Second Cop Refutes Claim He Endorsed Wisconsin Democrat Mandela Barnes

Wendell Husebø20 Sep 2022

Two out of two active police officers whom U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes touted as having endorsed his campaign do not actually support his bid, WDJT CBS reported Tuesday in an embarrassing sequence of events for the Wisconsin Democrat.

The Racine County Sheriff’s office told WDJT CBS that Deputy Sheriff Malik Frazier cannotpublicly support Lieutenant Gov. Barnes in the Senate race against Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), noting it was a “mistake by the Barnes campaign to list his name along with his employment as a deputy sheriff.”

According to federal laws, officers cannot publicly endorse a candidate. “[Frazier] was unaware they were going to use his title and he is not professionally endorsing Mandela Barnes,” Lt. Michael Luell, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department, told WDJT CBS.

Frazier is the second active officer in two days to retract his alleged endorsement of Barnes, who has pushed for defunding “over-bloated” police departments and allowing felons to retain the right to vote. He also believes police do not prevent crimes from occurring.

Two active officers endorsed the radical candidate last week out of 13,400 law enforcement officers who are currently on the job in Wisconsin.

A spokesperson for the Barnes campaign claimed it removed Frazier’s name from their short list of endorsements out of an abundance of caution. “Because he is a non-elected active duty officer, when we announced our expanded list, we removed him out of an abundance of caution,” Maddy McDaniel told WDJT CBS.

Spokesman for Johnson’s campaign Alec Zimmerman said in a press release that Barnes “can’t even tell the truth about who is endorsing his campaign – voters shouldn’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth.”

“His repeated lies are an attempt to distract from his support for defunding the police and abolishing ICE. Now his endorsement scandal continues to grow,” he added in a press release.

The first officer to retract his alleged endorsement was La Crosse County Sheriff’s Capt. John Siegel. “I had no idea on Friday my name had been up on a press release,” Siegel told the publication. “Finally got a hold of somebody operating their campaign and said, ‘Hey, I didn’t ever agree to put my name on anything or be added to a list.'”

Speaking with Wisconsin Right Now, Siegel explained he found out Friday that Barnes’ campaign added him to the list of endorsements:

I found out on Friday that I was on his endorsement list, and I was not supposed to be on his endorsement list. I talked with one of his staffers and agreed to talk with them when they were in town sometime, which I’ve done with everybody. They said there was a mistake within the clerical part of things. Somehow I got added to the list.

The deeply embarrassing sequence of events for Barnes comes as he is trying to shore up support among Wisconsin voters who are likely worried about Barnes’ soft-on-crime track record. “Police don’t prevent crimes from happening,” Barnes falsely stated in 2020 in an unearthed video. “We don’t live in a surveillance state, nor would you want to.”

According to a MacIver Institute, between 2019 and 2020, murders increased 62 percent, and violent crime rose 8.85 percent in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Justice reported that in 2021, there were 57,000 offenses of theft, over 29,000 offenses of assault, over 18,000 offenses of motor vehicle theft, over 13,000 offenses of aggravated assault, over 10,000 offenses of burglary, over 2,300 offenses of rape, and 70 offenses of human trafficking.

A Tuesday poll found Johnson is surging in the polls against Barnes by four points. Just weeks ago, Barnes was leading Johnson by a moderate margin. But Barnes’ radical record seems to be working against him.

Barnes believes in abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), permitting driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, and giving in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants. He has derided small business owners as “selfish” for wanting to serve customers during the pandemic. Barnes also favors an entirely government-run healthcare system, eliminating the Senate filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, and passing the Green New Deal, which would destroy the American economy to reshape it into a socialist utopia.

https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2022/09/20/active-cops-do-not-endorse-democrat-mandela-barnes-campaign-claimed/

21 Sep, 2022 12:12

West wants to partition Russia like USSR – Putin

The Russian president accuses the US and its allies of seeking to subjugate his country

Russia is under an attack by the West, which wants the country to be broken up into warring pieces, President Vladimir Putin has claimed.

“The Western goal is to weaken, disunite and ultimately destroy our nation. They are saying directly that they managed to break up the Soviet Union in 1991, and now it is time for Russia itself to be split into many regions that would be at each other’s throats,” the Russian leader stated in a televised address on Wednesday.

Putin’s accusations came as he updated the nation on Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine and explained his decision to mobilize army reserves. He insisted that the hostile Ukrainian government in Kiev was a product of Western-induced Russophobia.

