https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1508284408184426501?s=20&t=vivA-MypbrJPrwgJadKVRA
https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1508204699379449864?s=20&t=ywfTgu8nbZabHT3kJZ_tzw
Whos the brainwashed in America? Democrats
https://twitter.com/JosephWulfsohn/status/1507335538411515912?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw
I meant Who are the brainwashed
Jan. 6 Committee Claims Its ‘Digital Watergate’ Is Above The Law
BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE
MARCH 25, 2022
The Jan. 6 Committee claims to be above the law as it executes a digital Watergatedemanding supporter data from the RNC.
In a legal filing submitted Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s norm-breaking Committee on Jan. 6 claimed its open pursuit of opposition records in what is being called a modern-day “digital Watergate” is above the law.
An opposition memo filed in response to an RNC lawsuit over the committee’s broad subpoena demanding sensitive personal information on the party’s donors and supporters asserts Pelosi’s weaponized probe designed to persecute political dissidents is not subject to any executive or judicial oversight.
“The RNC cannot demonstrate a likelihood of success because the Speech or Debate Clause bars its lawsuit and its application for injunctive relief,” the committee wrote arguing the Constitution’s protection of congressional independence. “The Clause provides that ‘any Speech or Debate in either House, [Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place.'”
Citing case law wherein the Supreme Court protected outside interference with the legislative process, the probe’s lawyers argued the legislative branch’s independence is absolute. The Jan. 6 Committee, however, is operating with no legitimate legislative purpose, lacks any minority-appointed lawmakers, and is operating without a ranking member. The only Republicans serving on Pelosi’s Select Committee are Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., both of whom were hand-picked by the speaker. Pelosi notoriously barred GOP appointments from Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, blowing up her own committee. In Wyoming, the state party no longer recognizes Cheney as Republican. The Republican National Committee censured Cheney for her obsessive work on behalf of Pelosi. She laughed about her alienation from Republican voters earlier this week.
The Jan. 6 Committee’s claims to be above the law as it executes a “digital Watergate” demanding supporter data from the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) conjures memories of former President Richard Nixon’s insistence that “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
Five decades apart, the two cases of political warfare are different only by way of method and ability to conduct illegal opposition research openly.
In 1972, a team of political operatives broke into the Watergate complex to steal confidential strategic information from the DNC. When the operation became public, the scandal led to the first and only resignation in presidential history.
In 2022, Democrats on the Jan. 6 Committee, who’ve admitted the partisan probe is all about the midterms, are seeking confidential strategic information from Republicans in the form of a subpoena issued under questionable authority. The subpoena targets Republican financial records housed with the database firm Salesforce, requiring the party to hand over detailed personal information about Republican supporters and their engagement with the party.
“What the Salesforce subpoena demands is for the company to hand over the ‘Holy Grail’ of the RNC’s internal digital playbook,” the NRSC wrote in an amicus brief to the RNC lawsuit, with millions spent to compile its treasure trove of data. The NRSC calls the Jan. 6 Committee’s operation a “digital-age Watergate.”
While the Jan. 6 Committee claimed in its opposition memo the subpoena is “narrowly tailored,” its compliance would require the Republican Party to reveal its digital strategy and identification of its supporters to ideological state actors running the partisan probe with an explicit vengeance. The committee has already selectively leaked private communications obtained through its subpoenas to smear dissidents to friendly media while manipulating other texts to promote a political narrative….
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/25/jan-6-committee-claims-its-digital-watergate-is-above-the-law/
28 Mar, 2022 12:44
HomeBusiness News
G7 rejects Russian demand to pay for gas in rubles
Bloc sees payment switch as breach of current contracts
The Group of Seven major economies have collectively agreed to reject Moscow’s demand to pay for gas imports from Russia in rubles, according to German Energy Minister Robert Habeck.
“All G7 ministers agreed completely that this [would be] a one-sided and clear breach of the existing contracts,” Habeck told journalists on Monday.
The minister added that “payment in rubles is not acceptable” and that the nations will urge the companies affected “not to follow” the demand issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.
On Monday, Putin ordered the government, the central bank, and Gazprombank to develop the necessary tools to switch all payments for Russian natural gas from “unfriendly states” to rubles from March 31.
