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Persecution: Senior Ukrainian bishop says he's under house arrest


RT
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:59 UTC
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© WikipediaThe vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel
Metropolitan Pavel, Abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, is suspected of supporting Russia's actions during the conflict

The leader of Ukraine's largest Orthodox Christian monastery has said he is under house arrest, marking the latest twist in Kiev's religious crackdown. Metropolitan Pavel (secular name Pyotr Lebed), a senior bishop in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), is suspected of inciting religious tensions.

The cleric, who has served as abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra since 1994, told reporters about his arrest on Saturday, in a video released by the Ukrainian news network Vesti.

Meanwhile the SBU, Ukraine's domestic security service, claimed in a statement that it "had collected well-founded evidence" that the bishop was "inciting inter-religious enmity" and "justifying Russia's aggression." The two potential charges carry prison sentences of up to eight years and three years, respectively.

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Red Flag

Ukraine war effort has left small European countries "morally & financially exhausted"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 15:18 UTC
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© Le Monde/Getty ImagesCzech President Petr Pavel (left); Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (right)
Ukraine's Western backers have of late expressed more and more skepticism over the future success of the war effort against Russia. This doubt grew louder and more public starting two weeks ago, when Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with Polish media that the window is closing on a major new Ukrainian counteroffensive. He then acknowledged that his country may not be able to maintain current levels of assistance to Kiev.

"The window of opportunity is open this year. After next winter, it will be extremely difficult to maintain the current level of assistance," Pavel was quoted as saying. "War fatigue is not only the exhaustion of human resources and equipment, the destruction of infrastructure in Ukraine, but also fatigue in the countries that provide aid."

This week another small central European country has echoed the same. Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová said at a foreign policy event that Slovakia is "morally and financially exhausted" after more than a year of support given to Ukraine, and as war refugees pour in.

Comment: The minor vassals are getting restless. This does not bode well for the U.S. and NATO.

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Megaphone

It's not an insurrection when we do it: Three Democrat state lawmakers join protesters invading Tennessee state capitol

Houston Keene
Fox News
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:07 UTC
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© Seth Herald/Getty ImagesChants of "no justice, no peace" and "save our children" echoed through the Tennessee House of Representatives chamber as pro-gun control protesters posted up both inside and outside the state capitol building.
Protesters called for an assault weapon ban in the wake of the mass shooting.

Three Democratic lawmakers in the Tennessee state House joined pro-gun control protesters who invaded the state capitol following the tragic Monday shooting in Nashville.

Chants of "no justice, no peace" and "save our children" echoed through the Tennessee House of Representatives chamber as pro-gun control protesters posted up both inside and outside the state capitol building.

Three Democrat state lawmakers — Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson — brought the Tennessee lower chamber to a halt when they joined in chanting with the protesters.

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Snakes in Suits

Rand Paul says Fauci is lying about being retired, is secretly working for Biden admin

Paul Aubert
Trending Politics
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:01 UTC
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Speaking with Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he has "information" that proves Anthony Fauci is lying about being retired.

"There's a massive cover-up going on, and the lead in all of the cover-up has been Fauci," the Kentucky senator said.

"We now have information that he's still working for the government, even though he says he's retired," Sen. Paul added before claiming Fauci is working for the government out of fears he might be indicted.

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Bizarro Earth

America, the reality TV show, reaches new depths with Trump's indictment

Tony Cox
RT
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:18 UTC
Former U.S. President Donald Trump
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesFormer U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on November 7, 2022 in Vandalia, Ohio.
US politics have gotten even raunchier with the country's first prosecution of a former president.

Just when one might have supposed that American politics couldn't get any trashier, New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg and former President Donald Trump have proven that the nation hasn't yet reached the bottom.

The US political system now resembles a reality television show, and with Trump's indictment on Thursday by a Manhattan grand jury, viewers should cringe at how vulgar and obnoxious the program has become. In fact, if it were a scripted soap opera, it would be too unbelievable and tacky for daytime TV audiences.

Consider the story line, which begins with a $130,000 hush-money payment to a porn star, stage-named Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence on allegations of an affair with the Republican Party's leading presidential candidate. Then you have the boisterous defendant, a former reality TV star who has been divorced twice and is currently married to an ex-model 24 years his junior. And don't forget Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, who is financially backed by billionaire Democratic Party sugar daddy George Soros and is so far left that he's almost allergic to prosecuting alleged crimes - unless they involve self-defense or a Republican suspect.

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Quenelle - Golden

Austria: 20 lawmakers walk out of parliament during Zelensky speech saying it 'violated principle of neutrality'


Al Jazeera
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:00 UTC
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Members of Austria’s Freedom Party left Parliament to protest the Ukrainian president’s speech over what they said was a violation of their nation’s neutrality.
Lawmakers from the pro-Russia, far-right Freedom Party have walked out of the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy addressed the chamber via video link on Thursday, thanking Austria for its humanitarian aid and help with projects such as clearing land mines.

The far-right politicians said they were protesting against the speech because it violated Austria's principle of neutrality.

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Briefcase

What happens next after Donald Trump's indictment

Jordan Dixon-Hamilton
Breitbart
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
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© Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/AFP/Getty Images/KJNManhattan DA Alvin Bragg • Former US President Donald Trump
A New York grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump on Thursday, launching the start of criminal proceedings against the former president.

