After Russians bombed a maternity and children’s hospital in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol the day before, Lavrov rejected what he categorized as the "shouting" over the "so-called atrocities," repeating Russian claims without evidence that the hospital was captured by Ukrainian far-right "ultra-radicals." He also dismissed concerns about civilian casualties as "pathetic shrieks" from Russia’s enemies. In response, Kuleba asserted that the leadership in Moscow "live in their own reality."
"Unfortunately, I can confirm that the Russian leadership, including Minister Lavrov, live in their own reality," Kuleba told CNBC on Thursday. "In our talks, behind closed doors and in the absence of the media, he told me looking in my eyes that the pictures of pregnant women being taken from under the rubble of the maternity house are fake, that they hit the maternity house as a military target because the Russian military was absolutely sure that it was under the control of Ukrainian army."
So for sake of argument, let's assume that the Russian diplomat believes this to be true, and that he is arguing from a place of honesty. What evidence would he have that such is true? We have pictures of a dead Ukrainian woman and another child and reports of 17 people being injured. Would it be possible that there were military people there and that the Ukrainians just covered up their existence? If so, then uniformed soldiers using a hospital as cover would be a violation of the geneva convention.
But we have no pictures of any Ukrainian soldiers there. We don't know where or how the Russians are getting their intel. Was the shopping mall a military base? All of the houses in question all harboring military? How could they possibly know?
But herein lies much of the problem with urban fighting. The risk of civilian collateral damage is massive and pretty much inevitable. This puts Ukraine between a rock and a hard place. They cannot just expose their troops out in the open to avoid being around civilians, but if they remain in these cities their citizens are in danger. There only hope of victory here includes a lot of collateral damage. As we know, Putin and the Russian Army is not afraid to kill a few innocent Ukrainians in their quest.
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Sen. Marco Rubio: Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."
Good times, Dr. Fauci
Sending US tax dollars to these bio weapons labs like he did in Wuhan.
The list of ways Republicans have worked to undermine Ukraine
Sarah K. Burris
March 10, 2022
Ukraine is being forced to dig mass graves after the brutality they're facing from Russia. Wednesday, a children's hospital and maternity center was bombed. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed it was a "military target."
Meanwhile, back in the United States, Republicans are clamoring to figure out how to blame everything on Joe Biden while justifying their cornucopia of positions. It only adds to the timeline of anti-Ukraine actions the GOP made over the past several years that they've turned to support Putin.
Jan. and Feb. 2022
In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Republicans were asking why they should care and serve as American apologists for Putin.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke out in early Feb. demanding President Joe Biden not send more troops into Europe and said that Ukraine needs to stay the away from NATO.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) asked why the US should be "footing the bill for Ukraine."
J.D. Vance, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy” and candidate for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, has spent multiple episodes with Steve Bannon complaining about Ukraine and saying he "doesn't really care about what happens." Instead, he doesn't understand why there isn't a greater focus on the US-Mexico border.
Former President Donald Trump was promoting Putin's actions, saying that his invasion was "savvy" and he is a "genius."
Avlon: GOP distrusting Russia was a constant. All that changed with Trumpwww.youtube.com
In a previous statement, Trump claimed: "This would not have happened during my administration. It wouldn't have taken place and it wouldn't have taken place right now."
Speeches at CPAC made it even more evident that Republicans were more interested in bashing Biden than helping Ukraine.
Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House, has tried to find a way to blame Biden for Putin's behavior. This became another narrative for the GOP. Somehow if Donald Trump was president, this would never have happened.
"After just one year of a weak, feckless, and unfit President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief, the world is less safe," Stefanik said of Biden. "Rather than peace through strength, we are witnessing Joe Biden's foreign policy of war through weakness. For the past year, our adversaries around the world have been assessing and measuring Joe Biden's leadership on the world stage, and he has abysmally failed on every metric. From kinetic and deadly attacks on our allies and partners, to the catastrophic withdrawal and surrender in Afghanistan, to the cyber attacks impeding American industry and infrastructure, to today's Russian invasion of Ukraine, Joe Biden and his Administration have failed America and the world.
You are propagandists for Russia Russia
So for sake of argument, let's assume that the Russian diplomat believes this to be true, and that he is arguing from a place of honesty.
Bidenomics closing in on Jimmy Carter.
7.9 % inflation , that data is prior to the recent oil price spike.
Oil transfer shipping fees have sky rocketed, it is a dirty way to move oil from other nations.
The cleaner was is domestic production.
Lie šYou are propagandists for Russia Russiaš
Hunter is having a cash flow problem as Ukrainian money is halted.
On the diplomatic front. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Poland, where she repeated U.S. pledges to “defend every inch of NATO territory,” while sidestepping questions about Poland’s offer, rejected by the Pentagon, to hand fighter jets over to the United States to transfer to Ukraine.
But where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns
Don't bother
They're here.
Harris failed to keep the peace.
Now she will not gain the peace.
Why not own Biden's decision?
"while sidestepping questions about Poland’s offer".
Bodies were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine.Credit...Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press
It's on The New York Times. Ugly thing
Biden Hansen over A million Acres in 2021 to newly minted Black only Farmers and 10's of Billions of seed money.
2022 they will be pumping up Ag products, from wheat to meats.
I clearly care more about Ukraine then all three of the Social Stooges of CHT.
,❤
If the jets had been sent to Ukraine from an American airport the Russian government may have called it an act of war. ..
We don't want a European war
Zelenskyy is a hero. But some Republicans are fucking stupid
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) told supporters he thought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a “thug,” WRAL reports.
Said Cawthorn:”Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug. Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
Excuses of inaction.
Biden leads NATO,
Biden and Buttigeg want you to buy GM EV's.
GM Delivered 26 of them in 4th quarter of 2021.
Vice President Harris said Thursday the United States is “absolutely prepared” to help Poland with the “virtually unprecedented” number of Ukrainian refugees the country has received in the last two weeks, after Polish President Andrzej Duda warned that a refugee disaster could be imminent without financial and material aid.
Poland has already taken in 1.5 million refugees since Russia invaded Ukraine, and many of them are staying with Polish families — “a reason to be proud,” Duda said after a meeting with Harris in Warsaw. Harris praised the generosity and courage of those in Poland who are taking in strangers.
“We recognize that, and we recognize the burden that it places on the government of Poland, on the president and the infrastructure of this country,” Harris said. “So the United States is absolutely prepared to do what we can and what we must to support Poland in terms of the burden that they have taken on.”
Harris said the United States is exploring ways to support Ukrainian refugees who want to come to the country, but she also noted that large parts of the population fleeing Ukraine have wanted to remain in Europe so far. She noted that the United States has authorized temporary protected status for Ukrainians who arrived before March 1.
Harris also announced Thursday the United States would donate $50 million to the United Nations World Food Program.
“Through our work collectively in the U.N., through NATO, we will support Poland in terms of the burden it is facing and our collective responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of these refugees,” Harris said.
Nice side steep.
She failed to secure the US Border
She failed to keep the peace
Her promises are meaningless.
Sounds like F Daddy and others think Russia is correct to claim Ukraine has bio labs that Russia should attack.
Has your son Char-lee registered for the US Draft?
James did your boys sign up?
He just spoke about it publicly
Ukraine's Zelensky: Russian allegations over hospital are 'lies'
DPA
March 10, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference at St. Mary's Palace. Kay Nietfeld/dpa
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Russian allegations that ultra-radical fighters had been stationed at a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
The hospital in the Ukrainian port city was bombed on Wednesday, probably from the air, with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying on Thursday that there were no medical personnel present and instead it was a camp for radicals.
"Russians were lied to [on TV] about the fact that there were allegedly no patients in the hospital and no women and children in the maternity hospital," Zelensky said in a video message. It was all "lies," he added, saying three civilians were killed and 17 injured in a Russian attack on the facility.