This includes countries that have targeted Russia’s financial system and seized its foreign reserves in response to the crisis in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saidRussia will stop shipping natural gas to countries that reject the demand.
https://www.rt.com/business/552844-g7-rejects-rubles-gas/
28 Mar, 2022 12:07
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Germans told to wear a sweater to cope with soaring energy prices
Now they are punishing citizens for the bad decisions they made, using the citizens tax money
The European Union has announced a plan to phase out its dependence on Russian fossil fuels by 2030
Germans told to wear a sweater to cope with soaring energy prices
Baden-Württemberg Minister of Agriculture and Consumer Protection Peter Hauk has backed a complete German ban on importing gas and oil from Russia in response to Moscow’s military assault on Ukraine.
Hauk supported the response to Russia’s actions despite the impact it could have on his country’s own citizens, who are already struggling with soaring energy prices that make it challenging for them to heat their homes.
“You can withstand 15 degrees [Celsius] in winter in a sweater. No one dies of it.But people are dying elsewhere,” Hauk said, referencing the toll Russia has inflicted on Ukraine.
The comments from the politician, who is a member of the Christian Democratic Union party, elicited a strong response from the German Tenants’ Association, which retorted that it showed no understanding of the needs of the elderly or those working from home.
Although the association conceded that Europe needed to reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels, it warned that lowering the room temperature and relying instead on wearing more clothing could lead to people falling ill during the winter months. “With a ministerial salary or a presidential pension, you can afford exploding energy costs and do not need to freeze yourself,” Stuttgart state chairman Rolf Gassmann said.
The association went on to remind Gassmann that, with regard to rented accommodation, German landlords have a legal obligation to ensure rooms can be heated to 22 degrees Celsius and to install proper ventilation to prevent moisture buildup and mold infestation.
The European Union is to phase out its reliance on oil and gas from Russia by 2030, beginning by reducing its demand for Russian gas by two-thirds this year. The region “cannot rely on a supplier who explicitly threatens us,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
https://www.rt.com/news/552839-germans-sweater-energy-prices-russia/
28 Mar, 2022 13:53
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There is no substitute for Russian oil – UAE
Country provides critical supplies to global market, energy minister says
The world’s energy markets need Russian oil and no producer can replace it, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Energy Suhail al-Mazrouei said on Monday.
Russia produces some 10 million barrels of oil a day, which makes it a critical member of the OPEC+ energy alliance, al-Mazrouei explained during an energy forum in Dubai.
“Leaving the politics aside, that volume is needed today,” he insisted, adding that “unless someone is willing to come and deliver that amount, we don’t see that someone can substitute Russia.”
Russia is the world’s second biggest crude exporter after Saudi Arabia. Following Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, some nations, led by the US, have pledged to stop buying Russian oil and gas. The United States, Europe, and others have been calling on Gulf Arab oil producers to ramp up production and help bring down crude prices, which at one point shot above $120 a barrel.
The International Energy Agency announced earlier this month that it had decided to release 60 million barrels of oil from its emergency reserves, saying that global oil markets were already tight with highly volatile prices and commercial inventories at their lowest level since 2014.
Many have expressed doubts, however, about whether it was possible to ditch Russia’s energy resources.
Last week, the EU stepped back from imposing an embargo on Russian crude and petroleum products, despite pressure from the US. An immediate embargo on Russia’s fossil fuels “from one day to the next would mean plunging our country and the whole of Europe into a recession,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said last week. Europe gets nearly 30% of its crude and roughly 50% of its petroleum products from Russia.
Reducing dependence on natural gas – something that the EU hopes to achieve over the next few years – may prove difficult as well. Qatar – which holds the third-largest natural gas reserves in the world – said last week that it was practically impossible to replace Russian gas on the European market, as between 30 and 40% of the total volume of gas supplied to the world market comes from Russia.
Question: what happens ro these energy producers when “free energy solutions” come?
https://www.rt.com/business/552843-no-substitute-russian-oil/
28 Mar, 2022 13:07
Offenses against Russians in Germany skyrocket
Number of hate crimes against Russians spiked due to the conflict in Ukraine, police say
Russian speakers in Germany are assaulted on a daily basis as hate crimes against people of Russian and Ukrainian origin have spiked in the country, reaching astaggering 200 cases every week, according to Germany’s police chief.
“There are criminal offenses against members of our society of Russian origin as well as against members of Ukrainian origin. We are currently counting a good 200 such crimes a week, the majority of which are anti-Russian,” Holger Münch, the president of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, said.
