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Yeah. He might have gotten it right to think that privately. To say it publicly? Not so much. | |||
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
He should have said simply, that the Russian people, and members of the Russian government that do not want to be charged with war crimes, need to remove Putin from office. Let them fill in the blanks on the method. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I'm not really a Tucker fan but I watch him for his contrarian views. What he covered tonight - US involvement in biolabs in Ukraine is a piece of the puzzle for me. Yes, I'm for my country but I doubt my country's government is wholly for the country and that the government is innocent with what's happening in Ukraine. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Puts in support of the NAZI party. Always count on our government to take the high road Watch the video | |||
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I'm not really a Tucker fan but I watch him for his contrarian views. What he covered tonight - US involvement in biolabs in Ukraine is a piece of the puzzle for me. Yes, I'm for my country but I doubt my country's government is wholly for the country and that the government is innocent with what's happening in Ukraine.[/QUOTE] I was a faithful viewer of Tucker's show almost from the day he took over when Bill Oreilly left. I thought he was great. None better. No more. I will not watch him again. His take on US "involvement" in biolabs in Ukraine is pure 100% Russian bullshit. Here is a link to Jennifer Griffin (Fox reporter) explaining what that's all about: https://www.thedailybeast.com/...n-russian-propaganda Ever since the Ukraine invasion, Tucker has gone off the deep end. Just can't listen to him any more. He raised a few valid concerns at the beginning. And he is right that Ukraine is going to need to come up with a face saving way for Putin to stop this. But Tucker seems to have traveled all the way up Putin's rear end. | |||
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One of Russia's demands is the removal of the paraNazi battalion in Ukraine. Calling Putin the Nazi is typical Psaki level disinformation. Much the same for all those saying Russia is going to go full retard and attack Eastern Europe. The Russian economy is smaller than the State of Texas. It's NOT the "soviet union" and that is where the constant inflation of their capability is hard to correct in Americans who've heard of nothing else for 40 years. Russia is not the huge power the Soviets were - not even. There may be good reasons to hold back or hide the Tier 1 troops, but its not like Russia can send in battalions of Romanians, Czechs, Yugoslavians, etc. they way the Soviets operated 30 years ago. Then it was a deliberate policy to send the opposite ethnic groups to occupy - to exacerbate tensions between disparate people. You don't sent those most likely to be sympathetic. Russia has to send what they got, and this isn't a typical front line war. Their annoucement they have evidence of what the bio labs were working on shows that precision tactical strikes for strategic goals are intended. Those labs having their web pages taken down has only increased pressure on researchers to dig it all up in the free world and there have now been found to be over 325, 26 in Ukraine. Senators Lugar and Obama started that funding in 2005, something that the internet couldn't erase. The news articles are all coming back up online. This is called "the Streisand affect." Ol Barbara got all hissy when her mansion was discovered and it became the typical news item - until she tried to cover it up. After that, hundreds of interested celebrity stalkers made it their mission in life to plaster it all over the internet. You can't hide bio labs, the articles written, or even make it all go away when the DoS puts out a quick PR saying "no we don't" - especially after one of their own employees is on camera saying "Please don't let the Russians get their hands on this stuff." There are lists of what those labs were working on, in .Gov documents. That is what they would tell us about. Consider that they would NOT tell us about the 1,291 different vaccine reactions listed in 9 pages of Pfizer documents released by the court - which was going to be buried for 55 years. Those who continue to trust this administration in the face of actions taken to keep the truth from us aren't being patriots, they are being in denial. It's not 1984 anymore. Fast forward that plot line another 30 years and consider how much worse it really is when we are told outright lies to cover up what is open source information now. | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Sooo, a link from 'The Daily Beast' that has Jennifer Griffin believing what 'professional liar' Victoria Nuland is peddling, has convinced you that Tucker Carlson is no longer trustworthy...  ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Save America! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Wait, what? |
I find it interesting that there is very little combat footage from inside Ukraine. Compared to Desert Storm, the war on Isis, AGTM tank kills in the ME, etc. it has been very sporadic at best. Does anyone know of any specific sites or links where I can see Russian assets getting the shit knocked out of them? “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Many of you are going to find this a difficult slog. And I guarantee many of you are going to get just so many minutes into it and say to yourself "I'm not going to waste my time watching this bullshit" and kill it. I had to force myself to sit through it. But if you want to understand much of the thinking and beliefs on the part of much of the Russian public and government: This will do it. N.B.: It's in Russian, with English sub-titles. My Russian friend in Moscow told me the translation is very good. There's just enough truth in that video to make some, much, or all of it believable, if belief is what one's seeking. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
While Yugoslavia was Communist, Yugoslavia was not part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact, was not a military ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and would not have answered to the Soviet military. The two actually had fairly poor relations post-1948. (Albania was similarly Communist but non-aligned after their split from the Warsaw Pact in 1961.) 
