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Top left-wing Finnish politician tries to explain naked Hitler salute picture scandal

Thomas Brooke
Remix News
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:00 UTC
Antti Lindtman
Antti Lindtman, a favorite to replace Sanna Marin as his party’s chair, told a Finnish tabloid newspaper the embarrassing photographs were not intended for public viewing
A top Finnish politician in the running to replace former Prime Minister Sanna Marin as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has sought to explain how he came to be photographed stark naked, save a balaclava and Santa hat, with a group of friends giving Hitler salutes.

Antti Lindtman, the current chairman of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group and a member of parliament for the Finnish district of Uusimaa, has admitted to being one of the individuals in a number of resurfaced photos taken when the 40-year-old politician was 18 years old.

The photographs, which show Lindtman and four other individuals posing in Santa hats and full face masks, equipped with replica firearms, and giving the Sieg Heil salute, have been circulated on social media and among the Finnish media since Tuesday. The SDP politician has now commented on the scandal via the Iltalehti tabloid newspaper.

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'Damage control': Interpreting the Kremlin meeting with Yevgeny Prigozhin and his men

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 01:00 UTC
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© Marvel
Translated from Colonel Cassad, with afterword by John Helmer, Moscow - posted July 10 at 15:08.

"Today it's a little funny to see the bewilderment from reports of Putin's meeting with Prigozhin, because, they say, Putin had called Prigozhin a rebel, and then meets with him.
Russian message
1. From a legal point of view, Prigozhin is no longer a rebel, since the criminal case on the evidence of the rebellion has been closed, and no new cases have been opened. Accordingly, the state has no new legal claims against Prigozhin, or not yet — interviews of witnesses and the study of evidence on the deaths of the pilots continue. Therefore, there are no legal obstacles to such meetings.

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Rocket

Joe Biden and his warmongering minions seem absolutely determined to drag America into World War III

Michael
The Economic Collapse
Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:00 UTC
nuke
© Pixabay
When the nukes start falling, nobody will be able to say that they weren't warned. Thanks to Joe Biden and his warmongering minions, we are steamrolling toward World War III, but most Americans don't seem to care. Most of us just continue to party our lives away, but meanwhile our leaders seem absolutely determined to drag us into an apocalyptic conflict. The Biden administration is constantly provoking China and constantly escalating the war in Ukraine, and one of these days they could cross a line that will never be able to be uncrossed. They are literally playing with fire, but they won't be the only ones that get burned if they push things too far.

This week, we learned that the Biden administration has decided to give cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new $800 million military assistance package.

Comment: You can rig an election. You can't rig fate.

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US State Department has become 'ministry of truth' - Moscow


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:07 UTC
State dept
© Kiyoshi Tanno
American media outlets are trying to make Russians rebel at Washington's behest, the Foreign Intelligence Service has claimed...

US authorities are urging the country's media outlets to propagate falsehoods about Russia in a bid to undermine its stability, amid the ongoing stand-off between Moscow and the West, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed.

In a statement on Monday, the agency quoted its director, Sergey Naryshkin:
"The US State Department ... basically dictates to the American media what exactly they should write and say," adding that it "has finally turned into the 'Ministry of Truth'."
The comment was an apparent reference to the fictional ministry tasked with falsifying historical events in George Orwell's world-renowned dystopian novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

The SVR, citing intelligence data, claimed that last month the department sent instructions to several major media holdings, including AT&T, Comcast Corporation, Graham Media Group, Nash Holdings, Newsweek Publishing and The New York Times Company, telling them to "reflect events in and around Russia in a distorted manner."

According to the agency, these outlets were tasked with convincing Russian citizens that there was a need for a "forceful struggle against the authorities, up to an armed rebellion." They also wanted to "involve the population in protest actions" by "actively circulating falsehoods" about Russia's purported weakness and its "inevitable defeat in the stand-off with the West," the statement read.
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Biden accused of spilling military secret


RT
Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:11 UTC
Shells inspection
© Hannah BeierShells inspection • Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania
The president has admitted in a CNN interview that US forces are running low on artillery shells...