“For decades [the West] has intentionally fostered hatred towards Russia, first and foremost in Ukraine, which they envisioned as a foothold against Russia. The West turned the Ukrainian people into cannon fodder and pushed them to a war against our country,”Putin said. He stated that the ongoing conflict started in 2014, when an armed coup in Kiev toppled Ukraine’s elected government.

The US and its allies have stated their goal as being Russia’s defeat on the battlefield, which, according to Putin, would lead to a “total negation of [Russia’s] political, economic, cultural and any other kind of sovereignty, a total pillaging of our nation.”

He warned that Russia will use any means at its disposal to defend itself and ensure its territorial integrity, up to and including the deployment of its nuclear arsenal, if attacked with weapons of mass destruction. Putin stressed that he was “not bluffing.”

The president added that “stopping those who vie for world dominance and threaten to dismember and enslave our homeland” is part of Russia’s national tradition, and that the Ukraine crisis is no different to what the nation has faced in the past.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563248-putin-partition-russia-ussr/

Can you hear and smell the panic?Best news ever. We are all Putin stooges if we dont vote Marxist and communists. Ironic eh!

21 Sep, 2022 12:14

Democrats’ losses in Congress may affect Ukraine – US senator

Chris Murphy claims a Republican Congress will ramp down military aid for Kiev

If Republicans win control over the US House or Senate there will be significantly less military aid sent to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia, claims Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut.

In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday Murphy stated that there’s a “real risk” that the $12-billion additional commitment that President Joe Biden’s administration has recently requested could be the last time the US supplies funding to Ukraine.

While Senate Republicans appear supportive of the aid package, Murphy notes that GOP members in the House are more beholden to former US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly opposed sending billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev.

“His lieutenants in charge of disseminating the message online are kicking the crap out of Ukraine aid,” the Democrat said.

Many House Republicans have publicly opposed sending military aid to Ukraine, insisting that the money is needed to address unresolved issues back at home. Murphy, however, dismisses these concerns, claiming that many Republicans are simply sympathizing with Russia.

“The MAGA wing of the party, which is the dominant wing, says and thinks a lot of nice things about Putin,” he said. (Kekkity)

The Senator concluded by saying that Ukrainians are making “serious progress” and warned that if Republicans win the House and cut off funding to Kiev it could have “potentially catastrophic impacts” on Ukrainian morale and their “ability to carry the fight.”

Murphy’s comments come ahead of the November 8 midterm elections, where all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the US Senate will be contested.

Democrats, who hold a five-seat majority in the House and a 50-50 split in the Senate are considered to be at a serious risk of losing control over Congress as poll numbers suggest many Americans are dissatisfied with the party’s –and specifically Joe Biden’s– handling of the Covid pandemic and of the ongoing inflation and fuel crises.

While Biden’s approval rating has seen a jump from 36% to 45% since July, the Republican party is nevertheless largely expected to wrestle back control of the House, and some predict it could even take over the Senate as well.

https://www.rt.com/news/563246-us-congress-republicans-ukraine/

This is the reason the dems have to lose big time and Trump Republicans create a super majority in the Senate. We’ve got to overwhelm in the vote.

21 Sep, 2022 10:45

Moscow past ‘point of no return’ with Ukraine – top Russian MP

The chair of the State Duma foreign affairs committee says Ukraine has violated all previous agreements

There will be no talks with Ukraine after the Donbass republics and other territories that Kiev considers its own decide to join Russia, Leonid Slutsky, a senior lawmaker and head of the Russian Liberal-Democratic Party, stated on Wednesday.

“Kiev has violated all possible agreements… The point of no return in the negotiation process has long passed,” Slutsky was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will respect the outcome of upcoming referendums by former and current Ukrainian regions on becoming part of Russia. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as well as Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporozhye region are slated to hold votes starting on Friday.

Slutsky, who heads the foreign relations committee in the lower house of Russia’s parliament, predicted that thevotes will be in favour of joining Russia, and that after Moscow accepts the requests, there will be no point in further talks with Kiev.

“Negotiations have been out of the question for some time, unfortunately. The West and the junta in Kiev backed by it have declared they were not ready to negotiate,” the lawmaker told journalists, as quoted by TASS news agency.

Officials in Kiev and Western nations have condemned Tuesday’s announcements on upcoming referendums, saying they will not recognize the results. The Ukrainian leadership has pledged to continue its efforts to reclaim the territories.

