The "Ghost of Kyiv" was instrumental in early defeats.

40 enemy planes is a lot of planes. I am sure he will be remembered when the time comes. His family will be presented with a service award for his bravery and dedication.

30 April 2022

Legendary pilot (click here) has shot down 40 Russian planes

Ukraine has suffered a setback (click here) against the Russian aggression as one of its brave pilot dubbed as 'Ghost of Kyiv' was killed last month according to the report published in Times of London.The identity of the pilot was revealed as Stepan Tarabalka.

Ukrainian officials confirmed the death of the 'Ghost of Kyiv', saying that pilot Major Stepan Tarabalka was killed during the war last month. The Ukrainian officials said that the brave pilot has shot down 40 Russian jets before he was killed by the Russian forces.''

According to the publication, the pilot was flying a MiG-29 which was shot down on 13 of last month while fighting an “overwhelming" number of enemy forces....

He (click here) was fearless and feared in the skies above Ukraine.

This is all Putin's politics. The media is under the communist thumb.

April 29, 2022
By Michael Wasiura

The southern port city of Mariupol (click here) has been the site of some of the fiercest fighting seen thus far in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. On March 16, Mariupol's deputy mayor, Serhiy Orlov, estimated that between 80%-90% of the city's buildings had been damaged. In the six weeks of continued fighting that followed, the situation has only gotten worse.

Russian domestic television, however, presented its audience with an alternative version of events. A four-minute news segment broadcast on Russia's First Channel on the evening of April 28 made the following claim:

"After explosions, firefights, pain, and blood, Mariupol is returning to normal life, and as a notable symbol of this, schools are already accumulating lists of students....

I have said this from the beginning. Now the Russian Victory Day is coming up and this is a very dangerous time for the world. I would expect anything to happen.

Victory Day in Russia is about nationalism. The world needs to be on guard when the day of nationalism comes and goes. He is using the idea of nazis to win elections. Victory Day and the illusion of having changed the path of Russian Speaking people to the "righteous path," might be enough for Putin. He might simply move on, but, there is a chance he will insist the hatred of the Russia people as grown to the point of intolerable after being the savior of Mariupol. 

It is a very dangerous time for the world. There is no doubt in my mind the communists and other violent regimes are taking aim at The West and allies of freedom and democracy. The question is will they decide engaging power to bring a war to conclude the final solution is actually the best path forward or will they come to terms that The West and allies of freedom and democracy to TRY AND CREATE an opportunity for economic growth and prosperity?

I think the idea the communists and violent regimes will look for economic opportunity is remote. It probably exists among the political parties within the countries, but, those parties are in the minority. Recently Aung San Suu Kyi was convicted of corruption. Alexei Navalny is in prison and just had his sentence increased. One of the reasons he went back to Russia was to let the people witness the complete control and power Putin holds over innocent people. The man was poisoned by Russian agents and no one even bothers to investigate or hold the guilty responsible. If Russia doesn't want to extradict then convict attempted murders for what they are.

The Free World can all witness now the depth of deception regarding Mariupol. The city has been leveled to rubble and the remaining citizens forced to starve to death. And the Russian media is painting pretty pictures for the people who are helpless to end their own corruption.

This is a very dangerous time in the world. Very.

April 29, 2022

By Kate Murphy

Victory Day on May 9 (click here) is a symbol of national pride for Russians, much like Independence Day on July 4 is for Americans. The Russian national holiday celebrates the historical victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in World War II.

This year, the 77th anniversary of Victory Day comes amid a brutal and devastating war Russia is waging in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stated reason for the “special military operation” in Ukraine — the false claim that he wants to “de-Nazify” Russia’s neighbor — deliberately invokes World War II history....

Just what our prisons need, treasonists and seditionists.

White Supremacy doesn't see any difference in living in or out of a jail or prison. It is a continuous timeline. The prison system has to handle them so they cannot victimize innocent people and family not in prison while the inmates have all the time in the world to plot against the government, banks, and businessmen. Perhaps the only way to break the cycle is to deny them access to visitors.

29 April 2022
By Keith Griffith

A member of the Oath Keepers militia (click here) has pleaded guilty to engaging in seditious conspiracy during the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and will be expected to testify against the group's leader Stewart Rhodes.

Brian Ulrich, 44, of Georgia pleaded guilty on Friday during a hearing in federal court in Washington DC. He sobbed as the judge warned he could face up to 20 years in prison, though sentencing guidelines call for much less time....

This is a well established underworld in the USA. These are the people Donald John Trump called friends, associates and constituents. It is time to handle this as more than a PERSONAL PREFFERENCE in lifestyles and call it what it is, an underworld that is bonded with racism and freely kills whomever they deem a problem to their population. There are charges that have to be investigated including racketeering. The paradigm has to change. These are people that disregard authority and attempt to make their own world with hatred and violence. Enough of this. These people are open about their identity and their methods. This is more than any civilized society should tolerate. They chronically subvert the values of this country and actively recruit young teens to serve their purpose and propagate the hate.

The prison system has enough on their hands with gang behavior within the system, then add those that don't respect the prison bars and realize they have to reform and use their miserable lives to undermine the decency of American values to create their own power structure to propagate the same hatred they exhibited outside of prison. The judges and the prison system need to invoke measures to separate these people from their enablers outside the prison. They need to accept they are wrong. 

continued...

