28 Sep, 2022 11:35

Top Russian senator comments on consequences for those who left during mobilization

There will be no legal ramifications for leaving the country, the MP has said

Russians who have decided to leave the country amid the ongoing partial mobilization will face no additional legal consequences but will likely be unable to avoid a “moral”responsibility, the head of Russia’s commission for the defense of state sovereignty, Senator Andrey Klimov, has said.

In a Telegram post on Wednesday, the senator explained that, according to the Constitution, Russian citizens have the right to freely leave the country as long as they don’t have any outstanding issues with the law and have not violated any administrative or criminal codes.

He added that all those who left the country during the partial mobilization and have not broken any laws can freely return to Russia at any point without facing any legal consequences, noting that Russia is a state of law.

Klimov warned, however, that “serious moral responsibility” cannot be avoided by some of those who decided to run. “It is unlikely that anyone will cover the profits they themselves have missed and the losses they incurred from a hasty escape abroad,” the senator wrote,saying that he doubts “leaving the Fatherland in danger” will bring any luck to such fugitives.

The senator’s remarks come after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military draft last Wednesday of some 300,000 reservists across the country to help control Russian-held areas and the 1,000-kilometer contact line with Kiev’s forces in Ukraine.

Since the announcement, a number of Russian citizens have opted to flee the country to avoid the military draft and have made their way to states such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Armenia, none of which require a visa for visiting Russians. The sudden exodus of military-aged men out of the country has led to chaos at border checkpoints, with travelers reportedly enduring 48-hour-long queues. All flights from Russia to states that do not require a visa have been sold out in the short term.

Prior to the partial mobilization, Russia amended its criminal code to include strict punishments for acts such as voluntary surrender by service members during wartime or their refusal to take part in armed hostilities, as well as lengthy prison sentences for looting, desertion or dodging a military draft during wartime.

https://www.rt.com/russia/563655-draft-mobilization-legal-consequences/

28 Sep, 2022 13:53

Russia to summon UN Security Council

Moscow will request a meeting over suspected “sabotage” against the Nord Stream pipeline

Moscow wishes to call an emergency UN Security Council session over the “provocations” at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday in a Telegram post. Both pipelines were severely damaged earlier this week in what many suspect was a deliberate attack.

Danish authorities confirmed gas leaks from the pipelines not far from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea on Monday after the operator reported a loss of pressure in both Nord Stream 1 and 2. Swedish and Danish authorities later confirmed a series of undersea explosions had been detected before the leaks were confirmed.

Russian, American, and Swedish officials all said that the damage might have been the result of a targeted attack on pipeline infrastructure. No suspects behind the incident have officially been named, although in a tweet former Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski “thanked” Washington for destroying the pipeline. Moscow, which called the incident a “terrorist attack," also named the US as a potential suspect.

Several high-ranking German MPs have pointed the finger at Russia, accusing it of attempts to “stir up uncertainty among the European population.”

There has been no shortage of threats from some Western nations against Russian undersea pipelines, particularly Nord Stream 2 both before and after late February, when Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. It had been ready to pump gas since September last year, but was not put into operation due to Germany’s refusal to certify it.

Polish President Andrzej Duda demanded last month that the pipeline be “totally scrapped.”US President Joe Biden warned in early February, before Russia began its military operation in Ukraine, that if Moscow acts against Kiev, “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” A journalist asked him to clarify what exactly he meant, to which Biden responded: “I promise you, we will be able to do that.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/563668-unsc-nord-stream-provocation/

If US did this it’s industrial sabotage, having our military for the benefit of The Baltic Pipeline of Poland and Bulgaria. This act is the ultimate stupidity of this admin furthering the great reset.

28 Sep, 2022 12:32

Putin’s words must be taken seriously – Merkel

Heeding what Moscow says is “political wisdom” and not a sign of weakness, the former German chancellor said

Western countries should take Russian President Vladimir Putin and his statements seriously, former German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday. Her remarks came after the Russian leader issued a warning to the West last week, noting that those who use nuclear blackmail against Moscow “should know that the wind rose can turn around.”

In a rare public appearance at the opening of the Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation in Berlin on Tuesday, Merkel noted that Vladimir Putin’s words should not be ignored.

“Not dismissing them as a bluff, but taking them seriously is by no means a sign of weakness,” she said. On the contrary, “this is a sign of political wisdom, which helps to preserve room for maneuver or, no less important, even to develop a new one,” the former chancellor added.

