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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 14:55:56 GMT -8
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
Putin's Pals Are Not Playing Nice
Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the mercenary company Wagner, has accused Russia’s top military leaders of high treason after alleging they held back much-needed ammunition for the fight in Ukraine and declined to provide air support.
Prigozhin’s Wagner Group is spearheading the battle for the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
“There is simply direct opposition going on [to attempts to equip Wagner fighters]. This can be equated to high treason,” Prigozhin said in a voice message posted on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
“The chief of the general staff and the defence minister are giving orders right and left, not just not to give Wagner PMC [private military company] ammunition but not to help it with air transport.”
Prigozhin has been one of defence minister Sergey Shoigu’s most fiery critics, insisting his own men are far more effective than the regular army. Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov was appointed last month to run the war in Ukraine.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 14:57:23 GMT -8
I'm Not Sure What the Crime Could Be
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday said that his office has made a criminal referral in response to the recent train derailment over the border in East Palestine, Ohio, and the aftereffects on the environment and nearby communities.
Shapiro shared the information during a press conference in East Palestine with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, EPA Administrator Michael Regan and other officials. A reporter had asked what actions the governors might take, such as penalizing Norfolk Southern, the rail company involved in the Feb. 3 derailment.
"We've made a criminal referral to the acting attorney general in Pennsylvania to review and Acting Attorney General [Michelle] Henry can speak to that beyond my comments," Shapiro said.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 15:00:14 GMT -8
Why Kevin, Why?
Conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Monday that he and his team have gained access to about 44,000 hours of security camera footage taken during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
"So there are about 44,000 hours, and we have, you may have read, been granted access to that," Carlson said on his prime-time show. "We believe that access is unfettered. We believe we have secured the right to see whatever we want to see."
Carlson said his producers have been looking at the footage "trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts or not the story we've been told for two years" about Jan. 6. He said his team plans to spend the rest of the week going through it and said he'll "bring you what we find next week."
The Fox News anchor's comments followed a report by Axios on Monday that said, citing anonymous sources, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., gave Carlson access to the security footage from U.S. Capitol Police.
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The intent of McCarthy's action is curious; footage from the security cameras inside the Capitol has been deemed so sensitive that even releasing the most relevant footage of the attacks was controversial. Many of the cameras are in portions of the building that the public is not permitted inside, and releasing footage that would show both the layout of those private areas and the position of each security camera inside is still considered a substantial security risk.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 15:04:01 GMT -8
I Thought They Didn't Trust the FBI
Trump announces his plan to reform education by having federal government discipline teens
On Monday, Trump released his version of a Republican education reform policy. It is perfectly fascistic and does away with all of the pretend parental rights the Republican Party has been giving lip service to. It’s about putting kids in prison. Seriously. That’s the plan.
In the short clip, Trump begins by explaining how he’s going to fix our public education by making it a crime issue. “We’ll end the leftist takeover of school discipline and juvenile justice,” Trump read into a camera on Monday, jumping track to explain, “Many of these car-jacking criminals are thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen years old.” That isn’t a jump to a different part of his speech. That’s the next sentence. The problem with public education is “car-jacking” teens. Or more specifically, the “leftist takeover” of education means we now have a lot of car-jacking teens. Something along those lines, it seems.
The bluntest instrument of the conservative movement, Donald Trump, does what he always does—demolishes the stated positions of the conservative movement by being relatively transparent about his (and his party’s) real feelings about children and at-risk youth and education:
“I will order the education and justice departments to overhaul federal standards on disciplining minors. So when troubled youth are out of control, and they’re out on the streets, and they’re going wild, we will stop it. The consequences are swift, certain and strong and they will know that.
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 15:06:46 GMT -8
To Kill Biden or Not to Kill Biden. That is the Question ... On Russian TV
Russia’s TV propagandists actually argued over whether or not Russia should have killed U.S. President Joe Biden on his visit to Kyiv on Monday. They ultimately came to the consensus that Vice President Kamala Harris would be even worse for Mother Russia than Biden.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the U.S. government notified Russia of Biden’s visit to Kyiv shortly before his departure from Washington “for deconfliction purposes” in an effort to avoid any miscalculation that could bring the two countries into direct conflict.
That prompted a discussion among the propagandists on the government-owned TV channel Russia-1 on whether Moscow should have provided security guarantees during Biden’s visit.
“So if we destroy Biden, who will replace him? Kamala Harris,” one pundit offered as a good reason not to assassinate the president. “Biden, in spite of all his dementia, at least has his senses and some restraint, whereas she has no restraints at all … She has absolutely no opinion of her own.”
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 15:08:28 GMT -8
The Sanctions Keep Grinding Away
American and allied sanctions and export controls are constraining Russia’s ability to wage war on Ukraine by degrading its military, a top Treasury Department official said Tuesday, adding that more sanctions will be imposed on the Kremlin in the coming days.
Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington that as the war on Ukraine nears the one-year mark, U.S. sanctions are effectively resulting in military losses for Russia by straining its military machine.
Russia is the world’s second-largest arms producer after the United States, but Adeyemo asserted that “today, Russia can’t produce enough arms to meet their basic needs and to be a supplier to the countries that rely on them.”
The financial penalties imposed by the U.S. and its allies “have degraded Russia’s ability to replace more than 9,000 pieces of military equipment lost since the start of the war,” he said, adding, “Russia has also lost up to 50% of its tanks.”
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 15:12:04 GMT -8
Beware of Moose
Awoman in Anchorage, Alaska, is recovering from her injuries after she was kicked in the head by a moose while walking her dog last week, in a shocking moment captured on video.
Tracy Hansen and her dog, Gunner, were walking the usual route they take at least three times a day when she was suddenly knocked to the ground in the Feb. 16 incident, she told NBC affiliate KTUU, which is based in Anchorage.
“I thought someone had not been paying attention and hit me with a bike or something,” Hansen told KTUU. “I had put my hands up to my head, and I’m like, ‘I’m bleeding'.”
It was only when she looked up that she realized she had been kicked by a large moose that she and her dog had walked past earlier.
“Knowing that the moose had been somewhere behind me and now, here this moose is in front of me, and I’m like, was that the moose?” Hansen said.
Maybe She Needed to Give the Moose a Muffin
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Post by mhbruin on Feb 21, 2023 15:18:06 GMT -8
They'd none of 'em be missed – they'd none of 'em be missed!
He's got 'em on the list – he's got 'em on the list;
The list of people recommended to be indicted by the special grand jury is not "short," according to the forewoman of the Georgia panel that spent seven months investigating former President Donald Trump and his associates' alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Speaking to The New York Times on Tuesday, Emily Kohrs said the number of people that the jury recommended on a range of criminal charges "is not a short list" and that jurors cited eight pages of legal code for those recommendations "at various points in the report."
"I will tell you that if the judge releases the recommendations, it is not going to be some giant plot twist," Kohrs said. "You probably have a fair idea of what may be in there. I'm trying very hard to say that delicately."
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