POSO Did not Post that handmade tweet. Its a lie!
This is a pic of POSo’s last tweet,Trump has not been arrested, this is a lielook at my time stamp
I refreshed his site a couple of times
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1511341251077058568?s=20&t=_8vIkmK7c6FPk9SfjCh6dw
https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1511158416391098368?s=20&t=SQiznhSATJrMFY8krG80VQ
5 Apr, 2022 14:42
Casualties feared after alleged Ukrainian chemical plant attack
Local authorities in Donbass are gathering information on casualties from the explosion
Retreating Ukrainian forces have allegedly blown up a tank allegedly containing hydrochloric acid, at a chemical plant in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) town of Rubezhnoe, which has emerged as a flashpoint in the ongoing military conflict.
The tank explosion was aimed at a populated area, controlled by local fighters, the LPR's militia claimed on Tuesday.
“[These] terrorist actions might lead to mass civilian casualties,” the force warned on its Telegram channel, adding that authorities are currently collecting information about any casualties resulting from the incident.
The LPR has also accused Ukrainian media of “actively spreading fakes” thatDonbass fighters had blown up the tank themselves. They said Kiev has been doing this in order to cover up “the criminal terrorist actions” of its own forces.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Kiev-nominated governor of Lugansk, Sergey Gaidai, stated in his Telegram channel that a Russian projectile had hit a nitric acid tank in the area, and called on local residents to stay indoors and close all doors and windows, as well as to prepare wet face masks.
“Nitric acid is dangerous if inhaled or swallowed,” he warned. It is unclear if he was referring to the same incident or to a different one. Ukrainian authorities have not commented on the allegations leveled by the Donbass militias so far. Neither have Russian officials or the country's military.
The incident occurred on Tuesday at the ‘Zarya’ chemical plant, once one of Ukraine’s leading chemical enterprises. Videos reportedly taken at the scene and published by the RIA news agency show thick, orange-tinged smoke billowing over the area, which has some residential buildings.
The plant has storage facilities for sulfuric and hydrochloric acid. When released into the atmosphere, strong hydrochloric acid might produce a toxic fog affecting people’s eyes and airways. If mixed with various oxidizers like potassium permanganate, it releases highly toxic chlorine gas.
In early March, Moscow warned the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) about potential false-flag attacks staged by the Ukrainian radicals that might involve the use of toxic chemical agents. “•=Ukrainian radical groups aided by the American security services have developed several potential scenarios of using toxic chemicals to stage various false flag attacks==,” Russia’s statement to the OPCW said at that time.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553347-ukraine-attack-chemical-plant-casualties/
5 Apr, 2022 14:33
Alleged execution of Russian POWs captured on video
Ukrainian forces have violated the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, the Russian Investigative Committee says
These Ukrainian demons released from hell, will kill anyone and anything.Does Ukraine have an opening to hell itself? I think so.
A gruesome clip emerged on social media on Tuesday, purportedly showing the execution of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops.
The video starts with the apparent murder of a severely wounded Russian serviceman, who was lying on a road. “Look, he’s still alive. He’s wheezing,” a voice said off screen before shots were fired at the defenseless soldier.
It then shows the bodies of several more Russians, scattered on the ground nearby in puddles of blood, as armed men with Ukrainian military insignia on their uniforms cheer as they walk among them.
At least one of the prisoners of war in the footage has his hands tied behind his back, andwas apparently executed with a shot to the head at point-blank range. Some media outlets suggested that other soldiers may have had their throats slit.
The Ukrainian troops in the video are seen shouting “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!” – a slogan belonging to World War Two Nazi collaborators which has been adopted by the country’s military – and discussing what gear they could loot from the corpses.
The video is so graphic that RT is unable to share it.
The location and date on which the clip was recorded are currently unclear. But Russian media said it may have been filmed in the same area outside Kiev as a video published by the UNIAN news agency on March 30. This footage didn’t show the execution of POWs, but apparently featured at least one of the same Ukrainian fighters and the same seized Russian armored vehicle.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case, with experts being tasked with establishing the circumstances of the incident, its date and location, as well the identities of the Ukrainian troops who feature in it.
“The servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other Ukrainian armed units have committed a harsh violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War,” the agency insisted.
