Let’s see…Spy Wednesday…what’s out there….
In recent weeks we discovered the following about the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin:
** Operatives stuffed 957,077 new registrations into the state voter rolls in the 10 months preceding the election, or 29% of the total vote.
** There was 100% turnout in nursing homes in Zuckerberg-funded Wisconsin cities – they stole the votes from seniors.
** The voter rolls were deliberately not cleaned in the state with millions of extra names.
** The state election commission charged Republicans $12,500 for data requests but Democrats were given similar data requests for free.
** 7% of the ballots were illegally trafficked – over 137,000 votes!
** At least 107 ballot traffickers were identified in the state.
When it all appears in a list like that, it’s kind of hard to ignore.
About the diamonds:
Oh, and by the way, under a lupe every diamond is unique. The flaws are specific.
And thanks to DeBeers, they’re worth a lot of money.
Ukraine…a psy-op in many ways?
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The Western intelligence apparatus won the information war in Ukraine before a shot was fired. Even new publications like the Kyiv Independent have received support from NGOs that do in public what the CIA used to do in private. My story in @HumanEvents +🧵
The Independent is a good example. It’s got growing subscriber base now, but according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was created with an “emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy,” a spinoff of the National Endowment for Democracy. What is the NED?
On the surface, it’s an NGO that promotes civil society worldwide by, among other things, sponsoring and providing training for journalists and activists directly or indirectly. The reality, however, is different.Here’s ProPublica’s characterization: “The National Endowment for Democracy was established by Congress, in effect, to take over the CIA’s covert propaganda efforts. But, unlike the CIA, the NED promotes U.S. policy and interests openly.”
The NED’s co-founder, Allen Weinstein, admitted as much. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” he said in an interview with the Washington Post entitled, “Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups.” washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…“The biggest difference is that when such activities are done overtly, the flap potential [i.e., embarrass or embroil the CIA in controversy] is close to zero,” Weinstein said. Recall that in 1967, Ramparts magazine humiliated the agency by exposing . . .
. . . that it had turned the National Student Association’s international activities into “an arm of United States foreign policy” through undercover financing and secret collaboration. Now, “Openness is its own protection,” as Weinstein put it.
In fall 2021, a profile of the Independent’s chief editor, Olga Rudenko, appeared in ProMarket, a publication of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Rudenko was visiting the school for a journalism development program.
According to ProMarket, she is also a board member at the Media Development Foundation, an NGO that has received at least $225,140 from the NED. You won’t find that without a digital archive because the NED’s records of funding projects in Ukraine was recently moved or deleted. The archived page shows that from 2014 to the present, the NED has granted $22,394,281 through 334 awards to Ukraine. However, since the change, the NED only allows users to search back to 2017.
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Jim Jordan just says it.
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MATTHEW 26:14-25
14Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him. 17Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the passover?” 18He said, “Go into the city to a certain one, and say to him, `The Teacher says, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at your house with my disciples.'” 19And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the passover. 20When it was evening, he sat at table with the twelve disciples; 21and as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” 23He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me. 24The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” 25Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Is it I, Master?” He said to him, “You have said so.”
When COVID hit, I was part of a group working on The Song of Mark by Marty Haugen. The music itself and the voices are not the greatest, but the text…like Monty Python, imagine what went on around the Passion that was out of eye and earshot of the Evangelists.
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It is quite clear, as per Wolf’s message from July, that we are under spiritual attack. Building up a robust arsenal of prayer and discipline is a must in fighting the enemy and his minions.
In that spirit, the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel from Tuesday’s threads, and the Breastplate of St. Patrick, not to mention the Litany of Humility are favorites recommended by exorcists in spiritual warfare.
And JP comes through again.
CAMELS!!!!
I know what tomorrow brings!
Hump day.
Do this in remembrance of me.
I once worked at a place where the owner and CEO was Italian. Many of the workers were hispanic. And every year, during Holy Week, the natives grew restless about time off on Friday. So the owner instituted a custom that, starting at about 10:00 AM on Friday, anyone could go into his office and have a brief talk — and either leave with full pay or go back to work. Mind you, this was good fun back in the ’80’s but would probably have the entire Federal Government try to crush you today.
After the door closed and people sat down, the talk started with, “so, you want time off because of Good Friday. What does it commemorate?”
Mind you, it wouldn’t have mattered if the respondent were Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Moslem, Shinto, atheist, Buddhist, Animist, Mormon, or (*shudder*) Baptist — if you got the right answer, you could go pack your stuff and leave for the day.
If the employee got it wrong, they got a very, very abbreviated version that went something like, “according to Christian doctrine, Jesus took upon himself the sins of the world and was tortured and crucified as sacrifice for them. Good Friday is when the sacrifice was accepted and Jesus died.”
It was amazing how many nominal Catholics were surprised and shocked by this.
Many returned to work — and we usually closed shop around 3:00 anyway because things were getting non-productive. Some got feisty in the interview and said that they wanted to talk to their priest — they were released along with the informed. Some of us knew, but just worked because things needed to get done.
But it was always very funny when people tried to say, “I should have paid time off because of Good Friday” when they had no idea what it meant.
I would take off at noon on Good Friday using vacation hours. In the years I was a section leader in the Cathedral Choir I took the day off as the service was at three and it was a killer.
Wife and I have Good Friday as a paid holiday. Working for the state gov’t.
Some people just insist on making an ash of themselves.
Instead of camels, maybe we should try a teeter-totter. Just for fun.
I was having the urge to get an adult-size swing set. Thanks for the reminder!
My inadvertent good deed for the day. 😄
Those are some of the best. 😀
You wanna do this?
I was messing with cthulhu.
China Joe. BOMBED. With a bomb made in America.
Camel day!!!
And again we’re only singly-humped this week.
OK, more seriously, I went to a local meeting of a conservative women’s group and they had Tina Peters on a virtual link. She’s planning to continue the fight of course, as she runs to replace the odious Jena Griswold for Secretary of State (which here, at least, is in charge of elections).
The candidate I met months ago decided to step aside and let her do it; he’s running for the county commission.
WHOA! That’s AWESOME.
So this could explain why the communists indicted Peters, if they thought she might seek higher office.
Alternatively, she decided to run for higher office only after she uncovered the rampant fraud. Of course that would still be before the indictments.
BTW what she did wasn’t illegal, and this is implicitly admitted by the fact that there is a bill in the legislature right now to make it illegal.
WOW. Interesting. Just like the bill to prohibit Pence from actually doing his job in the Electoral College! It proves that he could have – at least to me.
In both cases, it’s possible the current situation is ambiguous rather than clearly in our favor, thus arguable either way [not just our way] and the bills are being passed to ensure the “other” reading for the future.
Thinking – “SteveInCo” is not a “he” you’re a “her”? 😉
Awesome!
Nah. Getting close-up and stirring interest amongst the local womenfolk. “How ’bout you come to my place and pet my lizard?” wasn’t working out so well.
Nope, assuredly a “he.”
Did you have that signed-off by a biologist?
meet Ivan !
A Weekend With An Amish Farmer 💖
so cool !
Witness, 1985
soundscore by Maurice Jarre
one of the best movies ever made !
beautiful soundscore
Ah, Maurice Jarre. Dr. Zhivago and Laurence of Arabia. 👍🏻
Whoa!! This is an amazing wave and the surfer rode it.
what a thrill that must’ve been !
amazing
Watch the video at the 17 second mark onward. He surfs through a Q.
OMG, that’s hilarious! “Watch The Water”.
