Michael Berry
President Trump graciously popped in to our party at Mar-a-Lago. I’m hosting a really fun panel with @BuckSexton, @karol & @josh_hammer & a bunch of fun Houstonians in attendance. This just happened. https://t.co/DEnA7JUa9H
https://twitter.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/1512603815958228992?s=20&t=6UzgzUCzJ_DkqCmcXSl81g
Dont worry they will be getting back to that when all else fails, which it will. Because everyone knows they lie about everything! And they will fail again. The people are on to them.
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1512114404065779718?s=20&t=6UzgzUCzJ_DkqCmcXSl81g
UK thank Bojo
9 Apr, 2022 18:10
Ukraine preparing for ‘decisive’ battle against Russia
At the same time, Kiev is also looking for ‘certain diplomatic ways’ to end conflict with Moscow
The EU leaders must be getting tired of listening to this tool
Ukraine is gearing up for a major battle against Russia in the country’s southeast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday during a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Kiev. At the same time, however, Ukraine is looking for “certain diplomatic ways” to end the ongoing conflict, Zelensky added.
“We see preparations for an important – and some say decisive – battle,” he claimed.
“In the east, and not only in the east, but also in the south, there is an accumulation of troops. {There is} a large number of troops, equipment, armed people who are going to occupy another part of our territories. It will be a difficult battle. We believe in our struggle, we believe in our victory,” Zelensky said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian president reiterated that the country has always been “ready for negotiations” with Moscow. While gearing up for the upcoming battle in the southeast, Kiev “looks for certain diplomatic ways that can stop this war,” he added.
Zelensky also pledged to take Nehammer to the town of Bucha, a northwestern suburb of Kiev that Ukraine claims to be the site of an alleged mass killing of civilians, which it has blamed on Russian troops. Moscow has firmly denied any involvement in the deaths, suggesting that Kiev manipulated evidence to frame the Russian military.
Nehammer, for his part, called for an investigation of the Bucha incident and urged a probe to be launched with broad international involvement.
“Bucha is a place where terrible crimes have taken place, and it is necessary that people, members of the UN study these crimes, that international justice begins to work on this, that international criminal justice should gradually fight these crimes,” Nehammer said during the press conference.
In recent days, Bucha has become a hotspot for Western media and top officials alike. On Friday, the town was toured by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell, who examined the site of the alleged atrocity.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553600-ukraine-zelensky-decisive-battle/
9 Apr, 2022 18:01
US officials slapped with sanctions
Iran has imposed penalties on 24 former government and military leaders amid stalled talks in Vienna on restoring nuclear deal
Sanction Food Fight
Iran has announced sanctions against an additional 24 Americans, including officials who served in former President Donald Trump’s administration, for allegedly supporting terrorism and human rights violations.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced the measures on Saturday, saying they stem from efforts by US officials to impose or intensify “criminal sanctions” against the Islamic republic, as well as supporting terrorist groups and Israel’s “repressive actions” in the Middle East, especially against the Palestinians.
Those sanctioned included former US Army Chief of Staff General George Casey, ex-CENTCOM commander General Joseph Votel and Army General Scott Miller, formerly commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Top aides in the administrations of Trump and then-President Barack Obama, including lawyer Rudi Giuliani, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, also were named. In addition, Iran cited former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and ex-US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who later became acting director of national intelligence.
The military leaders sanctioned were guilty of backing and training terrorist groups in the region, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said. Ross, Lew and other former administration officials were faulted for their roles in sanctioning Iran. The ministry said Grenell advanced a policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran, depriving the Iranian people of their “most basic rights,” while Giuliani provided political and propaganda support for “the terrorist group of hypocrites.”
The announcement came amid an apparent impasse in negotiations to restore the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, which the Trump administration abandoned in 2018. At the time, Trump imposed harsh sanctions against Tehran, saying the JCPOA was “at best delaying” Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons.
Washington deliberately imposed harsh living conditions on Iranians, including blocking their access to medicines amid the Covid-19 pandemic, thus endangering millions of lives. Those actions marked “a clear violation of the fundamental principles of international law and fundamental human rights and a clear example of a crime against humanity,” Tehran said.
Last year, Iran imposed sanctions on 10 Americans, including Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Another 50 people were added to the sanctions list in January, based on their alleged roles in killing Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Sanctioned individuals are banned from entering Iran, and their assets in the country can be confiscated. However, given that ==Americans are barred from investing in Iran=, the sanctions are largely symbolic. The latest round of blacklisted individuals includes former executives of Kharon Co., a research firm that allegedly facilitated the imposition of US sanctions against Iran.
https://www.rt.com/news/553607-iran-sanctions-24-americans/
9 Apr, 2022 13:37
NATO kept doors open for Russia – Clinton
Bill Clinton said he told Yeltsin and Putin that Moscow could join the military bloc one day
Former US President Bill Clinton says he told the Russian leadership that Moscow could one day join NATO. Clinton claims he made the pledge to the late President Boris Yeltsin, who governed Russia between 1991 and 1999, and then to his successor Vladimir Putin.