This is not the first time during the conflict that a video has been posted online purportedly showing mistreatment of captured Russian troops by the Ukrainian military.
In late March, footage emerged of a brutal interrogation of POWs, during which they were shot in the legs at point-blank range. Some troops apparently didn’t survive the questioning. According to the Investigative Committee, the incident may have taken place at a military compound used by “nationalist” units in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkov.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553340-ukraine-pows-execution-investigation/
5 Apr, 2022 14:00
Japan discloses revised military plans
Tokyo might boost defense spending despite its pacifist constitution
Japanese Minister of Defense Nobuo Kishi declared on Monday that his ministry might request a larger budget for the next fiscal year to bolster Tokyo’s ability to stand up to a possible military threat coming from any regional power.
The Asian nation’s new desire to level up its military might comes despite Japan’s allegiance to an exclusively defense-oriented policy under the country’s constitution.
“The defense budget is a major indicator that shows the nation’s will. We want to ensure a budget that is enough to strengthen our defense capabilities drastically,” said Kishi in an interview with the Kyodo news outlet.
The defense minister has argued that Japan needs to prop up its army due to an increasingly severe regional security environment. In particular, he has cautioned against China's intensifying military assertiveness and North Korea's nuclear threat.
Japan’s fears over North Korea are growing as Pyongyang is testing new intercontinental ballistic missiles. Tokyo is also increasingly concerned with Beijing’s claims of sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, an uninhabited Japanese archipelago in the East China Sea.
Meanwhile, Kishi has not mentioned Tokyo’s territorial dispute with Moscow over the Kuril Islands, a Russian archipelago that Japanese authorities deem “illegally occupied.”
Earlier, the Kremlin scrapped peace talks with the land of the rising sun and tightened visa restrictions for Japanese citizens in response to Tokyo imposing anti-Russian sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine. Formally,Russia and Japan never signed a peace treaty after the end of the Second World War.
The Japanese war-renouncing constitution was adopted under the American occupation in 1947. It has significantly limited the war capabilities of the previously militaristic nation. However, in the last decade, Japan’s defense budget has been growing annually. For the current fiscal year, it has exceeded a record-high $44 billion, which amounts to nearly 1 percent of the country’s GDP.
https://www.rt.com/news/553343-japan-reveals-military-plans/
5 Apr, 2022 13:28
Russian Ruble has defied sanctions – EU
Josep Borrell acknowledged the resistance the Russian ruble has shown in the face of international sanctions
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has commended the Russian ruble on its resilience in the face of international sanctions, imposed in light of the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine.
“The ruble has shown a strong resistance capacity. Putin now insists that they pay him for gas in rubles to maintain the currency. We’ll see what happens,“ Borrell told Spanish COPE outlet on Tuesday.
The statement comes as the ruble has recently made a recovery and bounced back almost to its value in February, despite tsweeping sanctions imposed by the West over Moscow's military offensive in Ukraine.
Previously, the Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki used the currency's position as evidence of Western sanctions having no effect on Russia. “I must say this very clearly: The sanctions we have imposed so far don’t workKekkity. The best evidence is the ruble exchange rate,” said Morawiecki on Saturday.
The strengthening of the ruble comes after Russia decided to switch to its national currency for gas payments when dealing with “unfriendly” countries, in an effort to secure Russia’s ability to trade and receive payments despite the economic sanctions imposed by the West against its foreign assets.
“Amid this growing distrust toward reserve currencies [US dollar and euro], the president put forward the idea of the necessity of hedging risks so that [Western states] would not try to rob us again. And therefore we introduced this [mechanism] of payments in rubles … for the most important commodities. In this case, we are talking about natural gas,” Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov explained, adding that the move did not aim to “punch anyone in the nose.”
Russia’s proposal to have gas paid for in rubles did not sit well with the EU and many of its members have publicly declined to comply. However, after the Kremlin declared that all existing contracts would be halted unless the payments were received in rubles, some European nations such as Slovakia – which is still heavily reliant on Russian energy imports – decided they would abide by the new rules.
https://www.rt.com/news/553339-russian-ruble-eu-borrell/
5 Apr, 2022 13:18
EU unveils new sanctions on Moscow
Restrictions do not target Russian oil and natural gas imports
The European Commission has proposed a broad new package of sanctions against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. They include restrictions on Russian coal imports, bans on more banks and ships entering European ports. However, Brussels has avoided targeting imports of oil and natural gas from Russia.
