25 Jan, 2023 11:40

Zelensky sanctions top clerics

The president targeted several bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church amid a crackdown

President Vladimir Zelensky has ordered personal sanctions on senior figures in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). The Kiev government launched a crackdown on the denomination last year, claiming that it harbored Russian agents.

The order published by the Ukrainian president’s office on Wednesday enacts a motion issued by the National Security and Defense Council to seize assets and to impose other restrictions on ten individuals.

The list includes Metropolitan (Bishop) Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl, the senior cleric in Ukraine’s most prominent Orthodox monastery, the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, and retired Metropolitan Yelisei of Izium and Kupiansk. It also targets several priests of the Russian Orthodox Church whose parishes are located in Crimea, as well as Ukrainian businessman Vadim Novinsky, who holds the office of a deacon in the UOC.

The security council has also been slapping sanctions in a similar way on individuals who allegedly pose a threat to Ukraine. Critics of Zelensky say he is using the body, which he controls, to persecute political opponents.

The UOC, which has historic ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, has been targeted by a crackdown since November. Then the domestic security agency SBU started raiding monasteries and other church property, reportedly looking for evidence of collusion with Russia. Churches may be hiding saboteurs, stockpiling weapons or be otherwise involved in treason, the agency alleged.

This month media in Ukraine revealed that Zelensky had stripped 13 UOC priests of their Ukrainian citizenship after imposing personal sanctions on them. Reports said the presidential order depriving them of their status was issued secretly in late December. The list, published by news outlets, included some bishops previously raided by the SBU.

Ukraine has experienced religious turmoil for decades, with some priests breaking away from the UOC to form schismatic organizations. One of the most prominent splits took place in 2018 and was widely perceived in the country as an attempt by then-President Pyotr Poroshenko’s to boost his reelection chances.

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which was established as a result, has been pushing the Ukrainian government for aid in taking over the UOC’s parishes and property.

(More proof Ukraine is part of the WW satanic cult of death)

https://www.rt.com/russia/570455-zelensky-sanctions-orthodox-priests/

25 Jan, 2023 10:04

Turkish opposition backs exit from NATO – media

Turks increasingly perceive the US as a threat and Russia as a friend, vice-chair of Vatan Party Ethem Sancak argues

Türkiye could leave NATO within months, a politician there has claimed, citing “provocations” by the US-led military bloc against his nation. Ethem Sancak is a Turkish businessman of Arab descent who is active in politics and who local media describe as close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

He was commenting on an anti-NATO campaign in Türkiye that the Vatan (Patriotic) Party, where he holds the position of vice chairman for foreign relations, has organized.

“NATO forces us to take these actions with their provocations,” he stated, predicting that his party’s goal of getting Türkiye to leave the alliance may come to fruition “in five-to-six months.”

Speaking to the news website enbursa.com on Tuesday, Sancak noted that being part of the bloc puts Türkiye on a collision course with fellow member and longtime rival Greece, and also at risk of being pulled “into a whirlpool in the Middle East.” The recent Koran-burning stunts in some European nations make leaving NATO “a necessity,” he argued.

The Danish-Swedish right-wing politician and activist Rasmus Paludan staged a protest last weekend in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, which involved the burning of the holy book of Islam. The incident sparked outrage in the Muslim world, while the Turkish president said Stockholm’s choice to permit the action meant that Ankara would not support Sweden’s request to join NATO.

Sancak said that Turks were increasingly perceiving the US as a nation that pursues “the most hostile and destructive policies.” At the same time they “feel great sympathy towards Russia.”

A survey conducted by the Turkish pollster Gezici at the end of last year showed that 72.8% of Turks wanted their nation to have good relations with Russia. Less than a quarter said they believed Moscow to be hostile towards Türkiye.

Omer Celik, the spokesman for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), rejected the idea, which he called “mind-blowing.” Türkiye is among NATO's oldest members, and people calling for its exit are “talking about destroying” the bloc, he told journalists on Wednesday.

The Vatan Party believes that Türkiye would be better off if it dropped its attempts to become a member of the EU andforged good relations with China and Russia instead. It also advocates overcoming differences with Iran and Syria, nations that the US is targeting with crippling sanctions and other forms of pressure.

Sancak joined the Vatan Party last year, though his involvement in politics goes back decades to his days as a university student and activist. His business interests include pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as well as media, with the TV channel 360 and the daily newspaper Star among his best-known acquisitions.

(True if Big! Trump needs to make his entrance stage right. Bidan is destroying the world, even the EU knows he’s undermining their own prosperity. But they are cucks to the NWO)

https://www.rt.com/news/570447-turkiye-nato-provocations-sweden/

25 Jan, 2023 13:24

Amazon workers stage ‘historic’ strike

UK workers are demanding a pay raise and better conditions, saying ‘robots are treated better’

Amazon union workers in the UK are striking for the first time ever. They are complaining that their wages are below inflation-linked rates and are describing working conditions as “severe.”

Members of the GMB Union working at the retailer’s warehouse in Coventry voted to hold a “historic” industrial actionafter Amazon offered a 50-pence-per-hour (62 cents) increase in pay last month. The workers have rejected what they called a “derisory” pay rise, demanding instead an increase to £15 ($18.48) per hour.