Less than two weeks ago, Trump warned of his imminent arrest based on "illegal leaks" from the Manhattan district attorney's office, which the George Soros-funded Democrat Alvin Bragg leads.

The New York Times first reported Trump's indictment on Thursday, citing "five people with knowledge of the matter." Shortly after the Times' report, Trump's legal team confirmed the indictment. Trump's attorneys Susan Necheles and Joe Tacopina said "President Trump has been indicted. He did not commit any crime. We will vigorously fight this political prosecution in Court."

In criminal proceedings, an indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In New York, a grand jury of 23 individuals determined there was enough evidence to issue an indictment against Trump. The grand jury process is kept secret, but jurors typically hear evidence from the prosecutor's witnesses before deciding to issue an indictment. It is unknown what exact charges the grand jury's indictment of Trump includes.

Next, local law enforcement must process Trump, whether he voluntarily surrenders himself to authorities or will be publicly arrested in a "perp walk." However, a perp walk is unlikely as defendants accused of white-collar crimes typically coordinate a surrender date through their attorneys.

Comment: Law professor Jonathan Turley comments on this turn of events:
Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel, law professor Jonathan Turley criticized the merits of the Manhattan grand jury's indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Turley deemed the indictment "legally pathetic."

"It is, it's historic, it's not necessarily good history that it is being made. It's not that I oppose the indictment of a former president. I don't even oppose the indictment of a sitting president on a constitutional basis. But this indictment, if it is reportedly following the theory that we've been talking about is political. It's a raw political prosecution. Now, the indictment may come out with a crime that none of us have heard of. But for many months, this bootstrapping theory has been put out there. This idea that you could take a misdemeanor under New York law that has expired that has a two-year statute of limitations and revive it by connecting it to a federal crime, in this case, the Federal Election violation."

"Now, there's a host of problems with that. First of all, it's a federal crime the Department of Justice chose not to prosecute. Bragg's own predecessor declined to prosecute it, but he is attempting to bootstrap that federal crime into a state case. And if that is the basis for the indictment, I think it's rather outrageous. I think it's legally pathetic."

Call this 'a third impeachment' in progress.

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Target

From media outlet to 'non-state hostile intelligence service'

Kevin Gosztola
Scheerpost
Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00 UTC
Assange
© CC BY-SA 2.0/Wikipedia CommonsJulian Assange • Cancillería del Ecuador • 2014
By designating WikiLeaks a spy outfit, the U.S. government has stacked the deck against Julian Assange and leveled an unprecedented threat against journalism.

This is an excerpt adapted from Kevin Gosztola's new book: Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. You can find the book here.

On April 13, 2017, Mike Pompeo, then Secretary of State, spoke at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, headquartered in Washington, D.C., in which he displayed his thirst for revenge against WikiLeaks. "It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is — a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.
"WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service and has encouraged its followers to find jobs at the CIA in order to obtain intelligence,"
This was when the CIA first introduced the public to the conspiracy theory that would later make up the core of the Justice Department's indictment against Assange in 2019.
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Nuke

No more double standards and impunity. West provokes Russia. Result: Nukes in Belarus on NATO's borders


Strategic Culture
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:59 UTC
The Anglo-American-led NATO alliance has no longer the presumption of impunity. The decades of unchecked aggression from NATO expansionism and criminal Anglo-American subterfuges in foreign countries are over.
Military Vehicles with ICBMs
© Public domain
The historic - and unacceptable - deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in several European NATO states as well as the recent announcement by Britain of supplying depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine is the prologue to Russia's decision to place tactical nukes in Belarus. The Western outcry following Russia's decision is absurd and hypocritical.

The pattern is familiar and speaks of incorrigible arrogance. The United States and its NATO allies make reckless escalatory moves that are unprecedented in their aggression toward Russia; then Moscow makes a reciprocal move, and yet the Western governments and their dutiful news media become apoplectic with rage over Russia's "threatening conduct" and nuclear blackmail.

Maybe one day, Western leaders will eventually choke on their own illogical apoplexy.
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Arrow Up

Donald Trump was just indicted...but why?

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:45 UTC
Anti Trumpers
© Off-GuardianSome people really hate campaign finance violations.
Last night it was announced that former-President Donald Trump was being indicted by the Manhattan Grand Jury, he is expected to surrender himself to authorities later today.

The indictment is sealed until arraignment, but we do know the rough nature of the charge(s). Essentially, the accusation is that he paid "hush money" to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to prevent her from going to the press. CNN is abuzz with anonymous sources "familiar with the case" who are predicting 30-plus charges related fraud, but all that's really known is that it concerns Daniels' hush money.

Hush money, in itself, is not technically illegal, but if it could be established that campaign funds were used to make the payment, and Trump knew about it, it would be a felony campaign finance violation.

Yes, a campaign finance violation. That's all. Much smaller names have had much bigger crimes swept under the rug.

Hell, Hillary Clinton's campaign was found guilty of the same exact crime over their commissioning the ridiculous "Steele Dossier". No arrests, just a fine...and they were literally trying to spread misinformation to swing an election.

So why can we expect to see Trump's mugshot on the front cover of every newspaper tomorrow? Why is Donald Trump the first President to ever be indicted, and not, say, Richard Nixon or George Bush jr?

Well, there are two schools of thought on that subject, or rather two competing narratives.
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