Life During Wartime

Putin chooses the all-out invasion path. 

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[henry]

“All-out” invasion? The tactical nukes taking Kiev were the tell.

This was not Normandy beach in June 44. This was capturing a few airports to keep NATO from landing supplies while occupying selected areas, and chasing Hunter’s paymasters out of Kiev.

The only thing “all-out” is Vindman’s comfort eating attack on the local Dunkin’ Donuts.

[sbwaters]

Henry, yours may not have been an "all-out invasion" but it was a "withering attack".

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/11/five-navy-seals-running-for-congress-to-save-america/
Yes

[clarice]

Correct, Henry. They don't want all of Ukraine and couldn't hold it if they did. The amount of B.S. in the news vastly exceeds my capacity to endure it.

[henry]

Sbw, “withering”

Vlad’s attack on Ukraine?

Or Vindman’s attack on the national donut reserve?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

No point in anyone commenting after henry's first. :)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Michael Smith from last thread;
"The EU as a GDP of $3.3 trillion, twice that of Russia's $1.48 trillion. Why isn't the EU capable of dealing with this issue?
America has its own border invasion to deal with."

Huh? The EU/Europe has a GDP somewhere north of $20 trillion while Russia's is ~$1.5 trillion. Although these numbers are always controversial and subject to nominal vs PPP and other measures, by any measure Europe dwarfs Russia's economy not by double but by a factor of ten or more.

[Pinandpuller]

The False Prophet and the Prince of Kiev

In its entry for the year 1071, the Primary Chronicle of Kiev states that a magician appeared in Novgorod. He pretended to be a god, deceiving many people and claiming that he knew beforehand everything that would happen. Prince Gleb hid an axe under his coat, came to the magician and asked: ‘Do you know what is going to happen tomorrow and this evening?’
The magician replied that he knew everything.
Then Gleb said: ‘Do you know what will happen to you today?’
The magician replied that he would perform great miracles.
Then Prince Gleb took the axe and killed him. The chronicler concluded that the magician’s soul had surrendered to the Devil.

[Pinandpuller]

You’re not ready for this, but your kids are gonna love it:

Saint Lawrence of Chernogov (1868-1950) on the confusion of Russia and Ukraine

"And it’s absolutely necessary to know, remember, and not forget that it was the Baptism of Rus’ (Russia), and not the baptism of Ukraine..."

"There was a secret Jewish capital in Poland. The Jews forced the Poles to try to conquer Rus’. When the Poles conquered part of Rus’, they rented it to the Jews, including Orthodox monasteries, churches and priests. The priests and Orthodox people could not perform any rite whatsoever without their permission. They pressed and oppressed the Orthodox [Christians] from every side, protecting Poland, Catholicism, and the Unia. It is not without reason that 'Golden Gritz' of blessed memory—Fool-for-Christ Grigory—used to cry out at the bazaar when they would beat him: 'Oh! The Jewish fists hurt!'

"The Jews hated the words 'Rus' and 'Russian,' so at first they called the Russian lands conquered by the Poles and rented out to them 'Malorossia' (Little Russia). Then they realized that it contained the word 'Ros,' and they named it Okraina. The word okraina is a disgraceful and humiliating word! What 'remote, outlying district'? What 'outback'? Why and for what is it 'okraina'?! You see, beyond this supposed Judeo-Polish 'outskirts' there lie other countries and states. And later, on their same orders, the Poles legitimatized the concepts of the Ukraine and Ukrainians to us, so that we would willingly forget our own name of 'Russian' forever, so that we would be torn away from Holy and Orthodox Rus' forever."

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Interesting that the Russkies went for Chernobyl first. I wonder what mischief Putin has in mind.

[Davod]

Please leave Dunkin Donuts out of this.

[Narciso]

see if this comment, summarizes things,

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/67295.html#comment-1054468

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

There was one bit of good news today amongst the disaster that is world news....