Trump’s impossible to climb border wall is killing too many people.

In the Washington Post there is an accounting of a border that is difficult to scale but killing those that try. That is a human rights violation. 

If all we needed was a wall we would not need border patrols. The Border Patrol is in place to apprehend illegal crossers. A wall that kills is anti-American. 

There better alternatives. Southern California has a triple redundant wall and it works to discourage crossing. No wall will be foolproof but there are methods to discourage people from coming to the USA as the only desperate way to save their own lives.

The people trying to scale the wall are making across the Rio Grande but then dying on American soil. Some will applaud at the great feat, but, it is wrong. The Border Patrol are incredible people and love this country, but, are compassionate as well. Cruelty to children is out of the question. 

There are answers to prevent and end border crossing, this wall is a disgrace to the values this country represents to the world. 

The USA and President Biden are heroes to the people of Ukraine.

April 28, 2022
Live Updates

President Biden (click here) is scheduled to deliver a speech on Thursday morning from the White House. Russia and the West are preparing for a protracted struggle, after Moscow cut off gas supplies to two countries and as the U.S. and allies rush heavy arms to Ukraine....

I just wish Americans would appreciate President Biden more and realize how he is making the USA a hero to so many other countries. This is literally a moment in history when democracy becomes secure in a world of hate of freedom.

This pivot by Putin comes after the reliquishment by Trump of so many classified documents that communists feel emboldened to run over top of any country in the world that embraces democracy.

THIS IS IT. Everyone needs to understand this is a make or break moment for Russia. If it cannot deliver Ukraine it's global impact will diminish. There are upsides to that and there are downsides, ie: Iran is breaking out of diplomatic solutions to develop it's OWN nukes. The assassination of generals under Trump unleashed the power within Iran to do as it sees fit.

Russia ended petroleum energy solutions to two countries. That is aggression. It weakens the countries infrastructure and prepares them for invasion. Just that simple. It is up to the USA and it's many resources and the USA military to now provide new alternatives to Putin's petroleum. This is a great moment for the USA and it's allies. It sincerely is. 

This is more about freedom and democracy than anyone in The West wants to admit. This is JUST Russia being stupid about it's economy and that potential of a global network of economic strengths. THAT IS NOT IT. This is about ideology and the implementation of means to end democracy and force imperialism on everyone on Earth. 

North Korea, Iran, Syria, China, Russia, etc. are all prepared to unleash "the final solution" on The West and it's many allies. 

Imagine a world where democracy empowers the people and results in sustainable economies for every person on the globe. Just imagine that. Where is the power then that the communists understand and adhere to regardless of it's folly? 

The West has appeased too long to provide for a stable international balance. Putin wants to end international balance and instill dictatorships around the world. Say good-bye to Twitter all together if that happens and enforced and rigid rules will result in oppression and poverty. We are at a boiling point and we also have the best diplomats in the world leading an effort toward peace. The ideology may be cracking and peace may very well result, but, the strength of the USA must be understood and it's agenda of peace and prosperity accepted. 

Communism is like religion to those that practice it. There is no turning back for them. 

President Biden is perfectly placed at this time when so much of our governance and future for our generations to come are at stake. The American people need to appreciate this moment in time and realize how safe they are in his hands. He lived his life for this. Communism can exist, but, it has to exist peacefully and the entire world needs to understand that nukes are not the way into the future, they are nothing more than assured mutual destruction. That is not a national defense, that is a weapon of fear and there is nothing to fear. 

It is 6:28 pm on the East Coast of the USA.

Weren't we supposed to be swamped by a geo-electric storm? I thought that was today. Instead, evidently, the space focus of concern is on another asteroid heading our way. 

Okay, then. Maybe I got the dates wrong. I had reading set aside until the power went down. Batteries in flashlights and everything. Hm. 

Aurora borealis tonight, maybe? 

Here we go again, in China.

Stop it at the FIRST CASE, NOT THE MILLIONTH AND FIRST CASE.

April 27, 2022
By Tom Levitt

An H3N8 strain of bird flu (click here) has been detected in humans for the first time, in China’s central province of Henan.

The four-year-old boy infected had been in contact with chickens and crows raised at his home, according to reports from China’s National Health Commission.

Avian influenza or bird flu as it is commonly known is a highly contagious viral disease with the first reports of human cases in the 1990s.

Some strains of the bird flu, such as with H3N8 now, have been passed to humans but this is currently very rare, and usually occurs after very close contact with infected birds or animals.

H3N8 viruses circulate widely in birds and in horses and have also been detected in dogs in North America.

“We often see a virus spread to a human and then not spread any further so a single case is not a cause of great concern,” said Sir Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases and global health, University of Oxford....

