Hot water for Hunter Biden is reaching a boiling point

The walls are closing in on Hunter Biden.

The US attorney in Delaware investigating his business affairs has been busy subpoenaing his bank records and calling in his ex-girlfriends to testify in front of a grand jury about his wild spending sprees.

Devon Archer, his former business partner, best friend and fellow Yale alum, faces sentencing Monday, four years after being convicted over a $60 million scheme to defraud one of the poorest Indian tribes in America.

Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York have recommended to US District Judge Ronnie Abrams that Archer serve 30 months in prison, the same as co-defendant Bevan Cooney.

But yesterday, Archer’s lawyer, Matthew Schwartz of Boies Schiller Flexner, asked Abrams for a non-custodial sentence, arguing Archer has suffered enough.

He “has been subject to pretrial supervision for nearly seven years during which he has a spotless record of compliance, has lived an otherwise exemplary life, and has already suffered greatly due to the collateral consequences of his arrest, trial and conviction.”

No further punishment is warranted, because Archer, a former Abercrombie & Fitch model, has “watched his reputation and career systemically crumble” and he “and his family have been affected financially, and are currently severely cash-negative.”

Prosecutors gave short shrift to Archer crying poor, arguing that he “is living in a multimillion-dollar Brooklyn townhouse, and owns a second residence in the Hamptons, both of which have significant equity. He and his wife [Krista, a doctor] own investment assets worth more than several million dollars

“In short, while Archer may well be living beyond his current means, he is nonetheless living an indisputably privileged lifestyle and nothing about his finances warrants a reduction in sentence.”

It will be up to Abrams, an Obama appointee married to Mueller special counsel prosecutor Greg Andres, whether to show mercy to Archer, 48, on Monday.

She has been kind to him before, when she overturned his original conviction in November 2019, before her decision was reversed on appeal.

She also granted him permission while he was on bail to jet around the world to 24 destinations, from Jamaica and Turks & Caicos to China, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, places where he and Hunter had done business deals leveraging then-VP Joe Biden’s name.

But anything short of a custodial sentence will be seen as a political scandal, considering Archer’s close ties to the Bidens.

Hunter promised Archer in a 2019 text message that he is “part of a great family — not a sideshow, not deserted by them even in your darkest moments. That’s the way Bidens are different, and you are a Biden.”

But in a voice memo recorded the previous year and found on his abandoned laptop, Hunter was less sanguine about Archer’s legal troubles.

“My best friend in business, Devon, has named me as a witness, without telling me, in a criminal case,” he wails. “I’m talking about a f–king criminal case in which Devon has named me as a witness.”

https://nypost.com/2022/02/23/hunter-bidens-hot-water-is-reaching-a-boiling-point/

Kerry: ‘I Hope President Putin Will Help Us to Stay on Track’ with ‘What We Need to Do for the Climate’

During an interview with the BBC released on Wednesday prior to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry expressed concern that a war in Ukraine would have “massive emissions consequences” and divert attention from climate change and stated, “I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.”

Kerry said, “I’m very concerned about — I’m concerned about Ukraine. Because of the people of Ukraine and because of the principles that are at risk, in terms of international law and trying to change boundaries of international law by force. I thought we lived in a world that had said no to that kind of activity. And I hope diplomacy will win.”

He also stated that there would be “massive emissions consequences to the war,” and “equally importantly, you’re going to lose people’s focus, you’re going to lose, certainly, big country attention. Because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact. So, I think, hopefully, President Putin would realize that, in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land. Now, it’s thawing and his infrastructure is at risk, and the people of Russia are at risk. And so, I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/02/24/kerry-i-hope-president-putin-will-help-us-to-stay-on-track-with-what-we-need-to-do-for-the-climate/

E.U. Responds to Russia’s Ukraine Aggression: ‘Harshest Package’ of Sanctions are Coming

The European Union (E.U.) sought to place itself in front of Russia’s territorial ambitions Thursday as it announced the “strongest, the harshest package” of sanctions to punish Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.

No E.U. military action was promised to bolster the threats of sanctions and trade boycotts after the E.U.’s leading nation Germany only sent 5,000 helmets to Ukraine when they asked for military hardware and ammunition in the face of earlier Russian threats.

