Seymour Hersh: Trading With The Enemy

April 13, 2023April 13, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?
Trading With The Enemy (archived)

Before the media decided to turn Zelensky into the world’s great leader and anoint him The Person of the Year, Zelensky was exposed by the Pandora Papers leak for having hid tens of millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts given to him from the billions of dollars corrupt Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky had looted from Ukraine.

Regime Change Continues: Thousands Rally in Georgia’s Tbilisi Against Government

April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Sunday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as the Black Sea nation’s government faces mounting accusations of backsliding on democracy.

Demonstrators gathered outside the Georgian parliament for a rally organized by the country’s main opposition force, the United National Movement (UNM), founded by jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Protesters waved Georgian, Ukrainian and European Union flags and held a huge banner that read “For European future.”
Thousands Rally in Georgia’s Tbilisi Against Government

FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Documents obtained by a House panel shed light on the probe into Twitter’s compliance with settlement
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names

Meta is subverting the Bolivian government while enabling the far right

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Supporters of the ruling party are finding themselves deplatformed as the social media giant defends the opposition
Meta is subverting the Bolivian government while enabling the far right

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Fascinating Timing: Home of Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Raided

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

While the FBI was busy conducting a “planned search” of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house (which follows their search of his Wilmington residence in January and, we just recently learned, the Penn Biden Center in November), Ukrainian officials were carrying out a search at the home of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. Why reference them in the same sentence? We’ll return to that.
Fascinating Timing: Home of Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Raided

Nuland: US auditors arrive in Ukraine to ensure ‘no aid or weapons are diverted.’ + NABU

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Nuland: US auditors arrive in Ukraine to ensure ‘no aid or weapons are diverted.’

This week, the U.S. has its auditors working in Ukraine alongside the World Bank and Deloitte consultants to make sure that “no aid or weapons are diverted,” U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on Jan. 26.

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On Jan. 23, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU)* said that it had begun investigating possible corruption in the Defense Ministry’s food procurement.

The statement followed an investigation by Ukrainian news outlet ZN.UA**, which alleged that the Defense Ministry was buying food for soldiers at inflated prices, indicating a possible corruption scheme.

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The Kiev Purge: Turmoil in the Capital

The anti-graft stories are being driven by media outlets connected with Ukraine’s Western partners and Poroshenko, who has become Zelensky’s main competitor, since the latter had opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk jailed. For example, on January 23, a number of pro-Western journalists launched a direct attack on Andrey Yermak – the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and a key player in the system.

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The combat operations in Ukraine merely accelerated these processes. In fact, only three powers can now speak out against the Zelensky-Yermak team— Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko and his cabinet, the army led by Valery Zaluzhny, and US-controlled structures such as NABU and media affiliated with them. At the same time, decisions regarding resignations are made exclusively by Zelensky and Yermak, who by all means wish to hush up the scandals.

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Former Pentagon official: “Many more body bags” needed to achieve regime change in Russia

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

While Evelyn Farkas agitates for U.S. weapons shipments that she says will ensure a Ukrainian victory, she admits that Russian defeat is not “on the precipice.”
Former Pentagon official: “Many more body bags” needed to achieve regime change in Russia

EU/US Threatens Serbia to Sanction Russia

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said tonight that he was afraid that no one wanted to talk about the context, the circumstances and what Serbia is really facing when referring to the Franco-German plan for Kosovo and Metohija.
Vučić: I am worried; “They are looking for a conflict”

But Washington is ready to offer Belgrade economic and diplomatic support on the condition that Serbia joins Western allies in sanctions against Russia.

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If Serbia fully participates with the West then Washington and Brussels may ask Kosovo to meet Serbia’s demand in granting Serbs the right to live in Northern Kosovo. [Community of Serb Municipalities]

Western Envoys Feel ‘Encouraged’ by Kosovo, Serbia Visits