Anonymous ID: 4d8a5e Feb. 22, 2023, 1:13 p.m. No.18395702   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5709 >>5716 >>5735 >>5743 >>5974

Former President Trump To East Palestine Residents: "You Are Not Forgotten"

 

Former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine, Ohio on Wednesday afternoon during the aftermath of a massive chemical spill as a result of a Norfolk Southern train derailment.

 

Trump told residents: "We have told you loud and clear, you are not forgotten. You are not forgotten. We stand with you, we pray for you."

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/02/22/watch_live_former_president_trump_visits_east_palestine_ohio_after_norfolk_southern_chemicals_spill.html

 

Video, youtube preventing from playing, anyone have an idea how to get the link to play

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/jlu4jSUs_YU?feature=share

Anonymous ID: 4d8a5e Feb. 22, 2023, 1:43 p.m. No.18395837   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5852 >>6143 >>6347

Twitchy Business – Joe Biden Meets With Moldovan President Maia Sandu

February 21, 2023 | Sundance

All of the geopolitical deep weeds followers generally agree, if/when the U.S. triggers the first direct military strikes against Russian interests, what one might call the modern Archduke Ferdinand moment,it will likely take place in Moldova.

 

As a consequence, a very strategically weak and easily influenced Moldovan President, currently Maia Sandu, will be the manipulated leader who next puts her country in harm’s way.

 

Moldova has a significant population of pro-Russia citizens in the east, which makes the internal domestic dynamic a little strenuous to manage. It is very similar to Ukraine in that regard.

 

White House – President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met today with Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Warsaw. President Biden reaffirmed strong U.S. support for Moldova’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. He highlighted ongoing US assistance to help Moldova strengthen its political and economic resilience, including its democratic reform agenda and energy security, and to address the effects of Russia’s war against Ukraine. (link)

 

It’salmost a guarantee at this point the CIA and U.S. State Dept. have ongoing strategic operations in control of Moldova.

 

Coincidentally, or not, there is also a large population of ex-pat Moldovans in/around Jackson Hole Wyoming in the USA.

 

Moldova has also applied for EU membership.

 

March 2022 – REUTERS – Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a formal application for her country to join the European Union on Thursday, charting a pro-Western course hastened by Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. Sandu’s move comes days after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a request for immediate EU membership as it battles invading Russian forces.

 

[…] Sandu, the prime minister and the parliamentary speaker all signed the document during a briefing in the capital Chisinau, where pro-Russian and pro-EU politicians have vied for control since Moldova won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

 

“It took 30 years for Moldova to reach maturity, but today the country is ready to take responsibility for its own future,” said Sandu, before holding up the signed document to the television cameras. (read more)

 

 

It literally takes years to get on the EU, Ukraine has been trying for 20 years. If she just signed the papers it should taje a long time, but if Moldova is approved by the EU before Ukraine, we’ll know war will start.

 

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/21/twitchy-business-joe-biden-meets-with-moldovan-president-maia-sandu/

Anonymous ID: 4d8a5e Feb. 22, 2023, 1:47 p.m. No.18395852   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18395837

Corruption in Moldova

 

The government in Moldova has in recent years taken several steps to fight corruption, including law enforcement and institutional setups. The prosecution of officials who are involved in corruption has also increased in recent years. However, businesses consider corruption a serious problem for doing business, and the business environment continues to be one of the most challenging in the region.[1]

 

According to Transparency International, 37% of Moldovans report paying a bribe in 2010. One of the most perceived corrupt institutions is the police.

 

A large anti-corruption protest was held in Chișinău in September 2015 following a $1 billion (£655 million) bank fraud.[2]

 

On 19 April 2021, the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova 2021–2024 was signed in Strasbourg, France. It is an action plan which, among other things, aims to combat corruption in the country.[3]

 

On Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, Moldova scored 36 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("highly clean"). When ranked by score, Moldova ranked 105th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [4] For comparison, the best score was 88 (ranked 1), and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180).[5]

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Moldova

Anonymous ID: 4d8a5e Feb. 22, 2023, 3:15 p.m. No.18396279   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6295 >>6300 >>6347

22 Feb, 2023 20:58

Republicans demand Ukraine aid oversight

The GOP has asked the Biden administration to prove that tens of billions of dollars worth of assistance isn’t being siphoned off

 

The House Oversight Committee demanded on Wednesday that the Pentagon, State Department and US Agency for International Development prove that the $113 billion in military and economic aid allocated to Ukraine isn’t being lost to “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

 

In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and USAID Administrator Samantha Power, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer urged the three officials to turn over all documents and communications regarding any economic and military assistance programs for the Ukrainian government.

