable of vaporizing human bodies. Trump has been alarmed by reports that US Federal Forces might descend on his property in Florida and seize important documents that Trump requires to file his Federal Income Taxes. "Give me liberty or give me death", Trump is reportedly shouting into his megaphone, as he struggles to pay his fair share of taxes. And no commie-loving Federal Agents, sent by the Democrat From Hell, Joe Biden, will be able to take down Donald J. Trump, the fiercest, most fightenest President the US has ever had. Trump would only use the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower if needed, Trump said. Trump does not want to kill American forces, but would, if forced to protect his property and civil liberties. Trump uber alles. Disclaimer: portions of this report might not be 100% factual. But facts never bothered Trump, so why should they bother us? -------- -------- Russian army deploys its TOS-1 heavy flamethrower, capable of vaporizing human bodies, near Ukrainian border, footage shows Joshua Zitser Sat, February 26, 2022, 5:53 AM CNN footage shows a TOS-1 heavy flamethrower being deployed near the Ukrainian border. Footage from inside of Russia appears to show a thermobaric rocket launcher being deployed towards the Ukrainian border, according to The Guardian. The video, shared on Twitter by CNN correspondent Frederik Pleitgen, displays a TOS-1 heavy flamethrower, which can shoot thermobaric rockets mounted on a T-72 tank chassis. The footage was captured south of Belgorod, Pleitgen said, which is about 45 miles away from Kharkiv, Ukraine. The TOS-1 was first used during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, The Guardian said, and was also deployed in Chechnya and the Syrian civil war. It can launch two types of warheads — incendiary and fuel-air explosives. The latter, also called vacuum or thermobaric rockets, work by using oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. The weapons system is extremely effective against entrenched personnel. The TOS-1A is used to clear out buildings, field fortifications and bunkers, according to Military-Today.com. They are considerably more destructive than conventional explosives. According to i News, thermobaric weapons can vaporize human bodies and crush internal organs. Western officials first publicly expressed concern that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use thermobaric bombs to seize control of Ukraine on Friday, HuffPost reported. "My fear would be that if they don't meet the timescales and objectives, they would be indiscriminate in the use of violence," one Western official said, per i News. "They don't adhere to the same principles of necessity and proportionality and the rule of law that Western forces do." | |
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| 02-28-22 05:54am - 934 days | #8 | |
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Russia taking seriously the threat of invasion by US forces. Russia is on guard against attacks by Western Forces. Russia struck a Ukraine radioactive waste disposal site near Kyiv. Russia, a great friend of ex-president Donald J. Trump, is forced to defend itself against all foreign enemies. And to send peace-keeping forces into Ukraine, where people are threatening Russia. Go, Trump, and take back the White House from the criminal who stole it away from you!!! ------ ------ Radioactive waste disposal site near Kyiv hit by airstrike, Ukraine officials say Yahoo News Niamh Cavanagh February 27, 2022, 9:32 AM Russian bombs struck a radioactive waste burial facility near Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, overnight, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine said on Sunday morning. In a post published to its official Facebook page, the organization wrote: “At [1.20 a.m.] Kyiv time as a result of the mass bombing of Kyiv with all types of anti-aircraft and missile weapons available to the Russian Federation, the missiles hit the radioactive waste disposal site of the Kyiv branch of the State Specialized Enterprise ‘Radon.’” The organization stressed that there was no threat of radiation to people outside of the protection zone that surrounds the burial site. All employees have remained in a shelter due “to the ongoing mass [shelling].” The agency added that the automated radiation monitoring system failed, but the missiles had been caught by surveillance cameras. The extent of the radiation will be assessed by portable devices as soon as the bombing has finished, the agency said. The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A plume of smoke and flames is seen in the distance. A burning oil depot that was reportedly hit by shelling near the military airbase Vasylkiv in Ukraine. (Maksim Levin/Reuters) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it had been a "difficult night" following a Russian strike against civilian infrastructures. Major attacks overnight included an assault on Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city. Ukraine accused Russian troops of blowing up a natural gas pipeline there. An oil depot in Vasylkiv, a city near the capital, was also set ablaze after an apparent missile strike. Authorities in Kyiv warned civilians to stay indoors and keep windows shut after the explosion caused toxic fumes. The Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine said that the transmission of natural gas was continuing “normally” despite the Kharkiv pipeline explosion. Ukraine is one of the major transmission routes that brings gas from Russia to Europe. Continuing into its fourth day, the Russian invasion has taken more than 200 Ukrainian civilians' lives, a defense official said. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s nuclear arsenal had been put on alert in response to sanctions against the country. "Western countries are not only taking unfriendly economic actions against our country. Leaders of NATO countries are making aggressive statements against us," Putin said on Sunday. He went on to say that he had ordered the Kremlin’s nuclear deterrence “on a special regime of duty.” | |
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Putin nuclear alert order part of pattern of made-up threats, U.S. says Reuters February 27, 2022, 9:40 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's order to put Russian nuclear forces on high alert is part of a pattern of Moscow manufacturing threats to justify aggression, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Sunday. "We've seen him do this time and time again. At no point has Russia been under threat from NATO, has Russia been under threat from Ukraine," Psaki said on ABC's "This Week" program. "This is all a pattern from President Putin and we're going to stand up to it. We have the ability to defend ourselves, but we also need to call out what we're seeing here from President Putin," Psaki added. The United States is open to providing additional assistance to Ukraine, Psaki said. Washington also has not taken sanctions targeting Russia's energy sector off the table, Psaki added. "We have not taken those off, but we also want to do that and make sure we're minimizing the impact on the global marketplace and do it in a united way," Psaki said. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Will Dunham) | |
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Why the Chinese Internet Is Cheering Russia’s Invasion As the world overwhelmingly condemns the assault on Ukraine, online opinion in China is mostly pro-Russia, pro-war and pro-Putin. A bombed Ukrainian home in south Kyiv. Many Chinese social media users have praised President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and accepted his justification for invading Ukraine. By Li Yuan Published Feb. 27, 2022Updated Feb. 28, 2022 If President Vladimir V. Putin is looking for international support and approval for his invasion of Ukraine, he can turn to the Chinese internet. Its users have called him “Putin the Great,” “the best legacy of the former Soviet Union” and “the greatest strategist of this century.” They have chastised Russians who protested against the war, saying they had been brainwashed by the United States. Mr. Putin’s speech on Thursday, which essentially portrayed the conflict as one waged against the West, won loud cheers on Chinese social media. Many people said they were moved to tears. “If I were Russian, Putin would be my faith, my light,” wrote @jinyujiyiliangxiaokou, a user of the Twitter-like platform Weibo. Mr. Putin’s portrayal of Russia as a victim of the West’s political, ideological and military aggression has resonated deeply with many on social media. It dovetails with China’s narrative that the United States and its allies are afraid of China’s rise and the alternative world order it could create. For its part, the Chinese government, Russia’s most powerful partner, has been more circumspect. Officials have declined to call Russia’s invasion an invasion, nor have they condemned it. But they have not endorsed it, either. Under Xi Jinping, its top leader, China has taken a more confrontational stance on foreign policy in recent years. Its diplomats, the state media’s journalists and some of the government’s most influential advisers are far more hawkish than they used to be. Together, they have helped to shape a generation of online warriors who view the world as a zero-sum game between China and the West, especially the United States. A translation of Mr. Putin’s speech on Thursday by a nationalistic news site went viral, to say the least. The Weibo hashtag #putin10000wordsspeechfulltext got 1.1 billion