“Ukraine will solve the Russian question,”Andrey Yermak, the chief of staff of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, declared. He added that it could be done “only by force.” (Sad and insane)

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization on Wednesday, saying it was necessary to protect people in Russia-controlled territories from violence by Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563237-slutsky-talks-ukraine-impossible/

The delusional is strong in Ukraine. Zelensky has believed his own bullshit with believing his own lies.

21 Sep, 2022 11:05

US blocked Russian diplomats from UN – Russia

Washington failed to issue documents to a number of delegation members, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says

The United States did not grant visas to several members of the Russian delegation, preventing the officials from taking part in the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Speaking to Sputnik, she noted that two of ten diplomats comprising “the official delegation” had not received the necessary stamp.

Zakharova explained that Russia’s overall delegation consists of several groups. The first one, she said, is referred to as “the official delegation.” This group is headed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and has been formed with the approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Out of ten members of the official delegation, two did not receive visas. This tactic has already become an ominous tradition on the part of the US, but the point stands,” Zakharova stated, also offering a reminder that Moscow has already voiced concerns on this matter.

The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman went on to say that Washington had not granted visas to several delegation members from the second group, which includes various experts and diplomats who support the official delegation. She said, however, that she does not know the exact number, due to late notice.

“You would not believe… but the messages on the issuance or non-issuance of the visa were coming in just overnight. So we had to contact our colleagues at night to tell them to get ready for tomorrow’s flight [to the US],” she noted.

Of a third group, which incorporates journalists, one person failed to get a US visa, Zakharova said.

The 77th session of the UN General Assembly opened on September 13. However, the main event of this session is supposed to be the ‘High-Level week’ from September 20 to 26, which will be attended by many world leaders and foreign ministers.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Washington of violating its obligations under the 1947 agreement on the hosting of the UN headquarters in New York City, which requires the US to grant access to foreign representatives without charge and “as promptly as possible.”

Following Moscow's and the UN’s calls to issue visas to members of the Russian delegation, the US allowed entry to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and a number of high-level diplomats, enabling them to attend the assembly.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563238-diplomats-visa-un-denied/

21 Sep, 2022 11:28

Germany outlines UN Security Council ambition

The UN’s most powerful body must “fit in with the reality of the 21st century,” the German chancellor says

Germany deserves a permanent seat on the UN Security Council as it adheres to the principles of the United Nations and is “offering and seeking cooperation,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

“I urge you to support our candidacy,” Scholz stated in his address. According to the chancellor, the UN’s prime conflict-resolution body needs Germany in order to be able to meet the challenges of modern times.

“We have to make our rules and institutions fit in with the reality of the 21st century. Far too often, they reflect the world as it was 30, 50 or 70 years ago. That also applies to the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC),” he said.

Set up in 1945 after the victory over Nazi Germany, the UNSC has five permanent members – the UK, Britain, China, France, Russia and the US.Those nations have the power to veto any resolution of the council.

The body also includes ten rotating non-permanent members that represent all regions of the world, but lack veto powers. Germany had a temporary spot on the UNSC in 2019 and 2020, with Berlin looking to do so again in 2027 and 2028.

In the same speech, Scholz addressed the situation in Ukraine, insisting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has to recognize that he can’t achieve victory in the conflict, in which Kiev is being backed by the US, UK and European nations, including Germany.

“We will not accept any peace dictated by Russia and this is why Ukraine must be able to fend off Russia’s attack,” he said.

According to the chancellor, the Russian military operation in Ukraine wasn’t just a disaster for Europe but for global,rules-based order, which the UN must protect.

https://www.rt.com/news/563219-unsc-permanent-germany-scholz/

NATO pounding the drums of war hard. Scholtz is the most radical, a closet Nazi imo

21 Sep, 2022 12:21

Colombia blasts ‘irrational’ war on drugs

President Gustavo Petro says that coca farmers are being “demonized”

Colombia’s recently elected president Gustavo Petro has told the UN General Assembly that bloody campaigns against cocaine production have failed and are only hurting his country.

“From my wounded Latin America, I demand you end the irrational war on drugs,” Petro stated in his address in New York on Tuesday.

“Reducing drug consumption doesn’t require wars. It requires us to build a better society, a more caring, more affectionate one.” He added that “demonized” farmers resort to growing coca “because they have nothing else to grow.”

The world’s largest producer of cocaine, Colombia is often pressured by the US to step up raids against coca farmers and drug cartels.

Petro, who assumed office last month as the country’s first leftist leader, vowed to rethink the protracted and bloody drug war in the Colombian rainforest and jungle. Speaking at the UN, the president accused the international community of being “hypocritical” in terms of fighting drug trafficking and addressing climate change.