The "propagandists" on Russian television would be held accountable, he added, as he also accused Russia of hindering attempts to set up humanitarian corridors from Mariupol.
"Russian troops have already created a humanitarian disaster in Ukraine," he said.
The border is not important now
Stick to the facts Pedo.
She works for the US Gov't.
Sen. Marco Rubio: Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."
Meanwhile, here is the latest released video of Karolina Protensko, Ukrainian violinist now performing in the streets of Santa Monica.
She is becoming an even bigger beacon of hope because of her origin, and her Russian mother and Ukrainian father.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHEF4DyPqw
Democrats are once again trying to clean up their own mess by pushing a "narrative" that somehow Republicans are "pro-Russia" and not sympathetic enough to the Ukrainians.
Funny how whenever they fail, instead of tying to fix anything they immediately go to the blame game.
What does a fucktard say.
"The border is not important now"
US borders always Matter, it is literally one of the things that defines a Nation.
Biden Beg back better plan has failed.
Biden partnership with Putin in a IRAN Nuke Deal for Oil.
Maybe F Daddy would like to
tell us what he thinks about
those bio labs in Ukraine.
Stick to the facts Pedo.
She works for the US Gov't.
Sen. Marco Rubio: Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."
Maybe F Daddy would like to
tell us what he thinks about
those bio labs in Ukraine.
Biden admits a strange thing.
""Can’t do much right now. Russia is responsible," Biden
So Putin can raise and lower US Oil prices but Biden can't.
Kputz is a fucking joke
The primary reason for rising gas prices over the past year is the coronavirus pandemic and its disruptions to global supply and demand.
“COVID changed the game, not President Biden,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, which tracks gasoline prices. “U.S. oil production fell in the last eight months of President Trump’s tenure. Is that his fault? No.
“The pandemic brought us to our knees,” De Haan added.
In the early months of 2020, when the virus took hold, demand for oil dried up and prices plummeted, with the benchmark price for crude oil in the United States falling to negative $37.63 that April. In response, producers in the United States and around the world began decreasing output.
As pandemic restrictions loosened worldwide and economies recovered, demand outpaced supply. That was “mostly attributable” to the decision by OPEC Plus, an alliance of oil-producing countries that controls about half the world’s supply, to limit increases in production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Domestic production also remains below pre-pandemic levels, as capital spending declined and investors remained reluctant to provide financing to the oil industry.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has only compounded the issues.
“When you throw a war on top of this, this is possibly the worst escalation you can have of this,” said Abhiram Rajendran, head of oil market research at Energy Intelligence, an energy information company. “You’re literally pouring gasoline on general inflationary pressure.”
Kputz is a fucking joke
These factors are largely out of Biden’s control, experts agreed, although they said he had not exactly sent positive signals to the oil and gas industry and its investors by vowing to reduce emissions and fossil fuel reliance.
De Haan said the Biden administration was “clearly less friendly” to the industry, which may have indirectly affected investor attitudes. But overall, he said, that stance has played a “very, very small role pushing gas prices up.”
Rajendran said the Biden administration had emphasized climate change issues while paying lip service to energy security.
“There has been a pretty stark miscalculation of the amount of supply we would need to keep energy prices at affordable levels,” he said. “It was taken for granted. There was too much focus on the energy transition.”
But presidents, Rajendran said, “have very little impact on short-term supply.”
“The key relationship to watch is between companies and investors,” he said.
It is true that the Biden administration is in talks with Venezuela and Iran over their oil supplies. But the administration is also urging U.S. companies to ramp up production — to the dismay of climate change activists and contrary to Republican lawmakers’ suggestions that the White House is intent on handcuffing domestic producers.
Speaking before the National Petroleum Council in December, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told oil companies to “please take advantage of the leases that you have, hire workers, get your rig count up.”
The notion that the United States gained “energy independence” under President Donald Trump, and reversed course under Biden, is also misleading.
Even before Trump took office, the United States had been projected to become a net energy exporter in the 2020s “because favorable geology and technological developments result in the production of oil and natural gas at lower costs,” according to the Energy Information Administration.
The country became a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, the first time since at least 1949. That remained the case in 2021. It became a net exporter of natural gas in 2018 and remains so today, with exports reaching record levels in 2021.
The term “energy independence” can also suggest that the United States did not rely at all on imports. That, too, is untrue. In 2020, the United States still imported 7.9 million barrels of crude oil and other petroleum products a day.
Moreover, the specific policies cited by Republican lawmakers as evidence of Biden’s supposed “war on American energy” have had little effect on rising gas prices.
The Keystone XL pipeline, which would have expanded an existing system transporting oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, has been a political and environmental battleground since its conception in 2008. The Obama administration denied the company behind it, TransCanada, a construction permit in 2015. The Trump administration approved the permit in 2017, but the project stalled in the face of litigation. By the time Biden rescinded its permit on his first day in office, 8% of it had been built.
Even if Biden had greenlighted the project and TransCanada, now known as TC Energy, had won its court battles, it is unlikely that the pipeline would have been operational today given that the company estimated in March 2020 that it would have entered into service in 2023. And “even if it were completed overnight, there’s no capacity for oil to be put into this pipeline,” De Haan said, pointing to supply chain issues and labor shortages that continue to affect U.S. and Canadian oil and gas producers.
Absent the Keystone XL pipeline, crude oil imports from Canada have nonetheless increased by 70% since 2008, transported by other pipelines and rail. The Trump administration told PolitiFact in 2017 that the pipeline’s effect on prices at the pump “would be minimal.”
NYT
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/we-watch-the-news-and-were-crying
The author was born in Russia
Biden admits a strange thing.
""Can’t do much right now. Russia is responsible," Biden
So Putin can raise and lower US Oil prices but Biden can't.
Scott a Ukraine Ukrainian soldier killed Russians
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-commander-tank-convoy-ambush-drone-footage-ukraine-war-1686750?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=manual-b
Biden Beg back better plan has failed Americans.
He goes on to credit Putin for moving the Price Of Oil.
Yet, Biden leads the #1 economy in the World.
Seems to me The Greats Nation on Earth can do something about it.
Madison Cawthorn Calls Zelensky a ‘Thug’
11:57 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (REPUBLICAN-NC) told supporters he thought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a “thug,” WRAL reports.
Said Cawthorn:
"Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug.
Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt
and is incredibly evil
and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
_________
Taegan Goddard comments:
"Cawthorn is not the sharpest Member of Congress, but this is still shocking."
Anonymous Hacks Russian Federal Agency
12:33 pm EST
“The Ukrainian Anonymous hacker group has hacked into Roskomnadzor, the Russian federal agency responsible for monitoring and censoring media, and released 360,000 files,”
the Jerusalem Post reports.
“Among the censored documents released by Anonymous, some of which are dated as late as March 5, are ones that show Moscow censored anything that referred to the war as a Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Americans are united in advocating for more severe action toward Russia moving forward. Almost three quarters (74%) of Americans believe the U.S. has not acted severely enough in response to the Russian invasion.
President Biden has warned Americans there will be a price to pay for opposing Putin.
But you are following Trump when it comes to Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine.
TLS
Poor overmatched Joe.
Biden admits a strange thing.
""Can’t do much right now. Russia is responsible," Biden
So Putin can raise and lower US Oil prices but Biden can't.
The country became a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, the first time since at least 1949. That remained the case in 2021. It became a net exporter of natural gas in 2018 and remains so today, with exports reaching record levels in 2021.
The country became a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, the first time since at least 1949. That remained the case in 2021. It became a net exporter of natural gas in 2018 and remains so today, with exports reaching record levels in 2021.
The country became a net exporter of petroleum in 2020, the first time since at least 1949. That remained the case in 2021. It became a net exporter of natural gas in 2018 and remains so today, with exports reaching record levels in 2021.
Florida Limits Teaching About Race and Identity
11:52 am EST
“The Florida Senate approved legislation on Thursday that limits how workplaces and schools teach about race and identity,”
the Washington Post reports.
