March 16, 2022
Who says them godless Communistas don't have a sense of humor ... the hilarious part?
They didn't sanction Kamala ...
Ooh, sick burn. Some genius-level trolling there.
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PS—At this point, the Rooskies have done more than the Democrat's DOJ to punish Hunter Biden for his many crimes ...
Russia Personally Sanctions Biden, Son Hunter, Hillary Clinton, and Others
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Non-Whites Committed 96% of Homicides and 98% of Shootings in New York City in 2021
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The beginning of the end.
Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales
When the American Dollar stops being the international currency the whole rotten financial structure will collapse here.
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One of the first actions of the Russian peacekeeping forces sent in to Ukraine to de-Nazify it, was to blow up the dam in the North Crimean Canal (see red line), which Ukraine built after Russia invaded and annexed Crimea.
It's funny that Russia had previously claimed that blocking the canal had no impact on Crimean agricultural outputs.
'According to official Russian statistics, the Crimean agricultural industry fully overcame the consequences of blocking the North Crimean Canal and crop yields grew by a factor of 1.5 from 2013 by 2016.'
These official statistics contrast with reports of a massive shrinkage in the area under cultivation in Crimea, from 130,000 hectares in 2013 to just 14,000 in 2017.
But hey, Russia never tells lies.
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March 15, 2022
Have you noticed that the media is not reporting on COVID like it had been? Know why? Because the issue has become poison for Democrats and we are now entering the 2022 election season, so the media wants to help remove an issue that hurts Democrats.
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Michael J Totten wrote well on this topic in Quillette, here: https://quillette.com/2022/03/14/ukraine-on-the-fault-line-between-east-and-west/
The following is a small extract:
Vladimir Putin clearly sees Ukraine as a part of greater Russian civilization. "Ukraine is not just a neighbouring country for us,†he declared in a speech recognizing the separatist regions of Donbass on February 21st, 2022. "It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space. These are our comrades, those dearest to us—not only colleagues, friends, but also relatives, people bound by blood, by family ties.†Putin wasn’t wrong to acknowledge that shared history, which goes back more than a millennium, but his statement was also self-serving nonsense. No one attacks cities where their dearest comrades live. You won’t see Americans invading Canada. But Putin doesn’t think Ukraine is a neighboring country. He doesn’t think it’s a country at all—he believes it belongs to Russia and therefore to him.
Ukraine begs to differ, and it’s hard to understand the Russian invasion without first understanding why the Ukrainians overthrew President Viktor Yanukovych during the Maidan Revolution in 2014. In 2013, Yanukovych broke a promise he had made and refused to sign a free trade and political association agreement with the European Union. Instead, he vowed to integrate the country with Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union that consists entirely of former Soviet "republics.†For that, and for deploying the sinister Berkut riot police against peaceful demonstrators, killing 108 and injuring more than a thousand, Yanukovych was ousted and tried and convicted in absentia for treason. Ukrainians fought and died in their own capital city for the right to integrate with the European Union, the first people in history to do so. Today they’re doing the same across the country.
They’re likely to succeed in the long run. On February 28th, the fourth day of the Russian invasion, Ukraine formally applied for fast-tracked European Union membership. The process usually takes years, but some European leaders backed Ukraine’s admission immediately. On March 10th, all agreed that Ukraine can begin the long process of joining. At the same time, at least some Ukrainian Orthodox churches want to break ties with their Russian patriarch for backing the Russian invasion (in part, the ludicrous figurehead says, because of Western pressure to allow gay pride parades.)
Ukrainian nationalism may have been muted before, smothered beneath Russia’s tyrannical internationalism as Belarussian nationalism remains to this day. But with the onset of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian nationalism and its clear expression as part of a larger European identity has burst into the open with the power of a hydrogen bomb. No matter what else happens, Ukrainians will remember this chapter in their history for hundreds of years. It’s difficult to imagine these people ever turning toward Russia and the East again.
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Message today from a German Farmer friend who farms near Hanover to some farmer friends in UK.
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I saw a Dutch farmer, who runs 4,000 hectares of arable farmland in Germany and 12,000 hectares in Ukraine.
In Ukraine most of his men have left to fight the Russians. He has 100,000 liters of diesel left to do spring cultivation, drilling and fertilizing, but that seems about it for the new crops to grow. For the whole season he needs more than 500,000 liters. He has no fuel for the harvest. He has potatoes in storage halls but no electricity for holding the ventilation and temperature and the potatoes are rotting. He can´t haul his grain to the harbour, because there are no truck drivers and the ship loading facilities are bombed. He expects no money from sales of current stocks and will have no new crops to bring to harvest. His farm is 150 km south of Kiev.
