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US to back Ukraine 'as long as it takes' - Biden


RT
Mon, 19 Sep 2022 02:30 UTC
BIden rocketlaunch
© Tony Overman/Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/KJNUS President Joe Biden • A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)
US President Joe Biden has touted the "significant help" Washington and its NATO allies are providing to Kiev, and pledged an "ironclad commitment" to keep supporting Ukraine with weapons until it reclaims its entire territory from Russia.

Biden, in a 60 Minutes CBS News interview aired Sunday night, said:
"The price Ukrainian people are paying for this war is extremely high. But we're gonna stay with them as long as they need our help. The significant help we and our allies are giving them and the incredible bravery and the incredible determination of the Ukrainian people, are not losing a war, and they're making gains in certain areas."
Last week, Biden authorized yet another $600 million in military assistance to Ukraine on top of the $675 million package announced the previous week. Since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February, the Biden White House has pledged a total of $44.3 billion in aid to Kiev. Part has been in cash, and the remainder is the assessed value of weapons, ammunition, and training offered by the Pentagon. As of last week, the purely military aid amounted to $14.5 billion since February, on top of the $17.2 billion funneled into Ukraine since the 2014 coup.

Comment: Biden is power-hungry and delusional. Ukraine is a bottomless pit. Everyone looses.

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Déjà Vu? DOJ's 'classified documents' narrative feels like a get-Trump trick we've seen before

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 01:00 UTC
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© screenshot
As has been the case with every previous get-Trump effort, the deep state seeks to convict Trump first in the court of public opinion.

Since news first broke of the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago, the Department of Justice has primed Americans to believe that former President Donald Trump hid classified documents at his Florida home in defiance of a grand jury subpoena. But even with leaks pushing claims that the documents seized included potential nuclear secrets, the public remains equally split on whether the Biden administration abused its power in targeting Trump.

With criticism of the raid remaining high nearly a month after the FBI executed the search at the former president's home, the DOJ on Tuesday escalated its public-relations pitch by releasing several documents that seemingly establish that Trump failed to comply with the subpoena and that his representative lied to the government about the documents retained at Mar-a-Lago. While nothing is impossible, this narrative seems extremely unlikely.
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Attention

Biden just admitted his student loan 'forgiveness' scheme is illegal

Elle Purnell
The Federalist
Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
graduates
© KARE 11/KJN
If the Covid pandemic is 'over,' Biden's Education Department can no longer claim an 'emergency' to try to justify its loan 'forgiveness.'

In an obvious effort to boost his anything-but-sunny track record before the 2022 midterms, President Joe Biden finally admitted in a Sunday 60 Minutes interview that "the pandemic is over." The gaffe-prone president's statement appeared to upset his party's plans of using Covid-19 as an excuse to exercise unconstitutional control forever, judging by the meltdown in newsrooms and on Twitter. But Biden also inadvertently admitted his recent vote-buying scheme to "forgive" student loans is against the law.

When Biden announced plans to "forgive" $10,000 in student loans ($20,000 for Pell Grant recipients) for certain borrowers last month, it was an obvious political ploy to give young voters money and wink at them to remember it on Election Day. It was a crime against the word "forgiveness," since neither the universities nor government lenders are "forgiving" anything, but rather are charging taxpaying bystanders to pay students' debts. Above all, it was unconstitutional and illegal, considering the Constitution's demand that "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law" and the fact that the president has no legislative authority to dictate those appropriations.

But the Biden administration has never been one to let the Constitution get in the way, so Biden's Education Department's Office of the General Counsel threw together a hogwash argument claiming that the Covid-19 "emergency" authorized the plan. Even The Atlantic admitted, "Biden's Student-Debt Rescue Plan Is a Legal Mess."
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How Senator Biden helped create the student debt crisis President Biden is pretending to fix

Joe Popularis
The Federalist
Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
Biden
© ScreenshotSenator Joe Biden
Sen. Joe Biden wanted a sweetheart deal for the banks that stripped student loans of bankruptcy protections, and it created a train wreck.

There's a lot that's wrong with Biden's student debt forgiveness plan — morally, economically, and legally. The plan is fundamentally unfair; many experts think it will be inflationary, and it's almost surely illegal under Supreme Court case law. But that's not the whole story:
As a senator in 2005, Joe Biden pushed changes in bankruptcy law on behalf of the credit card industry that helped precipitate the student debt crisis.
Pre-Biden Bankruptcy Laws

There is indeed a student debt crisis. About 45 million Americans owe something like $1.6 trillion in student loans. Most of the debt is owed to the government. But a sizeable chunk (about 8 percent) is owed to private lenders.

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Stop

US Marines quietly stop punishing troops that refuse Covid vaccine


The Post Millennial
Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00 UTC
Austen/Marine
© Post MillennialSec. of Defense Lloyd Austin • US Marine
Following last month's decision by a federal court against the Department of Defense and the US Marine Corps, which allowed US Marines with religious objections to refuse covid vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden Administration, the US Marine Corps has abandoned punishments for most service members who are seeking the exemptions.

