When President Biden stated Russia has committed genocide in Ukraine, it was very important for many reasons, but, the most important is that Russians were listening.

It is a return to the Cold War. It gives an entirely new meaning to "Russia are you listening?" 

Also, Anonymous is reporting they are using Russian Ransomware in Russia. Oh, you didn't know the ransomware in the USA is launched by Russia. That is where the money is going when American cities throw their hands in the air and surrender to paying the ransom. Oh, yeah, ransomware curtosy of Russia. No one bothered to link such annoyances to national security.

Well. Here we are in the middle of a genocide of Ukraine by Russia and guess who is partly funding it? Oh, yeah, Americans that pay the ransom. No different than the elderly that succumbs to scamers that take their money. Where do you think those monies are going? Pedophiles, an Indian mafia and quite possibly Russia. 

All these illegal schemes have consequences beyond a balanced budget in homes and businesses across the USA.

I am grateful to the people that broadcast the truth to Russians. The Russians will be grateful as well, when their sons are spared from entering a battlefield where they will be slaughtered without an ounce of preparedness or education. It isn't easy being a soldier, it takes technique and education.

Russia literally throws their young men into the war and it is up to them to survive, if they only knew how. Sink or swim. 

April 13, 2022
By Julian E. Barnes and Edward Wong

Washington - Using a mix of high-tech and Cold War tactics, (click here) Ukrainian activists and Western institutions have begun to pierce the propaganda bubble in Russia, circulating information about the Ukraine war among Russian citizens to sow doubt about the Kremlin’s accounts.

The efforts come at a particularly urgent moment: Moscow appears to be preparing for a new assault in eastern Ukraine that could prove devastatingly bloody to both sides, while mounting reports of atrocities make plain the brutality of the Kremlin’s tactics.

As Russia presents a sanitized version of the war, Ukrainian activists have been sending messages highlighting government corruption and incompetence in an effort to undermine faith in the Kremlin.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a U.S.-funded but independent news organization founded decades ago, is trying to push its broadcasts deeper into Russia. Its Russian-language articles are published on copies of its websites called “mirrors,” which Russian censors seek out in a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole. Audience numbers have surged during the war despite the censorship....

They didn't expect 40 inches of snow and preparedness fell short.

April 11, 2022
By Adriana Navarro

A calf from Klasna Farms during a previous winter's snowfall. 

Nearly halfway through the month of April (click here) is the heart of calving season, and for ranchers in the northern Plains, the blast of wintry weather will endanger the lives of their most fragile animals....

...Over the last few days, Katelyn Dynneson-Larson has been preparing her livestock at Dynneson Ranch in Sidney, Montana, near the western border of North Dakota. While her Gelbvieh cross cows are suited for the chilly weather, the newborn calves will take much more work to keep warm and safe.

"The main issue is that we have been really warm lately, so it will be a shock to everyone," Dynneson-Larson told AccuWeather....

Being a good shepard has never been more important.

April 13, 2022
By Adriana Navarro

Sheep at Hollenbeck Ranch are guided through a snowdrift.

Hundreds of miles of roads (click here) were shut down, ranchers and their animals faced brutal conditions -- and will see more tough weather ahead. Meanwhile, snowdrifts in some spots were estimated to be higher than 10 feet in some places.

The sun was out and shining Wednesday morning in Molt, Montana -- a stark contrast to the blizzard conditions that had kept Sara Hollenbeck busy on her ranch, working to keep the wind and snow from burying her sheep.

The storm that delivered deadly severe weather to the South Central states buried those farther north in record-challenging snowfall and blizzard conditions.

A little more than a 30-minute drive from Hollenbeck Ranch, a record accumulation of 13.9 inches of snowfall was set at Billings, Montana, on Tuesday, breaking the old record of 5.8 inches set in 1991 and earning the title of the snowiest April day in the city since 1955. The mercury plunged to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, overtaking the old record of 15 F held since 1986. A total of nearly 11 inches of snow was reported roughly 10 miles east of Molt. The highest snowfall total in the state was an astounding 47 inches at Albro Lake in southwestern Montana....

There is currently a very bad storm occurring in the USA.

This is hail that fell in Salado, Texas. The storm is proving to be very difficult for calves of the beef herds.

It is Polar Vortex displacement.

March 30, 2022

By Danielle Kaeding

After a year of maintenance, (click here) a U.S. Coast Guard vessel arrived in Duluth on Wednesday that will break up ice for ships moving through Lake Superior and northern Lake Michigan. The vessel’s arrival comes as Congressional lawmakers are pushing for another heavy icebreaker on the Great Lakes.

The 225-foot Coast Guard cutter Spar ended its journey from Baltimore after undergoing repairs. The vessel was commissioned in 2001, built in Marinette, Wisconsin, and originally based in Kodiak, Alaska. The vessel replaces the Coast Guard cutter Alder, which left the port last summer for maintenance before being transferred to San Francisco.

As the Spar transited the Great Lakes, Coast Guard Lt. Commander Joel Wright said his crew encountered thick ice in Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior after passing through the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan....