“The measure prohibits trainings that cause someone to feel guilty or ashamed about the past collective actions of their race or sex, and its passage clears the way for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to sign one of his top legislative priorities into law.”
_________
I AM OPPOSED TO CRITICAL RACE THEORY.
I DON'T WANT TEACHERS TO BE CRITICAL OF RACE.
I AM IN FAVOR OF CRITICAL RACISM THEORY.
I WANT TEACHERS TO BE CRITICAL OF RACISM.
Roger takes another Set back.
Having been decline Credit to buy a home.
Now has to deal with not getting to buy his Audi A8.
"Fast Lane Inflation: Used Cars Up 41.2%, New Cars Up 12.4%"
Let's Go Brandon.
These factors are largely out of Biden’s control, experts agreed, although they said he had not exactly sent positive signals to the oil and gas industry and its investors by vowing to reduce emissions and fossil fuel reliance.
The "experts" huh?
Because I have read a ton of informed, educated, and experienced people in the Finance world who would argue differently. But of course those experts "agree" as well, with each other. But not with those who disagree.
Clear as mud. Funny thing. The "genius" doesn't even bother to figure out who the experts actually are? Just reads something on the internet and Doh! It's gotta be true man!
Americans are united in advocating for more severe action toward Russia moving forward. Almost three quarters (74%) of Americans believe the U.S. has not acted severely enough in response to the Russian invasion.
You do realize that Republicans are MORE LIKELY than Democrats to say that Biden has been too soft, right?
How can it be that Republicans want "more" action against Russia, but are also "pro-Russia"?
Hmmmm.... care to explain that Genius?
“The Florida Senate approved legislation on Thursday that limits how workplaces and schools teach about race and identity,”
Do you even know what the bill does, Reverend?
It simply bans the teaching of sex education, including sexual orientation, and other things to children in grades Kindergarten through third grade. We are talking about children between the ages of four and eight. Sorry, but a child who is several years away from Puberty does not need to have teachers talking to them about sex, sexual reproduction, or sexual orientation.
Whatever questions children do have at that age can be answered by family members or other trusted caregivers. Not teachers. Hell, I don't believe we has Sex Education till Middle School when I was growing up.
Quote of the Day
12:51 pm EST
“We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn’t attack Ukraine in the first place.”
— Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, quoted by the Daily Beast.
IF HE CAN LIE LIKE THAT, WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAYS THEY ARE NOT PLANNING TO ATTACK OTHER COUNTRIES?
Well, Ch, maybe you can explain how limiting teaching about "race and identity" becomes limiting teaching about "sex education."
And there is a second bill that:
that would prohibit Florida's public schools and private businesses from making people feel "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin received first approval Tuesday by the state's Senate Education Committee.
So a bill protecting all people from being attacked about their race, sex, or national origin... and oh boy the left is besides themselves?
by the way that bill passed with 61% in the Senate and 62% in the House.
But surprised it was not 100%
IF HE CAN LIE LIKE THAT, WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAYS THEY ARE NOT PLANNING TO ATTACK OTHER COUNTRIES?
I didn't say I believed him, Reverend.
I threw out the hypothetical that even if this Russian guy bought into their own line of bullshit that I would question where they are getting their information from?
but then again... half our country fell for the Trump is conspiring with Putin propaganda that was just as big of a lie.
in fact... pretty sure you fell for it?
So propaganda does work, doesn't it Reverend?
If you are aware of racism you are woke, a victim of Democratic propaganda.
this anti-woke posture gives conservative activists and Republican officials a way to excuse extreme behavior in the past and potentially rationalize such behavior in the future. Republicans are trying to recast the removal of Trump’s accounts from Facebook and Twitter as a narrative of liberal tech companies silencing a prominent conservative, instead of those platforms punishing Trump for using them to incite violence and encourage overturning the election results. If Republicans suppress Democratic votes or try to overturn election results in future elections, as seems entirely possible, the party is likely to justify that behavior in part by suggesting the Democrats are just too extreme and woke to be allowed to control the government. The argument would be that Democrats would eliminate police departments and allow crime to surge if they have more power, so they must be stopped at all costs. Polls suggest a huge bloc of GOP voters is already open to such apocalyptic rhetoric.
“The term woke has rapidly come to encompass everything and anything conservatives don’t like – anything and anyone they want to discredit,” said Zimmer.
For example, here’s the text from a recent fundraising email from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia:
When I see the bills we’re voting on, I don’t understand why more “Conservative” Republicans do NOT join me:
– Cancelling Religious Freedom through the so-called “Equality” Act.
– Cancelling Election Security in HR1,
– Cancelling Gender,
– Cancelling our Sovereignty,
– Cancelling our 2nd Amendment Rights, and
– Defunding the Police.”
Most of what I described above is basically how this focus on the woke and cancel culture helps unify GOP elites with one another and to the party’s core voters. But there’s a fifth value to this approach: It could help the GOP win over some swing voters and/or people who usually don’t vote.
Woke means learning about others so that you can treat people with the respect and dignity that they deserve no matter their religion, race, creed, or color.
It scares Republicans because if they have woke up to racism and gay marriage, and religious beliefs that are guaranteed by the first time rights, they vote for Democrats.
That's why Florida has passed it.
Being aware of racism and religious discrimination, they vote for Democrats.
If you wake up feel and "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin in our history, you vote for Democrats because they want the nation to move forward, not MAGA and go back to Jim Crow laws, they are passing legislation in most states.
Scott, do you believe
Russia claims pictures of pregnant women are propaganda and that the hospital was really a Ukrainian Army base?
James, he will not answer the question.
I believe him
Ukraine's Zelensky: Russian allegations over hospital are 'lies'
DPA
March 10, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference at St. Mary's Palace. Kay Nietfeld/dpa
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Russian allegations that ultra-radical fighters had been stationed at a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
The hospital in the Ukrainian port city was bombed on Wednesday, probably from the air, with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying on Thursday that there were no medical personnel present and instead it was a camp for radicals.
"Russians were lied to [on TV] about the fact that there were allegedly no patients in the hospital and no women and children in the maternity hospital," Zelensky said in a video message. It was all "lies," he added, saying three civilians were killed and 17 injured in a Russian attack on the facility.
The "propagandists" on Russian television would be held accountable, he added, as he also accused Russia of hindering attempts to set up humanitarian corridors from Mariupol.
"Russian troops have already created a humanitarian disaster in Ukraine," he said.
What a great day.
Big snow, wife and I went 4 wheeling on or his and hers arm's.
Great fun and the snow is still falling big fluffy flakes.
Predicted to get a total of 8 inches with this system.
Our wood furnace has our home so warm.
We both do our part to collect , cut,split, stack and burn it.
Currently we are 4 years ahead of pur yearly need for heat. Not relying on propane.
Jan 21st, 2020 Joe inherited $2.00 a gallon , Today it is 2.79 a gallon. šJoe did that.
Even his own propaganda is not supporters
Putin propagandists start to panic -- and some call for him to end 'special military operation': report
Brad Reed
March 10, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is not getting the uniform backing on state media networks that greeted the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
The Daily Beast's Julia Davis reports that the crippling economic sanctions are causing some second thoughts even among television personalities who normally give the government their full backing.
Davis reports that state TV pundit Karen Shakhnazarov, for instance, called out the miscalculations that the Russian government made when it decided to pull the trigger on invading its neighboring country.
"I don’t see the probability of denazification of such an enormous country," said Shakhnazarov. "We would need to bring in 1.5 million soldiers to control all of it. At the same time, I don’t see any political power that would consolidate the Ukrainian society in a pro-Russian direction... Those who talked of their mass attraction to Russia obviously didn’t see things the way they are."
IN OTHER NEWS: 'Birds flying everywhere!' Convoy trucker bitterly complains about Beltway drivers giving him the middle finger
In fact, the pundit even went so far as to call for an end to the "special military operation" in Ukraine.
