US Freedom Convoy Trucker Left Stranded After Penske Corporation Turns Off Power Remotely to His Rental Truck

Texas Trucker Jeff Sandberg was left stranded this week after Penske Corporation turned off the power remotely to his truck.

Sandberg was heading to Washington DC with the Freedom Convoy truckers.

Penske shut down his vehicle on the road and later released a statement on how the company does not support the freedom protests.

Yahoo reported:

A Burkburnett man taking part in a national truck convoy protest found himself without a ride Friday.

Jeff Sandberg has been vocal in his support of the convoy on social media and was driving a rig bearing a banner covered in slogans.

“We’re just trying to show what the people who back us believe — and our own beliefs — of what our country needs to go back to,” Sandberg told the New York Times Wednesday.

By Thursday night, Sandberg was sidelined because the company he rented his truck from, Penske, shut down his truck remotely.

“Penske does not support the people’s convoy movement,” Sandberg said on a Facebook stream. “So, I’m in a situation where I’m not going to be able to continue on.”

The truckers’ convoy to Washington, D.C. mimics a similar convoy in Canada. The Canadian protest, which lasted nearly a month, resulted in nearly 200 arrests after truckers converged on the capital, Ottawa. The protests ended after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the nation’s Emergency Act, which gave authorities broad powers to end the protest.

Jeff Sandburg is an outspoken trucker from Texas.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/us-freedom-convoy-trucker-left-stranded-penske-corporation-turns-off-power-remotely-rental-truck/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/us-freedom-convoy-trucker-left-stranded-penske-corporation-turns-off-power-remotely-rental-truck/

Russia accuses ‘Ukrainian nationalists’ of shelling residential areas

The attack resulted in civilian casualties, Moscow claims

Moscow has said that Ukraine used multiple rocket launchers to shell residential blocks in the town of Starobelsk, roughly 100km (62 miles) north of Lugansk on Saturday morning. The reported incident occurred during the fight between Ukrainian troops and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) backed by the Russian military.

Ukraine controlled the town prior to the dramatic flare-up this week, and it is unclear who is controlling it now.

According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack by “Ukrainian nationalists” took place around 10.30am local time. Buildings were damaged and caught fire, the ministry said, adding that there were civilian casualties, without specifying how many.

The ministry said it expected “similar provocations” in the towns of Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, without elaborating.

Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted DPR officials as claiming that Ukraine fired four ballistic missiles into its territory the same day. The agency shared photos of what appears to be missile parts lying on the ground. RT was unable to independently verify any of these claims.

Ukraine confirmed heavy fighting in Starobelsk, also accusing the Russian forces of shelling the town on Friday morning. It has not commented on Russia’s allegations about shelling civilians in Starobelsk.

Russia has insisted that it is only hitting military sites, such as airfields and radar stations. The country’s Defense Ministry reiterated on Saturday that Russian forces were not targeting civilians.

The DPR and LPR said they launched an offensive against the Ukrainian forces early Thursday morning after reports of shelling along the de facto borderline fixed by the 2014-2015 ceasefire agreements. The sides accused each other of initiating hostilities.

Both the DPR and LPR broke off from eastern Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. Russia recognized their independence on Monday and launched a military operation in their support three days later. Kiev said the attack was entirely unprovoked.

https://www.rt.com/russia/550697-starobelsk-shelling-rockets-report/

Ukrainian President Asks Foreigners to Come Fight, Says He Will Provide Weapons

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked for foreigners to come help fight off Russia, promising to give them weapons and glory.

Zelensky also maintained that Kyiv and other key places remain under his control.

“We successfully fought off enemy attacks. We are defending our country, our land, future of our children,” Zelensky said. “Kyiv and key places near the capital are under our control. The occupiers wanted to capture our capital and install their puppets like Donetsk. We broke their idea.”

“Anyone who wants to come over here and defend our country, please come, and we will give you arms,” he continued. “Anybody defends will have been glorified.”

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said that the government has supplied 18,000 submachine guns and ammunition to civilians and militia fighters since the start of the invasion.

“We will give weapons to anyone who wants to defend our country,” Zelensky said in an English-language announcement on Twitter. “Be ready to support Ukraine in the squares of our cities.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/ukrainian-president-asks-foreigners-come-fight-says-will-provide-weapons/

Come and die for the cabal

Mike Pompeo Says He is ‘Rooting’ For the Biden Administration, Would Be ‘Happy’ to Speak With Them

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that he is rooting for the Biden administration and would be “happy” to speak with them “any time” if they chose to contact him.

