26 Jan, 2024 10:44

Poland plans to cut benefits for Ukrainians – media

Local officials believe only the sick, dependent, and disabled can count on long-term aid, Rzeczpospolita reports

Poland is planning to develop new rules for helping Ukrainian refugees, Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday. It said, citing local officials,that many are taking advantage of benefits to which they are not entitled.

According to the article, a special protection regime for Ukrainian refugees which expires in early March will be extended for another six months. After that, therules of assistance are likely to significantly change.

Aneta Zochowska, who heads the Lena Grochowska Foundation for refugees, stressed the need for changes, suggesting that long-term state aid should be extended only to the sick, dependent and disabled, mainly from the frontline regions.

The article also noted that although the Polish government introduced a regulation last spring that Ukrainiansliving in shelters for a longer period of time should partially pay for foodand accommodation,it hasn’t been enforced.

It’s effectively ignored because children, disabled people and their guardians, as well as single parents with at least three children, are exempt from bearing those costs, with Polish officials also told to handle the issue of payments “in a humane manner,”Rzeczpospolita said. As a result, it is almost impossible to verify the refugees’ financial status, with very few Ukrainians ending up paying the fees.

Against this backdrop, the Lena Grochowska Foundation introduced payments for Ukrainians in its refugee centers, varying from $25 to $75 per month per person, adding that “we mobilize the residents to work… we don’t want to teach them retroactive helplessness.”

Ukrainians legally residing in Poland are entitled to food and shelter. Families get a monthly stipend of $123 for their second child and for each additional child. They can also receive a one-time payment of $75 as well as a lump sum of $3,000 for a newborn, among other benefits.

However, in March 2023 the Polish government tightened the rules, allowing refugees to live in temporary accommodation for free for only 120 days from the moment they arrived in the country. After that, they have to cover 50% of their living costs, but no more than $10 per day, and after 180 days – 75% (no more than 15$).

As of late 2023, there were almost one million Ukrainian refugees recorded as residing in Poland, according to UN data. According to local officials, however,just over 40,000 Ukrainians are currently living in state-funded centers. (Why are they relying on UN data, don’t they know how many are in their country?)

(Ukraine is a welfare country and so are their citizens that escaped to other countries. A welfare mentality, because EU states are stupid. Ukraine isn’t even in the EU.)

https://www.rt.com/news/591319-poland-plans-to-cut-benefits/

25 Jan, 2024 20:06

Hunter and the hunted: How Joe Biden is being linked to corruption, terror attacks, and political assassinations in Ukraine. 1/3

Recent statements by a Ukrainian dissident have revealed worrying ties between the US president’s family and certain elements in Kiev

Ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, there’s been much talk about the family of US President Joe Biden and alleged corruption schemes connected with Ukraine. The story itself isn’t new, but facts have recently come to light which make itclear why the American leader and his fellow Democrats remain intransigent on the Ukraine issue.

In the footsteps of assassins and those who hire them

Andrey Derkach, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian who became widely known for publishing recordings of conversations between ex-Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and high-ranking foreign officials, including Biden (who was then US vice president), gave an extensive interview earlier this month to journalist Simona Mangiante. During this conversation, he disclosed sensationalnew detailsabout the“special ties”between the Biden family and the Ukrainian authorities.

According to Derkach, “President [Vladimir] Zelensky’s office was involved in distributing the Poroshenko-Biden recordingsand helped organize the media coverage [of the story].” At the time, Zelensky and his team were interested in exposing his political rival by any means possible.

Everything changedafter the start of the 2020 US election campaign and the arrival of Biden as president. “In a situation whenZelensky and [Ukrainian presidential aide Andrey] Yermak are begging Biden and [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken for money, a [news] story about how they had once created problems for Biden’s election campaign is a big problem for them,” Derkach explained.

So,instead of exposing the corruptionin the previous Ukrainian administration, theBidens (along with Zelensky and his team) turned against anti-corruption fighters. Derkach, who has been forced to hide in Belarus, was stripped of his citizenship by the Ukrainian authorities and sanctioned by the US. But that’s not all. In addition to criminal investigations and sanctions,Derkachsays he hasfaced assassinationattemptsordered by top officials in Kiev and Washington.

”OnJanuary 19, 2022, US Secretary of State Mr Blinken arrived in Ukraine to meet with Zelensky. Quite a lot of people attended this meeting – at least 14 people. At the meeting, MrBlinkentold Zelensky the following:‘You urgently need to resolve the issue with Derkach’. Zelensky began talking about some people from the opposition. But Blinken said, ‘If you don’t resolve this issuewith Derkach, thenwe will resolve the Derkach issue with our partners.’ Those who were at the meeting were taken aback, because the position of the US secretary of state was quite harsh. Just think of it, the task for the president of Ukraine is to resolve the issue with Derkach,” the former deputy said.

