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Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 11:14 a.m. No.16292617   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3096 >>3109

17 May, 2022 17:11

 

US tells Europe to give more money to Ukraine

 

The US and its allies must pay Ukrainian wages and foot the bill for reconstruction, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen declared

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on Tuesday for the US’ allies to pay Ukrainian wages and rebuild infrastructure in the war-torn country. Deeming the billions of dollars already committed by the US and Europe insufficient to keep Ukraine afloat, Yellen declared that Kiev will eventually need “massive support” on the level of the post-WWII Marshall Plan.

 

With US lawmakers poised to approve a $40 billion package of military and economic aid to Ukraine and the US government agencies involved there, Yellen addressed the Brussels Economic Forum on Tuesday to persuade European leaders to open their wallets for Kiev.

 

“I sincerely ask all our partners to join us in increasing their financial support to Ukraine,”she said.

 

Ukraine needs budget funding to pay soldiers, employees and pensioners, as well as to operate an economy that meets its citizens' basic needs.

 

The EU will soon have committed four consecutive €500 million ($520 million) packages of military aid to Ukraine since February, and €1.2 billion ($1.26 billion) worth of emergency loans since January. However, the Ukrainian government claims to need around $5 billion per month to keep the country’s economy alive.

 

“What’s clear is that the bilateral and multilateral support announced so far will not be sufficient to address Ukraine’s needs, even in the short term,” Yellen declared.

 

EU leaders will meet on Wednesday to discuss a new package of financial aid to Kiev. The bloc is planning on borrowing money in global markets to give to Ukraine in the form of repayable loans and non-repayable grants, according to a Guardian report. EU officials are also examining the feasibility of using assets seized from sanctioned Russians and Belarussians to finance this aid package.

 

According to Reuters’ sources, the package being discussed in Brussels would cover Ukraine’s expenses for roughly two months.

 

Yellen said that in the longer term, Ukraine would need “massive support,” on the scale of the US’ post-World War II Marshall Plan for Europe, to rebuild its economy and infrastructure.

 

It remains unclear to what extent the EU will be able to finance such a reconstruction project. The bloc’s 27 member states are currently grappling with skyrocketing inflation and energy costs, partly due to Brussels’ ongoing efforts to reduce energy imports from Russia. Yellen promised that the US would step up exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe, but transporting this fuel to Europe from the US is costlier than piping it from Russia.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday thatEuropean countries are committing economic “suicide” by trying to wean themselves off Russian oil and gas, accusing them of caving to pressure “from their American overlord” without “paying any attention to the damage that they have already caused their own economy.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/555641-yellen-europe-pay-ukraine/

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 11:15 a.m. No.16292623   🗄️.is 🔗kun

17 May, 2022 16:02

 

Ukraine controlled by US and UK – Russia

 

The stalling of the peace talks is a result of the wish of London and Washington to drag out the Ukraine conflict, Lavrov claimed

London and Washington have been exercising their control over the Ukrainian negotiators with the aim of dragging out the conflict, and this policy has led to the suspension of peace talks between Moscow and Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Tuesday.

 

Speaking at the New Horizons educational marathon, Lavrov said that Ukraine may have made its own decision in Istanbul, when it came up with some “acceptable principles for reaching agreements” during negotiations with Russia. However, according to the minister, these ideas were apparently not supported by the West.

 

“We have information coming through various channels that Washington and especially London ‘lead’ the Ukrainian negotiators and control their freedom of maneuver. They want to drag out the conflict, and it seems to them that the longer it will last, the more damage they will inflict on Russian servicemen,” Lavrov said.

 

The foreign minister doubts, however, that “transferring the conversation to the level of Washington or London” would be able to change anything in terms of the progress.

“Anyway, neither London, nor Washington, nor the West as a whole has put forward any proposals,” Lavrov said.

 

The West actually acknowledged thatUkraine is “expendable in a hybrid total war against the Russian Federation,” Lavrov claimed, citing remarks by the EU, UK and US officials who have said on multiple occasions that Russia should not be allowed to win in the Ukrainian conflict.

 

“The war was declared by them. And not at all between Ukraine and Russia, but between the West and Russia,” Lavrov said.

 

Earlier on Tuesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said that diplomatic dialogue between Moscow and Kiev had been completely suspended after Kiev withdrew from negotiations without providing any response to the latest Russian proposals.

 

A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mikhail Podolyak, later confirmed that “after the Istanbul communiqué [in March], there have been no changes, no progress.”

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/555640-russia-lavrov-west-ukraine/

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 11:19 a.m. No.16292644   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2702 >>2757

17 May, 2022 15:29

HomeWorld News

Musk names ‘real’ US President

 

Billionaire admits that the true leader is “whoever controls the teleprompter”

Billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk has written off US President Joe Biden as an ineffective puppet, insisting that while he has voted “overwhelmingly for Democrats” in the past, the party has spiraled downwards.

 

“The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter,” the SpaceX CEO observed during a Monday podcast, declaring “the path to power is the path to the teleprompter.”

