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White House says Russia planning to annex large swaths of Ukraine
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hunter Biden Probe Will End With ‘Very Sympathetic Plea Agreement,' Former Federal Prosecutor Predicts
[American Greatness] As the federal investigation into Hunter Biden and his tax affairs wraps up, the fix appears to be in, according to former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty.

Yesterday, it was widely reported that the investigation had reached a "critical stage," and Justice Department officials were looking into whether to charge Hunter with various tax violations, possible foreign lobbying violations and more.

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a prosecutor appointed by former President Donald Trump, is conducting the investigation, which reportedly began in 2018.

Trusty—currently an attorney and Fox News legal analyst—told America’s Newsroom hosts Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith that he was "skeptical" that anything other than a whitewash is in the works.

"It sounds like we’re trotting out a guilty plea, not an indictment," he said, going to explain that a plea deal would involve "very narrow facts" that "deflate" the case.

"It could deflate everything into a little silo for Hunter Biden, and a very sympathetic story about addiction," he said, adding that he had heard that there was "open fretting by prosecutors on the case" that "Hunter Biden’s drug addiction was somehow a defense to a bunch of white collar crimes."

Trusty told the Fox hosts why he thinks using Hunter’s drug addiction as a defense is not applicable.

"That can be a mitigator. It can be a defense when you have something involving spur-of-the-moment action, but for months and years of financial transactions, drug addiction is a non-starter," he explained. "If they’re floating it out there, it could mean we have a very sympathetic plea agreement coming in the near future," Trusty said.

The former prosecutor said it looks to him like the government is soft-peddling the corrupt foreign lobbying/influence peddling case, which implicates other members of the Biden family, including "the big guy," Joe Biden.

Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), issued a detailed report in September of 2020 on the Biden family’s shady influence peddling operations.

Johnson and Grassley alleged in their report that the Obama administration knew Hunter’s work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings prevented "the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine" during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.

The report also revealed that Hunter Biden had business associations with Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and People’s Liberation Army resulting in millions of dollars in questionable cash transactions. The Senate investigation also found links between Hunter Biden and Eastern European human trafficking, the adult entertainment industry, and/or prostitution.

"What you’re not hearing at all out of Delaware is the word "conspiracy," Trusty pointed out, adding that 80 to 90 percent of white collar cases involve a conspiracy charge, which he noted, "by definition means you’re looking outside a single person’s actions."

The former prosecutor said he was only reading "the tea leaves," but what he’s seeing is not promising.

"It’s not sounding like that [a conspiracy case] from the rumor mill, so far," he said. "So again, I think it looks like a very contained and friendly agreement coming on the horizon."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 01:45 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden Crime Family cannot go down without pulling Obama down with it. Coming soon, slap on the wrist for Hunter and Brandon stepping down due to medical reasons. Memory hole placed into warp speed setting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Duh.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/22/2022 6:37 Comments || Top||

#3  "The comrade minister resigned for health reasons..."
Posted by: magpie || 07/22/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Meanwhile, the phony J6 committee and the court system with a stacked D.C. Dem jury are trying hard to send Steve Bannon to the slammer and ultimately remove Trump from the 2024 election.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  We are clearly at the end times. Soon to come plagues of locusts.
Posted by: jpal || 07/22/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  The January 6 committee had a hearing last night. Has anyone seen anything abbut it?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 12:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Ref #5: They'll appear in Ga. first. I'll keep you posted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  The January 6 committee had a hearing last night. Has anyone seen anything abbut it?

Mrs. Uluque had it on TV. All these sanctimonious and hypocritical little people blathering on and on and on about Orange Man Bad. I can only speculate that they're doing it in prime time because nobody has been watching it in the day time. I went upstairs to watch Tucker and read a book.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#9  about.

Sorry ‘bout that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#10  They are speeding up charging him so that Biden can pardon his son before he is removed or off'd. The destruction of our country will then proceed under new management. If they install Kamala, the system will iterate once more.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/22/2022 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  I do believe the steady drip drip drip of the Hunter miasma into public view is to speed up the pressure to charge him, even before the Mid-Terms, so that Biden can pardon him and Jimmy the Chin. Once that is done, some housekeeping and Jojo exits stage left, toughguy speech about if only I wasn't ill drivel to the end.