Pompeo shared his views during an interview with Fox News at CPAC on Friday.

“I am rooting for the Biden administration to be successful — in spite of my critique and my enormous concerns about the policies that they’ve chosen,” Pompeo told the network. “I want them to be successful.”

Pompeo went on to say that if someone from the administration called him for his views.

“Any time someone from the administration calls and asks, I’m happy to speak to them and give them my views and my thoughts — sometimes a little piece of history, something that I had worked on that they might not have known about — and I did the same thing,” Pompeo continued. “I called on my predecessors, regardless of their party, to inquire about the things that they had worked on and what had worked and what had not.”

According to Fox News, he added that he has spoken to Blinken.

“Look, we have very different worldviews and disagreements run deep about how to execute policy,” Pompeo said. “But the shared desire to make our country strong and great is something that I will work on with all.”

When asked about the differences between his foreign policy and Blinken’s, Pompeo cited the “historic peace agreement” between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

“They’re trying to cut a deal with Iran — we recognize Israel’s right to have their capital where they want it to,” Pompeo said. “They’re trying to create a consulate back in Jerusalem, those are just, different judgments.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/mike-pompeo-says-rooting-biden-administration-happy-speak/

Buffett Praises Apple As One Of Berkshire's "Four Giants" In Latest Annual Letter

The "Oracle of Omaha" Warren Buffett published his 57th annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday, and in it he proclaimed that Apple - which Berkshire finally bought in 2016, overcoming its decades-long aversion to consumer tech - had become one of "our four giants" responsible for the firm's continuing prosperity.

The firm recorded more than $90 billion in net earnings during 2021, with nearly $40 billion of those coming during Q4 alone.

Buffett used the "giants" theme to great effect in his latest letter. And while he praised Apple at No. 2, much of Berkshire's success is due to the company's No. 1 "giant", its "cluster of insurance operations", which includes GEICO, MedPro, National Indemnity, etc., and generates a massive cash "float" that is now worth more than $147 billion.

Nevertheless, operations of our “Big Four” companies account for a very large chunk of Berkshire’s value. Leading this list is our cluster of insurers. Berkshire effectively owns 100% of this group, whose massive float value we earlier described. The invested assets of these insurers are further enlarged by the extraordinary amount of capital we invest to back up their promises.

The insurance business is made to order for Berkshire. The product will never be obsolete, and sales volume will generally increase along with both economic growth and inflation. Also, integrity and capital will forever be important. Our company can and will behave well.

There are, of course, other insurers with excellent business models and prospects. Replication of Berkshire’s operation, however, would be almost impossible.

That massive float was generated by Berkshire's $8.7 million purchases of National Indemnity back in 1967, followed by 55 years of profits. As Buffett explains, the float has cost the company "less than nothing" (although technically the money doesn't "belong" to Berkshire, they can invest it).

From an $8.6 million purchase of National Indemnity in 1967, Berkshire has become the world leader in insurance “float” – money we hold and can invest but that does not belong to us. Including a relatively small sum derived from life insurance, Berkshire’s total float has grown from $19 million when we entered the insurance business to $147 billion.

So far, this float has cost us less than nothing. Though we have experienced a number of years when insurance losses combined with operating expenses exceeded premiums, overall we have earned a modest 55-year profit from the underwriting activities that generated our float.

Of equal importance, float is very sticky. Funds attributable to our insurance operations come and go daily, but their aggregate total is immune from precipitous decline. When it comes to investing float, we can therefore think long-term.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffett-praises-apple-one-berkshires-four-giants-latest-annual-letter

Ukraine’s leadership has rejected negotiations – Kremlin

Russia says it has resumed the military operation in Ukraine after Kiev refused to negotiate

Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is continuing after the country’s leadership declined to negotiate, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

President Vladimir Putin previously ordered the Russian troops to halt their advance on Friday, awaiting a response from Kiev, Moscow said. It added that the offensive continued on Saturday.

Alexey Arestovich, an adviser at Zelensky’s office, confirmed to Ukrainian media that Kiev has declined the talks with Russia, citing the “terms” put forward by Moscow through intermediaries. “It was an attempt to force us into capitulation,” he said, without elaborating.

