Blinken: Ukraine Will Be "Defenseless" Without US Cluster Bombs

Secretary of State Antony Blinken while at the NATO summit in Lithuania is promoting a message that Washington essentially had no choice but to arm Ukraine with cluster munitions because the country would have been "defenseless" with them.

He gave an interview to MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports" and asserted that Ukraine's own stockpile of cluster bombs and artillery is running out, even merely exhausted.

"The stockpiles around the world and in Ukraine of the unitary munitions, not the cluster munitions, were running out, about to be depleted," Blinken began.

"And so, the hard but necessary choice to give them the cluster munitions amounted to this: If we didn’t do it, we don’t do it, then they will run out of ammunition," he explained to Mitchell. "If they run out of ammunition, then they will be defenseless."

He also when pressed by the MSNBC host continued to advance the White House talking point that Russia is already doing worse, so cluster bombs are permissible despite the well-known human rights and war crimes issues.

Mitchell asked whether the US is ceding the moral high ground in delivering bombs which are banned by over 120 nations. "Every ally I’ve talked to has said they understand why we’re doing this when we’re doing it," Blinken claimed.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has relied on the same logic. "We are facing a brutal war, and we have to remember this brutality is reflected, that every day we see casualties, and that cluster munitions are used by both sides," Stoltenberg said days ago. "And Russia used cluster munitions to invade another country. Ukraine is using cluster munitions to defend itself."

Meanwhile, a number of European allies have broken from the US on the issue, condemning the move - most notably Germany. Ukraine has long accused Berlin of being weak and hesitate in the face of the Russian invasion.

But Blinken's method of arguing makes clear, Washington has framed each new escalation decision as matter of life & death, despite billions in arms already shipped. Every moment is somehow "facing down Hitler"… we are told.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-ukraine-will-be-defenseless-without-us-cluster-munitions

John Kerry Says People Will Have a “Better Quality of Life” with Strict Green New Deal-Style Climate Mandates

https://youtu.be/g766Kp74Mfg

MyPillow auctions off equipment amid sales drop, CEO blames cancel culture

The CEO called the development "a massive, massive cancellation."

MyPillow is selling off much of its equipment and subleasing its manufacturing facilities as the company continues to lose retailer support due in part to CEO Mike Lindell's controversial positions on the 2020 presidential election and his right-wing political advocacy.

Lindell has faced multiple lawsuits stemming from his election fraud claims. A court in April ordered him to pay $5 million to a software forensics expert who debunked some of his claims as part of a "Prove Mike Wrong" contest. He also faces a sizeable lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for defamation, The Hill noted. That case is currently ongoing.

The company has lost $100 million in annual sales following the removal of its products from several major retailers, Lindell told the StarTribune. Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond have all removed MyPillow products from their shelves over Lindell's election fraud claims.

The CEO called the development "a massive, massive cancellation."

"We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us," he added.

He further attributed the sublease of manufacturing space due to changing demand. The company has witnessed a shift to direct sales rather than retail sales in the wake of the development, which he says requires different packaging. He offered a comparable explanation for the auctioned equipment.

https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/mypillow-auctions-equipment-amid-sales-drop-ceo-blames-cancel-culture

Free money? North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum offers $20 gift card to people who donate $1 to his presidential campaign

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who is one of the many candidates competing in the Republican presidential primary, is offering an unusual deal to people who donate to his campaign: For a donation of just $1, people can snag a $20 gift card.

"People are hurting because of Bidenflation, and giving Biden Economic Relief cards is a way to help 50,000 people until we get in office and fix this crazy economy for everyone!" Burgum tweeted on Monday. "Yes, 50,000 people will actually get a Visa or Mastercard gift card to their mailing address. When it comes to providing economic relief to the American people, I'm not messing around!" he added.

"We just launched a short time ago and already we're giving away about 1,000 Biden Relief Cards per hour. Get yours before it's too late!" he noted in another tweet a bit later on Monday.

"It also allows us to secure a spot on the debate stage while avoiding paying more advertising fees to social media platforms who have owners that are hostile to conservatives," Burgum spokesperson Lance Trover noted, according to Fox News Digital.

