https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1620138790789730305?s=20&t=GFHPnPrBuTvmHbgF5VMpFg
30 Jan, 2023 18:25
Britain gives Ukraine tank delivery timeline
The Challengers will arrive on the battlefield “this side of summer,” the defense minister said
Ukraine will receive 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks from the UK before the summer, Defense Minister Ben Wallace told Parliament on Monday. This timeline means the Challengers will likely arrive after Germany’s Leopard tanks reach the battlefield amid Kiev's hostilities with Russia.
Asked when the tanks would be deployed in Ukraine, Wallace told lawmakers "It'll be this side of the summer, or May – it'll be probably towards Easter time." For Western Christians, Easter Sunday falls on April 9 this year.
Wallace said that he could not provide further information on the training process for the tanks’ Ukrainian operators. Kiev’s ambassador to the UK, Vadim Pristaiko, told Ukrainian media last week that this process “will not take much time.”
Wallace’s timeline is close to that provided by Alex Chalk, the Defense Ministry minister of state, who said last week that the Challengers should be deployed “at the end of March.”
The UK announced that it would send the Challengers nearly two weeks before Germany confirmed it would donate an equal number of Leopard 2 tanks. However, the German armor will likely reach Ukraine just before its British equivalents, with Berlin stating on Thursday that its tanks would arrive by the end of March or beginning of April.
Germany also granted other European countries permission to ship their own fleets of Leopards to Ukraine. Poland, which had threatened to send the tanks with or without Berlin’s permission, will deliver around 14 Leopards “within a few weeks,” Deputy Defense Minister Wojciech Skurkiewicz told local media on Thursday.
The last heavy Western armor to reach Ukraine will be the US’ M1 Abrams tanks, the deliveries of which were announced by Washington alongside Germany’s Leopards. The announcement came despite earlier statements from the Pentagon that the Abrams tanks are too complex to maintain and consume too much fuel for use in Ukraine. According to recent reporting by the Washington Post, the tanks were only offered as “cover” for Germany to send the Leopards, and will not arrive until the end of the year at the earliest.
Russia has maintained that foreign weapons, including heavy tanks, will not change the course of the conflict. “As we said in the past, these tanks will burn just like the rest. They just cost a lot [to make],”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, referring to the Abrams specifically.
(Since these countries always notify the world of their timelines, are they really sending anything? Or are they trying to deceive Russia on timing? They promise a lot but rarely fulfill on time or at all. UK is depleting all military equipment and do not have a complete fighting force.)
https://www.rt.com/news/570717-challenger-tank-delivery-date/
30 Jan, 2023 20:48
Moscow provides more evidence of US biolabs in Ukraine
The Russian Defense Ministry said Kiev’s troops were among the test subjects for Pentagon-funded research
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday laid out more evidence that US-funded laboratories were working in Ukraine. Documents and materials recovered by Russian troops showed thatWestern pharmaceutical companiesoperating in territory under Kiev’s control conducted HIV/AIDS research on Ukrainian military personnel.
The commander of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, presented Ukrainian-language documents referring to HIV infection studies that began in 2019. The list of targeted groups shows service members alongside prisoners, drug addicts and other “patients at high risk of infection.”
According to Kirillov, the Russian military has recovered more than 20,000 documents and other materials related to the biological programs in Ukraine, while interviewing eyewitnesses and participants. The evidence “confirms the focus of the Pentagon on creating biological weapons components and testing them on the population of Ukraine and other states along [Russia’s] borders,” the general told reporters.
Based on documents originating with the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Russian military identified eight more individuals involved in the US-funded research in Ukraine. Among the names Kirillov singled out was Karen Saylors of Labyrinth Global Health, previously of Metabiota, a company linked to US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
The latest trove of documents, belonging to the company Pharmbiotest, was unearthed in Lisichansk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) early in January, Kirillov noted.
“Clinical samples and patient records with their personal data were buried, and not cremated or destroyed in a proper fashion. This suggests that the destruction of this evidence was carried out in extreme haste,” the lieutenant general said.
In October 2022, Russia filed an official complaint over alleged US-backed biological activities in Ukraine and requested a UN probe into the matter. The UN Security Council rejected Moscow’s proposal after the US, UK, and France voted against it. The US opposition “once again confirms that Washington has something to hide, and that ensuring the transparency of biological research is contrary to US interests,” Kirillov said.
As evidence of the widespread threat posed by the Pentagon’s biological research conducted beyond America’s borders, Kirillov referred to the previously mentioned US involvement in coronavirus studies, including by funding the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance that contracted with the laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Kirillov also brought up the 1977 outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Egypt, near a biological laboratory run by the US Navy. The disease previously known only south of the Sahara made a surprise appearance in Cairo a few months after the lab employees were vaccinated against it, the general said. Moreover, the Cairo strain was “highly pathogenic” compared to the disease’s normal flu-like symptoms, suggesting the involvement of gain-of-function experiments.
https://www.rt.com/russia/570714-russia-ukraine-pentagon-biolabs/
Senator Cruz Urges FBI to Search Hunter Biden’s Home for Classified Files Amid POTUS Office Finds
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Thanks to the contents of the so-called “laptop from hell,” federal investigators have compiled enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes and falsifying paperwork related to a gun purchase, but the US attorney’s office in Delaware has not yet brought charges against the US President’s son.
As more and more batches of classified documents from his prior times in office are found among the files of US President Joe Biden, US Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is urging the Department of Justice to widen its search for missing files to include Hunter Biden, Joe’s prodigal businessman son who infamously abandoned his laptop full of business and personal files at a repair shop.