In late February, Putin recalled a conversation he had with Clinton about NATO in 2000, but his account painted a different picture. According to the Russian leader, he asked Clinton how the US would respond if Russia joined the US-led bloc and described Clinton’s reaction as “rather restrained.”
In an interview with British state broadcaster BBC in 2000, Putin refused to rule out Russia’s potential membership, but only “as an equal partner.”
“We left the door open for Russia’s eventual membership in NATO, something I made clear to Yeltsin and later confirmed to his successor, Vladimir Putin,” the former US president wrote in The Atlantic, in a piece published on Thursday.
In his op-ed, Clinton defended the bloc’s expansion eastward after the breakup of the Soviet Union. “If Russia chose to revert to ultranationalist imperialism, an enlarged NATO and a growing European Union would bolster the continent’s security,” he wrote.
Way to ramp it up Billy boy!
Russia, meanwhile, has repeatedly stated that it views the bloc’s expansion as a threat.
NATO continues to defend its ‘open-door policy’ and maintains that it is a purely defensive alliance. Moscow contends that the bloc's actions in Yugoslavia and Libya contradict this assertion.
The Kremlin has cited Kiev's aspirations to join NATO as one of reasons for its ongoing military offensive in Ukraine. Russia demands that its neighbor declare itself a neutral state.
Russia attacked Ukraine in late February, following Kiev’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered Minsk Protocol was designed to regularize the status of the regions within the Ukrainian state.
Kiev says the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
https://www.rt.com/news/553594-clinton-russia-nato-membership/
9 Apr, 2022 13:53
HomeBusiness News
No glass without Russian gas – German media
An entire industry could stop if Germany loses Russian supplies
A complete cessation of Russian gas supplies could damage Germany’s energy-intensive enterprises, especially glassmakers, German TV channel Das Erste reported, citing industry insiders.
According to the publication, producing glass involves the raw materials at glass-producing factories being heated to 1,600 degrees Celsius, and then maintained at this temperature around the clock to prevent the raw glass from hardening. The process demands a significant amount of energy, a large amount of which is derived from Russian-sourced natural gas.
Germany is in fact the EU’s biggest buyer of natural gas from Russia, which covers 58.9% of the country’s needs, according to the statistics agency Eurostat.
However, after the EU placed heavy sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its military operation in Ukraine, these imports are now in jeopardy. Russia, meanwhile, has replied by demanding that its gas be paid for in rubles.
As a result, gas prices have been spiking throughout the past month and have tripled since last autumn. On Friday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to end his country’s reliance on the Russian commodity, but did not give the time frame for doing so, other than stating that it would happen sometime soon.
However, according to Das Erste, if Germany were to scrap Russian gas imports now, its glass-producing plants would come to a halt. The publication cites statements from the German Federal Association of Glass Manufacturers, which claims that a complete elimination of natural gas supplies to the glass industry would result not only in a loss of production, but also in permanent damage to equipment that would take months or even years to recover. It would also threaten supply chains in the food and beverage sector, as well as in the pharmaceutical, automotive and construction industries throughout the EU.
Meanwhile, a recent survey from the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce has found thatnearly 80% of the country’s enterprises have already suffered consequences from the situation around Ukraine, while one in ten companies reported a significant deterioration in their financial standing due to rising energy costs.
https://www.rt.com/business/553590-glass-industry-germany-russian-gas/
Cognitive dissonance does this, it takes time, treat her no different than before. Sorry youre going through this.
I been unmercifully derided and called names by a sister i wasnt even try to wake up. Theres no hope for my sister, but theres hope for others.
6 Apr, 2022 13:04
HomeBusiness News
US can’t replace Russian coal supplies to Europe – industry
EU scrambles to find new suppliers as ban looms
The US coal mining industry is unable to expand production to replace Russian coal on the European market, the country’s biggest exporter said on Tuesday.
The comment follows a proposal by the European Commission to impose a ban on coal imports from Russia as part of a wider package of sanctions on Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine.
“I don’t see any ability for the industry to expand production. It’s like looking at a sweet dessert that you just can’t reach,” Ernie Thrasher, chief executive officer of Xcoal Energy & Resources LLC., the US’ biggest exporter, told Bloomberg.
The US is among the world’s top five coal exporters, and sells most of its coal to India, Brazil and South Korea.
According to Thrasher, most of the US coal output has already been sold under long-term contracts and there are few spare tons to deliver to Europe. With coal being the dirtiest fossil fuel, there has been little investment in new capacity, he explained, adding that tight labor markets and supply-chain bottlenecks caused by the coronavirus pandemic would also make it difficult to deliver extra tons for export.