E.U. President Ursula von der Leyen released a statement in which she condemned Russia’s move as a “barbaric attack” accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin “of bringing war back to Europe.”

Leyen revealed the European Commission is assembling a “massive and targeted” package of sanctions for European leaders to approve, and if green-lighted “will weaken Russia’s economic base and its capacity to modernize.” She warned:

In these dark hours, the European Union stand by Ukraine and its people. We are facing an unprecedented act of aggression by the Russian leadership against a sovereign independent country… Russia’s target is not only Ukraine, the target is the stability in Europe and the whole of the international peace order, and we will hold President [Vladimir] Putin accountable for that.

Von der Layen clarified the sanctions will “target strategic sectors of Russia’s economy”, “freeze Russian assets in the E.U. and stop access of Russian banks to our financial market”, in an effort designed to to “take a heavy toll on the Kremlin’s ability to finance war”.

Vice-President of the European Commission and E.U. foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell also strongly condemned Russia stating that the current situation is “among the darkest hours for Europe since the end of World War Two”, and suggested that “this is not only the greatest violation of international law, it’s a violation of the basic principles of human co-existence”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/24/e-u-responds-to-russias-ukraine-aggression-harshest-package-of-sanctions-are-coming/

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Hungarian Govt on Ukraine: ‘We Must Not Let the Left Drag Hungary Into This War’

The Hungarian government has weighed in on the Ukraine crisis, vowing that it will stand by NATO but resist efforts by “the Left” to “drag” the country into war.

“Hungary’s standpoint is clear, we stand by Ukraine, we stand by Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Today, and in the future, Hungary will be part of NATO decisions aimed at a joint response,” insisted Péter Szijjártó, the Hungarian minister for foreign affairs, in a statement shared on social media by government spokesman Zoltán Kovács.

Szijjártó added, however, that despite his government’s deep concern for Ukraine, “war is not a solution” to the crisis.

“Hungary must stay out of an armed conflict. The [Hungarian] left-wing’s proposal to send [Hungarian] soldiers and weapons to Ukraine is therefore hugely irresponsible. We must not let the Left drag Hungary into this war!” he declared.

The foreign minister was echoing a similar statement by Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, publicised in English shortly before Russia’s Vladimir Putin launched his so-called “special military operation… to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine”.

“Hungary must stay out of this conflict, this military conflict, because Hungary’s security is the most important interest,” Prime Minister Orbán had said.

“Accordingly, there can be no question of accepting left-wing proposals to send soldiers and weapons to Ukraine,” he continued, adding that Hungary would “play its part in the international efforts to restore peace” and that the army and police would in the meantime be preparing to deal with a potential influx of refugees.

Hungary’s stance on Ukraine marks a rare point of difference with Poland, its closest ally in the Visegrád Group of European Union member-states.

While the Hungarian government has dealt with Russia on what it sees as a pragmatic basis, recently negotiating a gas deal with President Putin to keep Hungarian energy bills among the lowest in Europe, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki responded to the Ukrainian attack by demanding the EU impose “the fiercest possible sanctions” on Moscow, warning that “Europe and the free world [have] to stop Putin.”

While both Hungary and Poland suffered under the yoke of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union during the Cold War, the Polish government’s more belligerent posture is believed by many to be due to the fact that the leader of the country’s governing Law and Justice Party, Jarosław Kaczyński, suspects the Kremlin was complicit in the Smolensk air disaster of 2010, in which his the late President Lech Kaczyński — his twin brother — was killed.

Hungary’s attitude towards conflict in Ukraine may also be coloured by the fact that its relations with the Ukrainian government are somewhat fractious due to the perceived mistreatment of the Hungarian minority in the country.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/24/hungarian-govt-on-ukraine-we-must-not-let-the-left-drag-hungary-into-this-war/

Mexican President to U.S.: ‘Don’t Trust Ted Cruz, He is Crooked’

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) told U.S. voters not to trust Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), calling him “crooked” (chueco) and a “busybody” (metiche) during a Tuesday news conference in response to the Texas politician’s recent comments about cartel violence in Mexico.

“Why does he have to get involved?” Lopez Obrador said in Spanish. “I would tell our friends in the United States and our countrymen living over there to consider him a busybody.”

AMLO went on to claim Cruz was interfering in Mexican politics to create discord.