According to RIA Novosti news agency, the new set of restrictions announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen includes a €4 billion ($4.4 billion) ban on coal imports from Russia; a complete ban on any transactions with four Russian banks, including VTB; a ban on Russian ships entering European ports, except for food and energy deliveries; a €5.5 billion ($6 billion) ban on imports of goods from Russia, including timber, cement, seafood and spirits.
Bans on some exports to Russia in the amount of €10 billion ($11 billion), including semiconductor products, machinery and transport equipment, will also be introduced.
The latest EU sanctions appear to have avoided oil and gas imports from Russia. The issue has split member countries, which are heavily dependent on Russian energy.
Russia covers roughly 40% of the EU’s natural gas needs, along with some 30% of its crude oil demand, and about half of its thermal coal, which is used to fuel power stations and generate electricity.
Thermal coal is the only fossil fuel targeted by the new restrictions, although they fall short of a complete ban. To put the €4 billion ($4.4 billion) ban on coal imports in perspective, the EU imported roughly €2 trillion ($2.2 trillion) worth of Russian coal in 2021, according to Statista’s figures. The amount of Russian coal imports targeted by the new measure would represent about 0.2%.
Since the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the EU has imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow, and has pledged to reduce its dependency on energy imports from Russia.
The measures still have to be approved by the bloc’s 27 member states.
Wakey Wakey World, you are fighting against Russians, what did you think would happen? Russia is showing the EU, US and world how powerless they really are! Because Russia planned for 8 years, they knew the betrayal they had already experienced from the west, since the early 1990’s.
https://www.rt.com/business/553336-eu-new-sanctions-russia/
Actually it will help all upcoming elections and 2024, and may prevent the rigging into the future
Next Facebook and google need to be defanged, and soon!
Just wait until Durham receals the lie of DNC hacking, the Ukrainian Connections, Politicians involved including the GOP leadership and the multiple countries involved including Switzerland, the Vatican, Israel and others. Oh and wait until he includes all the media empires that colluded. This investigation dwarfes watergate by a million times and will be the karmic recompense for the assassination of JFK! Planetary Justice is coming.
Anons have done a map of all the connections right? Can this be reposted? Durham is only starting
That was in battle, not when they were captured. Different laws
They will only mention it if Russia harmed him, otherwise they’ll keep it quiet
A couple of other conservative billionaires need to join him amd buy up a major portion of the company. Why is Elon limited to buy no more than 14.9% of shares?
Poso never posted a tweet he was arrested, I proved it earlier
Baker these posts aboutTrump being arrested is a lie and definitely NOT notable
The same insane anon keeps posting this lie
Poso never posted that this was his latest tweet when i captured it around 11 an
Not notable at all baker
Honestly she is probably the ugliest diversity hire theyve evet done, except maybe lightfoot
His whole family hes got a bunch if trusts, possibly the most corrupt senator of all time. The mafia were hid partners
Good
5 Apr, 2022 15:09
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Russia claims Ukraine may execute Crimean POWs
Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova received a list of Crimean officers branded as “unexchangeable” by Ukrainian authorities
I bet you Russia had one or more soldiers filming the carnage as said before
Russia's human rights ombudsman has pledged to investigate information that some Crimean officers, held captive in Ukraine, have been allegedly designated by the Kiev authorities as “unexchangeable” and could even be subject to execution.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Tatiana Moskalkova confirmed that Russia and Ukraine had earlier conducted an exchange of prisoners in the “86 to 86 format.”
She also said she was given a list of some Crimean officers, whom Ukrainian authorities allegedly would not allow to be exchanged, and who, she fears, may face execution.
“I will check, make inquiries with the Ukrainian side, check with international bodies,” Moskalkova said, without specifying the source of her information.
She specified that she would send “footage and evidence that are publicly available today” to the UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights and to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe “so that the whole world knows the truth.”
The ombudsman’s remarks came a few days after her previous statement, when she said that Russia has been fully committed to the Geneva Convention in its treatment of war prisoners, and that captured Ukrainians have been kept in “ideal” conditions.
