Zelensky’s aide explains firing positions in urban areas

Mikhail Podolyak has told journalists it is easier to “find cover” in cities

Taking up positions in cities is the Ukrainian military’s calculated tactic to minimize their own losses and maximize those of Russian forces, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed.

In an interview with the New York Times published on Tuesday, Mikhail Podolyak argued that the “Russians fight poorly in the cities.” The Ukrainian official went on to explain that “in the cities, it is possible to maneuver, and find cover, and you minimize losses; you can resist a longer time and inflict significant casualties on the Russians.”

Podolyak added that combat in an urban environment is where the infantry stands a chance. And since Russian forces have far more artillery, Ukrainian troops have to resort to this strategy, according to the presidential adviser. As an example, he referenced the city of Severodonetsk in the Lugansk region, where heavy street fighting has been taking place for several days now.

The official noted that the Ukrainian military did not have very many alternate options due to a dearth of heavy weapons. Zelensky’s aide said that the apparent reluctance of Western leaders to provide Kiev with an adequate number of big guns was partly to blame.

“If you think we should lose, just tell us directly: ‘We want you to lose’. Then we will understand why you give us weapons at this level,” Podolyak said.

The official complained that some of Ukraine’s Western allies lacked a sense of urgency despite the Ukrainian army being seriously outgunned in Donbass.

Podolyak also became the first Ukrainian official to outline the total number of each type of heavy weaponry Kiev thinks it would need to achieve parity with Russian forces on the eastern front: 1,000 howitzers, 300 multiple-launch rocket systems, 500 tanks, 2,000 armored vehicles and 1,000 drones.

While the US has supplied around 100 howitzers and several dozen self-propelled artillery guns to Ukraine, and pledged this month, along with the UK, to ship several multiple-launch rocket systems, this still falls far short of the Ukrainian military’s needs, Podolyak warned.

According to the official’s estimates, Russian forces are firing about 70,000 projectiles daily in Donbass, while Ukrainian troops can return 10 times fewer shells.

Podolyak went on to stress that any cease-fire calling for territorial concessions on the part of Ukraine would lead to a “permanent war” as Moscow would encroach further on Ukrainian territory down the road.

Zelensky’s adviser suggested that elites in some Western countries were unwilling to acknowledge that their previous attempts at establishing friendly relations with Russia were misguided. On top of that, a lot of the leaders in Europe would still love to restore pre-war business ties with Moscow and were susceptible to a pro-Russia lobby, Podolyak claimed.

“A problem is a problem,” the Ukrainian official said, adding that “there is reluctance of the elite, for example, the French, to make this a top topic for themselves. They are hiding from the war.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/557154-ukraine-presidential-adviser-military-positions-cities/

AUDIO: Hunter Biden Boasts His Father Joe will Do Anything He Tells Him to – ‘If It’s Important to Me… He Will Make it a Part of His Platform’

Hunter Biden bragged to a friend that his father Joe Biden will do anything he tells him to in new audio retrieved from the first son’s abandoned ‘laptop from hell.’

The Washington Examiner published audio from December 2018 of Hunter Biden bragging that Joe Biden will basically adopt his political positions and do what he says.

This is very telling considering Hunter Biden was financially tangled with businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

Hunter also sat on the board of Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company.

“He’ll talk about anything that I want him to, that he believes in,” Hunter Biden said about his father Joe Biden. “If I say it’s important to me, then he will work a way in which to make it a part of his platform. My dad respects me more than he respects anyone in the world, and I know that to be certain, so it’s not going to be about whether it affects his politics.”

Joe Biden also previously said his son Hunter, a crack addict and raging alcoholic who spent most of his money on hookers, is the smartest man he knows.

“All those fears you think that I have of people not liking me or that I don’t love myself … I don’t fear that. You know why I don’t fear that? Because the man I most admire in the world, that god to me, thinks I’m a god,” Hunter Biden added in the 77-minute recording, which was taped about five months before Joe Biden launched his successful 2020 presidential campaign in late April 2019, the Examiner reported. “And my brother did, too. And the three of us, it was literally — I had the support to know I can do anything.”

Hunter Biden also said he’s better than his dad because Joe Biden always tells him he’s better.

“Everyone thinks it, talks about how — ‘How can you be as good as your dad?’ I’m better than my dad,” Hunter said. “You know why I’m better than my dad? Because my dad tells me I’m better than him, since I was 2 years old.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/audio-hunter-biden-boasts-father-joe-will-anything-tells-important-will-make-part-platform/

Otero County, New Mexico – County Commission Withholds Certification of Primary Election Results

This is really, really big news because it could be THE catalyst for things to come.