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/ A good subreddit for military combat footage from various eras, which is currently dominated by Ukraine footage (for obvious reasons). Most of the good footage of large amounts of Russian assets getting their shit knocked out of them come from drone footage of Ukrainian drone strikes, but there's also plenty of quick snippets shot with smartphones of guys using handheld AT weapons. Understandably, most of the longer smartphone footage comes after the battles, showing the end results, because during the battles they have other things on their minds.  Most of the amateur footage is just being shared through Twitter/Reddit. But some of the footage officially released by the Ukrainian government makes it to the news media, including some of the more dramatic drone strikes, plus here's some recently released footage of a textbook Ukrainian strike on a Russian armored column outside Kiev... Hit the lead vehicle, tail vehicle, then the middle: https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/...ainian-ambush-video/ | |||
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| Wait, what? |
^^^^ Many thanks, bookmarked. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Only if you see any difference between a Nazi and a Chekist. Personally, I don't think there's enough difference for there to be a practical reason to care.
This would be easier to believe if the Russians hadn't gone full retard and tried to overrun all of Ukraine for reasons Putin himself can't seem to manage to articulate.
As opposed to sending Chechens, various ethnicities from the Pacific coast, and Syrian mercenaries, and trying to send in Belorussians despite the fact that Belorussians refuse to participate any more than the puppet Putin recently installed in Minsk can force them to? As you say, Putin can only send in what he's got.
What a convenient after-the-fact justification. Putin's already said that this was a decapitation raid gone wrong. Now, of course, the Russians are bombing and shooting indiscriminately - except, of course, when they deliberately bomb and shoot humanitarian corridors that they expressly agreed to.
Those who insist that we have to trust one or the other are being childish. Just as Putin's behavior can't shield Biden from condemnation, so too is it true that Biden's behavior can't shield Putin from condemnation. They're both evil. | |||
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also here https://funker530.com/latest/ also Telegram has become the social media of choice. Many videos originate from that app: Telegram: the app at the heart of Ukraine’s propaganda battle It’s the most popular messaging service in Ukraine, and used by protesters of all kinds. Now it must find a way to make money Mark Sweney Last modified on Sat 5 Mar 2022 15.22 EST In the days after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, used his Telegram channel to send a defiant video message from the centre of the capital, Kyiv, calling on the nation to unite and resist the Russian attack. The WhatsApp-like messaging service, co-founded by exiled Russian billionaire brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, has become a key weapon in a digital propaganda battle that will ultimately boost its usage and investor profile ahead of a possible $50bn stock market flotation next year. Ukraine’s 44-year-old president, a former TV actor and comedian who campaigned over Telegram in the run-up to his landslide victory in the 2019 presidential election, used the service to refute claims that the army had been told to lay down arms, that an evacuation had been ordered – and to galvanise the populace by proving he would not be leaving the capital. Telegram, which has more than 550 million monthly users globally, is already Ukraine’s most popular messaging app. The service’s much-hyped encryption and its ability to disseminate messages to groups of up to 200,000 – the limit on Facebook-owned WhatsApp is 256 members – has seen it dubbed the “app of choice” for terrorists. Telegram was banned in Russia in 2018 after Pavel Durov refused to give the authorities access to its user data. However, the crackdown, which included blocking IP addresses, was easy to circumvent, and the service continued to grow. Russia gave in and lifted the ban in mid-2020. The app has been adopted as a leading source of news outside state-controlled media, and in the Ukrainian war it has become a 24-hour news lifeline for civilians, journalists and even the military. It has become the go-to platform for protest groups of all kinds, from Extinction Rebellion to anti-vaccination groups, from the US Capitol rioters to pro-democracy campaigns in states including Russian-allied Belarus, Hong Kong and Iran. But Telegram’s role in the dissemination of unverified information alarmed the 37-year-old Durov – who has been called the Russian Mark Zuckerberg, after he founded what is still by far the country’s most popular social network, VKontakte (VK), in 2006. Last weekend, he said he was considering shuttering the service in the “countries