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Biden says US will send more aid to Ukraine

Morgan Chalfant
The Hill
Fri, 06 May 2022 05:02 UTC
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© EPAUS President Joe Biden
President Biden on Friday announced another security assistance package for Ukraine totaling $150 million he said would include artillery munitions, radars and other equipment.
"Today, the United States is continuing our strong support for the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their country against Russia's ongoing aggression."
Biden warned the latest round of assistance would nearly exhaust the military assistance that Congress has approved for the administration to deliver to Ukraine. Congress in March authorized $13.6 billion in security, economic and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. The White House had previously said that the administration had about $250 million in military assistance left.

On Friday, Biden pressed Congress to quickly approve more assistance for Ukraine. The White House has asked for $33 billion in additional security, economic and humanitarian assistance to help Ukraine fight the Russian war and address the impacts of the conflict. The administration believes that amount of assistance is needed to sustain Ukraine over the next five months.
"With today's announcement, my Administration has nearly exhausted funding that can be used to send security assistance through drawdown authorities for Ukraine. For Ukraine to succeed in this next phase of war its international partners, including the U.S., must continue to demonstrate our unity and our resolve to keep the weapons and ammunition flowing to Ukraine, without interruption. Congress should quickly provide the requested funding to strengthen Ukraine on the battlefield and at the negotiating table."
Congress is currently drafting legislation to meet the administration's request.

Comment: Well now, more US taxpayer funding to Ukraine...but don't stop there!!!
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has confirmed that President Joe Biden will sign the Lend-Lease Act of 2022 on Monday. The legislation will make it easier for Washington to ship more types of weapons to Ukraine.

The authorisation will take place on May 9, or "Victory Day" - when the defeat of Nazi Germany is celebrated annually in Russia. The symbolism will almost certainly raise eyebrows in Moscow.

The "Lend-Lease Act," which was previously used to help the allies during WWII, was revived and backed by the US Congress last week and will allow the US to export unlimited weapons to Kiev.

While the bill was approved by Congress last week, it was put together back in January - more than a month before Moscow recognized the Donbass republics as independent and sent troops into Ukraine.

Moscow has repeatedly condemned the US and its NATO allies for delivering arms to Ukraine, insisting that the inflow of supplies will only prolong the conflict. The Kremlin has also said Western weapons are considered a legitimate target once they enter Ukrainian territory.
If Ukraine can't sustain itself, it has no business conducting a war. It had every chance and blew it.

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Poll reveals Austrians' stance on joining NATO


RT
Fri, 06 May 2022 18:03 UTC
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© Getty Images/iStockphotoNeutral European Countries
The vast majority of Austrians are against becoming part of NATO, a poll has revealed. In a survey conducted earlier this month by Vienna's Institute for Opinion Polls and Data Analysis and commissioned by the Austria Press Agency, 75% of respondents replied in the negative when asked if they thought their country should join NATO, with another 14% in favor of such a scenario.

Of the 1,000 Austrians surveyed, 52% said they believe Vienna's neutrality provides sufficient protection against external threats, while 40% did not share that view. As many as 83% of respondents spoke in favor of closer coordination on security and defense policy among EU member states.

When asked whether they believed Ukraine should be let into the European Union, 46% said they opposed Kiev's accession, with another 38% indicating that they would support it.

Back in 1955, following the pullout of the allied forces from Austria, the Alpine nation proclaimed itself permanently neutral. While sharing borders with several NATO member states, Austria abstained from joining the military alliance all through the Cold War and the years that followed.

Comment: Ukraine's NATO membership 'ten years' from now...OR...PTB power play on investment coupled with location, location, location - could mean 'tomorrow'. Factoring in Ukraine's problems with the EU...perhaps 'not so quickly'!
Ukraine's accession to the European Union will not happen "in the next five to ten years," Austrian EU Affairs Minister Karoline Edtstadler has predicted. Austria's foreign minister has expressed a similar view, despite European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's insistence that Ukraine will be swiftly ushered into the bloc.

EU accession for Ukraine would be "a long process to adjust to, which certainly cannot be achieved in the next five to ten years," Edtstadler told Austria's APA news agency on Wednesday. The minister added that as some Balkan states have been waiting "for decades" to join the union, there could be no fast track for Ukraine.

Prior to Edtstadler's comments, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg angered Kiev by suggesting that Ukraine instead pursue an association agreement with the EU, or integration into the European Economic Area. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko called this advice "strategically short-sighted and not in the interests of a united Europe."

Edtstadler told APA:
"What the foreign minister...wanted to address with this is that you might also have to be creative in how you introduce Ukraine to Western values. What Ukraine obviously heard was a no to EU membership, which is not what was meant and is not Austria's position."
Austria is not the only EU member urging caution on fast-tracking Ukraine's membership bid. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned in March that "joining the EU is not something that can be done in a few months," while Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has cautioned that expediting Ukraine's membership could be seen as unfair by long-term candidates such as Turkey and Montenegro.

