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Ukraine prosecutor stands by Biden corruption accusation

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:32 UTC
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin
© Volodymyr PetrovUkrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin speaks after a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 2. Media reported that Shokin had submitted his resignation on Feb. 16, hours after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had asked the official to quit.
Victor Shokin, the fired Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Biden family corruption (that Donald Trump was impeached for asking about) has spoken out for the first time since 2019 - and says the Bidens did it.

To review - Shokin had an active and ongoing investigation into Ukrainian energy company Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, according to a 2020 US Senate Committee report.

Zlochevsky, who hired Hunter Biden to sit on his board, granted his own company (Burisma) permits to drill for oil and gas in Ukraine while he was Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. Shokin stated in a 2019 deposition that there were five criminal cases against Zlochevesky, including money laundering, corruption, illegal funds transfers, and profiteering through shell corporations while he was a sitting minister.

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Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian civilian targets aided by Western intel with intent to create 'psychological impact' - The Economist

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:30 UTC
ukraine drone attack moscow
© Social mediaAftermath of the Ukrainian drone attack in the Komsomolsky Prospek district of Moscow, July 24, 2023.
In a surprisingly blunt admission for a major mainstream outlet which tends to be cozy with US national security insiders, The Economist has admitted that Ukraine's ramped-up drone strikes on Russian territory has really been all about terrorizing civilians... well, it's an implicit admission at least.

A new report published Sunday and entitled "Inside Ukraine's drone war against Putin" - spells out that a chief reason for the increased drone attacks has been to intensify the "psychological impact" of the war for "ordinary Russians".

Comment: In short, and admittedly quite freely by The Economist: The West is facilitating Ukraine's terrorist attacks in Russia. At the same time the West is also directly involved with some of the most sinister activities against Ukraine's own citizens:

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Why the House has no alternative to an impeachment inquiry into President Biden


jonathanturley.org
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00 UTC
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Below is my column in The Messenger on the expanding evidence in the Biden corruption scandal and the need for Congress to take commensurate action to investigate the matter. After this column ran, Fox's Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview with Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. What was striking about the interview is not just the contradiction with other accounts (like insisting that he was investigating Burisma and the investigation was expanding when he was fired), but that he claimed that Kilmeade was the first to seek to interview him. This is just Shokin's account and many question his veracity. However, it is astonishing that this is the first interview that I have seen of one of the key figures in this scandal. It highlights the need to still fully investigate a scandal that the media has largely avoided in prior years. However, the greatest case for an impeachment inquiry was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland himself.

Here is the column:

When Congress returns next month, it has little alternative but to launch a long-discussed impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. For House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the case for an inquiry came from a most unlikely source: Attorney General Merrick Garland.

The debacle in the Hunter Biden investigation has left most objective legal analysts in disbelief, with one CNN analyst calling it an "unholy mess."
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Col. Douglas Macgregor tells Tucker that US handling of Ukraine war has 'backfired'

Patrick Delaney
LifeSite
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:58 UTC
Col. Douglas Macgregor
FILE: Col. Douglas Macgregor: Some 400 US citizens killed in hostilities in Ukraine — former Pentagon official "We know that at least 400 Americans have died whether they are contractors or in uniform. Our administration won't say this," he said
'What we need to do now is stop this and come to a settlement' before this war with Russia 'reach[es] us here in the United States,' the decorated retired colonel said.

According to an assessment by retired U.S. Col. Douglas Macgregor, the neoconservatives in the Biden administration have caused "horrific" damage in Ukraine, strengthened the Russian military beyond the might of the U.S., are endangering the world with a potential nuclear exchange, and have fostered "the destruction of our whole [American] republic."
"What we've done has backfired," the decorated combat veteran told Tucker Carlson regarding the U.S. proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
On Monday evening, Carlson introduced a new episode of Tucker on Twitter highlighting that "pretty much everything" the mainstream media has reported "about the war in Ukraine is a lie." This includes reports suggesting that the Russian military is weak and losing the war to Ukraine, which is a "democracy."
"None of that is true. Every claim is false," he continued. "The Ukrainian army is not winning. In fact, it's losing badly. Ukraine is being destroyed. Its population is being slaughtered in lopsided battles with a technologically superior enemy or scattered by the millions to the rest of the globe as refugees. Ukraine is running out of soldiers."

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NATO's Ukraine strategy has failed - ex-Italian PM


RT
Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:11 UTC
Giuseppe Conte
© Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFPLeader of Italian populist Five Star movement Giuseppe Conte
NATO's attempts to inflict defeat on Russia in the Ukraine conflict have completely missed their mark as Moscow continues to stand tall amid Kiev's faltering counteroffensive and Western sanctions, former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday.

Writing on Facebook, Conte, who leads the Five Star Movement party, noted that the year and a half of hostilities between Moscow and Kiev had shown that it was time to "put aside the optimistic assessments... fueled by a superficial as well as deafening war propaganda" in the West.

The strategy of the US-led military block, which has so far hinged on massive military aid to Kiev and the "logic of escalation," has failed to bring about the much-hoped-for demise of the Russian military, Conte said. He recalled that Ukraine never managed to push Russian forces back from Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine), a key Donbass stronghold that Russia captured in May after months of fierce fighting.

