I have been thinking back to when ‘Killary’ was wheeling and dealing with Vlad Putin in exchange for $millions funneled into the Clinton Foundation.
So glad to have found this piece by Jon Rappoport in my in box today!
Gotta hate Russia, right? Gotta punish anyone who helps Russia, right?
“The Clinton–Kremlin Connection,” from the Weekly Standard, July 31, 2016, by Fred Barnes. A few quotes:
“A program overseen by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of the ‘reset’ with Russia wound up enhancing Russia’s military technology and funneling millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, according to a new report by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute he heads.”
“The report says both the U.S. Army and the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that the program, intended to support Russia’s version of Silicon Valley, was exploited to improve Russia’s military capability.”
“The ‘innovation city’ of Skolkovo on the outskirts of Moscow was center of the program. Its stated purpose was ‘identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people’.”
“Instead, the FBI warned several American technology companies in 2014 that Skolkovo ‘may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation’s sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application.’ Indeed, it was.”
“Regarding Hillary and Bill Clinton, the report says: ‘Many of the key figures in the Skolkovo process – on both the Russian and U.S. sides – had major financial ties to the Clintons. During the Russian reset, these figures and entities provided the Clintons with tens of millions of dollars, including contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties’.”
Is it just me, or do others feel that Biden’s Poking the Bear is taking our country into dangerous waters?
Let the CIA do their job but we certainly don’t need Biden instigating a nuclear war with Putin.
Putin has proved to the world that he truly is a monster. We see this clearly. I hope that sleepy Joe can stay with what’s on the monitor. They should send a small shock into his neck if he begins to go off script.
Retaliatory visa measures are being developed in Russia for citizens from “unfriendly” nations, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on March 28 as another top Kremlin official said U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent comments are a “cause for concern.”
During public comments, Lavrov didn’t provide details about the countries that would be targeted, although he did single out the United States and its allies.
“Additionally, a draft presidential decree is currently being developed on retaliatory visa measures in connection with the unfriendly actions of a number of foreign states,” Lavrov said during a meeting in Moscow, according to state-run media. “This act will introduce a number of restrictions on entry to the territory of Russia.”
Some measures are being developed to “respond to unfriendly actions by the United States and its satellites,” Lavrov added.
It comes as the Kremlin issued more statements following Biden’s speech last week in Poland, when he said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power.”
“These statements are certainly causing concern,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on March 28.
“We will continue to closely monitor the statements of the U.S. president. We carefully note them and will continue to do so.”
Over the past weekend, White House officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, disputed claims that Biden was suggesting a regime change in Russia.
Russia and Ukraine said their delegations arrived in Turkey on March 28 for a new round of talks to begin on March 29. Ukrainian officials have recently suggested that Russia could be more willing to compromise having encountered stiff Ukrainian resistance and heavy Russian losses.
Russia’s military also signaled last week that it would concentrate on expanding territory held by separatists in eastern Ukraine, a month after having committed the bulk of its huge invasion force to a failed assault on Kyiv.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, told journalists on March 28 that he would be willing to meet with Putin in person but suggested the meeting occur outside of Russia.
“We must come to an agreement with the president of the Russian Federation, and in order to reach an agreement, he needs to get out of there on his own feet … and come to meet me,” he said, according to an Associated Press translation of his comments.
But Ukraine said it saw no sign that Russia had given up a plan to surround the capital, where the mayor, former heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko, said 100 people had been killed, including four children, and 82 multi-story buildings had been destroyed. It wasn’t possible to verify the figures.
Neither side has budged over Russia’s territorial demands, including Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014, and eastern territories known as the Donbas, which Moscow demands that Kyiv cede to separatists. Source
A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard on a street in front of a damaged church in the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 13, 2022. – Russian forces advance ever closer to the capital from the north, west and northeast. Russian strikes also destroy an airport in the town of Vasylkiv, south of Kyiv. A U.S. journalist was shot dead and another wounded in Irpin, a frontline northwest suburb of Kyiv, medics and witnesses told AFP. | DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images
Invading Russian troops have reportedly abducted a 50-year-old Ukrainian American pastor in the southern city of Melitopol, a month after they captured the city’s mayor and released him six days later in exchange for nine Russian soldiers.
About 10 Russian soldiers arrived at the home of Dmitry Bodyu, bishop of the Word of Life Church in Melitopol city last Saturday and took him away, his family said, according to NBC News, adding that the troops also confiscated his American passport and the family’s phones and other devices.
The Russian troops were not aggressive and seemed to know he was a pastor and a U.S. citizen, the pastor’s wife, Helen Bodyu, was quoted as saying.
His eldest daughter, Esther Lily Bodyu Ogawa, said, “They walked in and they just started kind of questioning him right away, like, ‘Are you guys American citizens?’ — that’s one of the first questions they had.”
The soldiers returned the following day and asked for his Bible and a sleeping bag, The National News reported.
“I am worried,” Bodyu Ogawa was quoted as saying. “I mean, deep inside, I believe and I want to believe that he’s safe and he’s going to come home. But of course, from not knowing exactly what’s going on and how he is and not getting any information, that’s what is, of course, building up that worry inside.”
Along with the pastor, others who are being held captive by Russian troops in Melitopol are Sergiy Prima, the chairman of the District Council of Melitopol; activist Olga Gaisumova; and police officer Dmitry Stoikov, according to the Religious Information Service of Ukraine.
The pastor immigrated with his parents from the Soviet Union to the U.S. when he was 17, but returned to Ukraine later in life, according to his family. In 2014, he left Crimea after the Russian annexation because of his American citizenship.
After the Russian invasion, the pastor had urged residents to seek shelter in his church.
His last Facebook message before his abduction, read: “If you need help of any kind or you have nowhere to stay or afraid to be at home…the church is open. I am in the church building…very thick walls…solid building. That’s why you can be there. We will try our best to supply as much as possible… May God’s peace be upon your hearts and keep you safe. Let’s all pray and call on the Lord that the Lord will keep us from every harm in the name of Jesus Christ.”
On March 11, Russian forces abducted the city’s mayor, Ivan Fedorov, and released him six days later in exchange for nine Russian soldiers, according to Reuters.
Since Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, at least 1,081 civilians have been killed and 1,707 injured as of a Friday update from the United Nations. Among those killed are 93 children.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, and missile and airstrikes,” the U.N. statement reads.
In Russia, police have arrested thousands of people protesting against the invasion of Ukraine amid widespread censorship of social media and news outlets.
About 100 Christian leaders in the U.S., more than 280 priests and deacons of the Russian Orthodox Church, and over 400 ministers of Evangelical churches in Russia have called for reconciliation and an immediate end to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
“We mourn the ordeal to which our brothers and sisters in Ukraine were undeservedly subjected,” the Russian Orthodox clerics wrote in their open letter. “The Last Judgment awaits every person.”
The clerics added: “No earthly authority, no doctors, no guards will protect from this judgment. Concerned about the salvation of every person who considers himself a child of the Russian Orthodox Church, we do not want him to appear at this judgment, bearing the heavy burden of mother’s curses.”