"The most important thing in this scenario is to stop our military action," he said. "Others will say that sanctions will remain. Yes, they will remain, but in my opinion discontinuing the active phase of a military operation is very important."
Semyon Bagdasarov, a Russian Middle East expert, shared Shakhnazarov's gloomy assessment, writes Davis.
"Do we need to get into another Afghanistan, but even worse?" he asked. "There are more people and they’re more advanced in their handling of weapons. We don’t need that. Enough already... As for the sanctions, the world has never seen such massive sanctions."
Kputz and rrb are thrilled by this
A group of Republicans are still trying to stop aid to Ukraine
Sarah K. Burris
March 10, 2022
After watching the aftermath of bombs falling on a children's hospital, one would assume that any partisan squabble would have come to an end in Washington. According to one Daily Beast report, there's no such luck.
A small group of Republican lawmakers attempted to tie any Ukraine funding passed by Congress to military action on the U.S.-Mexico border. So, while some are squabbling over the continuing budget resolution adding to the deficit, others want to spend ever more on performative action over immigration. It's just another in a long line of Republicans on the wrong side of the issue.
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) is one of the first cosponsors. He explained that even though funding to help Ukraine is incredibly important, he wants military action at the border.
“I do support aid for Ukraine. However, I support this,” Good said, according to the Beast. He went on to claim that President Joe Biden should handle the southern border before even thinking about Ukraine.
“The answer is, we should secure our border,” Good said.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), a recent speaker to a group of white supremacists who cheered Vladimir Putin, echoed the demand for Ukraine to take care of itself while Washington deals with the border.
“I remain firmly convinced that our open southern border… is the greatest threat to our prosperity and security,” Gosar said. “As heartbreaking as it is, Ukrainian borders are not vital to our nation.”
Our country police department are heroes
Police are sending unused body armor and equipment to help Ukraine fighters
Sarah K. Burris
March 10, 2022
A 2020 Marketplace report detailed how police departments were able to stock up on billions of dollars in combat gear and military weapons like grenade launchers and armored vehicles. The Department of Defense program labeled 1033 has spent "$7 billion worth of excess military equipment to more than 8,000 local law enforcement agencies across the country," said the oversight office monitoring the program.
The good news is that those police departments are now sending that equipment to help Ukraine, Vice reported Thursday.
Departments learned they didn't need tanks and grenade launchers for traffic stops and their equipment could seem excessive for the suburbs. The entire Ukraine defense budget is actually smaller than that of the NYPD.
So, body armor, ballistic helmets, vests and other items are heading to Ukraine as everyday citizens suit up for war.
"State law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Vermont both announced Wednesday that they were donating defensive equipment to Ukraine," said Vice. Vermont and Colorado are among those stepping up to help.
Local KARE9 reported that the Colorado Department of Public Safety will donate more than 80 sets of body armor and 750 helmets. They're also asking for any donations that additional departments may want to make.
“This is equipment that we are no longer able to use because it is beyond life cycle, or in some cases it may have been replaced or upgraded by some equipment that maybe better fits our needs or is safer,” said Colorado DPS spokesperson Patricia Billinger.
Falls Township Police Department in Pennsylvania is sending 52 ballistic vests, which includes 15 “military-grade” vests that can stop rifle bullets. They've also expired their warranty, however.
“We took 45 vests from the back [of the department’s evidence facility],” said chief Nelson E. Whitney II. “I looked through my basement, and I found a couple I had from over the years, and other officers did the same.”
They're also sending some boots, medical supplies, personal hygiene products, and animal food for those on the ground.
One of the department's officers is married to a woman from Ukraine and still has family there. They've been able to coordinate with the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in nearby Jenkintown.
Yonkers, New York, is donating 40 ballistic vests and 50 tactical helmets. Their police commissioner called the war an "unbelievable tragedy upon the Ukraine people." He said that his force "stands united with them."
Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman said they were sending more than 340 expired ballistics helmets that would typically be thrown out.
According to the social media post, Hoffman said a third-party vendor is working to “supply more than 50,000 helmets and law enforcement supplies in the coming weeks.”
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Ballot Bombshells: 20 episodes exposing fraud, illegalities and irregularities in 2020 election
Illegal rule changes, ballot harvesting, Iranian voter hack are among the many now-confirmed serious irregularities, putting the lie to the "perfect election" narrative.
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By John Solomon
Updated: March 10, 2022 - 1:22pm
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After the 2020 election ended with Joe Biden declared the winner, the federal cybersecurity agency declared it was a perfectly secure vote. Months later, federal prosecutors admitted two Iranian nationals hacked into a state’s database and stole the identities of 100,000 voters in an effort to influence the election.
Likewise, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers declared it was “outrageous” to think his state’s 2020 election needed to be investigated. Now, two separate courts have concluded that state election regulators illegally changed rules, allowing tens of thousands to cast ballots in an unlawful manner.
And that probe Evers so stubbornly resisted just provided evidence of fraudulent vote-collecting operations that exploited vulnerable residents in nursing homes.
Georgia’s elections chief similarly expresses confidence to this day in his state’s declaration that Joe Biden won in 2020, but he now admits the state’s largest county ran a vote counting operation so dysfunctional that the state may take over the county. He also has launched a probe into potential illegal harvesting of ballots that he says may result in prosecutions.
And Arizona, one of the first states to move to no-excuse mail-in voting years ago, has now begun an urgent effort to return to traditional in-person voting with paper ballots after investigations called into question more than 50,000 ballots cast in November 2020 and tens of thousands more verification signatures.
For more than a year, Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have decried what they call the “Big Lie” that America’s 2020 election was flawed or stolen. But almost weekly now, revelations are emerging that the election was, in fact, marred by illegalities, irregularities and mismanagement like former President Donald Trump has argued, leaving a nation increasingly doubting the reliability of its election system.
A recent poll found that 40% of Americans no longer believe in the legitimacy of the winner of either of the last two presidential elections, a stunning number for a country globally held as the gold standard for constitutional republics built on democracy.
"We have a lot of work to do," former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell told Just the News on Wednesday. "And so I never sugarcoat this, because there's substantial voter dissatisfaction with the the lack of security of our ballots. And they are very concerned that folks who are voting are folks who are not eligible to vote. And so you can't have a system where illegal ballots negate the casting of legal ballots."
The 2020 election results almost certainly won’t be reversed, no matter how widespread the calls for decertification grow. But the opportunity to take the many failures of the last election seriously to improve Americans’ confidence in voting in the 2022 and 2024 elections looms large, experts told Just the News.
"We need to make sure our voting rolls are clean," Wisconsin State Rep. Janel Brandtjen told Just the News. She oversees the Assembly committee on election integrity and blasted Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for vetoing legislation designed to fix many problems identified in the Dairy State.
"At this point, there is no downside to cheating in Wisconsin, when you have a governor that's shutting down a lot of the things that we've thought in the past as Republicans and Democrats that would make a fair and transparent election," she added.
