Posted on 02/01/2022 12:15:33 AM PST by weston
If Bye-done is masked up tonight, it isn’t him.
I never said I would watch but if I do you can bet I’ll report if I can hysterically laugh and type at the same time.
Bye-done has dropped the masks so he shouldn’t be wearing one.
What will Nasty do that she can’t make the House wear masks and fine members when they don’t?
Marjorie Taylor Greene
@MTG4America
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38m
We can no longer stay silent.
https://gettr.com/post/pxdb9qb26c
Actually, the masks are optional. He might be the exception.
How else will he be able to push the government nuclear attack protocol? Mask up and stay 6 feet apart.
‘War profiteers are scum of the earth’: DeSantis spox destroys pollster Frank Luntz over Ukraine pitch
Watching Newsmax and they just reported that Congress critter Rashida Tlaib will give a rebuttal to Bye-done’s SOTU.
WTH?
Has this EVER been done before that the Prez’s own party gave a rebuttal speech?
I don’t think so.
When your muslim commie is way left of the “catholic” commie.
I think it’s a first.
Seems like Bye-done has already tripped himself in his rush to appease these far left “commies.”
Kremlin ‘sends more than 400 mercenaries from private militia into Kyiv to assassinate President Zelensky and his government’ - with group told peace talks are ‘smoke and mirrors’
Private militia known as the Wagner Group ‘flown in from Africa five weeks ago’
It is run by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of the Russian president
Highly trained operatives have a 23-strong kill list including the PM and cabinet
According to the Times, the army-for-hire, run by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin - a close ally of the Russian president who is often dubbed ‘Putin’s chef’ - was flown in five weeks ago and is being offered a huge sum for the mission.
Disclaimer: as with everything these days, never know what is fiction or reality.
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will send a delegation of former senior defense and security officials to Taiwan on Monday, a senior official of his administration said, a sign of support for the island claimed by China after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The visit, led by one-time chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen, comes at a time when Taiwan has stepped up its alert level, wary of China taking advantage of a distracted West to move against it.
War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.
One realization I had for the first time during Russiagate was that history may endlessly repeat itself, but those who have not lived through any such history or paid attention to it previously will not know about it and thus remain most susceptible to revisionism or other tactics of deceit. When Russiagate was first unveiled as a major 2016 campaign theme — through a Clinton campaign commercial filled with dark and sinister music and innuendo masquerading as “questions” about the relationship between Trump and the Kremlin — I had assumed when writing about it for the first time that most Americans, especially those on the left taught to believe that McCarthyism was one of the darkest moments for civil liberties, would instantly understand how aggressively the CIA and FBI disseminate disinformation, how servile corporate media outlets are to those security state agencies, how neocons are always found at the center of such manipulative tactics, and how potent this sort of propaganda is. The common theme is creating a foreign villain said to be of unparalleled evil or at least evil not seen since Hitler, then accusing one’s political adversaries of being enthralled by or captive to them. We have witnessed countless identical cycles throughout U.S history.
But I also quickly realized that millions of Americans — either due to age or previous political indifference — began paying attention to politics for the first time in 2016 due to fear of Trump, and thus knew little to nothing about anything that preceded it. Such people had no defenses against the propaganda narrative and deceitful tactics because, for them, it was all new. They had never experienced it before and thus had no concept of who they were applauding and how such official government/media disinformation campaigns are constructed. Each generation is thus easily programmed and exploited by the same propaganda systems, no matter how discredited they were previously.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming?utm_source=url
This is a very long article but has very good points. Going through FR threads I see a lot of accusations of being a Kremlin agent, for simply making a statement about the importance of our own border and other problems.
So true.
Good Morning lysie,
Nice breakfast, you even fancied up the butter.
I do that with my cucumbers.
I am watching trucks leave on the convoy, hubby said why are you watching this, I said everything is about war and different resolves on every channel
The world has gone mad.
Before he was Ukraine’s president, Zelensky voiced Paddington Bear
Before he led a nation, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was the voice of Paddington Bear in “Paddington” and its sequel in Ukraine.
nypost.com
Russia has been preparing for possible sanctions in the form of SWIFT exclusion since 2014. That was when it faced sanctions for annexing Crimea. It has set up a messaging system SPFS (which translates into a system for the transfer of financial messages), which works within the country. There are plans to integrate it with China’s Cross-border Inter-bank Payments System (CIPS). This will facilitate trade between Russia and China.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, India had entered into a rupee-rouble trade arrangement with Russia to ensure that defence and other imports could continue. In 2018, a pilot project was run where Indian importers paid in roubles for diamond imports. These payments were made to the Indian branch of Russia’s Sberbank. SBI and Canara Bank have a joint venture (The Commercial Indo Bank), which might be able to help Indians there.
What will be the long-term implications of the ban?
The impact on Russia will depend more on the geopolitical situation. However, the second-order impact would be the development of alternate networks. The decision to restrict Mastercard and Visa to stop processing Russian payments in 2014 led to the creation of regional card networks. The same may happen now with cross-border. Before the pandemic, India, Russia and China were planning an alternative to the SWIFT, using the BRICS platform to launch it. Such initiatives may gain steam.
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