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Ukraine-US bioweapons labs were researching African swine fever, Covid, monkeypox, Russian General reveals


TASS
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:29 UTC
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Screenshot taken from Twitter. According to Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, documents seized during Russia's special military operation in Ukraine prove that since 2019, USAID and its key contractor, the Labyrinth Ukraine company, have been involved in the United States' military biological program.
The Labyrinth Ukraine company, a contractor of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), was involved in US projects studying African swine fever, Chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said on Thursday.

"Labyrinth Ukraine took part in the UP-9 and UP-10 projects aimed at studying the spread of African swine fever in Ukraine and eastern European countries," he pointed out.

According to the general, documents seized during Russia's special military operation in Ukraine prove that since 2019, USAID and its key contractor, the Labyrinth Ukraine company, have been involved in the United States' military biological program. Kirillov mentioned a letter that the chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' sanitary and epidemiological department had sent to the director of Labyrinth Ukraine, highlighting the Ukrainian military's readiness to interact with USAID in terms of injecting troops with vaccines, as well as collecting, processing and providing information to the US.

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Light Saber

'Banana Republic': Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slams FBI Mar-a-Lago raid

Jack Birle
Washington Examiner
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:38 UTC
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© Associated PressFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump in 2018
Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed the FBI's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

The Florida Republican sent a tweet Monday evening as it was reported the raid was related to Trump's handling of presidential records, including classified documents, after leaving office.

"The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime's political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic," DeSantis tweeted.

Comment: This ill-conceived move against Trump may have larger, more damaging implications. Fox News reports:
Trump announced that the FBI was raiding the Palm Beach, Florida location on Monday, and with Republicans claiming it was a weaponization of the DOJ. Now the Democratic Cuomo is saying the Justice Department has to provide information to show that this is not the case.

"DOJ must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations."

Cuomo, who has both clashed with and worked with Trump during the latter's presidency, did not appear to be saying this to defend Trump, rather to make sure his fellow Democrats do not lose credibility as they investigate the former president's role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol protests.

Trump said the raid "was not necessary or appropriate," stating that he had been cooperating with government agencies.

A number of other Republicans have already been criticizing the raid - or at least the way in which it was conducted.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy issued a warning to Attorney General Merrick Garland that extensive oversight by Republicans in Congress will be heading his way.

"Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar," wrote McCarthy.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem blasted Biden's FBI, calling the agency's actions "un-American" in a statement posted to Twitter Monday evening.


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Black Cat

Judge who approved FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago once linked to Jeffrey Epstein

Miranda Devine, Mark Moore and Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:57 UTC
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© Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty ImagesA police car is seen outside former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Aug. 8, 2022.
The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney's office more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.

Sources tell The Post that Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the warrant that enabled federal agents to converge on the palatial South Florida estate on Monday in what Trump called an "unannounced raid on my home."

Reinhart was elevated to magistrate judge in March 2018 after 10 years in private practice. That November, the Miami Herald reported that he had represented several of Epstein's employees — including, by Reinhart's own admission to the outlet, Epstein's pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his "Yugoslavian sex slave."

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Light Sabers

The 2008 Georgian conflict was the US' template for the 2022 Ukrainian one

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Unnown
There's no doubt that the American grand strategy is to contain Russia through the proxy war means that were described in this analysis as proven by a comparison between the Georgian and Ukrainian Conflicts.

Today marks the 14th anniversary of Russia's five-day-long peace enforcement mission against Georgia that began on 8 August 2008 following former President Saakashvili's decision to have his forces attack Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia and South Ossetia during the middle of the night on the same day as the start of the Beijing Summer Olympics. Those two regions used to be autonomous parts of Georgia but were subsequently recognized as independent by Moscow after the end of the conflict that Washington provoked Tbilisi to initiate. Despite having happened almost a decade and a half ago, its lessons are still relevant in the present, especially in the context of the Ukrainian Conflict.

The first thing to learn is that both conflicts are part of the same American grand strategy of waging proxy wars against Russia in an attempt to contain it. Georgia was chosen as the first experiment in this respect because of its 2003 Color Revolution as well as its two previously mentioned hitherto unresolved territorial disputes that could be manipulated to indirectly harm Russian interests. While Ukraine also experienced a Color Revolution the year later in 2004-2005, it didn't yet have any territorial disputes that could be exploited to that proxy war end. Furthermore, its large Russian minority population impeded the progress of the pro-US authorities' pro-NATO/anti-Russian path.
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Telephone

Erdogan and Assad may hold Putin-brokered talks - Turkish media


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:23 UTC
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© AFP/Turkish Presidential Press ServiceTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The leaders of Turkey and Syria - Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar al-Assad - could hold telephone talks after it was suggested by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish state media reported on Tuesday citing sources within the Ankara government.

The news comes after Erdogan's visit to the southern Russian city of Sochi last week, where he discussed the issue of Syria with President Putin. The Turkiye newspaper reports that after the meeting, Putin recommended that Ankara work as much as possible with the Assad government to combat terrorism as such an approach would be "much more accurate."

The Russian leader also reportedly suggested to Erdogan that Turkey and Syria should hold a meeting, but, as reported by Turkiye, Ankara said it was "too early" for something like that. However, it was stated that a telephone conversation between Erdogan and Assad was likely to take place.