According to media reports, potential buyers from some EU countries have already approached Indonesia and Australia, the world’s largest thermal coal exporters. But those countries have limited capacity as well. The EU wants to move away from Russian supplies, which meet 70% of Europe’s demand for thermal coal.
Shares of US coal miners surged after the European Union announced its sanctions plan against Russia on Tuesday. Coal prices in the US have been on the rise, surpassing $100 a ton last week for the first time since 2008.
https://www.rt.com/business/553390-us-cant-replace-russian-coal/
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1512487469173800960?s=20&t=blGePuLqI3EZoaBXmBz-MQ
If I had to guess the FBI setting this up and DOJ prosecuting this fraud probably cost at least $300,000 and now the DOJ wants to go after the two that were not acquitted. Wow our government is sick beyond repair
https://twitter.com/kenbensinger/status/1512520527755288577?s=20&t=blGePuLqI3EZoaBXmBz-MQ
FBI Using the Same Fear Tactic From the First War on Terror: Orchestrating its Own Terrorism Plots
Questioning the FBI's role in 1/6 was maligned by corporate media as deranged. But only ignorance about the FBI or a desire to deceive could produce such a reaction.
Really long article with lots of examples of others by Glenn Greenwald
One of the most egregious cases I covered was the 2011 arrest of James Cromitie, an African-American convert to Islam who the FBI attempted to convince — over the course of eight months — to join a terror plot, only for him to adamantly refuse over and over. Only once they dangled a payment of $250,000 in front of his nose right after the impoverished American had lost his job did he agree to join, and then the FBI swooped in, arrested him, and touted their heroic efforts in stopping a terrorist plot.
The U.S. federal judge who sentenced Cromitie to decades in prison, Colleen McMahon, said she did so only because the law of “entrapment” is so narrow that it is virtually impossible for a defendant to win, but in doing so, she repeatedly condemned the FBI in the harshest terms for single-handedly converting Cromitie from a helpless but resentful anti-government fanatic into a criminal. The defendant “was incapable of committing an act of terrorism on his own,” she said, adding: “only the government could have made a terrorist out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.” She added: “There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that James Cromitie could never have dreamed up the scenario in which he actually became involved.”
Her written ruling is worth quoting at length because of how relevant it is to current FBI activities. The judge began by noting that Cromitie “had successfully resisted going too far for eight months,” and agreed only after “the Government dangled what had to be almost irresistible temptation in front of an impoverished man from what I have come (after literally dozens of cases) to view as the saddest and most dysfunctional community in the Southern District of New York.” It was the FBI’s own informant, she wrote, who “was the prime mover and instigator of all the criminal activity that occurred.” She then wrote (emphasis added):
The Government indisputably “manufactured” the crimes of which defendants stand convicted. The Government invented all of the details of the scheme – many of them, such as the trip to Connecticut and the inclusion of Stewart AFB as a target, for specific legal purposes of which the defendants could not possibly have been aware (the former gave rise to federal jurisdiction and the latter mandated a twenty-five year minimum sentence). The Government selected the targets. The Government designed and built the phony ordnance that the defendants planted (or planned to plant) at Government-selected targets. The Government provided every item used in the plot: cameras, cell phones, cars, maps and even a gun. The Government did all the driving (as none of the defendants had a car or a driver’s license). The Government funded the entire project. And the Government, through its agent, offered the defendants large sums of money, contingent on their participation in the heinous scheme.
Additionally, before deciding that the defendants (particularly Cromitie, who was in their sights for nine months) presented any real danger, the Government appears to have done minimal due diligence, relying instead on reports from its Confidential Informant, who passed on information about Cromitie information that could easily have been verified (or not verified, since much of it was untrue), but that no one thought it necessary to check before offering a jihadist opportunity to a man who had no contact with any extremist groups and no history of anything other than drug crimes.
One of the reporters who has most extensively covered the FBI's role in manufacturing terrorism cases it then proceeds to "break up” is Trevor Aaronson. In 2011, he documented, working with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, that of 508 post-9/11 terrorism defendants, “nearly half the prosecutions involved the use of informants, many of them incentivized by money.” After 9/11, the FBI's budget-increasing, power-enhancing strategy was to target “tens of thousands of law-abiding people, seeking to identify those disgruntled few who might participate in a plot given the means and the opportunity” by monitoring their social media postings, and “then, in case after case, the government provides the plot, the means, and the opportunity.” Of the terrorism arrests from sting operations, almost 1/3 were ones in which “defendants participated in plots led by an agent provocateur—an FBI operative instigating terrorist action.”
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/fbi-using-the-same-fear-tactic-from?s=w
I agree, polls are bullshit really