Alexey Arestovich, an adviser at Zelensky’s office, confirmed to Ukrainian media that Kiev has declined the talks with Russia, blaming the “terms” put forward by Moscow through intermediaries. “It was an attempt to force us into capitulation,” he said, without elaborating.

However, moments later, another official at Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak, told Russian outlet RBC that Kiev did not reject the negotiations.

“Undoubtedly, Ukraine did not refuse to negotiate,” he said, underlining that negotiations have not yet taken place. “Ukraine and President Zelensky categorically reject any unacceptable or ultimatum-like conditions of the Russian side.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he was ready to sit down for talks with Russia in order to end hostilities between the countries. The same day, Peskov told reporters that Moscow was ready to hold talks in Minsk, Belarus. He later claimed that the Ukrainian side first offered to move the meeting to Warsaw, Poland, and then stopped responding.

Russia began its military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning. Announcing the move, Putin rolled out a long list of grievances regarding the state of Russian-Ukrainian relations, which went downhill after the 2014 coup in Kiev. The Russian leader said Moscow aims to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as to carry out “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine.

Putin previously said that Ukraine must never join NATO, whose military infrastructure Moscow sees as a threat.

There have been reports of shelling and firefights in Kiev and elsewhere in Ukraine on Saturday morning. Both sides have accused each other of killing civilians.

https://www.rt.com/russia/550703-ukraine-rejects-negotiations/

Cop Accused of Killing Baby Walks Free From Jail as Judge Excludes Damning Evidence from Case

Ewing Township, NJ — In 2018, officer Daniel Bannister was arrested for murdering a three-month-old baby girl — his own daughter. While this is horrifying enough, TFTP learned a year later that after this cop allegedly murdered his own daughter, he used her death to start a GoFundMe page and raised $17,618.

Since then, he has been in jail awaiting trial, but his blue privilege continues to shine through as he has just been released this month after a judge decided to exclude key evidence in the case.

At the time, Bannister was arrested and charged with murdering three-month-old Hailey Rose. His wife, Catherine Bannister was also arrested and charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

According to prosecutors, Hailey was killed in December 2018 after suffering traumatic injuries, inflicted by Bannister. Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said in a statement that this was an “ongoing pattern of abuse.”

An investigation was launched in December 2018 after an autopsy revealed Hailey’s cause of death was due to blunt impact trauma to her head, including multiple skull fractures and a subdural hemorrhage.

“The nature of Hailey’s injuries indicated an ongoing pattern of abuse,” Onofri said in the statement.

Eventually, Hailey’s death would be ruled a homicide and detectives from Mercer County would launch an investigation into the suspicious nature of her injuries.

Shortly after his daughter’s death in December, Bannister was suspended with pay. During this time, the family setup a GoFundMe that said Hailey had suffered a “catastrophic brain injury.” The campaign raised $17,618 for funeral expenses and medical bills.

Shameful indeed, but not nearly as shameful as what’s happening now. As NJ.com reports:

Early in the investigation, detectives confiscated the couple’s cell phones and applied for a warrant to examine the calls and texts, court documents show. The information was key to charging the couple in July 2019, as they allegedly revealed “extensive” communications about Daniel allegedly abusing the girl.

This past September, though, Mercer County Judge Darlene Pereksta suppressed the cell phone evidence, ruling that the detectives did not have probable cause of criminality to access the phones, Daniel’s attorney Jeffrey G. Garrigan said.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-accused-of-killing-baby-walks-free-from-jail-as-judge-excludes-damning-evidence-from-case/

Biden Approves $350 Million in Military Assistance for Ukraine

U.S. President Joe Biden has approved $350 million for military aid to Ukraine as Ukrainian forces battle against a Russian invasion.

Biden instructed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to release the aid to Ukraine.

Biden in a memorandum published late Feb. 25 cited the Foreign Assistance Act in telling Blinken to drawdown weapons and related assistance.

Blinken said Saturday that he was acting on the instructions.

“Today, as Ukraine fights with courage and pride against Russia’s brutal and unprovoked assault, I have authorized, pursuant to a delegation by the president, an unprecedented third presidential drawdown of up to $350 million for immediate support to Ukraine’s defense,” Blinken said in a statement.

The new chunk brings the total security assistance the United States has committed in the past year to Ukraine to over $1 billion.

The fresh package will include “lethal defensive assistance,” Blinken said, which will help Ukrainian forces deal with the Russian invasion.

“It is another clear signal that the United States stands with the people of Ukraine as they defend their sovereign, courageous, and proud nation,” he added.

