Emily Jones
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Category: Capitalism
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Monday 1 August
Uuuuu The exiled Ukrainian governor of Kherson, Dmytro Butrii, said on Monday that some 46 villages in the province had been liberated but some of them had been nearly completely destroyed and were still under Russian shelling. The ship carrying grain that left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday, the first since Russia invaded… Read.
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Russia
www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/dmitry-medvedev-journey-liberal-anti-west-hawk-russia Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE
SATURDAY 30 JULY 2022 UKRAINE Occupied Territories The Russian government is planning to hold “referendums” in the occupied regions of Ukraine as early as September. They have already issued passports (newborns are registered as Russian citizens), replaced the currency with the ruble, put internet through Russian servers and arrested hundreds who have resisted. The referendums,… Read.
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DOJ INDICTS RUSSIAN NATIONAL: IS THIS THE BEGINNING OR THE END?
WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2022 UKRAINE, THE LATEST, Podcast by the Telegraph (7/27/22) Interviews with people on the ground in Ukraine. Kherson, the beginning of a counterattack is possible. One of the most important bridges has been closed for civilians. The Ukrainians don’t want to destroy the bridge since they may have to use it. A… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE:
MONDAY 25 JULY 2022 UKRAINE: THE LATEST Podcast from the Telegraph The Ukrainians are looking for points of weakness in the Russian forces. We should see a love of movement in the South. The Ukrainians need to deny the bridges for heavy military equipment but leave them open to civilian traffic. The export of the… Read.
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Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory – Mother Jones
“That’s our strategy. He’s gonna declare himself a winner.” — Read on www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/leaked-audio-steve-bannon-trump-2020-election-declare-victory/. Listen to the part where Bannon says trump will never have to confront a voter again. Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: The Telegraph Podcast Notes
FRIDAY 22 JULY 2022 @cjjohns1951 UKRAINE There is supposed to be a deal between Russia and Ukraine to get grain out of the Black Sea ports. Who knows how this will work. Day 149 UKRAINE, THE LATEST, THE Telegraph podcast We are hearing from Turkey that a deal has been made to get the grain… Read.
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GARLAND, THE MAFIA STATE ENABLER
@cjjohns1951 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2022 Gaslit Nation Podcast (7/19/22) In this episode of Gaslit Nation, the podcast opened with a clip of a television interview Bernie Sanders did with some anchor. She starts rabbiting on and he interrupts her to say what most other Democrats will not say, i.e., that Joe Manchin never intended to… Read.
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FRESH HELL THAT DEMOCRATS WON’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT UPDATE
@cjjohns1951 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2022 Fresh Hell Majority Report (7/19/22) Manchin Manchin killed the Biden climate package. It is in Joe Manchin’s financial interest that climate change is not addressed. There is very little leverage with Manchin. The more he tells the Democrats he is going to destroy their agenda, the more his popularity in… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA
FRIDAY 14 JULY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: UKRAINECAST, Podcast from BBC (7/13/22) Ukraine has announced it has killed dozens of soldiers in a bombing of a Russian ammunitions’ depot in the southern city of Nova Kakhovka (east of Kherson). This strike is reported to have been carried out by the American supplied HIMARS system. In Kherson,… Read.
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Trump’s Enablers: “If they’d never stooped this low before, maybe it’s just because no one ever asked them to.”
TUESDAY 12 JULY 2022 @cjjohns1951 BOOK: “Thank you for your Servitude” by Marc Leibovich This book focuses not on Trump, but on the Trump “enablers” who made it all possible. Marc Leibovich, a staff writer for the Atlantic Magazine, described the book in this way in an interview on MSNBC (7/11/22): The book is “about… Read.
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There’s No Good Reason FBI Director Chris Wray Still Has a Job | The Nation
Wray has a pattern of refusing to pursue powerful men like Brett Kavanaugh and Larry Nassar on behalf of women and people of color. — Read on www.thenation.com/article/politics/wray-fbi-nassar/ Read.
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Corporate News is Bad: Joe Scarborough is Worse
Monday 11 July 2022 I spent a good deal of the morning watching corporate network news. I know. I know, but it’s a habit, a habit people my age (71) have a hard time breaking. People my age who are interested in politics have spent their entire lives watching the major networks. It is hard… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: Ambassadors for justice
THURSDAY 7 JULY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE UKRAINE, THE LATEST. The Daily Telegraph Podcast. Johnson is stepping down. His support for Ukraine has been very important. He was one of the most proactive leaders in sending weapons to Ukraine. He was supporting Ukraine with vocal criticism and weapons while Germany was sending 5,000 helmets. There is… Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: “WE NEEDED THIS FOR YESTERDAY.”
MONDAY 4 JULY 2022 The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/jul/03/as-ukraine-war-bogs-down-us-assessments-face-scrut/ “U.s. officials have downplayed Russian gains…” There are estimates that both sides have lost tens of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded. The Pentagon has declined to discuss its assessments of deaths and military losses. Some analysts feel uncomfortable with the US reluctance to talk about… Read.
Law, Power, and Justice 