Meanwhile, since the beginning of the Russian military attack in Ukraine on February 24, Moscow and Kiev have accused each other of inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and of violating the Geneva Convention.
On Monday, Moskalkova’s Ukrainian counterpart, Lyudmila Denisova, citing the wife of one of the country’s National Guard members, claimed that several officers were allegedly captured by the Russian forces on February 24 and held in an unknown location ever since, “starving and not given water.”
“By doing so, the occupying country grossly violates the terms of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in particular Article 26 of the Convention, which guarantees adequate nutrition for prisoners of war,” Denisova said.
She urged the UN and OSCE to take this information “into account” and to investigate alleged human rights violations by Russia.
The last few days have also seen a new wave of mutual accusations of war crimes. On Saturday, Ukraine distributed graphic footage of multiple corpses lying in the streets of the suburban town of Bucha northwest of Kiev, saying that they were executed by Russian troops. Moscow, which insists that it is not targeting civilians during its ‘operation’ in Ukraine, has rejected those accusations as a provocation and a false flag operation by Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553348-moskalkova-ombudsman-prisoners-ukraine/
5 Apr, 2022 13:29
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EU leaders announce Kiev visit
Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell will visit Ukrainian capital this week, spokesman says
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrell are to visit the Ukrainian capital this week, a spokesman for the chief commissioner announced on Tuesday.
The two senior officials will meet President Volodymyr Zelensky in person before going to Warsaw on Saturday for an event expressing the bloc's solidarity with the country, Eric Mamer, chief spokesman for von der Leyen, wrote on Twitter.
The Stand Up For Ukraine event in the Polish capital was organized by the EU and Canada “to raise funding and other types of support to cater for the needs of internally displaced people in Ukraine and of refugees,” according to an EU statement. Western celebrities, including Bono, Madonna, Elton John, Miley Cyrus, Adam Lambert, Céline Dion and Alanis Morissette are expected to participate. Poland is the primary destination for Ukrainians fleeing violence in their country since Russia’s military offensive was launched in late-February.
Why if its SO dangerous in Ukraine are leaders & diplomats going there??
https://www.rt.com/russia/553338-eu-officials-kiev-visit/
5 Apr, 2022 15:59
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Released docs show how Australian government misled citizens
The authorities have sought to undermine digital privacy since at least 2015
Online news outlet Al Jazeera published previously unseen and heavily redacted documents on Tuesday after grappling with the Australian government for nearly five years over a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The documents paint a troubling picture of the closed-door conversations that preceded the Assistance and Access Act, far-reaching legislation announced in 2017 that became law the following year.
The law forces tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple to grant police access to users’ encrypted data. It includes steep fines to punish companies that refuse to turn over private data to police. Individual citizens who refuse to cooperate could face prison time under the uniquely harsh policy.
Revelations from the documents include a November 2015 letter in which Australia’s Attorney-General’s Department addressed the heads of intelligence and law enforcement agencies about “broader plans to improve the Telecommunications (Intercept and Access) Act 1979.” It asked for input “to better understand the broader operational and technological context” ahead of advising legislators on how best to tackle encryption on behalf of law enforcement.
The letter says that the Austrialian government “has indicated publicly that it favors strong encryption, but has also acknowledged that this technology is misused by criminals and terrorists,” a theme echoed in officials’ consultation with Australian tech firms. Writing to the elite of the country’s tech sector, then-Secretary of Communications and the Arts Heather Smith assured them that “government will not require the creation of so-called ‘back doors’ to encryption,” but was merely “seeking collaboration with, and reasonable assistance from, our industry partners in the pursuit of public safety.”
Tech companies and opposition leaders in Australia’s parliament were against the Assistance and Access Act due to fears that deliberately introducing systemic weaknesses – so-called “back door” vulnerabilities to bypass encryption – would compromise the privacy of law-abiding Australians, make the country’s infrastructure less secure, and complicate the process by which Australian police work with foreign agencies on international law enforcement.