“We will continue to experience new highs in the area of politically motivated crime in the face of new social challenges,” the police chief concluded, in the same interview with German newspaper RND.
Since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, there have been numerous reports of hate crimes against Russians all across Europe. The offenses vary from insults and threats to physical assaults. Russian-owned businesses are being vandalized and destroyed.
Previously, international human-rights group Save the Children has called out the bullying of Russian kids in Denmark. The activists say Russian kids get abused at school and online due to their ethnic origin.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552845-hate-crimes-germany-skyrocket/
It used to cost $600 a few years ago
Hes not going to buckle, they should know that by now
All the money for global warning is a gigantic slush fund for politicians, so they really dont care if people freeze, they are trying to figure out a way to raise taxes without citizens involved
Theyd prefer not to have citizens, part of the depopulation agenda
It wont last, isnt he getting gold too? Hes trying to make the ruble take precedence over the dollar, and with their help of sanctiobs its working. He knew drastic samctions would happen so he prepared for 8 years for every possibility
They dont make it clear why it’s unacceptable to pay in rubles, meaning they think the G7 has greater power than Russia has. Which is not true
Trump was right, as always
So true almost every law they think up is to make it look they are helping us, when in facts the caveats in them help now and negate any effect of helping our citizens.
Look up HOA laws that do nothing to penalize the HOA but make homeowners pay a ton in attorney fees for something that should not have cost anything
In the news
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on CapitolHill, March 24.
Kimberley A. Strassel
March 24, 2022 6:33 pm ET
Photo: JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS
So with no small delight, Republicans spent the week highlighting the extent to which Judge Jackson’s nomination was driven by covert left-wing front groups funded by much bigger checks with the aim of influencing the high court. The reason Mr. Whitehouse is such an expert on “dark money” is that his side has used it longer, and does so far bigger and better. With the Jackson nomination exposing this truth, maybe Washington can finally have a more honest debate about what’s really at stake: free speech.
The term “dark money” came into existence only 12 years ago, when the left-leaning Sunlight Foundation used it in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Both sides had long had nonprofits, and both had long understood the importance of applying First Amendment protections to donors. Yet the left resented that Citizens United opened a path for a growing conservative nonprofit movement to compete more directly in the political arena. President Obama launched a campaign against “shadowy” right-wing groups and donors, inspiring the Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting and intimidation of conservative nonprofits.
The news of the week in context.
The slurs against conservatives deflected from the left’s own “dark money” operation—which dwarfs anything on the right, including in Supreme Court fights. The left pioneered this activism in 1987, when a “dark money” outfit known as People for the American Way spent $1.5 million on attack ads against Robert Bork.
The left’s new high-court power player is Demand Justice, whose mark on the Jackson nomination is anything but secret. Demand Justice spearheaded campaigns against Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, including vicious attacks on Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It issued “grades” of Senate Democrats, rating their efforts to halt Trump appointments, and is a leading advocate of court-packing. It led the pressure campaign on Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, even hiring a billboard truck reading “Breyer, retire” to circle the Supreme Court.
Demand Justice in 2019 issued a “shortlist” of acceptable liberal picks to the Supreme Court, and this month it invested $1 million in an ad campaign for Judge Jackson. Not that Demand Justice needed ads to exercise sway. White House press secretary Jen Psaki is a former communications consultant to the group. Senior White House counsel Paige Herwig —assigned to shepherd the Biden pick—was deputy counsel at Demand Justice. And the group’s executive director, Brian Fallon, is a former communications director for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Demand Justice was a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which the Atlantic calls the “indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money.” Mr. Whitehouse loves to accuse the Federalist Society of collecting $400 million in “dark” donations over four years. The Sixteen Thirty Fund doled out $410 million in “dark” funding in 2020 alone.
The fund was itself seeded by an array of dark-money outfits; operates alongside a dark-money sister nonprofit (New Venture Fund) that makes grants to dark-money left-wing causes; and is managed by Arabella Advisers, which oversees a network of dark-money liberal nonprofits. Mr. Whitehouse would need the rest of his life to untangle this web if he honestly cared about revealing dark money.