Corruption in plain sight. That is what placed Americans on the path to the climate crisis. Everytime the USA Congress, dating back two decades attempted to approach the greenhouse gases pollution, there was obstruction after obstruction to benefit the petroleum industry.

100 million Americans.

100,000,000 Americans.

100 million Americans are a third of the USA population!

April 12, 2022

By Alex Sosnowski

Close to 100 million Americans (click here) will be at risk for all forms of severe weather that includes tornadoes on Wednesday and Wednesday night as a dangerous severe weather threat persists, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The severe weather is a continuation of violent storms that targeted locations from Texas to Minnesota on Tuesday and part of the same massive storm system responsible for an ongoing blizzard over the northern Plains and high winds over the southern Plains....

Anti-science politics is the MOST dangerous of tactics for elections.

The anti-science paradigm employed by the GOP for elections HAS CAUSED the outbreak of COVID-19 and uncontrolled spread. It has caused the climate crisis which should have been addressed decades ago and it imperils American lives in national security.

These very dangerous politics are practiced by the GOP. The country needs to stop being stupid about the hubris that gets Republicans elected.

Let's not forget gun violence.

Revenge politics

April 12, 2022
By Annie Karni

In a bitterly divided Congress, (click here) it was a rare measure that had been expected to sail through without a fight.

A bill to name a federal courthouse in Tallahassee after Justice Joseph W. Hatchett, the first Black man to serve on the Florida Supreme Court — sponsored by the state’s two Republican senators and backed unanimously by its 27 House members — was set to pass the House last month and become law with broad bipartisan support.

But in a last-minute flurry, Republicans abruptly pulled their backing with no explanation and ultimately killed the measure, leaving its fate unclear, many of its champions livid and some of its newfound opponents professing ignorance about what had happened.

Asked what made him vote against a measure that he had co-sponsored, Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, was brief and blunt: “I don’t know,” he said....

The Republicans are the white supremacists party. There is absolutely no doubt in that. This is yet another example of it.

Dating back to Judge Bork (click here), the Republicans have held increasingly obvious vengeful politics. And now, considering the past work within the Senate Justice Committe, President Biden is receiving his full share of Republican Revenge Politics.

I think "Moscow Mitch" is doing Americans a great favor by declaring that judges are no longer nominated by any given opening on the Supreme Court with a President of either party, but, by political majority in the US Senate. So, when Americans go to the polls they now have one more paradigm to consider. Do Americans elect their US Senators by reputation of blocking obstruction or by the judges they will approve? Or both?

I think Americans when they vote believe they are acting to make their government benevolent, fair and democratic. That has changed with the Republican Party, especially obvious with Trump's involvement in the GOP. Now, when Republican Seantors are elected it isn't under the idea that there is benevolence, but, more a dictatorshiop according to Republcan politics and not the policies of the country.

"Moscow Mitch" is anti-American. That is not just a political statement, it is a statement in fact. The US President is supposed to decide anyone nominated to the Supreme Court. The US Senate is supposed to advise and consent. "Moscow Mitch" has changed those RULES OF LAW. Advise and Consent is not being honored as a Constitutional precept if all the nominations are decided at the ballot box and not that of the US President. That is a great deal of damage to the USA democracy.

The circus the Republicans carried on in the most recent judicial nomination to the US Supreme Court was shameful, yet, to Republicans it was all about B Roll for the PACS to use at will to throw their money at the next election. That is not a democracy, it is a Plutocracy with policy imbedded in a dictatorship.

When a US Senator is elected that means there is one vote in the US Senate. That one vote exists because of the governance of the US Constitution. Predecided votes is not ethical or legal. "Moscow Mitch" needs an ethics investigation. There is absolutely no way a predetermined vote regarding Supreme Court nominations is legal. In that, realize, profoundly qualified nominations will be sent back to their day job without a fair hearing or a fair vote. That is highly illegal according to the USA Supreme Court. If we, as Americans, are to have the governance we want we have to end the openly opposition to the USA Constitution. "Moscow Mitch" is a chronic ethical violator including casting a vote to bring monies to Russian oligarchs to establish steel rolling factories in Kentucky, the state "Moscow Mitch" represents.

The revenge politics of the Republican Party is attacking the USA Constitution. There is no doubt about it. A US Senator having a predetermined vote regarding a nomination to the US Supreme Court is EXTREMELY corrupt. The CORRUPTION is directly due to the monies donated to politics by The Federalist Society. This is a closed loop that provides a guarantee that the USA Constitution takes a back seat to partisan politics and standards set by an private organization. The Federalist Society is BUYING the government. That is EXTREMELY corrupt. What is interesting is that because it is known to be a fact in the USA and openly known, the corruption somehow doesn't matter at the time of elections. 

If states that elected CORRUPTED politicians into their seats of power believe they are most qualified to protect that power and the USA Consitution I strongly suggest the states build a new political brain trust and out the current corrupted politicans.

The country acted to protect the USA Consitution in the 2020 election, it isn't over yet. The Republicans are doubling down on a dictatorship and there is no doubt whatsoever.