She was apparently referring to Putin’s statement last week, in which he signaled that Moscow would use “all means to defend Russia and our people” if its territorial integrity is threatened. “Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around,” the Russian president said.

Merkel was also asked what she thought former chancellor Helmut Kohl would have done against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict.

According to Merkel, he would “make every effort to protect and restore the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine” as Kiev sought to fight off Russian troops. However, she added that Kohl would look to “the day after” and keep an open mind about something “unimaginable” now – “how relations to and with Russia could one day be redeveloped” after the conflict ends.

Merkel, who is widely considered to have been Kohl’s protege, served as Germany’s chancellor for 16 years and established working relations with Putin. During her tenure, Germany was also heavily reliant on Russian gas imports. She was criticized for being soft on Moscow despite supporting anti-Russia sanctions that the West imposed after the Crimean Peninsula broke away from Ukraine and rejoined Russia.

In June, Merkel said her resignation last year might have influenced Putin’s decision to start the military operation in Ukraine in late February. At the time, she also acknowledged her failure to create “an additional European-Russian discussion format about a European security order alongside the Normandy format,” referring to a framework that paved the way for the 2014 and 2015 Minsk agreements, which sought to establish a ceasefire between pro-Russia and pro-Kiev forces.

https://www.rt.com/news/563660-merkel-putin-words-seriously/

>>17595659, >>17595663 Cutting the Internet right before the election, what would be the result of that happening?

If that happened the Dominion and other voting and equipment couldnt connect to Internet. And most likely with the peripheral equipmemt if cut off from internal the checking in process would require ID and other documentation, and they may need to go to paper ballots. All of the equipment are linked together in their own network, and most likely wireless. Also China servers cannot be used to collect results. So it may have a positive effect on the results.

Ex-FBI official who led Unabomber task force decries deployment of SWAT teams for Jan. 6 arrests

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The man who led the FBI Unabomber task force — which ultimately arrested violent suspected terrorist Theodore Kaczynski without deploying a tactical team — is now decrying the use of SWAT teams to arrest Jan. 6 defendants for misdemeanors and warning of the politicization of the bureau.

The FBI doesn't use SWAT teams for misdemeanorsand has rarely used them to arrest nonviolent offenders, said Terry Turchie, former deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, in an interview with Just the News.

=Certain criteria must be met to use SWAT==, such as the subject of an arrest warrant having a history of violent behavior and owning a firearm, Turchie explained.

FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend says the bureau suspended him from his job recently for raising a range of concerns about the FBI's and DOJ's conduct in the Jan. 6 investigation, including the bureau's use of SWAT teams to arrest Jan. 6 defendants facing misdemeanor charges, thus violating, he alleges, the bureau's Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide and creating potentially unsafe encounters.

Turchie shares Friend's concern about the use of SWAT teams in these cases.

"The more you escalate the use of force, the more you take a chance of having possible injuries in some catastrophic failure of agents and civilians alike," he said.

In his experience,there were even violent cases where SWAT wasn't usedin order "to keep the temperature down," Turchie added.

Turchie, who led the Unabomber task force, explained how the arrest of Kaczynski occurred without the use of tactical teams.

FBI agents went to Kaczynski's cabin in Montana to execute a search warrant. While arrests aren't typically made when executing a search warrant, this "instance was different because we were looking for someone who was unidentified and committing violent acts for 18 years," Turchie recalled.

While they didn’t use SWAT or HRT teams to arrest Kaczynski, they did pick specific FBI agents from the San Francisco field division who were on a SWAT team, he recounted. However, they were nearby just "to seal off the geographical area around the cabin so he couldn't escape," not to make the arrest, he said.

A "low-key" arrest "fooled" Kaczynski, Turchie said, because the FBI sent Forest Service Special Agent Jerry Burns, whom he knew, with two FBI agents. Burns claimed the agents were mining company employees asking about a survey they were doing on the copper mines. Kaczynski had been annoyed by mining companies looking at old abandoned copper mines in the area, so the ruse led him to open the door.

After seeing the three agents, Kaczynski said he was going to get his coat. But as he started to close his door, senior FBI agent Tom McDaniel pulled him out of the cabin, and they began fighting. The other FBI agent, Donald Max Noel, pulled out his weapon and pointed it at Kaczynski, identifying himself as FBI and telling the Unabomber to stop, which he did.

"This was a very, very violent terrorist, and he was becoming more unstable," Turchie said. "Even there, we didn't use the SWAT team for the arrest."

Turchie said that using SWAT for the Jan. 6 misdemeanor arrests is sending a message that's designed to scare people.