THIS ONE I BELIEVE!!! 😉
From today’s postings…
“The Russian military found an UAV with liquid containers and sprayers on the territory of one of the military units abandoned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine”
(several, with pictures)
https://t.me/intelslava/25072
Someone posted some tweets by Russian with an Attitude yesterday and I believe we saw his posts a few times before bringing the the other side of the story. Well, last night Twitter Suspended his account.
Only Ukrainian-Bidenazi propaganda allowed! No Russian! Them’s the rulez!
This shows EXACTLY how the Ukrainian Nazi influence is SATANIZING Ukraine.
Yes… no mention that it is an annual TRADITION, which it is…
America’s Huge Natural Gas Reserves – Watts Up With That?
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, April 13, 2022
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“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
Matthew 5:14 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
BABY LIVES MATTER
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.
AMEN.
Wanna read something scary……
The DemocRATS are scared and scrambling…the two most ambitious Demon-rats ever – Hillrotten and Øbastard – Schumer, Schiff, et al, have to be scheming about how they can take the presidency over and put pathetic pigeon poop President Joe out to pasture. The behind the scenes wrestling has to be at near violence levels.
Here’s an interesting article from a Christian site that lays out the scary possibilities:
The Brew: Obama Eye-Balling a Constitutional Loophole to Take Over Biden’s Last Two Years?
“If I did, whatchu think you can do about it, sucker?
Quotes:
“The Return of Barack?
Yes, it’s Holy Week. But it’s also 202 days to Halloween. Close enough to conjour up a fright, courtesy of Andrea Widburg over at American Thinker. (Here’s the link. Children may want to cover their eyes.)
Widburg saw all that fawning over Barack Obama last week. How he brushed aside Joe Biden like a piece of lint on his fancy suit. How he called Biden “Vice President” … lamely passing it off as a joke.
Widburg posed “an admittedly wild theory about how Obama may intend to fix things: Obama’s aiming to get back into the Oval Office.” Crazy?
Not so crazy. The 22nd Amendment says a person cannot be “elected more than twice.” And cannot serve more than two years of another’s term. So in reality, a president isn’t limited to two terms. They’re limited to 10 years. Meaning, Obama has two years, if he can arrange it.
Widburg imagines Harris getting dumped first, with Obama being named VP, and then Biden resigning. It could work the other way too. Biden out, Obama named Harris’ VP. Certainly Obama could figure some way to push Harris out. Obama’s made a career out of disposing of politicians who stand in his way … by any means necessary.
Gov. Mike Huckabee comments on Widburg’s theory in the context of the media’s sudden interest in the Hunter Biden story: “Who pulled the switch and got the mainstream media in gear on this story. Our thought is that it’s none other than former President Obama pulling the strings.”
See “Watch Out: How the Left Will Play the Biden Scandal.”
The Guv is right. The media is now in gear. The latest? Yahoo! News reporting on the curious business ties between Biden, Inc. and the criminally charged Chinese businessman Patrick Ho. “New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questions.” Note the article is co-written by Michael Isikoff. If this longtime DNC asset is going after Hunter, that’s a good sign the word has gone out.
Link to live links – https://stream.org/the-brew-obama-eye-balling-a-constitutional-loophole-to-take-over-bidens-last-two-years/
Seems like if Obamination did want to do this, Dems don’t use rules unless they feel like it. Honestly I think Harris would gladly cede over the presidency to him. They installed her for a reason. I don’t think we’ve seen what they wanted her there to do yet
Astute observation.
^^^ Quite the asterisk for the first “women” pResident. Blew her way into various position(s). Not a clue how to LEAD, nor a Strategic instinct in her head.
She doesn’t even appear to be ambitious for power or accolades. She’s had plenty of opportunities to outshine Potatus, so many times she could’ve shown that she, not potatus, is on top of the issues and can function.
She’s coasting.
VPs are NOT supposed to outshine the pResident.
Hoe has underdelivered in spades, being more WORTHLESS than BiteMe.
Not an easy feat, with feeble dementia dummy BiteMe as “46”.
Harris is barely more coherent than Biden.
Hoe specializes in utter nonsense… She babbles AND NEVER delivers anything tangible.
GWP Video at the link.
Listen to Kamala Harris’ Brilliant Answer When Asked What the Biden Admin is Doing to Combat Inflation
“I acknowledge one must acknowledge that prices are going up, and that people are working hard and, in many cases, are worried about whether they can get through the end of the month and make it all work,” Harris said.
“What I can say is that people deserve to know that their president, that our administration, is concerned enough to do something about it, so that is what we are doing,” she added.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/listen-kamala-harris-brilliant-answer-asked-biden-admin-combat-inflation/
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Making this worse, Hoe IS being coached on talking points, delivery…
Perhaps Harris is also an “actor” ?
For their side – not ours.
She does have a real double, who she has used, and got caught using, but that double only passes with a mask on.
The DEMONRATS are Hell-bent on bringing the DESOLATION of the Øbamanation…
Not realizing they’re going to have to swim in the Lake of Fire…
I’d like to believe the Senate, UNIPARTY, would NOT APPROVE hussein.
But, they are all on the same team, that OPPOSES America..
Yup.
The Bidenazi military and the Gaystapo/Jillboots Faction in the Pentagram love Hussein. Farkas isn’t the only one with banjo eyes for NATObama!
I talked about a version of this last week. They’ll get rid of Joe, and Harris will appoint him VP. Appointed not elected.
We can all conjecture based on their personalities and past modus operandi….
Will they also dump Pelosi and appoint another Dem Speaker?
Will they try to reinstitute the crooked ballot boxes?
Nominated, not appointed. Must be ratified by Senate IIRC.
By both houses, no? I just looked up Nelson Rockefeller. So if they get rid of Joe before November you don’t imagine the usual suspects would confirm Barry?
Both House AND Senate IS my understanding.
Hmmm. Two Ho(e)s and a Joe… Typicsl DEMONRATS… Eating their own…
An Ø, 2 hoes and a Joe.
And an order of curly fries & coke / sniff sniff
Fox and Friends happening NOW – Showing over and over 1st Charter bus from Del Rio, Texas with 23 illegals arriving in DC…..Several Venezuelans, happy to be here, want to work, want to go to Miami
Game of chicken going on, Now Creepy has stopped dumping illegals in Texas so there aren’t as many to put on the Charter busses. Where oh where are they dumping them now???
Watch the airfields at night.
So Gov. Abbott is engaging in human trafficing just like #FJB. Check…
Interesting take – but literally true.
Yeah, why not turn south and dump them over the border in Mexico or keep going to S America?
I thought the bus could hold over 40. What happened?
Might want to read this one from Karl today. Wolf, you may have a take on his conclusions. Data being what it is and all…
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker-Nad
My take on this is, a once every six months dose of Ivermectin can’t hurt, and may PREVENT CANCER, so what’s the downside of taking a dose every six months?
That’s the way I read it too. Good way to use the horse paste before it expires sine I’m not to worried about the CV as other things though used minimally, seem to be working fine. 😉
Expiration date does not mean the medicine is not safe to use.
That too!
Same here.
Down side of a dose every six months? This fool thinks none.
I do wonder why six months. Guess it is conveniently based on the frequency ~30 African countries take Ivermectin for parasite problems.
As for myself, weekly until Covidiocy fully goes away. More frequently IF WEF sends us another Covidiot strain.
After Covidiocy fades, perhaps monthly, with potential cancer in mind. Family has a history of cancer. Rumors also hold Ivermectin likely has other benefits, which escape my memory at this point.
Yea, I know less meds is generally better. IVM may be one worth taking. At least for me.
My sentiments exactly. Mostly, no meds is better. But I have to admit – I came out of my SECOND case of COVID not just feeling GREAT, but most of my “long haul” symptoms from the first case were GONE.