Ukraine grows sunflowers and makes sunflower oil for export mainly to Germany for frying potatoes – French fries. French fries in Germany are fried to 80 percent with oil from Ukraine. People in Germany might not get fries in the coming season.
Another farm in Ukraine has 120,000 hectares and 2,200 labourers. Today only 200 labourers stayed on the farm. The fuel tanks are bombed or confiscated and no spring crop will be grown. Grain stocks can´t be shipped because the ship loading facilities are bombed.
Russian farms can not get parts for their machinery (John Deere and Claas tractors and combines) because of the embargo. They will also not get any chemicals or fertilizer because they are all from EU countries.
From tomorrow on we will host 6 Ukrainians in the house of my deceased parents. On Saturday another Ukrainian mother with her 6 years old son will join our farm.
This situation is absolutely the last, of which I would ever have dreamed of in my life.
After 1945 we had 35 German refugees on our farm from 20 million who came from the east. In 1992 we host a Volga German family from Russia with 5 people for a whole year, when 1 mn of them came to Germany. Today it’s the Ukrainians..
The Ukrainians get work permit from the first day in Germany and full social benefits. It is very costly for the Governement. Putin and his friends want the farmland to make a profit for themselves personally.
Tim adds:
So Putin is trying to achieve eaquality with Stalin, who starved the Ukrainians half to death (well, many all to death.)
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Martin Gurri, whose brilliant article for City Journal is linked below, hints the whole whack doodle identity cult is a substitute for Christian concept of human identity.
People don't accept they are nothing but accidental flotsam on an accidental planet in an accidental universe.
And they shouldn't.
The human being has an ineradicable desire to know oneself and one's God, as Augustine wrote.
But the vacuum left when the idea of the human being as imago dei was scrubbed from academic and common discourse is being filled with something else; namely, seven devils. The demoniac had a name: Legion. Multiple identities are a root of insanity.
I'd add the identity cult has reached the point a smart individual can make up his or her own money in the form of a crypto currency. The currency bypasses all established institutional constraints, but via "stable coins†can still extract dollars in exchange for mystical algorithmic puzzles.
Worth the short time it takes to read it.
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Wait! It gets even better!
It seems that the English language is now relegated to Hollywood and failed diplomacy. I see more and more work published in the original Spanish and even Chinese. Of course, text translation services grow better every day.
Nevertheless, it strikes me that we in the U.S. have become an unserious people and certainly rooted in failed scientific paradigms.
In "The Fourth Source, Effects of Natural Nuclear Reactors†R.J. Tuttle describes how the internal heat of the Earth resolves the Faint Young Sun Paradox and the beginning of the earliest photosynthetic life, Cyanobacteria, approx. 3.8 billion years ago.
Protons, neutrons, and electrons comprise Mass. The four (4) properties of Mass are the Strong Force, Weak Force, Gravity, and Electromagnetism (including chemical bonding). As my good young buddy Aiden DiMeglio has aptly stated:
"MATTER MATTERS. PHOTONS DON’T HAVE MATTER, SO THEY DON’T MATTER.â€
Photons are the Sun’s messenger boys and that’s about it. They help grow the pond scum circling the globe. We are so many amoebae living in the puddles of the green surface scum.
Here is a pretty good compendium of the Earth’s internal heat sources and it doesn’t even include the GeoReactor.
Institute of Cartography & Geology of Catalonia
The origin of the Earth’s heat -
1) Latent crystallization
2) Gravitation (Gravity Compression Force)
3) Remnant heat of planet formation (Thermal Decompression)
4) Kinetic or Friction heat (force fields generated by the Moon and the Sun (tidal forces)). Just as presented in The Plate Climatology Theory.
5) Physicochemical
6) Radiogenic decay of isotopes.
Tim adds:
Shows the U.S. is decadent and decaying. We are losing our leadership in science. The rest will follow.
Richard Cronin replies:
Foreign students used to flock to the U.S.
Chinese agents still come here to steal our bioweaponry.
Guess where some of the best universities are developing ? The Mideast.
https://www.topuniversities.com/where-to-study/region/middle-east/guide
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Alleged 'Criminal Tourism' Brings Burglars to U.S. from South America
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Biden's America!
Police warn of people using power tools to steal gas from your tank
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March 14, 2022
Covid Protocols killed far more people than did the disease worldwide, according to a new study in Lancet.
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"Although reported COVID-19 deaths between Jan 1, 2020, and Dec 31, 2021, totalled 5.94 million worldwide, we estimate that 18.2 million (95% uncertainty interval 17·1–19·6) people died worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic (as measured by excess mortality) over that period. The global all-age rate of excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic was 120.3 deaths (113·1–129·3) per 100 000 of the population, and excess mortality rate exceeded 300 deaths per 100,000 of the population in 21 countries."
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President Obama Played Key Role in Taking Over Soviet-Era Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Unearthed Documents Show
Newly uncovered reports and documents obtained by the National Pulse show that Obama played a role building a Ukraine-based biolab to handle ‘especially dangerous pathogens.’
One of the now-deleted reports shows that a laboratory was opened in Odessa, Ukraine under the Nunn-Lugar framework. The facility’s planning started in 2005 in coordination with then-senators Dick Lugar and Barack Obama.
"U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, this week, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists,†BioPrep watch reported in the now-deleted post.
"The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded authority of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will be used to study anthrax, tularemia and Q fever as well as other dangerous pathogens,†the report added.
Sure; these were labs designed to eliminate biological weapons, not to manufacture them.If that is the case why were the records deleted?
And the lab in Wuhan wasn't doing Gain of Function research, either.
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The war in Ukraine is threatening to spread. Russia may attack a NATO country to stem the flood of fighters and arms into the area.
From the Debka Files:
An armed clash with the US came a step closer with Russia’s air strike on Sunday, March 13, on Ukraine’s Yavariv military training center near the Polish border. The attack came after Russia’s Dep FM Sergei Ryabkov warned the US that the convoys bringing weapons from a number of countries to Ukraine were "not just a dangerous move but legitimate targets.â€
The Russians were targeting Western volunteers for the support of Ukraine as well as incoming weapons. Despite denials, military sources reveal that present at the base were volunteers from the US, Ireland, Germany and the UK. There is no information on whether foreign personnel were among the 35 people killed and 130 injured in the Russian long-range missile strike at the Ukraine military center west of Lviv.
Washington’s counter-warning was delivered by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who said: "If there is a military attack on Nato territory, it would … bring the full force of the Nato alliance to bear in responding to it,†he said.
A perilous standoff marks the nearly third week of the Ukraine conflict, say DEBKAfile’s military sources: On the one hand, Moscow cannot afford to let the West continue to pump weapons into Ukraine for use against Russian forces – and may not stop at the border of a NATO member to stop the deliveries. On the other, Washington and NATO can’t stop the flow of millions of dollars-worth of arms, such as anti-tank and antiaircraft missiles, as well as Western fighters, for bolstering Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion. Clashes are becoming inevitable; they are likely to be local and limited in scope, at least in the early stage.
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Jen Psaki promotes the lie that Russia stole the '16 election for Trump in a talk with bigwigs at Tik Tok.
Will the Department of Homeland Security consider THIS to be domestic terrorism? They are putting out guidelines that say anyone who thinks the '20 election was stolen is a potential terrorist. So why does Piss Sake get a pass?
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Shot: The Department of Homeland Security has released new guidelines on "extremist†behavior, which include believing that cheating affected the 2020 presidential election.
Chaser: Rasmussen Polls says more than half of voters believe cheating affected the 2020 election.
It's not paranoia if the Deep State is actually looking for you ... vote out all the Democrats. They're destroying the country.
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Even Politico sees the Ukrainian invasion as a welcome distraction from the Biden failed agenda.
Of course they don't admit Biden is trying to drag this thing out - or that it was Biden's policies that enabled Putin to do this in the first place.
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For once, it’s not banned books or transgender athletes nonstop on Americans’ TVs, but foreign affairs and rising gas prices. In the past week, Biden’spublic approval ratings have ticked up, and the generic ballot has improved slightly for Democrats. Democratic governors are proposing gas price relief, while the party’s campaign arms are pummeling Republicans on taxes and health care costs.
And of course Politico blames Republicans for all of this - and accuses them of only caring about the culture war and not about the people the Administration has injured.
The fact is, the Junta is purposely trying to drag this thing out because they see the political benefit. This is Mr. Biden's war as much as it is Mr. Putins.
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For those wondering why Putin didn't invade Ukraine on President Trump's watch, but Putin DID invade Ukraine on both Obama's and Biden's watch, it's because President Trump was willing to talk straight to tyrants.

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David C. Moyer wants war with Russia.
David (usually quite level-headed) says:
I have had enough. I was in favor of not getting involved with Russia. But our sanctions have not worked, so I am willing to risk nuclear war with that runt/bully Russia. Yes, they have nukes- but so do we and it is time for us to stand up for what is right. We did it against non-nuke countries in the past. The "right and wrong" is still the same. I carry every day so that I can enforce the "right and wrong" at my level. It is time for our country to step up and enforce what we know to be international law. It is time for us to encourage the rest of the western world to step up and enforce international law, even if the other guy has nukes. Not a time for proportional response- one "tactical nuke" will result in annihilation. Just like an armed thug and an armed citizen situation- someone is going to die. Strength conquers timidity. We need to show our strength!!! Russia has many weaknesses. MANY. They don't even have good tires on their vehicles. Do you think that their nukes actually function?? Time to call their bluff.