The Otero County Commission in Otero County, New Mexico, just announced that they will be withholding the recent primary election results in the county.

Attorney David Clements released a video last night noting the significance of yesterday’s actions in Otero County, New Mexico.

Below are David’s comments and the video after that:

All right. Testing one, two, three. This is going to be a really quick stream. I’m just going to try to get it uploaded so people can start talking.

Breaking news. Otero County Commission refused to certify the primary election results of the election that we had last week. And, um, this is big news. Because it’s, it’s got everyone talking, “can they do that?”, yes, they can.

So, what is the basis for withholding certification? One of the things that we advised last week, um, leading up to the vote where we’re going to get rid of Dominion in Otero County, that we’re going to get rid of the Zuckerberg drop boxes, was, uh, quite simple. That under New Mexico law, under our election code, the EAC, the Election Assistant Commission “guidelines”, which are normally voluntary, when you codify them, uh, you have to follow them. When you codify them, it’s mandatory. And in our language, it requires that we have to abide by the most recent standards. And we’re not in compliance with the most recent standards. In fact, we haven’t been in compliance for over a year.

So, um, though our law tells, or advises, that the secretary of state must decertify the voting systems as a matter of law. And she’s ignored that requirement. So, what she’s done is, she’s foisted an illegal system on all of our county commissioners and county clerks, saying that they can use them when in fact the law says that they can’t. So, um, that’s where we’re at.

Um, we’re going to Lincoln County. We’re going to ask them to do the same thing tomorrow. We know that Torrance County, uh, tabled discussion over just, over certifying their results until Friday. So, there’s a good chance that they could withhold it. We’ll see what happens there. Sandoval County is also deliberating withholding certification in their county. So, many, many dominoes have the potential to fall.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/breaking-huge-news-otero-county-new-mexico-county-commission-withholds-certification-primary-election-results/

Bill Barr Tells Congress He Was Not Interested in Investigating ANY Ballot Trafficking in the 2020 Election — And Laughed About Openly During Testimony

Day II of the January 6 Democrat Party Show Trial was held on Monday morning following their ratings bust on opening night.

The January 6 hearings that aired in primetime last Thursday took in less viewers than a normal night of television.

On Monday they went back to their daytime slot.

During their sham one-sided hearing the Jan. 6 Committee shared their interview with former AG Bill Barr who was seen laughing hysterically when he was asked about the evidence of voter fraud presented by “2000 Mules” during his pre-recorded testimony at the Jan 6 show trial.

Bill Barr: “Uh, the election was not stolen by fraud. And I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the ‘2000 Mules’ movie. (laughing) In a nutshell. the GBI[Georgia Bureau of Investigation] was unimpressed with it and I was similarly unimpressed with it because I was holding my fire on that see what the photographic evidence was. I thought, well hell, if they have a lot of photographs of the same person dumping a lot of ballots in different boxes, that’s hard to explain. So I wanted to see what the photographic evidence was. The cellphone data is singularly unimpressive. Basically, if you take 2 million cellphones and figure out where they are physically in a big city like Atlanta or wherever, by definition, you’re going to find many hundreds of them that have passed by and spent time in the vicinity these boxes. And the premise that if you go by five boxes or whatever it was, that that’s a mule, is indefensible.”

How much you want to bet that Bill Barr never saw “2000 Mules”?

Clearly, Bill Barr was not interested in looking at any instances of ballot trafficking.

And Bill Barr clearly does not understand the law or is not interested in following the law. Ballot trafficking is illegal in Georgia. The movie and dozens of clips released since the movie show dozens of ballot traffickers dumping hundreds of ballots into Georgia drop boxes.

If Barr was serious about upholding the law he would have investigated each case of ballot trafficking released in the film and after the film.

On October 29, in Detroit, a US Postal worker can be seen making 4 trips to the Liberty Center satellite voting center in Detroit. The final trip was made in a private vehicle. Although the people making the deliveries are not the same, the number on the front of the US Post Office vehicle is the same!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/definition-dirty-bill-barr-tells-congress-not-interested-investigating-ballot-trafficking-2020-election-laughed-openly-testimony-video/

‘Ethics Professor’ Calls For Pedophilia To Be Destigmatized And Taught In Schools

A so called ‘ethics professor’ from Norway has claimed that pedophilia should be classed as an ‘innate sexuality’ and taught in schools.

Yes, really.

Reduxx reports that Ole Martin Moen from Oslo Metropolitan University is calling for the ‘destigmatisation’ of pedos, claiming that “the mental state of finding children sexually attractive is very common.”