The main difference was treating the second case with IVM, aspirin, and antihistamines.
You’ve quite helpfully shared lots of personal info, regarding your bouts of Covid.
I missed, or forgot the following.
^^^ Absolutely great news. ^^^
This was posted the other day, I apologize I do not remember who posted this.
https://search.nih.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=nih&query=Ivermectin+and+cancer&commit=Search
I don’t really think of Ivermectin as a med. It is the fermentation byproduct of a natural bacteria. Your plan sounds fine to me!
Wait!!!…..so it’s more like….beer?
Hadn’t thought about it, but…yeah!
Another Conspiracy Dies As U.S. Border Agents are ‘Cleared’ of Migrant ‘Whipping’ Claims. (thenationalpulse.com)
Paging BiteMe for comment.
Probably posted already – Tucker, speaking at Awaken Church (CA), no shot for him. 👍🏻
Wonderful news!
Happy for Chrissy’s stoopid move to CNN+.
Agreed.
Jumped on the CNN funeral pyre, he did!
I’m always amazed at how out of touch the media is with the real people out here. But all they had to do was look at the ratings, which have been steadily falling. They’re losing viewership, so why would they think launching a new platform would be successful?
Remember this is the same sort of idiot who, when they saw how phenomenally successfull the 1970s series “Kojak” (you know, Telly Savalas) was, figured maybe it was something about the name. So suddenly there were all sorts of series named things like Kodiak, Kolchak, etc., all of which bombed. It never dawned on them that Kojak might just have good stories.
So maybe they thought just changing something that any SANE person would think was not essential, would do the trick of reversing the ratings slide.
^^^ R-Cons DON’T call out the ignorance. ^^^
^^^ Pravda News does NOT call out the ignorance. ^^^
Republicans in the House and the Senate are no good. NONE of them will call out the climate lunacy. They leave it for Trump. COWARDS!!!
The R-Con bastards ENABLE BiteMe.
Janet should be Yellen about something that’s important…
Then again, she’s just another puppet of the WEF… another desperate, ugly, lonely, evil, radical liberal, unsatisfied, impossible-to-satisfy, abortionist, Malthusian, miscreant misanthrope…
In short, a typical DEMONRAT “woman”…..
If I Only Had a Brain
Judy Garland ..
I could while away the hours
Conferrin’ with the flowers
Consultin’ with the rain
And my head I’d be a scratchin’
While my thoughts are busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain
I’d unravel ev’ry riddle
For my individdle
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts
That I’d be thinkin’
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain
Oh, I could tell you why
The ocean’s near the shore
I could think of things
I’d never thunk before
And then I’d sit down
And think some more
I would not be just a muffin’
My head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain
And perhaps I’d deserve you
And be even worthy, even you
If I only had a brain
Note that this is sung by the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger).
Bye, Dung probably self-identifies as Dorothy…
Then again, he meets a new friend in the mirror every morning, if not more often… today, Dorothy, tomorrow, the wizard, the next day, Cornpop the conqueror…
LOL … UGH .. 😖🤚
“I won’t try to manage things…cause I don’t think”
The perfect iconography for pigeon poop Joe. Alas, if he “only had a brain.”
If Joe Biden were a car 🙂
(every time I see this “car” is makes my brain twist)…
It hurts my head .. 🤕
😉👍😜
Covidiocy continues…
FTA
AP Source: CDC to Extend Travel Mask Requirement for 2 Weeks
https://www.breitbart.com/news/ap-source-cdc-to-extend-travel-mask-requirement-for-2-weeks/
Must be the same 2 weeks to flatten the curve.😏😬
Exactly. It’s a foot in the door to the election.
That damn curve should be a bloody huge crater by now … 😡😤
Marine Le Pen: France Will Withdraw from NATO’s ‘Integrated Command’ if she’s Elected
The presidential hopeful said that she doesn’t want France to exit the EU: “This is not my goal… But at the same time, I want this European structure to evolve.”
Le Pen added that she will offer NATO “to carry out a strategic rapprochement with Russia” when the conflict ends.
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via Cambridge Dictionary:
Rapprochement
noun [ C or U ] formalUK /ræpˈrɒʃ.mɒ̃ŋ/ US /ˌræp.roʊʃˈmɑːŋ/
an agreement reached by opposing groups or people:
There are signs of (a) rapprochement between the warring factions.
Synonym
reconciliation
So should every other nation, IMHO nato is past its sell by date and morphed from it’s original purpose into the armed wing of the NWO.
Yes RAC… I totally agree … needs to be dismantled. I believe POTUS was going to do that
Great Comment!!!
That was its original purpose. There was no morphing. It was all about keeping us constantly at war and bankrupting the nation via defense spending.
As the first NATO Secretary General, Lord Hastings “Pug” Ismay said to a group of British Conservative backbenchers in 1949,
England (now the UK) have never given up on taking the USA back as their own…
Hmmm.
First impression. Smacks of De Gaulle NOT joining NATO to keep France’s nukes seperate from NATO (US & UK). Something like that.
OR,
Decouple from NATO, (US & UK), to push for EU military structure?
Hopefully decouple from Nato … and others will join in that action… and NATO will be gone. It has exceeded its expry date. DeGaulle was very savvy… saw how the MIC would dominate Europe and wanted no part of it.
Yup.
Americans Are “In Charge” Of The War Says French Journalist Who Returned From Ukraine
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/americans-are-charge-war-says-french-journalist-who-returned-ukraine
ZeroHedge
“I found myself facing the Pentagon.”
It’s from a Frog. Same place where Vichy came from.
Do you have links to these contracts?
They’re online … gov’t contracts are public domain
So you don’t have links to the actual contracts?
Do you know who made the meme?
I’m asking because I’ve seen too many fake assertions wrapped up in memes.
Yep. Having a handy link saves time. If link is not available, the search can go from there. Thanks.
I’ve read it a couple of times, once may have been here in one of Gail’s posts. I don’t always carry sauce in my drive-by cab 😉
🙂
Yea, Gail is a treasure trove of great info.
The only threat reduction needed for ukraine was keeping all the corruption hidden.
Amen
But the blackmail potential for TPTB in Ukraine was/is enormous…
Even a Klown like Zelensky wouldn’t do the dancing he is now unless there was a lot of money, etc., at stake… in exchange, perhaps, for him not burning at the stake…
Hmmm. Gives a whole new meaning to stakeholder…..
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First there was Hell-the-BEAST and her perpetually missing shoe.
Now there’s Bye,Dung, DEMONstrating the old adage, “If the Foo shits, wear it”.
LOL
Let’s get our masks from China
Study shows inhalation of microplastics found in masks getting into lung tissue for the first time – LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)
FROM GAB…..
Well then, we’d better hope devolution is false. Because otherwise “whoever” turns out to be Donald Trump.
snicker
Amen.
IMO, “allowing Obama and his puppet Biden to (hopefully incompletely) destroy America as a means of destroying themselves” is a risky but effective strategy – and one that is NOT the same as “controlling Biden”.
Thus, I can see some kind of “devolution” as a passive-aggressive strategy of allowing the left’s failed overreach to devolve the government in boomerangs and backfires, but I cannot see it as a highly managed strategy where the other side does what they’re told.
encouraging insights from CS Lewis
On heaven
The symbols under which Heaven is presented to us are (a) a dinner party, (b) a wedding, (c) a city, and (d) a concert. It would be grotesque to suppose that the guests or citizens or members of the choir didn’t know one another. And how can love of one another be commanded in this life if it is to be cut short at death?
Think of yourself just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose that our whole present life, looked back on from there, will seem only a drowsy half- waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But cock-crow is coming.