In order to qualify for the August 23 primary debate slated to be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, candidates must meet certain criteria, some of which include polling and fundraising thresholds.

The Republican National Committee's fundraising criteria for debate eligibility stipulates that candidates must have "a minimum of 40,000 unique donors to candidate’s principal presidential campaign committee (or exploratory committee), with at least 200 unique donors per state or territory in 20+ states and/or territories."

Vivek Ramaswamy, an author and entrepreneur who is also vying for the GOP presidential nomination, has announced that people can join the "Vivek Kitchen Cabinet" program and earn a 10% commission on any funds that they raise for his campaign.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/doug-burgum-donation-gift-card

NATO's Big Climb Down

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/07/natos-big-climb-down.html

THE BIG PICTURE: New Evidence Informs and Confirms Old Analysis on Cover-up Operations, Biden Criminality, Ukraine, NATO, China and CEFC China Energy Company

A dead horse worth kicking again is the fact set surrounding how Joe Biden is a national security threat to the US for his corruption, crimes and treason in two epicenters: Ukraine and China.

The vehicle for the crimes was private equity deals between the Bidens and major players of foreign nations; one of them regarded as the US’ primary hegemonic, economic and military rival, China.

It all distills down to pure spirits captured in these graphic illustrations:

In the aggregate, the evidence clearly indicates that Joe Biden is a Chinese proxy [161 articles reference this fact] with severe exposure to criminality in both Ukraine and China.

This article provides big picture understanding for Joe Biden’s criminality in Ukraine and China with newly emerged [leaked by the intelligence community to remove Biden and possibly Harris] evidence on both fronts relative to Ukraine’s NATO membership and the CEFC China Energy Company.

The lens of former two-time AG Bill Barr is our evidentiary lens for understanding.

Further distilled, we can accurately view the Biden Administration according to these two images; they explain everything:

Relative to China and the Bidens, reporting from the NY Post on 05 Jul 23 has emerged to detail a longstanding subject of our examination: the Bidens’ private equity dealings with CEFC China Energy Company [appears in 52 articles going back to 2020].

The formerly ‘missing’ whistleblower is Israeli professor and former Israeli army officer Dr. Gal Luft and readers are free to vet him on their own accord.

Trump’s DOJ and specifically the corrupt SDNY arranged for a controversial meeting with Luft in Brussels.

https://politicalmoonshine.com/2023/07/10/the-big-picture-new-evidence-informs-and-confirms-old-analysis-on-cover-up-operations-biden-criminality-ukraine-nato-china-and-cefc-china-energy-company/

Part 1

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According to the NYP, Luft’s claims are, “that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.“

Luft, “provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice in a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019 — but alleges that it was covered up,” NYP reports.

Luft says he told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Joe Biden, soon after his vice presidential term ended, had attended a meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC, with his son Hunter and officials from CEFC.

Luft’s account of the former VP’s presence at that meeting was corroborated 21 months later when the FBI interviewed another attendee, Biden family associate Rob Walker, according to recent testimony before Congress.

Luft disclosed during the Brussels interview that CEFC was paying $100,000 a month to Hunter and $65,000 to his uncle Jim Biden, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative around the world — and that the money was being funneled through Walker.

The Oversight Committee has written to Walker demanding he submit to questioning about his role in distributing more than $1 million from China to at least three of President Biden’s relatives.

The DOJ sent a delegation of six people to meet Luft in Brussels, he alleges: four FBI agents and two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, Daniel Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh.

Among the FBI contingent was Special Agent Joshua Wilson from the Baltimore field office, who would go on to sign a subpoena later that year to seize Hunter’s abandoned laptop from a Delaware repair shop.

“Why did the government dispatch to Europe so many people?” asks Luft.

“They knew very well I’m a credible witness and I have insider knowledge about the group and individuals that enriched the Biden family.

“Over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family’s financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures. I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden’s bagman.”

The New York Post

Breitbart reports,

“Over an intensive two-day meeting, I [Luft] shared my information about the Biden family’s financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures,” he added.

“I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden’s bagman.” Walker is an infamous character involved in the Biden business.

Suspicious activity reports obtained by Comer’s committee revealed Rob Walker received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC in 2017.

