Douglas Caddy Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Manhattan prosecutor who resigned says Trump guilty of felonies - New York Times (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, Matt Allison said: Do you have version that is legible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 15 minutes ago, Matt Allison said: Matt, this is really hard to read and I can't get it to enlarge. 40,000 Russian troops KIA, MIA, WIA (what does WIA stand for?) 100,000 US troops in Europe, 40,000 under NATO control? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David G. Healy Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 30 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said: Matt, this is really hard to read and I can't get it to enlarge. 40,000 Russian troops KIA, MIA, WIA (what does WIA stand for?) 100,000 US troops in Europe, 40,000 under NATO control? wounded-in-action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 (edited) JFK's Wristwatches, and Other Presidential Timepieces What's the assassination connection? The Cartier is the one claimed to still carry traces of mercury inflected blood by the author of that dubious book whose name I can't remember (which posits that Ronald Reagan actually cared about justice for JFK). The tank watch is the one given him by Grant Stockdale. Further afield, the Rolex inscribed by Marilyn Monroe is strikingly suspicious. Otherwise, a great article for the presidentially minded. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/personal-timepieces-every-united-states-president-ever Edited March 24, 2022 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 3 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: Matt, this is really hard to read and I can't get it to enlarge. 40,000 Russian troops KIA, MIA, WIA (what does WIA stand for?) 100,000 US troops in Europe, 40,000 under NATO control? Sorry about the legibility, gents, I don't have another version. But yes, 40k Russian troops are now completely out of the action, which is 1/4 of the Russian force that was assembled for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Matt Allison said: Sorry about the legibility, gents, I don't have another version. But yes, 40k Russian troops are now completely out of the action, which is 1/4 of the Russian force that was assembled for this. Just awful losses, and these are humans being chewed up (even if the numbers are exaggerated). Not often mentioned, Ukrainians have 900,000 men (at least as reported) in their reserves. I imagine all those guys are suited up. We are not hearing numbers on Ukrainian military losses, which is unsettling. Even worse? After all, the Russians have the weapons and armor, and the Ukrainians are fighting bravely for their lives. Every day this war goes on is a catastrophe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 The bodies of Russian soldiers are piling up in Ukraine, as Kremlin conceals true toll of war https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/europe/ukraine-war-russian-soldiers-deaths-cmd-intl/index.html Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — “The first warm, sunny days of spring in the southern Mykolaiv region are ushering in a grim new reality: the smell of the dead. As the frost melts and ground thaws, the bodies of Russian soldiers strewn across the landscape are becoming a problem. "The problem with Russian bodies is really huge. It's thousands of them. Before the war, the weather was cold, it was okay but now we have problems because Russians don't want to take the bodies," Andrusiv said. "I actually don't know what we will do in the next weeks with their bodies."” Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Colonel Odom’s “Chilling” Four A.M. Phone Call | National Security Archive (gwu.edu) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Will Ruha wrote this reply to a prior comment on Facebook today: My friend, the coup of 2014 was anything but a mere "U.S. sponsored" event. At the crossroads between Asia and Europe, central hub of East-West European affairs, and breadbasket of the former USSR (plus, its richest source of strategic minerals), Ukraine has been coveted and conquered for 2,000 years by every force from the Mongol hordes to the Nazis and Communists. Putin wants Ukraine and has done all he can to prevent its being a self-sustaining sovereign democratic nation, as it successfully sought with its 1991 declaration of independence. FYI: An economics maven who established Ukraine's democratic-capitalist economy, national currency, modern regulatory system for commercial banking and successfully reduced its hyper-inflation from 10,000 % to a mere 10 %, central banker, Viktor Yushenko is Ukraine's equivalent of America's Alexander Hamilton. During the 1998 Russian financial crisis, he successfully defended the Ukrainian hyrvnia, and composed an economic thesis, "The Development of Supply and Demand of Money in Ukraine," defending it in the nation's Academy of Banking, that earned him an economic doctorate and led to Ukraine's President Kuchma nominating him as Prime Minister. During his term, Yushenko improved the nation's economy. Enter Vlad Putin, grandson of Lenin's and Stalin's cook, son of a member of Stalin's nefarious NKVD secret police, and himself, for 16 years, a Russian communist KGB officer. During the August 1991, KGB putsch against Gorbachev, KGB officer Putin resigned (i.e., was re-assigned) to enter politics in response to Georgia's and Ukraine's successful quest for independence. Beginning in Leningrad and moving to Moscow in '96, Putin, within 3 years, via nefarious means, including assassination, managed to become Russian Prime Minister. In June 1997, he also addressed economics, defending his