Moen, a gay man who identifies as “queer,”also claims that a significant “percentage of high school students have an innate pedophilic sexual identity,” something he equates with those who identify as LGBTQ+.

Oh, are we finally adding the ‘P’ now?

What colour will the pedos have on the rainbow flag?

The report further notes that ‘professor’ Moen authored a paper back in 2015 titled “The Ethics of Pedophilia,” in which he asked “how bad is” pedophilia, “And in what ways, and for what reasons, is it bad?”

The abstract of the paper reads “In this paper it is argued that pedophilia is bad only because, and only to the extent that, it causes harm to children, and that pedophilia itself, as well as pedophilic expressions and practices that do not cause harm to children, are morally alright [sic].”

He further writes, “We argue that it is not immoral to be a pedophile, it is immoral for pedophiles to seek out sexual contact with children because of the expected harm to children, and it is morally permissible for pedophiles to satisfy their sexual preferences in ways that do not involve any real children.”

Among the other arguments he makes in the paper are the idea that everyone is really a pedo because when we were all children we all experienced sexual desires for other children.

“Many of us have been pedophiles at one point,” Moen argues, adding “When you were 11, it is not unlikely that you were sexually attracted to prepubertal children.”

Moen also suggests that “To prevent harm to future children, we would also be well-advised to start teaching high school students not just what to do in case they are victims of sexual abuse, but also what to do in case they themselves are pedophiles.”

“A certain percentage of high school students either are or will become pedophiles, and currently they are not given any advice on how to handle their sexuality,” he further asserts.

Could that possibly be because wanting to sexually abuse kids isn’t a sexual orientation, but rather an evil perversion?

Moen further suggests that pedos should be able to watch kiddy porn, so long as it’s computer generated and not real, in order for them to satiate their desires.

He adds that it is “unjust” to condemn people who have pedo desires, and that they should actually be “praised” for their “admirable willpower,” if they manage to refrain from having sex with kids.

Moen, who also serves on the advisory board of a Norwegian trans rights group, the Patient Organization for Gender-Incongruence, has recently repeatedly targeted Norwegian feminist Christina Ellingsen, who is facing up to three years in prison for tweeting that a biological male cannot become a lesbian woman.

Uansett hvor man står i debatten om kjønn, bør man ta tydelig avstand fra Christina Ellingsens trakassering. Her er noen eksempler på hvorfor: https://t.co/P6JXk3g3cC

— Ole Martin Moen (@oleMMoen) June 5, 2022

As watchdog Exodus City notes, there is an ongoing and growing movement to normalise pedophilia as a sexual lifestyle. ‘Professor’ Moen is just one of many advocating this insanity.

While this extreme moves in from the fringes, it now seems that exposing children to nudity, drag queens promoting all manner of sexual activity, fetish kinks like ‘puppy play’, twerking, half naked men whipping each other, and chants of “we have genitals and lube” is deemed ‘family friendly’.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/ethics-professor-calls-for-pedophilia-to-be-destigmatized-and-taught-in-schools/

Iowa Teacher Charged with Sexual Exploitation of at Least Six Students

Benjamin T. Work was arrested at his home on June 10

A former teacher in Harrison County, Iowa has been arrested after being accused of molesting at least six students. The investigation began in April, according to the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office.

Benjamin T. Work, a former teacher who worked for the West Harrison School District, was arrested at his home on June 10. He had resigned from his job with West Harrison schools nearly a week before his arrest.

According to investigators, an investigation was launched into Work’s conduct this past April after the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office received a tip on April 22. The Iowa teacher was placed on leave that same day, according to KETV.

Work has been charged with five felony counts of Sexual Exploitation by a School Employee. He has also been charged with five misdemeanor counts of Lascivious Conduct with a Minor and two misdemeanor counts of Indecent Contact with a Child.

Throughout the course of the investigation, law enforcement discovered evidence of inappropriate contact between Work and at least six students. The alleged abuse reportedly took place between the fall of 2021 and the spring of 2022.

Agents with Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigation also took part in the investigation, KETV reported.

Work resigned from his position with Harrison County Schools on June 3, a week before his arrest.

https://nationalfile.com/iowa-teacher-charged-with-sexual-exploitation-of-at-least-six-students/

Hunter Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle: Don’t recognize laptop sex maniac as my husband

The former wife of disgraced first son Hunter Biden said in her first TV interview Tuesday that she can’t square her former husband with the strung-out pervert revealed in graphic photos and recordings found on the laptop he abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop.