The 24-hour strike began on Wednesday after midnight, with GMB saying it expects 300 employees out of a total of 1,000 at the plant to turn up to the walkout.

“After six months of ignoring all requests to listen to workers’ concerns, GMB urges Amazon UK bosses to do the right thing and give workers a proper pay rise,” GMB senior organizer Stuart Richards said in a statement.

Last August, Amazon offered to increase pay to between £10.50 and £11.45 per hour which employees interviewed by the BBC said was a “smack in the mouth” given the company's profits and spiraling inflation.

“These people had worked two years through the pandemic, that had seen Amazon's shares go through the roof, they had seen the profits just become unimaginable,” a company warehouse worker, Darren Westwood, told the media outlet.

The strikers are also demanding better working conditions, complaining about long working hours, frequent injuries, and the unrelenting pace of work, as well as an aggressive, tech-enhanced monitoring of employees.

“Someone the other day said we’re treated like robots – no, robots are treated better,”Westwood told CNBC.

In response, Amazon said in a statement that the size of the strike is “only a fraction of 1 percent of our UK employees.” The action comes as the US tech giant is laying off 18,000 workers worldwide in a bid to adjust to a dramatic slowdown in online sales, after consumers resumed pre-pandemic offline shopping.

The company has postponed the opening of new warehouses and halted hiring in its retail group. Earlier, Amazon said that it planned to close three of its depots in the UK, which will impact about 1,200 employees.

(How much does Amazon pay the UK govt?)

https://www.rt.com/business/570460-uk-amazon-workers-strike/

25 Jan, 2023 11:00

Germany greenlights Leopard tanks for Ukraine

Berlin has also confirmed it's giving permission to other nations to provide German-made armor to Kiev

The German government has approved the supply of Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, it announced on Wednesday. Both Germany and other European nations intend to deliver the heavy weapons systems to Kiev.

“This decision follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability. We are acting in a closely coordinated manner internationally,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a statement.

The German armed forces will send 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks from its own stock, the government said.

The move opens the door for nations such as Poland to transfer German-made armor to Ukraine. Germany’s failure to promptly permit deliveries after other nations had announced their intentions to do supply Kiev with Leopard tanks exposed it to international criticism. Warsaw threatened to form a “smaller coalition” for would-be tank donors and hinted that it would do “the right thing” regardless of Berlin's position.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius had teased the imminent decision on Tuesday during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The official suggested that other nations should identify tanks they want to deliver to Ukraine and start training Ukrainian crews as they expect a nod from Berlin.

Scholz was reportedly reluctant to see German tanks on the battlefield in Ukraine, unless the US paved the way first by agreeing to supply its own Abrams armor. The Pentagon claimed its tanks were too costly and complex to operate and maintain to be of much use to Ukraine.

News network CNN claimed on Tuesday that theBiden administration was about to override the objection and send a “significant number”of US-made war machines to Ukraine.

Russia has warned that by supplying heavier weapons systems to Ukraine, Western nations were simply prolonging the conflict and were risking its escalation. Moscow is pursuing vital security goals in Ukraine and will not drop these despite resistance, Russian officials have said.

“If a decision [is made] to transfer to Kiev the M1 Abrams, American tanks without any doubt will be destroyed, as [will] all other samples of NATO military equipment,” Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov had stated earlier in the day.

(MIC must be fed more death)

https://www.rt.com/russia/570452-germany-tanks-approve-ukraine/

>>18222027

Thanks for pointing that out!

Interesting BB on 4ch, archive below

https://paulfurber.net/theburningbush/?start=50

>>18222146

Bidan should be hung, but I want Russia to win, and I suspect P does too

>>18222145

Again???? Do we really need to see or discuss this? I get a serious pause every-time I see this post

>>18222138

When we see “giant ant” comms you know the end is near

>>18222129

It’s not germany its bidan and US. And yes since bidan has to cover all their crimes

>>18222098

GWP has gotten a lot better with their exposes

>>18222094

So she just admitted a proxy war using Ukraine. Oh and they will do the blame game over and over, because the EU is a farce to pretend they are not sovereign countries. Hungary has been saying it from the start, bad idea to fight with Russia.

>>18222092

Soooo????

>>18222044

I don’t think EU realize Putin and gov planned this for 8 years, EU should really start to understand killing ethnic Russians and ignoring it, will be a tragedy for them. EU is self inflicting judgement on themselves

This is going to be the worst disaster everthe US, EU & Ukraine thinks they have pushed Russia into a corner. They are so wrong. Russia knows they are in a long war.

18 minutes ago

Col. Derek Harvey Draws Parallels Between Russia’s Great Patriotic War And Current Ukraine Conflict

https://rumble.com/embed/v24ged0/?pub=4

>>18222604

True andnotable. Russia won’t lose. EU doesn’t understand Russia fought the Nazi with 20-25 million Russians. They will not fail. US, EU and Ukraine are lying in everything they say. It doesn’t matter how many tanks they send.