Last year, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued an order that mandated Covid vaccinations for all members of the US armed forces. According to a September 14 notice:
"Marine Corps will not enforce any order to accept COVID-19 vaccination, administratively separate, or retaliate against Marines in the class for asserting statutory rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act."
Additionally, the notice also referenced a temporary order blocking the Marine Corps from taking action against individuals seeking a religious exemption saying:
"Involuntary administrative separation processing of class members for refusing COVID-19 vaccination is suspended." Commanders to "pause all administrative actions related to the involuntary separation of a class member, regardless of the current status of the separation process.

"No orders will be given to receive the vaccine, no counselings will be issued for refusing the vaccine, no administrative separation boards will be conducted, no discharges will be issued."

Comment: Recruiting is tanking across the military boards? Perfect timing for a Biden war disaster.

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Putin asserts Russian weapons efficient against NATO arms


RT
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:14 UTC
russia grad missile launcher
© Sputnik / Russian Defence MinistryServicemen of pro-Russian forces fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher system at the unknown location in the course of Russia's military operation, in Ukraine.
The Russian president urged manufacturers to keep "studying" Western weapons to make improvements

The conflict in Ukraine has shown that Russian weapons display "high efficiency" in resisting NATO arsenals, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. At the same time, Putin emphasized that arms makers should study the weapons that Kiev receives from its Western partners, to further improve Moscow's military performance.

"All of NATO's arsenals have been deployed to support the current regime in Kiev, which means that we must and can study them and qualitatively increase our capabilities," Putin said during a meeting with defense industry representatives. He added that based on the experience gained, Russian arms can then be improved "where necessary."
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Yoda

Tucker Carlson asks why Ron DeSantis a human trafficker but Joe Biden is not?


Fox News
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:07 UTC
martha's vineyard refugee crisis
Tucker Carlson reacts to Democrats not welcoming illegal migrants on Martha's Vineyard

If there's one thing we have learned about the people who make the rules, it's that they have no intention of following them, any of them, ever. They command you to wear a mask as you jog alone in the park while they head to dinner barefaced at the French Laundry. That happened. They harangue you of the carbon footprint of your lawn mower as they fly to Aspen on their private jets. You see that every day. How many members of Congress who voted to expand the police powers of the IRS don't pay their own taxes? More than a few.

How many politicians who fervently support gun control have armed bodyguards that you pay for? Well, let's see. Every single one. We could go on and on and on. Whatever they're demanding that you do this week, you can be dead certain they are not doing it themselves. Everyone notices this. It enrages people, but it's often misinterpreted. People say this is hypocrisy, but it's not. It's privilege.
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Bad Guys

Bombshell court filing suggests the FBI knew 'Russiagate' was a fraud in January of 2017, but it kept up its pressure on Trump

Felix Livshitz
RT
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:01 UTC
Washington DC
© Brendan Smialowski / AFP
Lawyers for Igor Danchenko, the primary source of the notorious and utterly discredited "Trump-Russia|" dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, have filed a motion to dismiss the charges brought against their client by special counsel John Durham.

In the process, they have revealed another startling and potentially criminal dimension to the FBI's probe of potential collusion between the campaign of former President Donald Trump and the Kremlin.

Danchenko's case

Durham charged Danchenko in November 2021 with five counts of lying to the bureau. Four of those relate to statements he made in a February 2017 interview, in which he repeatedly claimed to have met and had conversations with Sergey Millian, a Belarusian-born businessman who claimed ties with the Trump campaign.

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Mr. Potato

Biden hints at plans for reelection bid


RT
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:53 UTC
Joe Biden
© AP / Evan VucciFILE PHOTO: US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with state and local elected officials at the White House in Washington, DC, August 26, 2022.
US President Joe Biden has said he has every intention to run for reelection in 2024, but argued it was "too early" to make any official announcements and that, for now, he would focus on his duties as commander in chief.

Speaking to CBS '60 Minutes' in an interview on Sunday, Biden discussed his prospects for another presidential run.

"Look, if I were to say to you, 'I'm running again,' all of a sudden, a whole range of things come into play that I have - requirements I have to change and move and do. In terms of election laws," he said, adding "It's much too early to make that kind of decision."
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Bad Guys

Bill Clinton denies blame for Ukraine crisis


RT
Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:40 UTC
bill clinton signing treaty 1998
© AP / Ruth FremsonPresident Clinton signs a protocol of accession to the Washington Treaty for Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic for the countries to join NATO, Washington, February 11, 1998.
The former US president has argued that the conflict in Eastern Europe may have occurred sooner if NATO hadn't expanded under his watch.

Former US President Bill Clinton has rejected criticism that NATO's eastward expansion on his watch helped set the stage for today's Ukraine crisis, suggesting that Russia would have threatened the security of its neighbors sooner without the Western military bloc's presence in the region.

"I think we did the right thing at the right time, and if we hadn't have done it, this crisis might have occurred even sooner," Clinton said in a CNN interview broadcast on Sunday. Three former Warsaw Pact states - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic - joined NATO in 1999, during Clinton's second term. Seven others, including three former Soviet republics, followed in 2004.

Comment: It's unsurprising that Clinton would defend his past actions and wash his hands of it. Yet the evidence is plain for all to see - this latest confrontation in Ukraine is a reaction by Russia to decades of being infringed upon by NATO. Clinton played his part.

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