“If [Cruz] wants to be governor, legislator or president, the U.S. people should not consider someone like that,” AMLO said. “Imagine a candidate who interferes with the internal life of another country. Do not trust him, that Ted Cruz — because he is crooked

The statements from Lopez Obrador come in response to comments made during a February 16 meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cruz said the breakdown of civil society and rule of law in Mexico posed a danger to the United States.

“The current climate faced by politicians and journalists in Mexico is the deadliest ever,” Cruz said. “In 2020, more journalist were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world. It alone accounted for a third of the journalists killed.”

Cruz also stated that since September 2020, 80 politicians have been murdered and 60 candidates dropped out of their races under threats from organized crime.

“President Lopez Obrador seems intent on making all these trends worse,” Cruz said. “On Friday he used his morning press conference to intimidate one of Mexico’s highest-profile journalists, Carlos Loret De Mola. He waved around private financial information and asked authorities to investigate it. He seems to be indulging in abusing power.”

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/02/23/mexican-president-to-u-s-dont-trust-ted-cruz-he-is-crooked/

The Silence of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities

The regime has repeatedly carried out artillery and air attacks on city centers, creating a humanitarian catastrophe—which is all but ignored by the US political-media establishment.

For months, the US-backed regime in Kiev has been committing atrocities against its own citizens in southeastern Ukraine, regions heavily populated by Russian-speaking Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. While victimizing a growing number of innocent people, including children, and degrading America’s reputation, these military assaults on cities, captured on video, are generating intense pressure in Russia on President Vladimir Putin to “save our compatriots.” Both the atrocities and the pressure on Putin have increased even more since July 1, when Kiev, after a brief cease-fire, intensified its artillery and air attacks on eastern cities defenseless against such weapons.

The reaction of the Obama administration—as well as the new cold-war hawks in Congress and in the establishment media—has been twofold: silence interrupted only by occasional statements excusing and thus encouraging more atrocities by Kiev. Very few Americans (notably, the scholar Gordon Hahn) have protested this shameful complicity. We may honorably disagree about the causes and resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, the worst US-Russian confrontation in decades, but not about deeds that have risen to the level of war crimes.

In mid-April, the new Kiev government, predominantly western Ukrainian in composition and outlook, declared an “anti-terrorist operation” against a growing political rebellion in the Southeast. At that time, the rebels were mostly mimicking the initial Maidan protests in Kiev in 2013—demonstrating, issuing defiant proclamations, occupying public buildings and erecting defensive barricades—before Maidan turned ragingly violent and, in February, overthrew Ukraine’s corrupt but legitimately elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. (The entire Maidan episode, it will be recalled, had Washington’s enthusiastic political, and perhaps more tangible, support.) Indeed, the precedent for seizing official buildings and demanding the allegiance of local authorities had been set even earlier, in January, in western Ukraine—by pro-Maidan, anti-Yanukovych protesters, some declaring “independence” from his government. Reports suggest that even now some cities in central and western Ukraine, regions almost entirely ignored by international media, are controlled by extreme nationalists, not Kiev.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/silence-american-hawks-about-kievs-atrocities/

Twitter admits it mistakenly removed Ukraine open source intelligence accounts

Twitter: We goofed up by suspending users tracking the conflict with Russia.

Twitter said it had mistakenly suspended the accounts of open source intelligence reporters posting about Russia’s military build-up around Ukraine, leading to many of them accusing the Russian state of launching a “bot” campaign against them.

Based on publicly available satellite imagery, open source reporters have used social media to supply a steady commentary on the activities of Russian forces near the Ukrainian border, providing a valuable alternative source of information to Western intelligence reports.

The people behind the suspended accounts said they believed they had been the target of an attack by Russian bots—computers that mimic the activity of human users—that had mass-reported their content as being suspicious. This led their content to be removed automatically by Twitter’s moderation technology.

“It is an attack on journalism and people who rely on these accounts to post the facts over other news outlets,” Kyle Glen, co-founder of @Conflicts, which has 337,000 followers, said.

“Twitter has… a responsibility to ensure its own reporting systems aren’t being misused by individuals or nations.”

Twitter told the Financial Times that there was no evidence of a coordinated bot campaign but admitted the company had taken action “in error,” suspending around a dozen accounts that had been flagged as containing manipulated or misleading media.