US President Joe Biden has sought to justify his controversial decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine by revealing a potentially sensitive fact about America's military: It's running low on artillery shells.

Biden made the admission in a CNN interview that aired on Sunday, saying it was necessary to give cluster munitions to Kiev because 155mm artillery rounds are in short supply. "This is a war relating to munitions, and they're running out of that ammunition, and we're low on it," Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria. The host had pointed out a previous White House claim that the use of cluster bombs by Russian forces could be a "war crime."

Conservative critics, such as US podcast host Steve Guest, argued that Biden blurted out what should have been a state secret. "Joe Biden broadcasts to the world that the US is low on 155mm shells. Does President Biden not care that our adversaries in communist China are listening?"
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Stoltenberg: No point discussing Ukraine's NATO membership if Kiev loses conflict


Sputnik
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:48 UTC
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
© Sputnik / Стрингер /FILE PHOTO: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during news conference in Brussel, Belgium. Jens Stoltenberg's chief of staff has retracted his 'land for peace' suggestion after a backlash from Kiev.
NATO summit kicked off on Tuesday with the focus on Ukraine possible invitation to the alliance. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that the Eastern European state would join the bloc when all member states agree on it and if it meets all the conditions.

There is no point in discussing Ukraine's NATO membership if Kiev does not prevail in the ongoing conflict, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.


Comment: RFE/RL reports that the exact wording he used was: "unless Ukraine prevails, there is no membership to be discussed at all."


"I think all allies agree that when a war is going on that's not the time for making the Ukraine the full member of the alliance," he stressed.

"We also made clear that we will issue an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO when allies agree and conditions are met," Stoltenberg told a press conference.

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Understanding the NATO summit: The steam for the US proxy war in Ukraine is running out. No commitment is given to Ukraine to obtain NATO membership because the West has come to realize that they can't win a war against Russia and that peace will only be possible with a neutral Ukraine. Ukraine will never be a member of NATO.

Zelenskyy has realized this and is fuming in Vilnius, attacking NATO as disrespectful and calling the conditions absurd. In a moment of clarity he acknowledged what's really going on: "It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance. This means a window of opportunity is being left to bargain Ukraine's membership in NATO in negotiations with Russia." That's exactly right. NATO has lost this war. Biden has lost this war.

The lunatic Democrats have lost this war. The uni-party warmongers have lost this war. The EU has lost this war. Ukraine and Zelensky have lost this war. Russia wins and rightfully so because everything that happened in Ukraine was a fraud against the Ukrainian people perpetrated by a failing US empire in its final stand against a rising multipolar world. Zelenskyy was never a leader who did what's best for his people. He will be remembered as a US puppet and actor for foreign interests. 350,000 Ukrainians dead because of him and his puppet masters in the US. He lost $12.7 trillion worth of land and resources to Russia because he did not sign the reasonable peace agreement that Russia had proposed to him. Instead he fell for empty promises from Biden that the US will support Ukraine until victory. What a fool.

The good news is this war may be over soon. The West has lost its appetite to throw more money into the Ukrainian black hole. With the US and EU entering recession they have enough problems at home. Protests and riots will become regular news. Biden wouldn't stand a chance in the next election. His brain is Swiss cheese and the only alternative for the Democrats is Kennedy. Trump will use the fatal mistake in Ukraine and the dire economic outlook of the US to run a successful campaign.

Kennedy, who says all the right things, would be his only real obstacle but the Democrats have messed their country up so royally that Trump seems like the only choice. The reality is that it doesn't matter who the next US president is. The insurmountable debt burden combined with de-dollarization in global trade and the rise of BRICS+ are going to send the US into a decade long depression with unseen levels of poverty and violence.