The Supreme Court granted cert to a suit brought by several states led by Arizona against the Biden Administration for abandoning the Public Charge Law, which says that people who apply for a green card (lawful permanent residence) or a visa to enter the U.S. must pass a “public charge” test – which looks at whether the person is likely to use certain government services in the future or have their application rejected.
This is a massive win for sane immigration enforcement.

[Narciso]

Lurch is always wrong, often on the other side,

https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1496797619825352706?fbclid=IwAR202CEHBPnUWvI6aCXn1TnchSvWTmiJfwuEM8jCS55KJOmlHkRj0_W2FZU

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--There was a secret Jewish capital in Poland. The Jews forced the Poles to try to conquer Rus’. When the Poles conquered part of Rus’, they rented it to the Jews, including Orthodox monasteries, churches and priests.--

Crikey, what a load of horseshit.
I've never understood why the Jews have these secret capitols and societies and banks and organizations. Since they have such magical powers that their tiny numbers can force the brave and numerous Poles to invade and conquer Russia and they can emasculate and suppress the mighty Germanic Aryan tribes, even in the 20th century, and subvert even the colossus Stalin, not to mention neuter the entire Arab and muslim world, you'd think they'd just set up a gigantic golden palace and demand tribute from all those under their magical spells.

[Narciso]

carrying over,

https://the-pipeline.org/how-the-greens-brought-war-to-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR1j8hn6n6RziPVHt6vgCXR0T2pXIujHmTD2H3XDJiO9CCvjIAiF3mZgw_s

[Narciso]

yes, that is very foolish thinking, the holomodor did not distinguish between catholics in the east, orthodox and the west and whatever tatars were remaining,

the west is addicted to this globalist post human twaddle, where unicorns roam free, Putin subscribes to hardier stuff,

[Narciso]

this venomous antisemitism spread by the protocols, did seem to manifest in the late state paroxyms of mid 19th century Russia after Alexander 2nd reform push, Pobestdenev, an acquaintance of Dostoevevsky, spread this gospel to his charges like Alexander and Nicholas,

[Neo]

DOW open -700
DOW close +94

The value of AAPL fluctuated more that $100 billion today

[Narciso]

yes they are rational as 'ferrits on double expresso*. these traders are,
* a dennis millerism from 1991,

[Melinda]

Enjoy.

1. Metabiota (thread) - produces bio agents under diplomatic cover at "secret" labs, then sells pandemic insurance and trackers to help countries get ahead of what they are putting out.
Company part of Pentagon's DRTA Program as well as funded by Rosemont Seneca (Hunter Biden)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1449865871577554948.html

[Narciso]

a reminder

https://babalublog.com/2022/02/24/february-24-1996-the-day-cubas-castro-dictatorship-shot-down-two-brothers-to-the-rescue-civilian-planes/#comment-175755

[clarice]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/24/nolte-you-can-thank-environmentalists-invasion-ukraine/
some startling figures on europe's energy dependence on Russia--something the crack administration never figured into their brilliant calculations.

[Neo]

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is expected to announce his resignation on Monday, according to a New York Times report Thursday. The report says Inhofe would remain in his seat through the end of the congressional session. Inhofe, 87, already announced after his reelection in 2020 that this would be his last term.

.. two years early

[Neo]

actually four years early

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Excellent article at the Pipeline, clarice.

[Narciso]

summing up

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/real-insight-on-russia-ukraine-and?r=1qo1e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR11rkdRUHa12ilE4HOHx7zGCHvuiwpQmKmFzFjPxcqsaSXMw2TwcNlWxqk&utm_source=url

[Davod]

Narciso. From your 4:08.

"...Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president could not restrain himself. “Welcome to the new world where Europeans will soon have to pay 2,000 euros per thousand cubic meters.” Were I a friend of Chancellor Scholz I’d whisper in his ear a suggestion from Andrew A Michta, that the best way to show Putin you mean business is not to make an unlikely threat but rather to halt the plan to shut down its three remaining nuclear reactors in Emsland, Isar and Neckarwestheim that the post-Merkel Germans have foolishly scheduled to shut down this year..."

