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Putin visits Russian Armed Forces cathedral on 79th anniversary of Nazi invasion, says memory of war is 'sacred'

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:21 UTC
Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces
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Vladimir Putin has marked the 79th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa - Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union - with a visit to the new Orthodox cathedral built for Russia's armed forces in Kubinka, outside Moscow.

Monday morning's event emphasized the close connection between church and state in contemporary Russia. June 22 is an important memorial day, as the USSR sustained around five million military casualties in the five months that followed the surprise German attack. In total, an estimated 27 million Soviet citizens died in the conflict, the majority Russian. Putin said that the memory of World War Two (also known as the 'Great Patriotic War') for the people of Russia is "absolutely sacred."

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Briefcase

AG Barr: 'Developments' in Durham investigation may arrive before end of summer

Alex Nitzberg
Just The News
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:27 UTC
Attorney General William Barr
© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesAttorney General William Barr on January 29, 2019
Attorney General Bill Barr during a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo said that there soon may be "developments" in Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Russia probe.

"In terms of the future of Durham's investigation, you know he's pressing ahead as hard as he can, and I expect that we will have some developments hopefully before the end of the summer," Barr said in the interview today.

Durham's investigation has slowed as a consequence of the coronavirus crisis, the attorney general said. When Bartiromo asked about a grand jury, Barr declined to divulge whether one has been impaneled.
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Bad Guys

Of course: Sleepy Joe Biden taps former CIA, Obama officials to handle 'pre-transition'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:51 UTC
biden
© Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty ImagesAhm gonna be Prez!
Former Vice President Joe Biden has assembled a transition team for a smooth return to the White House, should he beat President Trump in the November election.

Leading the team is former Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-DE), who filled Biden's senate seat when he became VP - and led Biden's 2008 and 2009 transition team, according to Fox News.

Kaufman says they're in the "very early stages of pre-transition planning" after hiring around six people - including "Obama Administration and Capitol Hill veterans," according to the report. There's also a former CIA official.

Comment: Carry on #CreepyJoe. Hope the team keeps their resumes up to date. They're likely to be out of a job on November 4th.

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Magnify

Trump goes cold on Guaidó, calls him "Beto O'Rourke of Venezuela," would consider meeting Maduro

Jonathan Swan
Axios
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 10:26 UTC
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Trump on Juan Guaido: "He's like the Beto O'Rourke of Venezuela"
In an Oval Office interview with Axios on Friday, President Trump suggested he's had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with dictator Nicolás Maduro.


Comment: "Dictator Maduro." Is that, like, your OPINION, Axios??!


Driving the news: Asked whether he would meet with Maduro, Trump said, "I would maybe think about that. ... Maduro would like to meet. And I'm never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings.
  • "I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I've turned them down."
The big picture: Trump also indicated he doesn't have much confidence in Guaidó, who has failed to wrest control of the Venezuelan government despite support from the U.S. and dozens of other countries.
  • Asked whether he regretted his decision to follow his former national security adviser John Bolton's advice on Guaidó, Trump initially said "not particularly," but then went on to say, "I could have lived with it or without it, but I was very firmly against what's going on in Venezuela."
  • Trump said that at the point he weighed in and recognized Guaidó, "Guaidó was elected. I think that I wasn't necessarily in favor, but I said — some people that liked it, some people didn't. I was OK with it. I don't think it was — you know, I don't think it was very meaningful one way or the other."

Comment: As always with Trump, there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. He TALKS a good war, but WALKS the path of peace.

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Attention

Canadian politician kicked out of parliament after calling opponent 'racist'

Sara Spary
CNN
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:04 UTC
Jagmeet Singh
New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh was ordered to leave parliament after he called an opponent "racist" for not supporting his motion.
The leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, was made to leave parliament on Wednesday after calling another politician "racist."

Singh made the accusation in the House of Commons after Alain Therrien, from the Bloc Québécois party, declined to support a motion calling on parliament to acknowledge the existence of systemic racism in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police force.

The motion also set out that de-escalation should be a police priority, that the use of police force should be reviewed and that additional funding should be given to health services.

Comment: SJWs clearly get quite upset when anyone intercepts their epic virtue signaling. 'Anyone who doesn't accept this motion is a racist' is a rather blunt and inelegant tactic, but unfortunately, it often works.

Rather than simply getting everyone to agree that there is systemic racism within the RCMP, perhaps Mr. Singh would have been more successful in a motion to investigate whether there actually is systemic racism in that institution. Then they would actually be better equipped to deal with the issue, if it exists.

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Brick Wall

Trump: 'It's common sense' to cut immigration while 30M Americans are unemployed

John Binder
Breitbart
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:53 UTC
Trump
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President Trump says it is "common sense" to reduce overall immigration to the United States while more than 30 million Americans are jobless and want full-time work.