involved” for the duration of the conflict. “We do not want Telegram to be used as a tool that exacerbates conflicts and incites ethnic hatred,” Durov posted on Sunday. Hours later, he changed his mind, following mass requests from users, who said it was their only source of information. “Double-check and do not take on faith the data that is published in Telegram channels during this difficult period,” Durov advised. Jamie MacEwan, media analyst at research service Enders, said. “This is another example of Telegram being linked to resistance movements. It has very much been part of its reputation over the past couple of years as it has boomed. It is associated with being a safe haven.” Durov is known for occasional eccentric behaviour – he once threw paper aeroplanes made from bank notes out of VKontakte’s office windows, causing fights in the street below, and he publicly offered Edward Snowden a job. He is now on a mission to make his second tech venture the success story that was ultimately wrested from him first time around. During anti-Putin protests in 2012, Durov became hugely popular for refusing to close down groups that were using the social media site to organise marches. Two years later, he was on the receiving end of a hostile investor coup that saw VK appropriated by Mail.Ru group, headed by Russian billionaire and Putin ally Alisher Usmanov. In December, the Kremlin strengthened its grip on the company when Russian insurance company Sogaz, founded by giant Gazprom, took control of VK. Durov sold up and left the business as well as the country, becoming a citizen of St Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean, after resisting Kremlin pressure to release the data of Ukrainian protest leaders. It is little surprise that Telegram, which he launched with brother Nikolai in 2013 and is operationally headquartered in Dubai, is built on security and privacy. The publicity-averse Durov, who has a penchant for dressing all in black nevertheless spends much of his energy criticising the security standards of rivals, most notably world leader WhatsApp. In recent years security experts have in turn questioned Telegram’s claims of superiority, pointing out that, unlike rivals, it does not offer end-to-end encryption by default over all its messaging options. Moxie Marlinspike, creator of the popular Signal secure messaging app, took to Twitter last week to remind Ukrainians that Telegram is not as encrypted as people think, after what he alleged was a “decade of misleading marketing and press”. Durov’s experience at VK left him with an aversion to bringing in outside investors to fund Telegram. With a fortune estimated at over $17bn, he has been able to support it for most of its early life without outside help. But the search for alternative ways to raise the funds necessary to drive growth led him into an ultimately disastrous foray into the world of cryptoassets. Advertisement In 2018, Durov embarked on a plan to raise billions through the launch of a cryptocurrency called Grams, a venture that sparked an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the US. Pre-sales ahead of the planned initial coin offering (ICO), which would have funded a proposed Telegram Open Network (TON) system of apps services and a store of digital and physical goods, drew a rapturous response from an initial select group of investors, raising $1.7bn. But two years later, Telegram shut TON down and agreed an $18.5m settlement with the SEC, which had argued that Grams bypassed US financing laws. It ordered that the money be returned to investors. The setback in fundraising has not slowed growth, however: in early 2021, Telegram reported the biggest user boost in its history – 25 million in 72 hours. Durov, who is now also a French citizen, credited the rush of new Telegrammers to an announcement by WhatsApp clarifying its privacy policy relating to data sharing with parent Facebook. Durov added, rather grandiosely: “We may be witnessing the largest digital migration in human history.” The WhatsApp policy did not include sharing the content of messages, but it spooked many users, who defected to other platforms anyway: Telegram and Signal were the biggest beneficiaries. “The increasing downloads of Telegram is [partly] driven by consumers’ growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies, and by privacy concerns,” says Forrester analyst Xiaofeng Wang. A few months after that user boost, Russian business newspaper Vedomosti reported that unnamed sources close to the company claimed a $50bn initial public offering was on the cards by the end of next year. A successful IPO would cement the rise of Telegram, which has begun to make headway on the extremely difficult proposition of making money from the users of messaging services. Durov, who once vowed Telegram would never carry ads, is seeking to monetise the platform through a combination of “privacy-safe” advertising and sponsorship of channels. “The timing of the emergence of talk of an IPO is quite telling, coming almost immediately after the early 2021 boom when its user potential