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AFP notes that Ukraine is reporting there will be further outages after losing more power plants in this weekends strikes.

“After six massive attacks on the power grid, there is a significant power shortage,” the Ukrainian energy ministry said on social media.

“The periods of outages may increase. In particular, emergency blackouts were introduced in a number of regions on Sunday,”

Oleksandr Kharchenko, executive director at the Kiev-based Energy Industry Research Center, warned that the strikes meant Ukrainians would need to adapt.

“All we can do is get used to the fact that this is the normal state of affairs,
for the next two years at least.”

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko announced the more than 60% price increase that came into effect last week, citing planned reconstruction that would cost “enormous efforts and funds.”

Decommunization is successful comrades, Ukraine is back to hand churned butter and sleeping with their cousins.

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🇪🇺Head of Eurodiplomacy Josep Borrell - accused Russia of interfering in the elections and besmirching the EU's reputation in 20 languages:

"The next European elections will be a defining moment for our common future. We need to protect this electoral process and the European public debate more broadly from malicious foreign actors who want Europe to fail.

✔️ Since the outbreak of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, hostile foreign states, and Putin's Russia in particular, have further expanded their already existing information manipulation operations across Europe and beyond. These operations are part of a broader set of hybrid attacks that foreign states, and Russia in particular, have launched against us and our allies. By manipulating information, the Russian side is taking advantage of the growing popularity of social media and low-cost operations involving artificial intelligence. Fake bot accounts spread fakes and manipulate algorithms.

✔️ Pro-Kremlin platforms are trying not only to pollute the information field inside the EU, but also to defame the EU's reputation in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, Latin America and Asia. All this is done in more than 20 languages. These malicious activities pose a serious security threat.

✔️ Defamation campaigns against European politicians critical of Putin's Russia are promoted using bots and other tactics aimed at manipulating algorithms. Like the national leaders of other EU countries and member states, I am regularly targeted by the Kremlin. We are blamed for all the troubles

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Why do refugees behave so aggressively towards Polish security forces at the border❓

😤 Because they (the security forces) killed their relatives!

Exclusive commentary by Polish civil activist Maria Zlonkiewicz, representative of the NGO "Border Group".

By the way, tomorrow, June 4 at 11 o’clock (⏱Polish time), representatives of the “Border Group” will go to a protest rally to express disagreement with the actions of the Polish authorities to create buffer zone, the ruin of Polish entrepreneurs and the closure of Belovezhskaya Pushcha.

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❗️FRIEND-CIRCLE CORRUPTION❗️

New investigation by Ukr Leaks

As I announced in my previous investigation, I continue to tell you about the crimes of the Ukrainian special services and people close to them. The new material will focus on corruption frauds carried out by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov, his comrade Sergei Slyusarenko, as well as career employees of Ukrainian intelligence - the head of the Ukrainian Association of Defense and Security Industry, Colonel Yevgeny Krupa and the military attache of Ukraine in the Czech Republic, Colonel Alexey Nagoryansky .

In addition to the corruption, the above-mentioned persons, in the interests of the CIA, are engaged in falsifying documents on the destruction in combat conditions of certain types of weapons and military equipment supplied through Western special services. This is done so that the Americans can redirect shipments of one or another arms and military equipment to solve problems in other regions of the world at the expense of the already approved (Ukrainian) budget.

Read exclusive documents and unique details in the full version of the investigation at the link.

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⚡️BREAKING: Scott Ritter denied flight to St Petersburg

Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and US foreign policy critic Scott Ritter says his passport was seized by the State Department, while en route to St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

Ritter is also an RT contributor, writing about international security, military affairs, Russia, and the Middle East, as well as arms control and nonproliferation.

“I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said ‘orders of the State Department’. They had no further information for me,” Ritter told RT.

“They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”


Source: RT news

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I do not expect missiles to hit cities at this stage

▪️For Kiev, it's important to show that it's "the good guy." The summit in Switzerland is in two weeks: Ukraine will definitely not do such a thing before that, because it would be political suicide.

▪️So far, they target military facilities. Next, they may well use ATACMS to strike at military and industrial facilities inside Russian cities. The jamming system may direct a missile away from a military factory, and it may hit a house nearby.

▪️But they will be very careful for now. I think nothing will change fundamentally in the coming weeks.

Ukrainian counter-offensive near Kharkov

▪️The political leadership in Kiev has not taken into account the main thing: the situation has changed a lot, the Russian army has changed. Kiev's capabilities are much weaker than a year ago, when they were preparing a powerful blow, which the valiant 58th Army led by General Popov repelled. Back then, they had their chance.

They have no chances for global success now. At most, they could try to knock the Russians out of Volchansk before the summit. They tried. It didn't work. On the contrary, the Russian command has set the task of turning the situation around and continuing the offensive in order to humiliate Ukraine on the eve of the summit.

▪️Volchansk: Most high-rise buildings are under Russian control. The front line is very dynamic, moving back and forth 100-200 meters every day - I would disregard that for now.