[Neo]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday picked a redistricting map that was designed by a Stanford professor and proposed by Democrat plaintiffs.

One Democrat justice, Debra Todd, sided with two Republican justices in dissent from the 4-3 decision to create a map dubbed the “Carter Plan,” which greatly pleased Democrats. The map creates eight red districts and six blue districts with three districts as a tossup.

Article I of the Constitution empowers state legislatures to draw congressional lines. Both chambers of the Pennsylvania legislature are controlled by Republicans. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is controlled by justices regarded as partisan Democrats.

Democrat “lawfare” lawyer, Marc Elias, who has been credited with thwarting Republicans in multiple 2020 election battles throughout the nation celebrated the court’s decision as “fair.”
https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2022/02/24/pennsylvania-supreme-court-decides-4-3-democrat-redistricting-map/

[Pinandpuller]

What St. Lawrence of Chernogov (1868-1950) spoke of Communism

Besides the gift of healing, Lawrence was known for his gift of prophecy. He lived in Ukraine.

He predicted the fall of Communism: "They disdained piety and loved demonic impiety. And that for many years they lauded and glorified, and went a-worshipping the destroyed of the country: the soviet-atheist idol, and also the graven image, Stalin, venerating his name as immortal."

He said that when the demons threw Lenin into hell, there was great rejoicing among the demons - a celebration in hell. And he added, that when Stalin arrives in hell, the same thing will happen. Their memory will perish with a resounding noise.

...Faith and the former rejoicing will return - only for a short time. For the Dread Judge will come to judge the living and the dead.

He reminded the church:
“And they do not remember, that there is One God, one Faith and Baptism... The Lord Jesus Christ created one Church, over which even the gates of hell cannot prevail."

[clarice]

Thanks, Iggy.

[Melinda]

How the port of Santos (Brazil) became the world’s cocaine export hub

https://splash247.com/how-the-port-of-santos-became-the-worlds-cocaine-export-hub/

[Narciso]

word salad

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/24/joe-biden-holds-a-press-conference-declaring-no-one-expected-the-sanctions-to-prevent-anything-from-happening/

[Narciso]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f6df1fa2-9269-11ec-9aec-82f0032d4cd3?shareToken=d08b47d60af1894cfa10719f0e17bb95 desantis or noem under fire

[Jane]

Got a link Clarice?

[jimmyk]

“I've never understood why the Jews have these secret capitols and societies and banks and organizations. Since they have such magical powers that their tiny numbers can force the brave and numerous Poles to invade and conquer Russia and they can emasculate and suppress the mighty Germanic Aryan tribes, even in the 20th century, and subvert even the colossus Stalin, not to mention neuter the entire Arab and muslim world, you'd think they'd just set up a gigantic golden palace and demand tribute from all those under their magical spells.”

Reminds me of the old joke about the Jew in 1930s Germany whose friend sees him reading Der Sturmer. “Why are you reading that instead of the Jewish paper?” “The Jewish paper is always reporting about this or that calamity. According to this paper, we own all the banks and control the world financial system!”

[Narciso]

well most of it dissapeared with the privat bank collapse

https://cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/conservative-jd-vance-we-spent-6-billion-failed-ukrainian-army

[Jane]

Never mind. Andural (spelled wrong) posted it. Great article Clarice!

[Melinda]

Crapload more than that, narc.

[Narciso]

jay newman's attempt at michael thomas or andrew gross, undermoney, scooter libby was one of those who advised on the plot,

[MissMarple2]

I see things are still in a mess. I have been watching Midsomer Murders and finishing a needlepoint project. I needed a news break.

We are now having freezing rain, but by next week it will be in the 50’s again.

[Narciso]

we'll see:

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/02/24/putin-begins-to-pay-in-blood-for-his-ukrainian-misadventure-n527552

[Davod]

Narciso. During the last Russia/Ukraine flareup I recall reading that some Ukrainians were using armored personnel carriers and tanks for suicide attacks.