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Words to Live By
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
something else to ponder from CS Lewis…
TO BEDE GRIFFITHS: On Lewis’s favorite novel by Charles Dickens; on the desire to die; on longing; on joy; on having; and on wanting.
5 November 1954
The best Dickens always seems to me to be the one I have read last! But in a cool hour I put Bleak House top for its sheer prodigality of invention.
About death, I go through different moods, but the times when I can desire it are never, I think, those when this world seems harshest. On the contrary, it is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for the patria. It is the bright frontispiece [which] whets one to read the story itself. All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasises our pilgrim status: always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best havings are wantings.
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Yours, Jack
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis. Copyright © 2008 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
This is a great & hard truth..
Jesus is all this & so much moar!!!
Hard scriptural truths about Jesus’ suffering, several different versions…
That Jesus was a man of sorrows & acquainted with grief is of great comfort to me–what a suffering servant Savior!!!
Isaiah 53:3-4
New International Version
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
King James Version
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
New International Version
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.
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King James Version
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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New Living Translation
He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
Expanded Bible
He was ·hated [despised] and rejected by people. ·He had much pain [L A man of pain/suffering/T sorrows] and ·suffering [one who knew/was acquainted with pain/grief]. People ·would not even look at [turned their backs on; L hid their faces from] him. He was ·hated [despised], and we ·didn’t even notice him [or did not esteem him]. But he ·took [bore] our suffering on him and ·felt our pain for us [carried our sorrows/sickness]. ·We saw his suffering and thought God was punishing him [L …stricken and afflicted by him; C God].
New American Standard Bible
He was despised and abandoned by men, A man of great pain and familiar with sickness; And like one from whom people hide their faces, He was despised, and we had no regard for Him. However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, And our pains that He carried; Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, Struck down by God, and humiliated.
now we know in part…
“We know not what we shall be”; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as a candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun.
From The Weight of Glory
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses. Copyright © 1949, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1976, revised 1980 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
I wonder if there is a city named Ohio in Delaware. Doesn’t seem fair if there isn’t….
There is, after all, a “Wyoming” in Pennsylvania.
California in Maryland.
Nevada in California.
Prolly a fewdozen more like instances. 🙂
Wonder who Trump has endorsed for Ohio US Senate seat. JD Vance, the millionaire or the other one. Latter embraces Ukraine nonsense.
Sorry if I have missed the discussion about John Paul Mac Isaac and his explanation that Jack Maxey’s claims of having an additional 450GB of data from Hunter’s laptop from hell is impossible.
Mac Isaac says that the copy sent to Rudy was not a clone of the original drive and simply a data copy onto a brand new SSD hard-drive…so any deleted data on the original drive would not have been transferred to the new drive. Also, the original drive 250GB was too small to preserve all of that data deleted or not.
Mac Isaac claims that the laptop was water damaged and made it impossible for him to make a one-to-one clone of the original 250GB drive.
So, is Maxey an agent attempting to inject fake evidence into the narrative in an attempt to muddy the waters when the real evidence is revealed to the public?
I can’t answer your question, but I just checked Maxey’s GETTR account. He comes out swinging at Joe Hoft of Gateway Pundit, who said he would publish a statement by Maxey and then didn’t do it.
https://gettr.com/user/jack_maxey
For the people constantly posting shit from the #Hoft losers and their disinformation reprint internet rag @gatewaypundit. Here are the complete and total conversation I had with them.. Note @jpmacisaac – I still left you alone even after you followed me on @ericbolling and ran your mouth. I never play games with anyone – you can ask anyone with the tread marks to prove it. #benotafraid #dutyhonorcountry
Maxey will even pay for airfare…and Mac Isaac declines. Very interesting.
Well, I won’t fly on principle until they make flying like it was on 9/10/01. So there’s that. Maybe Mac Isaac feels the same.
Maxey actually reached out to Isaac on 17 March already ,through Josh Boswell from Daily Mail, to compare discrepancies. Isaac did not respond at the time, but now comes out, after Maxey offered to fly him out to Switzerland, yesterday
Thanks! Looking like somebody got to Mac Isaac<<<compromised.
Maybe he’s just scared.
That is the most likely scenario I think.
I mean there is a reason why Maxey had to flee to Switzerland.
For those who can understand that there is more data after recovery then the drive could hold, here is another reply:
Awesome! I learned something new…looking like Mac Isaac has some ‘splainin’ to do.
So here is the sticking point. Mac Isaac claims he was not able to do a bit-by-bit clone of the drive…and only did basically a data copy because of damage to the laptop.
If Mac Isaac is telling the truth, then where did Maxey get the exact image? Of course, Mac Isaac could be lying…I can only imagine the pressure he has been put under.
I have never had a meaningful file that compressed by 90 percent or anything near that. I’m happy to get a 20 or 30 percent space savings. Of course, that’s just me and my files.
Note that you could have a 1.2M floppy with 40 files of 20-400 bytes each, and it will say that it has 20K of files on it because each file will “take up” an entire 512-byte cluster. If you copy those files onto a 256G drive with 64K clusters, it will say that you have 2.4M of files on it because of the greater “slack space” — which is pretty good considering that you copied the files off of a 1.2M floppy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(file_system)
Again, focusing on the arcana of storage space is premature — and will remain so until there is actual data to be evaluated.
Maybe he was using Macaroon-is False Image…
(gets me coat, wine, baguette, BreE,… 🙂 )…
(Or maybe he bought the new “destination” drive from Amazon Marketplace, where the “overprovisioning” is linked to a wormhole in hyperspace… or even AWS [ok, same thing…].
An outfit here was giving away promo 128 or 256MB sticks (was a loooong time ago). Unfortunately for them, the sticks only had 16MB REAL capacity, at which point they overwrote what was already there… some former customers were quite ticked… c’t had an article on it..
Lmao….
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Ground Report
Saw several people walking Alone outside fully masked–spit!
Church Food
I just got groceries from the local church again & wanted to roughly document what was in this week’s gift.
This is the first time they asked about if I wanted certain veggies & I turned down potatoes & cabbages because we have a decent amount of those from 2 weeks ago. This is also the first time they didn’t hand me any literature. All other times there were directions on the route to & through the church’s parking lots & where the line was to extend into the adjacent neighborhood. They also had previously shared Bible verses & sometimes testimonial literature. This is the first time I’ve seen kids helping with the distribution!
I got there about half way through their normal distribution time & was in line just over 1/2 hour. I saw the family friend (hunting buddy & long time prayer group member w/ my parents) & he prayed with me. He also knew stuff about Michael from FB–yikes, probably stuff he didn’t even tell me, being a guy & all 😉 & he shared news about a memorial service for another prayer group widow whose daughters had both died recently & whose memorial service he’d recently attended. Those daughters were within a few years of my age, one a couple years older (used to give me rides to youth group) & the other about the age of one of my brothers–very sad losses…
This week the items were a bit less than previous weeks. Every week (4 now) I’ve been there has included:
Gallon of milk
Powdered milk to make One gallon
Small jar of peanut butter
loaf of bread
2 tomatoes (other weeks were much larger & this week they were in a bag & partially crushed & 1 w/ mold)
This week these were the additional items we received:
2 cans of tuna
2 bags of dried legumes
small bag of rice
box of donuts
several individual chip bags
several individual candies
pound of butter
small bag of onions
small bag of oranges
I asked the lady at the end about how many families they were helping & it is still about 400 per week, obviously a necessary ministry! I’m actually thankful for this slightly smaller amount of food because hubby went to the store last night to get stuff he preferred for his box lunches that he’s been taking to trucking school. We are Blessed!
