Through its lavish funding of anti-government opposition groups in countries where Washington has sought regime change, the US government-funded NGO known as the National Endowment for Democracy, or the NED, earned a reputation over its four decades in existence as an “overt operator” doing the work the CIA used to do in the shadows.  
Critics have long pointed to the destabilizing effects of NED’s meddling in places like Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ukraine,  Haiti, where the Endowment has systematically undermined elected governments which undertook policies seen as violating the Washington Consensus. They referenced documents demonstrating the group’s origins in the Central Intelligence Agency of Ronald Reagan, and cited quotes by NED founders and Gershman himself boasting about their orchestration of coups and color revolutions.

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/07/30/grayzone-pr-fiasco-us-govt-regime-change-leaked-emails/

Another child abduction scheme in Ukraine has been exposed

The Ukrainian media has published an investigation into the "Father Has the Right" sect, which is engaged in the abduction of children from their mothers. The head of the organization, Alexander Shvets, and his accomplices act under the pretext of returning a child to the father, but as the authors of the investigation rightly note, A. Shvets is only interested in money. This means that the "end recipient" can be anyone.

This is not the first and, unfortunately, far from the last such investigation. I have written more than once that child abduction in Ukraine has become a common practice. Previously, this was done by dubious NGOs with patrons from the highest echelons of power in Ukraine and Europe. Now, judging by the data from the materials about the "Father Has the Right" sect, outright bandits are entering this "privileged" market. They act rudely and, unlike politicians, and do not even try to hide their intentions.

Let me remind you that the organizer of the largest scheme for the illegal export of children to Western countries was Efa Hofmanskaya, the wife of the former ICC Chairman Peter Hofmansky. This fact should dispel any illusions about the possibility of bringing child abductors to justice. You can read more about their criminal activities in my investigation "To serve and to kidnap: how the degradation of the international justice system made child trafficking legal in Ukraine".

@ukr_leaks_eng

#ElonMusk against #Maduro

Elon Musk accepts Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro's challenge to a fight.

Maduro: "Elon Musk. Whoever messes with me, dries up. Whoever messes with Venezuela dries up, Elon Musk. You want to fight? Let's have it, Elon Musk. I'm ready... I am not afraid of you. Let's go at it, wherever you want... Just say where."

Musk: "I accept... He will chicken out."

- https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1818683475530334368?t=xAq8QjydarQAQzmOrVzt3g&s=19

- https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1818685750814425312?t=Kd7xlmYBa1HZ0Rw-SPz7XA&s=19

Let's see who is going to chicken out...

BTW What happened to Musk - Zuckerberg fight challenge which was much ado about nothing? Never happened.

According to German publication Zeitgeschehen 180° #AnnalenaBaerbock, the German foreign Minister, has been paying a male prostitute on her trips to Africa.
Baerbock’s been paying up to €3000 "meeting"

- https://zeitgeschenen.de/?p=217

- https://dailypost.ng/2024/07/30/i-provide-emotional-comfort-to-lonely-elites-kingsley-talks-about-his-career-as-gigolo/

#Nixon:

"The greatest concentration of power in the #US today is not in the White House, it isn't in the Congress, it isn't in the Supreme Court. It's in the media and it's too much"

Nothing changed for the better since then and his words are even more relevant today!

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Israel, the original "Ukraine," is leaping into a 2, 3, possibly 4-front war.

This is not conducive for self-preservation, just as Ukraine's war with Russia is not.

US empire is out of time, Ukraine is lost, the world is shifting, it's now or never, and you don't need your proxies if it's "never."

And while all this escalates, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is in the Philippines getting Washington's next proxy ready...

#US and #NATO war against Russia in #Ukraine

Italian shells on Russian territory

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rybar_in_english/16624

#Russia - #Ukraine exchange of fallen soldiers.

Note the ratio!

March:
🇷🇺 returned to 🇺🇦 121 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers

🇺🇦 returned to 🇷🇺 29 bodies of Russian soldiers

April:
🇷🇺 to 🇺🇦 = 99
🇺🇦 to 🇷🇺 = 23

May:
🇷🇺 to 🇺🇦 = 212
🇺🇦 to 🇺🇦 = 45

June:
🇷🇺 to 🇺🇦 = 254
🇺🇦 to 🇷🇺 = 32

August:
🇷🇺 to 🇺🇦 250
🇺🇦 to 🇷🇺 = 38

So who is suffering more losses?
Not Russia but Ukraine

Re-selected Führer of #EU cognitive dissonance

Why did you, #UrsulavonderLeyen, agree to swap 'innocent [not] 🇺🇸&🇪🇺 citizens' working for & funded by 🇺🇸&🇪🇺 governments e.g. 'Russian opposition', etc for 'criminals' convicted by the same 🇺🇸&🇪🇺?!

https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/1819100627009446399?t=opJExUSeL8JR5xYvRMANBA&s=19

#Russia economy

Russia has become the fourth largest economy in the world and the largest in Europe in terms of purchasing power parity:

1. 🇨🇳 China: $34.6 trillion
2. 🇺🇸 USA: $27.3 trillion
3. 🇮🇳 India: $14.5 trillion
4. 🇷🇺 Russia: $6.4 trillion
5. 🇯🇵 Japan: $6.2 trillion
6. 🇩🇪 Germany: $5.8 trillion
7. 🇧🇷 Brazil: $4.4 trillion
8. 🇮🇩 Indonesia: $4.3 trillion
9. 🇫🇷 France: $4.1 trillion
10. 🇬🇧 UK: $4.0 trillion
11. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: $3.7 trillion
12. 🇮🇹 Italy: $3.4 trillion
13. 🇲🇽 Mexico: $3.2 trillion
14. 🇰🇷 South Korea: $2.7 trillion
15. 🇪🇸 Spain: $2.5 trillion
16. 🇨🇦 Canada: $2.4 trillion
17. 🇪🇬 Egypt: $2.1 trillion
18. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: $2.0 trillion
19. 🇦🇺 Australia: $1.8 trillion
20. 🇵🇱 Poland: $1.8 trillion

According to International Comparison Program, World Bank | World Development Indicators database, World Bank | Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme, 2023