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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

CNN: The United States has been preparing for a Russian 'nuclear strike' on Ukraine since the end of 2022

2024-03-10

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Since the end of 2022, the United States has been preparing for the possibility that Russia could allegedly strike Ukraine with tactical or combat nuclear weapons. CNN reported this with reference to two high-ranking sources from the White House administration.

Is it anything like the 1995 Michael Moore comedy, “Canadian Bacon”from back when he still knew how to be funny?

The US should have made plans to respond best if there were signs of preparation for an attack and the strike itself.

“From late summer to fall 2022, the U.S. National Security Council convened a series of meetings to develop contingency plans related to the use of nuclear weapons,” the officials explained.

The channel’s interlocutors added that the corresponding decision was made based on an analysis and study of the situation around Ukraine as a whole. At the same time, the material noted that the United States has never found intelligence indicating that Russia is taking measures to mobilize nuclear forces for such an attack.

CNN also learned that American leaders have reached out to India, China and conveyed their concerns to Russia. In particular, Secretary of State Antony Blinken directly notified the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov about them.

As Regnum reported, former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said on July 6, 2023 that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. According to him, this is extremely unlikely.

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern allowed the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. But not from Russia, but from the United States, to try to avoid defeat in the conflict, because this would mean losing the elections.

The United States has no information that Russia plans to use nuclear weapons, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said during a briefing for journalists on February 29.

On October 5, Putin outlined two reasons for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons: a retaliatory measure and a threat to the state. He clarified that in this case we are even talking about the use of non-nuclear weapons against Russia, which nevertheless threaten the existence of the country.

The Russian leader said that he does not see any need to change Russian nuclear doctrine in terms of the grounds for using such weapons. According to the head of state, no one in their right mind would think of using it against Russia.

The President recalled that Russia's military doctrinedoes not involve a preventive nuclear strike, but only a retaliatory strike. If an aggressor decides to use nuclear weapons against a country, then retaliation will be inevitable.

On February 29, Putin, in his address to the Federal Assembly, called the accusations against Russia in the West about its alleged deployment of nuclear weapons in space a hoax. The head of state emphasized that in this way they are trying to drag Moscow into negotiations on Ukraine on terms favorable to Washington.

The Russian leader noted on February 20 that Moscow has always opposed the militarization of space and the placement of nuclear weapons in it. The President clarified that Russia is not doing anything in space that other states are not doing in it.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Even Dems Wonder: WTF, Fani?

2024-01-14

[Hot Air] The revelations of Fani Willis reportedly having a close personal relationship with the special prosecutor she hired for her case against former President Donald Trump has even Democrats lamenting the impropriety, bad optics, and presentation of political bias.

"I’d tell her to get out of the case," former U.S. Attorney in Georgia Michael Moore, a Democrat, told CNN. "I really think in this type of case with these allegations, this case is bigger than any one prosecutor. ...

Even CNN’s reporting acknowledged the hiring of Wade as an outside prosecutor was precarious from the start, with Georgia lawyers wondering, "Why him?"

They have apparently found out, allegedly, to deleterious results.

Newsmax link to story found here.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Communist Death Spiral: Cuba Greenlights Euthanasia as Population Craters

2023-12-28

[Breitbart] Cuba‘s Communist Party approved changes to the nation’s health code that, once formally implemented, will allow euthanasia under the country’s barely functional healthcare system.
But, but, Michael Moore said Cuba's health system was far superior to ours. He wouldn't lie, would he?
The changes, discreetly introduced by Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power with barely a mention in Castro regime state propaganda outlets, are slated to go into effect once the communist-led legislature introduces the necessary regulations for their application. Cuba will then become the second country in Latin America to approve euthanasia after Colombia did so in 1997.

“The right of people to a dignified death is recognized in end-of-life decisions, which may include the limitation of therapeutic effort, continuous or palliative care, and valid procedures that end life,” the corresponding text in the final draft of the legislation reportedly read.

The health law’s text also claimed to recognize “the right of people to have access to a dignified death, through the exercise of end-of-life determinations, which may include the limitation of therapeutic effort, continuous or palliative care and valid procedures that end life.”

State media claimed that the euthanasia provision is allegedly meant for “people with chronic degenerative and irreversible diseases, with intractable suffering, who are in an agonizing or terminal phase of life or who have suffered injuries that place them in this condition.”