 

“I do feel like if somebody were to accidentally lean on the teleprompter, it’s going to be like Anchorman,” he continued, referencing the 2004 film whose lead character read whatever was written on the teleprompter no matter how absurd or detrimental to his own career.

 

Despite his stated support for Democrats, Musk spared some favorable words for the previous president, pointing out that the Biden administration “doesn’t seem to get a lot done” while “the Trump administration, leaving Trump aside, there were a lot of people in the administration who were effective at getting things done.”

 

Worse, the Democratic Party is “overly controlled by the unions and by the trial lawyers, particularly the class action lawyers,” Musk argued, claiming that when the party goes against “the interests of the people,” it is motivated by those groups, while Republicans acting similarly are motivated “because of corporate evil and religious zealotry.” Biden, unlike another Democratic president Barack Obama, “is simply too much captured by the unions,” he said. Musk’s animosity toward unionization at his companies is well-known, with Tesla previously found guilty of sabotaging organizing efforts.

 

Musk also complained about the US’ record-high inflation and the government’s apparent failure to understand its causes, noting that the “obvious reason” for the phenomenon was “that the government printed a zillion amount of more money than it had, obviously,” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

“The government can’t just you know, issue checks far in excess of revenue without there being inflation…if the federal government writes checks, they never bounce. So that is effectively the creation of more dollars. And if there are more dollars created, then the increase in goods and services across the economy, then you have inflation.” The concept, the world’s richest man argued, was “just very basic” and “not like, you know, super complicated.”

 

“If the government could just issue massive amounts of money and deficits didn’t matter, then, well, why don’t we just make the deficit 100 times bigger? The answer is you can’t because it will basically turn the dollar into something that is worthless,” Musk said, hinting that “various countries” had “tried this experiment multiple times.” He held up Venezuela as an example of a nation where the “poor, poor people” have “been just run roughshod by their government,” neglecting to mention the crippling sanctions imposed by the US that have prevented Caracas from doing business with most of the world, resulting in economic catastrophe and tens of thousands of deaths from 2017 to 2018 alone.

 

Along with the downfall of the Democratic Party, Musk lamented the decline of Twitter, the acquisition of which has not yet been completed pending questions about managing bots and spam on the platform. The world desperately needed a platform where people could “debate issues of all kinds, including the most substantive issues,” Musk argued, insisting it should be “as broadly inclusive as possible” and “balanced from a political standpoint,” rather than its current status with a “very far left bias.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/555634-musk-biden-democrats-inflation/

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 11:35 a.m. No.16292720   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2764 >>2844 >>3108 >>3221 >>3340

Sussman trial. 1 & 1/2 witnesses so far today (before lunch). Court reconvening at 2 pm.

1st witness was SSA Martin, the FBI technical expert the govt called to explain DNS stuff & some other things to the jury. 2nd was another FBI SSA - Hellman. /

He & his supervisor were the first FBI personnel to look technically at what Sussman provided. They are at FBI Cybersecurity Division (Chantilly, VA). Drove to DC the day after the Sussman/Baker meeting to pick up data & do chain of custody.

Interesting tidbit:He was “frustrated” because Baker WOULDN’T tell him who he got the data from! even for the Chain of Custody and the “Greensheet” (FBI form for identifying evidence owners). Baker didn’t complete the Custody form - Hellman initiated it.

The stuff - data on a thumb drive & a summary with conclusions - went from Baker to Strzok to DepAssDirCyber (Sporag?ph) to his supervisor Batty(?ph) and then on to others.

He and Batty didn’t know when they did their analysis who had provided the stuff. They were given two tasks to do ASAP and to prepare a summary and then forwarded stuff to FBI Chicago - which opened an investigation.

Hellman/Batty quickly concluded (1) there was no evidence supporting “cyber equity” meaning no evidence of a crime that fell within their jurisdiction, and (2) that they disagreed with the conclusions in the ”white paper” summary. Took them less than a day to prepare summary.

The white paper alleged Trump was using a “secret email server” further described as “a very unusually configured email server” & that the “only” conclusion to be drawn from the data provided was that it’s purpose was to shield communications between Trump & Russia.

Helllman/Batty separately & together decided that conclusion was not supported by the data and allegations. They thought the paper leapt to illogical conclusions not supported by the data, that the methodology was questionable, and that the ultimate conclusion didn’t make sense.

On the last point, the specifically pointed out that it made no sense to conclude the effort was “secret” when the email domain name had “Trump” in the name, that domain was registered to a Trump entity, & that the contact was directly w/a Russian entity.

He testified those facts don’t suggest a “secret anything.” Also, they opined that - based on prior experience with it - Russian technical sophistication exceeded the OPSEC for what was found in the data.

Basically, they concluded: this is a bunch of nonsense and if there was such an effort, the Russians would have done a way better job than this half-assed effort. (My paraphrasing. 😆)

The also found it very “coincidental” and suspicious that the supposed evidence began only 3 weeks before the effort to uncover it began.