▪️Ukraine has clearly had no success. By knocking out the best Ukrainians in pointless attacks, the Russians gain a strategic advantage.

How important is the liberation of Kharkov for creating a buffer zone? That is, if the city is not taken, but it is surrounded, and there is no shooting from there, will this make Russian territories safe?

▪️No, it won't. Unfortunately, ATACMS have a range of up to 300 kilometers. So everything east of the Dnieper should be a security zone at the very least.

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🐸📹 First use of Lyagushka (lit. Frog) robot in combat conditions

Russian troops used the robot to destroy a Ukrainian machine-gun crew near Avdeyevka.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces urgently need a counter-offensive - Foreign Policy

▪️ Kiev needs them to negotiate from a stronger position. To this end, the Ukrainian armed forces recently attempted a counter-offensive against the Russian army in the Kharkov region.

▪️ Ukraine desperately needs information successes to be backed up by something on the battlefield. The AFU's recent record has been one of failure. If the situation does not change soon, sooner or later the West will stop or radically reduce its aid. That is why it is necessary to demonstrate successes - both to maintain the aid and for future negotiations.

▪️ The AFU will not be able to defeat the Russian army on the battlefield anyway, so Kiev will have to agree to negotiations in the future, which may end in territorial losses, but even a local success on the front line, reinforced by Western aid, could strengthen Ukraine's negotiating position.

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WARFARE, INFLATION, AND CRYPTO-CURRENCY PRICE RISES: A CORRELATION

✍️Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️

If a person makes an investment, the best are in companies connected with the world's military-industrial-spy agency complex, plus their affiliated funeral homes and crematoria. In this connection, crypto-currency data can sometimes indicate inflation and at other times give a better understanding of political and economic developments. When looked at in retrospect, it can also be seen to be predictive of big events happening. But, as it is never exactly synchronic, what is being predicted is usually not clear until after it happens. By nature, the data is not an investment guide. With this in mind, let's take a quick look at bitcoin, the key crypto-currency.

On 27 March 2020, at the beginning of the worldwide Covid-19 economic shutdown, bitcoin was $6,191 dollars. It was around $32,000 when President Trump was replaced by President Biden. This was not because the world economy grew five times in one year, but because traders were ready for a rise and because huge increases in fiat currency provided ready cash. This rise increased under President Biden with ever more fiat money chasing ever fewer investment opportunities. Thus, bitcoin rose to $63,000 in the first three months of Mr. Biden's presidency. It then entered a correction phase. At the end of six months in office, bitcoin was a "bargain" at $37,000, when it started rising again in response to even more fiat currency created worldwide needing an outlet. After 10 months in office, it rose to $66,000.

Then, bitcoin started sliding again and even with the start of a war in Ukraine and massive new amounts of central bank fiat money being excreted, none of this had an effect. Sanctions induced shortages in fuel supplies and agricultural commodities were absorbing cash and causing painful price rises for ordinary people everywhere. Thanks, though, to a warm winter in Europe and Russian restraint, the slide stopped on 23 November 2022 when it fell to $16,688. From that point, with increasing economic mismanagement in the United States and the Collective West, it reached $27,971 on 8 October 2023, the day after the war in Gaza began.

But, with all out war in Gaza, bitcoin reached $69,316 on 16 March 2024. Then, it slid to $61,451 reflecting the events leading up to 13 April 2024, when Iran massively retaliated against the Zionist political entity. The lack of Iranian retaliation after the presumed assassination of President Raisi on 19 May 2024 created a bull market with bitcoin trading at around $71,000 on 21 May 2024, due to a general sense of euphoria among the monied classes of the Collective West the day after the President's death was officially announced.

It is clear, however, to more and more people in the Global South that the NATO-American-Israeli wars in Palestine and Ukraine are both in the process of being lost and that de-dollarization is proceeding faster than ever. So, in the last two weeks, disillusionment has been balancing out war-driven adrenalin highs among the rich, and bitcoin has been trading between 69,000 and 71,000.

Nevertheless, professional traders are pessimists by nature. The present levels are close to record highs and are ready for a major correction, which means small investors are expected to lose large amounts of money and the "whales" are supposed to consume the wreckage at bargain prices for regurgitation at high prices in the future to new groups of gullible suckers ready to part with their money.

But, one more thing. Since there's no business like war business for creating fiat, barring a major world financial system overhaul, the present war in Palestine will not be the last war to afflict humanity. Taiwan and Myanmar are both being greedily eyed.

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🇪🇺 European Jewish Leaders Accuse EU’s Borrell of 'Stoking Anti-Semitism'

Borrell is on record as saying that Israel is deliberately causing famine in Gaza, a claim that Israel rejects, and has said that Israel “created” Hamas.

Instead of merely reflecting the agreed-upon positions of the EU’s 27 member states, Borrell oversteps his mandate and has “embellished or added to adopted European Council positions on his own initiative,” a resolution by the European Jewish Association added.