The United States and other countries have refused to send troops to help Ukraine battle against an estimated 100,000 Russian forces that have entered the neighboring country.

https://www.ntd.com/biden-approves-350-million-in-military-assistance-for-ukraine_745244.html

Authorities Seize Nearly $3 Million Worth of Meth in Onion Shipment

SAN DIEGO—Authorities seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego, officials announced Friday.

A K-9 unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer’s shipment of onions on Sunday and officers found nearly 1,200 small packages of meth, the agency said Friday in a news release.

The 46-year-old driver, a Mexican national who was not named, was arrested for the alleged narcotic smuggling attempt at the Otay Mesa port-of-entry commercial vehicle facility, officials said.

The packages of meth—more than 1,336 pounds (606 kilograms)—were shaped into small globes with a white covering, the agency said, and meant to blend into the onions. The drugs are estimated to be worth $2.9 million on the street.

“This was not only a clever attempt to try and smuggle in narcotics, one I haven’t seen before, but also time consuming to wrap narcotics into these small packages, designed to look like onions,” said Sidney Aki, CBP Director of Field Operations in San Diego, in the news release. “While we have certainly seen narcotics in produce before, it’s unusual for us to see this level of detail in the concealment.”

https://www.ntd.com/authorities-seize-nearly-3m-worth-of-meth-in-onion-shipment_745186.html

It’s political party time with world leaders for George Soros’ son

Alexander Soros, the heir apparent to left wing billionaire George Soros’ political and philanthropic mission, has traded selfies with beauties and bros for handshakes and hugs with world leaders.

The 36-year-old son of the Democratic mega-donor just attended the Munich Security Conference in Germany, where he joined heads of state occupied with the looming threat of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Soros, who in younger days was snapped partying in the Hamptons — where he had been described as “making out with the babes” at East End hotspots — now fills his social media feed with photos of political heavy hitters. He welcomed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to a dinner put on by his dad’s Open Society Foundations in Munich; posed with and praised Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, and posted snaps to his Instagram shaking hands with the prime minister of Kosovo and president of Rwanda.

Older posts show the bespectacled scion with President Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, Squad Member Ilhan Omar, former Mayor Bill de Blasio and, in numerous photos with Sen. Chuck Schumer, whom he calls a “good friend.”

Some observers have a hard time seeing beyond Soros’ party boy image. He was spotted in July imbibing $345 bottles of Herradura Extra Añejo tequila along with gal pals at Tiny’s Catina in Prospect Heights. He reportedly left a $700 tip.

And in 2016, the 22,000-square-foot Hamptons rental house where he hosted pals, models and NBA players was dubbed “Camp Soros.”

A Republican Party official dismissed Soros as “just another rich brat trying to make a name for himself with a fortune he didn’t earn.

“Maybe he’ll stop shipping industrial quantities of cash to support Democrats, far-left organizations, and the craziest ideologies in existence, but I doubt it,” the official said.

But Patrick Gaspard, the former president of the Open Society Foundations, insisted the younger Soros was committed to his dad’s mission.

“I think that Alex is really invested in domestic politics in America and trying to figure out how we get past violent polarization, how we get past disinformation and he is somebody who has also cared deeply about protecting the rights of the most marginalized Americans,” Gaspard said.

Soros is deputy chairman of the non-profit Open Society behemoth that doled out more than $1 billion in 2020 on left wing causes including justice reform and economic equity.

Soros reportedly made clear in a September call with foundation staff that his dad, who is 91, was still in charge.

“I work for him, he’s my boss,” the New York Times quoted him as saying.

A foundation spokesman did not return a request for comment about Soros’ future role at the organization.

“He clearly has the intelligence and the resources to have a distinct impact and to steer his father’s foundation and investments in public affairs and in the political discussion where he sees fit.” said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist.

He started his own foundation, the Alexander Soros Foundation, in 2011 contributing $1.7 million to it the following year. It gave out just $166,000 in 2019 for environmental causes, according to its tax filing for that year, the latest publicly available.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/26/george-soros-son-hobnobs-with-world-leaders/

https://nypost.com/2022/02/26/george-soros-son-hobnobs-with-world-leaders/

Peter Schweizer: Russian Oligarchs Holding Assets for Putin ‘Probably Have Very Embarrassing Material on Hunter Biden’

Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, speculated that Russian oligarchs may have “embarrassing material” on Hunter Biden.