Here are 20 of the most important revelations uncovered by Just the News over the last 15 months of reporting, complete with substantiating evidence and links"
A Foreign Intrusion. Federal authorities have confirmed that two Iranian nationals successfully hacked into a state computer election system, stole 100,000 voter registrations and used the data to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election in one of the largest foreign intrusions in U.S. election history. The defendants "were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. presidential election," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams declared in an indictment.Alleged Bribery. The former state Supreme Court justice appointed by the Wisconsin Legislature to investigate the 2020 election concluded that millions of dollars in donations to election administrators in five Democrat-heavy municipalities from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life violated state anti-bribery laws and corrupted election practices by turning public election authorities into liberal get-out-the-vote activists. “The Zuckerberg-funded CTCL/ Zuckerberg 5 scheme would prove to be an effective way to accomplish the partisan effort to 'turnout' their desired voters and it was done with the active support of the very people and the governmental institution (WEC) that were supposed to be guarding the Wisconsin elections administrative process from the partisan activities they facilitated,” Justice Michael Gableman wrote.Illegal ballot harvesting in Wisconsin. Gableman also exposed an extensive vote collection operation, known as ballot harvesting, in nursing homes in which third-party activists illegally collected the ballots of vulnerable residents, some of whom lacked the mental or physical capacity to vote or were forbidden from voting by guardianship agreements. State election regulators “unlawfully directed the municipal clerks not to send out the legally required special voting deputies to nursing homes, resulting in many nursing homes’ registered residents voting at 100% rates and many ineligible residents voting, despite a guardianship order or incapacity,” Gableman wrote in his explosive report.Ballot harvesting probe in the Peach State. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has announced he has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that liberal activists engaged in illegal ballot harvesting, collecting ballots from voters and delivering them in violation of state law. Raffensperger said he is planning to issue subpoenas to identify a whistleblower who admitted he engaged in the operation, and there could be prosecutions. The True the Vote election integrity group says in a formal state complaint that the man, identified as John Doe, admitted his role and identified nonprofits who funded it at $10 per ballot delivered. The watchdog group also claims it has assembled cell phone location records pinpointing the alleged harvesting by as many as 240 activists.
Raffensperger says prosecutions may be forthcoming.Unconstitutional mail-in voting. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has concluded the state law that opened the door to no-excuse mail-in voting in 2020 was unconstitutional and that mail-in voting can only be enacted by a constitutional amendment. “A constitutional amendment must be presented to the people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation authorizing no-excuse mail-in voting can be placed upon our statute books,” the court ruled. About 2.5 million voted by mail in Pennsylvania in 2020, votes now called into question by the ruling.More noncitizen voters. The Gableman investigation in Wisconsin also found noncitizens had made it onto the state voters rolls in violation of state law. The Wisconsin Election Commission failed “to record non-citizens in the WisVote voter database, thereby permitting non-citizens to vote, even though Wisconsin law requires citizenship to vote — all in violation of the Help America Vote Act,” the investigator wrote.Ballot chain of custody issues. The Georgia Secretary of State's office has opened an investigation into the handling of drop box ballots last November in one of the state's Democratic strongholds following a media report that there were problems with chain of custody documentation in DeKalb County.Fulton County irregularities. Georgia’s handpicked election monitor for Fulton County, the state’s largest voting district, documented two dozen pages of mismanagement and irregularities during vote counting in Atlanta in November 2020, including double-scanning of ballots, insecure transport of ballots and violations of voter privacy. The revelations prompted the state to take steps to possibly put Fulton County in receivership, empowering state officials to run the elections. Most of Fulton County's election officials have left their jobs.Errant vote counting. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp referred the audited November 2020 election results in Fulton County to the State Election Board after multiple reviews found three dozen significant problems with absentee ballot counting, including duplicate tallies, math errors and transposed data. Kemp’s referral calls into question hundreds of ballots in the official count.Dirty voter rolls. Michigan’s official state auditor has found that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson failed to adhere to state election law by properly updating and reconciling Michigan’s qualified voter roll. This oversight, according to the audit, increased the risk of ineligible voters casting ballots.Illegal exemptions from voter ID. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled as many as 200,000 voters were allowed to illegally skip voter ID for absentee ballots by claiming they were indefinitely confined by COVID when there was no such legal authority to do so. Biden beat Trump by about 20,000 votes in the state.Uneven enforcement of election laws. The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau identified more than 30 problems with the administration of elections in 2020, including unlawful orders and uneven enforcement of the law and urged lawmakers to make sweeping improvements.More illegal harvesting. In Arizona, a half dozen people have already been indicted on charges of illegal harvesting in a probe by Attorney General Mark Brnovich that shows signs of expanding. It comes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Democrats' arguments and concluded Arizona’s ban on harvesting was constitutional.Voter fraud in Michigan. Michigan charged three women in connection with voter fraud schemes, including efforts to cast ballots on behalf of non-consenting nursing home residents.Still more nursing home fraud. In Wisconsin, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling announced his investigators have secured evidence that eight out of 42 residents at a local nursing home had been recorded as casting absentee ballots that their families said was not possible because the residents didn't possess the cognitive ability to vote.
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You have used this nutcase websites
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ballot-bombshells-20-episodes-exposing-fraud-illegalities-andhttps://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ballot-bombshells-20-episodes-exposing-fraud-illegalities-and
Where did the made up , nonsense, bidenshit, transitory inflation go?
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
The list of ways Republicans have worked to undermine Ukraine
This is precisely why I have ZERO fucks to give about Ukraine. All the left wants to do is politicize it and use it as a cudgel to attack the right. The left doesn't care about Ukraine either, or I should say they care as much about the Ukrainians as they care about blacks and the poor here in the US. Not at all. They possess political value and nothing more.
We don't want a European war
Who's "we" alky?
Let them fight and let Europe deal with it. We need to stay the fuck out of it.
Cum-Allah was prattling on about NATO this morning, again, for no logical reason at all.
The border is not important now
Really alky? Ukraine's border is of the utmost importance when it comes to its "sovereignty" according to the whore, but ours is not.
Fuck you.
Oh, and the bombing of the maternity hospital? That received the seal of approval from Planned Parenthood. Late term abortions - Russian style.
Funny how whenever they fail, instead of tying to fix anything they immediately go to the blame game.
Because it's always all they have.
When democrats fail, every response is two-fold -
1) Blame the right.
2) Spray tons of money at the problem so they can say - "See! We did "something"!"
Let's Go Brandon
"American Psychological Association’s annual “Stress in America” poll revealed.
The stress over the past year has piled on, as Americans continued to face coronavirus restrictions, inflation, and global conflicts under Biden’s presidency. The survey found a whopping 87 percent of Americans identifying “rise in prices of every day items due to inflation (e.g. gas prices, energy bills, grocery costs)” as a significant source of stress. "
"Funny how whenever they fail, instead of tying to fix anything they immediately go to the blame game."
Biden said he can't fix the gas prices.
BUT, Putin can make them go higher
Let's Go Brandon
"American Psychological Association’s annual “Stress in America” poll revealed.
The stress over the past year has piled on, as Americans continued to face coronavirus restrictions, inflation, and global conflicts under Biden’s presidency. The survey found a whopping 87 percent of Americans identifying “rise in prices of every day items due to inflation (e.g. gas prices, energy bills, grocery costs)” as a significant source of stress. "
You believe it.
For more than a year, Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have decried what they call the “Big Lie” that America’s 2020 election was flawed or stolen. But almost weekly now, revelations are emerging that the election was, in fact, marred by illegalities, irregularities and mismanagement like former President Donald Trump has argued, leaving a nation increasingly doubting the reliability of its election system.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ballot-bombshells-20-episodes-exposing-fraud-illegalities-and
Roger, try a conventional response.
Not a cut n paste .
Cd.
WTF???
VP: "I am here. Standing here on the northern flank, on the eastern flank, talking about what we have in terms of the eastern flank and our NATO allies, and what is at stake at this very moment, what is at stake this very moment…”
Being reported that Biden personally killed that planes to Poland plan. Is there anything he touches that he won't fuck up?
Why do you two put up all these copy pastes? Seriously, why? Dovyou think it is changing anyone's mind? Is it just to spam every thread? I would like to know.
Biden also getting hammered gor his bullshit Putin price hike on gas. The whole country knows its been rising since Trump left office. This guy is a disaster.
Good questions -
Why are Ukraine borders worth holding and defending nut not our own?
Why is ot ok to turn yo Iran and Venezuela for more oil but not Alaska, Texas or Oklahoma?
Blogger Caliphate4vr said...
WTF???
I forced myself to watch this live. It was fucking horrifying in every sense of the word.
This stupid twat is so far out of her fucking depth, I don't think there are enough negative words in the English language vocabulary to describe just how much she fucking sucks.