“We can’t afford to treat them anyway, so they might as well be killed quickly, saving us money and them pain,” they added.

“This regulation legitimizes a right demanded by people for several years; we are not talking about euthanasia but about determinations,” Leonardo Pérez Gallardo, professor at the University of Havana and president of the Cuban Society of Civil Law, told the state-owned Cuban News Agency (ACN).

Pérez Gallardo did not address in his remarks any difference he considered there to be between euthanasia and “valid procedures that end life,” as stated in the law’s text.

The introduction of euthanasia to Cuban law comes at a time when Cuba’s healthcare system — highly lauded by international leftists as one of the best in the world — has been left in complete shambles after six decades of communist rule.

The collapse of Cuba’s health care is marked by a complete lack of even the most essential supplies to treat patients. The near-ruined state of the nation’s healthcare infrastructure often presents itself in the most unsanitary conditions.

“I have had to cast a patient with a piece of cardboard. The scissors and the stethoscope you have to take care of as if they were gold; if you are careless, they steal them in the consultation room. Since we lack paper, we don’t even have prescriptions,” A Cuban orthopedic specialist told Diario Las Americas in December.

The impending introduction of euthanasia also comes as Cuba continues to face a severe population collapse fueled by declining birth rates and accelerated growth in the elderly population among Cuba’s remaining inhabitants. Large numbers of the nation’s youth are fleeing communism, fueling the largest migrant crisis in Cuban history.

According to statistics presented by Cuba’s National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), the island nation has roughly 11.08 million citizens. Since 1977, Cuba has been unable to achieve the 2.1 fertility rate required of a country — meaning 2.1 children are born per woman of childbearing age — to reach population replacement levels.

Castro regime officials have stated, “If the current trends are not reversed, which seems unlikely,” then Cuba’s population could drop from its current 11 million to fewer than nine million people by 2054.

The dramatic and increasing exodus of Cubans fleeing from communism in recent years has also led to a significant decrease in Cuban healthcare personnel.

In 2022, Cuban official statistics indicated that the nation counted 291,098 healthcare professionals, down from 312,406 in 2021. In the case of physicians with a specialty, Cuba went from 106,131 in 2021 to 94,066 in 2022.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Jeffrey Epstein's access to the Clinton White House laid bare: Visitor logs reveal pedophile visited the former president at least 17 TIMES - including a dozen in 1994 and twice in one day on three separate occasions

2021-12-03

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Visitor logs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com reveal pedophile Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times during Bill Clinton's first term between 1993 and 1995

The documents, released as part of a FOIA request, show Epstein was admitted as a guest on 14 separate days and on three occasions made two visits in a single day

The vast majority of Epstein's visits were to the West Wing, suggesting he was meeting the president

The late financier was invited by some of Clinton's most senior advisers and aides, including Robert Rubin who later served as Clinton's Treasury Secretary
Oh? How interesting.
While Epstein's crimes did not become public knowledge until his 2006 arrest, the visits would have occurred around the time his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell was allegedly procuring underage girls for him

According to logs, Epstein was first admitted as a guest in February 25, 1993 - just a month after Clinton's inauguration - after being invited by Robert Rubin, at the time Assistant to the President for Economic Policy

He next visited on September 29, 1993 for a reception organized by the White House Historical Association after he donated $10,000, which he was photographed attending with Ghislaine Maxwell

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-War on Police-

Suspect Steals Off-Duty LAPD Officer's Gun, Shoots Him Multiple Times

2021-04-30

[BREITBART] An off-duty LAPD officer was shot multiple times Wednesday afternoon as he tried to thwart a burglar who targeted his personal vehicle.

Fox 11 reports the off-duty officer was "with a woman leaving their apartment and heading to the locked parking garage," where he noticed the suspect sitting inside his personal vehicle.

The suspect was allegedly wearing the officer’s bulletproof vest and holding the officer’s service firearm.

The officer tried to stop the burglary, at which time the suspect began shooting. The officer was struck multiple times but managed to return fire, using his backup gun.

The exchange gunfire moved from the garage to the street, where the officer maimed the suspect and recovered the service firearm.

The New York Post quoted LAPD chief Michael Moore commenting on the incident: "From what started out as a burglary, a theft into a vehicle, and the senselessness of this escalated into this level of violence just has me extremely troubled."

