[ConservativeTreehouse] From the moment the DHS disinformation governance board was discovered it was obvious the agency was created in order for Homeland Security to partner with social media platforms to control, monitor and track the speech of American citizens. DHS denied that was the intent; however, Senator Josh Hawley has discovered emails showing all suspicions were accurate.
Senator Hawley appeared on Tucker Carlson Wednesday night to discuss.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Severodonetsk.
Fighting continues in the industrial zone of the city, as well as for the villages of Borovskoye, Voronovo and Metelkino. The fortified area near Borovsky is partially broken into. The enemy is concentrating his efforts on holding the Azot plant and adjacent buildings.
2. Svyatogorsk.
The clearing of the forest in the Svyatogorsk region continues, as well as fighting in the Lavra region, where the enemy maintains a presence on the heights and prevents the RF Armed Forces from expanding the captured bridgehead on the other side of the Seversky Donets. There are also reports about the occupation of the Russian Armed Forces of the villages of Sosnovoye and Tatyanovka. On a number of sites to Slavyansk 18-20 kilometers.
3. Izyum.
The RF Armed Forces continued attacks in the area of Krasnopolye and Dolina, as well as battles for Bogorodichnoye. No changes in the area of Kurulka and Bolshaya Kamyshevakha.
4. Kharkov.
Positional fighting to the north of the outskirts of the city continued. In response to the shelling of border villages in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov and Sumy regions were intensified. The main front line - Cossack Lopan - Liptsy - Ternovoe - Rubizhnoye is still preserved.
5. Zolotoye.
Fighting continued in the Vrubovka area, as well as on the southern outskirts of Zolote. To the north of Gorskoye, fighting continued in the area of Ustinovka and Toshkovka.
6. Soledar.
High-intensity battles continued for the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway near Berestovoye and Belogorovka. In fact, a counter battle is going on here, as the RF Armed Forces are trying to physically cut the highway, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the contrary, are trying with all their might to push the RF Armed Forces away from the highway. At the same time, the RF Armed Forces retain fire control over its greater length. The supply of the Severodonetsk grouping has already been largely reorganized through Seversk. The fighting at Stryapovka also continued.
7. Svetlodarsk.
The battles for the Novolugansk and Uglegorsk TPPs continued. A serious advance from this direction to Artemovsk will be difficult without taking the thermal power plant and the fortified area located to the north-west. Also, it has not yet been possible to completely eliminate the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Pilipchatino area.
8. Avdievka.
Fighting continued near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway. It has not yet been possible to advance to the outskirts of Krasnogorovka (which is necessary to bypass Avdievka from the north). Fighting continued near Novobakhmutovka and on the outskirts of New York.
9. Zaporozhye.
Positional battles continued on the Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole-Velikaya Novoselovka line. The front line does not undergo significant changes, although the enemy claims that the RF Armed Forces are preparing for an attack on the administrative center of the region.
10. Kherson.
After a number of unsuccessful offensive actions and losses incurred, the enemy temporarily went on the defensive in the Nikolaev and Krivoy Rog directions, but is preparing to resume offensive attempts, replenishing battered units and strengthening the group operating in the Krivoy Rog directions.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
[Chernovec] The Ukrainian Ombudsman lied to the whole world about sexual crimes allegedly committed by military personnel of the RF Armed Forces and rape of children in Ukrainian territories, Permanent Representative of Russia Vasily Nebenzia said during a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Behind such statements of Kyiv there was not and there is not even the slightest evidence base. Denisova took one for the team in saying it was her idea to invent stories of rape by Russian military in Bucha in the early going of the war. I seriously doubt this was discussed with anyone in the Ukrainian government, top to bottom. It was later I found out several members of the Rada found out Denisova could not back up her story, and -- to their credit -- chucked her out the window.
"Better than others, this was recently proved not by anyone, but by the Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Denisova herself. She, as they say, went too far and was fired by the Ukrainian regime with an interesting wording: an incomprehensible concentration on numerous details of sexual crimes and rape of children in the occupied territories, which could not be confirmed by evidence. In other words, the Ukrainian ombudsman has been lying to the whole world without evidence all this time, which turned out to be shocking even for the Kiev authorities," the Russian plenipotentiary said. Yes, we know, but you can't blame the Russians for bringing this up since the stories have yet to be disputed in western press.
Earlier, on May 31, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed human rights commissioner Lyudmila Denisova with a scandal. In fact, the Ukrainian ombudsman was "expelled from the Gestapo for cruelty."
Even the Ukrainian authorities could not stand the fool. The level of lies voiced by Denisova could not stand even the Ukrainian propaganda, which is not embarrassed and does not get tired of riveting fake after fake. All that fierce trash that the Russian Denisova Denisova is Russian by birth
carried against the Russians and Russia was surprising even among the real ideological Galician Bandera. After all, even the most vigorous Nazis from the most dense caches of the Carpathian forests could not become such a repulsed Russophobe. As I said elsewhere. Denisova screwed up so badly, she got the Russians and Ukrainians agreed on something.