“The forest that should be saved is at the same time being destroyed.To destroy the coca plant, they throw poisons such as glyphosate that drips into our waters, they arrest their cultivators and then imprison them,” Petro said

What is more poisonous for humanity, cocaine, coal or oil? The opinion of power has ordered that cocaine is poison and must be persecuted, while it only causes minimal deaths from overdoses…but instead, coal and oil must be protected, even when it can extinguish all humanity.

The Colombian government previously announced plans to overhaul drug policies, but rejected reports that it wanted to decriminalize the use of cocaine.

The US is “not a supporter of decriminalization,” Jonathan Finer, the White House deputy national security adviser, told The Washington Post last month.

https://www.rt.com/news/563249-colombia-irrational-drug-war/

The SeeEyeAye cannot lose their income

21 Sep, 2022 07:11

Moscow provides details on partial mobilization

A total of 300,000 reservists will be called up to fight in the Ukraine conflict, the Russian defense minister has said

Russia will call on 300,000 reservists to serve in the conflict with Ukraine, under a partial nationwide mobilization, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Wednesday. He added that Moscow has considerable capacity in terms of personnel.

According to Shoigu, the mobilization will apply neither to university students, nor conscripts. The minister stressed that only those who have already served in the military will be called up.

“Those are not people who have never heard anything about the army. Those are those who, firstly, had completed their military service, secondly, those who have a military specialty… and have military experience,” he noted.

Shoigu also stressed that Russia possesses an immense mobilization capability andcould summon almost 25 million people with some military experience. “So one could say that this partial mobilization is just 1%, or a bit more” of the total number of people that could be mobilized, he added.

The defense minister noted that the line of contact between Moscow and Ukraine’s forces is more than 1,000 km long, and the mobilization would be used for defending it.

“It is natural that this line should be reinforced and those territories (held by Russia) should be controlled. Of course, this is the purpose of this work,” he said, referring to the mobilization effort.

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization, describing the move as sensible and necessary due to the military campaign in Ukraine. He pledged that those who are called up will be provided with additional training and benefits.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563214-defence-minister-mobilization-reservists/

21 Sep, 2022 12:03

Man sets himself on fire in protest against ex-PM’s funeral

The individual “vehemently” opposed the state funeral of Japan’s former leader Shinzo Abe, according to police

Tokyo police have said a man set himself on fire in the Japanese capital to protest the upcoming state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July.

Japan’s longest-serving premier, Abe was shot in broad daylight during a parliamentary election campaign rally. He had stepped down as leader in 2020.

The incident occurred on a street near the prime minister’s office, police said. The man, who was said to be in his 70s, has been hospitalized with burns.

Newspaper Asahi Shimbun quoted the Tokyo Fire Department as saying a police officer suffered a burn on the arm while trying to extinguish the fire. Police said they found a handwritten note, with the message: “As an individual, I vehemently oppose the state funeral.”

Recent polls have shown that the majority of people in Japan oppose a taxpayer-funded funeral for Abe, which will take place on September 27, according to Kyodo News. Opponents argue there is no legal basis for a state funeral and that the heavily indebted government should not spend money on the event.

A petition demanding the cancellation of the state funeral reached more than 400,000 signatures earlier this month, according to Asahi Shimbun.

The funeral will cost close to $1.8 million, with some 6,000 guests expected to attend the event in Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan arena.

https://www.rt.com/news/563247-man-fire-abe-funeral/

Why do they hate Abe so much?

20 Sep, 2022 17:34

Vladimir Kornilov: Time to drop our illusions, the West is waging a war to destroy Russia

Moscow’s enemies want to land a fatal blow on the country, some even want to dismember it.1 of 2

And here comes Bucha 2.0: Another provocation where Ukraine has allegedly discovered “mass graves of victims” shortly after Russian troops have withdrawn.

This time in Izium. What it amounts to is clear evidence that along with the development of the military conflict in Ukraine, the informational “special” operation against Russia is intensifying.

It’s not even about Kiev’s reaction – officials there concoct primitive fakes against our state and the army non-stop, around the clock.

The indicator here is the way in which this provocation was immediately picked up by Western politicians, who are already urgently calling for an “international tribunal” to punish Russia. Meanwhile, the West’s media, in a united push, is putting unfounded statements about “mass executions and torture in Izium”on its front pages.