The message from the FBI, he said, is:"You don't speak up and get involved with the wrong political side, or we'll teach you a lesson."

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/ex-fbi-boss-who-led-unabomber-task-force-decries-swat-teams-jan-6

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Turchie warned of the increasing politicization of the FBI, citing the depoyment of SWAT teams to arrest nonviolent people like former Trump adviser Roger Stone and pro-life activist Mark Houck.

The FBI wasn’t political when he left in 2001, shortly before 9/11, Turchie recalled. Recently, however, "easy cases" such as Trump-Russia and Hillary Clinton's emails were "messed up" because the FBI "politicized" them, he said, which "should've never happened."

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jeff Danik told "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show on Monday that declining public trust in the FBI is "a disaster" for agents trying to do their jobs.

"The number one thing an FBI agent has to be able to do is talk to people, gain their trust, and get them to cooperate," said Danik. "And that's true of witnesses, targets, subjects, foreign intelligence officers, even prosecutors … Any kind of aura, where a person you contact comes in contact with you with some suspicion about you, it definitely hinders your job performance, ability to get the job done."

Gerry Mullen, who was an FBI agent for more than 21 years, told Just the News that the only misdemeanor case he ever worked was regarding stolen valor. With nonviolent felony offenders, rather than the FBI using a SWAT team, the offender would receive a summons, he said.

Noel, one of the two agents involved in the arrest of the Unabomber, told Just the News that while the Jan. 6 Capitol riot "was terrible and never should've occurred," the most dangerous period of time in the U.S. for domestic terrorism was in the late 1960s, early 1970s. In 1972, for instance, there were 1,507 domestic bombings, he said.

Just the News interviewed nine retired FBI agents over two days, nearly all of whom said they had never heard of the FBI working on misdemeanor cases. A couple of themeven noted that they would have been laughed at by the U.S. Attorney's Office if they had brought them a misdemeanor case.

All of the retired agents were concerned about the use of SWAT teams to make arrests of the Jan. 6 defendants. Many expressed concern over the politicization of the bureau by FBI headquarters while noting that FBI field agents are good at their jobs.

The FBI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/ex-fbi-boss-who-led-unabomber-task-force-decries-swat-teams-jan-6

Biden demands gas companies lower prices at the pump: 'Do it now!'

President Joe Biden on Monday issued a firm declaration to fuel companies in the United States, ordering them to lower fuel prices for consumers to a level the president said would reflect what the product actually costs.

Biden made the remarks at a meeting of the White House Competition Council. It was the third such meeting of the council, which the president established by executive order last July.

The president argued that, while oil prices have dropped worldwide in recent months, "we haven’t seen the lower prices reflected at the pump" and "oil and gas companies are still making record profits."

"Look, my message is simple," Biden said. "To the companies running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump: Bring down the prices you’re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you pay for the product. Do it now. Do it now."

"Not a month from now — do it now," he added. "And it’s going to save people a lot of money."

(These companies should rebel, he’s doing it to get an edge on the midterms, this should be considered an “in kind political donation to democrats” if the obey this asshole)

Gas prices reached record levels earlier this year as supply chain crises and inflation sent fuel costs at the pump soaring to unheard-of levels.

Those prices have been declining over the past few months, with AAA noting that gas prices on Sept. 27 were down 11 cents per gallon relative to a month ago.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/biden-demands-gas-companies-lower-prices-pump-do-it-now

Watch: ‘Where’s Jackie?’ Joe Biden Gives Shoutout to Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) Who Died in August

Charlie Spiering28 Sep 2022

President Joe Biden on Wednesday mistakenly gave a shoutout to a Republican congresswoman who died in August.

“Jackie are you here? Where’s Jackie?” Biden asked after thanking several bipartisan members of congress.

“I didn’t think she was going to be here,” he added.

Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) died in a tragic car accident in August.

Biden spoke about Walorski during a White House event on a national effort to stop hunger.

The president did not appear to remember he mourned her death in a statement released by the White House on August 3.

At the time Biden praised Walorski’s efforts on the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, pointing out “her deep care for the needs of rural America.”

It’s unclear whether Biden was reading off of his teleprompter at the moment he gave a shoutout to “Jackie” but he did not correct his mistake.

Conference organizers even played a tribute video at the event honoring Walorski’s legacy of advocating for food and nutrition, accordingto a reporter who was present at the conference.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/28/watch-wheres-jackie-joe-biden-gives-shoutout-to-rep-jackie-walorski-r-in-who-died-in-august/