“We’ve seen images of Hunter, the ones that were on his laptop, looking disheveled. Was that the husband you knew, in moments, at times?” ABCs Amy Robach asked Kathleen Buhle in the “Good Morning America” sitdown tied to the release of Buhle’s memoir, “If We Break.”

“No, not at all,” Buhle responded. “But drugs are awful. He was struggling under a massive drug addiction, and that’s heartbreaking and painful and that wasn’t who I was married to.”

The laptop was the source of The Post’s reporting from October 2020 on Hunter’s overseas business dealings while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president under Barack Obama. It also contained highly personal photos and recordings, including an explicit, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter Biden smoking crack and engaged in sex acts with an unidentified woman.

The bizarre amateur pornography formed the basis of The Post’s recent exclusive showing Hunter posing with a gun while cavorting with a nude prostitute.

Hunter Biden revealed in December 2020 that he has been under investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware over his failure to pay taxes dating back to his father’s time as VP.

Investigators are examining whether the first son and his business associates violated tax and money laundering laws.

The Post reported that Hunter Biden had extensive business dealings in Ukraine, where he had a lucrative seat on the board of energy company Burisma, as well as China.

“If you were called to testify, would you have anything to say?” Robach asked Buhle.

“No. I have buried my head in the sand,” she responded. “I really hope that’s a lesson that women hear: Understand your finances, take responsibility for them.”

https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/kathleen-buhle-let-hunter-biden-handle-their-finances/

Cover up

https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/kathleen-buhle-let-hunter-biden-handle-their-finances/

More Post-Vaccination Heart Inflammation Among Young Males After COVID Booster: CDC

Young males suffered heart inflammation at higher rates following a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Males aged 16 or 17 had about 139 cases of myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, per million second doses administered, according to the data, which was drawn from the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a CDC monitoring system.

But that same group had 200 cases of myocarditis per million booster doses administered, according to the data, which was from between Dec. 14, 2020, and May 28, 2022. Over 2 million total Pfizer-BioNTech primary series were administered in children, and about 230,000 booster doses, in the time period studied.

Males aged 30 to 39 also had a higher rate of heart inflammation following a Pfizer booster than the second dose, as did females aged 16 and 17.

Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are built on messenger RNA technology and both are administered in two-dose primary series, with the doses spaced several weeks to several months apart.

The new data is the first time a federal monitoring system has captured a higher rate of myocarditis following a booster dose, but some studies have previously indicated that young men were more at risk from a booster than the second dose.

Neither myocarditis or a related condition, pericarditis, were detected in clinical trials of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. As the shots were administered following authorization, reports of the conditions triggered medical chart examinations and other investigations, which has led to the conclusion that the vaccines are linked to the conditions.

Moderna’s vaccine is not yet available to children.

The new data was presented to the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel, which was being asked whether Moderna’s shot should be available for children.

The data was presented by Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a CDC vaccine safety researcher.

“The incidence rates following vaccination tend to be highest in males, and highest after dose two,” Shimabukuro said. Looking at the new data, “You’ll see that the incidence rates are actually highest in males in males after first booster, and females after first booster,” he continued. “However, the case counts are fairly small and the 95 percent confidence intervals are quite wide, so we really can’t say there’s a difference between the dose 2 incidence and the first booster incidence based on these data.”

The typical incidence of myocarditis in the general population is 8 cases per 100,000 children, including 1.8 per 100,000 15- to 18-year-olds. The incidence decreases as people age.

VSD is a collaborative system run by the CDC and nine health care organizations, including Kaiser Permanente Southern California and the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute in Wisconsin.

According to the data from the system, not every group was more at risk following a booster.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22059612-myocarditis-presentation

https://www.ntd.com/more-post-vaccination-heart-inflammation-among-young-males-after-covid-booster-cdc_793900.html

US Rep. Sean Casten’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Dies

The daughter of Illinois Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) died on Monday at the family home of the businessman and politician serving the state’s 6th Congressional District, his office has announced.

A short statement shared by the lawmaker’s office confirmed that “Casten’s beloved daughter, Gwen (17), passed away,” adding that the “family requests privacy at this time.”

“We will be issuing no further comment during this heartbreaking time,” his office said.

Casten’s office did not immediately provide any further details surrounding the teen’s cause of death.

Gwen died inside the family’s Downers Grove home in DuPage County, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing local police.

Authorities were dispatched to a medical emergency just before 7 a.m. on Monday “for an unresponsive 17-year-old female,” police said, according to the outlet.

“First responders determined that the subject was deceased,” the department said.

Just over a week ago, Casten expressed “tremendous pride” in his daughter during an interview after the teen took the initiative to organize a “Stop the Bleed” training at her school.