views within 24 hours. “This is an exemplary speech of war mobilization,” said one Weibo user, @apjam. “Why was I moved to tears by the speech?” wrote @ASsicangyueliang. “Because this is also how they’ve been treating China.” Mostly young, nationalistic online users like these, known as “little pinks” in China, have taken their cue from the so-called “wolf warrior” diplomats who seem to relish verbal battle with journalists and their Western counterparts. The day before Russia’s invasion, for instance, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in a daily press briefing that the United States was the “culprit” behind the tensions over Ukraine. “When the U.S. drove five waves of NATO expansion eastward all the way to Russia’s doorstep and deployed advanced offensive strategic weapons in breach of its assurances to Russia, did it ever think about the consequences of pushing a big country to the wall?” asked the spokeswoman, Hua Chunying. The next day, as Ms. Hua was peppered with questions about whether China considered Russia’s “special military operation” an invasion, she turned the briefing into a critique of the United States. “You may go ask the U.S.: they started the fire and fanned the flames,” she said. “How are they going to put out the fire now?” She bristled at the U.S. State Department’s comment that China should respect state sovereignty and territorial integrity, a longstanding tenet of Chinese foreign policy. “The U.S. is in no position to tell China off,” she said. Then she mentioned the three journalists who were killed in NATO’s bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999, a tragic incident that prompted widespread anti-U.S. protests in China. “NATO still owes the Chinese people a debt of blood,” she said. That sentence became the top Weibo hashtag as Russia was bombing Ukraine. The hashtag, created by the state-run People’s Daily newspaper, has been viewed more than a billion times. In posts below it, users called the United States a “warmonger” and a “paper tiger.” Other Weibo users were bemused. “If I only browsed Weibo,” wrote the user @____26156, “I would have believed that it was the United States that had invaded Ukraine.” The strong pro-war sentiment online has shocked many Chinese. Some WeChat users on my timeline warned that they would block any Putin supporters. Many people shared articles about China’s long, troubled history with its neighbor, including Russian annexation of Chinese territory and a border conflict with the Soviet Union in the late 1960s. One widely shared WeChat article was titled, “All those who cheer for war are idiots,” plus an expletive. “The grand narrative of nationalism and great-power chauvinism has squeezed out their last bit of humanity,” the author wrote. It was eventually deleted by WeChat for violating regulations. Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said the United States “started the fire and fanned the flames” that led to the war in Ukraine.Credit...Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters The pro-Russia sentiment is in line with the two countries’ growing official solidarity, culminating in a joint statement on Feb. 4, when Mr. Putin met with Mr. Xi in Beijing at the Winter Olympics. The countries’ friendship has “no limits,” they declared. Given that the leaders met just weeks before the invasion, it would be understandable to conclude that China should have had better knowledge of the Kremlin’s plans. But growing evidence suggests that the echo chamber of China’s foreign policy establishment might have misled not only the country’s internet users, but its own officials. My colleague Edward Wong reported that over a period of three months, senior U.S. officials held meetings with their Chinese counterparts and shared intelligence that detailed Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine. The Americans asked the Chinese officials to intervene with the Russians and tell them not to invade. Russia’s Attack on Ukraine and the Global Economy Card 1 of 6 A rising concern. Russia’s attack on Ukraine could cause dizzying spikes in prices for energy and food and could spook investors. The economic damage from supply disruptions and economic sanctions would be severe in some countries and industries and unnoticed in others. The cost of energy. Oil prices already are the highest since 2014, and they have risen as the conflict has escalated. Russia is the third-largest producer of oil, providing roughly one of every 10 barrels the global economy consumes. Gas supplies. Europe gets nearly 40 percent of its natural gas from Russia, and it is likely to be walloped with higher heating bills. Natural gas reserves are running low, and European leaders have accused Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, of reducing supplies to gain a political edge. Food prices. Russia is the world’s largest supplier of wheat and, together with Ukraine, accounts for nearly a quarter of total global exports. In countries like Egypt and Turkey, that flow of grain makes up more than 70 percent of wheat imports. Shortages of essential metals. The price of palladium, used in automotive exhaust systems and mobile phones, has been soaring amid fears that Russia, the world’s largest exporter of the metal, could be cut off from global markets. The price of nickel, another key Russian export, has also been rising. Financial turmoil. Global banks are bracing for the effects of sanctions designed to restrict Russia’s access to foreign capital and limit its ability to process payments in dollars, euros and other currencies crucial for trade. Banks are also on alert for retaliatory cyberattacks by Russia. The Chinese brushed the Americans off, saying that they did not think an invasion was in the works. U.S. intelligence showed that on one occasion, Beijing shared the Americans’ information with Moscow. Recent speeches by some of China’s most influential advisers to the government on international relations suggest that the miscalculation may have been based on deep distrust of the United States. They saw it as a declining power that wanted to push for war with false intelligence because it would benefit the United States, financially and strategically. Jin Canrong, a professor at Renmin University in Beijing, told the state broadcaster China Central Television, or CCTV, on Feb. 20 that the U.S. government had been talking about imminent war because an unstable Europe would help Washington, as well as the country’s financial and energy industries. After the war started, he admitted to his 2.4 million Weibo followers that he was surprised. Just before the invasion, Shen Yi, a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, ridiculed the Biden administration’s predictions of war in a 52-minute video program. “Why did ‘Sleepy Joe’ use such poor-quality intelligence on Ukraine and Russia?” he asked, using Donald Trump’s favorite nickname for President Biden. Earlier in the week, Mr. Shen had held a conference call about the Ukraine crisis with a brokerage’s clients, titled, “A war that would not be fought.” When the fighting began, he, too, acknowledged to his Weibo followers, who number 1.6 million, that he had been wrong. Nationalistic emotions on social media were also sparked by the Chinese Embassy in Ukraine. Unlike most embassies in Kyiv, it didn’t urge its citizens to evacuate. Hours into the war, it advised Chinese people to post the country’s red flag conspicuously on their vehicles when traveling, indicating that it would provide protection. | |
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| 03-01-22 10:01pm - 933 days | #11 | |
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Republicans are standing up for all Americans. They are telling people that Joe Biden is a fool. That Biden puts American lives in danger. What about the more than 400,000 Americans that died from covid during Trump's presidency? Trump was a Republican, so any Americans that died during his term in office were patriots who died for America. But if 13 people, or even 1, died while Biden was president, that's a crime against the American people. Go, Trump, the fightenest president we've ever had. If Biden was more like Trump, he would order his secret service agents to shoot down Rep. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene as commie traitors. But Biden is too cowardly to act on his impulses. We need Trump to lead us with strength. And vigor. And moral courage. Vote for Trump!!! ------- ------- Rep. Boebert heckles Biden during his State of the Union remarks on protecting veterans Yahoo News Dylan Stableford,Caitlin Dickson March 1, 2022, 8:08 PM Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., heckled President Biden during Tuesday’s State of the Union, just before he recalled his late son Beau Biden’s brain cancer. Biden was in the middle of calling on Congress to pass legislation to help Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans suffering from exposure to toxic burn pits that were used to incinerate waste, with troops often using jet fuel as an accelerant. “When they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best-trained warriors were never the same: Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness,” Biden said. “A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin.” “You put them there!” Boebert yelled, according to reporters in the House Chamber. "Thirteen of them," she added — a reference to the 13 U.S. service members who died last year in a bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Biden briefly paused before continuing his speech. President Biden makes an impassioned plea. President Biden delivers his State of the Union address in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters) “I know. One of those soldiers was my son Major Beau Biden,” the president said. “I don’t know for sure if the burn pit that he lived near in Iraq, and earlier than that, in Kosovo, was the cause of his brain cancer, or the diseases of so many of our troops, but I am committed to finding out everything we can.” Beau Biden died in 2015 of brain cancer at age 46. Last year, Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation that would streamline the Veteran Administration’s review process to recognize toxic exposure as a cost of war. The bill, the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, passed out of committee last summer, but has yet to receive a full vote in the House. On Monday, the Biden administration released a statement calling on Congress to pass the legislation. Reps. Lauren Boebert in black, shouts loudly as Marjorie Taylor Greene stands to scream. Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., heckle President Biden during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) Boebert’s tenure in Congress has been heavily focused on opposing Biden. By the end of her first month in office, the Colorado Republican, who previously embraced the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, had introduced four bills opposing executive orders issued by Biden regarding a range of issues, from mask mandates, to U.S. reentry into the Paris climate agreement and funding for the World Health Organization. In June 2021, she introduced a bill to censure Biden “for his dereliction of duty at our Southern border.” Last September, Boebert introduced articles of impeachment against Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “Joe Biden willfully abandoned his duty as president of the United States and violated his constitutional oath to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed, by failing to ensure the national security of the United States and its citizens,” Boebert said at the time. Her impeachment bill has yet to receive a vote. | |
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| 03-01-22 11:41pm - 933 days | #12 | |
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Scammers asking for money donations. Scammers are capitalists. They want you to donate money to them, in the name of charity. The charity is the scammer. But if you don't check, you won't know who you're giving money to. ------ ------ Want to help Ukraine? Avoid these war scammers asking you for bitcoin and money. Yahoo News Garin Flowers March 1, 2022, 7:51 AM Scammers are looking to cash in on the charitable giving surrounding the events of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cybersecurity companies and consumer experts have warned. They suggest two things before donating to help: Watch out for the fakers, and take time to research legitimate charities and causes. While social media has made information gathering and connecting a lot easier, it’s also a gateway for cyber thieves to reach victims. The criminals are now hopping on the bitcoin wave and asking for it on platforms like Twitter. Avast, a worldwide cybersecurity company, released a blog post warning users to watch out for these crypto scams. “As cyber criminals seek to take advantage of the chaos, we have tracked in the last 48 hours a number of scammers who are tricking people out of money by pretending they are Ukrainians in desperate need of financial help,” wrote Michal Salát, an expert on threat intelligence. “In the past, we have seen similar scams for people stuck while traveling or looking for love. Unfortunately, these attackers do not operate ethically and will use any opportunity to get money out of people willing to help others in need.” Salát said that what makes a post suspicious is the immediate mention of bitcoin, especially coming from odd usernames that consist of numbers and letters. Reports of scams have surfaced on other platforms as well, including TikTok and Instagram. But scammers are also using more traditional methods, like email and websites, to reach potential victims. Tomáš Foltýn with WeLiveSecurity said its researchers have unearthed a “bevy of websites” that are asking for money for charitable purposes but are fraudulent. “The websites make very vague claims about how the ‘aid’ will be used. It should also be obvious — upon closer inspection, anyway — that none of them represents a legitimate organization,” Foltýn wrote on a website post. “Also, stay alert for emotional pleas for help that may land in your email.” Appeals for money typically use specific language and range from heartbreaking to threatening. As curated by several experts, some statements to watch out for include: “Help, I’m stuck here,” “I have money, lots of money” (someone claiming they need to transfer money and need your help to do it, which includes transfer fees), “I need to give my loved one a proper burial” and “I love you” (tapping in to common romance scams). Crime prevention expert Rania Mankarious, who wrote “The Online World, What You Think You Know and What You Don’t,” told Yahoo News she’s been monitoring and trying to help combat scams involving Ukraine. “With nearly 1 million Ukrainians in the U.S. and social media accounts pulling at our heartstrings, generous Americans want to give and do their part,” she said. “But how do we make sure that our hard-earned dollars are going where they should?” She added, “Fight the pressure. Don’t give in to sales calls or solicitations for donations that require you to ‘act immediately.’” When planning to give, here are some ways to avoid being scammed, according to advice from Mankarious, the Better Business Bureau and Avast: 1. Stick to well-known organizations that have strong credibility. 2. Ask what percentage of your donation will go to relief efforts. 3. While it doesn't necessarily reveal a scam, research an organization’s current presence in Ukraine because “not all relief organizations will be able to provide timely assistance unless they already have a presence in Ukraine,” the BBB warns. 4. Be cautious of requests to wire money, send gift cards or transfer through PayPal — charities don’t normally request those payment methods. 5. Be wary of social media posts promoting a charity or an individual needing money. Take time to flesh out their authenticity. 6. Watch out for messages or links, even from credible-looking organizations. Call or email them to further verify that they are legitimate. 7. Here's a current list of BBB-accredited charities working on Ukraine relief: Catholic Relief Services GlobalGiving International Rescue Committee Save the Children To further research other organizations, use Charity Navigator, Charity Watch, Guidestar, Candid.org or the BBB’s give.org, which gives accreditation ratings. A women holds a child and a dog in a shelter inside a building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) A women holds a child and a dog in a shelter inside a building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP) Where are Russian forces attacking Ukraine? Check out this explainer from Yahoo Immersive to find out. | |
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| 03-02-22 06:55am - 932 days | #13 | |
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Russia, land of freedom-loving peoples, holds drills with nuclear subs and land-based missiles. It's not enough to praise freedom. You must do it with heavy weapons, nukes, missiles, and whatever else it takes to destroy the enemies of freedom. And if we have to invade the Ukraine, the US, Europe, or anywhere where commie-hating peoples live, let us do so with chants of "Freedom will ring!!!" ------- ------- Russia holds drills with nuclear subs, land-based missiles Associated Press VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV March 1, 2022, 5:02 PM MOSCOW (AP) — Russian nuclear submarines sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers roamed snow forests Tuesday in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation's nuclear forces put on high alert over tensions with the West over the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's Northern Fleet said in a statement that several of its nuclear submarines were involved in exercises designed to “train maneuvering in stormy conditions.” It said several warships tasked with protecting northwest Russia's Kola Peninsula, where several naval bases are located, would join the maneuvers. In the Irkutsk region of eastern Siberia, units of the Strategic Missile Forces dispersed Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launchers in forests to practice secret deployment, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The military didn't say whether the drills were linked to Putin's order on Sunday to put the country's nuclear forces on high alert amid Russia's war in Ukraine. It also was unclear whether the exercises represented a change in the country's normal nuclear training activities or posture. Putin's decree applied to all parts of the Russian nuclear triad, which like in the U.S., consists of nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-tipped land-based ICBMs and nuclear-capable strategic bombers. The United States and Russia have the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world, by far. The U.S. said Putin's move unnecessarily escalated an already dangerous conflict, but so far has announced no changes in its nuclear weapons alert level, perhaps in part because it was unclear what the Russian