In assessing a country's bid for membership, the European Commission evaluates everything from its economic performance to its legal system, along with environmental regulations and agricultural practices. This process can take decades, with Turkey, for example, remaining a candidate country since 1999.

Nevertheless, Ukraine has completed the first part of a questionnaire for prospective members, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month that it "will not, as usual, be a matter of years to form this opinion but I think a matter of weeks."

EU sources told Bloomberg last month that a preliminary decision on Ukraine's candidacy could come as early as June. However, full membership would still be contingent on an investigation by the European Commission and the unanimous consent of every EU member state.
Ukraine has yet to prove to anyone it is ready for EU or NATO memberships.

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Revelation of the Method

Dustin Broadbery
Off-Guardian
Sat, 07 May 2022 18:58 UTC
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CIA Director, William Casey is reputed to have said to Ronald Reagan 'We'll know our disinformation is complete when everything the American public believes is false.'

Fast forward thirty years, and there's no piece of fiction the masses will not swallow.

From Woke to COVID to the war in Ukraine, people no longer make their own ideological pilgrimages to the truth - the truth is served oven-ready by their political betters.

Nowadays, there's little distinction between the two hemispheres: reality and illusion. It's not so much that people have been robbed of their ability to decipher between these two, it's that facts have been reoriented into fiction and fiction into facts. It's a degradation of epistemology so momentous, that people don't even know that they don't know that they don't know what's happening. To quote one former anarchist.

In the grand scheme of things, humanity has perjured themselves and life as we know it has morphed into a sort of science-fiction, soap-opera with few common ancestors to reality. Even right-thinking folks require the equivalent of a cerebral chainsaw to hollow out the slew of implausible narratives into something remotely resembling reality. It goes beyond fiction to predictive programming. They're not just deceiving you; they're showing you that they're deceiving you.

What is neither here nor there to the deceived is the track record of their deceivers. Before the ink dried on the newsprint proclaiming the crisis in-waiting, the falsifications of COVID were buried under the falsehoods of war, Zelensky's standing ovation at Westminster knocked Pfizer data's release off the rostrum and those formerly joined at the hip to COVID got hitched to their Ukrainian brides.

This entire fiasco holds water because what people think they know for sure, that just ain't so, is a consensus. A preponderance of fabrications, falsehoods and false prophets governs the spiritual milieu. People worship the prosaic and glorify artifice. Our moral choices are guided by platitude and not virtue, anecdote and not evidence.

To complicate matters, what was formerly held sacred has become profane and what was formerly profane has become sacred, to quote Robert Sepehr.
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'EU is escalating the proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine' - MEP Clare Daly slams West in EU parliament

Senan Molony
Independent.ie
Fri, 06 May 2022 05:15 UTC
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© Damien EagersClare Daly.
THERE is a narrative in the West of goodies and baddies in the Ukraine war, "and if you do not talk in that narrative, then you are a baddie," controversial MEP Clare Daly said today.

A section of the Irish establishment who never wanted neutrality now see the Ukraine invasion as an opportunity to end it completely, she warned.

Meanwhile, EU militarism and NATO are two sides of the same coin, and the arms industry is profiting hugely from the current conflict.

This was not to absolve Russia, which is "100 per cent responsible" for invading Ukraine, Ms Daly told the Casement summer school in Dun Laoghaire today.


Comment: Well, Russia is responsible in the sense that it is responsible for its actions, however in terms of international norms, experts from across the globe have been warning for decades that Russia would be forced to respond to the threat NATO posed to its security.


Comment: The subservience to the agenda in Ukraine is destroying what's left of Europe's economy and its democracy:


Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Context And Near-Future Outcomes




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Kremlin releases transcript showing Israel lied claiming Putin apologized over Lavrov's comment that Hitler had 'Jewish blood'


The Cradle
Fri, 06 May 2022 12:00 UTC
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Moscow did not explicitly confirm or deny a claim made by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on 5 May, in which he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to him for the controversial comments made by the Kremlin's top diplomat earlier this week.

Bennett claimed that during a phone conversation with Putin, the Russian leader had offered an apology over Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's claim that Adolf Hitler possibly had "Jewish blood."

Hours later, the Kremlin issued a statement that included the full content of the conversation, making no mention of an apology.