He doesn’t, as this week amusingly exposed. The senator furiously tried and failed to revert attention back to “right wing” dollars, at one point contorting himself into a defense of liberal dark money. The Jackson hearings made clear the only thing Mr. Whitehouse and his media partisans care about is winning. Their goal is to muzzle the right, using “disclosure” to unleash liberal mobs that will intimidate conservative donors into submission. Barring new disclosure rules (which liberal nonprofits oppose), he’ll use the dark-money issue to paint opponents as sneaky and corrupt. That gets harder now, even as the media spent the week portraying GOP senators as hypocrites.
Republicans would have been smarter this week to have done more than just point out the “dark money” reality. This was a chance to stand up for free speech. Both sides exercised it during the Trump nominations; both sides are exercising it now. It can be ugly, but it is fundamental to American political debate, and neither side has a monopoly. Or at least not so long as Mr. Whitehouse fails to sell his partisan “dark money” agenda.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-jackson-and-dark-money-sheldon-whitehouse-partisan-agenda-free-speech-gop-democrats-11648160197
Basic bottom dems use dark money and a lot more, and then accuse republicans of using it more, which is ludicrous. And how the dems always fight dirty to win
https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1507805006166212608?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw
Long but good article
Regime Change Biden Goes Nuts
Beltway Republicans also deranged and hysterical
https://supermacro.substack.com/p/regime-change-biden-goes-nuts?r=23dzz&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1507831081009045511?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1507706447936774158?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw
VOX lies about the motive, now it’s justified
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1507706447936774158?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw
https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1508163757683453957?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw
Yeah sure shill! You are so outraged she exposed the truth and what you guys are up to
Your conspiracy theory is really nuts agent, go back to the drawing board
Theory on why they are announcing world leaders, etc are publicly saying they have covid.
They wont let covid die. They will back to it, but the subtle programming, they are all safe because of the jab, and they add a little religion, thank god
28 Mar, 2022 14:57
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Russia sets out its position on West’s mediation in Ukraine talks
Moscow’s Western partners “can’t be trusted anymore,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says
Moscow is eager for a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, but it won’t be needing any Western mediation during its talks with Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
“We’re ready to give diplomacy a chance. That’s why we agreed to the talks, which are resuming in Istanbul,” Lavrov said during a video conference on Monday with the Serbian media. The discussions are scheduled to continue on Tuesday.
The Turkish government, which has good ties with both Russia and Ukraine, has been putting a great deal of effort into getting the two sides around the negotiating table. But there’s no need to include the EU or the US – which support Kiev in the conflict – in the peace process, according to the minister.
“There are many examples of times when the achievements of diplomacy were shattered by Western colleagues. They can’t be trusted anymore,” Lavrov opined.
“I wouldn’t want to see any shuttle diplomacy from our Western partners, because they’ve already done their ‘shuttling’ – in February 2014 in Ukraine and in February 2015 in Minsk,” he added.
In February 2014, the EU became the guarantor of the agreements between Ukraine’s then-president Viktor Yanukovych and the Maidan protesters in Kiev, Lavrov reminded viewers. “It was a pinnacle of diplomacy. But, the next morning, the opposition spat on that diplomacy, and the EU had to swallow it.”
Yanukovich ended up being deposed after violent clashes and fleeing the country, and the new Ukrainian authorities soon sent its military to the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, where most of the population refused to recognize the coup in the capital.
In September of the same year, the Minsk I agreement between the breakaway republics and the government in Kiev was achieved in the Belarusian capital of that name, having been negotiated by Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France in the so-called Normandy Format. The deal called on the two sides to stop fighting, organize prisoner exchanges, allow deliveries of humanitarian aid, and withdraw heavy weaponry.
“The diplomacy then reached new heights in February 2015, when the agreements that were signed in Minsk ended the war in eastern Ukraine and opened the way to restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity by granting a special status to the Donbass,” the minister continued.
The second agreement, Minsk II, introduced another ceasefire and paved the way for administrative and political reform in Ukraine as well as for autonomy and local elections in the Donbass republics. However, Kiev’s Western backers were subsequently unable to persuade the Ukrainian government to fulfil its promises.