president's order meant in practical terms. Russia and the U.S. have the land- and submarine-based segments of their strategic nuclear forces on alert and prepared for combat at all times, but nuclear-capable bombers and other aircraft are not. One party raising the nuclear-combat readiness of bombers or ordering more ICBM-carrying submarines to sea would ring alarm bells for another. Compared to the U.S., Russia relies more heavily on nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are located in silos or mounted on mobile launchers. A change in their readiness status could be more difficult to spot and assess. Putin's order heightened already soaring tensions, drawing comparisons to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that saw Moscow and Washington teetering on the brink of a nuclear conflict. In announcing his decision, Putin cited “aggressive statements” from NATO powers and new, crippling Western sanctions that froze Russia's hard currency reserves, an unprecedented move that threatened to have devastating consequences for the its economy and finances. The latest statements from Putin and other Russian officials indicated the Kremlin view of Western sanctions as a threat on par with military aggression. Dmitry Medvedev, a deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, responded Tuesday to French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire commenting that the European Union would unleash an all-out economic and financial “war” against Russia. “Today, some French minister has said that they declared an economic war on Russia,” Medvedev, who served as Russia's placeholder president in 2008-2012 when Putin had to shift into the prime minister’s post because of term limits. “Watch your tongue, gentlemen! And don’t forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones.” ___ Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | |
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| 03-04-22 12:42am - 931 days | #14 | |
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US Senator Lindsey Graham urges Russians to assassinate Putin: 'Take this guy out'. Is this the way a US Senator thinks about the leader of a foreign country? What does Graham have planned for Joe Biden, who is the leader of the US opposition party? In the run-up to the January 6th, 2021 insurrection, Lindsey Graham did plenty to help Donald Trump spread misinformation. The South Carolina senator went as far as to call Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to inquire about the state‘s vote count. Politicians can be tricky fellows. They can switch positions faster than you can blink. Is Graham a red, white and blue patriot? Or is he a lackey of Donald Trump, the fightenest president the US has ever had? ----- ----- Lindsey Graham encourages Russians to assassinate Putin: 'Take this guy out' George Back George Back·Producer, Yahoo Entertainment Thu, March 3, 2022, 10:33 PM As the Russian invasion of Ukraine commands the world’s attention, Senator Lindsey Graham weighed in on the matter Thursday night. He appeared on Hannity, and repeatedly called for Russians to take it upon themselves and resolve the conflict by assassinating Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Is there a Brutus in Russia?” Graham asked. “Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends, my friend, especially in Russia, is to take this guy out. You would be doing your country a great service and the world a great service.” The senator’s brazen solution did not resonate as “diplomatic” on social media. Graham was trending on Twitter, but many of the reactions are those of concern and disappointment. As to leave nothing in doubt, a little later Graham literally begged someone in Russia to kill Putin. | |
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| 03-04-22 10:16am - 930 days | #15 | |
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The ICF (International Cat Federation) has banned Russian cats from competitions. Everyone knows that Russia has some of the finest, most beautiful cats in the world. As well as some of the finest porn stars. That is why the IFC has banned Russia's cats from competitions. To give cats from other nations the chance to win prizes more easily. Don Trump, the ex-president of the US, has vowed a secret war against the ICF, in support of his good pal, Putin. ----- ----- International Cat Federation bans Russian felines from competitions NBC Universal Marlene Lenthang March 3, 2022, 12:10 PM The International Cat Federation has banned Russian cats from international competitions, condemning the invasion of Ukraine as an "unprecedented act of aggression." Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe), a group which considers itself "the United Nations of Cat Federations" with members from over 40 counties, said in a statement on its website that "it cannot just witness these atrocities and do nothing." Starting this week, no cat bred in Russia can be imported or registered in any FIFe pedigree book outside Russia and no cat belonging to exhibitors living in Russia may be entered at any FIFe show outside of the country. The group said the new regulations will last though May 31 and "will be reviewed as and when necessary." FIFe said it is "shocked and horrified" by the war launched in Ukraine. "Many innocent people died, many more are wounded and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are forced to flee their homes to save their lives," the group said in a statement. "On top of that our Ukrainian fellow feline fanciers are desperately trying to take care of their cats and other animals in these trying circumstances." The Board of FIFe said it will dedicate part of its budget to support cat breeders and fanciers in Ukraine. The federation was created over 70 years ago and holds over 700 shows a year with more than 200,000 cats exhibited, according to its website. The announcement is the latest blow to Russia, which has been hit with sanctions by a number of countries, including the U.S., and excluded from a slew of high-profile organizations and sports including FIFA and UEFA competitions. The International Olympic Committee has also recommended athletes from Russia and Belarus be banned from international competition. So far, over 1 million Ukrainians have fled amid the invasion. | |
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| 03-05-22 01:52am - 930 days | #16 | |
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Donald Trump is a genius. Says Putin is a very smart man for invading Ukraine. But Trump is also able to say that Putin's invading Ukraine is "horrific" and a "very sad thing for the world." That's why we need Trump as president. Only Trump will be able to deal with Putin, to keep Putin from invading the United States with nuclear missiles and other weapons of destruction. We can't depend on Joe Biden. Vote for Trump. ----- ----- Trump's praise of Putin, 'America First' view tested by war Associated Press JILL COLVIN March 4, 2022, 10:11 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — From the earliest days of his first presidential campaign, Donald Trump aggressively challenged the pillars of Republican foreign policy that defined the party since World War II. He mocked John McCain's capture during the Vietnam War, validated autocrats with his platitudes, questioned longtime military and security alliances and embraced an isolationist worldview. And to the horror of many GOP leaders at the time, it worked, resonating with voters who believed, in part, that a bipartisan establishment in Washington had brokered trade deals that hurt American workers and recklessly stumbled into so-called “forever wars.” But Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine is posing a serious test for Trump and his “America First” doctrine at a moment when he is eyeing another presidential run and using this year's midterm elections to keep bending the GOP to his will. He's largely alone in his sustained praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “smart,” an assessment he reiterated last week during speeches to donors and conservative activists. His often deferential vice president, Mike Pence, split with him on the issue late Friday. The multinational partnerships that Trump repeatedly undermined, meanwhile, have allowed the West to quickly band together to hobble Russia's economy with coordinated sanctions. The NATO alliance, which Trump once dismissed as “obsolete,” is flexing its strength as a foil to Russia's aggression. Perhaps most fundamentally, the war is a fresh reminder, observers say, that the U.S. can't simply ignore the world's problems, even if that's sometimes a politically appealing way to connect with voters facing their own daily struggles. “This is a brutal wake-up call to both parties that not only are we not going to be able to do less in the world," said Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former diplomat. “We are going to have to do more.” While he argued that large elements of both parties have demonstrated a desire to turn inward, the current situation poses a “special problem" for Republicans and the "America firsters” who have previously tried to paint Russia has a benign actor. “The entire thrust of America First, I would argue, was misguided in a world where what happens anywhere can and will affect us," he said. It's unclear whether the Western unity that has taken hold against Russia can be sustained if the war escalates, expands beyond Ukraine or drags on indefinitely. And after two decades of U.S. foreign policy failures, including the Iraq War and