I’m thinking once we have income coming in again & are paid back on our transition borrowing we should give some donations to this very generous church. ❤
Library
Overheard librarian telling another patron that something (didn’t catch what) was now closed indefinitely “due to covid”–sigh…I wondered if it’s Social Security, for I Still haven’t heard from them since dropping all that income info on my son off in January, I think….
I had to copy taxes (haven’t done that in 25 years for hubby would always copy them at work) & paid 10 cents a copy. I tried to get the library to acknowledge that I should have a nearly $40 credit for a book they made me purchase to replace (when I couldn’t find it in a timely manner & to prevent late fees; they’d changed the regional system & no longer had a couple slots for “claims returned” on a library card for a holding pattern when books due couldn’t be found in a timely manner–a Huge Benefit w/ young kids–I’d bought the book which I then “owned” but immediately turned it in) & they claimed they had zero cash in there any more. So they still have the book I “own” & I bought it again for them apparently…26 copies were needed between feds & state taxes.
Post Office
2 windows open w/ one handling 3 1/2 customers before the other was done. They now had plastic covid? shields except about 6 inches open at the bottom. Only one customer I saw of about a dozen people was masked. A very garrulous customer from Atlanta up visiting his mom in a nearby community was inquiring about delivery times. He claimed that when he mailed things to her she got it in a couple days but when she sent things to him it took 2-3 weeks. Clerk’s answer was a BS runaround, at least to me…
My fed tax envelope was so thick she had to run it through a “slot” to make sure it was OK & it just fit. She didn’t weigh the state envelope but by its feel in her hand she determined it only needed the regular amount of postage. Hopefully she’s right…
At the postal loading dock there was a UPS (what can brown do for you) semi-truck, which I’ve never seen before & zero mail trucks or USPS vehicles…hmmm…
Gas Station
Gas prices were “down” about 20 cents to $3.79–thanks Brandon!
My mother volunteers with food organizations. As a volunteer she gets extra. She also privides food for about 50 families and still gets more.
You may want to find other organizations that are larger, volunteer, and get more food.
Thanks for the suggestion, Gil. So far we’re doing OK & have a freezer stocked w/ meat & a pretty full pantry. Mostly just buying perishables as needed. Nice of your mom to help others in that way ❤
Ok. She probably could do more but its starting to wear them out a bit.
Moderation & balance in all things is important, especially as people get older. My mom used to say Yes to practically every volunteering opportunity at their church (an hour from their home). As they are now in their 80’s my parents are discovering that their energy is not sufficient to attend to all the things that they used to do. They still need to give themselves “permission” to be where they are. They missed a funeral at their church last week due to low energy & I tried to encourage them that they’d made the right choice.
Change & aging are never very easy around here!
Argh. Im feeling it now too. Middle age smackdown begins.
Well you are also still healing from some major physical upheavals so give yourself a break! Plus you homeschool so hats off to ya 🙂
😋
Ahem….I think you’ve got the “youngster with a kid you’re schoolin’ who just had herself a personal surgery while watching the state you live in go berserk and the nation go mad” smackdown. Middle age smackdown is more achy and has less of a mental component.
Ah hah! I think youve made the right call. He has another week of language arts and health science. Then we are only doing book studies and art for a couple hours a day.
Subway shooter caught by random dude.
Natalie Wong on Twitter: “Zack Tahhan, 21, describes catching the Brooklyn subway shooter in east village https://t.co/dXWnkEMk5k” / Twitter
Is that this guy?
NYC Black Supremacist Terrorist: ‘O Black Jesus, Please Kill All the Whiteys’
FIB or sister Sea Aye Ehh likely had him wound up like a clock, triggered to spring.
Most likely they did.
Can’ hardly wrap my brain around our own govt doing what they do. Regime changes, color revolutions, entrapment, unlawful detention for political purpose, voting fraud, political persecution.
They sure used hollyweird to craft the image of super patriots, always loyal to their ideals…..I can’t change the channel fast enough on any show or movie portraying them as the good guys.
“.I can’t change the channel fast enough on any show or movie portraying them as the good guys.” ditto!
OMG! Again, sorry I am still catching up.
Are Flynn and Pompeo running for President? Did they have Trump’s plane tampered with?
Maria Zack claims that they are both covering up the election fraud and are attempting to take Trump out. I do not want to believe her…but what I have heard from her in a couple of videos sounds very convincing.
Flynn has been going against Q lately. All smoke and mirrors?
https://nationsinaction.org/interview-with-stew-peters-stew-asks-who-stole-2020-and-who-is-in-power/
Don’t know about “Kansas” but I have now forgotten Flynn and his krewe. Do not trust them at all.
Comprehensive piece on the lead up to the War in Ukraine. Everything we know and more. (not short)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/monumental-provocation-how-us-and-international-policy-makers-deliberately-baited-putin-to-war/?utm_source=popular
Trucking School stuff
Hubby’s been having some good success at trucking school lately thankfully. It seems like all the parking lot maneuvers are pretty down pat now. Though he will likely get one last day to prep parking before testing w/ the DOT.
He’s had 2 different driving instructors, as of last evening. The first one is usually for people w/ Some truck driving experience & that was a rough day for M. He could have that guy again today since the instructor the rest of this week, so far, has Wednesdays off. That 2nd instructor explained things in a way that resonated w/ hubby’s learning style & that helped him to get much more comfortable with all the gear shifting intricacies.
Some days there are Five students & one instructor in the truck for 8-9 hours. The newer drivers would mostly get practice on a closed loop track in an industrial area. Those w/ some experience get out on the roads, though it seems they try to stay on less travelled industrial road ways. Some people have also been on the interstate.
Michael observed a couple different students along a service drive for I-75 where a lot of the DOT examiners take the testees to try to trip them up w/ curves, curbs, & passing cars. This location is like a mile from hubby’s job of almost 20 years (he worked in 3 locations for his 25 years at the company). It’s like knowing you might get tested in your old stomping grounds 🙂 which might give him a tad of a mental edge.
So far the trucking situation seems to be on the upswing. He could finish up by the end of this week or early next week, probably at the latest. Some classmates didn’t pass the DOT the first time. If you don’t pass you have to wait at least 2 days before a re-test.
Hubby communicated w/ one of the trucking companies he was referred to by the school. According to them he would be “an automatic hire” if he wants to go that route. The job would likely pay 20-30G more than the job he recently left. Though this isn’t necessarily the job he Wants to take it is a bit of a comfort & safety net to “know” that this opportunity is there to fall back on.
We’re hanging tough & hanging on to Jesus! & tomorrow we get to celebrate Brandon’s Fire Academy graduation with All of our Curren clan. By the way We are the Only Currens we have ever known (besides hubby’s dad who died when he was a teenager & who he only saw twice after his parents’ divorce when he was 5 or 6).
I jokingly refer to Michael as the “patriarch of his own existence” (not to be confused with “I am my own grandpa”), & think of him being somewhat like Abraham, a stranger in a strange land, coming with “nothing” & being very blessed by God in the land of his inheritance. If “our” line is the only related Curren line, well we are very thankful that this generation is firmly planted on the rock that is Christ Jesus!
Oh hubby discovered some storm-chasing freaks online & spent hours last night watching the tornado system develop as these chasers tracked storms from Texas to Iowa, at least. He said it’s the first thing, since school started, that’s really helped him to take his mind off things & that he really enjoyed, so that was a special treat too. The weather guy, who has a youtube channel & does live streams reminded me stylistically of MilSpecOps Monkey, who I haven’t seen any posts about in a while…hmmm…
Well thanks for your prayers & interest in our family’s transitional journey to trucking, etc. God Bless YOU ALL!!!