It said it was “expeditiously reviewing these actions” and had reinstated many of the affected accounts.

The suspensions took place at around the same time as several Ukrainian government websites and banks were temporarily shut down after a series of cyber attacks—Ukraine’s third since the beginning of the year. Kyiv has blamed the two prior attacks on Russia.

That the Twitter accounts were suspended almost simultaneously fed suspicions that a Russian operation may have been behind the moves. Russia often uses proxy groups in its cyber operations so it can deny knowledge of any attack, even though the groups are believed by Western officials and cyber experts to act for Moscow.

“A number of… individuals saw their accounts locked at exactly 11:51 UTC last night,” said @Osinttechnical, who has 83,000 followers and whose identity the FT has independently verified.

“The pattern of the account lockings indicates that the automatic features Twitter installed to handle account reports were triggered. In effect, a number of ‘people’ bombarded these accounts with reports at the same time, activating the Twitter blocks,” he added.

The Twitter account of Ukrainian civil activist Serhii Sternenko was also suspended.

Although open source intelligence has provided some startlingly detailed images of military movements, analysts say it only shows a fraction of what is going on. Their reports, often on Twitter, have independently corroborated the publicly released Western intelligence briefings and lent credibility to them.

“Western governments have learned a lot about the information warfare space… from [the] open intelligence space,” Sir Alex Younger, former head of the UK’s secret service, said.

“It’s been a much better performance this time round and one of the reasons why is that there has been open source [intelligence] to check on what they are saying, which has raised their credibility,” he told an FT forum on Wednesday.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/twitter-admits-it-mistakenly-removed-ukraine-open-source-intelligence-accounts/

The 2014 American Coup in Ukraine

https://youtu.be/nW7lNABfDVk

Twenty-Five Year CNN Operations Manager Joins Project Veritas as Executive Producer

https://youtu.be/-lByqGXOiFU

Democrat State Senator Resigns From Office Amid Plans to Plead Guilty to Embezzlement Charges

Democratic Illinois State Sen. Thomas Cullerton resigned from office Wednesday as his lawyer tells a federal judge he plans to plead guilty to a 2019 indictment accusing him of almost 40 counts of embezzlement from a labor union.

Cullerton’s defense attorney says he plans to plead guilty to charges of accepting $274,066 to be involved in a ghost-payrolling scheme with former Teamsters boss John Coli, according to CBS 2.

Cullerton was accused of continuing his membership with Teamsters Local Union 734, which included salary and benefits, despite losing that eligibility after leaving his employment to become an Illinois state senator, according to the indictment.

Federal prosecutors said Cullerton knowingly conspired to “embezzle, steal, and unlawfully and willfully abstract and convert to his own use, the money, funds, property, and other assets of a labor organization, namely, Teamsters Joint Council 25,” according to the indictment.

Cullerton also allegedly used his do-nothing position with the Teamsters Joint Council 25 to leverage employee benefits from the Teamsters Local Union 734 Health and Welfare Fund and the union’s pension fund, the indictment stated.

Teamsters Joint Council 25 allegedly paid Cullerton around $188,320 in salary, allowances and bonuses, and other benefits like cellphone and car packages, according to the indictment.

Federal prosecutors also accused Cullerton of doing little to no work for the union but still receiving “approximately $64, 068 in health and welfare plan and pension plan contributions from Teamsters Joint Council 25 and its members; and approximately $21,678 in reimbursed medical claims from Teamsters Local Union 734’s Health and Welfare Fund.”

Cullerton was indicted on one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union, 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union, and one count of making false statements,” CBS reported.

Shortly after Cullerton resigned from his senate seat, Democratic Illinois Senate President Don Harmon released a statement acknowledging Cullerton’s “nearly decade” in office, according to CBS.

“Tom Cullerton served his constituents in the 23rd Senate District for nearly a decade. I look forward to welcoming and working with a new senator from the district,” said Harmon, the outlet reported. “We’ve got a lot of work to do for the people of Illinois.”

https://resistthemainstream.org/democrat-state-senator-resigns-from-office-amid-plans-to-plead-guilty-to-embezzlement-charges/

DC National Guard 'Scrambling' To Secure Tow Trucks As Freedom Convoy Descends

The Washington DC National Guard is ratcheting up preparations "for forthcoming Trucker protest" set to begin on Tuesday, as a new group of roughly 1,000 truckers dubbed "The People's Convoy" makes its way to the nation's capital in protest of Covid-19 mandates.

