[Babylon Bee] People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers.
"This is an outrage!" said Reverend Jesse Jackson. "Not only was Mr. Smollett attacked by hateful racist bigots who want to tear our country apart, but now he has to share a jail cell with them? This is cruel and unusual punishment. This is the kind of thing that happens in our white supremacist country. Send me money!"
Criminal justice watchdogs also revealed that in addition to sharing a cell with his attackers, he will have to share his toothbrush, his bunk bed, and clothes. They expressed worry that this may lead to Jussie Smollet suffering further racist and homophobic attacks from other attackers named Jussie Smollett while in prison.
When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled "This is MAGA country!" before punching himself in the face.
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But, will "being the wife" actually be punishment for him?
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He could have a poorly done tattoo on his ass saying 'Smussie Joliet wuzz here.'
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry on the US military biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine. Translated into English
So far, the Russian Federation has provided more facts and evidence of attempts by the Americans to develop WMD in Ukraine than the US itself could find in Iraq in an attempt to "discover" Saddam Hussein's WMD.
For blog readers, this topic is certainly not new, the first materials on this topic were published 5 years ago. Now it's just that all this is gradually being confirmed and overgrown with texture. Hence the hasty US attempts to clean up the tails.
Nuland, of course, made a big mistake when she admitted the existence of laboratories, and then began to justify them. For this, not only here, but also in the states, they seized on. If the Russian Federation correctly plays this card, it may turn out the same way as it was with the story about the secret CIA prisons, which were also in Ukraine.
Courtesy of Omomolet Phutch9064. Unfortunately part of the headline was lost — Omomolet Phutch9064, do you recall what it was?
The World Socialist Web Site is very excited. LookLookLook!! Propaganda points to be made!!!
[WSWS] State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria J. Nuland speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, Jan. 27, 2022.
On Tuesday, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland stated before a Senate hearing that "biological research facilities" have been operating in Ukraine, in response to a question from Senator Marco Rubio (Republican of Florida) about the presence of chemical or biological weapons in the country.
While she said nothing about US involvement in the labs, Nuland rapidly shifted her testimony during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to efforts by the State Department to "prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces." She went on, in a carefully orchestrated exchange with Rubio, to say that if there were a biological or chemical weapons attack inside Ukraine, it would "no doubt" be carried out by Russia.
The following is the transcript of the exchange between Rubio and Nuland:
Sen. Marco Rubio: Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.
Sen. Marco Rubio: I’m sure you’re aware that the Russian propaganda groups are already putting out there all kinds of information about how they have uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to unleash biological weapons in the country, and with NATO’s coordination.
If there is a biological or chemical weapon incident or attack inside Ukraine, is there any doubt in your mind that 100% it would be the Russians behind it?
Victoria Nuland: There is no doubt in my mind, senator. And in fact, it is a classic Russian technique to blame the other guy for what they are planning to do themselves.
The extraordinary admission by Nuland about Ukrainian bioweapons labs confirms reports from Moscow that a military biological program was being operated inside the country by the US. The State Department admission also proves that statements by the Pentagon calling the Russian reports "absurd," and from the office of Ukrainian President Zelensky denying that such programs existed, were entirely false.
Ukraine did not develop weapons of mass destruction, Zelensky said Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Volodymyr Zelensky stated on his Telegram channel that chemical or other weapons of mass destruction were not developed in Ukraine, and laboratories in the country remained from Soviet times and are engaged in "ordinary science."
"Most (laboratories) ... are left over from Soviet times and are engaged in conventional science. Conventional, not military technology," Zelensky said in a video message.
"We are adequate people. I am the president of an adequate country, an adequate people... Nobody is developing any chemical or any other weapons of mass destruction on our soil," he added.
The Russian Ministry of Defense previously held a presentation showing that the US spent more than $200 million to operate biological laboratories in Ukraine that were part of the US military biological program. The Russian Federation , in connection with the facts of US military biological activities in Ukraine, does not exclude the launch of a consultation mechanism under the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lizqian, commenting on information about US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine, urged Washington to clarify their biological militarization activities at home and abroad.