“I both have tremendous pride that my daughter took the initiative to organize that and tremendous shame that we as a country are making it the responsibility of 15, 16, and 17-year-old kids to do what sitting United States senators don’t have the courage to do themselves,” the lawmaker told Newsy.

According to Gwen’s Twitter bio, she served as co-director of the “March For Our Lives” gun-control organization. She also made an appearance in her father’s campaign video, who is running for re-election.

https://www.ntd.com/us-rep-sean-castens-17-year-old-daughter-dies_793862.html

Ex-FBI senior official Michael Steinbach had numerous contacts with media: watchdog

A top FBI official repeatedly violated bureau policy by hobnobbing with journalists while overseeing the controversial investigation into Donald Trump’s suspected ties to Russia — before retiring ahead of being interviewed by ethics probers, a newly released Justice Department report revealed.

Michael Steinbach “had numerous unauthorized contacts with the media” that began when he was the bureau’s assistant counterterrorism director and continued after he was named executive assistant director of its National Security Bureau in February 2016, according to the heavily redacted DOJ Inspector General report obtained by The Post through a freedom of information act request.

The “hundreds of contacts” included “soliciting” an unidentified reporter for a $300 ticket to the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Association gala after earlier getting invited by a different reporter to the 2015 Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner.

“Lots of [redacted] reporters here. May have to branch out!” Steinbach wrote to the unidentified reporter in a text message on the night of the 2015 dinner.

“Absolutely not!!! But curious to know who you’ve met so far?” the reporter responded, adding: “well they will never be as good as me! and don’t you get the big head! ;)”

“But they are promising the WH Correspondents dinner,” Steinbach responded.

The following year, Steinbach attended the White House Correspondents’ dinner and a reception party as a guest of a reporter — and boasted about it in a text to an unidentified CNN reporter.

“I put you on the map and now you’re cheating on me with [redacted],” the CNN reporter wrote in a text message to Steinbach.

“I kept waiting for my invite from you,” Steinbach responded.

After the $300-a-ticket event, Steinbach sent an email to a reporter with the subject “Great Night” that included a photo of an unidentified person standing with the journalist in front of the White House Correspondents’ Association banner.

“Thanks for hanging out with us last night [redacted] and I had a great time. And also thank you for giving us a lift. That was nice. I know it has been [sic] very busy year but when it slows down and as the weather gets nicer, we would love to grab [sic] or drinks with you and [redacted] either in the city somewhere or at our house,” the email read, in part.

In addition to the dinners, Steinbach had numerous lunches with journalists in Washington from 2014 to 2017, including at restaurants Asia Nine, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, Elephant & Castle and Oyamel Cocina Mexicana.

“The OIG notes that it was unable to determine who paid for the drinks or meals during these social engagements,” the report states.

As part of the investigation, the Inspector General’s Office interviewed an “FBI senior official” regarding policies for contact with the media.

https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/fbis-michael-steinbach-had-numerous-contacts-with-media-watchdog/

23 Pro-Life Organizations Vandalized, Firebombed by Pro-Abortion Activists in Recent Weeks

At least 23 pro-life organizations have reportedly been vandalized in recent weeks.

The pro-life organizations have been either firebombed or vandalized by radical pro-abortion activists, according to Catholic Vote:

Hollywood, FL — South Broward Pregnancy Center and Archdiocese of Miami Respect Life Ministry

Asheville, NC — Mountain Area Pregnancy Services

Manassas, VA — First Care Women’s Health

Alexandria, VA — Concerned Women for America

Reiserstown, MD — Alpha Pregnancy Center

Frederick, MD — BirthRight of Frederick

Frederick, MD — CareNet Frederick

Reiserstown, MD — Alpha Pregnancy Center

Buffalo, NY — CompassCare Pregnancy Services

Madison, WI — Wisconsin Family Action

Des Moines, IA — Agape Pregnancy Resource Center

Denton, TX — Woman to Woman Pregnancy Resource Center

Austin, TX — Trotter House

Long Beach, CA — His Nesting Place Home for Mothers & Children

Sebastopol, CA — Pregnancy Center Billboard

Eugene, OR — Dove Medical Clinic

Keizer, OR — Oregon Right to Life

Gresham, OR — Gresham Pregnancy Resource Center

Portland, OR — Southeast Portland Pregnancy Resource Center

Vancouver, WA — Options360 Women’s Clinic

Federal Way, WA — Care Net Pregnancy and Family Services of Puget Sound

Lynnwood, WA — Next Step Pregnancy Services

The attacks follow a leaked Supreme Court decision that revealed Roe v. Wade may be overturned this month. If overturned, abortion would no longer be protected by the federal government but would still be legal in many states.