And SHE'S in the on-deck circle, ladies and gentlemen.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Why do you two put up all these copy pastes? Seriously, why? Dovyou think it is changing anyone's mind? Is it just to spam every thread? I would like to know.
It's the only way he can "contribute" around here.
Cognitively he's exponentially WORSE than Slow Joe.
The American Thinker hates former Vice President Pence.
By Valerie Greenfeld
"These are perilous times. History teaches that weakness arouses evil." Clearly referring to the Biden administration's multiple foreign policy debacles, former vice president Mike Pence spoke in Jerusalem to a small but influential group of mostly dual American and Israeli citizens.
Ambassador Ron Dermer introduced the former vice president by stating that Mike Pence "loves Israel with his heart, his head, and his soul." As a devout Christian with unbreakable principles, Vice President Pence reiterated: "The success, prosperity and security of Israel is and shall always remain a high priority to the overwhelming majority of American people."
It was the Trump-Pence administration that demonstrated a willingness to stand up to our adversaries and challenge evil around the world. Pence reminded the audience, "It was our administration that took down ISIS in Syria and its leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi without one American casualty." It goes without saying: strong leadership was missing during the terrible tragedy that befell thirteen American patriots who lost their lives under the Biden administration's disastrous departure from Afghanistan.
Decisive action was taken in Syria when the red line was crossed. "We sent not one, but two rounds of cruise missiles into [Bashar] Assad's regime. It was our administration with our friends that took the historic action that eliminated Qaseam Soleimani [head of the Iranian Quds force] off the battlefield," stated Pence to a round of applause.
The Trump-Pence administration used American force to stand up against our enemies and stand with our allies. "This served as a deterrent" to those who would do us harm. "Ours was the only administration in the 21st century where [Vladimir] Putin and the Russians did not attempt to redraw geographic boundaries in Europe by force."
While Russian missiles are raining down on Ukrainian civilians, Pence praised Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's leadership and railed against Putin's despicable, inhumane attacks on schools, hospitals, and senior homes in Ukraine. Pence's belief is and always has been: "There is no room in the party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom."
Weakness arouses evil.
RRB is right.
We saved Europe twice, they can handle this one .
Since they have stood down .
He responds with another long copy paste. Perfect. There's no way he's as intelligent as he claims.
Myballs said...
Why do you two put up all these copy pastes? Seriously, why? Dovyou think it is changing anyone's mind? Is it just to spam every thread? I would like to know. "
Exactly.
Roger , tell us how , Putin and his Economy can change oil prices globally, but , Biden said he can't.
If you wake up feel and "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin in our history, you vote for Democrats because they want the nation to move forward, not MAGA and go back to Jim Crow laws, they are passing legislation in most states.
That is the dumbest thing I have heard for so many reasos.
First, if you are feeling guilty for what happened in the past between people who are no longer alive, then you are NOT moving forward. You are literally looking back.
But hey, if you want to feel guilty Roger for being a white man who hates minorities, then vote Democrats if it makes you happy. They will gladly make you feel more guilty.
rrb thinks the border is more important because beaners are coming here to rape white women...
This is another hero for him.
On Monday, March 7, MacGregor appeared on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" where he weighed in on the madness Russian President Vladamir Putin has caused as he criticized the sanctions being brought against Russia. MacGregor, former U.S. Army colonel and Trump-appointed Putin propagandist with a racist history, described the sanctions as "useless."
He responds with another long copy paste. Perfect. There's no way he's as intelligent as he claims.
This is their lives, geriatrics that can’t leave the facility because Roger doesn’t know the key pad code and James is still hiding under his bed with 8 masks on.
It’s tedious, just scrolling through threads they ruin
First the excuse was
"transitory inflation"
Nov. 2021
""The significant reason why prices are up is because of COVID affecting the supply chain,"
Blamed covid, now switch to....
Blame Putin.
I judge people by their character.
But like I said, if white people who understand our past failures, want to move forward, not MAGA movement again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. baffled you
Yawn, blatter.
Hmmmmm
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that's been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate -- their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
It baffled you Scott
If you wake up feel and "discomfort" or "guilt" based on their race, sex or national origin in our history, you vote for Democrats because they want the nation to move forward
But like I said, if white people who understand our past failures, want to move forward, not MAGA movement again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. baffled you
Well Roger... just because you are a White Person with a busload of failures that you feel guilty for, doesn't mean I have to follow along.
My ancestors came from Scandinavia, were not slave owners, and neither my parents or grandparents were racists. My brother is married to his second non-white woman, I am married to an Asian, and some of my best friends are gay, bi, or non-white.
So excuse me for not feeling "guilty" because some people with the same colored skin as me once owned slaves. There are lots of things that people of different colors have done past and present... and guess what? We used to teach our children not to judge one person by the actions of others who look like them.
You know, like believing all blacks are gang members, or all Asians like math, or whatever. Our Generation was "taught" that was wrong, and I sort of believe that our generation was correct to make that argument.
Those who believe that you should feel guilty for having White skin are morons in my opinion. They are your heros, apparently. But whatever.
Different perspectives is normal
But You probably believe it.
For more than a year, Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have decried what they call the “Big Lie” that America’s 2020 election was flawed or stolen. But almost weekly now, revelations are emerging that the election was, in fact, marred by illegalities, irregularities and mismanagement like former President Donald Trump has argued, leaving a nation increasingly doubting the reliability of its election system.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ballot-bombshells-20-episodes-exposing-fraud-illegalities-and
Different perspectives is normal
Apparently your ancestors were racist fuck heads who beat up black women, huh. Perhaps you cheered it along? Then you should feel really guilty!
But You probably believe it.
Sorry Roger...
You don't? Still believe the "lie" that anyone questioning election integrity was telling "the big lie"?
Funny how easy it is to flock all of the good liberal sheep together with a cute propaganda catch phrase like "big lie". Then, no matter how much evidence that comes up to show them wrong, they continue to fall for it.
Russian collusion!
The Big Lie!
Two weeks to flatten the curve!
all it talks is a talking point and they have old Roger by the nose!
American presidential campaigns aren't supposed to work with foreign governments to dig up dirt on their political opponents. Geneva Convention rules bar diplomats from becoming entangled in their host country’s political affairs, particularly elections. There are also federal laws banning foreign nationals from engaging in operations to influence or interfere with U.S. political and electoral processes. In 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government for that purpose.
But just weeks after Manafort was hired by the Trump campaign, the Ukrainian Embassy appeared to be working with the Clinton campaign to torpedo him and the campaign.
Emails reveal that Chalupa and Shulyar, a top aide to Ambassador Chaly, agreed to meet for coffee on April 7, 2016, at Kafe Leopold, a restaurant near the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington. (Chalupa had paid a visit to the White House just three days earlier.) One of the purposes of the meeting, according to FEC case files, was to discuss Manafort and the danger he allegedly posed. They were joined at the cafĆ© by Telizhenko, who said he was working on a “big story” on Manafort and Trump with the Wall Street Journal.
In a sworn 2019 deposition taken by the FEC, Telizhenko alleged that Chalupa solicited “dirt” on Trump, Manafort, and the Trump campaign during the meeting. Telizhenko also testified that Chalupa told him that her goal was “basically [to] use this information and have a committee hearing under Marcy Kaptur, congresswoman from Ohio, in Congress in September and take him off the elections."
Telizhenko later approached Ambassador Chaly about the DNC representative's overtures and he responded: “Yes. And I know that this is happening. You should work with her."
After speaking with Chaly, Telizhenko claims that he went back to Shulyar who instructed him to help Chalupa. “I went to Oksana and said, ‘Like what are we doing?’” he testified. " And she told me, ‘You have to work with Chalupa. And any information you have, you give it to me, I’ll give it to her, then we’ll pass it on later to anybody else we are coordinating with.’”
Less than a week later, on April 13, Telizhenko met again with White House official Zentos, email records reveal.
Telizhenko said he resigned the next month because of concerns regarding his embassy’s work with Chalupa and the Clinton team.