 

Comer’s committee is also demanding documentary evidence of the Biden administration’s plans to tie aid shipments to anti-corruption initiatives, and documents detailing how the administration evaluates the success of its aid drive.

 

The letter gives Biden’s officials until March 8 to provide all the evidence, dating back to the launch of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine last February.

 

“Providing security and humanitarian assistance for warfighting and reconstruction purposes comes with an inherent risk of fraud, waste, and abuse,” Comer wrote. “The United States must identify these risks and develop oversight mechanisms to mitigate them.”

 

While National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed in January that the administration has “not seen any signs” that military or economic aid “has fallen prey to any kind of corruption in Ukraine,” a slew of reports from the country suggest otherwise.

 

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky fired a number of top officials last month for profiteering from foreign aid, while reports from last year – backed up by Amnesty International – suggested that as little as 30% of Western weapons sent to Ukraine were actually making it to the front lines.

 

American and Canadian officials admitted at the time that they had no idea where most of these weapons were ending up, with one US intelligence source telling CNN that they disappear “into a big black hole” once they enter Ukraine.

 

Republicans in Congress have broadly supported President Joe Biden’s policy of arming Ukraine, although before his party retook control of the House of Representatives last November, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy warned that the GOP would no longer write “a blank check” for Kiev.

 

Comer’s letter does not call for a halt to US aid, although a minority of anti-intervention Republicans have sponsored legislation that would cut Kiev off from US funding entirely.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/571946-house-oversight-ukraine-aid/

Anonymous ID: 4d8a5e Feb. 22, 2023, 3:19 p.m. No.18396307   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6347

22 Feb, 2023 19:21

Nord Stream investigator recalls hidden history of US-Norway covert ops

Decades before allegedly helping it bomb European gas lines, the Norwegian military aided the CIA’s undeclared war in Vietnam

 

Six decades before Norway helped the CIA destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it gave the agency heavily-armed boats that it used to target North Vietnam, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote on Wednesday. Norway’s involvement in this secret war was deeper than previously reported, Hersh claimed.

 

Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, claimed earlier this month that the CIA sabotaged the Nord Stream lines on President Joe Biden’s orders. The Norwegian Secret Service and Navy reportedly helped CIA divers choose the correct spot to plant the explosives, and ferried the Americans out on a boat to the location, near Denmark’s Bornholm island in the Baltic Sea.

 

Explaining why the US chose Norway as its partner in destroying the Russia-to-Germany gas lines, Hersh said on Wednesday that the “Norwegian Navy has a long and murky history of cooperation with American intelligence.”

 

Historical reports show that Norway sold a number of fast attack boats to the US Navy, which were used by the CIA to conduct clandestine attacks along the North Vietnamese coast. By 1964, prior to the US’ official entry into the Vietnam war, at least two Norwegian sailors had confessed to taking part in these raids, while unconfirmed reports claimed that Norwegian officers and crew manned some of these boats.

 

However, according to Hersh’s source “within the intelligence community,” the CIA was given more boats than previously reported. Manned and captained by Norwegian sailors, these vessels carried US Navy SEALs to missions against “far more aggressive targets that included heavily defended North Vietnamese radar facilities.”

 

While the CIA’s previously reported clandestine attacks were controlled by the American command in Saigon, these more aggressive missions were commanded by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington.

 

“It was a secret war within a secret war,” Hersh wrote, adding that at least two Navy SEALs were wounded on these missions, and received the Medal of Honor in secret.

 

“This bit of top secret and heretofore unknown history raises, to this reporter, an obvious question: what else do we not know about the secret operation in Norway that led to the destruction of the pipelines?” Hersh concluded.

 

The Biden administration has described Hersh’s reporting on the Nord Stream explosions as “utterly false and complete fiction.” Moscow considers the destruction of Nord Stream an act of “terrorism,” and Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, argued this week that Hersh’s reporting was “more than a smoking gun” suggesting US involvement. Prior to Hersh’s initial article, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the explosions on the West, arguing that the US in particular benefited from the attack due to its position as a supplier of LNG to Europe.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/571942-nord-stream-norway-vietnam/

Anonymous ID: 4d8a5e Feb. 22, 2023, 3:28 p.m. No.18396359   🗄️.is 🔗kun

N>>18396213 Angus King has doubled down RE: the growing scandal over his 2018 campaign’s use of a secret “enemies list” to censor critics on Facebook and Twitter

 

I saw on Open Secrets today this guy has owned shares of NS for years, i’ll find and post later