The USA has been culling infected birds for over a decade now. All this has been policy since "W." The guy got it right when it came to disease and it's end. He really did. There is no excuse for any infectious disease to be migrating into the USA. We have our own problems

April 4, 2022
By Katie Wermus

More than 22 million chickens and turkeys (click here) have been culled in the U.S. since February due to an outbreak of avian influenza, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Avian influenza cases have been confirmed in at least 24 states in both backyard and commercial flocks, the USDA reported. Once an animal is detected to have bird flu, the flock is killed in order to prevent the disease from spreading. The virus currently poses a low risk to the public, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Since the beginning of the avian influenza outbreak in February, prices at the grocery store have risen. The cost of eggs has increased 52 percent since cases were first reported, with a dozen eggs now costing an average of $2.88. If additional birds continue to become infected, prices could rise even higher, according to ABC News....

Rand Paul, get a clue!

The world was with us then as it is now. There is no doubt about the deaths of innocent people and Russia is to blame. End of discussion.

The day human atrocities are allowed is the day we will all become victims.

I believe it was Former President George W. Bush that stated people inherently want freedom and they seek it when opportunity presents itself. The Post Soviet states made their decision and they have been hated by Russia since. Hate in carrying out war and violence against others can never be tolerated.

Russia brought in portable crematories into Ukraine. What can ever be in question? They wanted to hide the genocide.

RUSSIA WAS NOT INVADED. RUSSIA WAS NOT THREATENED. THERE IS NO LESSON HERE, THERE IS ONLY ENDING THE AGGRESSION AND RETURNING TO PEACE. RUSSIA BROKE THE PEACE, NO OTHER COUNTRY DID.

This war was launched on a date without a plan because Putin believed the time was right. There has been nothing but suffering since.

There will be no revisionist history. 

 

She let her guard down.

This is really a great picture of Vice President Harris, by the way.

April 26, 2022
By Jasmine Wright, Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein, Kevin Liptak and Ted Barrett,

Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday after returning from a weeklong trip to California.

"Today I tested positive for COVID-19. I have no symptoms, and I will continue to isolate and follow CDC guidelines. I'm grateful to be both vaccinated and boosted," Harris tweeted Tuesday afternoon.

Kirsten Allen, the vice president's press secretary, said in an earlier statement that Harris tested positive for Covid-19 on rapid and PCR tests. Harris "will isolate and continue to work from the vice president's residence," Allen said.

"She has not been a close contact to the President or First Lady due to their respective recent travel schedules. She will follow CDC guidelines and the advice of her physicians. The Vice President will return to the White House when she tests negative," she added....

This episode by the Vice President is exactly why I still wear a mask. But, I will also point out the vaccine and it's boosters are working.

Governor Newsome has basically left it up to Californians to discern their use of precautions. He has slowly removed mask mandates for citizens within California borders knowing the hospitals currently can effectively and without shortages treat those exposed to the virus and are in danger of profound illness that is life threatening. People are still dying of this lousy virus.

I believe every Governor and the President has acted in concern for the SINGLE CITIZEN that is vulnerable. The majority that can be healthy, such as Vice President Harris, in the face of an infection want to be able to live their lives and that is a health directive as well. Activity is important to maintain good health.

Lifting the mask mandates does not mean there is no danger. It means citizens are well educated enough about precautions to decide if a mask in their life is necessary. I still wear mine and practice social distancing and hand hygiene. I think all those things are still important to my well being which include all four jabs of vaccine and booster.

As to the Vice President, she was in California where she feels most at home and in many pictures she is without a mask and closely distanced. That was her choice. She became infected and we know that the virus is adapting all the time and exposure is unpredictable to outcomes of the victim at this point. I would like to see her set the best example, but, she is a human being no different than any other American and being at home among friends feels good. 

I am mostly relieved she is in good health and that the vaccines work. I wish her and her family wellness and happiness. I thank her for her dedication to the country and it's diverse people.

This is no way to decide a vote.

The outfit that puts this ageism propaganda together really doesn't care about the facts. Allow me to help.

Peter Doucy is probably correct about those apprehended at the USA southern border as terrorists. Mr. Doucy goes on to criticize the Biden Administration that gives the listener the idea there are terrorists crossing the border all the time and Americans need to live in fear of the border policies of President Biden.

"W"rong.

Encounter data includes U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Title 8 Apprehensions, (click here) Office of Field Operations (OFO) Title 8 Inadmissibles, and Title 42 Expulsions for fiscal years (FY) 2020, 2021, and 2022. Data is available for the Northern Land Border, Southwest Land Border, and Nationwide (i.e., air, land, and sea modes of transportation) encounters...

These were actual contact and not estimations for the record. What the graph shows below are illegal encounters by "type" (click here). There is no specific listing for "terrorist." Why? Because it wouldn't even show up on the graph as a dot, that's why.

According to this data, there were 1,735,686 illegal immigrant encounters in 2021. According to Doucy there were something like 23 on the terrorist watch list. As a percentage of the encounters resulted in terrorist apprehensions there were 0.0013. To be clear that was 0.0013 percent of the population of encounters that were terrorists.

The USA Border Patrol is awesome. They were able to FIND AND APPREHEND 23 terrorists at the USA southern border when the chances of that is sincerely zero.