It was she, a Russian native of Arkhangelsk and a former Crimean woman (which once again proves that Svidomism is not a national trait, but a contagious disease), who has recently been spreading chilling stories about the rape of children by soldiers of the Russian army.
As it turned out, Denisova was lying - there is no evidence of such crimes, and representatives of the nationalist Ukrainian regime themselves were forced to admit this. It remains to be seen what made the official savor the details with scenes of sexual violence.
The prosecutor of the Buchansk district noted that he did not know anything. The Ukrainian police were also unable to indicate the locations of the basements, where, according to Denisova, this could happen. To date, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has NOT A SINGLE CONFIRMED CASE of rape by the Russian military in general of anyone or even anything on the entire territory of Ukraine.
All the proofs of Ukraine are the painted panties on the girls, roaming and screaming through the cities of Europe.
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So the Russian troops make sure to leave neither survivors nor witnesses.
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The real problem is our incompetent “intelligence services “
As an old neighbor told me few years back, many CIA managers are not well trained at all, they lack exposure to the various real theaters in with are involved. Their knowledge and experience it’s only theoretical. Our media is reporting what is been forceful told by our fascist civil servants, protecting their job security at any cost.
In USA, young people come into intel horribly miseducated from about 6th grade onwards; poisoned in the head at US universities (and military academies).
And then you have to add the politicization of US intel.
The top intel people want to see things that fit their narrative or fantasy.
For example this bunch are so stupid that together with Mossad and NATO, the CIA because their incompetence It’s not even pretending anymore they don’t run and farm Muslim extremists, and then pretend to fights them on the eyes of the taxpayers Religious whack jobs always make fertile ground for creating chaos, and CIA like Fbi are chaos creators, so they can keep their jobs.
This is not anymore about intelligence and security.
Is anybody paying attention since 9/11?
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06/09/2022 16:04 Comments ||
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Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] Day 105 and whether there is any day of a special military operation to protect Donbass. The execution of Donbass continues. I can say without looking at the reports that the Nazis will kill from 5 to 20 civilians per day. It's daily. And regularly. Moreover, having lost their fear, they fire from fire in the Peski, Tonenkoye, Opytnoye ... in fact, point blank. Today Donetsk, Makiivka, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya are under fire...
Undoubtedly, this is an operation. Operation of the enemy with a triple bottom. The first bottom is obvious - shelling demoralizes the population of Donbass. They are demoralized by the fact that it flies everywhere, and by the fact that on TV regular clowns talk about the fact that everything is according to plan, and in the meantime, explosions outside the window. Clowns scratch, people suffer.
The second bottom is the dispersal of wild rumors about self-attacks. Nothing new, it has been practiced since the age of 14, but it begins to act on some people. Why? And therefore, how to believe that there are not enough forces for counter-battery combat, and the RF Armed Forces cannot reliably cover the city, against the backdrop of all the same TV propaganda about having no analogues, not everyone can. Not everyone reads bloggers either, those who read do not always read critics. We created geovictory ourselves, and now they are attacking it.
Literally with blood.
Plus panic, plus sur outside the window. A saleswoman at a newsstand was wounded today. Tell me, is a kiosk an urgently needed enterprise at this time? Do we have a circus with the illusion of a peaceful life? And how many victims are needed to close unnecessary enterprises and remove utility bills for the duration of the fighting? These are crests in Kharkov, and they did it.
And the third bottom. They shelled the Government House. Decision making center. Easy and casual. Breaking an unspoken agreement. So what? I'm guessing nothing. That is, just do. Everything will go on as usual. The center of Kyiv is inviolable, and Donetsk is not a pity. Actually, this is the essence of the third bottom of the enemy's actions - a demonstration, in the language of the Scythian, of a low potency of leadership.
I wrote about the purely military sense earlier - sooner or later, forces and means will have to be thrown at Avdiivka. They will start killing and destroying more, that's all. To the limit, beyond which either suicide riots, and a million-strong agglomeration was sentenced to death, or the complete discrediting of Russia, which allowed its cities to be killed. And something needs to be done about it. For example, respond to decision-making centers.
How this affects the army, which is in the trenches, and their relatives are killed in a conditional rear - think for yourself. In that war, besieged Leningrad was shot like that. But there is no blockade here. Or is there? So far, only vague statements and the resignation of the government have taken measures. I would like to believe that at least people will be kept at home and their children will be taken out without playing at the end of the school year and other nonsense.
Just a year after concluding that Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader ordered the brutal murder of an American resident and journalist, and after winning the White House with a vow to make Riyadh a “pariah,” Biden is weighing travel to the kingdom next month as well as a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It’s a stunning reversal in the president’s treatment of a bilateral relationship that U.S. leaders have long struggled to use to their advantage at home.
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06/09/2022 10:28 Comments ||
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I would pretty much love to see DC burned to the ground with all the government personal in there and the earth salted at this point. The corruption and rot is to widespread.