the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, many Americans are approaching the moment with caution. On the eve of Russia's invasion, just 26% of Americans said they supported the U.S. playing a major role in the conflict, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But the challenges to Trump's approach to the world are clear. Sweden and Finland have abandoned their long-held neutrality and warmed to the idea of joining NATO, expanding an alliance Trump continued to criticize this week. Germany, a country Trump spent years trying to browbeat into spending more on its defense, broke its longstanding post-World War II policy by sending anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine and pledging to dramatically increase its defense budget. Trump and his allies insist that Russia would never have invaded Ukraine were he still president. And Russia did not make aggressive moves on his watch, something former aides and others credit to his erratic behavior and direct threats that left world leaders uncertain of how Trump would respond to a provocation. Roger Zakheim, the Washington director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, credited Trump for deterring Putin, who he said had “validated the need for allies to invest more in their security and defense.” “I think President Trump, at least at it related to Ukraine, was able to deter Vladimir Putin. And that was a function of unpredictability, which is valuable to deterring an autocrat like Vladimir Putin,” he said. Still, he argued Putin’s actions had been “so aggressive and so brazen and so immoral” that it had “de-emphasized the difference” between various foreign policy approaches. Still, the war renews focus on the controversial role Ukraine played during Trump's tenure, particularly the way the then-president used defense of the struggling country as a bargaining tool to improve his domestic political standing. Trump was impeached for the first time for trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate his 2020 Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden. The effort included holding up nearly $400 million in U.S. security aid to Ukraine and leveraging an Oval Office visit that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been requesting. Trump also pushed discredited claims that Ukraine, not Russia, had meddled in the 2016 election, repeatedly siding with Putin over his own national intelligence agencies. “Putin is the critical agent, but certainly Trump contributed to it with his scheme back then and continued to contribute it by undermining national security," said retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman, the former national security council whistleblower who raised alarms about Trump's pressure tactics. “Ultimately the president undermined U.S. foreign policy because he weakened Ukraine.” As he aims to play a significant role in this year’s midterms and potentially run for president again in 2024, Trump has shown little interest in calibrating his approach to Putin. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has been laying the groundwork for his own potential presidential run, has largely abandoned the language he was criticized for using before the invasion, when had called Putin “very capable” and said he had “enormous respect for him.” Even Tucker Carlson, the popular Fox News host who had openly questioned why he shouldn’t side with Russia over Ukraine, has tried to walk back his pro-Russia rhetoric, saying, “We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing.” That’s left Trump relatively isolated, defending his decision to label Putin as “smart” and criticizing the response from Biden and other Western leaders, even as he has denounced the invasion as “horrific” and a “very sad thing for the world.” “NATO has the money now, but they’re not doing the job they should be doing,” he said this week on Fox Business. “It’s almost like they’re staying away.” That has earned rebuke from some in his party. In a speech to GOP donors Friday night, Pence forcefully defended NATO and admonished those who have defended Putin as he, too, weighs a presidential run. "There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin," he said, according to his prepared remarks. “There is only room for champions of freedom.” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News there "should be no confusion about Vladimir Putin. “He’s a thug. He’s a killer,” McConnell said. "He’s been on the rampage and this will not end well for him.” Chris Stirewalt, a senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute think tank and a contributing editor of The Dispatch, said Russia's invasion of Ukraine is fundamentally different from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that turned large swaths of the American public against foreign intervention and which Trump was able to use to his political advantage. “Putin," he said, “has undone so much of what Trump and nationalists in the United States had done to change the global order.” | |
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| 03-05-22 02:02am - 930 days | #17 | |
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| 03-05-22 06:50pm - 929 days | #18 | |
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Two GOP senators share photos of Zelenskyy during call after lawmakers asked not to by Ukraine. The GOP knows better than anyone how to conduct security. If someone riots in Washington DC, the GOP senators are calm, cool, and collected, and they state, afterwards, that it was only a peaceful demonstration by people who are exercising their rights to be heard. Especially if the riot was preceded by a speech by President Trump saying Joe Biden stole the election from Trump, and the rioters are not rioting, but simply demonstrating. So if the GOP senators want to ignore Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's desire to not share photos of the video call, the GOP senators have the right to decide whether to honor Zelenskyy's pleas. Especially since Zelenskyy can't even vote in the US. Go, GOP, the fightenest party in the US, where US lawmakers of the GOP can legally carry handguns, unless the dirty Democrats say they can't. ----- ----- Two GOP senators share photos of Zelenskyy during call after lawmakers asked not to by Ukraine NBC Universal Haley Talbot and Julie Tsirkin and Nicole Acevedo and Leigh Ann Caldwell and Kelly O'Donnell and Frank Thorp V March 5, 2022, 11:20 AM Two Republican senators are facing criticism after tweeting photos of a video call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy even though participating lawmakers were told to not share pictures on social media while it was in progress. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Steve Daines of Montana posted pictures of Zelenskyy on their Twitter accounts during the Zoom meeting Saturday morning, writing that they were on a call with him. Democratic Reps. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Jason Crow of Colorado criticized the senators on Twitter. Phillips noted that the "Ukrainian ambassador very intentionally asked each of us on the Zoom to NOT share anything on social media during the meeting to protect the security of President Zelenskyy." "Appalling and reckless ignorance by two U.S. Senators," Phillips wrote. "The lack of discipline in Congress is truly astounding," Crow wrote. "If an embattled wartime leader asks you to keep quiet about a meeting, you better keep quiet about the meeting. I’m not saying a damn thing. Lives are at stake." Members were explicitly asked not to tweet or post pictures of the call while it was in progress, multiple aides told NBC News. The embassy coordinated this with the offices of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as well as the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, said a Democratic leadership aide. In separate statements, representatives for Rubio and Daines defended the senators' decision to share the photos, calling those who make an issue out of their tweets "partisan." "There were over 160 members of Congress on a widely reported Zoom call. There was no identifying information of any kind," said a spokesperson for Rubio. A spokesperson for Daines said his tweet, which was posted about 23 minutes after the meeting started, was "shared well into the call ... before it was requested not to" and contained "no identifying information." "We should be focusing on what’s important here and that’s supporting Ukraine," added Daines' spokesperson. Zelenskyy addressed more than 280 senators, House members and staff during the virtual meeting, which, according to an office that helped organize the call, lasted just under an hour and concluded at around 10:25 a.m. ET. Earlier on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin had warned that any move to create a no-fly zone above Ukraine would be viewed as “participation” in the conflict. During the call, Zelenskyy asked if a no-fly zone over Ukrainian airspace could be imposed on Russian-made aircraft, multiple people on the call told NBC News. Schumer told Zelenskyy that Congress will get the $10 billion in economic, humanitarian and security assistance to the Ukrainian people "quickly,” according to two people with knowledge of the call. Zelenskyy spoke on the call first, followed by Schumer and McConnell, then Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the co-chairs of the Senate Ukraine caucus, said two people with knowledge of the call. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., asked about the possibility of a ban on Russian oil imports, and Zelenskyy stressed the importance of energy sanctions, according to two people on the call. The Ukrainian leader also spoke to lawmakers about imposing sanctions to stop Russia from using Visa and Mastercard, said three people on the call. Earlier this week, Visa and Mastercard blocked some Russian financial institutions from their networks but not all. Several lawmakers in both parties also shared pictures and details of the call on social media after it concluded, including Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn. Himes tweeted that Zelenskyy "is standing strong, but pleaded for more help. Planes, oil embargo, continued military aid," adding that, "We were asked to not post during the zoom. This was posted well afterwards." “President Zelenskyy made a desperate plea for Eastern European countries to provide Russian-made planes to Ukraine. These planes are very much needed. And I will do all I can to help the administration to facilitate their transfer," Schumer said in a statement. | |