According to a notice obtained by Breitbart News, the DC National Guard Land Component Command will be "encamped" starting today - which, according to on source, is synonymous with to "occupy an area."

According to the notice, the National Guard will encamp through Monday, March 7. The notice stated that soldiers were already on standby to support the State of the Union address, which is scheduled for March 1.

A separate notice stated that the encampment could last longer than March 7, and would be in support of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). -Breitbart

Fox News' Brad Pergram reported earlier Tuesday that the National Guard is now "scrambling to secure heavy tow trucks to haul away semis which may try to block roads."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-national-guard-scrambling-secure-tow-trucks-freedom-convoy-descends

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-national-guard-scrambling-secure-tow-trucks-freedom-convoy-descends

British bio-security expert claims Wuhan lab-leak theory 'accepted as likely behind closed doors' in government

The British government is taking steps to increase bio-security and protect against "natural zoonosis and laboratory leaks," Prime Minister Boris Johnson informed the House of Commons Tuesday.

Johnson's announcement comes as a British expert on chemical and biological counterterrorism involved with crafting the U.K.'s bio-security strategy claims most people within the government believe the lab-leak theory is the most likely explanation for the origins of COVID-19.

The Telegraph reports that the government has asked for evidence before drafting a new bio-security strategy, which will cover "accidental release and dual-use research of concern, where life science research is capable of being misapplied to do harm."

Former British Army officer Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is one person who has submitted evidence for the strategy.

He told the Telegraph that the "official view" within the government is that a lab leak "is as likely as anything else to have caused the pandemic."

"A lot of people like myself think it is more likely. I think attitudes have changed a little bit. The zoonotic transfer theory just didn’t make sense," he said.

Over the past two years, it has come to light that Chinese researchers in Wuhan had been collecting and performing risky experiments on dangerous bat coronaviruses with funding from U.S. taxpayers. After the first major COVID-19 outbreak was traced to Wuhan in early 2020, some scientists speculated that the virus may have been engineered and could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Prominent public health officials around the world later asserted it was more likely that the virus developed in nature, but an animal host for the SARS-CoV-2 virus — from which the virus would make the evolutionary leap to human beings — was never discovered.

With that context, Johnson's request that the U.K. re-evaluate its strategies to prevent laboratory leaks appears to at least imply that British officials find the lab-leak origins theory credible enough to take precautions against any such thing happening in the U.K.

“There is a huge amount of concern about coming out publicly, but behind closed doors most people think it’s a lab leak," de Bretton-Gordon told the Telegraph. "And they are coming round to the fact that even if they don’t agree with that, they must accept it’s likely, and they must make sure the policies are in place to stop it.”

“My view, that I’ve put to the Government already, is that we cannot afford emotionally, physically or financially, to go through another pandemic. We must now get on the front foot,” he added.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/02/british-bio-security-expert-claims.html

WATCH: Middle School Teacher Caught on Video Saying “Those Conservative Christians Need to Get COVID and Die!” [VIDEO]

A teacher at Colleyville Middle School in Texas was caught on video saying horrible things about both Conservatives and Christians in the hallways of the school.

Sure, teachers are allowed – and should be allowed – to discuss their personal opinions. However, this teacher, who has been identified as Lisa Grimes, made a comment that crossed the line of what should be condoned by her employers.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/02/watch-middle-school-teacher-caught-on.html

Canada imposes sanctions on Russia for Ukraine move: All you need to know

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday imposed a series of sanctions against Russia, taking action against Moscow after President Vladimir Putin announced recognition of ‘independence’ for Ukraine’s separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

“Russia’s illegal actions in Ukraine are an attack on democracy — and a threat to peace around the world. Make no mistake: This is a further invasion of a sovereign state. In coordination with allies and partners, Canada is responding with a first round of economic sanctions,” Trudeau posted on Twitter after announcing sanctions in a press conference.

Here’s all you need to know:

(1.) The sanctions have been imposed under the ‘Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations’ and the ‘Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations.