I too think Kamala is already measuring the drapes and Gavin was sent in to get a final look-over before the VP appointment sham gets set up. Remember, the House and Senate have to give a simple majority approval to the nominated VP under the 25th, and after the Installation of a Republican House in January of 2023, that gets problematic. So essentially there is a 6 month timeline for this to happen, and Jojo's delaying the departure really screws any such thing quite quickly. How obedient the Cackle-Jackal will be to the Puppet Masters is far from clear.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/22/2022 14:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Remember the media conjectures about "Can Trump's pardons be vacated?" They aren't excited about such a scenario now...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 14:37 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
The Specter of White Genocide, Part 1
[USSA News] It’s a slow building spectacle. The momentum is momentous as gravity gives it gravitas. The snowball is snowballing as it careens downhill to bury Whites. There are just the sounds of silence as we remain silent about our fate. White America stands on the cusp of oblivion, of annihilation in the plain literal sense. It’s not hyperbole to state that the White race is racing towards extinction — not just demographic conquest and dispossession; not just humiliation, discrimination. and civil rights abuses, but EXTINCTION with the likelihood of attendant violence. We’ve been oblivious to oblivion, but hopefully, the instinct of self-preservation will kick in, in time to turn the tide, to stop the careen into the abyss. We have to recognize this reality and not retreat from it. The starting point and time to end this mindless madness must be now because it is mere minutes to Midnight before the permanent night of extinction ensues. We have to work backwards up a difficult slope from where we presently are or we will slide further downhill as the West further devolves.

Once immigration began, a transformation of the basically White world of the US to the Third World in 1965 ensured. That meant the end of the so-called "melting pot" in which hitherto various European ethnicities could meld together rather seamlessly and assimilate into an altogether different White reality represented by the bounty and boundless boundary/frontier testing spirit of America. Instead, there could now be only an inevitable meltdown as the new totally foreign elements added an untenable type of diversity in which the ingredients cannot mesh together into an edible stew. This new recipe led to a cheesy imitation of the America designed by the founders that flounders along without the necessary moral compass of a common religious or cultural base to keep it on track. As the foreign elements increased as a percentage of the overall stew, the founding stock was increasingly charged as having egg on its face by the race hustlers as they unfairly "eggzaturated" and mischaracterized alleged past misdeeds of the native White stock. Every defect, deficiency, or even duplicity of the newcomers and the never-to-be-satisfied — and never acculturated Blacks — could be palmed off or blamed on non-existent "white privilege" or the nearly non-existent "white supremacism," a figment of the imagination of fervid and fevered minds. Once the foreigners achieved sufficient clout and cred, assimilation could be thrown under the bus by the leftists who were now in the driver’s seat in their drive for "diversity". Senseless equality of outcomes was the natural outcome of trying to satisfy all foreign comers and non-white up-and-comers regardless of their native capabilities and IQs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 07:31 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The government should have issued some sort of warning about this.

Oh WAIT !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  White people should have to wear lead weights and blinders for their eyes to make things equal.
Posted by: jpal || 07/22/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Tell us how you really feel, Congresswoman Spartz


Victoria Spartz (R-northern Indianapolis) moved to America after getting an MBA in Kiev, so she knows her former homeland. In the years since she earnt her CPA and real estate broker license, became an adjunct business school professor, was a founding member of the local TEA Party group. After serving in the Indiana legislature for three years, she was elected to the U.S. House in 2020 for Indianapolis and its wealthy northern suburbs as one of the anti-socialism Freedom Force Republicans — not what is being claimed about how such people vote, but it’s been a Republican safe seat since 1993...
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It seems some of the best Americans are the newer ones.

A small sampling, however. Present company excepted.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/22/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Interview: Trump 2024 comeback would 'solve all of Russia's problems'
The gentleman does like to get attention by making bold, underly nuanced statements. One assumes hopes that the statements only incompletely reflect his thinking — otherwise Stanford is not getting its money’s worth for his teaching.
[DW] Although Russia may be bluffing with its new offensive, it's crucial for Western cohesion that Ukraine retake its south — particularly if Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
were to make a comeback, says political scientist Francis Fukuyama.


Francis Fukuyama is best known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man," where he argues that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism are the final point of society's evolution.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Has history ended yet Francis?
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/22/2022 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  If the NATO countries thought there was a problem, they would be acting on it.

