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Retired colonel speaks out on Russian TV

It was an extraordinary piece of television.

The programme was 60 Minutes, the flagship twice-daily talk show on Russian state TV: studio discussion that promotes the Kremlin line on absolutely everything, including on President Putin’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine.

The Kremlin still maintains that the Russian offensive is going according to plan.

But on Monday night, studio guest Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel, painted a very different picture.

I doubt this happened by accident without official sanction.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Why Erdoğan’s NATO Blackmail Is Subversion

Once again, Turkey is the odd one out in the NATO alliance. The country’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is trying to turn what appears to be the most strategic move in NATO’s history into carpet-trading at Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar.

Erdoğan said on May 13 that his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO, indicating Turkey could use its membership in the Western military alliance to veto moves to admit the two countries.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Erdogan, NATO

Eagles of Death Metal tell Paris terror trial how band ‘ran for their lives’

The frontman and the guitarist for the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal have told a Paris court how they watched from the stage in confusion and horror as terrorists opened fire on the crowd at their sold-out concert at the Bataclan in 2015.

Jesse Hughes, the band’s singer, and Eden Galindo, a guitarist, both said the attack, which left 90 people dead, had changed their lives for ever.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Germany received over 200 asylum applications from Russians in April – ministry

BERLIN, May 18 (Reuters) – Germany has registered a slight increase in the number of Russian nationals applying for asylum since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.

In April, the second full month of the war, 222 people from Russia applied for asylum in Germany, the spokesperson said at a regular government news conference in Berlin.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"

Facebook secretly funded campaign to kill anti-Big Tech legislation

Facebook has reportedly secretly funded a nationwide “grassroots” campaign to fight anti-Big Tech antitrust legislation gaining momentum in Congress, using covert operations to try and sway the public against bills that would hurt the company.

Facebook founded American Edge, a political advocacy group, in late 2019 with a single $4 million donation in order to try and kill bipartisan antitrust legislation in Washington through op-eds in local papers, critical advertisements, and collaborations with conservative think tanks, business associations, and former national security officials, the Washington Post reported.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Big Tech Oligopoly", facebook, facebook is evil

Nearly Half Of Biden’s Twitter Followers Are ‘Fake’: Report

Nearly half of President Joe Biden’s Twitter followers are fake accounts, according to a report.

An audit of Biden’s official @POTUS Twitter account found that 49.3% of the Twitter users who follow the account are “fake followers,” Newsweek initially reported Tuesday. To conduct the audit, Newsweek used a follower audit tool, called “Fake Followers,” created by data analytics firm SparkToro.

Elon Musk wants to know.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Twitter is Evil, Tyranny!

Nets Ignore News FBI Knew Trump-Russia Collusion Was a Hoax All Along

On Tuesday, the prosecution and defense teams in special counsel John Durham’s trial against former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann delivered opening arguments. Sussmann is charged with making false statements to the FBI. During opening arguments, prosecutors revealed that Sussmann used the FBI to create an October surprise during the 2016 presidential election against then-candidate Donald Trump.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Clintons"

Crown wants Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich returned to jail to await trial over alleged bail breach

Crown prosecutors want Ottawa protest organizer Tamara Lich sent back to jail to await trial, claiming she breached her bail conditions by agreeing to participate in an event next month where she will receive a “Freedom Award.”

In an application filed in advance of Lich’s bail review hearing, the Crown claims she violated the court-imposed condition that she not express support for anything related to the Freedom Convoy movement she led in Ottawa earlier this year.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Canada

Congrats To The Media For Finally Finding A White Supremacist

Fewer than ten ‘white supremacy’ attacks doesn’t exactly sound like something the FBI should be busying itself with.

Assuming the gunman who shot up the Buffalo, New York, grocery store really was motivated by anti-black racism, let’s do what the media do when faced with an Islamic terrorist who goes on a killing spree in America and just refer to him as a “lone wolf,” a mentally unstable individual who in no way reflects any broader phenomenon or trend.

Except, unlike with violent Muslim extremism, that characterization in this case would be true.

Despite what the media, Democrats, leftists, and, of course, the permanent Washington bureaucracy say (over, and over, and over again), there is no imminent, large-scale threat from white nationalists. It doesn’t exist outside of Joe Biden’s TelePrompter.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting"

French City To Replace Mother and Father with ‘Parent 1‘ ‘Parent 2‘

In an effort to become more inclusive and welcoming to LGBT people, the French city of Marseille is moving to scrap mother and father from civil documents and replace the terms with “parent 1” and “parent 2”.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•WTF?

CBC Turfed From Russia – Canucks Ask If Applicable In Canada

Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday it was closing the Moscow bureau of the CBC and withdrawing visas and accreditation from the public broadcaster’s journalists, after Canada banned Russian state TV station Russia Today.

“With regret we continue to notice open attacks on the Russian media from the countries of the so-called collective West who call themselves civilized,” ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told reporters.

Will it work here? CBC is nothing if not Canuckophobic.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", CBC

Discontent with PCs fuelling rise in non-mainstream conservative parties in Ontario

For Guy Lem, the pandemic made all the difference.

A self-described “die-hard” conservative voter, he tells the National Post questions over how Ontario’s government handled the pandemic shook his confidence in both the Progressive Conservative party and Premier Doug Ford’s commitment to the conservative cause.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•Ontario

Creepy New Army Recruitment Video Looks Like an Ad for the New Joker Movie

The U.S. Army has come a long, long way from “Be All That You Can Be” — an odd and unsettling new recruitment video touts Army psyops, proclaims “All the world’s a stage,” and asks, “Who’s pulling the strings?” Apparently, if this video is to be believed, shadowy forces in the Army are. But it’s not at all clear what exactly the video is intended to accomplish, or what point it is trying to make.

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•WTF?

Southern California Shooter Had Ties to Chinese Communist Party Front Group

The suspect who killed one and injured five after a Taiwanese service at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, was once a member of a U.S.-based group controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced that the shooting by the gunmen, 68-year-old David Wenwei Chou, was “a politically motivated hate incident.” Dr. John Cheng, a 52-year-old family practice physician, was killed when he charged at the gunman and attempted to disarm him.

Sheriff Don Barnes said that the suspect “was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Mass Shooting"

Fate of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers unclear as Azovstal resistance ends

… Leonid Slutsky, a Russian MP who took part in negotiations with Ukraine earlier in the war, suggested Russia should lift its moratorium on the death penalty for fighters from the Azov regiment, one of the main forces defending the steelworks, calling them “animals in human form”.

“Nazi criminals should not be exchanged,” said Vyacheslav Volodin, one of Russia’s most powerful officials and the chair of the State Duma, during a speech on Tuesday. “Our country treats those who surrendered or were captured humanely. But with regards to Nazis, our position should be unchanged: these are war criminals and we must do everything so that they stand trial.”

Volodin did not directly address the surrender of the troops at Azovstal in his statement, but the context was clear as Russia’s defence ministry released video of the evacuation of the Ukrainian fighters on Tuesday morning, saying some of them were members of the Azov battalion.

Sounds fishy!

#Ukraine: UA forces continue further development of ways to deliver munitions from commercial drones – this time they adapted fish bait bombs, placing ordinary F-1/RGD-5 grenades inside.

Note that the UZRGM fuze can be modified to remove the delay, causing an instant explosion. pic.twitter.com/vQokEqKWMg

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 17, 2022

Zelensky opens Cannes Film Festival, links war and cinema … Broadway musical in the works

by Blazingcatfur•May 18, 2022May 18, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"