In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

Walker was also cc’d on a 2017 email chain between Hunter and two of his former business partners, Tony Bobulinski and James Gilliar, about ten percent “held by H for the big guy.”

According to an IRS whistleblower’s testimony, U.S. officials prevented prosecutors from questioning Walker about the email.

Part 2

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More primary source evidence can be accessed at Marco Polo, which unpacked the Biden laptop among other Biden-related forensic examination.

Another aspect of the NYP’s reporting informs the important information and analysis contained in yesterday’s article, which outlined how Ukraine’s NATO membership serves as an effective geopolitical “switch” and primer to initiate war.

The analysis is underpinned by our assumed concept that war is the best eraser of inconvenient history and evidence, like Biden’s criminality in Ukraine and China.

The chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-TX delivered the contextual evidence stating that admitting Ukraine as a NATO member, “would immediately put us at war with Russia.”

Overlay those details with this development from Insider Paper: NATO to drop major hurdle to Ukrainian membership: Western official.

NATO is set to drop a major hurdle to Ukraine’s bid for membership in the alliance, a Western official said Monday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP that the allies “are set” to drop the Membership Action Plan requirement for Ukraine’s application.

“MAP is just one of the steps in the NATO accession process though so even with its removal, Ukraine will still need to complete further reforms before joining NATO,” the official said.

Insider Paper

This development puts Biden’s hand closer to the switch and Ukraine’s NATO membership remains a critical marker.

The NATO matter is informed by my two-part analysis on the ongoing cover-up operation of Biden’s criminality and worse in Ukraine, which should be viewed through the war lens just framed.

Important sidebar: Don’t be surprised to see 2024 stolen and handed to another Vice President; the one who sealed the removal of a sitting president when as President of the US Senate, he confirmed the 2020 election and triggered presidential transition as a formal coup mechanism – Mike Pence.

It’s the same Biden that was purchased and compromised by China; making him a legitimate national security threat.

It’s also clear that Biden was a broker to China for the nation’s most sensitive and top secret information; just like Hillary Clinton and her private email server.

Biden was in-part purchased by CEFC China Energy Company and energy is the “currency” for massive amounts of corruption, financial crimes and enterprise fraud prosecutable under RICO statute.

Energy tethers the Biden’s to Ukraine as the global center for money laundering; making it the keystone of corruption.

Joe and Hunter Biden’s Burisma entanglements are one nexus between the Bidens and Ukraine using energy as the “currency” of corruption.

The Biden/FTX money laundering operation also bears down and firmly so.

Beginning in 2014, Biden conspired with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Victoria Nuland to conduct a color revolution in Ukraine that eventually resulted in the installation of US proxy Volodymyr Zelensky and the capturing of PrivatBank to facilitate money laundering operations.

In 2016, Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid from Ukraine if the Ukrainian government did not fire Prosecutor Victor Shokin, who was investigating the corruption of Hunter Biden and his private equity dealings with Burisma.

Shokin investigated the case before his termination due to pressure applied by then-Vice President Joe Biden, who then later bragged about the firing in 2018.

The ongoing cover-up operation of Ukraine is occurring with the initial Barr effort along with the ICPA and WCAT.

There is certainly a cover-up operation for the China/CEFC matters, too, making for future work.

If the cover-ups are ineffective, the best eraser of history and inconvenient truth is lying in wait with the whole world on the razor’s edge of World War III.

The removal of a barrier to Ukraine’s eventual NATO admittance puts Biden’s hand cloer to the geopolitical “switch” to initiate war with Russia “immediately.”

Stay tuned.

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Part 3

LUNA: Ukraine wants every American pay $200 per day to fund 'mercenary army' similar to Russia's Wagner Group

"They're saying that after Russia leaves Crimea, which is where their head is at, they're going to potentially privatize and create a mercenary army similar to the Wagner Group."

Speaking to Steve Bannon on War Room, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna revealed that during a recent visit to Poland, she heard a peculiar request from the speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament.

"They want to not only demand that Americans pay $200 every single day, every American in the country because it is our 'obgligation' according to Ukraine, so that they can defend the western world from Russia. But they are also saying that they want F-35s," she said.