[Narciso]

insanity

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/24/the-erasure-of-jk-rowling/

[Melinda]

Still seeing Putin's speeches complaining of US bioweapons labs in UK from last summer as something a bit under reported, including their destruction in the western city of Lviv by cruise missles, left undeterred in flight over Kiev.

Most odd.

DARPA & State Dept sites say we fund many such labs in Ukraine.

Wuhan?

[Melinda]

Bioweapons labs in Ukraine, not United Kingdom, just to be clear.

[Narciso]

sometimes you shouldnt consume your own propaganda, wasn't this supposed to be in kazakhstan,

[bubarooni]

If the Russkies are following the 'deep operation' doctrine inherited from the Sovs, we are currently in the 'tactical deep battle' phase of the operation.

Everything we have seen so far is part of that and prepatory for the next phase, 'deep battle operations'.

That is when they deploy their reserves to exploit that tactical success to achieve their war aims.

My guess is those war aims are to take Kiev, install a puppet government that declares peace and declare victory.

Everything after that, and their will be a lot, is mop up.

[Melinda]

bu/ac @buperac
5m
So the group of people that are pushing the Great Reset, that want to impose a social credit score, that want to ban free speech, that pushed an untested vaxx and forced it on kids, they all don’t like Russia
I have nothing in common with those anti-humanists.

@Linzo771
Replying to @buperac
They really don’t like Russia..they’ve got the bots spewing out their narrative

https://twitter.com/Linzo771/status/1497015609929863171

[Narciso]

granted, but don't do things that feed into blofeld's grubby paws, like the two incidents that forced trumps hand, or the in bruges boys in salisbury,

[Neo]

Sally Kellerman, original Hot Lips from 'M*A*S*H,' dead at 84

[Narciso]

oh good grief, you don't want to go full general ripper, I know it's spam but even then you should have quality control

[bubarooni]

There could be a second phase after 'victory', a guerrilla style campaign. That would be a different affair though from the conventional war they are currently locked in and which the Uks are hopelessly outclassed.

I'm rooting for the Uks though. As an I.U. fan I'm used to rooting for the underdog.

[Davod]

Melinda - I read about this much earlier. The only reason they do this outside of the US is because the research could be considered black research. Beyond the pale.

[Melinda]

Saving your owners? isn't that a bit obvious now?

Breaking Market News
@breakingmkts
EU'S VON DER LEYEN SAYS STEPS AGREED BY EU LEADERS INCLUDE FINANCIAL SANCTIONS, TARGETING 70% OF THE RUSSIAN BANKIN... twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

https://twitter.com/breakingmkts/status/1497022762254319627

Just like Biden's "Muh Sanctions" carve outs saving Abramovich, Putin's own Gazprom, and Oleg Deripaska....

[Narciso]

thats a likely circumstance, because the animosity of the occupied and the occupiers are probably uniquely bitter, and that's saying something,

[Narciso]

well that seems nearly as stupid as the invasion, you have no army, how do you think that is going to go,

[Melinda]

Davod-

From some of my sources, there were 8 US "BioLabs" taken out on the first strike. The most important "things" to whomever is running things behind Zelensky.

[Melinda]

"Yakimenko noted that in the building of the Security Service of Ukraine in Kiev, one floor was transferred for the work of the CIA employees."

https://en.topwar.ru/43842-glava-sbu-nalivaychenko-okazalsya-agentom-cru.html

Use salt on that one.

[Pinandpuller]

We have to retweet them there so we don’t have to retweet them here.