PS Michael thinks he Grandpa name might end up being Pops! We’ll see 😉
Valerie~ sounds like your husband is doing fine. My older brother had some life changes, job-wise when he was about 60 yrs old. He committed to trucking school and we paid for his schooling . Afterward we hired him to drive for our company. He did great. 60 yrs old out there with the young bucks! He had never had any experience on any big things, no tractors, no diggers, nothing more than a riding mower.
That is very encouraging news & what w blessing for your brother! Hubby is in his mid 50’s, but a bit of an emotional guy so there are some up & down roller coaster aspects to our journey. Today he ended up in the parking lot so hopefully he drives w/ his preferred instructor tomorrow.
Hubby can’t wait for all the transition to be done & is Really looking forward to driving…soon!
Judge Denies Sussmann Motion To Dismiss Case, Trial Will Begin Next Month
A federal judge has denied a motion from former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann to dismiss the case brought against him by Special Counsel John Durham.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered on Wednesday that the trial will move forward and begin next month.
https://conservativebrief.com/judge-18-61989/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=JE
Get a load of this.
Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is ExtremePreventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/western-dissent-from-usnato-policy?s=r
Cont….Greenwald is packing it in here. Looks like this an info war they will not loose. Includes Russians With Attitude being suspended, list of sudden war experts, big winners the Arms industry with the end objected of seeing this war prolonged forever more until dust does Ukraine part and there is moar…
Per Faux News, Sussman’s motion to avoid trial has been rejected and his trial starts next month.
(If you are having as much trouble as I am keeping track, that’s the Klinton operative that Durham has charged.)
by Bernhard at MoA
April 13, 2022
U.S. Military Intelligence Official Refutes ‘Russian Atrocities’ Claims
Russian soldiers left the town Bucha in Ukraine on March 30. Two days later the Ukrainian Gestapo like SBU and men of the fascist Azov battalion moved in to find and remove ‘traitors’. On April 2/3 video was published that showed freshly killed men laying on the streets of Bucha. Several of them had white arm bands signaling to Russian forces to see them as friendlies.
The ‘west’ and Ukrainian officials immediately called those dead the result of ‘Russian atrocities’.
I had called it a provocation:
And a fake it was.
Thankfully there are still some sane U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency officials and William Arkin is talking with them:
320 of 37,000 is not .01 percent. But we do not know how many of those dead were Russian or Ukrainian soldiers. Some of the dead were so called ‘civilian defenders’ which were supposedly local civilians to whom the government had handed guns to ‘fight the Russians’. During a war a ‘civilian’ with a government issued gun shooting at enemy soldiers is a combatant, not a civilian.
The DIA official continues:
I doubt that there is really intentional ‘indiscriminate’ Russian artillery fire. The Russians have held back quite a lot and paid in blood for it.
One should also note that the often shown mass graves in Bucha were not from recent actions but had been dug on March 10 after heavy fighting when Russian soldiers tried to enter the town:
The DIA official clearly says the civilian casualties in Ukraine, which are quite low, get overplayed and that attributing them solely to Russia is wrong:
Con’t https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/us-military-intelligence-official-refutes-russian-atrocities-claims.html#more
Update 13/4/22
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
❗️A commercial seaport in Mariupol city has been completely liberated from Nazi Azov fighters.
▫️All hostages held by the Nazis on the ships in the port, including foreigners, have been released.
▫️The remnants of the Ukrainian and Azov Nazi units in the city have been blockaded and deprived of the opportunity to break out of their encirclement.
💥During the day, high-precision weapons destroyed 36 enemy assets. Among them: 2 repair bases and 2 missile-artillery weapon depots of the 57th and 24th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Troops in Vrubovka and Berestovoe; 5 strong points of units of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade in Popasnaya and Barvenkovo; 1 command post of the 15th Separate Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard in Cherkasskoe.
💥The HQ and fuel storage facility of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade near Gulyai Pole have also been destroyed.
✈️💥Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 10 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 1 command post, 3 missile and artillery weapons depots, and 6 areas of concentration of Ukrainian weapons and military equipment.
📊In total, 130 aircraft and 103 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems S-300, Buk-M1, Osa AKM, 447 unmanned aerial vehicles, 2,173 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 243 multiple launch rocket systems, 937 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,082 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
▫️We see attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian forces against facilities on Russian Federation territory.
❗️If such cases continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centres, including in Kiev, from which the Russian army has so far refrained.
#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #Briefing
@mod_russia_en
Huge rise in ‘unexplained heart attacks’ in Australia…
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/huge-rise-in-unexplained-heart-attacks-in-australia/
https://twitter.com/mrtdogg_1/status/1514150378245341185?s=20&t=5KP9lWi8p_Uts8BCp3dcjw
As of today – there have been 890 – young athlete Cardiac Incidents – Arrests – Deaths
https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
This website keeps meticulous records – continuously updated.
Yikes… a few days ago it was in the 700s and now it’s about to go into the 900s!
Place your bets ! :
@disclosetv
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JUST IN – Russian missile cruiser and Black Sea flagship “Moskva” seriously damaged, crew evacuated, according to the TASS news agency.
Ukraine says they hit the ship with two Neptune anti-ship missiles earlier today. The Russian Defense Ministry claims ammunition detonated “as a result of a fire” aboard the major warship.
Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) Tweeted:
Ukrainian Telegram channel “Всевидящее ОКО” (over 1 million subscribers) briefly posted and then deleted a pic of the Iranian IRIS Kharg that caught on fire & sank in the Gulf of Oman last year as proof. No other confirmation so far. https://t.co/ItpDzafSnu
I can’t see their tweets (they are “protected” (?) and I am not on twitter), but they are also on telegram (which I assume “mirrors” their tweets):
https://t.me/s/RWApodcast
Their most recent post is interesting:
I believe the war is about to heat up, for four reasons:
1) The siege of Mariupol is almost over; its end will free up a ton of Russian & Donbass troops for other major operations.
2) Strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces have reportedly been put on high alert.
3) The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that NATO vehicles transporting weapons for Ukraine are considered legitimate military targets.
4) The Russian Ministry of Defense has threatened to bomb “decision-making centers” in Ukraine, including Kiev, if the Ukrainians fire at Russian territory again.
They are adamant not to choose sides and question everything, but proud of their personal history.
I just checked and they closed off their account. Something mustve just happened.
I keep finding the accounts i really like do this, then disappear.
Yeah…
“Seems that when I get to likin’ someone, they ain’t around for long…” – Josey Wales
“…Seems that when you get to dislikin’ someone, they ain’t around for long, neither…” – Lone Wadi
😉
😉
Confirmation just in.
https://twitter.com/StarFireFun/status/1514340610957840385?s=20&t=GIkh7pEY_Shu-CUVAELn6Q
Lol lol 😆. Seems about right.
Yep. After you’ve tried everything else, tripods…
(ducks and runs from the original AT-ATs 🙂 )…..
Yours for only $799.95 from Amazoon and LEGO 🙂
![comment image](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81f4C9+yrLL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
Emerald thoroughly enjoys delivering this video.
Cracking up here…
Video at the link, ~1:37.
FTA Emphasis added.
Apparently it never occurred to anyone over at CNN that a news organization that very few people will watch when it’s free is unlikely to be a great success when you have to pay for it.
This was news to Chris Wallace of course.
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/goodbye-to-chris-wallace?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2ODA3MzI2NywiXyI6InFFQm1yIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ5ODk4NjE5LCJleHAiOjE2NDk5MDIyMTksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNjMwNjMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0._uJ_cmx2nNLGuT4esMk_M9TcOh9oh85RdJxUie6dLzc&s=r#play
She did that very well 🤗
Reposted by NeonRevolt over at gab:
“*Someone is placing massive VIX calls expiring in June*
[Editor’s Note: This letter was written by Sovereign Man’s Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose.]