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US House Panel advances a bill to sanction the ICC for Israeli leader arrest warrant requests

The panel advanced the legislation, dubbed the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, on Monday in a vote of 9 in favor and 3 opposed.

The bill enables the imposition of sanctions on the ICC and any other foreign actor that supports their effort to arrest, detain or prosecute protected persons of the United States and its allies. The legislation's definition of a protected person includes foreign citizens or lawful residents of a US ally that has not consented to ICC jurisdiction.

“If the ICC insists on targeting Israel, a democracy defending itself against evil, the US must stand against them and ensure there are consequences for these international bureaucrats,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a statement on the bill.


On May 20, prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court (ICC) filed requests for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as for leaders of Palestinian organization Hamas.

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🇸🇰 Slovakia's Fico likely to fully recover from murder attempt by fall, country's defense minister says

💬 "I think we are now talking about full recovery and him [Fico] being able to work by 100%. This [Fico's full recovery] will take several weeks or months. Let's say until fall," Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Robert Kalinak told the Radio Slovakia station.


Kalinak confirmed that the prime minister was able to attend to himself, adding, however, that his wounds are very painful, and therefore recovery will be difficult.

Earlier in the day, Kalinak said that Fico was undergoing rehabilitation at home following his discharge from hospital. The Slovak prime minister sustained damage to his digestive tract and musculoskeletal system, he recalled.

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Putin is using dust and heat as a weapon.

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🤣 FRENCH ARMY URGED TO SURRENDER (feat. French Nazis): France's Embassy in Moscow suffering episode of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as posters (see above) pop up featuring French army officer and Nazi collaborator Edgar Puaud, encouraging French to call surrender hotline Volga 149.200 and give up.

Puaud, also commander of Charlemagne Division, French branch of Hitler's Waffen-SS, tried to stop advancing Soviet Red Army but was obliterated by Soviet artillery and taken to Germany where he died after being severely wounded.

😂 Dew it! Must be easy when you have years of experience in surrendering!

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🔥 Hypocrisy Alert! Clooney's foundation, self-proclaimed defender of press freedom, under fire for targeting Russian journalists.

Mira Terada's blistering letter demands action:Is this pursuit driven at the behest of Western political interests or genuine advocacy?

In a jaw-dropping move, Anna Neistat, Director of Legal Affairs at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, hinted at initiating criminal proceedings against Russian journalists abroad. The hypocrisy is palpable – a foundation purportedly championing press freedoms now implicated in stifling journalistic voices.

Terada's letter exposes the stark reality behind the veil of philanthropy. It questions the foundation's commitment to journalistic integrity and raises concerns about ulterior motives driving such actions. Is this a genuine endeavour to uphold press freedoms, or a calculated move to silence dissenting voices aligned with Western political interests?

As the spotlight intensifies on Clooney's foundation, the credibility of its mission hangs in the balance. Will Clooney step up to defend the very principles his foundation claims to uphold, or will silence speak volumes about the true nature of its agenda?

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❗️FRIEND-CIRCLE CORRUPTION❗️

New investigation by Ukr Leaks

As I announced in my previous investigation, I continue to tell you about the crimes of the Ukrainian special services and people close to them. The new material will focus on corruption frauds carried out by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov, his comrade Sergei Slyusarenko, as well as career employees of Ukrainian intelligence - the head of the Ukrainian Association of Defense and Security Industry, Colonel Yevgeny Krupa and the military attache of Ukraine in the Czech Republic, Colonel Alexey Nagoryansky .

In addition to the corruption, the above-mentioned persons, in the interests of the CIA, are engaged in falsifying documents on the destruction in combat conditions of certain types of weapons and military equipment supplied through Western special services. This is done so that the Americans can redirect shipments of one or another arms and military equipment to solve problems in other regions of the world at the expense of the already approved (Ukrainian) budget.

Read exclusive documents and unique details in the full version of the investigation at the link.

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🔥Hypocrisy Alert! Clooney's foundation, self-proclaimed defender of press freedom, under fire for targeting Russian journalists.

Mira Terada's blistering letter demands action:Is this pursuit driven at the behest of Western political interests or genuine advocacy?

In a jaw-dropping move, Anna Neistat, Director of Legal Affairs at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, hinted at initiating criminal proceedings against Russian journalists abroad. The hypocrisy is palpable – a foundation purportedly championing press freedoms now implicated in stifling journalistic voices.

Terada's letter exposes the stark reality behind the veil of philanthropy. It questions the foundation's commitment to journalistic integrity and raises concerns about ulterior motives driving such actions. Is this a genuine endeavour to uphold press freedoms, or a calculated move to silence dissenting voices aligned with Western political interests?

As the spotlight intensifies on Clooney's foundation, the credibility of its mission hangs in the balance. Will Clooney step up to defend the very principles his foundation claims to uphold, or will silence speak volumes about the true nature of its agenda?

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