“The problem is that we know that Hunter Biden has received millions of dollars from Russian oligarchs, some of whom are connected to Vladimir Putin,” Schweizer said on the Charlie Kirk Show with special guest host Alex Marlow. “The most effective way you can hamstring Putin would be to put sanctions on Russian oligarchs, those that have massive holdings in the West.”

He continued, “Everybody who observes and follows Russia knows those oligarchs are holding money for Vladimir Putin. You need to seize the assets of those pro-Kremlin oligarchs that are operating out of London, the United States, Israel, Western Europe.”

President Joe Biden is unlikely to use punitive measures against Russian oligarchs’ assets as his son is compromised by such figures, Schweizer assessed.

“The problem is, I don’t think we’re going to slap sanctions on those people, because some of those people have done business deals with Hunter Biden, and they no doubt probably have very embarrassing material on Joe Biden’s one and only living son,” he stated.

Schweizer also remarked on globalization’s impacts on Europe, given much of the continent’s dependence on Russian energy exports, in contrast to how the phenomenon was marketed to the public by architects of and advocates for globalist institutions.

He remarked, “The whole premise behind globalism was: If we are engaging in trade and commerce, these sorts of semi-rogue or rogue countries like Russia or China will become more wedded towards us, they’ll become less aggressive. Actually, the opposite has happened.”

Greater integration of Western states with authoritarian governments has contributed to growing authoritarianism in the West as opposed to liberalization of states like China and Russia, Schweizer held.

“Globalism has failed,” Schweizer emphasized:

Look at the situation in Europe right now. So the idea is, ‘We’re going to wed Russia to Europe by setting up these gas pipelines and creating this lucrative European market for Russia.’ The theory is [that] this is going to mean Russia’s not going to want to invade, because they don’t want to lose the market.

The opposite has happened — Europe does not want to give up Russian gas. It has not deterred Russia. It has deterred the weak European democracies from taking strong action when they need to. So you know, they send a couple of helmets to Ukraine rather than military equipment, because they don’t want to have the gas shut off, or now they say, ‘We’re going to delay the Nord Stream pipeline,’ which, by the way, isn’t supposed to be certified til this summer anyway.

So all that this globalism has done is given these autocrats, these authoritarians, leverage over these weak, vassal democracies in the West that are fearful of doing anything offending these powers. Globalism has not only failed. It’s ended up doing the opposite of what it was supposed to do.

Schweizer has previously warned of and documented globalization’s facilitation of international corruption via foreign governments’ procurement of influence over U.S. affairs through establishing financial relationships with the children and family members of American politicians and other elites.

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2022/02/26/peter-schweizer-russian-oligarchs-holding-assets-for-putin-probably-have-very-embarrassing-material-on-hunter-biden/

German mass-media powerhouse BILD uses footage from 2015 explosions in china as war footage for Kiev, Ukraine in 2022

german mass-media powerhouse BILD uses footage from 2015 explosions in china as war footage for kiev, ukraine in 2022.

meanwhile they deleted the footage because more and more people are starting to realize it.

the problem is, millions of viewers have already been shocked with this imagery nevertheless.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/german-mass-media-powerhouse-bild-uses-footage-from-2015-explosions-in-china-as-war-footage-for-kiev-ukraine-in-2022/

German spy chief evacuated from Ukraine – reports

Special forces reportedly brought the head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service to Poland

Spymaster Bruno Kahl, the president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), has been taken from Ukraine to Poland by special agents, the German news magazine Focus reported on Friday. Kahl had supposedly been in Kiev to meet with Ukrainian colleagues when Russian forces moved on the city.

Kahl reportedly arrived in Kiev several days before Russia launched a military attack in Ukraine. When German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on her citizens to leave the country on Thursday, diplomats and intelligence operatives were evacuated by a special detachment of German police, Focus reported.

As Russia swiftly gained control of Ukrainian airspace and Russian units closed in on Kiev, Kahl was unable to reach this evacuation unit on time, the magazine continued. Instead, agents of the BND were sent in to take the spy chief to Poland on Friday.

Der Spiegel confirmed Focus’ reporting, saying that Kahl was brought to Poland in a convoy of vehicles, at the same time as droves of Ukrainian civilians made for the country’s EU borders.

https://www.rt.com/news/550650-german-intelligence-evacuated-kiev/

Resurfaced Video Shows Embarrassing Biden Comments on Trump and Ukraine in 2019: Unbelievable

Re-elect President Donald Trump and “imagine what can happen in Ukraine,” candidate Joe Biden said in 2019.