[Narciso]

that wouldn't surprise me, the converse would be unusual,

[Narciso]

indeed,

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/general-michael-flynn-releases-statement-ukrainian-crisis-calls-joe-biden-string-mistakes-fantasies-lies/

[bubarooni]

after ww2, it took the rooskies into the 1950's to stamp out ukranian nationalism. they been there and done that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#End_of_UPA_resistance

[Neo]

…”Ultimately, the goal of our sanctions is to make this a strategic failure for Russia; and let’s define a little bit of what that means. Strategic success in the 21st century is not about a physical land grab of territory; that’s what Putin has done. In this century, strategic power is increasingly measured and exercised by economic strength, by technological sophistication and your story – who you are, what your values are; can you attract ideas and talent and goodwill? And on each of those measures, this will be a failure for Russia.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

Next, they tell us that Putin has signed up for gender reassignment

[Narciso]

they believe in unicorns too, that's what simon schuster was lip synching from obama, I'm not going to deny that economic and other optics enter into it, but that isn't sufficient,

[Davod]

Mount Fuji as an island in a stream of clouds (4).

https://twitter.com/i/status/1496113281890766858

[Davod]

Nature reclaiming everything (1:08)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1496199684980887561

[Davod]

Would you do this (17)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1496125426858700800

[Davod]

The world needs this (5)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1496736770242797569

[Narciso]

oh

https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1497034038636335114?cxt=HHwWlMCymdmhxMYpAAAA

[Davod]

The art is right there (2:14)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1496221715684368389

[Davod]

Canada is a free nation

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/free%20nation.jpg

[Davod]

Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia

"...But they were told at the time that the United States and Western powers — so certainly at least the United States and Great Britain — take their political commitments really seriously. This is a document signed at the highest level by the heads of state. So the implication was Ukraine would not be left to stand alone and face a threat should it come under one.

...
So they had this faith that the West would stand by them, or certainly the United States, the signatories, and Great Britain, would stand up for Ukraine should it come under threat. Although, the precise way was not really proscribed in the memorandum..."

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion

[bubarooni]

They should've got it in writing Davod. Like a treaty maybe.

[Davod]

Head artist (2:20)

https://twitter.com/i/status/1496205924519792640

[Davod]

bubarooni: "...And I think perhaps there was even a certain sense of complacency on the Ukrainian part after signing this agreement to say, "Look, we have these guarantees that were signed," because incidentally, into Ukrainian and Russian, this was translated as a guarantee, not as an assurance..."

[bubarooni]

Davod, I feel bad for the Uks.

They are toast.

No one, including those who should, are gonna fight for them.

[Melinda]

Biden has made his SCOTUS pick.

Because that's crucial right now.

[GUS]

MEL, my friend, PUDDING CUP JOE, has NOTHING to do with the upcoming SCOTUS CHOICE. Sloppy Joe's only influence, is and will be his pandering CRAP about picking a NEGRO LADY. The COMMIE HANDLERS, will see to it that THEIR PICK is in line with PUDDING CUPS ridiculous pandering bullshit. We are so far down the rabbit hole, that it makes me pray for my Son's future. Any normal American with an IQ of 100+ should have ALWAYS KNOWN, that PUDDING CUP SLOPPY JOE BIDEN, is/was an utter clown buffoon.
A lying bloviating bullshitting pretend tough guy. AND HERE WE ARE. Is MAGUIRE recognizing what he supported??? I don't have time to read his pathetic CRAP.
God bless you Mel. Call me, we should have lunch my friend.

[GUS]

Bubarooni, has BURISMA called in METH-HUNTER to save the ENERGY SECTOR of UKRAINE yet????

[jim nj]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2309566-largest-ever-family-tree-of-humanity-reveals-our-species-history/

Largest ever family tree of humanity reveals our species' history

A genealogy of humans constructed from thousands of genomes gives us clues about where our species first evolved and how we spread across the world

To my way of thinking using the word "genealogy" is incorrect. A "genealogy" is based on provable facts.

This is more like a supposition. Take 3,609 complete genomes scattered through time and link them with millions of partial variants through expected deviations and wallah, a "genealogy."

As a likelihood, rather than a fact, they may well be correct. If so, the results are interesting.

"The new genealogy also contains hints of early journeys. It suggests that people were living in Papua New Guinea 140,000 years ago, almost 100,000 years before the earliest documented inhabitants. Similarly, it indicates people in the Americas 56,000 years ago, despite many archaeologists having settled on 18,000 years ago as the earliest entrance."