The word terrorist is explosive and is intended to instill fear. Why did 911 happen? Because no one expected it. The FBI had their eyes on the terrorists of September 11, 2001, but, there was dearly little action taken against them because of the FBI's respect for privacy. As it worked out, the terrorists were actually terrorists and deadly killers. The FBI was so close to controlling the actions of terrorists and possibly apprehending them because the 20th terrorist never made it to the airport and give away the plot. The FBI is that good, but, they need to be better in the permission to apprehend, question and detain. Those recommendations can only apply to our law enforcement agencies and with the organized and statistical data from the Director, currently that would be Director Wray.

The problem here is of course illegal immigration and border crossings (click here). But, there is also another problem and that is instilling fear into the American voter when there is very little to fear in order to drive the vote to extremist agendas.

Alex Nowrasteh (click here) of the Cato Institute offers nonpartisan facts in response to common myths about immigration

I am sure if I posted the Brookings Institute their facts would be similar, but, since there is a right wing bias against them why give Americans are reason to think differently. IT IS JUST POLITICS, RIGHT?

The outfit putting together the videos regarding ageism and neglect of the national security of the American people need to be sued for their slanderous editing to achieve hatred of the candidate. They have a symbiotic relationship with Doucy. I am sure he is not compensated, but, he never disavows the conclusions of the videos. Worse than that he NEGLECTS the real truth in his questions intended to victimize American voters to have them feel vulnerable.

I am not placing responsibility of the media to educate the voters and force them into voting a certain way. I criticize any media if I find disagreement with them. But, if newspapers want to understand why their circulations have been hit so hard of the recent decades it is because THE AMERICAN VOTER IS LAZY AND DOESN'T DO THEIR READING TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH.

Nothing like the "Morning Paper" with the first meal of the day and tucked under the arm for break times at work.

Americans have become so intent on political ads to decide their vote, they are in terrible condition to make the best choices. The media needs to do better in presenting the excellence in our country and it's democracy. That does not mean censorship at all. The American people need to gather the truth, especially in reporting, and decide their vote and not SURRENDER THEIR VOTE to the most money spent on political ads.

The video below is illegitimate and is also chronic in it's insistence that the age of President Biden is in question when it comes to making executive decisions. I don't find that an issue, I find the judgement of him abusively harsh. This video is an example of it.

 

American voters need to know what the "silly season" is all about and it is not benign.

September 17, 2018

By Caitlan Gibson

Great for a school assembly (click here). It is primarily an unspoken truth in schools. Why?

At first, it wasn’t obvious that anything was amiss. (click here) Kids are naturally curious about the complicated world around them, so Joanna Schroeder wasn’t surprised when her 11- and 14-year-old boys recently started asking questions about timely topics such as cultural appropriation and transgender rights.

But she sensed something off about the way they framed their questions, she says — tinged with a bias that didn’t reflect their family’s progressive values. She heard one of her sons use the word “triggered” in a sarcastic, mocking tone. And there was the time Schroeder watched as her son scrolled through the “Explore” screen on his Instagram account and she caught a glimpse of a meme depicting Adolf Hitler.

Schroeder, a writer and editor in Southern California, started paying closer attention, talking to her boys about what they’d encountered online. Then, after her kids were in bed one night last month, she opened Twitter and began to type....

The attack on American democracy is real, isn't that right, Moscow Mitch?

April 26, 2022
By John Haltiwanger

The Kentucian was wise enough to not be photographed with Butina regardless of the NRA contribution to Rand Paul of $104,446 to his political campaign (click here). The NRA was being clever to give the biggest contributions to the GOP candidate most likely to lean into gun laws.

Genocide doesn't need a reason except hate. Indeed, the Senator was well paid for by Russian Dark Money  through the NRA. Even today, after January 6th, Rand Paul feels an obligation to blame Ukraine for the genocide of it's own people.

Sen. Rand Paul (click here) on Tuesday received fierce pushback from Secretary of State Antony Blinken after the Kentucky Republican said that Ukraine was "part of Russia" during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

Paul said there was "no justification" for Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, but added "it does not follow that there's no explanation for the invasion." The GOP senator cited Russia's qualms with Kyiv's NATO ambitions, which have not advanced in 14 years, and accused the Biden administration of "beating the drums to admit Ukraine" to the alliance.

Blinken rejected Paul's suggestion that the administration was "agitating" for Ukraine's NATO membership, stating that the US was "standing up" for the alliance's open door policy and "a basic principle that one country can't dictate to another the choices it makes about with whom it allies."...

This is interesting. And everyone thinks it is "just politics." The Republicans were circumventing sanctions and we wonder why they don't matter. Traitors. I can't help but wonder if Paul voted against the sanctions and why?

August 9, 2018
By Ron Elving

By now, (click here) practically everyone has seen that picture of the two guys at President Trump's weekend rally in Ohio wearing T-shirts that said: "I'd Rather be a Russian than a Democrat!"

Many have also seen the visuals of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul hobnobbing in Moscow this week with members of the Russian Council, sometimes called his "counterparts." These included the chairman of the council's foreign policy panel, Konstantin Kosachev, who happens to be under official U.S. sanction for his government's actions against our government.

But that didn't seem to bother Paul, who invited Kosachev and others to visit the USA.

Indeed, this sanction and other tokens of disapproval imposed on Russian officials in the past year have not seemed to chill the enduring warmth between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. Paul carried a handwritten note from Trump to Putin on his trip....