dissertation, "The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations." Then, as First Deputy Chief of Presidential Staff for Regions + Head of the Commission for the preparation of agreements on the delimitation of power of regions and the federal center, he ensured that no such agreements were made (and as president, cancelled the 46 agreements signed during Shakhray's term as Commission Head to then create by decree, a vertical power structure consolidating the 89 federal Russian regions into seven administrative federal districts controlled by his appointed envoys rather than via free elections.) Seeking to prevent independence and secessionist movements in Russia's regions, he became head of the Russian FSB (successor to the KGB) and became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, which led to his presidency. FSB officer Alex Litvinenko related how Putin ordered the assassinations of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and undertook a campaign of terrorist bombings (ala Hitler) designed to bring him to power. Litvinenko, like Berezovsky, was then forced to seek asylum in the UK, which did no good. He was assassinated via plutonium injection by Putin's agent, Andrei Lugovoy. Berezovsky, who made it his mission to expose Putin's crimes, was found hanged to death in his London home. As Russian president, Putin battled Yushenko and the free-market capitalistic economics he brought to underscore Ukrainian independence, for 15 years arrogating virtual dictatorial power to himself either as Russian president or prime minister, unwilling to relinquish iron-fisted control of Russia and obsessed about securing Ukraine to its former Soviet fold. As such, he has been authoritarian and decidedly neo-communist, as per his machinations in securing the YUKOS oil conglomerate from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and creating vertically-integrated companies in strategic sectors such as Gazprom, Rosneft, and United Aircraft Corp that seek profit, but are mandated to "advance the interests of the nation." But his "vertical control" obsession extended to such former Soviet republics as Georgia, Belarus, and Ukraine, deploying agents in Ukraine to help orchestrate the coalition communist-Ukrainian oligarchs uprising which led to the 2001 no-confidence vote that toppled Yushenko's government. Not to be outdone, Yushenko formed a coalition with Yulia Tymoshenko to replace Leonid Kuchma in the 2004 Presidency of Ukraine against Putin's servitor, Yanukovich, a career criminal thug whose past includes convictions for robbery, assault, and rape. With their foe ahead in the polls, Putin and Yanukovich then tried to assassinate Yushenko by poisoning him with highly toxic Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCCD) at a level Swiss medical examiners revealed was 50,000 times above normal levels. The 9/5/04 poisoning by Putin’s agents took place a month before the election and almost killed Yushenko, causing horrific facial disfigurement, but incredibly, he survived. He was poisoned at the home of Volodymyr Satsyuk, deputy head of Ukraine's secret police within its pro-Russian govt opposed to Yushenko and his pro-western economics, ties, and NATO ambitions for Ukraine. Poisoning Yushenko, Satsyuk fled to Moscow where Putin granted asylum, refused his extradition, and conferred Russian citizenship to prevent legal proceedings. Then, despite a comfortable 11% margin in exit polls, Yushenko had his victory stolen by Yanukovich, via massive voter fraud. This prompted the first major democratic people's uprising, the "Orange Revolution," that toppled him and rightfully brought to the presidency the true victor. This was no U.S. sponsored coup, but an authentic organic, egalitarian-democratic revolt against Putin’s imposition of a Kremlin-friendly criminal into power. Ukrainians recognized Putin's iron fist in all of this, understanding that this lifelong KGB / NKVD secret police terrorist is heir to the Holodomor in which Russian greed and autocratic despotism unleashed genocide against millions of their countrymen. Russian troops and ships in Crimea were the result of Yanukovich selling out Crimea and the Ukrainian people to his autocratic Moscow master in April of 2010. From the outset, Yushenko’s government was targeted by Putin and his agents as he removed Russia's Black Sea Fleet, joined Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in signing the Borjomi Declaration seeking creation of the Community of Democratic Choice, an institute aimed at bringing together democracies and incipient democracies in the region around the Baltic, Black, & Caspian Seas. Thus, Georgia and Ukraine, conquered by the Red Russians, were post-independence, invaded by Russia's army under Putin’s orders. Georgia did what Ukraine seeks, joining the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Community of Democratic Choice, and other western and Asian entities. These ties, plus US military training, equipment assistance, and construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhand pipeline incurred Putin's wrath. With Yanukovich's illegal rise to Ukraine's presidency, his imprisoning of political opponents, his censorship, liquidations of reporters, and betrayal of the Ukrainian people by backing out of the EU agreement in favor of accepting Putin's loans and natural gas price incentives, the democratic people of Ukraine revolted, casting him out a second time, whereupon he fled to Crimea, then Moscow, and pled for Putin's military intervention as a pretext to Moscow's 2014 military seizure of Crimea, ceded to Ukraine in 1955, and now, in 2022, Putin’s full-scale military invasion and illegal terrorist war against