Late last month, somebody made a huge bet that by this June, the stock market will crash…
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index – the VIX – is a key measure of market volatility.
If the stock market is stable, the VIX could be as low as $8-10. And if there’s instability or the potential for market disruptions, the VIX can spike to well over $20.
Generally, the VIX trading range is $13-19.
Back in March 2020, when COVID was racing around the world and markets were going haywire, the VIX jumped to $82.69.
And even further back, in October 2008, right after Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial system was in total disarray, the VIX spiked to $89.53.
So, two of the most market shaking events of the past two decades drove the VIX up to… at most, about 7X its normal trading range.
Now, fast-forward to March 25, 2022…
Someone – or more likely several people – bought over 19,000 VIX contracts… betting that by June 15th, the VIX would spike to $130.
That’s up to 10X the normal trading range! If the VIX were to hit $130, that means that the stock market would be in a complete meltdown. And again, someone, or a group of people, are making this bet.
We don’t know who’s behind this call. Maybe it’s a bunch of clueless, small retail traders who are trying to make a 10,000% return.
Or maybe it’s smart money with insider information, like an investment bank or hedge fund. Or maybe even expert trader Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (and her hedge fund husband).
Regardless, you have to admit: This VIX bet is unnerving.
Does someone know something we don’t?”
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This is strange too.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/blackrock-dismisses-three-executives-who-planned-quit-coordinated-fashion
“Edwin Conway, global head of BlackRock Alternative Investors, and Russell Steenberg, global head of BlackRock Private Equity Partners, said in the memo: “BlackRock made the decision to terminate all three employees after learning of their intention to depart the firm in a coordinated fashion.”
The move seems somewhat bizarre to us. Why would the company fire the employees who planned on quitting anyway? Now it’s far more likely that BlackRock could be on the hook for paying the fired employees’ benefits.
We won’t be surprised if there’s “another shoe to drop” in this story. We’ll keep our eyes peeled…”
NOT taking BlackRock’s side.
In general, firing three, who planned to quit in coordinated fashion, is NOT a surprise.
100% agree, there is more to the story, “another shoe to drop”.
Guessing BlackRock has been, IS up to NO GOOD. Yea, a case of the OBVIOUS.
BUT it is NOT weird the three were canned. IMO.
Ok. I can see the deny access in case they sabotage anything preemptive firing. Being blackrock and they all left to go to the same firm, and worked a very large account, makes me wonder if the reason is a doozy.
Yeah, I’ve seen this kind of thing before. BlackRock is driving people away and getting antzy about it.
As you suggested above, something HUGE is playing in the background AND it IS bad news for BlackRock.
Bad news for BlackRock could mean good news for us hopefully 😉
Yes, hoping.
Yes!
Maybe they got tired of sacrificing children at their meetings…
(It has been said to have happened at least in other high-finance settings)…
This is very typical when large firms begin to break up. A small group of executives tries to recruit other executives and staff and exfiltrate useful information before surprising the previous management group with a coordinated and synchronized exit.
I know of one case where the top sales guy, the top finance guy, the top hardware engineer, the top electrical engineer, and the top software engineer, all bailed out of a robotics company on the same day. Management didn’t catch that one before it happened.
OTOH, I know if an instance where a group of partners of an international CPA firm were planning on carving out their own regional CPA firm where management did find out…..and booted all the rebellious partners out with extreme prejudice.
Wow to both. So ⚫rock could be a bit wobbly atm. I dont think people who are aware of them mind that, but it brings up questions about the status of all different markets since they are into everything.
In big firms when this happens, do the execs who are fired get ⚫balled?
It doesn’t need to be formally blackballed….there’s always going to be that question about their loyalties. So, yeah, someone might hire them — but will never let them into their counsel and keep them at arms’ length for planning — in the meantime attempting to raid their rolodex (“So, when you worked for XYZ that just fired you for disloyalty, who were your best clients? Who were your best staffpeople?”) — and probably discard them like used kleenex once they extracted as much as they could.
Mind you, it takes a certain type of situation to where you might face a revolt in your company. The robotics company that lost five top people in one day was run by a guy who punctuated a company all-hands meeting by firing a pistol through the ceiling just prior to their departure.
In the case of the CPA firm, it was something like, “it looks like we bring in 40% of the profits and receive 25% of the compensation…..” There may be strategic reasons why this needs to be done…..but they need to be articulated and justified before they are merely discovered — and accountants tend to be an inquisitive lot.
Never heard of VIX. Know near nothing about investing.
Followed the bouncing ball above. Can see the trading cost is WAY HIGH.
Looking forward to someone breaking out the Crayola’s, splaining what this may portend.
First a disclaimer: I am not a stock market professional. However I have many years experience as a participant in trading stocks and options. Let me begin with what the VIX is. It is commonly referred to as the “fear gauge” of the stock market. What that means is when the value of the VIX is high (in normal times the value of the VIX is around 15) it is believed that investors are unsure of what the future of the economy and particularly the stock market will be. This uncertainty leads to an increased hesitancy to bet on the future of companies represented in the stock market. Investors become afraid to invest. When people will not invest they sell their stock holdings (usually referred to as a “flight to safety”) and go to cash or interest bearing instruments such as bonds and savings accounts. This leads to falling stock prices which causes the stock market to fall (crash). The value of the VIX is inversely proportional to the value of the S&P500 index. When the stock market falls the VIX goes up. A call option is a bet that a particular stock or equity will go higher during the life of the option. When the buyer of a VIX call chooses a strike price of 130 to be reached by June (two months from now) he is betting that the stock market will fall precipitously. You may remember in 2020 when the stock market melted down in March. At the lowest point of the collapse the VIX only got to a value in the mid 80 dollar range. For the VIX to reach 130 dollars would require even a bigger drop. A market collapse like 1929 would be in order. Now the fact is they can be wrong about the VIX reaching 130 and still make a lot of money because a June 130 call on the VIX costs about 10 dollars to control 100 shares of VIX until June 15th (62 days from now). The VIX call buyer can sell his shares at anytime between now and June 15th. As a comparison the VIX right now is 21.82 and 100 shares costs 585 dollars to own the June call option. The buyer is betting that the stock market will have a significant downturn sometime between now and Jun 15th.
Thanks for the added explanation.
A couple questions in assessing risk/gain:
What would the cost of those 19K shares of VIX at $130 in June cost, what did ‘they’ pay out?
What is the potential gain of that investment?
Will those shares be worth anything if the VIX doesn’t hit $130?
If the VIX hits $130 before or after June 15th, is that considered a ‘win’?
My thinking is if someone invested heavily for a low percentage outcome, they must know something. Did they spend $20 on a lottery ticket or $20K or $20M?
Let me answer your questions one at a time.
What would the cost of those 19K shares of VIX at $130 in June cost, what did ‘they’ pay out?
First they bought 19K contracts not shares. Each contract represents 100 shares. They are controlling 1.9 million shares of the VIX until June 15th (the date when the options expire.) The price for one contract of a June 130 call was $10 yesterday when the VIX was trading at a bit over $21/share. So 19K contracts would cost $190K but they bought them sometime in March so they may have cost more or less at that time. It depends on what the VIX was trading at on the day of purchase.
What is the potential gain of that investment?