Erdogan and Putin reaffirmed their commitment to the political process in Syria and agreed it was important to maintain the "political unity and territorial integrity" of the Middle Eastern nation and vowed to act "together in full coordination" to fight any terrorist organizations.

Comment: New World Era seems to be spreading in ways the US will demonize.

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Russian Flag

Russia-imposed leader of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region orders referendum on joining Russia


RFE/RL
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
Balitsky/convoy
© News Read Online/Alexander Ernochenko/Reuters/KJNYevgeny Balitsky • Russian convoy in Zaporizhzhya Region
Yevgeny Balitsky, the Moscow-appointed head of Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, has officially ordered a local referendum on the possibility of the province joining the Russian Federation.

Balitsky signed the order at an event held by the We Are Together With Russia movement in the city of Melitopol on August 8.

The move comes hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that if referendums on joining Russia proceed in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, there can be no peace talks on ending the war launched by Russia against Ukraine nearly six months ago. Zelenskiy, in his nightly address on August 7, said:
"Our country's position remains what it always has been. We will give up nothing of what is ours. If the occupiers proceed along the path of pseudo-referendums they will close for themselves any chance of talks with Ukraine and the free world, which the Russian side will clearly need at some point."
On August 8, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Zelenskiy's statement was misdirected if he was addressing Russian citizens or leadership, suggesting that the referendums were the will of the residents of Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine.

Comment: It seems the only way to get out of Ukraine is to become a part of Russia.

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Rocket

Russia takes out 45,000 tons of NATO ammo - MoD


RT
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:49 UTC
Manpads
© Sergei SUPINSKY / AFPUS made FIM-92 Stinger missiles, a man-portable air-defence system (MANPADS)
The Russian military has taken out a depot in southern Ukraine that stored NATO-supplied ammunition, the Defense Ministry claimed on Sunday.
"In the Voznesensk area of the Nikolaev region an arsenal that stored 45,000 tons of ammunition recently supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by NATO countries has been destroyed."
The ministry added that Russian forces eliminated five other ammo depots.

Meanwhile, the Russian army conducted strikes on the deployment point of units of Ukraine's 72nd mechanized brigade at an agricultural facility in the Donetsk People's Republic city of Artemovsk, wiping out up to 130 soldiers and eight transport and armored vehicles, the ministry's statement read.

Moscow's forces, the ministry continued, also used high-precision air-based missiles to attack a howitzer battery of Ukraine's 95th Air Assault Brigade in the village of Dzerzhinsk in the DPR. According to the statement, the strike killed up to 70 service members, destroyed three 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns and four vehicles.

Comment: Kiev is doubling down on a very bad bet. Sending briefly trained citizens to the front is unthinkable.

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Whistle

Methods US army uses to hide Ukraine involvement revealed


RT
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:54 UTC
Troop/Machine
© Cpl. Cotton Garrett/Keystone Press Agency/Global Look PressHigh Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launcher
Ukrainian forces have "had the American military at their side" from the start of the conflict with Russia, the magazine Causeur cited a "well-placed analyst" in French intelligence as saying. Pentagon-hired contractors are allegedly "everywhere on the battlefield."

The claim was published by the right-leaning outlet last week in an analysis of the five-month-long Russia-Ukraine conflict, which, it stated, "is not the fight of David against Goliath," contrary to what many people believe.

"In Ukraine, the Pentagon for the first time subcontracted large-scale warfare," the magazine cited its source as saying. These "mercenaries" come in addition to the "gigantic" military aid provided to Kiev by Washington, and are not necessarily frontline fighters, according to Causeur.

As an example of 'subcontracted' warfare, it cited the widely-publicized supply of SpaceX satellite internet access for Ukrainian military officials. CEO Elon Musk initially framed this as an act of charitable support, but media reports later revealed that it was paid for with US taxpayer money.
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Target

Russia warns of Polish plans for Ukraine


RT
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 13:17 UTC
Grain/soldiers
© Janek Skarzynski/AFP
Warsaw continues to carry out an apparent attempt to "reclaim" parts of Ukraine in accordance with its "far-reaching plans" for the country, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a statement posted on Monday.

According to Moscow, Poland is not only setting up a scenario to deploy its "peacekeeping" forces to the western parts of Ukraine, but is also trying to establish control over promising sectors of the Ukrainian economy, first and foremost - agriculture.

The SVR claims that Polish companies have taken advantage of the difficult condition facing Ukrainian farmers by arranging to purchase their goods at reduced prices, which is allegedly pushing some Ukrainian agriculture enterprises toward bankruptcy. The agency claims that Polish entities will then buy up these assets at bargain prices.

Comment: Did Ukraine think its neighbors would sit still on the sidelines?

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Bad Guys

Copium: Zelensky's aide calls counterattack claims part of Kiev's 'information warfare'


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:42 UTC
Mikhail Podolyak advisor head of Volodymyr Zelensky
Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky's office
All public statements by Ukrainian officials are in some way meant to deceive Russia, an aide to President Zelensky said

All public remarks by Ukrainian officials are part of information warfare against Russia, Mikhail Podolyak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenksy, claimed in an interview on Tuesday.

The comment came as Podolyak was discussing Kiev's plans to take back the city of Kherson from Russia with the BBC. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly claimed that a major counterattack was looming and that Russia was concentrating its forces in return, suggesting that a major battle in southern Ukraine was about to break out.

Comment: One is reminded of Germany during the waning days of WWII.

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