Finally, a comment two days ago on another article on the subject by Angaiper Ulavins1210 presents the historical record of this “new” Russian discovery:
Good idea. Were they possibly Soviet, that is to say Russian, originally?
Yep, 2005: ThreatReduction Program Extends Reach to Ukrainian Biological Facilities U.S. cooperation with Ukraine under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program was expanded Aug. 29 with an agreement to use U.S. CTR funds to improve security for pathogens stored at biological research and health facilities in the former Soviet republic.
Under the agreement, CTR funds will for the first time flow directly to projects aimed at securing pathogen strains and sensitive biological knowledge within Ukraine. The United States also will work to improve Ukrainian capabilities to detect, diagnose, and treat outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as determine whether outbreaks are natural or the result of bioterrorism.
The agreement was signed during the visit to Kiev of a high-level U.S. delegation led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Among the facilities in Ukraine intended to receive security upgrades are those once linked to the Soviet-era anti-plague network, which continue to store libraries of naturally occuring pathogens for the purposes of research and public health. Andy Fisher, spokesperson for Lugar, told Arms Control Today on Sept. 15 the anti-plague facilities “were threats and they are threats,” given the risk that poor security could allow terrorists access to pathogens. Fisher also cited the possibility that outdated operating procedures and equipment could result in the unintentional leakage of pathogens from these facilities, endangering the public health of the region.
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Russia and China become pals, Fauci disappears, Nuland tells big fib and loses bowels on teevee, Ukrainian refugees flood Europe, Russian war bogs down, and suddenly Ukrainian BIO labs become a topic of discussion.
Because the research they do there was outlawed in America. Odd, eh?
The World Socialist Web Site is very excited. LookLookLook!! Propaganda points to be made!!
The bombshell here is that the US government confirmed it indeed has biolabs in Ukraine after denying it over and over. We can all do a song and dance and try to distract from this gobsmackingly big news, or we can deal with the fact that our government is getting caught developing bio weapons on foreign soil.
US funds labs to keep contents and personnel off the black market.
Russia needs casus belli, eventually blames labs they built.
Drones wipe Putin off their chin, blame US.
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And in fact, it is a classic RussianDemocrat technique to blame the other guy for what they are planning to do themselves.
Fixed it for you, Vicky. Or maybe it's just that Democrats learned it from the Russians. Or did the Russians learn it from the Democrats? So confusing...
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What actually happened in Wuhan? Not more BS but the detailed, complete and accurate record.
Until we get straight answers from our government on that issue, we shouldn't believe a word Nuland or anyone in our government says about biolabs elsewhere.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. The cleanup continues. Promotion in the northern and eastern parts of the city. Mangosh is blocked. The purge of Volnovakha continues. Most civilians are held hostage by the Nazis and are consumables for them for various provocations.
2.Zaporozhye. The RF Armed Forces east of Gulyaipole are advancing towards Novaya Novoselka and Ugledar. From the side of Novotroitskoye, the forces of the DPR are pressing to the north. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have two options here: either turn to Ugledar, or make their way through Velikaya Novoselka to the Donetsk-Kurakhovo-Zaporozhye highway, with a further attack on Krasnoarmeysk.
3. Izyum-Balakleya. Having repulsed the counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began to advance in the direction of Chuguev and the eastern outskirts of Kharkov, in order to block the city from the east. It is also worth noting strikes in the Lyubotin area to the west of the city. So far, it is not completely clear where the Izyum grouping will move further in the context of movement along the lines of communication of the Donbass grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
4. Kiev. Fighting continued to the west and east of Kyiv. Brovary is still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the movement of mechanized columns to the south and southwest is noted - the troops, in fact, flow around the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and seek to further envelop Kyiv, with the aim of completely blocking it.