started to explode,” says MacEwan at Enders. “I think the momentum they now have, the sheer weight of users, and the fact they are experimenting with ‘privacy safe’ advertising make them an attractive flotation candidate.” A Telegram spokesman confirmed that the company is pursuing plans for an initial public offering, and that some pre-IPO bonds have been sold with a five-year expiry, but cautioned that the timeline is not certain. “As for the IPO plans, they will depend on the economic situation at the time,” he said. https://www.theguardian.com/bu...rst-trustworthy-news -------------------------------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Can someone clarify, now that "super yachts" are being seized what will be the outcome of this? Once it's all over, give them back quietly? Sell them (with probably an oligarch's shell company buying them back) and give the money to whom? Sink them and make reefs? _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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| Internet Guru |
It'll get sorted out. Not sure why we have to pretend this is some new kind of aggression novel to history. It really seems just more hysteria to help sell an agenda. War is bad. Actually kind of asinine that the corrupt 'country' of Ukraine is where the world chooses to make a stand against violence. But, we are dancing to progressive music these days. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
Another Russian's view on the Ukrainian conflict. Eight myths that led Russia to war: Again: Russian, sub-titled in English. A couple of them are pretty fascinating: Particularly Putin assuming the West would not cut off its nose to spite its face, in the form of punitive sanctions, when he had the recent example of the response to Covid-19 right in front of his nose. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| His Royal Hiney |
Yeah. a good number of people fall into the trap of thinking they have to choose sides ASAP and mostly based on where they stand politically. As a conservative, I see the leftist liberals commit this error e.g. Jussie Smollet, the Covington student, and Kyle Rittenhouse. I'm sure conservatives are equally so inclined and, at best, only to a lesser extent. I think it's prudent to be equally skeptical of all information especially in a situation when propaganda, disinformation, and false flag operations can be presumed to be operating at full speed. Some things to ponder: 1) If the US has been helping Ukraine to eliminate biochemical weapons, how come it has taken this long? 2) If the work is about developing vaccines; I got news for you who believe this. It's not possible to develop a vaccine in advance of a threat unless you also develop the threat. 3) If there wasn't any biochemical weapon research or development happening, why did the admin rep at the senate hearing expressed concern that Russia might get ahold of the biochem facilities? It best, it would have been old technology that the soviets left when Ukraine became independent. All I'm saying is that it's okay to be uncertain and indeterminate until the actual facts or sufficient evidence comes in to support making a call either way. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Putin looking to send Syrian fighters to Ukraine. Can't be too confident if he's doing that. Best quote: " Do you know what happens when you put Arab men in Europe? They run for Germany as fast as they can to get on welfare. This isn’t going to work out like Putin thinks.'  | |||
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| Wait, what? |
I guess the European pawns weren’t enough to get the job done; time to send in Syrian savages that have absolutely no compunctions about killing every Anglo they see. Perhaps in the name of allah or something. I can’t see this as being anything more than trying to actually get WW3 started. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Shall Not Be Infringed |
EVERYONE should watch this... I've been gathering info on various aspects of this subject over the past several weeks, but this Tucker Carlson segment from Thursday 3/9 ties the whole web together, and it's NOT a good picture! Watch how uncomfortable Victoria Nuland appears when answering Rubio's question. Pay particular attention to the way she's fidgeting with that pen! Watch John Kirby and notice how he is looking down, and all around/everywhere except where he should be looking. He's unable to look directly at the reporter(s) asking the questions! These people ARE Lying!! This is NOT 'Russian Disinformation'. This ties together a number of facts, and raises some VERY Serious and Obvious questions. It certainly appears the US Gov't (the Largest Criminal Enterprise on the Face of the Earth) is and has been involved in Nefarious activities in Ukraine (and elsewhere, Wuhan?) at best. And, they definitely didn't want anyone to know about it! You be the judge... ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Save America! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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