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Swapping out Biden for Putin would be a good trade for us. More oil production, better missiles, an end to BLM extortion & a good stomping on the woke Democrat / alphabet people sickos.
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06/09/2022 11:07 Comments ||
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I liked the suggestion in All Quiet on the Western Front that the leaders of countries that want to make war against each other should strip down to their drawers, get into a boxing ring and have at it so the young men could live in peace. It would be a hoot to watch Biden and Putin doing just that.
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06/09/2022 12:22 Comments ||
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Putin the judo master would beat the shit out of Biden.... meaning that after the match is over Biden would weigh about 20 lbs
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Biden is scum, but he was never in the KGB.
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06/09/2022 13:46 Comments ||
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Wasn't Corn Pop in the KGB?
Biden beat him up right after Biden got admitted to the Naval Academy but joined the CIA Clandestine Service instead
Posted by: Oye Como Va ||
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[i]Biden is scum, but he was never in the KGB. [/i]
Well, he's working for a former KGB agent named Vladimir Putin. That's what the whole Burisma thing was about. It's one of many reasons the current and former KGB and their mouthpieces here despise Biden but _won't talk about_ because as Groucho Marx said they need the eggs.
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After India, Turkey is emerging as one of the big winners from the West's debacle in Ukraine.
Like India, Erdogan holds an extremely strong hand. He's desperately courted by NATO at the same time that Russia is offering all kinds of economic benefits.
These include new trading opportunities in the wake of western firms' hasty forced exit from Russia to new financial ties including the new Russian credit card that replaced MC and Visa and that's based on the strongest global currency of 2022.
Most important, Turkey is emerging as the central transit hub for Russian (and Azeri and Kazakh) gas shipped to the Mediterranean nations, both south European, Arab and African.
Erdogan shows no sign at all of caving to NATO regarding his insistence that they stop harboring PKK terrorists. He has an extremely strong hand and seems to be intent on playing it successfully.
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"Woefully underestimate your enemy; never consider him a threat, or capable or intelligent."
- from The Art of Losing War
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Turkey has had a shaky economy since the 1990s — crash after crash after crash. Demographically, President Erdogan has been fighting a desperate rear guard action to protect his precious Turks from the fact that they’ve had below-replacement birthrates for years, while the Kurds have been well above replacement despite all that the Turkish army has killed. Erdogan has been warning that within two generations the Kurds will inherit Turkey based on relative birthrates alone, accomplishing in reality what the Palestinians have been pretending to do.
Turkey may prove a short term winner — that outcome still remains to be seen — but whether there will be enough Turks in Turkey to enjoy the fruits of that labour for long is a different question.
"Never defend your country's boundaries, and always put others ahead of your own citizens. You will earn their undying loyalty."
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06/09/2022 0:43 Comments ||
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So Russia won't do anything about Turkey supplying drones to the Ukrainians? Or about Turkey preventing Russian ships from reinforcing the Black Sea Fleet?
And "strongest global currency of 2022"? That line had to come directly from the Kremlin.
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..at the same time the Turks are obstructing Sweden and Finland from NATO entry. (though one might observer, both of those at least qualify as democracies, where as Turkey...)
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Yes, the ruble is the best performing currency in the world this year. It's all about commodities and Biden's hyperinflation.
The Kuwaiti Dinar is also strong but anyone who ignored all the lies and bullshit of the Biden Administration and bought rubles when Pudd'nhead called it "rubble" would be a very wealthy man now.
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"Best performing" -- fastest growing? That's not the same as "strongest". Growing from 1 to 2 is a doubling, but it's still a pipsqueak compared to something that went from 100 to 101, or even 100 to 95.
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^ Rob Crawford thinks "CBS" is the successor to the FSB. In his mind he's right
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"Best performing?" An insurance agent (Note that insurance 'agents' don't have the same fiduciary duties as a stock broker...) tried to sell me a 'Retirement Package' based on a "high performing International portfolio" when I saw the block of Venezuelan stocks (circa Hugo Chavez). I could only giggle internally and with a straight face I declined.
...the Venezuelan stocks were showing an impressive return under Hugo Chavez too. What an 'opportunity' I missed out on. Maybe there are some stocks in the nation formally know as Turkey that I could invest in... just kidding.
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In sales, when you sell the "sizzle" not the steak, its because of the quality of the product has been inferior over the long term. When you sell fundamentals, you focus on solid quality, not recent performance. Compare and contrast our visiting car salesmen.
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There are three US states with higher GDPs than all of Russia. Just by driving around the local bypass I can visit three states that come within 20%. And two of those states are Kentucky and Indiana.
"Strongest currency" indeed.
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What's behind this move?
"A short, victorious war."
Turkiye might be in a position to reap the benefits in the mid-short term but the Turk people are sure as hell not.
Between the unchecked graft, crony deals and pure self destructive and unlimited greed of the local Neo-Nobility, the Turk economy and people's ability to buy necessities has been wiped out.
Unless something happens before the end of the summer to distract and help the current ruling group, there may not be an Erdogan family, come the year's end.
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