Putin colonel Vadim Zimin who carried Russian president’s nuclear codes found dead at home

This article needs an editor to comb through it, because the tense is all over the place.

The headline makes it seem like he was still the one responsible for carrying the nuclear codes, when the very paragraphs you included in your excerpt state: Zimin is a former colonel from the Federal Security Service. During his time in the FSS, he was in charge of the briefcase that carries the Russian nuclear controls and that is always carried by the head of the Kremlin.

Key word being 'was'. As in 'no longer'. The article doesn't even make it clear as to when Zimin left the FSS.

Other paragraphs indicate he was also around back in the days of Yeltsin's administration. However, post-FSS, the article states that "the incident took place while Zimin was the subject of a criminal investigation for the alleged accepting of bribes after being promoted to a prominent job within the customs department."

The source of this news is apparently the victim's brother, who hid in a bathroom during the home shooting.

All of the other details included about the nuclear briefcase are completely unrelated to the actual crime Zimin was alleged of, or his actual murder.

“Correct me if you feel I’m wrong...”

I don’t correct people for their opinion. But you mentioned having a pretty good life. A couple of facts you might want to consider is slowly lowering us to the depths of failure in our country that many have already been assaulted to many other countries.

According to the USDA, more than 38 million people, including 11.7 million children, in the United States are food insecure.

The education for our children is underfunded. For more than 90% of K-12 schools, funding comes from state and local governments, largely generated by sales and income taxes. Research shows, however, that funding has not increased with need – many states are still issuing funding that is lower than it was before the Great Recession.

At a time when the governments are trying to defund the police, Fox News Digital examined crime data from Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C., and found violent crimes have increased anywhere from nearly 5% to up to 40% compared to the same time frame in 2021.

Consumer prices (CPI) in the OECD rose by 9.2% year-on-year in April 2022, compared with 8.8% in March 2022. Excluding food and energy, year-on-year inflation increased to 6.3% in April 2022, compared with 5.9% in March 2022. And all of it being manufactured by a manipulate government blaming everyone from Putin to Trump who left with a far better running economy and he kept the country running during the covid problem.

We have an untrusted, and I believe, lying group of people that have stopped serving the people and started raising their standard of living for themselves, not for the people.

We have open warfare in the streets of cities like Chicago, Seattle, D.C., New Orleans, St. Louis, Portland, Atlanta and many other cities and they aren’t stopping it but blaming the wrong people pointing fingers rather than weapons.

Companies are closing and/or filing bankrupty at a rediculus rate. The Yelp Economic Impact report, which tracks business closures through Yelp customer review listings, found that an estimated 163,735 businesses have closed in the U.S. since March 1. The numbers represent an increase of 23% since July 10, when the count of closures sat at 132,580.

This sound like living good? I could be here all day with many other things that have transpired since Biden and the socialists have taken over. And I wouldn’t make a dent in it.

And the major difference is that as we are learning to do with less like other countries, thus bringing ourselves down to their level. We are mainlining a stead supply of illegals into the country to pad liberal voting expectations and further destroy our economy.

Don’t be fooled into a successful country because it hasn’t hurt you as much yet. And waiting to recognize the failures will just make it harder to get it back to where less people go hungry, have jobs, and are not trying to support themselves on wages that don’t cover their needs let alone their wishes.

I’m not criticizing you for your ideals. But you might want to look a little deeper into the mess to have a better idea how far it’s gone. And maybe you’ll be the one that can come up with some way to help it, before it gets completely out of hand...which may be soon. A lot of people could die for no legitimate reason.

wy69

There are decent rebuttals to most of what you wrote there.

I don’t believe I mentioned I’ve had a pretty good life. I
did mention I have been following politics since the late
60s, and Trump is the very best president we’ve had since
then.

You are heralding things that are true, but they don’t
need to be. It sounds like you know who is causing it
so I’m not taking you to task.

The USDA includes every child they can in the school food
programs. They even try to get well off people to join in.
That’s something we’ve talked about here for years. They
use those numbers to make it look like the United States
is a terrible place to live. As a child I took a lunch
to school with me every single day. We weren’t rich. This
is simply a big nanny state project. Oh, the populace
can’t get along without big government handouts. Yeah
it can.