That immigration to the America's date keeps getting pushed back further in time with each new theory.

[Pinandpuller]

‘The day that it [the Russian people] has been waiting for has come, and it is now truly rising from the dead in those places where the courageous German sword has succeeded in severing its fetters… Both ancient Kiev , and much-suffering Smolensk and Pskov are radiantly celebrating their deliverance as if from the depths of hell. The liberated part of the Russian people everywhere has already begun to chant: “Christ is risen!”’

— Metropolitan Anastasy of ROCOR, Paschal Epistle, 1942

[Pinandpuller]

"The peoples of Asia, in turn, are more servile than those of Europe […] they will therefore tolerate despotic rule without any complaint”

— Politics, Aristotle (4th Century BC)

[Jim Eagle]

Good morning.

Kiev has always been part of Russia: At least in the recipe world.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/18481/chicken-kiev/

[henry]

Ah yes, the rubber chicken of in person conferences.

[clarice]

https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2022/02/25/bidens-putin-appeasement-has-been-years-in-the-making-n2603753

[henry]

Total bs covering for Biden actively harming everyone. Biden could easily tell EPA to stuff it’s methane rules, undo his hold on oil and gas leases, allow a pipeline or three to be built, and cut Putin off at his knees.

@WSJ

Russia’s attack on Ukraine is boosting oil prices, and the Biden administration has few effective tools to counter the trend

[Neo]

Hacking Group Anonymous Declares ‘Cyber War’ Against Russia
https://twentytwowords.com/hacking-group-anonymous-declares-cyber-war-against-russia/

Was binge watching Quantico and they had a group called "The Unknowns" that the FBI seemed to know everything they were doing while they were doing it, but they never got caught.
Makes you wonder if Anonymous is a quasi-governmental, ‘plausible deniability’ group.

[clarice]

https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-miami-florida-environment-024ebc960fb018446e6f8c5a8f733ed7

morons

[MissMarple2]

My fondest hope is that all of these global warming morons suffer through a winter like we had from 78 through 80 after the Mount St. Helen eruption.

Until I see Obama selling his beachfront property at a discount, I consider the entire thing a sham.

[Neo]

Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell
Kyiv and Kharkiv are being bombed. The largest invasion on our planet since WW2. Republicans are rooting for the Russians. God be with Ukraine and democracy.
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1496684825251569666

I wonder if that is Eric or his Syphilis talking

[henry]

Yeah, he glossed over Korea, Vietnam, Iran / Iraq, a couple gulf wars…

But he says whatever Xi’s agent Fang tells him to say.

[clarice]

About Biden's SCOTUs pick:He picked her over Childs who was Clyburn, Manchin and Graham's choice because he wants a fight, hoping it will recapture black voters IMO.

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/trump-talks-threatening-putin-mocking-merkel-at-mar-a-lago/

[Neo]

interesting caption to a Ukraine photo ..

Bodies of Russian servicemen wearing Ukrainian service uniforms lie inside and beside a vehicle after their raiding party was shot during a skirmish in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 25th, 2022.

[Neo]

"Covid Forever" was a dream. Like communism,

real covid has never been tried.

[MissMarple2]

https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-coral-reef-study-wipes-out-four-climate-alarmist-narratives/

[Neo]

One [story] has it that Trump - noting that Putin seized land from Georgia when George W. Bush was president and seized the Crimean peninsula when Barack Obama was president - warned Putin against a land grab on his watch.

"If you move against Ukraine while I'm president," Trump is said to have told the Russian leader, "I will hit Moscow."

https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/trump-talks-threatening-putin-mocking-merkel-at-mar-a-lago/

[Davod]

Forwarded because I like the Gunnie.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/pylevindjoe.jpg

[Davod]

"These things all tend to start with a bang and end with a whimper. Trump must be the most honest man in politics and business to have withstood all these investigations."

Glen Reynolds