“The European Union has proven its incompetence as an organization that is capable of fulfilling the agreements being reached,” Lavrov said.
https://www.rt.com/news/552849-lavrov-ukraine-talks-eu/
28 Mar, 2022 14:43
Diplomatic war between EU and Russia escalates
Northern Macedonia expels five Russian diplomats, while Moscow sends three employees of Slovak embassy home
North Macedonia has declared five Russian diplomats ‘persona non grata’ in the latest round of diplomatic war, which has significantly escalated since Moscow launched its attack on Ukraine at the end of February.
On Monday, the Russian ambassador to North Macedonia, Sergey Bazdnikin, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and handed a note verbale with which five staff members of the Embassy of the Russian Federation were declared persona non grata in North Macedonia.
“According to the information received from the relevant authorities, the five Russian diplomats in question were engaging in activities contrary to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and are to leave the territory of the Republic of North Macedonian in the next five days,” the ministry said in a statement.
The announcement follows a recent decision by the North Macedonian authorities to abolish the visa-free program for Russian citizens.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday made its own move by summoning Slovak ambassador Lubomir Regak and informing him of the expulsion of three Slovak diplomats.
“They were ordered to leave Russia within 72 hours,” the ministry said.
It specified that the measure had been taken “as a response to the expulsion in March this year of three employees of the Russian embassy in Slovakia.”
The Russian side has also expressed “strong protest” in connection with the “obstruction of the work” of Russian state entities abroad, as well as in relation to vandalism incidents against Soviet memorials in Slovakia, which, according to Moscow, have recently become more frequent.
In mid-March, Slovakia expelled three Russian diplomats for the alleged violation of the Vienna Convention. This month saw several other countries – Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – taking similar steps. Poland has expelled 45 diplomats – almost three quarters of the total size of the diplomatic mission – also on suspicion of espionage.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswomanMaria Zakharova made it clear that all “unfounded” expulsions would be met with an “appropriate response” from Moscow.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552853-diplomatic-war-russia-expulsions/
28 Mar, 2022 08:03
India ready to bypass dollar in trade with Russia
A mechanism allowing the switch to domestic currencies is expected to be operational this week
A system allowing direct rupee-ruble payments in trade between Russia and India could be launched this week, the president of the Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO), A Sakthivel, told CNBC on Wednesday. The arrangement would allow India and Russia to carry out financial operations bypassing the US dollar. Russia is effectively blocked from using US currency due to Western sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine.
According to the official, the Indian government is working on a proposal to allow up to five nationalized Indian banks to be engaged in the rupee-ruble trade mechanism, and discussions between the central bank governor, the finance minister, and the banks on the matter have already been held. The arrangement would let Indian exporters continue doing business with Russia despite sanctions banning, among other things, international payment mechanisms in the country, such as SWIFT. It would also let India continue buying Russian energy exports and other goods.
According to Sakthivel, the Indian economy could profit from sanctions Russia is facing, as they give Indian exporters an opportunity to expand on the Russian market.
“Export to Russia is not much, only in agriculture and pharmacy products. Now that the whole of the West is banning Russia, there will be a lot of opportunities for Indian firms to enter Russia,” he stated.
India’s finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India have not yet commented on the new trade arrangement.
Unlike the US and the EU, India has not criticized Russia over its military operation in Ukraine, and has abstained from condemning Moscow during the recent UN voting rounds. When asked whether India’s continued commerce with Russia would draw Western ire, Sakthivel said his country had taken a “neutral stand” on the situation in Ukraine.
“The government will take into account all the factors. The government is playing it very carefully,” he stressed.
India exported $3.3 billion worth of goods to Russia in 2021, mostly pharmaceutical products, tea, and coffee. In terms of imports, India bought $6.9 billion worth of Russian products, including arms and defense goods, mineral resources, fertilizers, metals, diamonds and other precious stones. India also imports Russian oil, with recent media reports stating that the country’s major refiner, Indian Oil Corp, has stepped up purchases of Russian crude over the past month. India is also reportedly considering buying raw materials from Russia and Belarus for fertilizer production amid skyrocketing commodities’ prices.
https://www.rt.com/business/552531-india-russia-ruble-trade-deal/
Even little children?
He’s always been evil, just like the rest of them
That guy is cleaning up the everglades, good for him
You notice how they release these items when all hell breaks lose around the world, thinking people will miss a bombshell
And the FBi still has not released all the documents relating to Obamagate that Trump demanded
Kinzinger loves war, and lying a lot
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1505648733907992577?s=20&t=0TCBDM-P-mS0mBrUTLInBw