Comment: Indeed, relations between the rogue state of Israel and Russia do appear to be deteriorating rather significantly. Although this is part of growing global division between those nations pushing the West's nefarious agenda to isolate Russia and those unwilling to be subservient to it: See also: Zelensky is Not in Charge of Ukraine, Nazis Are - And They Believe They Are on a Mission From God to 'Derussify Ukraine in Holy War'

And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Context And Near-Future Outcomes



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Clinton campaign 'just made stuff up' about Trump/Russia, former FBI intel chief says

Tim Pearce
The Daily Wire
Sat, 07 May 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKevin Brock, former assistant FBI director for intelligence
A former head of FBI intelligence says that the Clinton campaign "just made stuff up" about former President Donald Trump in 2016 to paint him as a Russian asset.

Retired Assistant Director for Intelligence Kevin Brock is a vocal critic of the FBI's handling of allegations that Trump colluded with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election. In a Wednesday appearance on "Just the News, Not Noise," Brock said that evidence discovered in special counsel John Durham's investigation shows that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign, not Trump's, used "contrived disinformation" to mislead voters.

"This is more than just political dirty tricks," Brock said. "Political dirty tricks usually have some foundation in truth. But they just made stuff up."

Comment: See also:

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Jack Posobiec breaks down Elon Musk's callout of Soros, Media Matters

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Fri, 06 May 2022 22:00 UTC
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Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec mentioned how Elon Musk, after having bought Twitter, is using the platform to call out organizations that he considers to be pro-censorship.

"Because Elon Musk is making these moves, he's ruffling some feathers," Posobiec said.


Comment: More and more it's being revealed what a huge thorn in the side of the elites Elon Musk is becoming. Their loss of Twitter as a propaganda platform is obviously a serious blow, even though one would think it's rather mundane.

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Flashback Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

Lev Golinkin
The Nation
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 06:51 UTC
A march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017.
© Reuters / Gleb GaranichA march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017.
Five years ago, Ukraine's Maidan uprising ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, to the cheers and support of the West. Politicians and analysts in the United States and Europe not only celebrated the uprising as a triumph of democracy, but denied reports of Maidan's ultranationalism, smearing those who warned about the dark side of the uprising as Moscow puppets and useful idiots. Freedom was on the march in Ukraine.

Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West's initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.

These stories of Ukraine's dark nationalism aren't coming out of Moscow; they're being filed by Western media, including US-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE); Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and watchdogs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Freedom House, which issued a joint report warning that Kiev is losing the monopoly on the use of force in the country as far-right gangs operate with impunity.

Five years after Maidan, the beacon of democracy is looking more like a torchlight march.

Comment: This article describes perfectly clear what Vladimir Putin meant when Russia started the special operation for denazification and demilitarisation in Ukraine. Now we can see from a better perspective what is going on in Ukraine and against what kind of evil is Russia fighting in Ukraine.

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'Don't patronize us', India reminds EU official it has abstained over numerous UN resolutions regarding proxy-war in Ukraine


RT
Fri, 06 May 2022 12:50 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: Ambassador of India to the UN, TS Tirumurti
India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, TS Tirumurti, has accused the Netherlands of "patronizing" his country after the Dutch ambassador to the UK publicly scolded New Delhi for abstaining on UN General Assembly resolutions on the war in Ukraine.

"Kindly don't patronise us, Ambassador. We know what to do," Tirumurti wrote in a tweet to Dutch envoy Karel van Oosterom on Thursday.

Tirumurti's tweet came in response to van Oosterom's (now-deleted) warning that India "should not have abstained" from votes pertaining to Russia and the war in Ukraine and that it should "respect the UN Charter."

Comment: This comes on the heels of recently ousted PM Imran Khan who, also in response to Western pressure, said: 'Are we your slaves?'

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The great currency reset and why Europe is trapped

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'N Guns
Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00 UTC
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There's a lot of news flying around about the changes happening in global currency trading.

From "Gas for Rubles" to "What the Hell is Going on With the Yen?" there are a lot of questions and very few answers as to what it all means and whose on which side of the divide.

The Fed just hiked 50 basis points for the first time since 2000 and will be running off its balance sheet forcing the Treasury to stop issuing new debt at stupid rates. The European Union unveiled a sixth sanctions package against Russia which calls for a complete embargo of all Russian oil.

Further to this the EU is now aping what the Trump Administration tried to do to Iran in 2018, sanctioning all services, including insurance, to all shippers of oil from doing any business with Russia and sanctioned Russian banks.
The bloc is proposing to ban European vessels and companies from providing services — including insurance — linked to the transportation of Russian oil and products globally as part of its new sanctions package, according to officials and a draft document seen by Bloomberg.

While member states are still wrangling over the terms, it's a potentially powerful tool because 95% of the world's tanker liability cover is arranged through a London-based insurance organization called the International Group of P&I Clubs that has to heed European law.
These sanctions, effectively politicizing every aspect of international business and trade, are ultimately nothing more than short-term annoyances for Russia or anyone else.

It betrays a mindset that cares nothing for the downstream effects of these actions and, if anything, betrays the desperation felt in Brussels today about its position in the global market.
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