"And if that isn't crazy enough, they're saying that after Russia leaves Crimea, which is where their head is at, they're going to potentially privatize and create a mercenary army similar to the Wagner Group. So that is the mindset of Ukraine. So why are we giving them more munitions?" Luna said.

The Wagner Group is a private militia group operating on behalf of Russia. It took the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut earlier in the conflict before handing it over to Russian troops. Leader of the group Yevgeny Prigozhin marched his forces on Moscow earlier this month in what was then termed a failed coup. However, Russian President Putin met with Progozhin in the days following.

Zelensky has said outright that the only way he could see the war coming to a successful close is if Crimea is back under Ukraine's control. This is likely a non-starter for Russia, which overtook the region and has continued to gain terroritory in Ukraine.

Luna has co-sponsored a resolution to prevent cluster bombs, the use of which the Biden administration has said is a war crime, from going to Ukraine. That resolution also has the backing Reps. Matt Gaetz and Sara Jacobs.

"Not only are they highly dangerous for civilians and children," Luna said, but "…there is a potential that these will be unexploded ordinance and that there will have to be a massive demining effort afterwards."

On Monday, Gaetz said in a tweet "I will be the Republican co-sponsor on the NDAA amendment introduced by Rep. Sara Jacobs to stop the transfer of cluster bombs. These cluster bombs will not end the war in Ukraine and will not build a more stable country. Children will be left without limbs and without parents because of this decision if we do not work together in a bipartisan fashion to stop it."

On Tuesday, NATO decided not to allow Ukraine to make a bid to join the alliance. Zelensky fumed over the denial. Many allies of the US have spoken out against the deployment of cluster bombs to the war zone, though Biden, in justifying the move, let slip that the country was "running out of ammunition."

President Trump, Biden's top political opponent, weighed in on the matter on Tuesday, saying that he condemned the action as "dragging us further toward World War III."

https://thepostmillennial.com/luna-ukraine-wants-every-american-pay-200-per-day-to-fund-mercenary-army-similar-to-russias-wagner-group

BBC presenter sent abusive messages to a second young person as director defends BBC process

The BBC says a young person has come forward to make complaints about the presenter at the centre of the scandal over alleged payments to a teenager for explicit images.

Key points:

Britain's public broadcaster is in crisis after The Sun reported a senior BBC presenter paid a young person for explicit images

The presenter has been suspended but not named, angering other high-profile stars who have fallen under suspicion

The BBC has verified threatening messages were sent by the presenter to a second young person

The young person, who has no connection to the first and is in their early 20s, told BBC News the two connected on a dating app but never met.

When the person hinted online that they might reveal the presenters identity, they were sent abusive, expletive-filled messages that frightened them and they remain scared of the presenter.

BBC News said it had verified that the messages were sent from a phone number belonging to the presenter.

It said it had received no response to the latest allegations from either the presenter or his lawyer.

Director-general defends BBC policy

Earlier on Wednesday the director-general of the BBC defended its handling of an allegation that one of its senior presenters paid a teenager for explicit images, after acknowledging that it did not flag a complaint to senior management until a tabloid newspaper approached it.

The broadcaster has been rocked by a report in the tabloid The Sun that the presenter paid a young person 35,000 British pounds ($67,810) for explicit photos over three years, beginning when the person was 17.

The presenter has been suspended but not named, angering other high-profile stars who have fallen under suspicion on social media.

The 100-year-old broadcaster said on Tuesday it had paused its own investigation while the police examine the case. The police said they had requested this to establish whether there was evidence of a criminal offence.

"There remains no police investigation at this time," they said.

According to a timeline published by the broadcaster, a member of the young person's family walked into a BBC building on May 18 to make a complaint.

The family member contacted BBC Audience Services the next day.

The BBC said it made two unsuccessful attempts — one email and one phone call — to respond to the complainant.

The Sun contacted the BBC seven weeks later, on July 6, with different allegations, the broadcaster said on Tuesday, and senior management were informed for the first time.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-12/bbc-defends-anonymity-of-suspended-host-amid-photo-scandal/102589770

Local Doctor and Son Sentenced for Illegally Accumulating and Selling Scarce N95 Respirator Masks

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/local-doctor-and-son-sentenced-illegally-accumulating-and-selling-scarce-n95