In her sworn account of the meeting, Chalupa acknowledged discussing Manafort and the “national security problem” he allegedly presented, but denied asking the embassy for help researching him. She allowed that she “could have mentioned the congressional investigation … that I had talked to Marcy Kaptur,” but maintained she couldn't recall trying to enlist the embassy in the effort.
Shulyar, however, clearly recalls that Chalupa sought the embassy’s help warning the public about Manafort – including pitching stories to the press and lobbying Congress, according to a 2020 written statement to the FEC. An “idea floated by Alexandra Chalupa was that we approach a co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus to initiate a congressional hearing on Paul Manafort,” Shulyar said, though she denied the embassy acted on the idea.
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More from the RealClear Investigations BOMBSHELL
While Clinton was at Foggy Bottom from 2009 to 2013, Ukrainians gave more money – at least $10 million, including more than $8 million from Pinchuk – to the Clinton Foundation than any other nationality including Saudi Arabians. Pinchuk's donation was a down payment on an astounding $29 million pledge.
Everything Donks accuse the Rs of doing they were doing
Janet Yellin today completely contradicted Psaki lies on inflation. Much needed.
Rumble
https://twitter.com/rumblevideo/status/1501647278154600452
BREAKING NEWS: YouTube removed @TheOliverStone's documentary, "Ukraine on Fire." We believe the public should decide what it sees, not Google execs. We're proud to announce the producers uploaded the film to Rumble, enabling anyone who wishes to view it
Finished watching this 2014 documentary by Oliver Stone which is now being disappeared here in the US. A good history and perspective of Ukraine in light of what has happened since
I recommend watching and remember is someone from the left done while Obama was president:
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
definitely not what the media is portraying currently
Judge Chides Durham Team for Putting Extraneous ‘Information’ in Court Documents: ‘You Folks Have an Audience of One, and That’s Me’
AARON KELLER AND MARISA SARNOFFMar 10th, 2022, 5:49 pm
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Michael Sussmann and John Durham.
Suggesting that special counsel John Durham may be playing to the press, a federal judge overseeing his case against a Democratic Party-tied lawyer warned prosecutors and defense attorneys to be “mindful” that their filings focus on issues that matter to the court.
“Until we swear a jury in this case, you folks have an audience of one, and that’s me,” U.S. District Judge Christoper Cooper told prosecutors and attorneys for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann at a hearing Thursday.
Tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Durham accused Sussmann of lying about whether he was representing a client when he spoke to the FBI about the Trump Organization’s ties to Alfa Bank. Durham wrote in a recent filing that an attorney linked to Clinton’s campaign “exploited” data from Trump Tower and the Executive Office of the President to impugn Trump. Certain pro-Trump outlets characterized those allegations as “spying,” a claim that Durham never made. The data in question was from the public domain and collected before Trump’s tenure in office.
Judge Cooper nodded to the controversy in court on Thursday.
“I know that lawyers sometimes include things under the guise of educating the judge, I certainly did that when I was in your shoes, and I think that’s fair game. But … your pleadings in this case are under a microscope and may be employed for one reason or another by folks that have nothing to do with the ultimate question in this case. So just be mindful of that as we go forward.”
The warning came after an inquiry as to whether Sussmann agreed to waive the potential conflicts of interest that could arise from a fact that one of Sussmann’s lawyers was working for the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”) at the time that “relevant events that involved the EOP” occurred.
As Law&Crime has previously detailed, Durham last September secured a single-count indictment against Sussmann, a high-profile Perkins Coie cybersecurity lawyer who previously worked for both the Clinton campaign and for the Democratic Party. The indictment accuses Sussmann of allegedly “mak[ing] a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement or representation” before an Executive Branch agency, namely, the General Counsel of the FBI (who at the time was James Baker). Durham claims Sussmann falsely denied to the FBI that he was acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign during an interview about the Trump Organization’s “secret communications channel” with Alfa Bank. The crime alleged is a purported violation of 18 U.S.C. §1001(a)(2). Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
* Oliver Stone is
Durham and Sussmannsparredbefore the Thursday hearing by debating in dueling motionswhether Sussmann liedand, if so, whether the lie was material. But, as Law&Crimealso noted, the core legal issues were for a time overshadowed by insinuations that Durham’s motion supported claims that the campaign of then-candidateDonald Trumphad been spied upon — claims that weredubiously supported by written recordand which Durham’s teamlater wrotehad been “overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted” by “third parties or members of the media.”
The evening before the Thursday hearing, Durham filed a supplemental motion which sought to probe yet another area of alleged conflict of interest. In it, Durham’s team said it had “become aware of” and discussed with defense counsel . . . an additional potential conflict of interest.”
Specifically, the Durham team sought an inquiry into the law firm representing Sussmann in this proceeding, Latham & Watkins LLP, because it “has previously sought, and in some cases received, client work from the current employer (“Employer-1″) of the former FBI General Counsel whom the Government expects to call as a central witness at trial.”
The ex-FBI general counsel, James A. Baker, now works for Twitter, according to multiple reports and his LinkedIn page.
“This client work and related proposals for such work have included one or more matters involving Witness-1, who serves as Deputy General Counsel of Employer-1,” Durham wrote.
After a brief back and forth with Sussmann in which Sussmann agreed to waive any potential conflicts, Cooper said he wasn’t convinced that Durham’s filing, and Sussmann’s subsequent motion to strike, was necessary at all.
“Both sides agreed to the inquiry that the government has requested,” said Cooper, a Barack Obama appointee. “I understand there’s a need for a factual record, but that factual record could have been a consent motion agreed to by both sides, [and we] could have done it in 20 mins in a status conference.”
As to the information that Sussmann said Durham “provocatively—and misleadingly” included, Cooper indicated that he would have little patience for it going forward.
“I don’t know why the information is in there,” Cooper said. “I extend a presumption of good faith to all counsel, particularly government counsel. I don’t ascribe any ill motives … for that and other reasons I’m not going to strike anything from the record.”
“Striking it will not unring the bell,” Cooper added. “It will probably make the bell sound even louder.”
btw "The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit"
Judge Cooper is a very liberal Obama appointed judge in DC
96 percent democrat. Higher than the CNN newsroom
Great illustration of why we don't have a fair justice system anymore
and how democrats literally get away with murder
watch the movie and learn something
https://twitter.com/rlamick/status/1502086311637045248?t=WTWejiVBG_xy0wAF-FJQTw&s=19
LMAO
F Daddy is upset because "Ukraine on Fire" has been removed from Twitter.
I watched large portions of it and found much of it suspicious.
Could the following be why?
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"Ukraine on Fire"
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Ukraine on Fire.jpg
Directed by Igor Lopatonok
Release date
July 18, 2017 (United States)
Language English
Ukraine on Fire is a 2016 documentary film directed by Igor Lopatonok.
It features Oliver Stone, the executive producer, interviewing figures surrounding the 2014 Ukrainian revolution such as Vladimir Putin
and Viktor Yanukovich.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links
Plot
The film describes in detail the formation of Ukrainian nationalism. It talks about events such as
the Cossack Hetmanate,
the Russian Revolution (1917-1921),
the occupation of Ukraine by German-Austrian troops,
the Brest-Litovsk Treaty,
the incorporation of Western Ukraine into the USSR,
Ukrainian collaborationism in World War II,
the Great Patriotic War,
the Volyn massacre,
the events in Babiy Yar,
the 1990s,
the Orange Revolution,
the 2014 Ukrainian revolution,
the referendum on the status of the Crimea,
the confrontation in Odessa,
the war in Donbass,
the crash of MH17
and other events.
Throughout the film, Russian President Vladimir Putin,
former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych
and former Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko,
as well as American journalist Robert Parry
are interviewed,
mostly by Oliver Stone,
about the events of recent Ukrainian history.
Reception
The film did not receive a general theatrical release. It premiered at the Taormina Film Festival in Italy.