Ukraine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Outstanding historical summary, Mr. Caddy. Thanks for posting this. It stands in sharp contrast to the multi-year deluge of Kremlin disinformazia about Ukrainian history. If only the Russian Federation had adopted Viktor Yushenko's economic reforms after the collapse of the USSR-- instead of regressing to a Putin-ist totalitarian police state-- Russia and the world would be in a much better place today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 17 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said: Perhaps Biden should step down, but the veep looks no better. Oh yeah, that's a real possibility Ben. Is it because Biden has an obsession with perpetual conspiracy theorists expats living in the Thai jungles and has heard your repeated disapproval of him and now he'll have to step down because he realizes he'll never be the man you want him to be? You sure that wasn't your dream from a Fox newscast in 2020. They actually said Biden was only running for President to give it to Kamala Harris so the left could trick us into having another black President. heh heh This may be dispiriting for you Ben, because it actually gives you less to be upset about. But one story that has resulted from the end of this Post Cold War Era, that you'd probably get wind of in another 6 months, is that Biden has galvanized a deglobalization of the world economy with the deliberate pulling out of a great many of the multi national corporations from Russia. This has occurred to a magnitude I previously never would have imagined. Of all things, this to me is the most remarkable thing that's happened. I never thought a President or even Nato could do that. In this case it's a great thing.. It represents at least a small reversal and taming of the private sector by the public sector. Something I've advocated. But It's only the beginning and now and now the battle is going to be out in the open. You've rightfully mention Blackrock a number of times. Their CEO Larry Finck is decrying this change in an article he wrote. (boo hoo!) Hate to be the bearer of good news, but I felt I'd jog the 6 month lag time from Thailand with news from modern industrial world. Entitled "It's not "woke" for businesses to think beyond profit". And with your longstanding opposition to "wokeness", I'm sure you agree! Again , heh heh! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-letter.html *************** In these Jackson confirmation hearings. Are these Republicans just out of their minds asking the insane questions? Particularly the second one below, same sex couples shouldn't have the right to marry because it offends Christians? Are we really this screwed up that these guys have a viable party that could take over Congress? It appears nothing will interest the average everyday person to vote in his interest! But "culture wars" is where it's at! I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 (edited) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.1.0.pdf UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. DONALD J. TRUMP, Plaintiff, v. HILLARY R. CLINTON, HFACC, INC., DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, DNC SERVICES CORPORATION, PERKINS COIE, LLC, MICHAEL SUSSMANN, MARC ELIAS, DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, CHARLES HALLIDAY DOLAN, JR., JAKE SULLIVAN, JOHN PODESTA, ROBERT E. MOOK, PHILLIPE REINES, FUSION GPS, GLENN SIMPSON, PETER FRITSCH, NELLIE OHR, BRUCE OHR, ORBIS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, LTD., CHRISTOPHER STEELE, IGOR DANCHENKO, NEUSTAR, INC., RODNEY JOFFE, JAMES COMEY, PETER STRZOK, LISA PAGE, KEVIN CLINESMITH, ANDREW MCCABE, JOHN DOES 1 THROUGH 10 (said names being fictious and unknown persons), and ABC CORPORATIONS 1 THROUGH 10 (said names being fictitious and unknown entities) COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES AND DEMAND FOR TRIAL BY JURY 1. In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts orchestrated an unthinkable plot – one that shocks the conscience and is an affront to this nation’s democracy. 9. In short, the Defendants, blinded by political ambition, orchestrated a malicious conspiracy to disseminate patently false and injurious information about Donald J. Trump and his campaign, all in the hopes of destroying his life, his political career and rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton. When their gambit failed, and Donald J. Trump was elected, the Defendants’ efforts continued unabated, merely shifting their focus to undermining his presidential administration. Worse still, the Defendants continue to spread their vicious lies to this day as they unabashedly publicize their thoroughly debunked falsehoods in an effort to ensure that he will never be elected again. The deception, malice, and treachery perpetrated by the Defendants has caused significant harm to the American people, and to the Plaintiff, Donald J. Trump, and they must be held accountable for their heinous acts. Dated: March 24, 2022 Steve Thomas Edited March 24, 2022 by Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Boy, some of these reports I've been hearing here about the fighting in Ukraine, make me want to do some pushups for the Ukraine resistance! Here's another article. As noted in this article, I've heard despite the calls on NATO to establish a NFZ, and risk pushing Putin in a corner. The Ukraine pilots have more than held their own. I do find it pretty remarkable. Why Can’t the West Admit That Ukraine Is Winning? America has become too accustomed to thinking of its side as stymied, ineffective, or incompetent. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/ukraine-is-winning-war-russia/627121/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts