29 Mar, 2023 17:38

US Congress reveals where Ukraine money ends up

Direct aid to Kiev amounted to only 20% of over $100 billion appropriated so far

Most of the money the US Congress has designated for aiding the government in Kiev has actuallygone to the military-industrial complex, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee admitted during an oversight hearing on Wednesday.

“Of the$113 billion appropriated, across four supplementals, approximately 60% is going to American troops, American workers, and on modernizing American stockpiles,” said Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican. “In fact,only 20% of the fundingis going directly to the Ukrainian government, in the form of direct budgetary assistance.”

McCaul is a staunch supporter of arming Ukraine, and insisted that his oversight of the aid is not intended “to undermine or question the importance of support” for Kiev, but to let American taxpayers know how their money was being spent.

The witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing on “oversight, transparency, and accountability of Ukraine assistance” included the acting or permanent inspectors-general at the Pentagon, the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The trio was featured in a Wall Street Journal report last month about American auditors going into Ukraine to ensure the weapons, equipment and cash are not “diverted” for unintended use. They told McCaul on Wednesday that, so far, there haven’t been any “substantiated” instances of diverting US aid. (That sounds like lies, they can’t admit they are money laundering)

“Every dollar counts,” said McCaul, arguing the oversight would promote the efficiency and effectiveness of Ukraine funding, in service of US interests. He also noted that the multinational consulting companyDeloitte is working with the Ukrainian governmentto verify the expenditure of US cash sent to prop up Kiev’s state budget.

“I don’t think the US has ever been engaged in anything quite like this,” McCaul said later in the hearing, referring to the “pipeline” of NATO weapons headed to Ukraine through Poland.

Moscow has repeatedly warned the West that supplying Ukraine with weapons and equipment only prolongs the war and raises the risk of direct confrontation between Russia and NATO. The US and its allies insist that sending over $100 billion worth of weapons to Kiev doesn’t make them a party to the conflict, even as many public officials described it as a proxy war that Russia “must lose.”

https://www.rt.com/news/573814-congress-ukraine-aid-deloitte/

29 Mar, 2023 21:40

Zelensky invites Xi Jinping for a visit – AP

The Ukrainian president has reportedly saidhe’s “ready to see” his Chinese counterpart in Kiev

(Has anyone told him how inappropriate that statement is? Xi is not a counterpart to Zelensky. Now it seems like arrogant begging, he’s asked for two+ weeks now.)

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly lamented that he hasn’t had any direct talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since Russia’s military offensive against Kiev began last year, and he wants to rectify the situation.

“We are ready to see him here,” Zelensky said in an interview with the Associated Press that was published on Wednesday. “I want to speak with him. I had contact with him before full-scale war, but during all this year, more than one year, I didn’t have.” (He wants Xi to go to Ukraine? Does he realize how bad this sounds to China. If thats an official invitation it sounds very disrespectful and its not announced to the press. Does he think he can pressure Xi?)

Beijing last month unveiled its 12-point roadmap for ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict, calling for a cease-fire and working toward a “sustainable European security architecture” rather than imposing sanctions and applying “maximum pressure” to force a solution. China has tried to play a “constructive role” in the crisis, resisting US pressure to condemn Russia and join in the West’s anti-Russia sanctions. US officials have dismissed the Chinese proposal as an offer that would help only Moscow.

Zelensky hashosted a paradeof Western politicians in Kiev, including US President Joe Biden and three UK prime ministers. He said last month that he was open to China’s peace planbut would only accept a dealthat led to Russia pulling all of its forces out of Ukrainian territory.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters on Wednesday thatshe had no informationon whether Zelensky’s regime had actually invited Xi to Kiev. Nor was she able to say whether the Chinese presidentwould acceptsuch an offer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a state visit by Xi earlier this month in Moscow. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin last week called the summit “very troubling.” Officials in Washington have suggested that China is considering sending arms to Russia, saying such a move would have “consequences.”

https://www.rt.com/news/573829-zelensky-invites-xi-visitt/

29 Mar, 2023 20:53

US Congress calls Chinese Communist Party organ-traffickers

The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act vows to hold party members who traffic body parts accountable

The US House of Representatives almost unanimously passed legislation sanctioning organ traffickers on Monday. In its opening statement of policy, the legislation implies that the Chinese Communist Party is overrepresented in the organ trade.

The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 promises to “hold accountable persons implicated, including members of the Chinese Communist Party, inforced organ harvestingand trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs.”

While the text of the bill makes no further mention of China or any other country, its sponsor, Republican congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, spoke at length about the heinous “crimes against humanity” the Party was supposedly guilty of.

“Every year, under General Secretary Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party, between 60,000 to 100,000 young victims – average age 28 – are murdered in cold blood to steal their internal organs,” Smith declared, adding that organs belonging to members of the Falun Gong sect are considered “highly desirable” due to their “peaceful meditation and exercise practices – and exceptional good health.”

The bill allows the president to sanction anyone he claims “funds, sponsors, or otherwise facilitates forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs,” imposing a $1 million fine and up to 20 years in prison, as well as revocation of any US passport or visa. It passed by a landslide vote of 413 to 2, with Republican representativesMarjorie Taylor Greeneof Georgia andThomas Massieof Kentucky being the sole holdouts.

Explaining his “no” vote, Massie told Newsweek the legislation “gives the president unilateral broad authority to sanction individuals and politicians without any adjudication or due process.” He was also troubled by thebroad definition of “organ trafficker” as “anyone who receives or offers compensation for an organ donation.”

Greene described the measure as “a flawed bill thatencourages more US involvementin globalist organizations” in a statement to Newsweek.

The bill was previously introduced in 2021, 2020, and 2016 without the China-specific language, but no previous version ever made it past introduction into the House. It must still be passed by the Senate before going to President Joe Biden to sign.

US foreign policy has grown markedly more belligerent toward Beijing in recent months. Several high-ranking members of Congress have traveled to Taiwan in the last year, while Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen embarked on a trip to the US on Wednesday despite stern warnings from China.

https://www.rt.com/news/573828-china-organ-trafficking-bill-congress/

(The UN should be proposing this and Bidan will never sign it. Why not go after the International traffickers and cut off their routes?)

>>18605189

Yep he is, and people noticed but don’t believe it

>>18605182

Did he want revenge for being gay himself, or fake and gay

>>18605180

Holy shit why is press allowing this to happen?

N>>18604653 Lindsey Graham that he had no idea what is in the Restrict Act, Patriot Act 2.0 that gives the government broad power to spy on Americans

Listening to Graham he sounds like he has dementia, he keeps reoeating we are undef attack from China, Tik Tok, american enterprise stolen by China. He tries to make it a mistake and China is at fault, because he’s being so ignorant to cosponsor a bill with other republicans, when he had no idea what was in it. No wonder he defends bidan