The Three Things (Ep. 15)--surveillance, extradition, mafia cocaine--and the Ukrainian war update...

Dear Hearts, yes, we are back after a one-week hiatus (Yours Truly had the flu), and there is much to discuss, including the new edition of The Corners Magazine (www.thecorners.pl); the Balkan tightrope; the truth about surveillance and the courts; the Sky ECC bust; the realities of extradition in the EU (and what is Cyprus thinking?) and the Ukrainian war update.

Each segment lasts approximately 15-20 minutes. Time stamps below:

6:36 The Sky ECC bust and what it has meant for the mafia--and the realities of surveillance and the risk of admissibility.
24:19 Extradition--the realities and absurdities of who gets extradited and who does not (Cyprus-Romanian content).
39:12 The Ukrainian war update--not much good news in that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy states there is no stalemate after his top general confirms that yes, there is a stalemate and the US worries over the stalemate and reportedly presses for negotiations with Russia--who likely does not want negotiations and does not see a stalemate... at all.

Photo attributions below:

Extradition photo--which is actually quite unrelated--by the No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Protest in Serbia by Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Sky logo Logo of Sky Global, a telecommunications network and service provider, at the time of its closure. SKY GLOBAL Inc.
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Serbia photo of Aleksandar Vucic by voice of America Voice of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vucic Leon E. Panetta, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Cocaine photo by United States Coast Guard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Pegasus surveillance art by Gibrán Aquino, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bug photo by 名乗る程の者ではない, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Cast of The Wire by Tim Pierce, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Viktor Bout extradition photos by Drug Enforcement Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Spanish flag by RelShot 263, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Øyvind Holmstad, CC BY-SA 4.0 ttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Vladimiar Putin by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Volodymyr Zelenskyy President Of Ukraine from Україна, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Reagan photo by Michael Evans, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Darko S. photo from Facebook, public domain.

All map photos by Deep State UA.