Now that Biden is president, there’s no need to imagine anything. Kyiv is facing Russian attacks described by Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba as “horrific.”

They’re the worst, Kuleba said, since the 1941 attacks by Nazi Germany.

But back to Biden. “Imagine what can happen,” he said three years ago, if Trump were to get a second term.

“It’s going to take a hell of a lot of work to make up for all of the damage he’s done internationally and nationally,” Biden said of Trump at the 2019 Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum Conference, according to Fox News. “His network of thugs and co-conspirators are going to continue to try to undermine our democracy in the meantime.

“Imagine what he can do in another year,” Biden continued. “Imagine what can happen in Ukraine.”

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/02/resurfaced-video-shows-embarrassing.html

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/02/resurfaced-video-shows-embarrassing.html

Zelensky sells a villa in Italy for 4.5 million euros – media (photo, video)

The head of state got a house in an elite resort, where there are only show business stars and oligarchs around

Zelensky owns a mansion in an elite resort. Collage “Today”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is getting rid of real estate not only in Ukraine. He owns a luxurious villa in one of the most expensive resorts in Italy, Forte dei Marmi. But it turns out that the head of state put up this house for sale for 4.5 million euros.

The journalists of the Country who visited the “presidential” villa learned about this.

Where is the house and how much did it buy

The resort of Forte dei Marmi is located in Tuscany on the coast of the Ligurian Sea.

https://globalhappenings.com/opinion/15391.html

George W. Bush condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine, calls for American unity

Former President George W. Bush condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a historic disaster and called for Americans to stand united in the face of strongman Vladimir Putin’s aggression.

“Russia’s attack on Ukraine constitutes the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II,” Bush said in a statement on Thursday issued from his home in Dallas.

Bush said he backs the international effort to push back against Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.”

He also called for all Americans to stand firm as the West defended Ukraine.

“The American government and people must stand united with the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people as they seek their freedom and right to choose their own future,” Bush said.

Bush took dead aim at Putin, calling him a bully who must be stopped.

“We cannot tolerate the authoritarian bullying and danger that Putin poses,” Bush said.

The statement amounted to an effort to unite as broad a swath of the American political world behind the effort to confront Russia.

Establishment Republican leaders have responded to the crisis with President Biden’s efforts to back Ukraine and confront Russia.

But former President Donald Trump, the party’s de facto leader, has praised Putin as a “genius” and repeated his euphemistic description of the Russian invading force as “peacekeepers.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/02/george-w-bush-condemns-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-calls-for-american-unity/

Biden SCOTUS nominee went beyond call of duty to defend terror suspects

Ketanji Brown Jackson's defense of Gitmo detainees and criticism of U.S. government likely to be spotlighted in confirmation process.

President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court represented suspected terrorists when she was a federal public defender, going well beyond a bare-bones defense to lambaste the U.S. government for some if its counterterrorism policies and broader approach to the War on Terror.

Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

Jackson's record will no doubt be heavily scrutinized in the coming days as the Senate prepares for its confirmation hearings. Perhaps no aspect of her past legal work will come under more scrutiny than her advocacy on behalf of prisoners detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison as enemy combatants for their alleged role in terrorist activities.

During her time in the federal public defender's office, Jackson represented Guantanamo detainees who challenged their imprisonment in a federal court in Washington, D.C.

One of the most prominent cases involved Jackson representing Khiali-Gul, who the Defense Department said was a Taliban intelligence officer in charge of a terrorist cell planning to attack a U.S. base in Afghanistan in 2002. He may have also met with Osama bin Laden in November 2001, according to government documents.

The Defense Department assessed that if released Gul would immediately "seek out prior associates and reengage in hostilities and extremist support activities."

Gul said he was innocent, claiming he had a job in the Afghan government and helped Americans.

During Jackson's confirmation hearings for her current position last year and to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2012, Republican senators grilled the nominee on her work for Guantanamo Bay detainees. Jackson, whose brother served in Iraq, responded she was just doing her job and public duty.