They'll be fine without the USA. They're the world's richest democracies, bound together in an alliance. They just added Sweden and Finland to their strength, plus a long border with Russia. They can easily deal with any problems that come along. They are the adults in the room, not like the stupid Americans who can't even ban guns in their own country.
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933 || 07/22/2022 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ someone is living in a fantasy land. British exit and eastern states threatening to do the same as Brussels dictates they commit cultural suicide for foreign invaders. They were never able to get their act together before 1939 and only had a semblance of 'peace' while America and the Soviets state sat on them for 50 years giving them the longest stretch of peace since Rome. Brussels solution appears to be follow the Moscow governing model but with better suits. America should have left when the Wall came down, so Europe could finally 'half life' its existence out of history. It's been a waste of time, lives, and resources keeping the place together like Justinian trying to resurrect the old Roman Empire at the expense of Byzantium's resources.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2022 6:54 Comments || Top||


#5  No, Fukuyama, 'liberal democracy' is an unstable state that occurs before Oligarchy. As a video I remember cogently argued that there were two end states 'Republics' (Rule by 'one law for all') and Oligarchy (rule by a few privileged)...
Posted by: magpie || 07/22/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  ^^ Actually Plato put democracy after oligarchy but before dictatorship/tyranny.
Posted by: Tom || 07/22/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#7  A stopped clock is wrong most of the time.
Posted by: KBK || 07/22/2022 19:59 Comments || Top||


Russian war style note
The folks in Donetsk who compile information on the near constant shelling by Ukrainian artillery units probably have better things to do than to concerned themselves with reporting styles.

They use the word shell as a verb, a gerund and a noun. But the way it gets translated sounds stupid.

This applies only to the Breakaway reporting which uses it constantly. From this moment forward, the word shell and shells will be replaced with round or rounds.

Examples:

"So and so was shelled this morning using 122mm rounds."

"So and so location experienced shelling by 122mm rounds."

If you have a a better solution, feel free.

Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think you are going a nice job. I always smile at the MTL of Chinese webnovels where "thermal weapons" replaces firearms and hand weapons become "cold weapons".... *Brrr* break out the oven mitts before engaging in combat!
Posted by: magpie || 07/22/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Lobster Beirut: Shelled, battered and fried...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||


Stephen King captured by Bandera
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Well, clowns are so clowns - no Pennywise can compare. Why Pennywise - even Zelensky smokes in silence.

[REGNUM] Imagine the plot. A cult (yes, yes, that's right, don't argue!) writer lives in the US state of Maine. Author of dozens of books that are published in millions of copies around the world. The writer survived family trauma, drug addiction, an accident - survived; tough guy.

But one dark, dark night, a barely noticeable pale pink fog began to curl in his room. He crept up to the sleeping writer, and ominous voices in Ukrainian language whispered ancient spells, interrupted by exclamations of “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!"

In the morning, the author woke up already captivated by the evil spirit, which was once known in the human world as Stepan Bandera - either a man or a demon, responsible for the brutal murders of thousands of people.

Well, if Stephen King again decided to write about himself, and he loves this business (how many times in his texts did a car hit the hero?), then he would probably like this plot. There is a cool villain, and a spectacular victim, and the voices of the past, and the current context - in general, sometimes they return, as the King of Horrors himself once titled his story.

But, probably, still Mr. King will not write about the captivity of the famous writer by the spirit of Stepan Bandera. Largely because he will be busy, firstly, searching for money for Ukraine, and secondly, creating a fake scenario about Russian “crimes” in Donbass. Perhaps even an entire book.

Actually, in King's sensational revelations to pranksters Lexus and Vovan, the most disgusting thing is precisely this - the willingness with which a serious author, a respected author, agreed to write a frank "jeans", a political order about how some allegedly torture others. He agreed to act as a stupid propagandist, working on one side of the conflict without doubts and as they say, a twinge of conscience, without a desire, in principle, to understand what is happening. An ordinary liar - that's what Mr. King showed himself to be.

He basically said a lot of abominations and nonsense. For some reason, they decided to spin a picture in telegrams about how King supposedly thinks that Bandera, in general, did not commit any special crimes. No, the King of Horrors did not say this - he only agreed with the pranksters, whom he mistook for President Zelensky. He generally behaved very obsequiously.

Although where is he, and where is Zelensky, in fact? However, perhaps this is just the banal politeness of a well-mannered person who grew up in a culture where it is important to “smile, just smile”, asking “how are you are?” when meeting, although, in fact, you don’t care how someone really is.