August 6, 2018

By Mary Ilyushina

Moscow - Sen. Rand Paul (click here) on Monday invited Russian lawmakers to Washington after meeting Russian members of parliament in Moscow.

“I am pleased to announced that we will be continuing this contact,” Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said in Moscow. “We agreed and we invited members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia to come to the US to meet with us in the US, in Washington.”

Paul is in Moscow meeting with Russian lawmakers in a trip he sees as a continuation of US President Donald Trump’s diplomatic outreach to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and comes several weeks after Trump invited Putin to DC as well. Paul has been one of Trump’s most outspoken supporters following the criticism Trump faced – including from some within his own party – for the US President’s handling of his meeting with Putin in July. During a news conference in Helsinki at the time, Trump declined to back the conclusion of the US intelligence that Russia interfered with the US presidential election over Putin’s denials, though Trump later said when he was back in the US that he misspoke....

Most Western countries as well as communist Russia has right wing extremists. The Azov Battalion are the ones that took on the hardest fight for the people and land of Ukraine in Mariupol.

Such extremist groups are NO REASON FOR GENOCIDE!

April 11, 2022
By Marc Bennetts

In a plush Italian restaurant (click here) halfway between Red Square and Russia’s parliamentary building, Maria Butina, an MP with President Putin’s ruling party, sipped green tea and spoke of Nazis.

A former gun rights activist, Butina, 33, made headlines in 2018 when she was convicted by an American court of conspiring to infiltrate Republican circles. Her case became a cause célèbre for Moscow, which alleged the charges were politically motivated and aimed at undermining a summit between Putin and President Trump. She served 15 months in prison....

Hm. Scaly Mountain is where Mark Meadows pretended to live and register to run for the US House. Isn't that the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains?

Just sayin'.

September 21, 2017
By Eleanor Klibanoff

Within hours of last month’s deadly white supremacist rally (click here) in Charlottesville, the national media descended on the small northern Kentucky city of Florence, where alleged murderer James Alex Fields grew up.

This was not the first time a national spotlight shone on Kentucky in the wake of racially-motivated violence.

Hate groups have long called Kentucky and the region home — from the days when white supremacists influenced state and local government, to 11 years ago, when Ku Klux Klan members beat a young man nearly to death at a county fair, to today.

“For white supremacists, they view (Kentucky and) Appalachia, wrongly, as a place where there are white folks who are very independent, don’t like the government and who are sympathetic to their messages,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center....

What do you think? A planet full of fried cell phones, towers and satellites?

So much for Bitcoin mining. LOL.

Maybe flying machines need to take the day off.

March 18, 2022

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, (click here) telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be seen as far south as Colombia. Typically, these lights are only visible at higher latitudes, in northern Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia.

What the world experienced that day, now known as the Carrington Event, was a massive geomagnetic storm. These storms occur when a large bubble of superheated gas called plasma is ejected from the surface of the sun and hits the Earth. This bubble is known as a coronal mass ejection....

It is a magnificent video. Whoever released it, thank you. She was wonderful in her own right.

Why haven't the politics changed in 18 long years?

 June 2004

That is nearly a generation. No one should be standing aside in this fight to end the heating of the only planet this generation has for their lives.

This is outrageous and ridiculous. The cost impact on Middle Class families is an assault against democracy.

Putin's justification holds no water.

The primary reason Putin is warring is because he is believed to be the savior of terrified Russians that believe the world hates them, hence, the continued assault on eastern Ukraine. Putin states the mass graves are due to the genocide by Ukraine. That is the furthest from the truth because no one is demanding the death of Russians. There is no counter hatred that exists with Ukrainians. They only long to go home.

Those around the globe seeking to protect Ukrainians and empower their sovereign right, are not reporting the deaths of civilians, but, only the Russian military deaths. There is that stake difference. There are no Russian civilians dying.

There is no fact that speaks to Vladimir Putin's hatred of Russian speaking Ukrainians.

The Proud Boys proxy is referred to by Thomas Markle. That is interesting.

It looks like Prince Charles is correct. I guess that is why he is to be King Charles. When Prince Harry and his family visit the UK, it might be a circus. It seems it has started already. I think Prince Harry will have to be more covert in his ambitions to visit the Queen as family rather than royals.

25 April 2022

Thomas Markle (click here) has blasted Prince Harry as an 'idiot' and agreed that he is 'whipped' by Meghan - while announcing his intention to visit the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. 

In an interview with Dan Wootton on GB News, Mr Markle, 77, revealed he will be flying to London in June in an attempt to reunite with daughter Meghan and meet Harry and his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet for the first time. 

Mr Markle, who did not attend the wedding of Harry and Meghan in 2018 as he was recovering from heart surgery and has had a strained relationship with the couple, said he also hoped to repair their relationship....

Winning against Republicans in the USA should not be that difficult.

Just picture them with bald heads. The Skinheads never run their own candidate, they use Republicans as a proxy and Republicans love the votes.

Youngkin proved how covert they can be.

Republicans are always a proxy for White Supremacists/Nationalists. They like to call it "the silly season" when they pander to them for a vote. It isn't really silly at all. It translates into votes that bring about racism in our politics where it does not belong at all.

White Supremacy is not a religion, it is hate. It is not protected speech, it is hate speech.