It is noteworthy that in2021, the Ukrainian police discovered plans to assassinate Derkachand the head of the group ofprosecutors in the Burismaenergy company case, Konstantin Kulik,but did not initiate a criminal case. The investigationtracked downthe criminal gang from Eastern Europe hired tocarry out the hit, as well as their base in Transcarpathia. The assassin himself was supposed to be an Albanian, but the information was leaked, and the gang escaped.

There was also an attempt toassassinateformer Ukrainian Prosecutor GeneralViktor Shokin. According to former US Associate Attorney General and ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Shokin (whose dismissal Joe Biden has openly bragged about) was poisoned with mercury while on a trip to Greece. Nikolay Korpan – a doctor at the Austrian Rudolfinerhaus private clinic who treated presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko in 2004 – reportedly confirmed this to Giuliani. According to Korpan’s findings, while the permissible amount of mercury in the blood is no more than two units,Shokin was found to have 9.2 unitsand was starting to experience liver failure. It was clearly a murder attempt.

The number ofwitnesses in the Burisma case– a company though which Joe Biden’s son,Hunter Biden earned profitsvia alleged corruption schemes –is also steadily decreasing. Shortly before she was due totestify as a witness in the case, the wife of Nikolai Lisin – a former partner of Nikolai Zlochevsky –was found deadin her apartment. She had been responsible for accounting at Burisma and had been aware of transactions carried out in the interests of the Bidens. Lisin himself died in a car accident back in 2011…

https://www.rt.com/russia/591201-us-president-corruption-ukraine/

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In light of this, it seems Derkach is right to say thatanyone who talks about Biden’s corruption in Ukraine is in danger of being physically removed. The same can be said about his opinion that there is“a single organized crime group: Biden, Blinken, [Victoria] Nuland,the ‘deep state’ represented by the Department of State. And then there is their ‘extension’ – either in the form of Poroshenko, or of Zelensky and Yermak.” As Derkach says,Zelensky and Yermak “attacked” the “organized crime group” headed by former President Poroshenko and took their place. “They have brought their own particular innovations into these matters. They have become even more cynical and cruel.”

Hunting for Ukrainian gas

What are the Bidensand their partners in the Democratic Partytrying to hideby waging war against whistleblowers in Ukraine?

The fact thatHunter Biden abused his father’s official position, receiving a profit of several million dollars through corrupt schemes and violating US legislation on foreign agents, isn’t the only problem.There’s much more to it than that.

In order to understand thescale of the potential profits for the Biden family, we need to go back to 2012. The Yuzovsk shale gas field is located on the territory of the Donetsk and Kharkov regions. The total area of the deposit is about 7886 sq km. According to the State Geologic and Subsoil Survey of Ukraine (UGS), the proven resources of the field are up to 10 trillion cubic meters, and it can deliver around 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. In May 2012, the British-Dutch company Shell won the tender (organized by the UGS) for the right to conclude an agreement on its development.On January 24, 2013, Ukraine signed a production sharing agreement with Shell. Incidentally, US company ExxonMobil had participated in the tender along with Shell, but the Europeans won. (Approximately one year before the Maidan revolution)

At the end ofNovember 2013, when then-Ukrainian President ViktorYanukovych refused to signan Association Agreement with the EU, mass protests broke out in Kiev, which became known as the‘Euromaidan’. One of the officials who greatly supported the protesters and encouraged the establishment of pro-Western power in Ukraine wasBiden’s colleague, Nuland, who was dubbed the ‘Maidan midwife’. The State Department official was so active in Ukraine thatshe became embroiled in numerous scandals.She was known for handing out cookies in the center of Kiev, cursing the EU, and boastingthat theUS had invested $5 billion into “building democracy” in Ukraine. (They paid $5 billiion for the revolt)

On February 22, 2014, the Ukrainian parliament removed Yanukovych from power, in a move of dubious legality. Aleksandr Turchinov became interim president, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, backed by Nuland, became prime minister. In April 2014, theUkrainian army started an “anti-terrorist operation” in Donbass,andShell was forced to stopthe development of shale gas deposits.

Meanwhile, onMay 12, 2014, Burisma announced that Hunter Biden had joined its board of directors. The energy company was headed by Ukrainian oligarch Nikolay Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine’s minister of natural resources under Yanukovych. While he held that post, Zlochevsky’sfirm received nine licensesfor the development of various energy deposits, thereby increasing its annual production volume sevenfold.The oligarch’s activities drew the attention of Interpol, since Zlochevsky had ties withMaltese businessman Pierre Pillow. He was involved in laundering huge sumsof money in Maltese banks and helped Zlochevskyopen accounts for Hunter Biden in Satabank,known for its dubious operations.

In 2018, Burisma took up the development of shale depositslocated in the exactsame area where the military conflictbetween Kiev and Donbass was raging. At least$10 billion– i.e. the sum of the contract with Shell – was at stake.