More later

 

https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1526621213522788352?s=20&t=CUb49BU3u5pHYQnr0a69Iw

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 12:09 p.m. No.16292893   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2906

Sussmann has9highly paid attorneys and right out of the gatethey say Sussmann didnt lie! This is not going well for them. They even admitted Sussmann lied previously, but the point was did his lie take up valuable time and attention of the FBI.

 

https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1526633234230018050?s=20&t=CUb49BU3u5pHYQnr0a69Iw

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 12:39 p.m. No.16293023   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3049 >>3054

>>16292880

You know what pisses me off the FBI allowed this charade to go on for three years when their cyber experts knew all of it was bullshit.

 

Durham better get the leaders of the FBI, and all of them that did this to America and our great President Donald J. Trump!!’

No letting anyone off the hook

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 12:55 p.m. No.16293091   🗄️.is 🔗kun

While Her Own Agents Protect Anthony Fauci, Inspector General Grimm Appears Frightened of Investigating the National Institutes of Health

Despite multiple criminal referrals from Congress and the NIH, Inspector General will only audit grants to improve performance.

Paul D. Thacker

 

UPDATE: In a previous version, a spokesperson for the Inspector General stated that they do not confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation. After this story posted, the spokesperson confirmed that the Inspector General is not investigating EcoHealth Alliance grants.

 

Health and Human Services Inspector General Christi Grimm has received multiple notifications alleging criminal behavior by a grantee funded by Anthony Fauci, but has failed to investigate.

 

Last March, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) sent Ms. Grimm a letter demanding that she look into compliance with federal regulations by EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that Fauci’s NIH institute has provided with $15 million in grant money and that collaborates on research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A month later, Republicans on House Energy and Commerce sent Ms. Grimm another letter about EcoHealth Alliance, this time pointing to grant fraud.

 

“We understand that the office of HHS IG is conducting an announced audit into NIH grant management,” said a Republican aide, with the Energy and Commerce Committee. “We are not aware of any other activity by HHS OIG related to the NIH and the EcoHealth grant.”

 

Beginning last week, I sent the NIH a series of questions asking them to confirm how many referrals they had sent to the Inspector General about EcoHealth Alliance. Hill sources had told me that the NIH had sent the IG several referrals about EcoHeatlh Alliance, although the exact number is unknown. I also asked NIH to explain if the Inspector General had then contacted NIH for further information, or if the referrals were ignored.

 

“NIH does not comment on OIG investigations,” emailed an NIH spokesperson.

 

I then pointed out that it was public knowledge that the NIH had sent 51 criminal referrals to the IG and that I just needed to know how many specifically involved EcoHealth Alliance. I also asked NIH if they were still working with the FBI to investigate EcoHealth Alliance. The Intercept had discovered an email that showed the NIH was working with the FBI to investigate EcoHealth Alliance’s grants.

 

“NIH does not discuss internal deliberations on grant awards,” wrote back the NIH spokesperson.

 

I then explained that the FBI does not have jurisdiction over internal NIH deliberations and only gets involved in potential criminal activity. I then asked again for the NIH to explain if they were still working with the FBI to investigate EcoHealth Alliance’s grants.

 

The NIH spokesperson did not respond.

 

“OIG is not currently investigating EcoHealth Alliance,” wrote a spokesperson with the HHS-Inspector General. “Our current work plan states that OIG is reviewing NIH's monitoring of selected grants, and grantee use and management of NIH grant funds in accordance with Federal requirements. This is not an investigation.” She added that a recent tweet by a reporter with U.S. Right to Know misused the word “investigation” to describe their work.

 

“We use the term investigation to refer to law enforcement work that is looking into potential fraudulent or unlawful activity,” the spokesperson wrote. The current review, she explained, will assess NIH grant performance and offer recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

 

I then asked why the FBI was investigating the EcoHealth Alliance grants, but I did not see any IG agents involved in the emailed communications. Again, why is the IG not involved in investigating EcoHealth Alliance grants? “HHS-OIG’s Office of Audit Services (OAS) has expertise in identifying potential referrals to the Office of Investigations (OI) and, if necessary, OAS can refer matters such as grant fraud to OI for appropriate action,” the spokesperson explained.

 

So why has the Inspector General ignored referrals from the NIH and Congress and failed to investigate the grants Fauci provided to the EcoHealth Alliance? Critics point to the security detail the Inspector General now provides to Fauci, which is staffed by agents for the Inspector General—the same people who would be examining Fauci’s grants.

 

To clarify, the Inspector General agents who would be investigating “potential fraudulent or unlawful activity” and funding for EcoHealth Alliance are currently on protection detail … for Fauci. A classic conflict of interest…

 

https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/while-her-own-agents-protect-anthony?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Anonymous ID: 600bac May 17, 2022, 1:02 p.m. No.16293134   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3143

It seems like the defense is using the chaos Sussmann, Fusion and GA Tech employees created to justify Sussmann’s devious lies!

 

https://twitter.com/RealSLokhova/status/1526584436434812931?s=20&t=5Ps2gQ7ujpdDMJ3LtoN33w