Though President Biden campaigned on unity, Biden has not condemned a single one of the attacks, the RNC reported on Monday. Moreover, many establishment television networks refuse to cover the extremism:

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/06/14/report-23-pro-life-organizations-vandalized-firebombed-recent-weeks/

30 Migrants in Camouflage Found Hiding near Border in Texas

Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents tracked down 30 migrants attempting to make their way into the U.S. interior. They wore camouflage and were hiding in brush near Van Horn, Texas.

Big Bend Sector Chief Patrol Agent Sean L. McGoffin tweeted a photo of a group of 30 migrants found hiding in the brush. Electronic surveillance systems alerted Van Horn Station agents to the group moving through the area approximately 30 miles from the Texas-Mexico border.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/06/14/30-migrants-in-camouflage-found-hiding-near-border-in-texas/

Utah County Ritualized Sexual Abuse Investigation Update #1

https://voluntarytube.com/videos/watch/b80178d8-268a-4fbb-9e0e-47c3ba9c7ccd

Pentagon Says Ukraine Will Survive and the US Will Arm It for Years to Come

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks says the US is looking how to support Ukraine five, 10, and 20 years into the future

On Monday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said Pentagon leaders believe the state of Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion and that the US is preparing to arm the country for years to come.

“I think what we can assure ourselves today is that there will be a country called Ukraine. It will be a sovereign country and that country will have a military that will need to defend it,” Hicks said at the Defense One Tech Summit.

“And so as we look ahead, we’re thinking through what are the kinds of capabilities that the Ukrainians need to protect themselves over the long term,” she added.

So far, the US has allocated about $54 billion to spend on Ukraine’s war effort, the majority of which will go towards military assistance. The funds are meant to last through the 2022 fiscal year, which ends on September 30 for the federal government.

But Hicks said the Pentagon is looking to support Ukraine in the long-term, over the next five, 10, and 20 years into the future. “We’re trying to think through the kinds of both equipment but also any kind of longer-term training and defense establishment efforts that they will need,” she said.

Hicks’ comments signal that the Biden administration has no plans to reduce tensions with Russia as one of Moscow’s main motivations to invade Ukraine was Kyiv’s alignment with the US and NATO and the military support the Western powers started providing in 2014.

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/06/13/pentagon-says-ukraine-will-survive-and-the-us-will-arm-it-for-years-to-come/

Iran Believes Israel Killed Two Iranian Scientists With Poison

Separately, two Iranian aerospace workers died over the weekend

The New York Times reported Monday that Iran believes Israel killed two Iranian scientists with poison amid a spate of suspected Israeli assassinations inside the Islamic Republic.

An Iranian official and people with ties to the government told the Times that Ayoub Entezari, an Iranian aeronautical engineer who worked for a military research center, and Kamran Aghamolaei, a geologist, were both poisoned separately at the end of May and died within a few days of falling ill.

Adding to the suspicion that Israel was responsible, Israeli media reported that Aghamolaei worked at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, a site of frequent Israeli covert attacks. But people close to Aghamolaei deny the claim and say that he worked for a private geological research company.

Last month, the Times reported that Israel is suspected of being behind a May 25 drone attack on an Iranian military facility outside of Tehran that killed a young Iranian engineer. Israel is the likely culprit since it has launched similar attacks on Iranian facilities in the past.

A few days before the drone attack, on May 22, a colonel in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was gunned down in Tehran. Iran formally blamed Israel for the assassination, and the Times reported that Israel told the US it was responsible.

The mysterious deaths inside Iran continue as Iranian media reported that two men working for the IRGC in the aerospace industry died while on unspecified missions over the weekend. Both deaths were labeled as “martyrdoms,” suggesting Iran believes they were killed.

While it’s not known if the Israelis are responsible for all of the deaths, it’s clear that Israel is ramping up its covert war against Iran. At the same time, Israel has been claiming Iran is plotting attacks against Israeli citizens in foreign countries.

In the latest warning, Israel told its citizens to leave Turkey due to alleged threats from Iranian operatives. But the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Monday that any “response” Iran would make against Israel would not be in a third country.

“If we will want to respond to Israel’s activities, our answer will be given in its place and not in a third country,” said Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/13/two-irgc-aerospace-employees-martyred-in-iran

https://archive.ph/KYvGB

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/06/13/iran-believes-israel-killed-two-iranian-scientists-with-poison/

Blasting Russian ‘blackmail,’ EU chief calls for more energy cooperation with Israel

Ursula Von der Leyen hails friendship with Jerusalem, says East Med pipeline an investment in both Europe’s and Israel’s energy security

Israel and Europe are natural partners because of their democratic values and shared past, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday morning in a speech at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba.