This fakery is crass and easily refuted. But it is clear from this unanimous reaction of the West that no one there cares at all how and when the people buried in the cemetery died. The culprit has been appointed in advance – and it has to be Russia. Because only this verdict fits into the overall strategy of the current campaign in Ukraine.

Which, as we can see, has nothing to do with Ukraine.The West is completely indifferent to whatever happened to the Ukrainians, whoever killed them(even if it was Kiev’s own army or foreign mercenaries) and no matter how many of them died. Because it is not fighting a war on this territory for the Ukrainians,and especially not for Ukraine.

We must speak frankly and openly: the West is waging a fierce war against the Russian state, using local forces as proxies. And this is covered by the fig leaf of “defending democracy.” However, what they really want is for Russia to be destroyed. Forever! Irrevocably!

Janusz Bugajski, a leading expert, recently published his book “Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture.” It is worth highlighting that the work is not a reaction to the Ukrainian conflict, instead it is a logical continuation of all that this ‘Kremlinologist’ has been publicly talking and writing about for years.

Back in early 2019, three years before the current crisis started, he published a feature article in the influential Washington newspaper The Hill, entitled ‘Managing Russia's Dissolution.’

This was not just a forecast or theoretical speculation by some dreamer, it was a direct call to action by an outspoken Russophobe. Suffice it to recall that Bugajski then openly urged the White House to promote regional and ethnic self-determination within the Russian Federation. At the same time, he was speculating which regions of the state destroyed by the West should receive independence and which should be given to Ukraine, Finland, Japan and even China.

It cannot be said that Bugajski’s article was the only theoretical work on the disintegration of our state. But other reports (at least in the public domain) still sought to veil direct calls for the forced break-up of Russia with arguments about the need to weaken our state. This was the case, for example, with a sensationalstudy by the US intelligence corporation RANDcommissioned by the US Department of Defense in 2019.

Now the masks are being thrown off and the cadre of Russophobes can openly articulate their long-held dreams. The Daily Telegraph recently featured the former NATO commander in Europe, General Ben Hodges, in a high-profile article about preparing for Russia’s disintegration. Hodges, who is employed byCEPA– a lobby group bankrolled by US arms contractors and NATO – is arguably one of the most active ‘talking heads’ about the Ukrainian crisis on Western television right now.

The general hopes the collapse of our state will be fueled by our ethnic diversity and he hopes that Western economic sanctions will create a situation in which it will be impossible to feed 144 million people. The American has clearly not thought how these arguments could also be applied to his home country, which has been torn apart by racial divisions in recent years.

Below Hodges, the idea has been cheerfully picked up by less well-known figures operating on the ideological field of Russophobia. The Polish magazine New Eastern Europe published an article about deconstructing Russia and reconstructing the “post-Russian space,” calling it a risky but inevitable scenario. The authors called on the West to lead the process of our state’s disintegration right away.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563196-vladimir-kornilov-it-is-time/

(If the whole world is against one country it makes sense with the mobilization)

>>17555039

2 of 2

This is echoed by the Canadian-British professor Taras Kuzio on the pages of theAtlantic Council, a NATO-aligned pressure group and the main mouthpiece of Western Russophobes. He, too, cheerfully declares that the process of “the collapse of Putin’s Russian empire” has begun.

Hodges’ theses are repeated almost word for word by Estonia’s top Kremlinologist Vladimir Yushkin on the pages of the website of the International Centre for Defence and Security. However, he adds nonsense about the allegedly developing “colonization of Siberia by the Chinese” –which tells us he doesn’t know how to use statistics.

All these“prophecies”have been brought into the political realm by Estonian President Alar Karis. Opening the NATO Military Committee conference in Tallinn last Friday, he openly admonished the Chiefs of Staff of the US-led bloc to give up their “fear of destabilizing the situation in Russia.”

This is not some retired general, nor a private person with a professorial rank - it’s the official head of a NATO member country. And he is not shying away from calling on the high command of the alliance to pursue a deliberate policy of creating a situation of instability in Russia.

So, what more proof does anyone need of what the collective West is hoping to achieve?

The ideological touchstone of European liberals, The Economist magazine, has devoted its latest issue to how the West should ensure Ukraine’s victory over Russia. Apart from the traditional advice on further arming the Kiev regime, the magazine explicitly demands that the West must try to drive a wedge between the Russian government and the Russian people. To do this, leaders are urged to bet on Russian liberals who have moved abroad, who in these circumstances can be safely called traitors back home.

They are now in a situation where Russia’s enemies are now openly talking about using them to carry out an unrealistic plan to dismember our common motherland!

