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Sunday, March 13, 2022
Now go to the bottom of the page and click on any of the links.
They are dummy links. That was pointed out to me as a reason to be very, very skeptical of a company that one knows nothing about. But, it says military delivery. They must know what they are doing right? Go ahead click on them. I just did to make sure nothing had changed and they didn't open to any page other than the one they appear on.
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A six week retirement. Can football ever get by without Tom Brady?
March 13, 2022
Mike Jones and Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz
Tom Brady isn’t finished after all. (click here)
Just more than a month after he announced plans to retire, the seven-time Super Bowl-champion quarterback announced on Sunday that he actually will return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 2022 season, his 23rd in the NFL.
He announced the news on social media with a statement that read, “These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it’s not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I’m coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business LFG.”...
I believe International Women's Day was Tuesday, March 85th, yes?
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The world has gotten to be a strange and unpredictable place. If it's climate it is a global pandemic. If it isnt' a global pandemic, it is Russia being stupid. I can't believe Putin did this. It is so upsetting to realize how completely out of control his rule of Russia has become.
Putin's place in all the violence in Ukraine and the deaths only goes to prove no man should have nuclera power at his fingertips forever.
What is so shocking about the invasion into Ukraine is the reckless abandon of all these civilian attacks and deaths. Insurgents will happen even if the entire country was emptied in time for the first tank to roll across the border. There is no military strategy that permits this level of destruction or a kill at will order. I don't understand why this has been so bloody and damaging to families. There is no excuse. This was about the worst insult to human life the world has witnessed in a long time.
This is a story out of California of the depth to which the American Ukranian community is feeling these attacks by Russia, Putin in particular. It proves that love of family runs deep and the willingness to be a part of survival runs deeper, especially when there are children involved.
March 13, 2022By Julia Prodis Sulek
There was no debate. No wavering. No pleading. (click here)
The day the Russians invaded Ukraine, the Rev. Petro Dyachok knew that his wife, Natalya , had only one choice: to go back to their homeland. Their 31-year-old daughter, a registered nurse raising her two children there, refused to leave her husband who was preparing to fight. Natalya needed to be with them.
“I said, ‘I can’t close your Ukrainian heart’,” said Dyachok, 55, “and in one day I had a ticket for her.”
As images fill the news of millions of women and children fleeing Ukraine — and the horrors of some young families not making it out alive — others like Natalya Dyachok are defying the dangers and heading in.
Her husband wanted to join her, but his congregations in Santa Clara and in San Francisco are struggling with their own fears for relatives caught in Ukraine and needed him, too....
100,000 children orphaned by Putin's war secluded in basements in Kyiv.
By Gabriela Miranda
On a night two weeks ago (click here) in southwest Ukraine, children inside a Jewish orphanage felt the ground shake and watched lights eerily flicker.
Bombs were falling just a mile from their home, shattering their safe world and sending them fleeing into the darkness.
The children, most in their pajamas and without shoes, rushed out of the orphanage and squeezed onto buses to make their way to the Moldova border as the Russian military launched its invasion of Ukraine. The journey, which eventually took the children to Romania, left them in tears and confusion: Where would they call home now?...
The Yavoriv military range near Lviv, also known as the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, has for years been used for exercises by NATO troops and Ukrainians, with Americans on-site as recently as February. Members of the Florida Army National Guard trained there with Ukrainian forces as recently as February, during the buildup to the Russian invasion.
The airstrike came a day after the Kremlin warned that it viewed Western weapons shipments as “legitimate targets,” heightening the possibility of a direct conflict with the West. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the bombing did not come as a surprise given U.S. warnings that Russia planned to attack all of Ukraine. He reiterated that U.S. forces would not be fighting Russian troops in Ukraine but that they would “defend every inch of NATO territory.”...
Ukraine is not only dangerous, it is deadly. It is a no go zone.
An American journalist (click here) was killed and another wounded by Russian forces in Irpen near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, the Kyiv Region Police head said Sunday.
The killed journalist was identified by Ukrainian police as Brent Renaud, a 51-year-old journalist, filmmaker and US citizen. While Ukrainian authorities initially identified Renaud as a The New York Times correspondent, he was not in Ukraine reporting on behalf of The Times.
"We are deeply saddened to hear of Brent Renaud's death. Brent was a talented filmmaker who had contributed to The New York Times over the years," read a statement from the outlet. "Though he had contributed to The Times in the past (most recently in 2015), he was not on assignment for any desk at The Times in Ukraine. Early reports that he worked for Times circulated because he was wearing a Times press badge that had been issued for an assignment many years ago."...
Russia is a rouge country. They have used phosphorus before. If there is any kind of weaponry banned Putin doesn't care.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
The evidence about Putin is that he is a maniacal leader of an unwilling army.
An unappreciated motive (click here) for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that Kyiv was positioning itself to break from its longtime Russian nuclear suppliers, as the U.S. was encroaching on Russia’s largest nuclear export market.
At the beginning of the conflict, Russian tanks rolled through the Chernobyl site, kicking up dust and increasing radiation levels. Eight days later, the invaders seized the six-unit nuclear power plant in the town of Zaporizhzhya, 700 miles away....
By Nic Robertson
I leave Moscow angry and sad. (click here)
It feels like a passage out of darkness to light, but left behind are friends trapped in one man's tunnel vision.
Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't just destroying Ukraine, but two nations, condemning Russians to an isolation they didn't necessarily choose.
Over the past couple of months while I've been reporting from Moscow, I've met many people who have been horrified, shocked and numbed by Putin's wanton aggression. Some of them believed him when he said he wouldn't invade Ukraine. Some even knew players in the Kremlin inner circle and thought they understood the President's red lines, but now that trust is blown and they fear he has no limits at all....
There were 'victims or casualties after Erbil blasts' Kurdish Health Minister Saman Barzanji said.
Multiple rockets (click here) have smashed into a US Army base and a Kurdish news channel office in Erbil, northern Iraq.
At least five 'Iranian-produced ballistic missiles' hit the city in the early hours of Sunday, Governor Omed Khoshnaw confirmed.
He said it was not clear whether the missiles were targeting the American consulate at the site, or the airport in the city...
Ask Space X instead.
American astronaut (click here) Mark Vande Hei, currently aboard in the International Space Station high above the Earth, may have his planned return to the planet in jeopardy due to escalating tensions with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Vande Hei, who has now been in space for nearly a year after his mission was extended last September, said then that he was to return from the over 350 day stay in space around March 2022...
Krikalev on the International Space Station in 2005
Kirkalev (click here) went to work on the Mir Space Station on May 18, 1991 and didn't come hom
until March 1992. He went to work as a Soviet, and returned as a Russian — because, on December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved and Krikalev became a cosmonaut without a country.
Krikalev, fellow cosmonaut Anatoly Artsebarsky, and British astronaut Helen Sharman climbed into their Soyuz capsule at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 18, 1991. At the time, Kazakhstan was still one of the “Soviet Socialist Republics.”...
...Krikalev’s days in the spring of 1991 were filled with exercise and conducting multiple EVAs to service the Mir space station. He had trained for, and planned on, staying aboard Mir for five months before returning to the Soviet Union and his native Leningrad. He would wind up staying in space for almost a year, returning to the new Russian Federation and a city returned to its name before the Bolshevik revolution, St. Petersburg....
...Though Gorbachev retained power, the country was economically and politically weakened and by December, the republics began to splinter into the Commonwealth of Independent States, an effort spearheaded by Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, and signed by nine other former republics.
Then, on Christmas Day 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, which effectively dissolved it altogether....
...Kirkaliv was less concerned with the political implications of this, Lewis says, than its implications for him personally. “He was more concerned about prolonging his mission and the impact that would have on his physical health,” she says. Bone and muscle mass deteriorate with time in space, and “he had trained for five months; he had not trained for a year-long mission.”...
...These people were still on the job, very dedicated to it,” Lewis says. Whatever successor state would arise in place of the former Soviet Union, “they recognized the need for the national prestige, to maintain the space station.”...
...Finally relieved from duty, Krikalev returned to Earth in March 1992 a severely weakened man needing assistance to walk on the snow-covered soil of the Republic of Kazakhstan after 311 days aboard the Mir space station....
Foreign nationals have died in Putin's political war. There was a report about an American Ukrainian man trying to reach his wife when the war broke out. He learned she was dead along with his two sons in a picture put on line. She and her two sons were gunned down by a Russian soldier for absolutely no reason at all, except, she was Ukrainian.