India may have found a better treatment for COVID-19 than Remdesivir

Ad for allergy relief (click here)

Always consult a physician before starting any new medicine. Please. Be sure the oral form will perform as expected. There is a big difference in the way medication is absorbed if taken orally.

Montelukast, used to reduce inflammation caused by conditions like asthma, hay fever and hives, has been found effective against Covid-19.

It is being hailed as a preventative as well as a treatment. For children, if it is possible, it goes to the heart of the inflammation reaction they suffer.

The Indian Institute of Science, (click here) Bengaluru scientists have conducted a study that revealed that Montelukast- a drug used for the treatment of Asthama has the potential to stop Covid variants from replicating within the body of the infected. 

For people with inadequate immune systems, this can be good news.

National Library of Medicine (click here) 

The study was published in the journal eLife. The study states that "montelukast sodium hydrate can be used as a lead molecule to design potent inhibitors to help combat SARS-CoV-2 infection." Montelukast, used to reduce inflammation caused by conditions like asthma, hay fever and hives, has been found effective against Covid-19.

Latest assessment of Russia's genocide of Ukraine

Approximately 15,000 Russian soldiers dead on Ukraine soil and dearly few of Putin's goals have been realized. Vladimir Putin should abandon his wishes for genocide and leave Ukraine. The country has to heal after the worst rampage of all modern time.

Congratulations President Macron for a second term that is the first in 20 years.

Sign language.

The missing podium in the center was a vote for Le Pen.

April 21, 2022
By Virginie Malingre and Philippe Ricard

The French presidents, Emmanuel Macron, and Russian, Vladimir Putin, during a press conference at the Kremlin, in Moscow, Monday, February 7, 2022.

It is rare (click here) for international news to find such an echo in a French election. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which began on February 24, will have impacted the presidential campaign and placed the question of relations with Vladimir Putin at the heart of the debates in the second round. As war returns to Europe, the subject has become a fault line between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

The conflict has delayed the start of the Head of State's campaign. Both before and after the outbreak of hostilities, Emmanuel Macron has sought, in vain so far, to mediate between Moscow and kyiv. His voluntarism was initially rather well perceived by public opinion, before showing its limits, as the fighting dragged on.

For Mr. Macron, the dialogue with the Kremlin remains justified by the concern to find a way out of the war and to restore, in the long term, the European security order, brought to the ground by the Ukrainian conflict. However, telephone conversations with Vladimir Putin were interrupted between the two towers, due, explains the Elysée, to the discovery of the atrocities committed against civilians in the localities once occupied by the Russian army in the kyiv region, such as Boucha. "Macron no longer has much interest in spending his time on the phone with Putin, while the French have the impression that it is useless" , observes Sébastien Maillard, the director of the Jacques Delors Institute....

In observation of Ukraine's steadfast faith, today is Easter for the Orthodoxy. (click here for link - thank you)

 

And the Hollywood investigations now begin.

23 April 2022
By Alyssa Guzman

Bill Murray (click here) once threw an ashtray at Richard Dreyfuss' head after a 'meltdown' on set of What About Bob, it has been claimed as more 'problematic behavior' emerges about the beloved actor whose actions have caused his latest movie project to get shut down.

Dreyfuss' son Ben, 35, revealed on Twitter on Thursday that Murray, 71, allegedly threw an ashtray at his father's head and threatened to 'throw' a female producer across a parking lot and 'ripped off her glasses' during the meltdown after being denied an extra day off on the What About Bob set in 1991.

Ben also revealed bodyguards had to be on set once filming resumed to separate the Murray and Dreyfuss, 74....

Will Smith has revealed an underbelly to Hollywood. Tempermental actors and actresses and the fall out of their behavior. The public mostly doesn't see that side of the movie set. Now, it is becoming important to remove violence from the Hollywood work place.

The problem with Putin's investigation.

The way I see it the Putin investigations is an attempt to "pin something nefarious" on The West, hence the so called issue with British intelligence. Ukraine is a member of the European Union and has been building that relationship for a long time. The focus of the relationship was economic. Ukraine and it's business community wanted to open economic relationships with the European Union. 

The point is regardless of how legitimate the relationship with the EU was and is, Putin will make it look oppressive and in hate of Russians. These investigations are not for the world to understand, but, a closed audience in Russia.

What should really occur is for Putin, his lawyers and his foreign ministers to take their case to The Hague and argue against the charges that were filed. He should do that in person to demonstrate he is not afraid of the truth.

No investigation by Russia will result in anything except a narrow focus for propaganda reflecting his politics. 

He does want to escalate the war. If The West gives him no reason to act, then he will create a scenario in order to justify it to the Russian people.

This is very, very tragic.

Such talent should register somewhere and given certain guidelines to prevent such horrible accidents. I am sure there is a tourist bureau in New York City that can provide a structured idea of the trains that run in the subway and the dangers of being near them.

Basically, what to expect with schedules, the electric rail and requesting accommodation for such an event. It is an event. These are international travelers recognized globally for their talent. I have no doubt they would be welcome to paint in New York City. This is really terrible and it seems like a lack of understanding the subject they most wanted to paint.