5. Krivoy Rog - Nikopol. Having set up barriers to the north of Nikolaev, the RF Armed Forces have seriously advanced in the direction of Nikopol over the past 24 hours. Control over it should secure the ZNPP, as well as cut the Zaporozhye-Nikopol-Krivoy Rog highway.
6. Odessa. No major changes. Russian ships carried out Caliber launches near Odessa, which were mistaken for the shelling of Odessa. "Calibers" were launched at the airfield near Krivoy Rog. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning to blow up the remaining bridges with Transnistria in the near future in order to prevent the hypothetical use of Russian troops deployed in the Transnistrian region.
7. Severodonetsk-Lysichansk. Fighting continues in the area of the agglomeration, but so far there has been no direct assault on the cities. Rubizhne is also still under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fighting is still going on in the Popasnaya area.
8. Donetsk-Gorlovka. No significant changes. Positional warfare with the active use of artillery continues here at the front. The Armed Forces of Ukraine along the way continue senseless shelling of Donetsk and other cities and towns.
9. Nikolaev. The city is already quite densely lined. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are waiting for an assault, but the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have so far limited themselves to blocking the city.
10. Chernihiv - Sumy. No significant changes. The fuss with humanitarian corridors continues.
Negotiations between Lavrov and Kuleba, as expected, did not lead to results. SVO continues. The Zelensky regime is still not ready to accept the required conditions, which determines both the continuation of the operation and the growing “Syrianization or Idlibization of Ukraine.”
One point of view. It does assume evil brilliance on the part of those currently running things in America, suggesting the writer is no more than half right.
[UNZ] The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that ’international community’ keeps shrinking.
The Global South should be aware that no nations from West Asia, Latin America and Africa have joined Washington’s sanctions bandwagon.
Moscow has not even announced its own package of counter-sanctions. Yet an official decree "On Temporary Order of Obligations to Certain Foreign Creditors," which allows Russian companies to settle their debts in rubles, provides a hint of what’s to come.
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The US administration of President Joe Biden is now absolutely desperate: today it banned all imports of oil and gas from Russia, which happens to be the second-largest exporter of oil to the US, behind Canada and ahead of Mexico. The US’ big Russian-energy ’replacement strategy’ is to beg for oil from Iran and Venezuela.
Correct. Retarded, incompetent, destructive. Definitely not "evil" or "brilliant."
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The Russophobic all-out attack on Russian exports also targets palladium metals — vital for electronics, from laptops to aircraft systems. Prices are skyrocketing. Russia controls 50% of the global market. Then there are noble gases — neon, helium, argon, xenon — essential for production of microchips. Titanium has risen by a quarter, and both Boeing — by a third — and Airbus — by two thirds — rely on titanium from Russia.
This was obvious from Day One to anyone with even a basic understanding of our industrial manufacturing economy. It's a bit to hard to imagine that Team Biden didn't see these 2nd order effects.
Then again, we're talking about Rainbow doofuses like Tony Blinken and Pete Buttigieg, plus dopes like Jake Sullivan, Kamala H and the Vegetable-in-Chief himself. Like them, Ron Klain also never spent a day working in an industrial manufacturing company.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
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Oil, food, fertilizers, strategic metals, neon gas for semiconductors: all burning at the stake, at the feet of Witch Russia.
See comments above. Note the importance of food and fertilizers. As a software entrepreneur Ron Unz skins over these, but their impact is going to be far greater than the impact on the various tech industries.
As was pointed out yesterday we can expect with near total certainty a series of upheavals across the Middle East and Africa due to food scarcity resulting from these retarded sanctions.
Less predictable is the impact on US politics of skyrocketing food prices. Our parents and grandparents experienced hunger during the Depression. Biden likes to compare himself to FDR. Is he - perhaps subconsciously, in his demented way - trying to create another Depression?
Some of us have ancestors who escaped the Potato Famine. Will our children and grandchildren now experience another depression?