(2.) These will be applicable on the Russian province of Duma, which voted for the recognition of independence of Donetsk and Luhansk.

(3.) Under these measures, a dealings ban will be imposed on those regions in Donetsk and Luhansk that are not controlled by the Ukrainian government. This means that Canadian nationals are effectively barred from indulging in specific transactions in such areas.

(4.) The curbs will prohibit direct and indirect dealings in the Russian sovereign debt.

(5.) These will impose restrictions on two Russian financial institutions to hinder Moscow’s ability to ‘further fund its aggressive actions.’

(6.) Further, Ottawa will deploy up to an additional 460 personnel of its armed forces with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

(7.) Also, an additional 3400 members from all branches of the Canadian armed forces will be deployed with the military alliance, should such a need arise.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/canada-imposes-sanctions-on-russia-for-ukraine-move-all-you-need-to-know/

BIDEN ACCUSED OF PANDEMIC-RELIEF FRAUD ‘COVER-UP’

A key Republican on the House Ways and Means​ Committee is citing billions of dollars in pandemic-relief fraud in accusing President Joe Biden and his administration of a massive “cover-up.”

The comments from U.S. Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX), came during a congressional briefing on the “estimated $80 billion of pandemic unemployment payment fraud,” explains a report in Just the News.

“Right now, our Democrat colleagues are continuing to turn a blind eye to what’s possibly the greatest theft of American taxpayer dollars in American history,” Brady charged.

“Faced with billions of dollars lost to unchecked unemployment fraud involving organized cybercrime and international crime rings, Democrats have ignored repeated calls for congressional oversight hearings,” he charged.

He said the government properly stepped in to help when the China virus that became known as COVID-19 hit hard, but fraud soon followed.

“It was necessary to help the jobless, but these programs lingered and became one of the most flawed and wasteful recovery efforts ever enacted by the federal government. In fact, total state and federal spending on enhanced pandemic unemployment benefits exceeded $850 billion in less than two years. These programs have stunted our economic growth and worsened the labor shortage, resulting in the highest inflation in 40 years,” Brady added.

One of the significant problems, he charges, is that lawmakers even now don’t have an accurate assessment of what tax money was lost.

“At the low end, the White House estimates nearly $80 billion has been lost to fraud last year, but outside experts put that number much higher, estimating that criminal fraudsters have stolen $400 billion from American Taxpayers, that’s half of all the COVID unemployment aid,” he explained.

He said that’s about the equivalent of the entire 2021 budgets for the Army and Navy combined.

He said the Democrats refused Republican attempts, through legislative amendments to last year’s stimulus program, to crack down on relief funding and prevent fraud.

“But the cover-up goes well beyond, he said. “Now, the Biden administration has taken unilateral action to sweep suspected fraud under the rug, allowing states to waive large numbers of suspicious claims and forego recovery and restitution for taxpayers. This is a cover-up from the Biden administration on an issue that has cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.”

Brady continued, “Enough is enough, it’s time for Congress to go after fraudsters and recover the dollars that have been lost.”

https://thedcpatriot.com/biden-accused-of-pandemic-relief-fraud-cover-up/

Bennett refrains from condemning Russia in first remarks since invasion of Ukraine

PM says ‘our hearts’ are with Ukrainians, pledges to offer humanitarian aid but doesn’t voice support for Kyiv, hours after Lapid blasts Moscow

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday avoided condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine — or even mentioning Russia by name — in his first remarks since the incursion began.

“The world order as we know it is changing,” he said, speaking at an IDF officer graduation ceremony in southern Israel. “The world is much less stable, and our region too is changing every day.”

“These are difficult, tragic times,” said the prime minister. “Our hearts are with the civilians of eastern Ukraine who were caught up in this situation.”

The remarks were a stark contrast from Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s condemnation of Russia only hours before.

Lapid called the invasion “a grave violation of the international order,” in Jerusalem’s harshest and most direct condemnation of Moscow since the crisis in Eastern Europe began.

A diplomatic official said Bennett’s decision to avoid mentioning Russia in his remarks was deliberate and coordinated with Lapid.