“It seems he leaves classified documents wherever he goes,” Cruz said in a US media interview on Sunday. “And we also know that Hunter Biden at times was - declared his residence to be those very same places.”
Cruz added that it was “critical for the FBI to search Hunter Biden’s homes, home and office residences to make sure there are no classified documents there, given all the evidence that’s piling up. We need to ascertain who’s had access to what and when.”
He added that it seemed a “natural next step” for the FBI to also look through the massive trove of senatorial papersdonated by Biden to the University of Delaware, which span his 36 years in the US Senate. Cruz first made the suggestion last week on his personal podcast.
However, when the FBI raided former US President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida last August to seize hundreds of missing classified documents, Cruz was among the first to denounce the seizure as an abuse of power.
“The FBI raiding Donald Trump is unprecedented. It is corrupt & an abuse of power. What Nixon tried to do, Biden has now implemented: The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies,” Cruz tweeted at the time.
Cruz’s suggestion comes at the conjunction of several developments in recent weeks, including news the DOJ considered using the FBI to raid Biden’s family home for more files, as well as the new Republican-majority US House of Representatives taking up an agenda that includes investigations into the Biden family.
https://sputniknews.com/20230130/senator-cruz-urges-fbi-to-search-hunter-bidens-home-for-classified-files-amid-potus-office-finds-1106831931.html
30 Jan, 2023 18:26
NYC migrants refuse to move from hotel
Illegal aliens are protesting the decision to relocate them from their current accommodation to a shelter
New York City’s efforts to cope with an influx of illegal aliens bussed to the Big Apple from border states have hit a snag. Some of the migrants are refusing to be moved to a newly prepared shelter in Brooklyn after apparently preferring their free stay at a Manhattan hotel.
Dozens of migrants who had been relocated to a converted cruise boat terminal protested the decision by returning to Manhattan’s Watson Hotel and camping outside their original lodgings on Sunday night. Office workers passing by the scene on Monday morning found the sidewalk partially blocked by tents and protesters sleeping in the open. A sign was hung on the scaffolding, saying “permanent homes” in Spanish and “cancel rent” in English.
The 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal was set up to accommodate single adult men, making room for migrant families at hotels and other temporary housing.Protesters complained that living conditions at the barracks-style shelter were unacceptable, including inadequate heating and a lack of privacy.
More than 42,000 migrants have arrived in New York since Texas and other southern states began sending them to the largest US city last year, according to a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams. The converted cruise terminal is the fifth emergency relief center set up by the city to deal with the influx.
The new Brooklyn facility provides “the same services as every other humanitarian relief center in the city, and the scheduled relocations to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal this weekend took place as planned,” mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy told the New York Post. “We remain in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments.”
The flow of illegal aliens into the US has surged to an all-time high in the past year. Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, there have been more than 4.5 million migrant encounters by Border Patrol officers. The governors of Texas, Florida and Arizona, seeking to score political points on the border crisis, have bussed migrants to so-called “sanctuary cities” – such as New York, Washington and Chicago – that ban the deportation of illegal immigrants.
Adams has pushed back by demanding more funding help and announcing that New York has no more room to shelter migrants. “This is just unfair for cities to carry the weight of a national problem,” the mayor told MSNBC last week.
Adams is am idiot
https://www.rt.com/news/570715-migrants-protest-move-to-nyc-shelter/
30 Jan, 2023 12:48
Johnson lied about Putin missile ‘threat’ – Kremlin
The former British prime minister claimed the Russian president had made the comments in a telephone call last February
Allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a missile strike are “a lie,”Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Johnson’s accusations have emerged in a new BBC documentary about the crisis in Ukraine.
Recalling a telephone call with Putin on February 2, 2022, just over three weeks before tensions over Ukraine escalated into full military action, Johnson claimed the Russian leader “threatened me at one point.”
“He said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute’ or something like that… jolly,” the former PM told the British broadcaster.
“There were no missile threats,” Peskov told reporters on Monday. “When he explained challenges to the security of the Russian Federation, President Putin remarked that if Ukraine joins NATO, the potential deployment of NATO or American missiles at our borders would mean that any missile could reach Moscow in mere minutes.”
The Russian official wondered if Johnson had lied deliberately or “simply didn’t understand what President Putin was talking about.” If the latter is true, people should be concerned for Johnson, Peskov added.
Putin has publicly voiced Russian concerns over NATO infrastructure in Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe for decades. Russia began military operations against Ukraine after failing to get security guarantees from Washington, which would have rolled back the deployment of NATO assets in Eastern Europe and suspended its expansion in the region. The US dismissed Moscow’s concerns and claimed that Ukraine was free to seek membership as a sovereign nation.
https://www.rt.com/russia/570690-putin-johnson-missile-threat/
I didn’t write it, I would have said a lot worse
Thank God, meanwhile he’s out $100k minimum
Adams puts them up in a luxury hotel, what could go freakin wrong, meanwhile the homeless left on the street. The injustice in our country is sickening and disgusting!
I’d love for some of this to be true
And he has irrefutable evidence of that, I assume
Really seems like that, Trump broke them all and they can’t be fixed
I’d like him to be electrified soon, like in really quickly
Ok who mentioned red capital letter poster, who opened the damn door?
Ok, teach me how to meme, please
All of it is sickening, next they’ll demand housekeepers and dishwashers