The Geneva Conventions demand justice.
This is what Putin will do until the end of time if he can manage it.
By Yuras Karmanau
Lviv, Ukraine -Russia’s airplanes and artillery widened their assault (click here) on Ukraine on Friday, striking airfields in the west and a major industrial hub in the east, as Moscow’s forces tried to regroup from recent losses and their onslaught fast reduced crowded cities to rubble.
American defense officials offered an assessment of the Russian air campaign, estimating that invading pilots are averaging 200 sorties a day, compared with five to 10 for Ukrainian forces, which are focusing more on surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and drones to take out Russian aircraft.
New commercial satellite images appeared to capture artillery firing on residential areas between Russian forces and the capital. The images from Maxar Technologies showed muzzle flashes and smoke from the big guns, as well as impact craters and burning homes in the town of Moschun, outside Kyiv, the company said....
Friday, March 11, 2022
The big issue this week with the Flint Water Crisis is that all those charged with crimes came out to agree with the former Governor Snyder they would "take the 5th" at any trial.
So!
The prosecution isn't reliant on the testimony of the accused. The cases against them stand on their own.
It is just a publicity stunt to contaminate and intimidate the jury pool
THERE ARE DEAD PEOPLE, SNYDER. FORGET ABOUT THAT. A trial can bring their lives back to prove how full of hatred Snyder was when he diverted the water.
I am wondering though, when the people of Flint were dying and troubled with illness and fear for their own water coming out of the tap, did Snyder like it? Did he sort of chuckle? It took an entire year for the problem to receive attention and that was only after Rachel Maddow outed the gross negligence of Snyder and his administration. During that year did Snyder smirk at the idea of Flint drinking poisoned water?
Supply Chain Issues
Russia is a rouge state.
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data to the UN's atomic watchdog, the agency said Tuesday, as it voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the Ukrainian facility.
The one global authority on everything nuclear now has absolutely no data from Chernobyl. Lord only knows what he will do to any other nuclear facility in Ukraine. I hate to say this, but, I don't think The West can stay out of this much longer. The Ukrainian military has and is accomplishing a remarkable feat against the Russians, but, this? This is a problem of a different nature.
Russia can begin by explaining what the detected radiation spike was immediately after the invasion. Russia also needs to hand over the radiation badges the personnel are wearing to know if they have been exposed and need to leave for treatment. Russia does not have a good track record on anything nuclear. They have buried nuclear scientists in multiples after each accident and the world doesn't have confidence in Russia taking control of Chernobyl. You don't hand car keys to one that can't drive.
By Chris Jewers, Chris Pleasance and Laurn Lewis
The daughter of a overnight staffer (click here) being held hostage in Chernobyl has warned the plant is being held by Russian forces who 'have no clue about nuclear security protocols' after Kyiv's intelligence agency claimed Putin's forces are preparing to fake a terror attack at the site to try to blackmail the world.
Natalia Ruemmele has warned that staffers who usually work 12 hour shifts have been maintaining the nuclear plant at gunpoint for more than two weeks since Russian forces seized control of the site as she pleaded with Moscow to agree to a ceasefire and allow a shift change.
Ukrainian intelligence earlier warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to create a 'man-made catastrophe' at Chernobyl which he plans to blame on Ukrainian 'saboteurs' in order to justify further escalating his war against the ex-Soviet country....
This is Jim Dandy wonderful. Do we know if these facilities are still standing? If the facilities are breached what was inside and what happens when it is exposed to fresh air? What are the inventories like? Does the WHO have inventories of what was housed in Ukraine?
No, I don't think Ukraine would destroy the labs and poison their own people and soldiers.
March 11, 2022...The World Health Organization (WHO) (click here) has called for Ukraine to destroy all high-threat pathogens in the country’s laboratories to preempt any leakages of toxins that could spread disease, Reuters reported.
“WHO has strongly recommended to the Ministry of Health in Ukraine and other responsible bodies to destroy high-threat pathogens to prevent any potential spills,” the organization told Reuters in a statement.
Russia’s incursion into Ukraine and its bombardment of cities has increased the risk that disease-causing pathogens could escape such laboratories, if any of these buildings sustain damage, Reuters reported, citing biosecurity experts....