Thus, we can safely say that the collective West has already moved from talk to action and is openly challenging the very existence of the Russian Federation.

It’s ideologues and a number of top politicians make no secret of the fact that by exploiting the conflict in Ukraine, they are deliberately helping to create an existential threat to our state. The sooner we ourselves officially acknowledge this, the more effectively we will be able to move to a different stage in both relations with our neighbors and the military operation in Ukraine itself.

We still adhere to certain gentlemen’s rules of the game, which were adopted after the end of the Cold War. But now the stakes have been raised too high.

To be clear, I am not calling for us to copy the criminal actions of Ukraine. We, unlike them, do not deliberately kill children, torture prisoners of war, or exterminate civilians.

But in the face of increasing threats to Russian citizens, we are left with no choice but to act much more forcefully against military infrastructure, even if it’s also used by civilians, in the direction of decision-making centres, and towards those individuals directly responsible for terror and murders wherever they are located, as well as tackling states that pursue hostile policies.

After all, we should not forget that when anexistential threat to Russia arises, we need to present a tough response.

Those who threaten our homeland should be constantly reminded of this.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563196-vladimir-kornilov-it-is-time/

21 Sep, 2022 13:24

US trying to lure India away from Russia – CNN

The South Asian nation has been strengthening trade ties with Moscow

The United States is in “deep” talks with India over its reliance on Russian arms and energy, a US State Department official said on Tuesday, according to CNN.

“India is heavily, heavily dependent on Russia, and that’s something that they did to themselves over some 40 years: first their military and then their energy dependence,”the unnamed official was quoted as telling journalists in New York. “So, we have been in deep conversation with India about the fact that we want to help them have options to diversify here,” he added.

Despite US pressure, India has been reluctant to join the Western sanctions on Russia, placing domestic energy security above geopolitical tensions. Instead, the world’s third biggest energy consumer has been stepping up purchases of discounted Russian oil since the spring. Earlier this month, India’s Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC that the country will continue to purchase Russian oil in the face of growing pressure from the West.

Trade between Moscow and New Delhi has more than doubled so far this year. The two nations are currently working on bilateral measures to expand the use of national currencies, the ruble and the rupee, in mutual settlements.

Talks are also underway about mutual acceptance of Russia’s Mir and India's RuPay payment cards, as well as options to implement each other’s interbank transfer services: India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and SPFS, the Russian alternative to SWIFT.

https://www.rt.com/business/563254-us-lure-india-russia/

Trump’s goal initially was to separate the US from NATO, but there was too much opposition. So did he have to lose in order to initiate their plans of no more foreign wars and transitioning to a peace time economy? I think so. Every leader of the countries that refused to embargo Russia, were the world leaders that Trump had the most respectful and friendly relationships! These leaders are not participating in the sham to destroy Russia. And its no surprise that none of them recognize the US Bidan Admin as a super power with friendly intent.

20 Sep, 2022 17:03

US reveals plan for seized Russian funds

The Department of Justice wants Congress to amend forfeiture laws so money can go to Ukraine

The US Department of Justice would like Congress to amend laws governing asset forfeiture, so money confiscated from Russian “kleptocrats” can be given to Ukraine, the head of the interagency sanctions task force Andrew Adams told the Senate on Tuesday while testifying at a hearing called “Tightening the Screws on Russia.”

Adams, formerly a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), is the head of the interagency Task Force KleptoCapture, a sanctions enforcement outfit created in February. The “scope, intended impact, and international alignment” of the anti-Russia sanctions are “without precedent,”he told senators.

Among the proposals he listed at the hearing was a pitch for Congress toamend the existing US asset forfeiture laws, in order to allow the government to “remediate harms caused to Ukraine by Russia’s war of aggression,” as Adams put it.

The departments of justice, treasury and state would like the ability to give the funds seized from Russia and Russians to the government in Kiev, but doing so “requires amendments to multiple statutes governing the use of forfeited funds,” he said.

Earlier in his testimony, Adams mentioned that the measures implemented by the US and its allies “have included immobilizing the Russian Central Bank’s assets, held in coffers around the world.” It was not clear, however, whether these funds would fall under the scheme to transfer money to Ukraine – something the government in Kiev has demanded for months, both of the US and of the EU.

Asset forfeiture is a controversial practice in US law, which proponents have defended as a “key tool” for weakening organized crime and funding law enforcement. Critics, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have called it “policing for profit” and described it as “egregiously at odds with our due process rights.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/563195-doj-seized-assets-ukraine/