During an interview with Fox News' John Roberts on Saturday evening, Trump said reducing immigration by halting foreign visa programs is a "common sense" approach to the nation's mass unemployment problem caused by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

"I think it's going to make a lot of people very happy," Trump said of his plan to expand his current executive order that halted new employment-based green cards from being issued to foreign workers.
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Book

Bolton's lies. They damage everyone and he doesn't care

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Bolton
© Alex Edelman/PAFormer US Foreign Policy Advisor, John Bolton
Most Americans don't have time for the kind of drama that unfolds in Washington D.C. It's like a twisted soap opera, where the characters range from the unscrupulous media, pesky hangers-on, some life-long parasites in the bureaucracy, and the powerful politicians.

The drama unfolding around John Bolton's new book just months before the election reveals the establishment's seething anger at the American people who voted for President Donald Trump and is far more important than people realize.

The former National Security Advisor's soon-to-be-released memoir — The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir contains classified information. It was strategic, of course. Everything about the book, including its release date was planned. The fact that Bolton didn't testify during the impeachment hearings was also calculated. If what he says is true about President Trump, why didn't he testify? He didn't testify because it's all lies. Writing a book doesn't require Bolton to be under oath and in the end he figured it would be his word against Trump.

I used to respect Bolton for his long years of service to our nation but now I see him for what he is - a backstabbing liar intent on taking down a president he had given accolades to on the world stage.

That scenario happens frequently in Washington D.C. There's a saying. "if you want a friend in Washington D.C., get a dog." Sad but somewhat true. Just look at the tweet with a video compilation of Bolton below by Dan Scavino.

Comment: The American people are too smart to be fooled. Are we? Realizations often come years after the traps have been sprung - only to find another has already been set. Each threshold of devolvement ensures the chances that nefarious and adverse circumstances put upon the public will increase.

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Arrow Up

Putin says 'we'll see' regarding a 5th presidential term, as 'national vote' on constitution changes is imminent


RT
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:38 UTC
putin
© Reuters/Sputnik/Aleksey NikolskyRussia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference call on June 20, 2020.
Vladimir Putin may well remain in the Kremlin beyond 2024. The Russian President told federal television on Sunday that he hasn't decided on whether he will put his name forward for election again or leave frontline politics.

A constitutional amendments package, to be put to a public vote that concludes on July 1, would give him the option of running for Russia's highest office on two more occasions. In Sunday's TV interview he avoided giving an affirmative answer - but did not rule out such a possibility either. "We'll see. I have not decided anything for myself yet."

The president also refused to say whether he had considered finding himself a 'successor', explaining that it would only disrupt the government's work. Everyone in the government, as well as on other levels in the state administration "must work [in the now] instead of searching for successors," he stressed.

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Footprints

New normal: Amazon unveils an augmented reality to enforce corporate America's social distancing

Raul Diego
MintPress News
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Amazon warehouse
© AmazonAmazon demonstrating its new augmented reality-based technology for use in its warehouses. Now workers are really the robots.
Should you be one of the dozens of people working minimum ten-hour shifts at Amazon's fulfillment center in Kent, Washington these days, you might very well be at the vanguard of the "new normal" for American blue collar workplaces.

The 1 million-square-foot facility located about 20 miles south of Seattle is the site of a new wearable technology device to enforce prescribed COVID-19 social distancing rules. As described, the device itself doesn't exactly seem to be state-of-the-art. A "clear plastic sleeve" with an LED light and a small audio system will alert warehouse personnel if they are too close for coronavirus comfort.

The idea is to startle workers who may inadvertently (or purposely) violate social distancing rules with flashing lights and digital alarm bells to elicit a Pavlovian response from them. The rationale, of course, is to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But, there is more just day-to-day workplace safety involved in this Orwellian application of technology straight out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

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Attention

More UK Covid 'experts' under fire for serious data manipulation charges

John Ward
The Slog
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC
Horby
© YouTube/recoverytrial.netProfessor Peter Horby
The Government's leading body for Covid19 drug trials - led by the controversial character Professor Peter Horby - stands accused of grossly misleading negative trial results for the coronavirus management drug Hydroxychloroquine. Will this at last be a wake-up call for Boris Johnson?

The lead story in today's France Soir - a long-respected and unaligned French online daily - presents compelling evidence to suggest that the Whitehall/Cabinet Covid19 "advice" team cannot be trusted....and raises yet more doubts about BBC complicity in a false Coronavirus narrative.

Last May 10th, The Slog wrote a scathing critique of the interview given by 'Recovery' boss Professor Peter Horby on the Marr Show. Subsequent events would appear to be proving my analysis correct.

Professor Peter Horby is an epidemiologist, and the Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Oxford. He chairs the UK government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG). In addition, seven weeks ago he was charged with leading the 'Recovery' trial team into drugs for COVID-19.

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