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| 03-06-22 07:57am - 928 days | #19 | |
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Donald J. Trump is the man to watch. He will lead America back to greatness again. Once we get rid of the scumbag from Hell, Joe Biden, the commie-loving Democrat who stole the White House away from patriotic Republicans. Donald Trump is tough. He knows how to kick ass. When Trump speaks, cowards tremble in fear, that Trump's eyes will fall on them and reveal their cowardly acts. That's why Biden and his cronies are hiding behind the US Constitution, weaklings who can't stand on their own two feet. Vote for Trump. Vote for a White Man, who will make you proud to be White. And strong. And free. ----- ----- INSIDER Trump told GOP donors that North Korea's Kim Jong Un had ability to make his advisers 'cower,' jokingly saying he also wants his staff to 'act like that' Trump told GOP donors that North Korea's Kim Jong Un had ability to make his advisers 'cower,' jokingly saying he also wants his staff to 'act like that' Joshua Zitser Sun, March 6, 2022, 5:45 AM Former President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Former President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong UnGetty Images Trump was speaking at an RNC donor retreat in New Orleans, per The Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey. Trump said that Kim Jong Un's advisers "cower" and 'sit at attention" when he talks, according to a recording. The former president joked that he wants his people to "act like that" too. Former President Donald Trump spoke glowingly about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at an RNC retreat in New Orleans, Louisiana, according to a recording obtained by The Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey. Dawsey, in a tweet, said Trump told donors that Kim's advisers were "sitting at attention" when he talked and "cowered" when he spoke to them. Trump added that one general "stood up so fast," per Dawsey's tweet. "I want my people to act like that," Trump joked, according to Dawsey. The former president also referred to Kim as "seriously tough" and "absolutely the leader of that country," per the tweet. During the speech to top Republican donors, Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt said Trump once again teased a 2024 presidential bid and described Rep. Adam Schiff as a "watermelon head." He also pushed back on Vice President Mike Pence's implication that he is an "apologist" for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the past two weeks, Trump has praised Putin, who ordered a deadly invasion of Ukraine, as "smart" and initially described his strategy in Ukraine as "wonderful" and "genius." According to Isenstadt, Trump told donors, "Somebody called me a Putin apologist the other day...There's no one who's ever been tougher on Russia than me." Insider reached out to Trump's team for comment on Sunday morning but did not immediately receive a response. | |
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| 03-06-22 08:04am - 928 days | #20 | |
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The real reason Russia invaded the Ukraine. Ukraine was making nuclear dirty bombs. So Russia had to invade, to keep the world safe for democracy. And Donald J. Trump, our glorious President for Life of Trumperland, has tears in his eyes as he is finally able to speak the truth: Putin is a Friend Of The United States, who stands with the US population to defend us from criminals throughout the world. Hail Trump. Hail Putin. Down with Biden, a scummy Democrat from Hell, who uses condoms to hide his sins. ---- ---- Russia, without evidence, says Ukraine making nuclear "dirty bomb" Reuters March 6, 2022, 5:10 AM (Reuters) - Russian media cited an unnamed source on Sunday as saying that Ukraine was close to building a plutonium-based "dirty bomb" nuclear weapon, although the source cited no evidence. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, with the aim to "demilitarise" and "denazify" its pro-Western neighbour and prevent Kyiv from joining NATO. The West, dismissing that rationale as a pretext, has responded with harsh sanctions on Moscow and heavy military and other aid to Kyiv. The TASS, RIA and Interfax news agencies quoted "a representative of a competent body" in Russia on Sunday as saying Ukraine was developing nuclear weapons at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was shut down in 2000. Ukraine's government has said it had no plans to rejoin the nuclear club, having given up its nuclear arms in 1994 following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Shortly before the invasion, Putin said in a grievance-filled speech that Ukraine was using Soviet know-how to create its own nuclear weapons, and that this was tantamount to preparation for an attack on Russia. He cited no evidence for his claim. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by William Mallard) | |
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| 03-06-22 10:28pm - 928 days | #21 | |
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Trump and Putin will meet to discuss a strategy to re-take the White House. If Trump is successful in becoming US President, he will form a strategic alliance with Russia, where the world will bow in awe to the magnificence of Donald J. Trump, First Dictator of the Untied States of Trumperland. ---- ---- 'Capable of anything': How the '99 apartment bombings explain Putin's rise and regime Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan March 6, 2022, 9:50 AM WASHINGTON — The first apartment building to come down was in Buynaksk, a Russian garrison town on the border with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, where Islamic insurgents had fought the Kremlin to a standstill in a brutal, two-year war. They were thought to be responsible for the Buynaksk bomb, which had been placed inside a car and ripped through a building housing Russian border guards on Sept. 4, 1999. Sixty-four people died. Five days later, a bomb was detonated in the basement of an apartment building in the working-class Moscow district of Pechatniki, killing 106. “It’s like hell underneath,” a first responder would say of looking for survivors in the rubble. Four days after that, in another Moscow neighborhood, a car bomb took 119 lives. A final bomb went off in Volgodonsk, a southern city. There, 17 died. In all, more than 300 people died in the apartment bombings, a tragedy that many believe changed the course of Russia, putting it on a trajectory toward authoritarianism and aggression, both of which have been in the spotlight of the world stage as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine now enters its second week. Vladimir Putin, against a beige wall, holds his hand out, gesturing with his fingers pointing upward. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with local veterans of the 1999 operation in Dagestan. (Alexei Nikolsky\TASS via Getty Images) At the time of the bombings, the country’s new prime minister was a former intelligence agent who had been utterly unknown to most Russians. The prime minister vowed to find the Chechen insurgents he said had doubtlessly committed the bombings, which sowed terror across the land. The Kremlin would not rest until the perpetrators were brought to justice. “We’ll wipe them out in the s***house,” the tough new prime minister vowed. His name was Vladimir Putin. The apartment bombings of the fall of 1999 would cement Putin’s grip on a country that had grown increasingly aimless and chaotic under President Boris Yeltsin, who was frequently drunk at public events. But to some, questions about whether Russia’s own security services were involved in the apartment bombings constitute the “original sin,” whose stain Putin has never bothered to erase. There is “no serious doubt that Putin came to power as the result of an act of terror against his own people,” says David Satter, who has investigated the apartment bombings perhaps more thoroughly than any other Western journalist. “Someone capable of such a crime is capable of anything,” Satter told Yahoo News in a telephone conversation from Paris. “And the proper attitude towards him is deterrence, not partnership.” Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin smile while seated at a small round table on which rest flowers, papers and pens. Then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin, right, meets with then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the presidential residence in1999. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) In the wake of the horrifying bombings, Russia rallied around Putin. Using the bombings as a pretext, Putin launched a second Chechen war, which would turn out to be longer and more brutal than the first. In an op-ed published in the New York Times the following fall titled “Why We Must Act,” Putin asked American readers to envision a terrorist attack in Washington or New York: “hundreds perish in explosions at the Watergate, or at an apartment complex on Manhattan's West Side.” He described the decision to send troops back to Chechnya as one he’d made “reluctantly.” Yeltsin stepped down on Dec. 31, 1999, appointing Putin as his successor. The new president, enjoying goodwill stemming from the new Chechen campaign, moved up an election to be held in June to March, giving the liberal opposition little time to prepare. It didn’t seem to matter, though, in either Russia or the West. Putin was seen as a savior — one with some discomfitingly authoritarian tendencies but, on the whole, oriented toward the twin beacons of democracy and capitalism. Two decades later, Putin’s critics are calling him a “war criminal” for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, which has been a sovereign nation since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Ukrainians claim to have slain thousands of Russian soldiers, and international observers have confirmed hundreds of civilian deaths — with the civilian total likely to be far higher, given the missiles and artillery that have rained down on Ukrainian cities. Yet it remains unclear why Putin decided to wage what so far has been a costly and disastrous war. Putin has always denied any involvement in or knowledge of the apartment bombings, but two decades have only deepened suspicions about his involvement, as evidence of his disregard for either human life or the rule of law has mounted. Rescuers work on the ruins of a leveled Moscow apartment building. Rescuers work on the ruins of a Moscow apartment building leveled by a huge explosion, Sept. 13, 1999. (Alexcander Memenov/AFP via Getty Images) “Centuries of Russian and Soviet leaders treated their subjects as chattel, expendable on behalf of State power,” says John Sipher, who worked as a clandestine Central Intelligence Agency officer in Moscow during the 1980s. “They thought even less of the lives of outsiders in lesser nations. Butchery and terror was an expected part of keeping themselves in power. It is as consistent as it is ugly.” At the time of the bombings, Russia was a much more open society than it is today — it would take years for Putin to shut down independent media outlets and stifle political dissent. Journalists were thus able to quickly seize on all available public evidence to question the official narrative about the bombings. From the start, the notion of Chechen involvement seemed dubious. There would, much later, be terrorist attacks in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but only after years of callous Russian occupation. In 1999, the conflict was still relatively confined. Russian forces had already been amassing on Chechnya’s doorstep, making them an easy target for a potential attack. But terrorists were alleged to have driven almost 2 thousand miles, past military checkpoints, in cars presumably loaded with explosives. Both of the Moscow apartment buildings were on the city’s outskirts, far from the resplendent symbols of power, status and wealth huddling around the Kremlin. A TV screen shows a destroyed apartment building. A TV grab taken Sept. 16, 1999, from the Russian television channel NTV shows a destroyed apartment building in the Russian southern city of Volgodonsk following a bomb explosion. (STF/AFP via Getty Images) Then there was speaker of the Duma (Russian parliament) Gennadiy Seleznyov’s announcement about a bomb exploding in Volgodonsk. Such a bomb would explode — three days after he relayed news of that blast. Attempts to question Seleznyov proved fruitless. The most damning evidence of Russian involvement, however, came from Ryazan, an ancient city steeped in Russian history not far from Moscow. On the evening Sept. 22, residents in an apartment building there saw a suspicious Lada sedan on the street below, its license plate crudely altered with a piece of paper. Responding officers of the local police found a bomb in the basement. It had been made with hexogen, a military-grade explosive (known in the West as RDX) that was only available, according to Satter, at one heavily guarded factory in the Ural Mountains, to which Chechen insurgents could not have gained access. These details were largely lost in the breathless reporting about a foiled terror attack. The following night, Putin announced an aerial assault of Grozny, the Chechen capital, in what would prove the first salvo of the second Chechen War. “Until we win,” he said. “And we will win.” Only it soon became clear that Chechens had nothing to do with the foiled Ryazan bombing. Three officers of the FSB — the post-Soviet version of the KGB — were arrested for the bombing, leading FSB chief and Putin ally Nikolai Patrushev to fumble for an excuse. “It was not an explosion somebody foiled; it was a security training exercise,” he claimed. “The sacks contained only sugar, there were no explosives inside.” A view from inside of a heavily damaged building, with someone wearing all black standing amid the debris. A view of damaged building following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images) If so, nobody had told Ryazan’s own FSB office. “This announcement came as a surprise to us,” officials there said in the kind of sharp dissent from the Kremlin line that would soon become taboo in Russia. There was never an official investigation into the bombings, and Russian society as a whole moved on. Putin, though, remained the same cold-blooded authoritarian some thought had emerged on those September mornings when families sifted through the rubble, looking for loved ones. “If it can ever be determined beyond a shadow of a doubt that Putin and Patrushev orchestrated these bombings as a pretext to launch the Second Chechen War — and also launch Putin’s national political career — then the entire edifice of this regime rests atop a pile of Russian corpses,” says Michael Weiss, a longtime Russia observer who told Yahoo News that he is certain, like the journalist Satter, that Putin was behind the apartment bombings. | |
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| 03-06-22 10:28pm - 928 days | #22 | |
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NEWS ARTICLE CONTINUES: Russian investigators and journalists who tried to investigate the bombings often ended up dead. Among them was Anna Politkovskaya, a fearless critic of Putin who worked for Novaya Gazeta, one of the last remaining left-leaning outlets in Moscow today. She aggressively covered the Second Chechen War; in 2006, Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment building’s elevator. “The murder that killed free media in Russia,” the Guardian would much later reflect of Politkovskaya’s death, which came on Putin’s 54th birthday. A toy and a notebook lie among crumbled bricks and other debris. A toy and a notebook lie among the debris by the apartment block in 6A Lobanovsky Avenue, which was hit with a missile, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images) Two years later, the FSB agent turned defector Alexander Litvinenko was assassinated in London, where agents slipped a radioactive poison into his tea. He had worked with Politkovskaya on trying to investigate the Moscow apartment bombings, which he believed were carried out by the FSB. Still, suspicions festered that something was amiss, even as Putin’s power grew. “They say it was the Chechens who did this, but that is a lie. It was Putin's people. Everyone knows that. No one wants to talk about it, but everyone knows that," a Muscovite who lost family in one of the apartment bombings told GQ in 2009 for an article that the magazine’s American publisher, Condé Nast, was too afraid to run in Russia. The irony is that by 2009, nobody in Russia — or the West — could have had any illusions about who Putin was. Mere weeks after the bombings, it was revealed that Putin had spurned the help of Western nations after the nuclear submarine Kursk, rocked by an explosion but with 23 sailors still apparently alive, had sunk to the floor of the Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle. Putin, meanwhile, vacationed at a seaside resort on the Black Sea. All 118 people on board were eventually found dead. When he later met with the sailors’ widows, he was discomfited by their grief, allegedly complaining that they were local prostitutes hired by opponents to rattle him. Vladimir Putin points from a table with two microphones and white cup in front of a blue backdrop. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference at the end of last year in Moscow, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images) Meanwhile, the Second Chechen War was turning out to be even more brutal than the first. Torture was common, in particular at a Russian prison camp called Chernokozovo. “The torture described is so systematic it cannot be the work of a rogue unit acting on its own,” a Guardian investigation concluded in the fall of 2000, just over a year after Putin had launched the offensive. And yet when George W. Bush met Putin in 2001, he came away profoundly impressed. “I looked the man in the eye,” Bush said after their summit in Slovenia. “I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country." If that seems like a cringeworthy assessment, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s bungled attempt at a “reset” in 2009 didn’t fare much better. The year before, Putin had invaded Georgia. In 2014, he launched his first invasion of Ukraine, annexing Crimea and setting the stage for his all-out attack this year. Neither country was in NATO, leaving the United States as a bystander to Putin’s aggression. “Every American president has gotten Putin wrong,” says Satter, who in 2014 earned the distinction of being the first Western journalist since the end of the Cold War to have been expelled from Russia. “Some have gotten him outrageously wrong." Four pictures showing Vladimir Putin shaking hands with U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands with U.S. Presidents (from top left) Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. (Stephen Jaffe, Jim Watson, Alexey Nikolsky, Mikhaul Klimentyev/Ria Novosti/AFP via Getty Images) Satter says that while Donald Trump slathered Putin in fawning rhetoric, his foreign policy toward Russia was “better than people realize,” perhaps because his perceived affinity for the Kremlin strongman led Congress and the foreign policy establishment to compensate with a countervailing toughness toward Moscow. Biden came into office clear-eyed about how fraught the postwar peace had become. He met with Putin in June; they were to meet again last month in hopes of staving off war, but then Putin turned a standoff on the Ukrainian border into outright war. Now it is uncertain when, exactly, they will speak. Now the ruined apartment buildings are in Kyiv and Kharkiv, not Moscow, and there is no doubt about Putin’s role in the carnage. “Aside from the brave, innocent victims in Ukraine,” says former CIA officer Sipher, “it is the Russian people who will pay the price for Putin’s delusions.” | |
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| 03-07-22 12:29am - 928 days | #23 | |
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Special news report: Trump and Putin have been in secret talks to send US soldiers to the Ukraine to put down civil unrest. This would lead to American casualties, but would reduce the number of Russian lives that would be lost. Since Putin is Donald J. Trump's secret boss, the American forces would have to wear special combat uniforms so observers would be confused about their loyalty. But the Putin-Trump alliance has been designed for world domination. Sieg Heil, to the new world order!!! | |
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| 03-08-22 09:24am - 926 days | #24 | |
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Trump praises 5-year-old student for standing up to its right to freedom. Says he personally taught the student all it knows about self-defense fighting. The 5-year-old, who police are investigating for a possible medal of honor, will be inducted into the Hall Of Fame of Freedom Fighters For American Independence, once Trump regains the White House. This story must be true, because once Trump left the presidency, he moved to Florida, where he teaches the residents the power of Trump-based thinking. And the school where the incident occurred, states that "As always, the health, safety and well being of our students and staff continues to be my highest priority." So they are standing firmly behind both the teacher and the student in this time of crisis. ------- ------- Florida teacher beaten and hospitalized after attack by 5-year-old student, police say NBC Universal David K. Li March 7, 2022, 1:42 PM A south Florida teacher was taken to the hospital last week after she was attacked by a 5-year-old student, leaving her "dazed" and "unresponsive," officials said Monday. The unidentified instructor was found by first responders “sitting on the ground against the wall" and "appearing to be in a faint state" at Pines Lakes Elementary School, about 15 miles southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale, according to a heavily redacted Pembroke Pines Police Department incident report. The victim was "clearly weak and dazed," able to "blink and breathe regularly but at no point was able to vocally respond or show signs of a response," the report said. The troubling incident started when a 5-year-old boy had to be removed from class for “throwing things around” and “flipping the chairs,” police said. The youngster was taken to an empty “cool down” room, where the attack on the teacher allegedly took place, police said. The teacher was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and has since been released, officials said. While the young suspect is still being investigated for possible "aggravated assault with hands, fist and feet," it's unlikely he'll be criminally prosecuted, a police spokesman told NBC News on Monday. Prosecutors would be hard pressed to show that this 5-year-old had the ability distinguish right from wrong, the police representative said. The victim, in her late 30s or early 40s, is about 5-foot-4 with a slender frame, Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco told NBC News on Monday. She suffered a concussion and other injuries after the "enraged" special education student, between 50 and 60 pounds, unleashed on the teacher, according to the union chief. The instructor had been leading an "exceptional student education" class with a "group of children with some type of special needs or special disability, with all kinds of different diagnoses," according to Fusco. "The way he pounced on her and the way she fell backwards and smacked her head, it was a severe concussion," Fusco said. "She's got some other bodily injuries from him jumping on her, attacking her, kicking, punching, biting that's going to lead to surgery." Broward County Public Schools officials referred all questions to police. The district, though, did share a message that Principal Susan Sasse sent to parents and staff, acknowledging there had been "an incident that occurred in school" which required "a staff member to be transported to a local medical facility" on Wednesday. "At all times during the incident, our campus was secured," Sasse reported. "As always, the health, safety and well being of our students and staff continues to be my highest priority." The school has nearly 800 students, who range in age from pre-kindergarten through the fifth grade. | |
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| 03-08-22 04:18pm - 926 days | #25 | |
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The GOP is the one true party that will defend America from traitors. Vote GOP, and vote for Trump: he will put Putin in his place. ----- ----- HuffPost Michigan GOP Candidate Tells Daughters 'If Rape Is Inevitable, Lie Back And Enjoy It' Sebastian Murdock Tue, March 8, 2022, 11:07 AM A GOP candidate running for Michigan’s House of Representatives said during a Facebook Live broadcast that he tells his daughters to “lie back and enjoy” rape if it’s “inevitable.” Robert “RJ” Regan, who won the GOP special primary in the state’s 74th district last week, was discussing how to decertify the 2020 presidential election during a Facebook Live broadcast for the Republican group Rescue Michigan Coalition on Sunday when he made the comment. “Having three daughters, I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it,’” Regan said roughly 10 minutes into the broadcast. “That’s not how we roll, that’s not how we won this election.” “That was a shameful comment,” attendee Amber Harris said in response. Host Adam de Angeli then joked that the show might not stream “for much longer after what Robert said.” De Angeli also defended Regan later on the same broadcast, telling a commenter that Regan was describing what “you should not do.” Regan did not respond to multiple requests for comment from HuffPost. Regan, who won his primary by just 81 votes, lost that same race in 2020 after a viral tweet from his own daughter told people not to vote for her dad, Fox 17 noted. “If you’re in michigan and 18+ pls for the love of god do not vote for my dad for state rep. tell everyone,” Stephanie Regan tweeted at the time. During Sunday’s Facebook Live event, Regan also defended Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces are currently invading Ukraine. “Putin said, ‘I have to protect my country, I have to protect my children, and I can’t count on the United States,’” Regan said. “So what he did was took some proactive action, he went into Ukraine, knocked out the bio labs, knocked out the missile sites, so he can protect his people,” the candidate added, likely referring to a QAnon conspiracy theory about bioweapons. That’s not what Putin did. Instead, he launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, where Russian forces have bombed civilians and have been attempting to capture the country’s capital city, Kyiv. Republican Tori Sachs of the Michigan Freedom Fund condemned Regan in a statement to Fox 17. “RJ Regan’s disgusting and dehumanizing comments on the horror of sexual assault along with his support of murderous dictator Vladimir Putin are despicable and completely disqualify him from holding public office,” Sachs said. “I teach my four young daughters to stand up for themselves, to know their worth, and to fight back and speak out against creeps like Regan. RJ Regan doesn’t belong anywhere near the state Capitol, and that is why we endorsed and supported his opponent.” Regan will now face Carol Glanville, a Democrat, in the special election for the seat on May 3. This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. | |
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