Will American democracy survive the predictable blowback and devastation caused by the madness of Team Biden and its idiotic sanctions of the #1 resource-producing economy in the world?
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The end result will be the US eating European savings for lunch while China expands its middle class to over 500 million people. Russia will do just fine, as Glazyev outlines: sovereign — and self-sufficient.
Correct again. Ignorant Americans forget that Russia has had over a decade -- 14 years! -- of experience with sanctions in which it has been preparing for this moment. It won't be painless but Russia and Russians will handle the fallout from sanctions better than Americans will.
To point this out is not to bash ordinary Americans or even to praise Russians. It is simply to acknowledge reality, and to recognize that other nations are not "irrational" or pathetic or insufficiently aware of how economies work. Those descriptors apply to our own shit-for-brains political class.
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Food shortages already afflict some 70 million people in MENA (Middle East / N Africa).
Now we will have famines and wars and revolutions. Is Biden a Leninist?
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
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Lesee...6 comments, 5 by Lex NFS so far. Hmmmm. A monologue?
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Could be multiple poster under the same name.
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Food shortages already afflict some 70 million people in MENA (Middle East / N Africa).
Now we will have famines and wars and revolutions. Is Biden a Leninist?
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
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soul of wit
Like Kamala Harris?
💃🏽
"A friend in need is a friend indeed," Kamala said before howling with more laughter. The Polish President ended up taking the question since Harris was incapable of recovering a serious composure.
Posted by: No Fortunate Son ||
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Unz is an antisemitic website. Quite surprised to see it posted here.
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I don't care if he thinks jooz are germs,
Or got caught using incorrect terms,
For I fear not Ron Unz...
But that writing! Great guns,
What a hot, squirming handful of worms!
When pressed by reporter Max Blumenthal, California’s Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna expressed support for sending arms and volunteers to Ukraine, describing the conflict as a “just war,” as well as sanctions on Russian oil. Meanwhile, Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie expressed skepticism about the value of sanctions, suggesting that Russia will still be able to sell oil on the open market but that the US economy will suffer from not being able to import other Russian goods.
Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss this curious role reversal between progressive and conservative Congressional representatives.
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War will result in stringent measures at home. Stringent measures include travel restrictions, martial law, many ATM's out of order, food and gas rationing, news sensor measures, postponement of elections, duck and cover drills.... etc.
Russia blamed. Fauci, Hunter, Clintons, many in Congress AWOL... whereabouts unknown. Zurich's Kloten Airport packed with private and contract jets.
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RedState, FreeRepublic contributirscand commentatirs so far appear to be strongly against this idiotic distraction from our left-wingers' totalitarianism and monstrous fuckups at home.
"Sacrifice for Ukraine"? Fuck no
End these retarded and self-destructive sanctions. Let Ukraine and Russia fight it out. Not.Our.Problem.
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*contributors and commentators
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#1 Russia blamed. Fauci, Hunter, Clintons, many in Congress AWOL... whereabouts unknown. Zurich's Kloten Airport packed with private and contract jets.
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This was the natural state of affairs. Republicans love a powerful military but don't like involvement in other countries.
I think the Vietnam war, and communist money into the peace movement temporarily changed things for Democrats. Fall of the Soviets changed things for the Republicans. Now things are returning to normal.
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#6 Soros is trying to manipulate the markets again like did with the Bank of England and sterling in the 1990s
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Putin and Xi should each dispatch their finest, with cO2 dart guns and polonium tea sachets and Havana Ray guns and athletic shapely femme fatales, to rid the world of this benevolent angel investor in the forces of chaos.
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Well, bitch set him up for blame on the Mig/Lease debacle.
Should have seen my feeds from 20 year anti-war activism spit on their hands, hoist the blue and gold, and basically go "Yeah, and if a few nukes go off, I have preps and know the local fallout shelter location." Like snap your fingers quick all-in.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Babylon Bee] People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers.