April 22, 2022

By Stephen Nessen

A photo of Julien Blanc (front left) and Pierre Audebert (front right) who were found struck by a train.

Two men (click here) found fatally struck by a train in a subway tunnel in East New York Wednesday morning have been identified as two French graffiti artists.

Julien Blanc, 34, and Pierre Audebert, 28, shared two dreams, according to their boss, the artist Ceet Fouad.

The first was to visit New York City. Fouad, also a street artist, who’s known for his chicken character with bulging eyes, brought them to New York to film a short documentary. During the filming, they interviewed veterans of New York City’s graffiti heyday of the 1970s and 1980s.

Their second dream, Fouad said, was to paint a subway train. “It was like winning the World Cup, winning a trophy,” Fouad said.

Fouad said the last time he saw his friends was at dinner Tuesday night. He said they didn’t discuss going out to paint trains and he had no idea they were planning to do it....

 

Why is this even an issue?

The West has been selling all sorts of things, including military hardware, to Ukraine and it was all legitimate. May items The West comes with instructors so the purchaser knows how to properly use the item. The West isn't interested in jihad warfare so much as correct use of such merchandise. Why does Putin think he has anything and who in their right mind would trust his findings?

23 April 2022
By Will Stewart and Adam Soloman and Laurence Dollimore

Warring Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) has today launched a search for British SAS forces alleged to be fighting in western Ukraine.

The Kremlin's Investigative Committee (IC), often referred to as Putin's personal CIA, said Saturday it will look into 'the facts of the activities of British SAS saboteurs in Ukrainian regions,' in particular Lviv, according to state-controlled outlet RIA Novosti.

It comes as Kremlin-backed soldiers encircle the last remaining defenders of Mariupol to the east, with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky vowing to pull out of peace talks with Russia if any of his soldiers are killed in the last stand in the strategic port city....

A question for the January 6th Committee.

Of all the indications that Trump put forward a coupe against the new president and the USA Consititon, of what that he capitulated as classified military information to Russia was to perfect it's nuclear capacity?

Because if there was significant information provided to Russia that assisted in higher military technology, the coupe wasn't just a coupe, it was a resignation of the USA's power and strength to the communists. Trump wanted to remove the USA government, I have absolutely no doubt it. The question is how successful was he to that goal?

Did Trump wait as he kept others waiting? (click here)

Putin's latest so - called perfected dildo shaped human extinguisher to make Russia feel good about itself.

March 3, 2018
By Dave Mosher

During Vladimir Putin's annual speech (click here) on Thursday, the Russian president played videos that unveiled brand-new nuclear weapons with startling capabilities.

Putin announced an "unstoppable" nuclear-powered "global cruise missile" that has "practically unlimited" range, then showed an animation of the device bobbing and weaving around the globe. He also played a computer animation of a high-speed, nuke-armed submarine drone blowing up ships and coastal targets.

"Russia remained and remains the largest nuclear power. Do not forget, no one really wanted to talk to us. Nobody listened to us," Putin told a crowd in Moscow, according to a translation by Sputnik, a Russian-government-controlled news agency. "Listen now."...

Indeed, Satan's favorite minion.

The date March 16, 1979 is commemorated in the current flags on Ukrainian flag poles.

The Soviet Union was once a power to contend with and this was the height of it's military power. Putin daydreams of this. He blames himself as a KGB in any failure of the Soviet Union. The more land a country holds, the more people it can claim as citizens to press into service of the military. The Soviet Union was a huge piece of land. It was primarly ungovernable. The size of the Soviet Union alone with it's long borders was an unstable aspect to the country.

There are several March 16, 1979 that can be called upon and now of them are good. 

Washington D.C., March 16, 2020 - (click here) During the Cold War, false alarms of missile attacks were closely held matters although news of them inevitably leaked. Today the National Security Archive revisits the false alerts of the Jimmy Carter administration when on four occasions warning screens showed hundreds and hundreds of Soviet ballistic missiles heading toward North America....

The Old Communist Guard is finding new legs in a far different world.

India and the Soviet Union today (click here) demanded “an immediate, unconditional and total withdrawal of Chinese troops from the territory of Vietnam.” A joint communique issued at the end of the Soviet Premier, Alexie Kosygin’s six-day official visit, also stressed that the “two sides considered it necessary to exert further efforts in the interest of strengthening peace in the Asian continent, of developing cooperation among all Asian countries on the principles of sovereign equality and independence, non-use of force, inviolability of frontiers, territorial integrity of states, no interference into internal affairs and on other generally recognised principles of inter-state relations”. The two sides also favoured a “comprehensive and just settlement of the West Asian problem on the basis of the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from all Arab territories occupied in 1967, the securing of the legitimate rights of the Arab people of Palestine, including their right to establish their own state as well as the ensuring for all states in the area the right of independent existence and development”....

A defending USA figure skating champion is replaced by a Russian.

Vienna - Vladimir Kovalev of the Soviet Union (click here) regained the world figure skating title tonight after Charles Tickner of Littleton, Colo., the defending champion, gave a brilliant exhibition of free skating but failed to make up ground on the leaders....

