@humphrey

Scott Ritter, a popular blogger whose resume includes lengthy stints as a US Marine, a CIA agent and a UN weapons inspector, was stripped of his passport, on orders from the US State Department, while attempting to travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. He then expressed his opinion that the world is a step away from a nuclear catastrophe and that the US strategy in causing such a catastrophe is to inflict maximum damage on the rest of the world — friends, allies, enemies, everybody! — just to remain as the proverbial last man standing.

I know what let's do. Quick, everybody write your Congress people and tell them to back off.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/russia-putin-says-nearly-40percent-of-ru...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that nearly 40% of the country’s trade turnover is now in rubles as the share conducted in dollars, euros and other “non-friendly” Western currencies has fallen away.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said countries “friendly to Russia” were the ones that deserved special attention as they will define the future of the global economy, “and they already make up three-quarters of our trade volume.”

His comments come as the Kremlin leverages SPIEF to court new relationships with countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

The West has sought to cut off Russia’s $2 trillion economy in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Yet Russia’s economy is expected to grow faster than all advanced economies this year, despite several rounds of international sanctions.

In its World Economic Outlook in April, the International Monetary Fund said it expected Russia to grow 3.2% in 2024, exceeding the predicted 2.7% growth rate of the U.S. (2.7%). Germany, France and the U.K. are projected to log even lower economic expansions of less than 1%.

@humphrey
They are even allowed to report this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/russia-putin-says-nearly-40percent-of-ru...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that nearly 40% of the country’s trade turnover is now in rubles as the share conducted in dollars, euros and other “non-friendly” Western currencies has fallen away.

Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said countries “friendly to Russia” were the ones that deserved special attention as they will define the future of the global economy, “and they already make up three-quarters of our trade volume.”

His comments come as the Kremlin leverages SPIEF to court new relationships with countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

The West has sought to cut off Russia’s $2 trillion economy in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Yet Russia’s economy is expected to grow faster than all advanced economies this year, despite several rounds of international sanctions.

In its World Economic Outlook in April, the International Monetary Fund said it expected Russia to grow 3.2% in 2024, exceeding the predicted 2.7% growth rate of the U.S. (2.7%). Germany, France and the U.K. are projected to log even lower economic expansions of less than 1%.

@snoopydawg

The project's operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on Twitter, a development that
drew national media attention. "We orchestrated an elaborate 'false flag' operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by
a Russian botnet," the report says. Mr. Morgan said in an interview that the Russian botnet ruse "does not ring a bell, adding that others had worked on the effort and had written the report. He said he saw the project as "a small experiment" designed to explore how certain online tactics worked,

How many years has it been since the Twiter files were released and still nothing has been done about it nor anyone held accountable. Republicans are still investigating this crap. But Trump was found guilty of interfering with the election because of how the people who worked for him labeled some checks.

BTW my bet is that Hunter will be found not guilty on gun charges or there will be jury nullification. The trial is being held in Delaware and the First Jill Biden attends the trial. Most people voted for Biden.

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It wasn’t only Trump who was called a Russian puppet, asset, traitor. It was everyone who went against the democratic narrative.
Hamilton 68, the Integrity Initiative and other deep money organizations popped up out of nowhere and set about ruining people’s lives. Many of us wrote about it back then and we knew that one goal of Russia Russia…was censorship. Boy were we right.

Matt Taibbi writes about one group.

This brought back lots of memories of what we were covering 5-6 years ago. Take another bow, C99.

@snoopydawg let's not forget "Assad apologists"
among all the pejoratives put forth, that was a sick chapter,
if not just a prelude.

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It wasn’t only Trump who was called a Russian puppet, asset, traitor. It was everyone who went against the democratic narrative.
Hamilton 68, the Integrity Initiative and other deep money organizations popped up out of nowhere and set about ruining people’s lives. Many of us wrote about it back then and we knew that one goal of Russia Russia…was censorship. Boy were we right.

Matt Taibbi writes about one group.

This brought back lots of memories of what we were covering 5-6 years ago. Take another bow, C99.

@snoopydawg Spot on!

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Nina Turner was SO right.