“They have spoken multiple times today and are working together,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The softer tone of Bennett’s speech was meant to be complementary to Lapid’s more bellicose one, according to the official.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-refrains-from-condemning-russia-in-first-remarks-since-invasion-of-ukraine/

Top brass reveals 74 Ukrainian military facilities were crippled by Russia’s strikes

Among them are 11 airfields belonging to the Air Force, three command points, a Ukrainian Navy base and 18 radar stations of S-300 and Buk-M1 missile systems, Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov specified

More than 70 ground infrastructure facilities belonging to Ukraine were incapacitated by strikes carried out by Russia’s Armed Forces, Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Thursday.

"As a result of the strikes conducted by Russia’s Armed Forces, 74 ground facilities of Ukraine’s military infrastructure were knocked out of action. Among them are 11 airfields belonging to the Air Force, three command points, a Ukrainian Navy base and 18 radar stations of S-300 and Buk-M1 missile systems," Konashenkov specified.

According to him, a combat helicopter and four Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles were shot down.

He stressed that the strikes carried out by Russia’s Armed Forces are not targeting Ukrainian cities as well as social facilities in military garrisons.

https://tass.com/defense/1410189

Russia takes issue with Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights and Jerusalem

"Russia doesn't recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights that are part of Syria," Russian deputy ambassador says.

Moscow took issue with Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and Jerusalem just prior to its attack on Ukraine.

“Russia doesn’t recognize Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights that are part of #Syria,” its deputy ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, told the UN Security Council, which held a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday.

The monthly Security Council meeting took place as the General Assembly debated the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

Polyanskiy spoke just hours after Israel broke its neutrality on the conflict, as it gave a nod in support of Ukraine.

Moscow has presented itself in its conflict with Ukraine as the supporter of the Russian-speaking population in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

At the Security Council, Russia reminded Israel that it stands with Syria, where it is militarily entrenched, regarding Damascus’ demand that Israel returns the Golan, which the IDF captured during the defensive Six-Day War in 1967.

Israel annexed the Golan in 1981, but to date, the United States is the only country that recognizes that sovereignty. In December, the cabinet approved a NIS-1-billion plan to increase Israel’s population on the Golan, including through the creation of two new towns.

Polyanskiy recalled that decision when he said that Russia was “concerned over Tel Aviv’s announced plans for expanding settlement activity in the occupied Golan Heights, which contradicts the provisions of the 1949 Geneva Convention.”

He also indirectly took issue in his comments with Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, including west Jerusalem.

In 2017, Moscow said it recognized west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But Polyanskiy appeared on Wednesday to ignore that recognition of Israel’s government, using Tel Aviv as a synonym for Israel’s government.

It is a phrase used only by those countries who mean to convey that they do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over any part of its capital city.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-698512

Kiev Regime Forces’ Defense Collapses. Russians In Kharkov, Kalibr Strikes And More

Thursday, February 24, became the black day for the Kiev regime and its criminals. As of 10:30 local time, pro-Kiev forces are collapsing almost all over the country. The military and command infrastructure of the military has suffered significant damage from precise strikes of the Russian Armed Forces.

It was confirmed that Russian troops have been crossing the border of Ukraine in the regions of Kharkov and Kherson. At the same time, self-defense forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics have launched an advance on Kiev puppets in Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that air defense of the Kiev regime was suppressed.

According to reports, Ukrainian border guards are not resisting to the advancing Russian troops. At the same time, officials denied claims made by Kiev’s defense chiefs that Russia had lost at least one military plane during the offensive.

The Russian Defense Ministry says that troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are massively leaving their positions, throwing their weapons.

Russia’s RIA Novosti reported that smoke rises around military facilities in the northeastern outskirts of Kiev. The agency noted that the 72nd Center for Information and Psychological Operations of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces is located in that area.

The resistance of the Ukrainian military is so fierce that one Su-27 of the Ukrainian Air Force already fled to Romania. This was confirmed by the Romanian Defense Ministry that added that the warplane landed at Bacau Air Base (escorted by F-16s).

Kalibr strikes on Ukrainian military facility where helicopters were allegedly deployed:

As the Russians have been advancing, the Kiev regime provides its own vision of the situation. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kiev shot down six Russian warplanes and two helicopters as well as caused multiple casualties to the ‘aggressor’. ‘Ukrainian heroes’ are for sure suffered no casualties, Kiev claimed.