He was embarrassed, choking on his drink, in a conversation with pranksters, Stephen King only once, when Zelensky announced that his favorite hero was Pennywise (aka It from the book of the same name - brilliant, it should be noted, first of all, with his sociality). The rest of the time, Stephen King agreed, stating, for example, that Bandera is a great man, and comparing him with George Washington.

Well, we have a new King. Someone has already rushed to call him a bastard, a villain, and further down the fire-breathing list, like a dragon. In fact, we have seen that the cult author from Maine writes great books (I can easily prove why), but he is not wise. That's right - not wise.

The ancient Greeks had such a thing as amathia. It is quite difficult to translate it into Russian. This, simplifying, is the opposite of wisdom, which allows you to reason and act sensibly, for the good, decently. So, Stephen King showed us amathia.
"Amathia, then, can best be thought of as lack of wisdom, i.e. the opposite of sophia." Link
By the way, he once again showed that we overestimate famous people too much. Here recently, for example, Axl Rose from Guns'n'Roses (once a great rock band) confessed his love for Ukraine, food in the voice of Mickey Mouse about the war. Well? How many have been and will be? Paul McCartney generally lights up in Ukrainian. People live according to the agenda they are given. We are all, one way or another, part of the Matrix, and it is sometimes more difficult for stars (celebrity) to break out of it than for others. And will their un-wisdom cancel out the greatness of the Appetite for Destruction album and the greatness of McCartney 's songs ?

It's the same with Stephen King. His best books (and, to be honest, they have already been written a long time ago) we both loved and will continue to love, not intending to confiscate and burn from open access. Otherwise, how are we different from the idiots who suddenly decided to abolish Russian culture? Well, clowns are so clowns - no Pennywise can compare. Why Pennywise, even Zelensky smokes in silence.

Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Amathia. A word our headmaster and many teachers would often use whilst teaching us Indian and bi-racial kiddies. They were all Irish or English Jesuits, you see, a French or Italian nun here and there in the mix. They resented our bringing the typically south asian 'primitiveness' inside the school gates. 😁

Amathia and agnoia. Their usage of the terms implied that a continued allegiance to useless hubris would make the education of none effect. We would try to learn but remain idiots. And we would actually protect our agnoia, our ignorance with more amathia, creating jumbled, albeit glorious sounding paradigms that led back to our ignorance. And you know what? That's exactly what happened with India.

Of course, the world is divided so sharply today, there are aggressively protected paradigms now and their agents who'll push the amathia, encourage it, shove it down your children's throat if you're not careful. It's everywhere now, and no one is immune to it. Very few people, like Rantburgers, can just laugh at the ridiculousness of the world, collaborate on expanding each other's trivia, and just... chill.

To Stoics, gentlemen, ladies. 🍻
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  And of course, King has always been a good entertainer. He's very excitable and eager to share his views, if you meet him. Maybe someone just cornered him on his views on twitter in a bad day? Fiction writers can be totally normal outside and legion inside y'know? You never know when they may drop one worldview and adopt another, just for a few days.

Also, does the editor of regnum just let these guys go at the word processor and never check in? 🙃
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  *on a bad day.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 1:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Was it a word salad in the original Russian, too? All I gathered from it is a Russki is pissed someone objects to the invasion and threatened genocide of the Ukraine.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/22/2022 2:25 Comments || Top||

#5  King was pranked into saying historical figure and participant in pogroms in the east -- Stephan Bandera -- was a great man.

The author of the article tried to cast a mood, similar to how King used to write his horror stories, to describe the story of the prank.

See here
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 2:57 Comments || Top||

#6  See? Writers, especially fiction writers, are involuntarily empathic folks, can assume worldviews at the drop of a hat. And the successful, commercial ones, their views are even a bit... compromised at times. No one should pay them any attention. They're just entertainers.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 3:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Except for Bhoot Bahadur, who is a goddamn genius!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 3:15 Comments || Top||

#8  I used to read every SK book published, including the early Bachman ones. Couldn’t wait for next installment of The Dark Tower series. But all that changed after his car crash (who buys the car that hit you?) and he made his ‘military are stupid’ statement. All books trashed. Yes he is entitled to his opinion, as am I.



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Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/22/2022 6:41 Comments || Top||

#9  King was pranked into saying historical figure and participant in pogroms in the east -- Stephan Bandera -- was a great man.