"In all of those situations, the views that were expressed were the views of my clients that I represented them in that capacity, and the briefs did not necessarily represent my personal views with regard to the War on Terror or anything else," she said in 2012.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/biden-scotus-nominee-went-beyond-call-duty-defend-terror-suspects

Russian Military Operation Prevented Launch Of U.S. Bio-Laboratories In Ukraine. Kiev Hiding Evidence

The Russian military special operation in Ukraine coincided with the planned launch of U.S. military biolaboratories in Kiev and Odessa. On February 26, the US Embassy in Ukraine rushed to delete all documents about 11 Pentagon-funded bio-laboratories in Ukraine from its website. All these documents (now deleted by the Embassy), you can read HERE.

In October 2021, the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the U.S. Department of Defense published on the U.S. government procurement website an additional agreement on “combating highly dangerous pathogens. The document concerns the final stage of work on the launch of two bio-laboratories in Ukraine: in Kiev and Odessa. The additional agreement covers the equipping and training of personnel and commissioning of the facilities. The cost of the work is 3.6 million dollars, but some figures in the document are hidden for reasons of secrecy. According to the document, the laboratories were more than 90 per cent ready. However, the projects’ completion was delayed up to seven months from the date of signing the document (July 2021), thus to the end of February 2022:

The laboratories in Ukraine were built within the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which was launched in 1991 and was aimed against Russia and the former Soviet Union. They were funded in frame of the Biological Threat Reduction Program. Cooperation between Ukraine and the United States in this field intensified after the first Maidan revolution in Ukraine in 2005.

You can read more on the U.S. bio-laboratories, including in Ukraine: HERE, HERE, HERE.

Two new laboratories are being created on the basis of the Kiev State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise and the Odessa division of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection. The main part of the Ukrainian collection of endemic strains of dangerous disease agents is stored in Odessa. The buildings of the new biolaboratories in Kiev and Odessa were built back in 2019, but were not put into operation.

The document above notice makes it clear that this project is important and urgent for the U.S. government: further potential delays are called unacceptable, and “DTRA requires the urgent completion and surrender of both laboratories to ensure the active and safe execution of the DTRA mission.”

Both facilities are owned and secured by the Government of Ukraine, but neither facility is currently performing active biological work because DTRA has asked the Ukrainian authorities not to begin work until acceptance and completion is complete, the procurement materials said.

Moscow has claimed its concern over the developing biological weapons near Russia’s borders. Russian President Vladimir Putin worried about the “purposeful and professional” collection of biomaterials of Russians by foreigners.

The on-going Russian military operation in Ukraine may stop the DTRA program in Ukraine. Anyway, the projects in Kiev and Odessa will be postponed if not cancelled. The U.S. has already spent over 2 billion dollars on such programs in Ukraine alone, and there are more in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.

Now, as Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine, Kiev seems to be in a rush to hide the evidence that the USA violates the convention on non-proliferation of biological weapons. The end of the Russian operation will show.

https://southfront.org/russian-military-operation-prevented-launch-of-u-s-bio-laboratories-in-ukraine-kiev-hiding-evidence/

Ukrainian Nazis Kill Civilians, As Russians Approach (Videos 18+)

On February 26, Ukrainian nazi forces killed a family, who were trying to leave the city of Mariupol. Then, they opened fire on other civilian cars.

Acting mayor of Berdyansk (to the west of Mariupol) Alexander Svidlo reported that Russian troops were moving toward Mariupol and the Berdiansk airport.

“Part of (Russian) forces that was near Primorsk went in the direction of Mariupol. Part of the heavy military equipment is heading near the village of Azovskoye, following cross-country terrain, towards Berdyansk airport. As for the shooting heard by the locals: we have no information about any strikes on residential buildings or infrastructure facilities“. – Svidlo claimed.

The troops are moving with air support from the Russian Air Force. The Russian Air Force conducted at least six strikes on UAF positions in Sartana, north of Mariupol.

Lots of videos in link

https://southfront.org/mariupol-trap-ukrainian-nazis-kill-civilians-as-russians-approach-videos-18/

'Godspeed Samuyil!' GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger Falls For Meme Identifying Sam Hyde As The 'Ghost Of Kyiv'

Neocon hack Adam Kinzinger fell for a blatantly photoshopped meme tweet identifying "Samuyil Hyde" as the mysterious "Ghost of Kyiv."

"The #ghostofkyiv has a name, and he has absolutely OWNED the Russian Airforce," Kinzinger tweeted on Friday in response to a photoshopped meme with comedian Sam Hyde's face plastered on a fighter pilot. "Godspeed and more kills, Samuyil!"

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62922