Unfortunately, the Kiev regime was not able to provide any videos or photos confirming shooting down of at least something.

https://southfront.org/kiev-regime-forces-defense-collapses-russians-in-kharkov-kalibr-strikes-and-more-video/

“Consciousness grenade” explodes across the planet as globalist tyrants revealed to be ILLUSIONISTS and FAKERS

One of the most important realizations emerging from the fake Ottawa “police” (many of whom turned out to be UN troops with no legal authority whatsoever) is that the globalist cabal doesn’t have enough people to carry out their tyranny. They have to recruit mercenaries from other regions and pay them to brutalize the local people under tyrannical authoritarianism.

In a way, this is actually good news since it reveals how thin the globalists’ ranks are when it comes to finding minions who will carry out their nefarious plans to crush dissent and enslave humanity. It turns out that most people won’t go along with pure evil once they finally recognize it.

So the globalists are relying on tricks to project their asserted power via psychological terrorism and financial terrorism tactics, hoping to intimidate the masses through fear. Through these tricks, they are able to appear to be much larger and more powerful than they actually are. The weak-minded are easily fooled by these tricks, but the strong and courageous individuals in the world see right through it. They realize the tyrants are much like the Wizard of Oz, pulling levers behind a curtain and hoping they can project their illusions long enough to trick the masses into committing vaccine suicide. (The fake news media is a big part of this illusion projection effort, of course, and those who are gullible enough to believe the fake news will be intimidated into inaction.)

But thanks to the “consciousness grenade” that has now been unleashed across the world, people are waking up like never before. Even Canadians are getting red-pilled faster than we ever thought possible as the once-popular delusion of their “liberal, progressive democracy” has been shattered in mere days. Thanks to Justin Castro Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland the Nazi, Canada has become the North Korea of North America.

The people are far stronger than the globalists, and tyrants are terrified of the mass awakening taking place now

Global tyrants like Trudeau are terrified of the mass awakening that’s accelerating. The more coercion, violence and outright terrorism that governments unleash against their own citizens — such as Canada stealing bank funds from innocent, peaceful protesters — the more quickly the realization spreads that governments are now the terrorists of the world.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2022/02/24/consciousness-grenade-explodes-across-the-planet-as-globalist-tyrants-revealed-to-be-illusionists-and-fakers/

Zelensky Finds Time to Chat With Sean Penn For Documentary Amid Russian Siege

Ukraine's comedian president Volodymyr Zelensky took the time to speak with actor Sean Penn as part of a "documentary on the Russian invasion" as his military was being destroyed.

Zelensky released the embarrassing video himself Thursday on Instagram, writing: "The more such people in our country now, true friends of Ukraine, who support the struggle for freedom, the sooner it will be possible to stop Russia's treacherous attack."

"Sean popped up Thursday in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, after the Russians invaded … and Ukraine's government says Penn is there to capture the conflict on film [for a documentary]," TMZ reported.

Zelensky reportedly never ordered a full mobilization of the Ukrainian military because he thought Putin was bluffing.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62913

Turkish-Owned Ship Hit by Bomb in Near Ukraine: Officials

A Turkish-owned vessel was struck by a bomb near Ukraine’s port city of Odessa on Thursday, said the Turkish Maritime General Directorate.

They said that there were no casualties, according to Turkish officials. The ship was en route to Romania waters, they said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/turkish-owned-ship-hit-by-bomb-in-near-ukraine-officials_4300133.html

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1496914017771823113

Baza News reports that at the anti-war rally in Moscow a 22 year old woman was arrested for… trying to throw a Molotov cocktail at a policeman.

Based on a survey of 400,000 clients, German Insurance company says 27% had adverse reactions to vaccines

Large German health insurance company analyzed data from 10.9 million insured individuals regarding vaccination complications.

The new data is “alarming,” says BKK board member Schöfbeck in a report by WELT.

https://ussanews.com/board-member-of-large-german-insurance-company-blows-the-whistle-on-covid-vaccines/

Soros Helped known Actor and Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy become President of Ukraine by Brainwashing the Country with a TV Series called "Servant of the People"

http://leozagami.com/2022/02/23/soros-helped-known-actor-and-comedian-volodymyr-zelenskyy-become-president-of-ukraine-by-brainwashing-the-country-with-a-tv-series-called-servant-of-the-people/