So it is a bunch of butt-hurt from a Russian.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/22/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Except for Bhoot Bahadur, who is a goddamn genius!

Available on Amazon, and decidedly interesting if you like that kind of thing, ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#11  😁✋🥳

And free shorts too! On Wattpad.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#12  And one truly for our times.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||

#13  tl:dr / Stephen King got pranked by the Ruskies. Well so did the NY Times re: Trump-Russia collusion
Posted by: jpal || 07/22/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#14  King can churn out the words. He's not Dostoyévskiy or Faulkner. And his avid readers can't be mistaken for lovers of good literature either.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#15  Got me interested in reading, and he had some winners making the book-to-film leap multiple times, and The Stand was king of the hill in pop literature for a long time.

At no point do I think anyone thought they were reading Umberto Eco.

As USN, ret notes: He would have done well for himself to have remained behind the curtain.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/22/2022 17:07 Comments || Top||

#16  You need to suspend your disbelief to appreciate Stephen King novels. That's because, instead of doing the hard work of inventing a realistic plot, he always relies on supernatural plot devices. But it isn't science fiction because that would take serious work and research too. It's just garbage.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/22/2022 18:12 Comments || Top||

#17  I read Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill, and loved it. Joe Hill is actually SK's son's pen name
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2022 19:14 Comments || Top||


Nuclear armageddon: Why did Ukraine almost give Europe a second Chernobyl
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
Kp.ru special correspondent Dmitry Steshin suggested that Ukraine attacked the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to hide nuclear developments from the IAEA

According to official information, there were three kamikaze drones that attacked the Zaporozhye NPP on July 20, 2022 from Ukraine. Judging by the surviving, rather large fragments of drones, the attack was stopped by air defense covering the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

It is difficult to understand where the drones were aiming. Judging by the shooting from street cameras, the drones fell near the cooling ponds. According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of Zaporozhye, the attack did not damage the nuclear reactors. The nuclear power plant is operating normally.

Question: Why then did Ukraine decide to attack a nuclear facility?

Handmade blackout?

Oddly enough, the electricity generated by the station is supplied to the entire south-east of Ukraine, and if the nuclear power plant is shut down, an energy collapse will begin throughout the region. It is unlikely that Ukraine planned to de-energize Odessa, Nikolaev or Dnepropetrovsk. And the liberated territories would get out.

As the head of Zaporozhye Evgeny Balitsky noted: "We will get food, but they will have problems." Agree, it’s a shame to watch from the darkness how the light is on behind the front line, in the liberated territories ... Seditious thoughts may arise: are the commanders of the Square doing everything right?

The version of a man-made blackout disappears - Ukraine will have to do worse in this case. Moreover, close to Zaporozhye is the energy-surplus Donbass.

"Second Chernobyl"

Three drones and ten kilograms of explosives can't really catastrophically damage nuclear reactors. Their protection was originally designed to withstand the fall of an aircraft weighing 20 tons at a speed of 720 km/h.

In recent history, there have been attempts to undermine nuclear power plants from the inside. In the summer of 1979, Basque militants planted a bomb right in the turbine hall of the Spanish Lemonis nuclear power plant. The turbine was slightly damaged, five tons of oil caught fire. Two years later, five anti-tank missiles hit the reactor building of the French Saint-Alban nuclear power plant. Of the damage - destroyed 80 meters of the concrete containment of the reactor.

It is difficult to imagine that Kyiv was going to arrange a "Second Chernobyl" in Zaporozhye. There, of course, they are capable of everything. But Europe would not like the explosion of the largest nuclear power plant on the continent. Kyiv understands this.

Dirty Ukrainian bomb

Post-Maidan Ukraine has never hidden that it dreams of nuclear weapons. Back in 2014, the Bandera people from the Rada introduced a draft law on the denunciation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and even calculated on their knees that Ukraine needed $3.4 billion and 2 years to return to the "club of nuclear powers." However, Ukraine did not leave this club - in terms of the number of operating nuclear reactors, it is in fifth place in Europe.

In February 2020, just before the start of the special operation, Vladimir Zelensky threatened that Ukraine could create an atomic bomb.

And when the Zaporizhzhya NPP was liberated and it was possible to inspect it, amazing and ominous discoveries awaited Russian specialists. According to the Director General of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency. - Auth.) Rafael Grossi, provided to the Wall Street Journal, 30 tons of plutonium and 40 tons of enriched uranium were found at the station. These are only those finds that have leaked into the public space. About other surprises, our authorities speak in a streamlined way.