“Europe and Israel are bound to be friends and allies,” said von der Leyen. “Because the history of Europe is the history of the Jewish people.”

The German politician, who has headed the European Union’s executive arm since 2019, spoke after being granted an honorary doctorate from the university.

“The strongest bond we share is our belief in democracy and in democratic values,” she said, praising the legacy and vision of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

Von der Leyen added that she, as a young girl, had been inspired by Golda Meir, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 1969 to 1974.

“Democracy has strengthened our special bond of friendship through the decades,” she added. “Today more than ever before, democracies like Europe and Israel should come closer together.”

Von der Leyen portrayed the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an assault on democracy itself, and praised Israel’s humanitarian aid and welcoming of some Ukrainian refugees.

She pivoted to Europe’s dangerous dependency on Russian natural gas and oil, and called for increased energy cooperation between Israel and Europe.

“The Kremlin has used our dependency on Russian fossil fuels to blackmail us,” she said. “Since the beginning of the war, Russia has deliberately cut off its gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria and Finland, and Dutch and Danish companies, in retaliation for our support to Ukraine.”

But Moscow’s conduct “only strengthens our resolve to break free of our dependence on Russian fossil fuels,” she said, noting the EU was “exploring ways to step up our energy cooperation with Israel,” with work on an underwater power cable and a gas pipeline in the eastern Mediterranean.

“This is an investment in both Europe’s and Israel’s energy security,” she said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/reeling-from-gas-crunch-eu-chief-calls-for-more-energy-cooperation-with-israel/

Facing COVID spike, Health Ministry recommends third vaccine dose for kids 5-11

Health clinics told to ready to open up shots for youngsters as daily caseload passes 7,000; so far, just 20% in that age group have had even a single shot

The Health Ministry recommended Tuesday giving a COVID-19 vaccine booster to children aged 5-11 as the daily caseload for coronavirus infections continued to climb, raising concerns that the country is entering a sixth virus wave.

Officials instructed health management organizations to prepare to make the shots available for children in that age bracket.

The third dose can also be given to children who recovered from the coronavirus more than three months ago.

Israel began vaccinating children aged 5-11 in November last year, but Health Ministry figures released Tuesday showed that so far 76.5 percent of children in that age group have not been vaccinated.

Data also showed that over the past month, 1,261 unvaccinated children aged 5-11 who had recovered from the virus had caught it again, as well as 295 who had been given at least one dose of the vaccine.

Separately on Tuesday, Israel’s coronavirus czar Salman Zarka told reporters in a briefing that while COVID-19 cases appear to be rising, COVID tests at the airport are unlikely to return anytime soon.

“We don’t see a reason to check people at border crossings,” Zarka said. “We will test people at Ben Gurion Airport if there are concerns about new variants in the world.”

Zarka added that there are no current plans by health officials to bring back any COVID restrictions. The requirement to be tested upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport was lifted as of May 21.

On Monday there were 7,330 new virus cases diagnosed, the highest number since April 6, according to the ministry’s official figures.

The virus reproduction number, R, was given as 1.51, the same as the day before. The figure, which represents the situation 10 days earlier, measures how many people each coronavirus carrier infects on average, with any number above 1 meaning the spread of COVID-19 is increasing. It first began to rise above 1 in mid-May, having stayed below that threshold for nearly two months.

Of the 30,090 active patients, there are 103 in serious condition.

Israel made vaccination a key strategy in facing the coronavirus pandemic and so far, of its 9.5 million population, 6,710,522 have had at least one dose, of whom 6,142,332 have had two and 4,496,066 have had three. There are also 816,370 who have had a fourth shot.

On Monday the Health Ministry recommended that people resume using face masks in enclosed spaces.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/facing-covid-spike-health-ministry-recommends-third-vaccine-dose-for-kids-5-11/

Jan. 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing

Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue and Steven Engle, then the head of the Office of Legal Counsel, were all expected to appear before the committee on Wednesday.

“There’s no big deal, but I’ll tell you the putting together the video and exhibits is an exhausting exercise for our very small video staff. So we’re trying to — we were going to have 1-2-3 in one week and it’s just it’s too much to put it all together. So we’re trying to give them a little room to do their technical work, is mainly it,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), one of the committee’s members, said on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC on Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/news/house/3522529-jan-6-committee-postpones-wednesday-hearing/

WW3 already declared, Pope Francis believes

The Pope pointed to conflicts in some parts of Africa, in northern Nigeria and in the north of the Congo, "where war is still raging, and no one cares"

World War 3 is already here, La Stampa quoted Pope Francis as saying on Tuesday.

