Thursday Night Blog Notes

• I can’t even keep up with the Trump scams surrounding this coronavirus crisis.
• Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, is claiming that he just now learned that asymptomatic people could pass on the coronavirus to other people.
• Every day there’s another presser with Trump congratulating corporate CEOs and touting meaningless statistics.
• The Republicans are all over twitter congratulating private industry for “contributions” and “donations.” So, the people in this country who pay taxes, are reliant on donations, charity from big business to get them through a crisis.
• This entire Trump/Repubican approach is designed to school people that the government cannot/will not help them if them are in need.
• The Federal Government, however, under the Republicans will give $500 billion of public money to corporations.
• According to Mehdi Hasan, South Korea and Japan’s unemployment rates are nothing like we are seeing in this country.
• The Navy is expected to fire the captain who raised an alarm saying that his sailors had the Coronavirus.
• The Nation is reporting that there is a Democratic primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday and Milwaukee is planning to decrease the polling places from 180 to 10. This is democracy?
• Trump is complaining on Twitter that the hospitals and states have “insatiable appetites & are never satisfied (politics?)
• I’ll never, never be able to wrap my mind around the fact that this miserable, moronic, corrupt, tasteless, bastard is president.

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Sunday News Notes:

Ukraine

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/01/putin-ally-challenges-russian-president-calling-zelensky-nice/

• Founder of Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, challenges Putin.
• Prigozhin praised Ukrainian president, Zelensky, on his social media platform.
• “Although he is the president of a country that’s hostile to Russia right now, Zelensky is a strong, confident, pragmatic and nice guy,”
• In a second post, Prigozhin followed up with a warning: “Don’t underestimate him.”  The second post was described by the Telegraph as “explaining why he was offering such a discordant view of” Zelensky.
• Prigozhin holds no formal role with the Russian government, but his position has increased in importance as he has funneled more and more soldiers into Ukraine fighting for Russia.
• His statement is not in line with the Kremlin presentation of Zelensky as a drug-addled Nazi.  And, it is not the first time Prigozhin has challenged Putin.  Earlier he questioned the military’s conduct of the war.
• The Washington Post reported that Prigozhin along with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader, has become more vocal in their criticisms of military leaders prosecuting Putin’s war.
• According to the Telegraph: “British lawyers McCue Jury and Partners on Tuesday announced they were bringing legal action against Wagner for “terrorism” in Ukraine, aiming to claim compensation for victims of the mercenary group”
• Prigozhin was filmed in September of 2022 recruiting soldiers in Russian prisons.  He promised them they would be freed is they survived six months in Ukraine.  He also promised they would be shot if they tried to desert.
• “In another public message, he defended recruiting rapists and murders on the basis that it meant “your sons” would not be sent to the front. Weeks later Putin announced a mobilisation that has sent around 300,000 extra men to war.”
• Telegraph: “The Institute for the Study of War in its latest report on Tuesday said that Mr Prigozhin was “establishing himself as a political force, using his popular status and his affiliation with Wagner to criticise his opponents within elite circles”.
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• In testimony to British parliament on Tuesday, Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky confirmed reports of Mr Prigozhin’s special place in Putin’s court, describing him as a “significant tool for the Kremlin”.
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• “The number of meetings with the dictator is the only currency that’s in demand in that regime, and Mr Prigozhin has got a lot of those meetings,” said Mr Khodorkovsky, who was released after a decade in Russian prison in 2013, and was formerly the country’s richest man.”
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