Encryption, a perennial frustration for governments in their fight against terrorism and organized crime, was a matter of widespread public debate in 2015 when Apple famously refused to turn private data over to the FBI, which the latter deemed crucial to its investigation into a mass shooting and attempted bombing in San Bernadino, California.
https://www.rt.com/news/553351-australia-digital-privacy-encrypted-data/
5 Apr, 2022 14:25
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Russian bailiffs target US tech giant
Moscow seeks to forcibly recover $24mn fine from Facebook owner Meta
Russian bailiffs are seeking to forcibly recover a 2 billion ruble fine (approximately $24 million) from the American company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram and is designated by Moscow as an extremist organization.
According to the Federal Bailiffs Service (FSSP) database, the enforcement proceedings were launched on March 24 in accordance with a decision by the capital's Tagansky District Court. Meta’s “systematic failure to delete prohibited information” was listed as the reason for issuing a fine of 1,990,984,950.05 rubles.
On February 15, the Tagansky district court in Moscow upheld the fine for Meta, which was imposed in December 2021. Minimum turnover fines on the company and another American tech giant, Google, in the amount of 5% of their 2020 revenue, were issued for their multiple refusals to remove information considered illegal in Russia. The fine for Meta exceeded 1.99 billion rubles, the penalty for Google – 7.2 billion rubles (more than $86 million). Meta appealed the decision but the bid was unsuccessful.
On March 21, the Tverskoy district court in Moscow, backed by the Federal Security Service, banned Meta’s social media platforms Facebook and Instagram as extremist organizations. The decision was taken on the same grounds: According to the case correspondence, the platforms ignored thousands of demands to remove calls for illegal protests and what the Russian authorities considered to be false information about Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Meta’s lawyers unsuccessfully tried to persuade the judge to drop or to postpone the proceedings. They argued that the lawsuit shouldn’t be handled by a Russian court as Meta is registered in the US. The defense also complained that it wasn’t given enough time to properly prepare for the case, which was filed just several days before the decision was announced. It also insisted that Meta has “changed its policy after public discussions and now declares that Russophobia and calls for violence against Russian citizens are unacceptable.”
The cases taken against the Meta-owned social networks has apparently been part of a wider crackdown on “fake news,” which significantly intensified after the launch of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. Google and its YouTube service are now the focus of Russian authorities, which have already called the video streaming platform “a weapon in the anti-Russia information war.”
Newly adopted Russian laws could see those found guilty of disseminating “knowingly false” information about Moscow’s military offensive, as well as about the work of Russian organizations abroad, imprisoned for up to 15 years. Over the last few weeks, the media regulator Roskomnadzor blocked access to several foreign media outlets, to Google News, as well as to domestic operators such as Ekho Moskvy radio and the Dozhd TV channel.
Russia launched its offensive following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.
Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
The West responded to Russia’s attack on Ukraine by imposing hard-hitting sanctions on Moscow. Belarus has also been sanctioned for its alleged support of its neighbor’s actions.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553344-bailiffs-meta-fine-recover/
5 Apr, 2022 10:32
Washington nudges Moscow toward default
The US Treasury is stopping Russia from paying its debts through American bank accounts
The US authorities have stopped the Russian government from paying holders of its sovereign debt more than $600 million from reserves frozen in American bank accounts.
“Russia must choose between draining remaining valuable dollar reserves or new revenue coming in, or default,” a US Treasury spokesperson said on Monday as the largest of the payments came due, including a $552.4 million principal payment on a maturing bond.
An $84 million coupon payment was due on the same day on a 2042 sovereign dollar bond.
JPMorgan, which had been processing payments as a correspondent bank heretofore, was stopped by the US regulator, according to a source familiar with the issue, as cited by Reuters. Now Russia has a 30-day grace period to make the payment.
Russia’s foreign currency reserves held by the country’s central bank at US financial institutions had been previously frozen as part of Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its military operation in Ukraine.
However, the country was allowed to use the funds to make coupon payments on dollar-denominated sovereign debt on a case-by-case basis. Since February 24, when the operation was launched, Russia managed to make as many as five bond payments, having averted the default that was predicted by international rating agencies.
Moscow was last allowed to make a $447 million coupon payment on a 2030 sovereign dollar bond on March 31.
The sanctions-hit country has a total of 15 international bonds outstanding with a face value of around $40 billion.
https://www.rt.com/business/553314-us-halts-russia-debt-payments/