The officer and suspect were both transported to the hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.

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-War on Police-

BLM protester, 29, sues LAPD after bodycam footage shows cop firing foam-covered round at his groin 'causing grapefruit-size swelling'

2021-04-14

Lawfare. Yay.

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Ben Montemayor, now 29, named the city and LAPD Chief Michael Moore as defendants in the suit

He is seeking unspecified damages for the incident that unfolded last June

Montemayor hopes the case will help hold the LAPD accountable and protect future protesters from the dangers of the projectiles

'They're used irresponsibly. They're overused,' he said. 'I don't want them to be downplayed'

Body-cam footage shows Montemayor being shot by a 40mm foam pellet gun along Hollywood Boulevard on June 20

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-Land of the Free

Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas National Guard, State Troopers to Counter Biden's ‘Open Border Policies'

2021-03-07

[Breitbart] Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the deployment of the state’s National Guard and State Troopers to respond to the growing border crisis.

Governor Abbott announced Operation Lone Star "to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas" on Saturday. The operation will integrate the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with the National Guard, Abbott said. He is ordering the deployment of air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas.

"The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration," the governor said in a written statement Saturday evening. "Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis."

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-Land of the Free

Michael Moore says Texans don't deserve vaccine

2021-03-04

How fortunate that Mr. Moore has neither power nor influence.

[NYPOST] Director Michael Moore slammed Texas for its decision to reopen the state and remove its mask mandate in a series of tweets Wednesday, writing that the Lone Star State no longer needs "our precious vaccine.""Texas — we hear you. You didn’t want to be part of our electrical grid. And now you’ve removed your mask mandate & are allowing large crowds to gather. We hear you! COVID is a hoax! So u don’t need our precious vaccine. We’ll send it to ppl who are saving lives by wearing masks," Moore wrote in a tweet that was quickly "ratioed" by a slew of responses calling the remarks insensitive.

"Yes, we must and will find a way to vaccinate the poor and people of color in Texas. To Texans who say, hey, it’s not me — it’s the Governor! Well, then, impeach and remove him. We’re tired of this. Don’t mess with Texas? Happy to oblige."

The tweets come after Gov. Greg Abbott

... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
announced late Tuesday it was "time to reopen Texas 100 percent" and do away with a statewide mask mandate.

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Home Front: Politix

‘Destroy Trump Ballots' Demands NYT, Atlantic Mag Writer

2020-11-02

[AnationalPulse] Jon Schwarz, who is also published at mainstream outlets including The New York Times and The Atlantic, also advocates for illegal immigrants to vote repeatedly in presidential elections.

Schwarz identifies himself as an alum of filmmaker Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and "a research producer for Moore’s "Capitalism: A Love Story."

"He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live," his bio also claims.

Schwarz’s Twitter account, however, contains a litany of tweets advocating for the destruction of "Trump ballots" dating all the way back to 2016.

In response to a user insisting he visited a voting site "to fake IDs & assist in ferrying illegals from polling station to polling station," Schwarz responded "let’s not rest on our laurels though, everyone’s needed in Wisconsin to destroy Trump ballots during the recount" in December of 2016.

let's not rest on our laurels though, everyone's needed in Wisconsin to destroy Trump ballots during the recount

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) December 7, 2016

Schwarz also reacted to a Huffington Post Editor tweeting: "i love my job working at a voting site in washington dc destroying trump ballots," which prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe, by insisting he "want[ed] to emphasize to the FBI that, while @nickbaumann was joking, I was completely serious. I am not kidding."

He appears to be referencing his countless tweets supporting the destruction of pro-Trump ballots.

Boasting he has "destroyed 1000s of ballots", Schwarz added, "it’s weird the FBI is investigating Nick for jokes when I’m the one who destroyed 1000s of ballots."

it's weird the FBI is investigating Nick for jokes when I'm the one who destroyed 1000s of ballots

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) December 7, 2016

What’s more, Schwarz added that he felt "at least 75% of the MSM, including me, has a side job destroying Trump ballots" just days before the 2016 election.