I quote Vladimir Rogov: "There was a large amount of nuclear materials at the nuclear power plant that are not needed for the operation of the station and could not appear here just like that."

Ending with a host of other interesting moments. What are these moments - the IAEA commission, which has been meeting with an inspection at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, should have seen it since spring. But, the IAEA likes to emphasize that it is out of politics, therefore, it will not work in a war zone. And the IAEA does not want to believe the conclusions of Russian nuclear experts that Ukraine was seriously preparing to make an atomic bomb on its knee. After all, this proves that Russia is right in launching a special operation.

Therefore, Ukraine has chosen the cheapest, albeit risky, way to cancel the inspection of nuclear workers - to arrange a "war" at nuclear power plants. Just think about these words - SEND DRONES WITH EXPLOSIVES TO THE LARGEST NUCLEAR PLANT IN EUROPE!

For that, the truth will not be revealed. And Western support will continue as usual.

Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So the idiot Russian use a nuclear power plant as a ammunition dump, then blame the country they invaded for trying to destroy the ammunition?

Do Russians actually fall for this BS?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/22/2022 2:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think the Zaporozhe nuclear plant was used as an ammunition dump. The author ultimately doesn't offer an explanation for the attack, other than it was a nuclear plant.
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2022 3:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe the RU folks were using areas of that facility to launch their artillery/rocket attacks across the river as normal counter-battery by the UA would be a bad idea (so not a bad tactical strategy on the RU part).

The kamikaze drone attacks would be more precise and less likely to hit something critical.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/22/2022 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Other reports had the Russians storing ammunition there, because of the Ukrainian strikes against other ammunition dumps.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/22/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||



Persuadedkins
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk

[DONRF] "Sit down at the negotiating table and agree that they will never threaten Russia and will not have weapons on the territory of Ukraine that will threaten Russian territory. This is the main thing. And denazification there and so on is a philosophy . Believe me, this is a philosophy, the main thing is the security of Russia," Lukashenko said, and I will not condemn him, because:

"In order to create these conditions (for negotiations), our troops withdrew from the center of Ukraine, from Kiev. The Kyiv authorities refused to implement these agreements, although they were practically achieved. So the end result depends, of course, not on the intermediaries, but on the desire of the contracting parties fulfill the agreements reached. We see today that the Kiev authorities do not have such a desire."
-- V.V.Putin

or like this :

Opportunities for dialogue between Russia and Ukraine remain. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov in an interview with RIA Novosti.

It's just that Alexander Grigoryevich
Lukachenko
articulates the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich and his vizier. Why condemn it? But, But, father himself, the current situation did not rest, his goal is to hold out a right economy to the receiver, and leave him right. It is desirable that kerosene be brought from the city for that, and they pay for milk and potatoes in gold. War interferes. What will return as before - good.

But the position of Moscow ... but it has not changed either. All these deals, they are for the people, so the goal is different, it was voiced. That's all.

And therefore SVO. Blow - offer, blow - offer. The rest is the cost, and in the form of cotton in the DLNR and the Russian Federation, and in the form of strange patriots who want it. Whether this is good or bad, I can't judge.

War is worse than peace, and if there is a real chance of an agreement, then of course it’s good. But there is no chance, and if there is an agreement, it will not be fulfilled. I am personally sure of this. You know experience. And complete confidence that the Ukraine that our leaders see does not exist. She died and was buried on Independence Square eight years ago.

Therefore, all these calls are a cry to nowhere and a conversation with emptiness. The void will not answer. And the contract with it
(war)
is completely meaningless. But this is my opinion, at the top it is like this, to torment me to the contract and return it as it was for 2013. And this is a fact from which there is nowhere to go. And which no one hides, it's just that many hearts believe in miracles. The truth suits partners as it is, so Wishlist - they are like this.

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American Vietnamese near Kharkov
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Headline by Boris Rozhin.

Be advised Southfront.org is a banned website by the US State Department

US citizen Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh was born in California on February 17, 1995. He is ethnic Vietnamese. In 2014, he graduated from college in California with a degree in management.