That depends on a number of factors but options give the trader tremendous leverage. If the price doubled to say $42 by the 15th of May then the investment could be worth 2 or 3 times what was paid. You can do the math. The closer it gets to June 15th the less profit is available if the VIX fails to reach $130. For the trader to breakeven the price of the VIX must be $130.10 on June 15th. Anything less than $130 and he loses the $190K. For every penny above $130.10 the trader will make one penny times 1.9 million shares. So if the price of the VIX is $130.11 the profit would be $19K or 10% on the trade. I am ignoring commissions and exchange fees that would add to the cost of the breakeven price and would probably move the breakeven from $130.10 to maybe $130.50 in reality. Of course the trader can sell his options at any time before the close of trading on Jun15th which in most cases would be how it was done. That is commonly referred to as unwinding your position to collect profits and reduce risk.
Will those shares be worth anything if the VIX doesn’t hit $130?
If he still holds the options on June 15th they will be worthless. A 100% loss plus trading fees.
If the VIX hits $130 before or after June 15th, is that considered a ‘win’?
If after June 15th it is a loss. Anytime before June15 a price above about $130.50 would be profitable. And if it happens weeks before then the price does not need to be close to $130 to be profitable. It is the way options work.
Did they spend $20 on a lottery ticket or $20K or $20M?
They spent approximately $190K (assuming the contracts were all purchased by one trader) plus fees. You can calculate the probability that your trade will reach its target (in this case $130.) As of today, April 14th, the probability that the VIX will be at $130 on June 15th is about 3%. Better than a lottery ticket I suppose but still a longshot. The trader better hope the information used to take this trade is accurate. I might add that yesterday the trade could have been made for about $190K. The value of a share of the VIX increased by 4% since yesterday. Today the trade would have cost $17.50/ contract (about 332.5K.) That is about a 75% profit overnight. The question is always how long do you stay in the trade?
Or maybe Satan Sauros, the “man who broke the Bank of England”…
He specializes in doing that sort of thing when he’s not helping NAZIs…
Just leavin’ this here :
RE: NYC Subway Incident of April 12, 2022:
-The suspect is the “wrong” color
-The firearm was the “wrong” type (i.e. NOT an AR-15 or other “assault rifle”)
-The suspect will likely avoid a criminal conviction. He will instead be portrayed as “MENTALLY ILL”, and a “VICTIM” (of the RACIST SYSTEM)
(I see an individual who was exercising his FIRST AND SECOND Amendment rights, but went a little overboard on the second. I DISAGREE with almost EVERYTHING that I saw from this individuals videos, but I will defend to the death his right to say it ! And KUDOS to YouTube,and other social media for also allowing it !) (<== /s)
Don’t worry… they just released footage of “white cop shoots and kills ‘un-armed black man’” ! (/s) (but TRUE !)
https://breaking911.com/breaking-grand-rapids-police-release-video-of-patrick-lyoya-fatally-shot-in-the-back-of-the-head-during-struggle-with-officer/
And about those cameras…? YUP – a “glitch” ! (but ONLY for the TWO stations… YEAH, RIGHT!) :
FTA:
“Cameras at both the 36th Street station, where the attack occurred, and the 25th Street station, where James may have fled, were on and recording but weren’t transmitting footage back to MTA headquarters and the NYPD, according to MTA spokesperson Tim Minton.”
https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/broken-surveillance-cameras-hampered-hunt-for-brooklyn-subway-shooter-frank-james/
Now… the narrative is :
– the cameras and related equipment are “old”
– (HERE’S where they “forgot” to “BLAME IT ON COVID”)
-they are expensive to MAINTAIN
– NOW the focus will be to throw more money (TAXPAYER MONEY; i.e. MY MONEY) at the problem (without getting a refund for what was already wasted or holding anyone accountable, or addressing the “ROOT CAUSE” of the problem)
(about 6 mins.):
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mta-security-cameras-brooklyn-subway-attack/
Well aint that coinky dink ?
Released the footage from April 4th just in time to shift the focus
YUP !
It’s actually a double reason, shift the focus from the subway shooting AND give some cockeyed validation for his warped views.
(“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”)
Never let a warped lunatic remain unfulfilled.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/13/kievs-kamikaze-strategy/
People have never seen genocide before? What? Dont tell me hes buying into all the propaganda too?
Greg Price (@greg_price11) Tweeted:
Trump: What’s happening in Ukraine is “genocide.” https://t.co/V9WHJlarpd
It’s genocide both ways. The UKRAINIANS and particularly the NAZIS are committing ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians.
I tend to see MORE genocide coming from THEIR END.
I agree. I bet its not even “a big one” between their shared history.
Ps…not like its ever ok….
And pps….you notice theyre bringing covid back when the Ukraine thing is struggling and its tax season and people are broke af?
YUP. They must have been hoping Ukraine would save the election for DemonRats, and the numbers don’t look promising, so it’s back to masks and COVID to try to save the election.
No worries, they’ll get to use it all. Genocide declared by Obiden and now Trump. Billions now will flow to fight genocide= billions to proxy war with Russia
They finally got their war
Who knew the Ukraine narrative could get more FUBAR. (Not me.)
We should’ve known when the reports of of the Ukraine nazis slaughtering people..sure, could’ve been because they wanted to but since the declaration of genocide was absolutely vital for worldwide support…now it seems like calculated murder in order to gin up sympathy and justify money, weapons and training from the US and others.
It’s what we do so well.
Well, the Ukraine cash cow is ~$14 billion. They’ll keep working the faux narrative until enough US politicians are paid off wit that fund.
On the POSITIVE side, CNBC, or one of them lying lefty brands IS reporting Biden ukraine narrative IS underwater.
IIRC,
~49% against BiteMe Ukraine lies.
~40% OK with BiteMe Ukraine lies.
Democide… send the DEMONRATS off to contemplate their perfidy and projections…
And I N F L A T I O N…common folks are pissed off, venting…
Yes. First time ever in my life this year we owe on taxes. Irs took in record $$$.
Grocery store prices are rising every week now. Restaurant prices are insane. $16 Margarita, YGBFKM
That $5200 inflation number they keep throwing out as the increase for ordinary Americans covers one tank of gas/wk increase only, doesn’t include food, utilities, or anything else.
Oh and the fast food drive thru/dine in transactions ask if you want to leave them a tip. For what, doing their jobs?
People gots themselves some good ol-fashioned Hatfields and McCoys, and now both are screaming “genocide”.
True but the only ones with internationally acceptable right think is Ukrainian POV.
I thought Wolf’s one about the Russian trying to convince his Uki wife to put down the Luger and stop drinking was very on point.
How did the latest version of that go? Something about being cucked with a Nazi?
First Dr Oz and now this…geez
I really wonder who is advising him. He has all the time in the world to scour the internet and see what we all think. Why doesnt he?
There’s little media out there saying it’s different. Also Trump gets official intel that likely says the same thing. To go against the narrative at this point could be political suicide for him? At least he’s got an excuse come time when this turns around, that being he’s been lied too. Meanwhile a lot of people are not going to like this and he runs the risk as being seen as just another politician.
Jonathan Turley: No, The Second Amendment Did Not Prohibit Cannon Ownership in the Early Republic
That is an astounding statement.
The United States had just fought themselves free of the largest and most powerful Empire in history. What do these idiots think they were using — spitwads?
First, they’re not thinking at all. Second, if they did think about it, they would probably assume that cannons were owned by the colonial government for the use of its fighting forces.
JB: “The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”
Where’s the documentation of that? The 2A certainly doesn’t say it. There were no caveats on it when it passed, the day it passed. It’s another JB lie.
Someone who knows so little about such a fundamental issue should not be in any leadership position.
On the contrary, such a lack of knowledge eminently qualifies him to be a tool of those who want to destroy the United States of America (or so fundamentally transform it that it might as well be destruction). Of course it’s possible he knows he’s lying and doesn’t care because he shares that goal.
Newsmax reporting Russian ship sank while being towed.