Hopefully humanity dodged a bullet and nuclear war is no longer imminent. At least that is my read of the situation right now. But things could flare up again if peace negotiations fail. Russia may be tempted to take Odessa and turn Ukraine into rump state without access to the sea. Russia is holding all the cards. Let's see how Putin plays them.
See also: Will the Ukraine war be the undoing of the European Union? - former UN Assistant Secretary-General

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NATO summit, a theater of the absurd

Scott Ritter
Consortium News
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:33 UTC
stoltenberg
© NATONATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, on June 26
The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year's meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.

The leaders of NATO's 31 constituent member states have begun to assemble in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, for the alliance's 33rd summit, an event that has come to symbolize the military organization's increasingly difficult task of transforming political will into tangible reality.

Since the Wales Summit of 2014, when NATO made Russia a top priority in the aftermath of the Russian annexation of Crimea, and the Warsaw Summit of 2016, when NATO agreed to deploy "battlegroups" on the soil of four NATO members (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland) in response to perceived Russian "aggression" in the region, Russia has dominated the NATO agenda and, by extension, its identity.

The Vilnius summit promises to be no different in this regard.
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Black Cat

Not weaponized? Biden DOJ indicts whistleblower prepared to testify against Biden family

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:26 UTC
Gal Luft biden corruption witness
Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft laid out his bribery allegations against President Biden’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.
An Israeli whistleblower was indicted by the Biden administration days after detailing extraordinary allegations against the Biden family.

Dr. Gal Luft, the "missing witness" from the Biden corruption investigation, told the NY Post last week that he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals linked to Chinese military intelligence, and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with the Biden benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.

"I told the DOJ that Hunter was associated with a very senior retired FBI official who had a distinct physical characteristic — he had one eye," Luft said.

Comment: Scott Adams has the right of it:



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Bullseye

Documents reveal rush to target Trump's National Security pick, Michael Flynn, in Obama's waning days as president

Fred Lucas
The Daily Signal
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:09 UTC
Joe Biden and then-U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power
© Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImagesObama administration officials got access to intelligence information on Trump-appointed national security adviser Michael Flynn, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, pictured in the Oval Office on Aug. 4, 2015.
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump.

The Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that Obama administration officials, from Vice President Joe Biden down to several ambassadors and many officials in the Treasury and Energy departments, gained access to secret information about Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Trump's choice for national security adviser.

The documents obtained by The Daily Signal include raw information of requests and other messages from these officials to the National Security Agency in late November 2016 through early January 2017, as well as emails among NSA officials explaining why the information was shared.

Comment: Obama and co. were terrified of Flynn, a military insider who knows where all the bodies are. America was deprived of what would have been a competent and decent head of the NSA, who probably would have reined in much of the abuses the public has been subject to since. But we will never know.

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Vader

Another Empire puppet: US reveals substance of 'Israeli-style' security guarantees for Ukraine


RT
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:46 UTC
jake sullivan
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
The framework would include material support and intel sharing, a national security advisor has said

Israeli-style security guarantees, which the West could potentially offer Ukraine in lieu of full NATO membership, would provide Kiev with long-term military assistance and other types of support, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan proposed on Sunday.

Speaking aboard Air Force One en route to London, Sullivan was asked to elaborate on the 'Israel-style' security arrangement for Ukraine which US President Joe Biden mooted last week. The president said that while Ukraine will not be ready for NATO membership until the conflict with Russia is over, the West could still provide the Ukrainians with the "capacity to defend themselves."

Sullivan described the concept as a "multilateral framework" that should be discussed first with America's allies and partners.

Comment: As if Ukraine wasn't a big enough financial black hole already. The U.S. can't afford Israel as it is. And now they want to put Ukraine on the same footing? And guess where some of that U.S. aid has been going? Is Israel a middle-man for the Empire?

Israel to substantially increase military aid to Ukraine's neo-Nazi aligned military

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