"There has been no disintegration of [Russia's] military and paramilitary departments, there has been no retreat due to the Ukrainian counteroffensive," the ex-prime minister stressed, adding that Western hopes for domestic political turmoil in the country also failed to materialize.
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Google hiding websites of Trump and other Biden challengers - report


RT
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:09 UTC
google
© Getty Images / Alex Wong
Google is suppressing the 2024 campaign websites of all serious challengers to Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden, a report from the Media Research Center claimed on Thursday.

Searching the web for 'presidential campaign websites' using Google returned results that did not include a single Republican candidate on the first page the day before the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 season, according to the MRC.

Not even former US President Donald Trump, who is polling neck-and-neck with Biden, appeared in the first few pages of results, the media watchdog observed.

Nor did Democratic challenger Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the chief threat to Biden's candidacy from within his own party, appear in the results at all, even though a recent poll had him at nearly 20% in a matchup against Biden.
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Will the BRICS expansion stumble over internal divisions or help bridge them?

Kanwal Sibal
RT
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:01 UTC
brics
© Marco Longari / AFP(From L to R) President of China Xi Jinping, President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the 2023 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on August 24, 2023
The most important outcome of the BRICS summit in South Africa is the decision to expand the group. Six new members will join it on January 1, 2024: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Argentina, Iran, and Ethiopia, which more than doubles the original membership. It is a transformative outcome.

Originally, RIC (the Russia-India-China group conceived in 1998) and BRIC were a response to the emergence of a unipolar world following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. BRIC, comprising four economically rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China) from three continents, shared the agenda of making the global order more democratic and equitable, reforming the United Nations system, including its political and financial institutions, increasing the role of developing countries in the global system, promoting multilateralism with the UN as its centerpiece, and so on. South Africa was not a rising economic power but its 2010 inclusion as a major African country had the rationale of expanding the coverage of BRICS to four continents.

The world is no longer unipolar, though the US remains the world's leading political, military, and economic power. Its failure to change the map of West Asia in its favor by regime change through military intervention or democracy promotion through the Arab Spring, or the disastrous end of the War on Terror exemplified by its retreat from Afghanistan, has reduced its international primacy. It now sees the need to strengthen its alliances in Europe and Asia to retain its global pre-eminence. This includes the reinvigoration of NATO in Europe, as well as the alliances with Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines in Asia, not to mention the political and economic role of the G7.
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Biden regime seeks additional funding for new COVID-19 vaccine "that works" - warns everyone will get it "no matter whether they've gotten it before or not"

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:00 UTC
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The Gateway Pundit previously reported that InfoWars published insider information that alleges the TSA and US Border Patrol will be moving back to 2020-era COVID-19 mandates and restrictions starting in mid-September through mid-October, to include mask mandates on all flights. This is in addition to the confirmed mask-mandate reinstatement at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA, and Lionsgate Studios in Santa Monica, CA. Also, a school district in South Texas just outside of San Antonio closed down temporarily due to an 'uptick' in COVID cases.

That same week, WarRoom's Natalie Winters uncovered millions of dollars in funding, awarded primarily to the Department of Veteran's Affairs and DoD, to ramp up testing and other COVID-19 related.

This was just a week after the NIH appointed Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a staunch advocate for masks, lockdowns, and vaccine mandates, as the replacement for Dr. Fauci.

To further the suggestion that another lockdown scare is in the forecast, on Tuesday, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced funding of $1.4 billion to "support the development of a new generation of tools and technologies to protect against COVID-19 for years to come" according to a press release.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said:
"Project NextGen is a key part of the Biden-Harris administration's commitment to keeping people safe from COVID-19 variants. These awards are a catalyst for the program - kickstarting efforts to more quickly develop vaccines and continue to ensure availability of effective treatments."
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McCarthy: Biden impeachment inquiry 'natural step forward' following GOP probes

Miranda Nazzaro
The Hill
Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:21 UTC
McCarthy
© UnknownHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sunday addressed the potential for an impeachment inquiry of President Biden, calling such a move a "natural step forward" following House Republican-led investigations of Biden and his family that the California Republican said uncover foreign dealings while Biden was vice president.

When asked by Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo if McCarthy plans to bring forward an impeachment inquiry of Biden when Congress returns in September, he responded by crediting House Republicans for probing the Biden family's finances.
"So, if you look at all the information we have been able to gather so far, it is a natural step forward that you would have to go to an impeachment inquiry."
McCarthy signaled last month the House GOP's investigation into the Biden family's foreign business dealings, particularly those connected to Biden's son Hunter Biden, could rise to the level of an impeachment inquiry.

McCarthy said an impeachment inquiry into Biden will give Congress "the apex of legal power to get all the information they need."
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Dem backfire: Trump raises $7.1 million after Georgia booking, mugshot

Alex Isenstadt
Politico
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:11 UTC
trump mug shot
© Fulton County Sheriff's OfficeAfter Donald Trump was taken into custody, his campaign began selling shirts, posters, bumper stickers and beverage coolers bearing Trump’s scowling mugshot.
The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.

Donald Trump has turned his Georgia mugshot into a record-breaking fundraising haul.

The former president has raised $7.1 million since he was booked at an Atlanta jail Thursday evening, according to figures provided first to POLITICO by his campaign. On Friday alone, Trump raised $4.18 million, making it the single-highest 24-hour period of his campaign to date, according to a person familiar with the totals.

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