Our education system spends around the top of any nation
on earth, for education. And yet, every time there is a
deficit in learning, the Left brings out the idea that
we just aren’t dedicated to the children. That is
nonsense. To let you know how bad it is, in the San
Francisco region, they have actually floated the idea
that high school graduates should not have to meet
math and English minimum standard testing any longer.
They can’t get kids to pass it, so they want to do
away with it. Do you think that’s good for the kids?

Yes, crime states have gone up. Do you wonder why? Let
me explain that also. George Soros backed some of the most
Leftist people he could be be DAs across this nation.
When people commit crimes, they don’t do anything about
it. They actually address it as ‘reparations.’

You can now go into businesses in California and steal
up to $1,000 (approximate) dollars worth of goods without
any threat of being prosecuted. If it’s a misdemeanor
you get a free pass. That’s some of the gems these DAs
have brought in. Do you think Crime would go down with
things like this taking place? Hardly anyone or any
group was taken to task for looting and burning businesses,
or for murdering people during the riots that take place.
Sure the stats are astoundingly bad. How could they
be any different?

As for inflation, it was under control until Trump left.
He told us what would happen. It’s happening. The Left
has no idea when it comes to economics and international
relations. They screw up every time they have power.
Right now, most of what they are doing to address
inflation is the exact opposite of what should be done.
We’re in for a very tough 30 months ahead. It could
actually do the nation in. No, I’m not kidding.

Yes, companies are closing. Biden has turned the business
climate into an absolute joke. His business policies are
absolutely terrible. He’s always talking about raising
new fees off businesses that already barely making it.
Trump would do away with red tape and try to help. Biden
adds red tape and puts more of a burden on them.
Look at the stock market, and what has happened in the
last 17 months.

I’ll stop here. There are ways to make the nation better.
Trump is doing everything he can to move in that
direction. You talked about leaders who line their own
pockets and screw the public. This spring Trump has
endorsed candidates for Congress, and his picks have won
75.0% of the time over incumbents. It’s very hard to
get any incumbent out of office, and yet Trump is helping
to do it.

As for other help, he supported business in the Black
and other minority communities. Without starting up a
new government program, he helped get Blacks into a job.
Their unemployment numbers were the best on record.

Trump is an unsung hero on many issues. It’s why I am
trying to get him back in. No one else in my lifetime
has improved the life of minorities more than Trump,
Left or Right.

Thanks for your comments. Sorry I didn’t address every
issue you brought up.

I don’t disagree with anything you said. When Trump was elected I got a big smile because he stood to be the first president in many years that had no political history for anyone to threaten him with. Oh, they tried to go after his private life, something no liberal presidents had to face to include lying to the public about sexual games even though they were true...Clinton. The last president before Trump that was politically void was Reagan.

“You are heralding things that are true, but they don’t
need to be.”

I’m not sure I am heralding anything as what I described was part of the problem, not a preparation. I believe you might call them stepping stones to the successful destruction of the country that are a part of it by testing the waters to increase.

“Oh, the populace can’t get along without big government handouts. Yeah
it can.”

It can if it isn’t pushed into a blind alley and are forced to take them.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

And this is what is going to happen if the socialists are not called to the carpet. Trump did it. But he was destroyed by his own party...not the socialists.

Just because some have had it better, doesn’t mean it will continue either. If you deal with these people, they will just kill you last when you are no longer an asset.

So, I join your ideas about Trump, I also applaud you for recognizing the problems, so why do we have a difference of opinion? If I am heralding things that are true, then why aren’t they. Are they good? I don’t think you believe any of them are. But trying to rationalize they aren’t that important is one of the downfalls of civilization.

I displayed what they are doing. Is anyone displaying what is being done about it that actually works? I don’t think so as while one fire is contained, five more ignite. And while one side is compromising with the other, losing ground on each choice, the freedoms that have cost many people their lives, limb, and everything important to them, is being stripped away a little at a time from someone else. And the people that speak for them are already speaking against them.

wy69

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