My guess is that at least 75% of the MSM, including me, has a side job destroying Trump ballots pic.twitter.com/8kg5VYNSQB

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

"When you love something as much as we love destroying Trump ballots, you make the time," he added as a follow up to the tweet on November 1st.

when you love something as much as we love destroying Trump ballots, you make the time

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

Schwarz continued, tweeting an acknowledgment that "lots more people want [Trump] to be president," adding "but that’s why we destroy the ballots, otherwise wouldn’t bother."

well lots more people want him to be president but that's why we destroy the ballots, otherwise wouldn't bother

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

Schwarz also tweeted "it’s not a felony, it’s legal to destroy Trump ballots" and "no, the constitution says you can destroy trump ballots."

it's not a felony, it's legal to destroy Trump ballots

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

no, the constitution says you can destroy trump ballots

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

Schwarz’s more recently social media activity includes sharing an article entitled: "The Election Isn’t Over Until Trump’s Gone," which furthers the suggestions made by groups like the Transition Integrity Project, which called for "street fights" in the wake of a Trump victory.

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Home Front: Politix

If New Batch of Polls are Correct, Trump Will Soar Past 300 Electoral Votes

2020-11-02

[Townhall] Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that the Left is going to be "terribly shocked." The latest slate of polling from the liberal media fake press has Biden ahead by double-digits, though his campaign is acting anything like they’re ahead. Obama and Biden scrambled to Michigan this weekend. Why? If you’re ahead by 10+ points nationally, Biden doesn’t need to do this. Alas, even his campaign says the polls are inflated, which could also be a way to keep the Democratic base from becoming complacent. Either way, polling this cycle has been outright atrocious, with suburban GOP voters, college-educated voters, and Democrats being oversampled to the nth degree. Trump Democrats and rural voters have been ignored. Even Michael Moore knows the Trump vote is undercounted; he set off the alarm bells this week as well.

From Minnesota to New Hampshire, Biden is down. PollWatch, Larry Schweikart, and David Chapman have been some of the people who have been tracking the early vote totals and the overall state of polling, in general, this cycle, cutting through the liberal nonsense.

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Home Front: Politix

Michael Moore Warns Dems on Trump: 'If He Thinks He's Going to Win, Then I Think He's Going to Win!'

2020-10-31

[Red State] Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, who seemingly obsesses 24×7 about a man he can’t get out of his head, is back with a final warning to the Democrat Party about Donald J. Trump. In a word, Moore cautions: underestimate Trump’s support at your own peril.

During an appearance on Hill TV’s "Rising" podcast on Thursday, Moore told hosts Saagar Enjeti and Krystal Ball that he believes the best way to estimate Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s support in the filmmaker’s home state of Michigan and other swing states is to cut Biden’s polling lead in half in their heads — and operate on that premise.

"Trump has tightened virtually every one of these swing states to the point where this morning — Biden’s five points ahead in Wisconsin. He’s maybe three points ahead in Florida, two points ahead in Arizona.

"Don’t believe these polls first of all, and second of all, the Trump vote is always being undercounted.

"Pollsters, when they actually call a real Trump voter — the Trump voter is very suspicious of the ’deep state’ calling them and asking them who they’re voting for. It’s all ’fake news’ to them, remember. So it is not an accurate count.

"I think the safe thing to do — this is not scientific — I’m just saying from my experience of being a Michigander. Whatever they’re saying the Biden lead is, cut it in half right now in your head. Cut it in half, and now you’re within the four-point margin of error. That’s how desperately close this is.

"It’s awful news that Biden is ahead by seven points in Michigan," he said, "and I have to fight against this constantly." Given that Moore accurately predicted a Trump win in 2016, he told Ball and Enjeti that people continually ask him to predict the 2020 election outcome.

Surprisingly, Moore all but predicted Trump will be re-elected.

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Home Front: Politix

Michael Moore Urges Pelosi to Shut Down Government to Block GOP from Filling Ginsburg's Seat

2020-09-21

[BREITBART] Documentary filmmaker and hard-left activist Michael Moore has suggested that House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Nancy <q>San Fran Nan</q> Pelosi

Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
shut down the U.S. government to prevent President Trump from filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Moore spent most of his September 20 podcast urging leftists and Democrat voters to rise up and speak out to prevent President Trump from fulfilling his promise to pick a Supreme Court justice to fill Ginsburg’s seat on the nation’s highest court. As he wrapped up his hour-long podcast, Moore turned to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and urged her to refuse to pass the government’s budget to prevent the U.S. Senate from "having the funds" to continue operating.

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