On March 8, 2022, the Twitter account of director Lopatonik announced the video had been removed by YouTube from the production company’s channel.
Pavel Shekhtman,
as published by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,
characterized Ukraine on Fire as “undistilled Kremlin propaganda”.
Before F Daddy gets too far along in his adulation of Oliver Stone (who did much of the interviewing in "Ukraine on Fire"), he might want to look at some of the following from Wikipedia regarding Oliver Stone:
U.S. presidential politics:
Stone has suggested a link between 9/11 and the controversies of the 2000 election: "Does anybody make a connection between the 2000 election and the events of September 11th? ... Look for the thirteenth month!"
According to Entertainment Weekly, Stone voted for Barack Obama as President of the United States in both the 2008 and 2012 elections. Stone was quoted as saying at the time: "I voted for Obama because ... I think he's an intelligent individual. I think he responds to difficulties well ... very bright guy ... far better choice yes." In 2012, Stone endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination for President, citing his support for a non-interventionist foreign policy. He said that Paul is "the only one of anybody who's saying anything intelligent about the future of the world." Then later: "I supported Ron Paul in the Republican primary ... but his domestic policy ... made no sense!" In March 2016, Stone wrote on The Huffington Post indicating his support for Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic nomination. In September 2016, Stone said he was voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein for President.
Speaking at the San SebastiƔn film festival, Stone said that many Americans had become disillusioned with Barack Obama's policies, having originally thought he would be "a man of great integrity." He said: "On the contrary, Obama has doubled down on the (George W.) Bush administration policies," and "has created...the most massive global security surveillance state that's ever been seen, way beyond East Germany's Stasi".
In April 2018, Stone attended a press conference at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran, where he likened President Donald Trump to "Beelzebub", the biblical demonic figure.
Although Stone voted for Joe Biden in 2020, he criticized what he perceived to be the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party; Stone argued that the Democrats were not concerned about Russian interference as they had been in 2016. He reflected, "I sense the neoconservatives are jumping around Washington, getting their ammunition ready because they know this man, in the end, will come over to their bidding."
On November 22, 2021, Stone penned an op-ed on The Hollywood Reporter, criticizing both former president Donald Trump and president Joe Biden for not declassifying all records on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Holocaust controversy
In a January 2010 press conference announcing his documentary series on the history of the United States, he said: "Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply. He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect". Just before commenting about Hitler, he mentioned Stalin: "We can't judge people as only 'bad' or 'good.'" In response to Stone's comment about his intention to place Hitler "in context", Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said it "is like placing cancer in context, instead of recognizing cancer for what it really is—a horrible disease."
Interviewed by London's Sunday Times on July 25, 2010, Stone said: "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]". He objected to what he termed "the Jewish domination of the media", appearing to be critical of the coverage of the Holocaust, adding "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has fucked up United States foreign policy for years." The remarks were criticized by Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee which compared his comments negatively to those of Mel Gibson. Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said, "Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about 'Jewish domination of the media' and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence."
Yuli Edelstein, the speaker of Israel's Knesset and the leading Soviet refusenik, described Stone's remarks as what "could be a sequel to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", as well as from Israel's Diaspora Affairs and Public Diplomacy Minister.
A day later, Stone stated:
"In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity—and it was an atrocity."
Two days later, Stone issued a second apology to the ADL, which was accepted. "I believe he now understands the issues and where he was wrong, and this puts an end to the matter," Foxman said.
Ukraine
In December 2014, Stone made statements supporting the Russian government's narrative on Ukraine, portraying the 2014 Ukrainian revolution as a CIA plot. He also refutes the claim that former Ukrainian president (who was overthrown as a result of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution) Viktor Yanukovych, was responsible for the killing of protesters as claimed by the succeeding Ukrainian government. Stone said Yanukovych was the legitimate president who was forced to leave Ukraine by "well-armed, neo-Nazi radicals". He said that in "the tragic aftermath of this coup, the West has maintained the dominant narrative of ’Russia in Crimea’ whereas the true narrative is 'USA in Ukraine’".
The University of Toronto's Stephen Velychenko, the author of several books on Ukrainian history, and James Kirchick of The Daily Beast criticized Stone's comments and plans for a film (Ukraine on Fire, 2016).
Russia
In a June 2017 interview with The Nation to promote his documentary on Vladimir Putin, Stone rejected the consensus findings of the United States’ intelligence agencies that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election. Stone accused the CIA, FBI, and NSA of cooking the intelligence. He said: "The influence on the election from the Russians to me is absurd to the naked eye. Israel has far more influence on American elections through AIPAC. Saudi Arabia has influence through money... Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers have much more influence on American elections... And the prime minister of Israel comes to our country and addresses Congress to criticize the president's policy in Iran at the time—that's pretty outrageous."
Russia passed a law in 2013 banning the targeting of minors in the propagandizing of homosexuality. In a 2019 interview with Putin, Stone said of the law that "It seems like maybe that's a sensible law". Stone later said he's not anti-gay/LGBTQ.
Stone voluntarily took the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, despite being a decade older than the recommended maximum age for it. He also said it was "madness" that their vaccine was being ignored, and further added, "Russia’s been one of the most advanced countries, if not the most advanced country."
Russia
In a June 2017 interview with The Nation to promote his documentary on Vladimir Putin, Stone rejected the consensus findings of the United States’ intelligence agencies that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election. Stone accused the CIA, FBI, and NSA of cooking the intelligence. He said: "The influence on the election from the Russians to me is absurd to the naked eye. Israel has far more influence on American elections through AIPAC. Saudi Arabia has influence through money... Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers have much more influence on American elections... And the prime minister of Israel comes to our country and addresses Congress to criticize the president's policy in Iran at the time—that's pretty outrageous."
Well turned out he was RIGHT ON THE MONEY on that one!
Do you still really believe that the Russia 2016 deal was anything but a hoax?
Myballs thank you for bringing real comments to this blog.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Americans will likely see another year of 'very uncomfortably high' inflation
Well, that did bitch slap the Wendy's girl.and Biden.
She is Brain dead ,
Sept. 28th, 2021
"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressed her view that inflation at year-end would be “probably closer to 4%. That already almost must be the case, based on what’s happened this year.”
"Almost" well 7.8% is almost "4%".
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
F Daddy is upset because "Ukraine on Fire" has been removed from Twitter.
I watched large portions of it and found much of it suspicious.
What large parts did you watch ?
What was suspicious and why?
and you do know that Wikipedia (as their co-founder has stated) is just left-wing propaganda now. You know the kind of things you accuse others of. We've been through that before.
but be specific and list what you found to be "suspicious"
With so much it must be quite a long list and again be specific
I know it's late so I'll check back tomorrow
here's a working link again to help you if you have already "forgot"
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
What large parts did you watch ?
I watched almost all of it.
What was suspicious and why?
Something about the whole tone it began to set up was suspicious, but especially suspicious was the way the executive producer Oliver Stone (who is often all over the place politically --see above) kept primarily interviewing figures surrounding the 2014 Ukrainian revolution such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych,and former Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko.
Do you really expect ANY objectivity from them about the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, the referendum on the status of the Crimea, the confrontation in Odessa, the war in Donbass, or the crash of MH17, as well as other events?
I didn't and I don't. And if you do, I think you are either naive or excessively prejudiced or probably both.
Ch, you quoted:
Russia
In a June 2017 interview with The Nation to promote his documentary on Vladimir Putin, Stone rejected the consensus findings of the United States’ intelligence agencies that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election. Stone accused the CIA, FBI, and NSA of cooking the intelligence.
And it goes downhill from there.
I DO NOT reject "the consensus findings of the United States’ intelligence agencies that Russia sought to influence the 2016 presidential election," especially since Putin himself has proudly stated that he WANTED Trump to be elected president because he was sure Trump would be easier for him to get along with and wold go easier on Russia.
Rage on.
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