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hanimmal

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The Conservative party is awash with Russian money, it’s going to be awesome when this comes out. British Politicians are pondlife mostly
I really hope we lift our boulder on the dark money funding our sellout politicians soon. I think it is more likely that they will just try to use this Russian war sanctions to strangle out the money and let the politicians wither away, but I really hope I am wrong about that.

It will be interesting to see if the numbers of political donations in the upcoming months though.

You trumpets gonna be commie lovers like the orange Cheetos man?



Huh?
 

DIY-HP-LED

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You trumpets gonna be commie lovers like the orange Cheetos man?
Donald just threw Vald under the bus, I wonder how that will work out? His base were moved by the images on TV of white Christians with guns and guts fighting for liberty. This resonates deeply with the base and he's got to do a 180 and fuck Vlad, or try to.

 

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China Says it Won't Join in Financial Sanctions on Russia
China won't join the United States and European governments in imposing financial sanctions on Russia, the country's bank regulator said Wednesday.

China is a major buyer of Russian oil and gas and the only major government that has refrained from criticizing Moscow's attack on Ukraine.

Beijing opposes the sanctions, said Guo Shuqing, the chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.

"We will not join such sanctions, and we will keep normal economic, trade and financial exchanges with all the relevant parties," Guo said at a news conference. "We disapprove of the financial sanctions, particularly those launched unilaterally, because they don't have much legal basis and will not have good effects."
 

zeddd

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I really hope we lift our boulder on the dark money funding our sellout politicians soon. I think it is more likely that they will just try to use this Russian war sanctions to strangle out the money and let the politicians wither away, but I really hope I am wrong about that.

It will be interesting to see if the numbers of political donations in the upcoming months though.






Huh?
If we sift through the ashes we might find stuff. Russia are now detaining children protesting the war. I think this is going to end very badly
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Of course he did, Vlad taught him all the history he knows, Vlad speaks pretty good English and probably dangled a carrot and hinted he had kompromat on Donald too. Donald knows what Donald did in Russia and it made him nervous.
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DIY-HP-LED

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China Says it Won't Join in Financial Sanctions on Russia
China won't join the United States and European governments in imposing financial sanctions on Russia, the country's bank regulator said Wednesday.

China is a major buyer of Russian oil and gas and the only major government that has refrained from criticizing Moscow's attack on Ukraine.

Beijing opposes the sanctions, said Guo Shuqing, the chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.

"We will not join such sanctions, and we will keep normal economic, trade and financial exchanges with all the relevant parties," Guo said at a news conference. "We disapprove of the financial sanctions, particularly those launched unilaterally, because they don't have much legal basis and will not have good effects."
In the end I don't think it will matter much, this will be over one way or another before they could help and they can't help where it matters most, to the average Russian.
 

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NY Post: Russia 'Declares Cyberwar on US'
Cyberwar has been declared on the United States, with Russia using preliminary but increasing steps in a campaign to cripple the nation's banking systems and potentially other industries, according to a new report.

The United States' major banks, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, are under constant cyberattacks from criminals, usually located in Russia, Iran, or China, but those attacks are intensifying after sanctions were announced over the invasion of Ukraine, business reporter Charles Gasparino reported in The New York Post Tuesday.

The bank executives would not comment on the record out of fear that comments would embolden both cybercriminals and Russian government proxies, and referred calls to the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a cybersecurity consortium for the banking industry.

"We are in close communication with our member firms and relevant authorities around the world to monitor cyber activity against the financial sector," a group spokesperson told The Post in a statement. "At this time, the sector is not seeing any significant threats attributable to any geographic origin. We continue to actively assess the situation through enhanced monitoring and cross-border threat intelligence sharing across the financial services sector."

The Biden administration has been working with the banks for some time to prepare for cyberattacks, and the banks have spent billions of dollars to protect their systems, but the paper's sources say the latest wave is a "subtle but intensified assault" on the banks' technology infrastructure.

One big bank executive said the consensus in the industry is that Russia is behind the latest attacks, adding that so far, there have been no real breaches.

Press officials from JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley offered no comment on the reports.

The financial sector is likely to be better protected than other industries against cyberattacks because it spends billions on the issue, but "other industries are definitely at risk of attack," Herb Lin, a senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, commented to The Post.

"I think the water utility companies could be a weak spot as they're not known for their cybersecurity," he added.

Moscow has denied ties to the criminals behind massive attacks against the Colonial Pipeline and the meat producer JBS, but federal intelligence officials say the hackers have at least some support from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
 

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Ukrainian Official: Attempt to Assassinate Zelenskyy Prevented
At a briefing on Tuesday, top Ukrainian official Oleksiy Danilov announced that authorities thwarted an assassination attempt against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a Telegram post from the country's authorities revealed.

Danilov alleged that the Kadyrovites, a Chechen paramilitary group loyal to the region's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, were responsible for carrying out the plot.

"We are well aware of the special operation that was to take place directly by the Kadyrovites to eliminate our president," Danilov said. He added that the death squad was split in two, where one was destroyed in the town of Hostomel, and the other is currently "under fire."

Danilov claimed that members of Russia's Federal Security Service who are apathetic about Putin's decision to invade the country informed them of the plot.