I disagree:
I wrote about how this worked back when Russia invaded Georgia in '08. https://pjmedia.com/blog/timothy-birdnow/2008/10/24/drill-here-drill-now-helped-end-russia-georgia-war-n18506 The conditions are comparable today. Remember, Russia has an economy smaller than Texas, or New York, or California. We can strangle them. They can't do that to us.
Bear in mind the Russians have reasons for what they did, too. I don't agree they had a right to invade, but we aren't being given Russia's side of the story.
First, we expanded NATO into their back yard. Russia has always been fearful of potential enemies on their border (and with good reason.) Ukraine was always one of the "Russias". It's like the Russians expanding the old Warsaw Pact into California.
Second, the Ukrainians cut off water to the Crimean Peninsula. Can't say I blame them but it undoubtedly cheesed them off.
Third, the Ukrainians threatened to cut off the flow of oil and gas through their country. Right now most Russian oil and gas have to flow through Ukrainian territory. Granted, the Russians were squeezing Ukraine, charging them exorbitant amounts for it (the Ukrainians were buying Russian gas from Poland because it was cheaper) but the Ukrainians had threatened to cut the Russian pipelines (including Nordstream 1) That flow is the lifeblood of the Russian economy.
Russia had repeatedly complained about the treatment of Russian-speaking people in Donbas to no avail. The Ukrainian government had banned the use of all languages save Ukrainian everywhere.
Also, the U.S. had biological research labs in Ukraine (aka biologicaol weapons research labs) right smack on Russia's border. That was hard to ignore.
And Biden and Hillary and the rest of the Democrat top brass was deep in bed with the Ukrainian government.
I am in no way excusing this invasion. I think it part of a geopolitical strategy by Putin, and I further think it was an economic policy by the Russian government. Putin is on record as wanting to restore the old Czarist empire in terms of area, and that means Ukraine. Also, Putin needs that area to make it easier to ship fuel to Europe. His plan has always been to hold Europe under his thumb by controlling their oil and gas.
Putin is a monster; just ask anyone who got to enjoy one of his Polonium cocktails. But he rather understands what he is up against in the New World Order types. And we did treat Russia horribly after the end of the Cold War. They are still pretty mad about that.
This war need never have happened. A modicum of skill could have seen a diplomatic solution. But it serves Mr. Biden, and Biden at best grossly mishandled all of this.
It can still be handled through diplomacy and economic pressures. Time is not on Putin's side.
Putin probably wants a settlement at this point, and if he could get a guarantee to keep Ukraine out of NATO that would probably be enough. He needs something to show for this. You always have to provide an escape hatch for your enemy, lest they fight to the death. Putin's back is against the wall, and he is not going to go quietly. If he loses this his head will turn up somewhere sans body.
So he will make a deal, and Biden will make a deal too that he can spin as victory, thus turning the tide in the mid-terms. But Biden needs this to stretch out a while longer yet.
Get the damned price of oil and gas donw and the Russian invasion will sputter out.
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SOME Biden defenders are challenging his effect on energy costs. Some facts:
Gas was soaring way back in Dec. He released 50 million barrels (a drop
in the ocean) from our Strategic Reserve - long before Russia. In Nov.
he passed new regulations governing methane emissions from oil and gas
production, transmission, storage, and distribution that would cost
more than $10 billion a year. Biden’s first action after taking office
was to halt new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters. The
administration canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and suspended oil and
gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and New Mexico
(despite opposition from the Navajo Nation). He also resurrected the
"Waters of the United States†rule, which increased barriers to energy
projects. In April 2021, without the consent of Congress, Biden
rejoined the Paris agreement, which will result in onerous new
regulations that raise energy costs; and exempts China, Asia, India and
Africa, the biggest polluters. Biden forced every U.S. state to develop
state carbon-reductio
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He also pressured the banks to refuse loans to oil companies to defund them. And he said we would ban gas-powered cars by the end of the decade, which was guaranteed to get investors out of the oil and gas market. He further angered the Saudis over the murder of Kashoggi, and also by reinvigorating the Iran nuclear deal, so they are content to allow the prices of oil to rise. And while Biden's administration has approved some leases (he was ordered by the courts to do so) he has done it in a way to prevent any drilling. It generally requires a number of permits to open a new well, and Biden will approve just one and keep the projects held up. He also refused permits to a new refinery, the first one to be built in years. And don't get me started on coal! Or nuclear.
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