But the story didn’t end there. Sergey Zavorotny, adviser to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov,described the Bidens’ alleged schemes involving reverse gas flows. Derkach’s records state that while he wasUS vice president, Joe Biden pressured Poroshenko to leave Andrey Kobolevas CEO of Ukraine’s Naftogaz. In turn, Kobolevappointed Amos Hochstein – who may be called Biden’s “wallet”– as an independent director of the Naftogaz supervisory board. It is atthis time that the reverse gas flow scheme was organized. (Note Hochstein is now spokesman of Bidan. Bidan seeminly hired everyone involved in Ukraine destruction. Now Bidan paying Ukraine back with military and humanitarian aid from our pockets)

https://www.rt.com/russia/591201-us-president-corruption-ukraine/

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The scheme implied that “Russian gas crossed the Ukraine-Slovakia border through a built-in 1.5 kilometer-long pipe and immediately returned to Ukraine, but with an added cost of $50 per one thousand cubic meters.Biden, Kobolev, and Amos Hochstein collected one and a half billion dollars using this scheme," Zavorotny also claims.

Former Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko drew attention to the fact that the perpetrators of the corruption scheme were never punished, and said that “the investigation was not carried out under the new president==. The president changed, but all the policies that were carried out externally in regard to Ukraine, as well as inside the country, have remained the same.”

Shale and underwater explosions

While intense fighting was underway in Ukraine, Burisma launched the first shale gas production line in Donbass.Hunter Biden arranged that process, while Hochstein “organized” the reverse gas flows. At that time,Hochstein became the US Special Envoy for Nord Stream 2.

In a recent interview, Derkach recalled the criminal case againstBurisma lawyer Andrey Kichi, who tried to give a $6 million bribe to law enforcementofficials in order toclose the Burisma case. On April 21, 2022, with the consent of a Burisma representative, aUkrainian court transferred the $6 million in cashto themilitary unitof the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine. According to Derkach,“after a certain period of time, Nord Stream exploded, there were assassination attempts. The heads of the Ukrainian special services do not hide the fact that they commit terrorist acts and political assassinations using off-budget cash. Once again,Biden’s business partnerswho are involved in the corrupt business in Ukraine alsofinance terrorist acts, thus avoiding responsibility for corruption in Ukraine.”

These claims are yet to be proven, but the hostility towards the Nord Stream project by representatives of the US administration is indisputable. Hersh wrote that theDemocrats directly threatened to destroy the gas pipelines. As PresidentBiden statedduring a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in February 2022, “If Russia invades [Ukraine],there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.” Twenty days before that, USOS Nuland had said: “I want to be very clear: if Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”

It’s not known whether this implied attacking the gas pipelines, but after the sabotage, Secretary of StateBlinken said: “It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energyand thus to take away from [Russian President] Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs. That’s very significant and thatoffers tremendous strategic opportunity for the yearsto come..

As a result, theEuropean gas market has undergone a huge transformationin the past couple of years. By the end of 2023, LNG accounted for 42% of the EU’s. Half of it – i.e. 77 billion cubic meters – was supplied by the US.According to a report by shipbroker, theUS is now the largest exporter of LNG, accounting for 21.7% of global shipments. To compare, theUS exported 72.5 million tons of LNG in 2021, and just 48.2 million tons in 2020. What more can we say?

Hans Sanderson – a senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Science in, Denmark – who said that theexplosions stirred up a quarter of a million tons of heavily contaminated sediment, which created two giant ‘clouds’ of pollution, each about 15 miles in diameter, containing 14 tons of lead and a smaller but deadly amount of TBT, a poisonous pesticide; there are 7,000 tons of mustard gas weapons at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. According toMarie Helene Miller Birk, a marine biologisttoxins could have entered the Baltic food chain from the bottom of the sea.

And it’s not just nature that paid a heavy price for “independence from Russian gas.”In November, Germany’s Finance Ministry froze additional government spending until the end of the year. This affected almost all budget allocations, including the financing of measures to prevent the growth of energy prices, and the economic stabilization fund. As German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in the Bundestag,“We provide military and economic support to Ukraine.Therefore, we spend money – the money is no longer here, and we have to admit that it does not enter our economy.”Habeck admitted that the German economy had lost its competitive advantage due to the rejection of Russian gas, and energy prices in the country have increased.

Tucker Carlson Gives “Freedom” Speech in Canada – Justin Not Happy with “Freedom” Propaganda

January 25, 2024 | Sundance |

Justin from Canada is oh not too happy with Tucker Carlson for traveling to Calgary (rebellious audience 4,000) and then stadium show for 8,000 rebels in Edmonton. Apparently, Justin does not like it when Tucker comes to Canada. WATCH:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/25/tucker-carlson-gives-freedom-speech-in-canada-justin-not-happy-with-freedom-propaganda/

https://youtu.be/fNqeEidfvSU