The news follows assertions by Zelenskyy on Monday that Russian mercenaries are operating in Kyiv with orders directly from the Kremlin to assassinate him, according to The Times of London.

In January, the Wagner Group, a private army with ties to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, sent around 3,000 mercenaries to Ukraine. Around 400 of them were deployed to Kyiv, while others were sent to the pro-Russian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, Insider reported.

Zelenskyy had also said on Thursday that he was the "number one target" OF Russian assassins and that "enemy sabotage groups" were present in Kyiv.

One thing leaders have done is not to try assassinating other leaders. The reason for that is once that convention is broken then they can be on the hit list also. It might be time to take out the little man.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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NY Post: Russia 'Declares Cyberwar on US'
Cyberwar has been declared on the United States, with Russia using preliminary but increasing steps in a campaign to cripple the nation's banking systems and potentially other industries, according to a new report.

The United States' major banks, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs, are under constant cyberattacks from criminals, usually located in Russia, Iran, or China, but those attacks are intensifying after sanctions were announced over the invasion of Ukraine, business reporter Charles Gasparino reported in The New York Post Tuesday.

The bank executives would not comment on the record out of fear that comments would embolden both cybercriminals and Russian government proxies, and referred calls to the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a cybersecurity consortium for the banking industry.

"We are in close communication with our member firms and relevant authorities around the world to monitor cyber activity against the financial sector," a group spokesperson told The Post in a statement. "At this time, the sector is not seeing any significant threats attributable to any geographic origin. We continue to actively assess the situation through enhanced monitoring and cross-border threat intelligence sharing across the financial services sector."

The Biden administration has been working with the banks for some time to prepare for cyberattacks, and the banks have spent billions of dollars to protect their systems, but the paper's sources say the latest wave is a "subtle but intensified assault" on the banks' technology infrastructure.

One big bank executive said the consensus in the industry is that Russia is behind the latest attacks, adding that so far, there have been no real breaches.

Press officials from JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley offered no comment on the reports.

The financial sector is likely to be better protected than other industries against cyberattacks because it spends billions on the issue, but "other industries are definitely at risk of attack," Herb Lin, a senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, commented to The Post.

"I think the water utility companies could be a weak spot as they're not known for their cybersecurity," he added.

Moscow has denied ties to the criminals behind massive attacks against the Colonial Pipeline and the meat producer JBS, but federal intelligence officials say the hackers have at least some support from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
We are gonna do the same to them in spades!
 

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DOJ launches team to enforce sanctions on Russian oligarchs
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is launching a team to enforce its sanctions on Russian oligarchs after President Biden pledged in his address to Congress to go after their “ill-begotten gains.”

Dubbed Task Force KleptoCapture, the DOJ is assembling a team of its experts in sanctions, money laundering, tax enforcement and anti-corruption to prosecute those who seek to evade the punishing sanctions the U.S. has imposed with the aim of targeting “Russian officials, government-aligned elites, and those who aid or conceal their unlawful conduct.”

“The Justice Department will use all of its authorities to seize the assets of individuals and entities who violate these sanctions,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a release.

“We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to investigate, arrest, and prosecute those whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue this unjust war. Let me be clear: if you violate our laws, we will hold you accountable.”

The U.S. has rolled out a series of sanctions on Russia, including those targeting President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov directly, as well as five prominent Russians with links to the Kremlin and their family members.

The U.S. and EU have locked away some $300 billion in Russian reserves and barred a number of Russian banks from access to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) needed for transactions.

Biden previewed the DOJ's move in his State of the Union address Tuesday evening.

“The U.S. Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of Russian oligarchs,” he said.

“We are joining with our European allies to find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets. We are coming for your ill-begotten gains.”
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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You basically only seem to care about global warming because the rising sea-levels are most detrimental to ur own cause
it's detrimental to the entire earth
Germany can excuse it however they want, justify it however they want..what it comes down to is every dollar, yuan, khroner, bhaat, franc, lira that gets into russian hands makes this entire thing go on longer...makes more dead Ukrainian children...
it would seem to me that Germany should already have enough collective Vergangenheitsbewaltigung....
are you all that intent on building more?
 

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Russian economy taking 'serious blows,' Kremlin says
A Kremlin spokesperson on Wednesday said that the Russian economy was taking "serious blows" amid sanctions imposed by foreign governments as Moscow continues its attack on Ukraine.

"Russia's economy is experiencing serious blows," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a call with foreign reporters, according to CNN.

"But there is a certain margin of safety, there is potential, there are some plans, work is underway," he added.

Peskov's remarks came after a question about a comment made by President Biden during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

"Russia’s economy is reeling and Putin alone is to blame," Biden said in his speech.

The president also asserted that the sanctions in place against Russia thus far contributed to a 30 percent loss in the value of the ruble and to the Russian stock market losing 40 percent value in less than a week.

Since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Western countries have imposed harsh sanctions on the country.

On Tuesday, Biden announced that the U.S. would close off American air space to all Russian flights, following similar action from the European Union and Canada.

Biden said the move would work toward "further isolating Russia – and adding an additional squeeze –on their economy."

The U.S. has also imposed other sanctions including kicking certain Russian banks out of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a major international banking system. The U.S. has also promised to impose measures to prevent the Russian Central Bank from undermining sanctions and bolstering the ruble by using its reserves.
 
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