"A few years ago, it occurred to me to say that we are experiencing World War 3 in bits and pieces. Here, for me today World War 3 has already been declared," the pontiff said at a meeting with editors of Jesuit magazines. "And this is an aspect that should make us reflect. What is happening to humanity that has had three world wars in a century? And this is bad for humanity, it’s a calamity," the Italian newspaper quoted Francis as saying.

The Pope also pointed to conflicts in some parts of Africa, in northern Nigeria and in the north of the Congo, "where war is still raging, and no one cares." "The world is at war," he concluded.

https://tass.com/society/1464389

Pfizer data - kids' vaccines have terrible efficacy

Does inflation exceed the vaccine's efficacy numbers?

Pfizer and Moderna are back at it, pleading with the FDA for an expansion of their Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) for their COVID-19 vaccines. Moderna is requesting an EUA for (1) kids aged 6 through 17; and (2) kids aged 6 months through 5. Pfizer is asking for an EUA to include the administration of its vaccine for kids aged 6 months through 4 years. (Dr. Anthony Fauci has been promoting these vaccines for children since last year.)

Prediction: the FDA will approve these EUAs for COVID-19 vaccines these kids don’t need.

For reference, this is the same FDA that granted an EUA to the Pfizer vaccine for kids aged 5-11 while admitting it didn’t know the long-term risks – or short-term risks – of that vaccine. In fact, one of the FDA voting members justified his vote by stating: “We're never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it.”

https://technofog.substack.com/p/pfizer-data-kids-vaccines-have-terrible

Multiple Whistleblowers Claim FBI is Purging Conservatives From Bureau Congressman Jim Jordan Reports

How’s the FBI, which has acted like America’s Stasi since the Obama Administration, getting its agents to so viciously persecute conservatives and those in the MAGA movement? By purging conservatives, as Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) exposed it as doing in a recent appearance on Fox News. Watch that here:

As you can hear in the video from June 8th, Ingraham introduces the subject, noting that whistleblowers claim the FBI is purging conservatives from its ranks and cites the case of one agent who was purged for daring to dissent from the narrative pushed by the leftist leaders of the agency about January 6th.

Ingraham commented, We’re learning exclusively tonight about what’s going on inside the FBI. Whistleblowers have told Congressman Jim Jordan that the agency is in full-blown retaliation mode, referring to what’s going on as a “purge” of agency employees who hold conservative views.”

Ingraham continued, “One employee reportedly had a security clearance taken away and then he was indefinitely suspended from his duty and got his pay taken away for disagreeing with their January 6 narrative.”

Representative Jordan, responding by expanding upon that once case and pointing out that numerous others are making similar claims about what the FBI is doing, saying “He is a decorated Iraqi veteran being run out of the FBI. His allegiance to the country is being questioned because he had the gall to say something that offended the FBI leadership about the January 6 investigation.”

Jordan continued, “The other individual is also having the same thing happen to them simply because, on an anonymous questionnaire, they said something that the leadership disagree with them about January 6.”

“And I would point out that we now have had six agents come forward as whistleblowers, two on the school boards narrative, and four now, regarding January 6. That is a concern to us, but we’ve had literally a half-a-dozen FBI agents come to our committee,” Jordan added.

Later, giving a concise summary of what America’s Stasi is up to with its persecution and purging of conservatives, Jordan said “It’s the weaponization of government against your political foes.”

Jordan isn’t the first to attack the FBI for its political bias in a major way. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) did so as well in a recent letter to Wray and Garland about a senior FBI agent who has been viciously attacking Trump on social media and exposing his political bias.

Similarly, a former FBI agent recently went on the warpath against the agency that he used to work for and called out its disgusting political bias, saying “The FBI’s job is to go out and apprehend real criminals, child molestors, and real terrorists. Instead, they’re harassing hardworking parents who simply don’t want their kids stuck in masks all day being indoctrinated by ideologies that are counter to their values,” Gray pointed out in a statement for Townhall. He went on to call it “disgraceful” and “exactly the kind of thing that led me to leave the FBI.”

The FBI, based on all that has been exposed about it in recent weeks, seems to be something other than a neutral law enforcement agency. Rather, it seems like America’s Stasi, like a tool of the leftist agenda.

https://thedcpatriot.com/multiple-whistleblowers-claim-fbi-is-purging-conservatives-from-bureau-congressman-jim-jordan-reports-video/