Nothing in March 1979 from the USA State Department (click here)

NATO is used to the culture of the Atlantic, most of which are victories and peace. The complete opposite of that is the Pacific with Asia and war. The Pacific is a far different theater than the Atlantic. The folks from NATO are used to the idea of peace being the pinnacle of a society's victories. To have a country like Russia under Putin, come into the peace and prosperity of the Atlantic is unconscionable. But, to the Pacific cultures there are long standing wars that have yet to meet with victory. Peace is not a culture in Asia.

I find it a bit laughable that China still considers Japan an aggressor country so much so that it has radar for missiles. Japan was disarmed for decades following WWII. It's society and culture are completely different under a democracy instilled there by the USA after the war. One of the industries during reparations by the USA Japan was given whaling. Whale meat is full of PCB and all sorts of ocean pollution because of the blubber, but, it is still considered a delicacy in Japan. That was a method of returning an economy to Japan. The country really needs to stop the silliness of hunting endangered species. But, as far as an aggressor country? Japan? It has developed a national defense, but, aggression is not in it's vocabulary anymore.

Democracy is a fairly new concept, but, war definitely is not. So, for countries far older than the USA settled by Europeans, war is a mainstay. Putin finds it helpful to reach back in Russian history to stake a claim for the future and his legacy. Rather than having a legacy of freedom and democratic principles in governing, Putin rather be remembered in the shadows of Lenin in bringing about war. But, Lenin wasn't about war, he was about revolution. That is a completely different paradigm.

The entire world has a problem and it is about the communists in the Pacific and their resistence to democracy, peace and prosperity. Peace and prosperity go together, but, war robs the people of a greater prosperity and quality of life to compensate the national defenses of any country. If North Korea were to give up it's nuclear prusuits it could feed and educate many more people. Nukes are expensive and completely irrelevant for life on Earth.

Nukes = Fear, Fear = Control, Communism = Control, hence, fear is good.

Putin is deploying nuclear missiles within months. He means it. The West needs to decide about Putin and Russia and their nukes. Just because the Russian military made a poor showing in Ukraine, doesn't mean the nukes are something to ignore.

What the USA sees in expansionism of democracy isn't about destroying land and killing people. It is about business and Wall Street. Since the time of Nixon it was about business and never about taking over China. I do not remember a race for president of China whereby an American was a candidate. As we honor the Ukrainians and their survival in the face of genocide, that same principle holds true for all countries. Ethnics are important and no one wants to kill Russians or Chinese. It would be genocide if that was the ideology of the democratic West. Maybe the leaders of Russia and China don't 'get it.' As a matter of face, they absolutely don't get it, otherwise there would have been no violence in Hong Kong or threats to Taiwan and border threats to Post-Soviet Countries.

Freedom and democracy are not about control. They are about happiness. They are about food, blankets and clothing that fits the season of the year. 

Democracies invest in learning and education. They love new ideas and investigation for those new ideas. They like big ideas at a societal level. There is very little a democracy is interested in that is controlling except whatever malady brings about illness or suffering.

The current political right wing of the USA is about control and that means trouble for democracy. Their interest in control is based in greed and that is a princple that does not play well in democratic societies. I have no doubt Republicans like less taxes, until there are threats of war and God help our enemies. So, to justify the end of social programs and allowing hunger for the sake of a political experiment to expose laziness there is no space for that in a democracy concerned with every vote being as powerful as every other vote. Anything other than that is corruption.

   

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No more appeasement.

Putin is an ideolog and his power is contained in hubris and ceremony. The Russian flag used by the soldiers belongs to the Russian Empire, not the country of Russia.

People carry red flags (click here) and banners as they take part in the Immortal Regiment march during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over a huge Victory Day parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Soviet win over Nazi Germany, amid a Western boycott of the festivities over the Ukraine crisis.

The flag to the left reflects the failed Soveit Union and the colors of the failed Russian Empire. The black, gold and white colors are from the Russian Empire. The flag raising is for propaganda of Victory Day.

China is probably on the same page as Russia and they are looking to a global conflict that involves nuclear weapons. There is no more being friendly with communist countries. They are toxic to the world order and will kill at will if they believe they can attain their goal. Putin has already declared war. The "talks" are stalemated with no compromise from Russia. Russia will not be hemmed in.

China holds a great deal of value in old wars, old enemies and old desired victories. The children of communists believe they can do better than their ancestors.

April 22, 2022

By Michael Wa Siura

Russian soldiers (click here) have begun raising Soviet-era flags in recently occupied areas of Ukraine. On April 19 in the southern city of Kherson, troops from a Rosgvardia police unit hoisted the red "banner of victory" up the main flagpole in the city's "Alley of Glory," a park dedicated to the memory of locals who fought in the Red Army during the Second World War.

In the runup to Vladimir Putin's February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russian domestic media frequently made light of Western claims that the Russian president was seeking to reestablish the Soviet Union. However, when the "banner of victory" was raised in Kherson, Kremlin-controlled television channels were quick to praise the development.

During its noon news broadcast on April 20, Russia's First Channel featured a laudatory segment that began: "May 9th is fast approaching, and the red flag under which fascism was crushed in the 20th century again flutters above Kherson's Alley of Glory. It is a symbol of the great feat of the Soviet people, one which local residents again recall with a special feeling."...