From 2014 to 2018, Andy did active military service under contract with the 1345th US Marine Corps. According to Andy’s claims, he served as a heavy equipment operator, worked on a military pay loader. During his service, he was promoted to US Army corporal; his salary allegedly amounted to $ 1,500. Andy claims that in the last years of service he did not use firearms. However, he also said that he had passed 3-month training courses to use the M24 sniper rifle and M240 machine gun. For a long time, Andy Huynh served at the US Navy base on the island of Okinawa in Japan, where he suffered a barotrauma of his right ear. He also mastered his hand-to-hand combat skills. In 2018, he decided to retire from military service because he was no longer satisfied with the internal service schedule in his unit. After his discharge, Andy lived off his pension and worked as a courier driver.

Since 2014, Andy has been interested in the situation in Ukraine. He said that he saw a lot of pathetic American news about the events on the Maidan. In February-March 2022, being allegedly influenced by the US media, which reported on the criminal actions of Russian soldiers against civilians in Ukraine, he decided to take part in the military conflict on the side of Kiev.
Read the rest at the link
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Home Front: Politix
The White House Is Running Scared After Biden's Diagnosis
[Red State] You’ve probably heard by now (especially if you visit RedState several times a day), but President Joe Biden, who is quadruple vaxxed and double masked, has contracted COVID-19.

Contrary to his past claims that we are in a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" and that those who have the vaccine won’t get infected, the president has now joined the great unwashed masses. Biden also broke CDC guidelines during a photo-op after finding out he’s been infected, which was just a "chef’s kiss" moment.

The real fireworks happened during Thursday’s press briefing, though. As RedState reported (see here and here), the White House comms team was none too happy about having to answer basic questions on the president’s illness. When reporters pressed for an explanation of where Biden was infected, Karine Jean-Pierre snapped, asserting "I don’t think that matters." That response came after a year-and- a-half of the administration pretending to care about contact tracing.

At another point, in a clip RedState hadn’t previously reported on, Karine-Jean Pierre got visibly upset with a reporter for accusing the White House of not being transparent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 01:12 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Harris team likely not the same as Biden team. KJP and fellow Biden accomplices could soon be looking for new employment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 1:16 Comments || Top||


#3  This has to seriously VAX effectiveness questions. us. Because here we have a President that signed Executive order after Executive order or had the CDC/NIB put out new C-19/22 regs and orders. All telling us to get the VAX and Booster or else.


OR

Is this and pre-planned exit strategy to move him out of the WH. and Harris and a Cheney type puppet master in?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/22/2022 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Or both.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Like many things to the left, the vaxx is a "it doesn't work but we don't care. We want it for you. Get it anyway. And shut up."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Still going to fire military who have not taken the useless shot, Joe?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/22/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Karine-Jean Pierre got visibly upset with a reporter for accusing the White House of not being transparent.

"Are you outta your goddamn mind? Would you live in a glass house?!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/22/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#8  So maybe Covid was way overhyped and is not so serious as advertised?

I'm not saying it's nothing. No virus is nothing. But it does appear not to be the second coming of the Black Death...which the media can finally admit now that Joe has it?
Posted by: Tom || 07/22/2022 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  I'mnot saying it's nothing.

Be that as it may, everyone who "has suffered," directly or indirectly. feels your life should be worse to make them feel better about their situation.

Which is bullshit.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#10  While he is sick, maybe Joe can do a daily podcast and take some questions from kids leg hair.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/22/2022 12:56 Comments || Top||

#11  So, when he croaks, instead of saying "Rosebud," Joe will say "Mmmmmm, hairrrrr" in a Homer Simpson voice.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2022 13:09 Comments || Top||

#12  I would still like to see them Ceausescu'd
Posted by: Knuckles Angomort6922 || 07/22/2022 21:20 Comments || Top||


Brutal: Biden Contracts COVID Just One Day After Miraculous Recovery From Cancer
[Bee] Only one day after Biden's miraculous recovery from cancer, White House sources have confirmed the President now has COVID. Doctors say that the twice-boosted president only has mild symptoms, but has tragically lost his keen sense of smell. The White House will continue to provide updates and notify the country if his condition worsens.

Vice President Harris has responded by preparing an inauguration speech and changing the curtains in the oval office.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hmmm...wonder how many rag heads he infected ?
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/22/2022 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps you've noticed, she's not laughing much lately.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2022 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh no, how's he going to sniff children now?
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933 || 07/22/2022 5:59 Comments || Top||




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